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I always come up with my grade before glancing at any other opinions, and I was at 5.5 to 6.0 as others it seems. Really cool cover!

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Totally cool books, especially the Luciano cover. Like so many of the Avon covers, the painting was featured on a paperback - Little Caesar (no. 66?) - and almost a decade beforehand. I have a copy somewhere, just not a scan handy...

Wow, what good fortune. The collectors from the sports world had slabs before us, so I'm not surprised to hear of one's predilection for high grade examples. Those are great books with awesome colors and so much Maneely and Burgos goodness!

Wow, that is depressing. What a strange time in a hobby when money makes people manipulate a 9.4 book like that. So now the pages protrude past the cover and it receives a higher grade? I prefer the previous wrap myself.

Those are the best condition examples of most of those issues I've ever seen (certainly raw). Do you know if they hailed from a single OO collection once upon a time?

Claim - thank you!

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That's quite an accomplishment - Night of Mystery, Hooded Menace, Dead Who Walk, Earthman on Venus, Underground Story, Robotmen of the Lost Planet - so many great books!

My humble pick-ups from a local comic show this weekend: Everything PCH or GGA is of course stratospheric in price, so it's back to westerns and funny books for me!

I picked up this toy bagatelle game recently, as I am a sucker for anything Jet Age/Space Age on the cheap:

Here's a fun assortment of paperbacks from a flea market last fall. The two most collectible ones might be Perelandra and The Dain Curse, but I also think they're the most common. I was glad to pick up a few of the other ones I didn't have.

I too recall when the Avon one-shots took off, and how sad it was thinking I'd never get nice copies of all of them. Over the years, I found low grade copies of a few of the amazing sci-fi covers, but to this day, several elude me. I think the run is truly under-rated: think of the complete set of one-shots and all the great genres represented (beside super-heroes). It's a pretty stunning cross-section of horror, mystery, crime, western (think Chief Victorio's Apache Massacre!), adventure, romance - even a humor book or two IIRC.

Who wouldn't have??

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Trust me, any copy of WDCS1 is a nice copy.