1950's war comics

Oh I am serious , I wish there truly was as little demand as implied here on this thread,.... now the Fox and Crow comparison HA ha... that is an insult !! !!

fox and who????????? zero demand.. DREK !!! Sugar and Spike ,..brother you have no idea what time it is on that one.....no idea at all........

there is huge demand for the book in lower grades, very few humor collectors care about registry sets or a high CGC grade and very few humor collectors wish to spend 4 grand .... a BIN copy at a decent price would sell within minutes on e-bay , countless humor collectors have it on their e-bay notify aps and a decent low grade copy priced accordingly would sell immediately upon listing it is so hard to get and there is so much demand that most potential collectors just give up and move on to other series upon realization that it is not attainable unless you wait years or get lucky.

Well nobody is going to find it on e-bay in the golden age 1938-1955 listings unless it is listed in error you might better try finding one in the "silver age" listings on e-bay .........

+1 Another book whose value is mainly attached to scarcity. Demand is not as high as you think. Brother you have NO idea... I only wish you were correct with the low demand statement,

ssshhhhhhhh ...!! , I know its not a super key but... like mentioned , it is so hard to get that its people just give up on it $3888.00 for a CGC 7.5 isn't chump change , and it is NEVER available and when it is it is snatched up immediately (not counting that non graded possible PLOD on e-bay) close to a grand for a CGC 3.5 is way on par of a Daredevil #1 and many others in and around the silver age top 20,

Ok I am exaggerating a bit but it could be a Gerber 8, It is an awesome silver age key DC #1 book of a long running and beloved series that is so tough that Heritage has only sold 3 or 4 in their completed listings, a CGC 7.5 sold for $3,888 in 2012 and is offered at $5000 minimum now, regardless of what may be said there IS huge demand for this book but it is just not available, so people just give up,.. there is one for sale on e-bay and has been for years but it is $1800.00 or so and being ungraded nobody would dare touch that as it could be a possible PLOD If you know the answer don't give it away just yet , but tell what you think about the book, do you have one or know anyone who does

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Brave-and-The-Bold-1956-10-cent-Comic-Mega-Lot-/181598695595?pt=US_Comic_Books&hash=item2a482030ab Did any of you boardies get one of these very fair priced lots on e-bay last month? there was three lots of six early brave and bold each; I picked up the last one left which included 15,16,17,18,20,22 and they average VG so I am please but I wish I could have gotten all three lots as that would have been 75% of the whole 1-24 run !!

Beautiful FF collection !!!!!!!!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/181598690138?_trksid=p2059210.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT an ebay seller was offering three decent lots of six comics each of Brave and Bold pre issue #25. and one lot was left that I was able to get last night , the other two lots looked even better and at a very fair price. after seeing this thread I really like B&B issues 1-24 !!!!!

the banzai charge on the left side cover of showcase 53 is classic , it reminds me of my all time favorite DC war cover ,..that being OAAW #2

NICE Book !! NOOOOO don't deslab it !!!!

my quote to the negative person (silverdream) on this thread is: "you continue to rain on someone else's joyful parade and continue to justify it?? that is pathetic ! I am ashamed that you would downplay someone who is building. a registry set that they are passionate about. You are not impressed? well I am and I have not sold her any comics, I have checked the registry and it is very well done with pictures and info.

If you had scoured the earth for a decade building this high grade set, finding many copies raw, ebay copies in mixed lots and such, I would be much more excited for you. That's exactly what she did and has been doing for sometime now. I can attest to that and also sold her one of my highly priced Whitman's. (thumbs u I'm impressed with the collection and Bonnie's determination to bring it to fruition. Shes been a board member for a year. While she could have been collecting CGC or raw before that, I doubt it. Only she could tell us that, and after reading all 56 of her posts... yeah.. I wouldn't believe it if she said she was. I am not saying she isn't determined. Part of the equation of my opinion is patience. She paid 8x what that Black Hole 4 9.8 had just recently sold for just to pry it away from the buyer. Why? To leapfrog immediately into first place with flick of the wrist ( her checkbook for you youngsters ) She wanted it so bad ( 1st place ) she threw gobs of money at it, and got it. Again, that's the whole point of what I am saying. I am not impressed with that aspect of the set/1st place, and I get even more about it when she comes here shouting look at me I'm # 1! She would have gotten there with Doug's books, or others in time, but no... Part of my enjoyment of these variants is finding them. They are absurdly difficult. While she may love her books just as much as I, or anyone else loves theirs, I personally, am not impressed with it. She may have gotten just as much Joy in writing that check or swiping her credit card and unpacking her $6,000 package as I did when I found my cherished rare books in old dingy comic shops digging through millions of comics, fingers all black ( you divers into unbagged longboxes know what I'm talking about ) and stinky from flipping through musty 70's comics. Good for her if so. Everyone gets their kicks in different ways. Why doesn't anyone commenting here understand that me not being impressed is my opinion. Period. Mine. It's how I feel. Why try to argue about that? I find it interesting that the only people on here trying to argue with my opinion , which is pretty crazy in and of itself... are people that sold her books. Imagine that. I guess I wouldn't want to pizz off one of my customers either. touché eh? you continue to rain on someone else's joyful parade and continue to justify it?? that is VERY pathetic imo

the word balloons on the pictorial romance cover are classic !! and an awesome carrier cover to boot !!!

I polled about ten people at work today individually on whether they had ever heard of this "spoon" of an artist and not one of them had , we all range in age 40-60, I had never heard of him until this thread and I googled him on his web images and realized instantly that his artwork was "spoon", I can appreciate great art and have been to a few museums and marveled at a Monet which was beautiful beyond description. I have been to the High museum in Atlanta 15 years ago and was ashamed at some of the x-rated modern art that children were able to view, no need to go into detail but trust me it was disgusting and NOT art. a leading contributor to this thread evidently is enamored with 1960's American pop art , if he were to be living in North Korea today he would be espousing the brilliance of the paintings created by their great leader Kim ul Jong who blesses the art world and paints a masterpiece every time his brush touches the canvas

Yes its time for this thread to end, The copycat so called pop artist RL's name should never be mentioned on these boards again... except in disgrace, to refer to him by name is an insult to all who cherish comic collecting, to call him merely "spoon" is not severe enough.

The defense of Rob Lichtenfield or whatever is that "spoons" name is.. is indefensible in a comic book chat room Russ Heath is revered in the comic community and here on these CGC boards, a lamb among wolfs to defend the wolf on a comic chatboard is frankly as about as low down as possible

The Ebay seller is must have been fired from Mile High Comics for selling comics too cheap !!

What makes you think that John Seward Johnson's work is "revered in the modern art world"? This is the type of kitschy crepe that appeals more to "commoners" than art critics. I still think this "Roy Litchfield" character was pretty good. well if you think copycat RLspoon is pretty good then you must think Howard Finster is Rembrandt reincarnated

Wikopedia has an interesting article on another spoon "modern" artist named John Seward Johnson , who's statues are revered in the modern art world but the rest of us commoner realize they are just spoon ,same with Litchfield,... I never even heard of this spoon Roy Litchfield until this thread and I consider myself well read and appreciative of good art, after seeing Litchfield's work I realize a was not missing anything .

There is a fancy new modern art museum near me and I can honestly say that if I bought a painting at good will for 5 bucks, and snuck it in on the museum wall , it would not be out of place.

Why wouldn't you want it because someone has 500 copies? It's not an expensive book and the black cover makes it tough in high grade. because golden age stuff is just TOO cool to me and not only doesn't anyone have 500 copies of any issue in many cases you might wait years to find an available issue period of say..... oh for example an early "Strange Adventures" and it would cost way less than MTU#1