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Take Avon 233 please

No kidding. Some of these grades don’t seem all that repeatable and fairly subjective with a slight sprinkling of whimsy.

You need a win like that once in a while to keep you coming back!! One of the rare later editions - very nice! For the few paperbacks I buy on the Bay, I think it’s going to sell while I’m looking at it! Like someone’s going to buy it while I ask about combined shipping or something. As collectors, I guess we enact all sorts of mental barriers as defense mechanisms to keep us from getting too disappointed.

All these Aces you’ve been posting are wonderful! It kinda makes me wonder why they’re so under-represented in my collection. I’ve spent the majority of my paperback hours devoted to chasing down Avons, Dells and Populars while neglecting these. So many great publishers, so little time.

What we’re they fighting over?

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It’s not a Bart House, but a Hangman’s House. There can’t be more than a couple dozen titles overall, and at first they were digests before switching later in the run to paperbacks. A lot of nice atmospheric covers.

And according to my list, I have the other three Populars. I would’ve sworn “no” to at least one of them, maybe two. I guess that’s why as people get older they finally get around to making a list.

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Hey Rickster, can you ship books media mail? A cheap-O like me is always interested in saving some dough where I can. They let you pack as much as you want and these are legitimate books after all.

But there are parallels - the most obvious is that they are both first issues of their self-titled series, the difference being the original Surfer series limped to 18 issues while Richie survived for decades, lasting well past 200 issues. In collecting, there's always going to be a psychological edge to anything numbered "one."

Yeah, those do seem to be the newer, narrow criteria.

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Great books, Steve!! I don't know how this isn't designated a "classic cover" - it was one of the most well-known and regarded covers for the first thirty or more years of fandom.

I just don't understand the willingness to look the other way when it comes to Stan Lee. Every time someone posts a tribute to a recently deceased person of note in the Water Cooler, several users pile on to remind everyone about the worst thing that person ever did: that Beat guru ran over dogs, that musician did this... But Stan did not just pass, and all the blind worship of him causes Shelley's "Ozymandias" to subtly play on a loop somewhere in the back of my head. Given his decades-long body of self-serving lies on top of shameless self-promotion on top of spin and flim-flam, he was egotistical at a glance, and when you really peek behind the veil, he was downright oily. Affable, charismatic, engaging... but oily. For whatever part he did play in the creation of the Marvel Universe so many of us cherish, it brings me no pleasure stating such, but I refuse to play the fool.

One of my all-time favorite comic covers!! How this doesn't carry a "classic cover" designation while many random PCH books now do is laughable.

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I have those other Roys, otherwise I’d be so inclined.

History being made!! Thanks for digging those up from your enviable holdings.