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Congrats on some cool books!! The TOS looks even better than the assigned grade.

Ughh. That sounds like an ungodly amount of work. I'm glad I don't sell high value books online. I'm sure, however, you only take precautions like this because you've leaned the hard way. I have to admit I'm a tad bit curious at what price point all that becomes necessary...

Mucha was utterly masterful. Would Art Nouveau have existed without him?? Perhaps on the merits of artists like Cheret and artisans like Tiffany, sure, but it would be much diminished in the rear-view mirror of history without his genius and contribution. As indispensable as Picasso or Braque is to cubism, so too is Mucha to Nouveau. When I first saw his work as a kid, I thought "hey, this guy's art looks like some of the more ambitious stuff Barry Smith is doing." I got it sort of backward on that one - that his stuff looks like Smith's.

Whoa... now that is one heck of a treasure! The other ones are really cool as well, especially the Giancola. Congrats on some really fine pieces.

Such a great book! If I made a trading card set of the best Atlas horror covers - and there are many! - this book would definitely make the cut. (I'm thinking somewhere around a 32-card set might do the trick.)

That's a pretty interesting bit of technological history. I'm not surprised that many of the early recordings were superior: it's just part of the "cheapening" process that seems all too common. I lack Jo Stafford's perfect pitch, so I wouldn't notice anyway. P.s. Where's the Sabbath??

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I like old magazines dating to the mid-1800's. They can be quite ornate with decorative logos and mastheads. Most of the surviving magazines from that era are in hardcover bound volumes, where the cover and ads were often discarded in the binding process. Magazines with their wraps intact, as the covers are called, are pretty uncommon in most cases. [ [

I buy them more for the covers than the records themselves - does that count? Mostly 50's stuff that winds up hung on a wall for a while.Stuff like June Christy and Chubby Checker. Sinatra too, as well as soundtracks and oddball stuff like Hawaiian or Polynesian-themed covers.

Most of your mags are in great shape! Anytime I see them, they're pretty beat up, at least the few I see at flea markets and antique shows.

I get what you are saying, but I really think the flipside of that is true: that we're the best thing that ever happened to this hobby. We are the hobby. I mean, one guy, in a vacuum, off somewhere on his own, neurotically if lovingly saving way more books than would ever serve his purpose as an artist would be pretty easily dismissed as a loon if there wasn't as far-ranging a fan base as all of us constitute. A bunch of comics somewhere doesn't best represent our hobby, be they in a Colorado closet or a museum in D.C. or New York: we do. We keep them alive. We covet them, trade them, seek them out, cherish them, find out all we can about them, and above all marvel at them most often through the lens of a wide-eyed eleven year old.

That's just stunning! No wonder it's a favorite...

I've never seen this any larger than a thumbnail. It's a standout for sure!!

Take Marvel Tales 30, 31, 32, 45, 52, 55, 57, 58, 62, 64, 71

What a cool cover!

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I think that's one of the best covers of the early Marvel Age!

Hi Picky, I've noticed you've mentioned buying from Todd Lange in previous threads as well as this latest one. I know nothing about him, nor any books he ever offered. Did they come piecemeal from one pedigree or many such collections? About how many books do you think we are talking about? Thanks in advance for any info.

Kudos as always for the continuing reports! They provide us with all the G-rated, voyeuristic pleasure one could ask for. I love seeing Gene's wall books in general, but the assortment for this show, given the nostalgia theme, is especially pleasing to me, what with all the westerns, space books, TV tie-ins... It's definitely a nice change of scenery from the same old Spidey's and Brave and Bolds (NOT that there's anything wrong with them!!).

Wow... those ARE awesome old pieces of paper!! Have a great show.

Yeah, Bok was somehow able to channel that Maxfield Parrish palette whenever he wanted. I mean, just look at those colors!

I'll take the four FOOM posters.

Wow! Mad congrats on a cherry run of one of the great hero titles!

I'll take War is Hell 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8

Sometime in the late 1980's, I traded a ASM 129 for an FF 10. I never regretted it, though it is one of only a handful of trades I've ever made. When the Wolfman/Perez Teen Titans were hot, I traded a few of those for oddball GA books like Barney Google 2 and a Whiz 126. Cash for comics is always better, though, because you're less likely to miss it.