PopKulture

A sin-fully cool book. One of the best.

What are the odds??! I'm sure you beat me to the only eager customer. It'll be another ten years before somebody needs that centerfold!

How ridiculous that I never really visited the "I Wanna Get Married" thread!! And only a few threads below on the front page. How embarrassing!

I've been going through some coverless or otherwise incomplete books I own including some recent pick-ups. Some, like Batman 47 or Marvel Mystery 29, are obvious keepers since I'll likely never shell out the money for complete copies. Others, however, I often wonder if there's a book with a cover out there missing a centerfold. In many of these cases, it would be nice to marry it off so there's a complete copy going forward. I guess my question is this: is there a thread or some sort of clearing house for these franken-books other than auctioning them off on the Bay? And, if you do a buy-it-now option (which I'd be more inclined to offer here on the Boards first), what is a fair value for a centerfold, for example? Any thoughts would be appreciated!! Here are a few fun examples: Target Comics 6: Blue Ribbon Comics 2: Weird Comics 3 - centerfold missing And a pretty cool book even if the first wrap is gone too - Action Comics 15:

So, so tough to pick. I love 50, 58, 59... so many good Freas issues to choose from. Plus, I love some of the simple pun covers such as the "spring" issues (like Alfred thru the trampoline) and even simple gags like the "back to colege" issue. I like the "turn on, tune in, drop dead" cover as well as 151.

It brings me joy to see all those horror titles broken out like that.

Tales of the Unexpected seems undergraded even more than that. A really nice presenter whatever the grade!

This is definitely the first example I thought of when you mentioned scarecrows. I walked into a local shop today to buy some treasury bags and bought the leap year issue for a fin (no. 53?). I think it's an upgrade to mine, but I won't know til I do some digging.

It will be interesting if that turns out to be the case and we can revisit this prophecy in short order. I don't doubt you are correct.

That's a fair criticism, and one I have with pretty much every subsequent cosmic-powered character created around 1980 and beyond.

Another fascinating report - thank you! It gives me a great sense of deja vu seeing so many of the same dealers as I tend to each April in Chicago at the Windy City Show.

I don't know if it's possible on a book this important, but I don't think 29 gets nearly enough credit. It seems like 31 and 35 elicit more chatter, but this is the real deal, and like Action 7, I think time will bear this out.

That price gels with my recollection, but I forgot that much Batman was missing. I thought the centerfold drove the price. Apparently not.

Simply stunning books! Our taste in comics must have been similarly shaped... thumbing thru earlier Overstreets, the Richard O'Brien book, Steranko's History of Comics, etc. I fondly recall Single Series Tarzan being featured in the Resnick price guides.

I love it that there are consensus classics like these that show up on a few lists (by consensus classics I mean books that have been on the radar for forty years or more!) and a few lesser-known but totally deserving books like this!! I love seeing them all.

I have you down for More Fun 54, AMF V2#5, a ho-hum book with some guy with an 'S' on his chest flyin' around like he owns the place, Arrow 3, and Bats 1. A fairly nice start to a serious contender as top ten lists go.

The slow reveal is killing me!! Some of the most iconic books in the hobby, and every one a legitimately great cover in its own right. This thread in general leaves me speechless and awestruck...

It's sad that there is such an overwhelming demand for fresh-to-market GA books that we collectively buy into a feeding frenzy this sketchy. That sellers fall bass-ackwards into estates and clean-outs featuring comics they know nothing about, do everything they can to discourage bidders, and then still get good money for their auctions leaves me feeling a little dirty.

No, I'd chalk it up to general exposure - mostly from the light, I'd guess - but I often see the terms used interchangeably. I guess it owes as much to semantics as science - trying to quantify what the contribution is from light, air, dust, etc. The end result is that a portion of the book peeking out of a stack winds up discolored, and that CGC doesn't treat it as harshly as grading standards of yesteryear.

And I saw a scan of a Church book the other day that was a 9.4 and boasted tan lines the whole right margin. When I was a kid, I bought comics from a few different dealers who quoted Overstreet: "any tanning on cover is no better than a VG." I have an Amazing Spiderman 20 to this day from one of those dealers, Bob, which would grade maybe a 7.0 or better today. Yesterdays tanning, today's "dust shadow" I guess.

I think this is at the crux of the situation. And as at least one user suggested, the upside is that this was not an extremely expensive book on the order of an Amazing Fantasy 15.

Regarding the CSS 20, I have to agree with you. Maybe a 6.0 with the light creasing and few surface ticks, but not with the spine wear/abrasion also.