PopKulture

Amazing cards, Comical! I know I should ooze more about the 52 Topps Mantle, but the Sport Kings Ruth and Turkey Red Cobb have been favorites of mine since before Barry Halper's cards used to be featured in the color sections of early Becketts. Outstanding stuff.

I just checked some old Overstreets and my recollections about boards in the 70's seem to be correct, as nobody was making mention of boards in the 1970's (beyond the homemade ones I mentioned). There are ads from both Bill Cole and Ernie Gerber starting in 1982 that advertise boards as well as snugs, mylites, time-loks, binder pages, etc. Both Cole and Gerber had multiple pages in the Overstreet annuals so comic protection was starting to become big business in the early to mid-80's.

It wasn't until the mid-80's that boards started to become common and available. In the 70's, a few local hobbyists would make and even sell them, but they were often shirt cardboard and stuff like that. As stated earlier, the bags from Robert Bell are among the earliest and can still be found in boxes now and then!

Well, in the case of the early SA DC 10-centers, poly bags fit really snug, so I can see why. I've done this, but I find that if a few books are bagged and boarded with GA sizing in a box with mostly SA-sized bagged and boarded books, they wind up getting pinched at the bottom and bowed. I know a few collectors that put everything in magazine boxes, but that would waste so much more space that I could never afford to do it with run boxes. I just wish they made a box that held GA without fitting to books so snugly (even after my aforementioned re-working of the box).

I took to doing that with all but the earliest Dell Giants. If you use the thick gold or super gold (poly) bags, there's too much wasted space. Take a gold board trim an 1/8" or so and you get a clean fit with a golden age bag, AND they still fit in a standard comic box (as long as you've previously massaged, smooshed, or generally re-worked the box after assembling).

I'm sorry to read about your situation. Good luck with the sales, and here's hoping this whole thing turns the corner sooner than the more dire predictions would tend to indicate.

That is pretty funny! I never saw the resemblance before... No, it's from an old razor blade package, from all the other junk I collect. I have been watching a lot of Dobie re-runs, though, so your guess is well timed. All Dobie had to worry about was his lack of money and how he was going to impress Thalia and get Zelda off his back. There were no pandemics and quarantines and market meltdowns - just his miserly dad to worry about.

And don't forget when Richie Rich 1 and even The Adventures of Big Boy 1 were top SA books!!

They took it seriously? It that seriously your position? They tried to hide, deny, obfuscate and cover up at every turn the true import of the outbreak for well over a month. And they're still playing games. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your position, but to say China's been straight with everyone by sending planeloads of infected workers to their dutiful stations in the textile mills in Italy while continuing to look the other way is laughable. This is a crisis. Mistakes will be made - everywhere, but to call out only the people with whom you disagree most as a natural course of action is disingenuous, and frankly adds to the sort of morass that's got the OP feeling down in the first place. Most of us come here to talk about comics books; when we do venture off that path it should be with a forward-looking bent, and a nod to what is good in our community - hence, my original objection to the intentional waft of politics.

Holy cr*p! I've never seen this cover. It's not really that romantic when you get down to it...

And the outlets that night after night held up Michael Avennati as a legitimate presidential hopeful, have they done much to maintain a modicum of credibility over the past few years? They don't try to report the news: they traffic in hyperbole that passes as analysis to boost their ratings and fill their corporate coffers. Other examples of their misinformation are legion, but what's the advantage of going off into these tangential weeds if not to pick at the same old scabs? I've always thought you have interesting points to share, but overwhelmingly so when objectivity guides your musings, not when you're looking to score thinly-veiled political points.

Can I ever begin to express how much I love and agree with this succinct indictment? You have clearly laid out the ground rules for the perpetuation of a long-held if mostly unspoken demarcation between the hobbies. Well put, Dwight.

This is the kind of mirth we could all use these days!!

That's an interesting observation, and you're not at all wrong.

Such a great feeling as a collector to hold a book like this in your hands and imagine you're back in the 40's at a newsstand or drugstore grabbing it off the racks just 'cause the cover spoke to you...

I'm keeping my fingers crossed it won't be cancelled! As of today, the website says it's still on. Here's hoping the present situation is at its lowest ebb by then...

I follow some auction results and dabble a little in raw cards prior to 1930, but I don't have any direct knowledge of slabbing cards. Just like in comics, I tend to traffic in the raw. Someone else would better be able to address the specifics of your question.

It's not every day that happens!

Hole In the Sky!!! One of my top Sabbath tracks!

A feeling I know all-too-well!!

Probably my favorite BEM cover. Congratulations on picking one up! Prices jumped on this issue years ago, but are still way affordable compared to comics with notable covers (I don't think I'm using the term "classic" anymore unless it's Superman 14 or More Fun 54).

Ha! I waited for what I thought was a loooonnng pause before asking! I should've known better... Looks like you west coast boardies did some major damage - congrats! I just hope you left some for us midwest guys with the Windy City show coming up (if it's not derailed by the hype-1 virus ).

I've mentioned on the boards how hard it is to decide which Marvel Mystery Comics are classic covers (to me, half the run qualifies), but with pulps it becomes an exercise of ridiculous proportions. The whole run of titles like Horror Stories, Terror Tales, Weird Tales, bedsheet Amazing Stories, Spider, Operator 5, etc. would merit a serious look. It's already a really tired term in comics, and how in the world is it not going to become overused to the point of futility in pulps?

Great looking show! I'm jealous. There are lot of nice Avon digests lying about... Did you find anything in the Robot wheelhouse?