Robot Man

Like I said, sinners and saints. Nobody said you had to like 'em all just influential to the hobby. Many of these people did wrong or changed over the years but all left a mark on our hobby. 

And "Mothballs", welcome to the boards, (I guess)???

As cool a load as this is, I can't see the whole group being worth much more than $500. That Big Daddy Roth mag is rare!

Some sinners and saints here but no matter how you feel about them, had an immeasurable impact on comics and how we collect them today.

How about the Carters? Early trendsetting collectors also Gary publishing one of the best fanzines about comics ever done.

If you include Edgar Church how about Lamont Larson. Neither one ever had any idea how much impact just keeping their collections would mean to us.

Ernie Gerber. Mylar and archival comic supplies. His two volume GA cover index turned the hobby upside down as to why and how we collect comics today.

Chuck Rozanski not just for being the lucky buyer of the Church collection but for creating an empire out of it.

Shel Dorf, Richard Alf and the rest of their crew for creating the "big daddy" of comic book cons.

Bert Blum of Cherokee Books, Leonard Brown and Malcom Willits (and gotta throw in one of our own, The Yellow Kid (Rich Olsen) for creating maybe the earliest comic book stores in the country.

Terry Stroud and David T Alexander for marketing and creating genres like "good girl art", "bondage covers" and "esoteric" comics. Terms that are still being used and actively collected today.

A www Thanks Gino, you're making me blush...

Cool little robot toy. They sure have gotten plastic molding down these days. Much more detailed than their old tin cousins. I have a few of these. Fun to wind them up, put them on the floor and chase the dogs. 

Probably restored under copies... How is Steve doing? You don't hear much about him any more. I met him once and was pleasantly surprised to find him very friendly and genuine. A guy that truly loves the medium. 

12 hours ago, Ltpink2002 said:

Nice score! I never get tired of that one.

I think Photophuckit is acting up again. I haven't been able to get on it since Thursday and some (not all of my photos) are not showing up. Guess I'll have to wait to show my new Tec #27...

On 4/19/2017 at 1:22 PM, nearmint said:

You say that like it's a bad thing. 

It's called justice, since us west coasters usually miss out on stuff due to the time changes.

It really used to kill me in the old Buyer's Guide days. All copies would be mailed out the same day. The collectors closer to the mailing site would always scoop up the deals. By the time it got to the west coast, everything good was sold.

As a seller, I remember getting calls at 4:00 in the morning waking up my wife. I finally changed it to "no calls until such and such day and time" so everybody got a fair chance. A lot of east coasters didn't like it but I thought that was fair to everybody. I also kept my wife happy...

15 hours ago, cupny said:

Creepy, creepy in my mail today.  Just finished reading - truly enjoyable.  A little beat up G/VG, but really fun.

Cool book! Reminds me of this one

And this one

Sunday nights 7:00 Pacific / 10:00 Eastern time. Also Tues-Thursday same time. If I have a lot of similar items, I list them 5 minutes apart. Worst days for good results would be Friday and Sat. Auctions that end during the day when people are at work or busy usually do poorly for me.

11 hours ago, Dr. Love said:

At the time, Lee said:

"Curious if others were as surprised at the final price for the Going Steady 14 in the Heritage Auction. It was a CGC Blue 6.0 and sold for $2270.50 including BP.

I know this is a tougher Baker romance book, but I figured this issue would top out at maybe $800-900 as this is not as highly sought after as some of the Cinderella Loves and late issues of Teen-Age Romances.

Given some of the crazy prices realized in this auction, is this an outlier or a sign of things to come?"

And with great foresight I said:

"Surprised, but not shocked! shocked I say! A great book, unique actually in terms of theme for Baker, and very very very tough to come by in anything approaching grade. I've always considered it a minor grail, along with TAR 45. And after all these years, none on the census till this showed up, and that club is getting smaller and smaller.

If I'm not mistaken both Rick Starr and Sqeggs have lesser copies, shall we say, and I wouldn't put it past either of them to go for this one. Nor would I say it's a bad move. If you were committed to a world class Baker collection, this book would be a must have.

A bit out of my budget, but expenditures are very relative. These days 2K ain't no big thang."

 

Maybe 2K for a funny book is no big deal to many here. But to me that is decent dough. And it's just a personal thing but that book would be low on my list for a 2K funny book. Heck, I would probably kick in another 500 and buy a real nice vintage electric guitar that I could play and admire every day...

These work well together too

I think these belong together