Randall Ries

Wow, quite the book ! Lucky dog! A Larson to boot! Congratulations!

I love love LOVE this cover! Ever since I saw it in "Superman: From The Thirties To The Seventies". Finally got this copy a few years ago.

Crappy scan but this seems to present well for an 8.5. Glad to have it.

This.

Thank you! The back cover is a bit tan which pulled the grade down some. love me some Adams books!

Huh. Never even THOUGHT about selling!

Been wanting one for awhile. A seller made me a good deal on it and so... I will buy a higher grade at some point, but I can't resist Adams signed books. Almost completed my Adams GL/GA run.

Just in from Greg Reeces. Thanks, Greg!

Not too bad at all! Congratulations!

So, as far as I can tell, the last time(s) the Joker actually murdered was in Batman #9 and Detective Comics #45. I don't know which murder was actually the last murder, but he didn't kill all the way through the rest of the Golden Age, all of the Silver Age, and started murdering again with this issue. The rest of the time he was just ridiculous. Thank God for Denny O'Neil for getting him out of the Cesar Romero framework and back to the insane killer he was born to be. Hopefully, Jared Leto doesn't ruin the whole thing.

Very cool book. It's definitely on my want list. (thumbs u What a beautiful book! Congratulations!

Beautys! The 222 is a nice one! That's my next purchase.

Did you have the right to do this? Sure. Are people offended? I doubt it. But you could have given them to people who couldn't afford them and created some joy and happiness. Instead you burned them, which means no one will ever get joy or happiness from them. So, whatever you call choosing not to create joy and happiness, that's what you did. This. Of course they were yours to do what you chose to do with them. You just don't see many people posting on comic book collector boards that they chose to burn 3 NM copies of a rather expensive ergo hard to obtain books for the average joe out of spite over grading issues. It was a little jarring to read that. Pressing isn't restoration. They ARE rare to the average collector in that hi-grade copies go for a good chunk of change, putting them out of reach and creating a secondary scarcity. We've all heard the stories of the parents who burned their now elderly kids golden age collections or the elderly doing it themselves out of sheer ignorance. Who knew at the time? Sounds like you did it because you disagreed with grading ambiguity. I could choose to put a brick on the accelerator of my 1969 Chevy Camaro, release the E-brake and point it at a tree over someone pointing out restoration issues or mismatching numbers, buuuut.... It reminded me of the woman I used to work with who bought seven pot roasts for a party, cooked them, served them, only two got eaten and she threw the other 5 away. In the trash. When I incredulously asked her why she would do that, her reply was "we do not eat leftovers". I almost got fired for the I gave her for that response. Just completely out of left field and yes, offensive. They gave me a "time out" in the break room. ! I don't know whether to applaud your flagrance or feel sorry for you. I feel sorry for the books and the collectors who could have enjoyed them for sure. Joy is hard to come by these days. Food was hard to come by in the early '80's thanks to "Reaganomics". Must be nice to be so cavalier about money at the very least. As far as the Adams sigs, I'm sure he signed them, but having him do it six times is just as weird as burning 3 perfectly nice raw high grade examples.

I just don't understand what the books had to do with it is all. If you have any other high grade key issues you want burned, send them this way. I have a wood stove.

Have you ever cut an ear off and sent it to a girl who jilted you? Why would you burn 3 9.6's and a 9.4 Bat #227? So you basically set aflame $7000 and took 4 nice books out of circulation forever. Anyone say Machiavelli? No need to show the scan. You probably signed Adam's name to the book 6 times.

I guess this counts as well. Very cool signed print I got in the mail today:

That's overkill. No offense meant. I'd love to see a scan of that book, though. What do you mean by "burned"? Not destroyed I hope.

I've been dreading buying this copy for my Adams GL/GA run. Because of the rumors about John Stewart being in the next movie, the prices have been nudging up. It's expensive AND GL's foot is usually chopped in half since this book is usually horribly miswrapped the other way. In fact, I haven't ever SEEN a copy that wasn't missing a chunk of the foot. I guess this is still a miswrap, but it has enough of the spam stripe on the side showing and Hal's entire foot is in frame. Plus it has the signature. I am elated.

This presents really nicely. You are fortunate to be the custodian. try not to look at it as a chip. Try to see it as tenure.

Beautiful! I feel like Charlie Brown waiting for a Valentines Day card from the Little Red Haired Girl when I'm expecting a comic book in the mail.

+ 1 Billion. Autographs mean someone greater than I and whom I respect a great deal touched this book. And they respect me enough to recognize that and sign their wares. edited for mispelling...

I find I collect Adams books more than other artists and tend toward SS Adams books. He really impressed me when I was a kid. If his sig is well placed, I'd have him do a 227 9.8 1st page sig. To me, it's an autograph, not a scrawl and certainly not vandalism. The sigs also seem to add to the $$$ value as well. If we pay big dollars to have some of these books we have, then there's no shame in assigning them a $$$ value. On the other hand, I wouldn't want an SS Irv Novick book for example. Don't care at all about Stan Lee signed books. I guess this is an example of different camps. Some like 'em and some don't. I do see your point about having a clean surface with no marks on the covers, though. I can see where it might distract from the landscaping. I try to remember these aren't Rembrandts. They are pop culture material. Getting signed books is almost ironic. Sounds like you have original art covers signed by Adams. I'd love to see them sometime.

Picasso signed a lot of his originals. Personally, I like SS books as long as the sig is unobtrusive. I have a CGC SS 9.4 white Bat 232 signed by Adams and Giordano. They are well placed. O'Neil didn't sign it and I wouldn't seek to have him sign it. His signature looks like a barbed wire sample. I guess I'm on of those freaks who doesn't mind arrival dates on golden age books as well. I think they add to the provenance when they are that old. I understand why some collectors don't want their books signed, particularly keys, but I have no problem with it at all. It's like having two hobbies in one. And the nice thing is, we always have the opportunity to buy an unsigned copy of the same books, too. I posted a copy of my Bat 227 earlier in this thread. I'd have no problem having Adams sign it.

Very nice. Right before it all started in earnest. Beautiful!

Great, just great books! Beautiful books! LOVE the #37. "Someday, Jennifer. Someday..."