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That's a great pic. Thanks @Frisco Larson Back to square one indeed. I'd say with 100% conviction there are two "cursive" Eldon's now. Hamann would have been 6 (13 at the date of these True Comics) and "Tuffy" 12 years old when the first books appear for whatever that's worth. My sense is the majority are Eldon M. Tuffentsamer - but I guess no one can prove anything without an original buyer of either of the two original collections to say for sure.

Curiously (perhaps) both men (Eldon M. Tuffentsamer and Eldon John Hamann) served in Korea, and one is in Illinois and the other neighboring Iowa. Again, evidence of scripted Eldon being Eldon M. Tuffentsamer and "Tuffy" is pretty concrete. Evidence for the official Eldon John Hamann story appears limited to several True Comics sent to the household under the father's name. I've been digging a half day on this, but I guess without other collectors finding completed coupons or other writings this is where things stand.

Further evidence that Eldon is Eldon M. Tuffentsamer is this copy on HA, noted Eldon "Tuffy." aka Tuffentsamer - like the Eldon at the start of this thread with Eldon “M.T.” on the cover and Eldon M Tuffentsamer on the back. To me, its an open and shut case. I just can't find a sig/pic of an Eldon Hamman to understand how its linked to the GCG description (https://www.cgccomics.com/resources/pedigree/eldon/). Is that only associated with the True Comics? I have to assume the Hamman is the "Blocky print" - which would put my mind at ease.

Agree, its the who is who part that is a little confusing. I'm going to say based on (reading this thread 3x now) that most common cursive is Eldon Tuffentsamer. That is verified with images of sig and full name on same book. Up for grabs is the the blocky ELDON (I guess Dedini). The True Comics out of Iowa (Hamann) @Frisco Larsonare a red herring as the images are lost to photo-bucket and there is no way compare the scripts/cover writing to link that to the name.

Nice find, that's a previously unknown copy to this thread.

How did I miss this one? Different subject, what happened to "take Bot"?

And there is always the option of putting it up on feeBay, asking $120K, and just frustrate the heck out of the couple of people with an inside copy for 10 years or more...

Great advice. Personally there would be two paths, based on if I wanted to keep it and enjoy (most likely) or sell.. and well enjoy in a different way. Sell path, probably clean and press cover and slab individually cover and each page separately. Send to Rick and sell on HA.com. Wife is happy. Win/Win. Keep path, I'd keep it all together and avoid any restoration - so clean and press and slab (or maybe even bag in mylar - depending on just how liquid I'd want to be) but keep it all together. It would fun to look for pieces to complete, but let's be honest would take some luck, time and money if you ever find them. And you would still need to restore after that. But in meanwhile you can continue to enjoy its awesomeness and your good fortune regularly with added bonus of bragging rights - your happy, wife maybe less so. Keep and enjoy and its always an option to change your mind later. Soooo cool! Great find.

I see a 4.5 of each sold on HA and one is now well ahead of the other, I really like them both Just interesting the price movements. Does anyone feel GGA in general has cooled? @Ricksneatstuff GPA: Suzie #56 4.5 2023 1 $1170 $1170 2022 3 $613 $336 Jun-20 $613 1488652021 Jun-13 $336 0243874011 May-06 $500 2101368002 2019 1 $312 $312 GPA: Cindy #37 4.5 2023 1 $750 $750 2022 1 $1080 $1080 2017 3 $1450 $1263 2015 1 $1000 $1000

Fyi, I see a Cap #1 page #25 for sale on HA right now, you might be interested in tracking it. https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/captain-america-comics-1-page-25-only-timely-1941-cgc-off-white-to-white-pages/a/122307-13160.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515#

I'm loosing more bids than ever... so I'd say market for GA has not cooled. Have been sort of thinking it might, but it has not. Where the $$$ comes from auction, after auction, after auction again is beyond me.

Excited to have added an Eldon (scripted Eldon Tuffentsamer?) to 'ye ole collection to pair with my Eldon (blocky Eldon Hamman)? re-posted at bottom. @Straw-Man and @nearmint do I have this right? Looking for some help. I'm still trying to sort out the "right" Eldons from this thread as it gets a bit confusing with Hammon, Tuffenstamer and Dedini and pics from photo bucket missing. Can anyone definitively separate the three - or confirm which these two belong to?

Awesome, now I want to collect gals in tubes covers. Checked out that Weird Science #20 - they ain't cheap

...RIP Eddie, and Michael, Whitney, Prince... May all of our collections be large, and long lasting.

I am in the same age category. Going to call out @Robot Man as in a recent post he made a comment suggesting he may be younger than me - which in my "I'm still the same age as I was in '85" - caused me to not expect - I guess its all his tremendous pop 40's-60's pop culture knowledge that threw me off.

Randomly ran across this letter in an online auction and snipped the image. Maybe not a big surprise, but for those here into comic history I thought it was interesting Ray Bradbury attested in this personal 1966 letter “It is an old artform which I have loved since I as a boy collected Buck Rogers and Tarzan comics.”

Yes, darn it.

Absolutely priceless. No doubt each ran home after school and did the same. I love the kid on far right with the "oh my Gosh giggles" hands over face but best of all the girl peering between the shoulders in the back thinking "you crazy, silly boys...I'd sell that for $10,000x times in 80 years"

Love it!

Purchased this from a boardie. Kid was a real Will Eisner fan. Chopped up these early 1937/38 books for the Will Eisner stories. He then glued them into sort of a frame and wrote the page or panel numbers in the frame margins (I believe later placed in binder pages). Amazing Mystery Funnies #2 Amazing Mystery Funnies #3 Detective Picture Stories #4 Funny Pages #10 Funny Picture Stories #4 Keen Detective Funnies #9 Western Picture Stories #2 Also came with a bunch of Spirit front covers glued to the same frame material. I think it was actually done in the early 70's, because there were also a couple of Spirit Kitchen Sink reprint covers.

I removed Wonder Woman #2 and Wonder Woman #4 from a "kid bound with Elmer's." Unfortunately, I didn't save a picture of the binding, but it included a handwritten index of the books included. The others books came out pretty glue free cover-less copies (below) that I sold here on the boards: All Star Comics #10 Minute Man #2 All Star Comics #14 Bulletman Shield-Wizard Comics #5 Golden Arrow #[1] Spy Smasher #2

I'll start this off with this a "Goodness Me!" one spotted on feeBay (which includes Detective Comics #27 and Batman #1 - "ALL OF THE FIRST 113 BATMAN STORIES from 70 comic books published 1939 through 1943." which deserves discussion on its own. https://www.ebay.com/itm/225245642254?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=_LMGBU3EQwu&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=abojYbpQR82&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY I'll post a couple of similar kid cut/up collections I've encountered. Please share yours.

I have a situation like that on one of my Ernie Comics (miss-numbered and no gold label on Pedigree), a staff member reached out to me here on the boards and offered to take care of it, which I will eventually. Just waiting to put together a submission batch.