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My recent win from the Berk auction; Charles Sultan from 1943.

I love that 129!

Yellowjacket Comics 7. This book hits on a couple of my areas of interest with a giant skull cover and an early horror host. However with 39 copies in the census at 7.0 or better, I don't feel any urgency to pick one up.

Any day the mailman brings me two 20 centers with Wrightson covers is a pretty awesome day:

Great idea for a thread, Gino. This beauty should look familiar....

Congrats-Adventures into Darkness 8 is one of my favorites in the run!

I'll take Darling 7, 9 & 11

The same would apply to Atlas books from the 50s with their reds, especially prevalent in PCH issues. You will have an otherwise vibrant and beautifully colored book but the red blurb will look faded.

Not sure if this is what you are looking for but Blazing Comics #5 has multiple interiors similar to Strange Mysteries 9 made up of remaindered comics from DC, EC, Fox and Ziff Davis.

I'm new enough here that I haven't seen a Gator sales thread, but have no doubt that it would an epic event. Also, and apologies for the cross-post, but in the silver age thread for OPG keys hierarchy, someone questioned why OAAW 83 is a Top 20 book, and Gator responded that it's always a consistent seller above guide when he gets one for sale. Yesterday eBay backed him up on this with the sale of an unslabbed vg/fn copy going for well over the OPG fine price (result screen shot below). Further proof that Gator is a far better arbiter of pricing that OPG OR GPA!

Seriously awesome!

The best recent war comics are Ennis' War Stories. Truly amazing stuff!

As a matter of personal preference and as someone that has been casually collecting Platinum Age books since 1985, I make the distinction between books containing original vs. reprint material. I'll only pick up reprints if the cover interests me, but love the all original comics. This was a major leap forward for the medium, at least as significant as the format itself. Early books from what would become DC even promoted this fact, with New Comics 3 bearing the slogan "AOC and how" on the cover and several other issues having it throughout the interior. AOC? All Original Comics. This is what paved the way for the medium to really take off, because there was no issue of paying royalties to the syndicates for reprints. This way, each company paid the artist and the printer and the rest was profit.

Thanks! The splash went mid-$3k, there was a dynamic fight scene page that went for $760, then the rest were $150-175 IIRC. So definitely the most for the interior pages. Bidding took forever because of the 3 minute bump. A couple of us wanted it pretty bad, it seems!

I grabbed this page for 3 reasons: 1) the horror theme, 2) the patriotic heroes and 3) Charles Sultan art!

Cool book

I'm not sure if they wil be on the searchable part of the site but the ones that are in their CAF gallery take you straight to the auction results. It isn't all of the lots but yours might be in there.

While to the best of my knowledge this was not published, it was done by Virgil Finlay during his service in WWII in the Pacific Theater.

Shep!!! Long time no see, man. Good to see you back in the game.

A recent arrival. I'm upgrading my copies of this issue little by little. Top census is only a 7.5.

Too true! I've owned a total of 7 copies over the years because they were so easily attainable, then would sell or trade them as collector friends expressed interest. I probably would have done the same with my current copy if I hadn't taken a long break from comics to concentrate on original art. I came back to PCH 2 years ago and was shocked! Luckily I have mine and can concentrate on other hot issues (and PCH in general is of course scorching right now).

I've always loved this cover-anyone have a clue as to who the artist is?

The mailman brought this new addition today. I'm extremely happy to have a Craig cover, especially since I had a brief shot at the line art for this one in 2011 but the timing was bad. Craig only did a handful of painted cover recreations, and this is his best, IMHO.

These are all very cool. Thanks for sharing them, as well as the ones on the site.

Congrats on an awesome book-Adventure 37 is no joke!