IngelsFan

I saw a handful of the DC Big 5 issues in the mid-90s (when the collection was discovered maybe?). My sole Salida is Fightin' Air Force 3. Coincidentally it was the first slabbed book I ever bought as well!

I'd go for the single high grade copy of your top want. Here's my rationale: When I started collecting, I was a hole filler. Once I got a copy, it was checked off and I moved in to the next one. There are scarce books that I passed up over the years that would have been great upgrades, but since I already had one I thought why bother. Now I look back and I'm kicking myself for not picking up better copies when they were cheaper and not in "black hole" collections. The market is on fire now for GA, and since it's on your top 5 then it's one you want really bad. Just my 2c.

Those are beauties-I love seeing how sharp Salidas are.

I'm a big fan of Farrells. Very quirky, and hard to find in grade.

This one just arrived in the mail, my 2nd Canadian book (my first was an EC).

I've been picking up DC "double bullets" lately. There's just something cool about these 20 cent beauties:

This is a recent purchase-I'm surprised this Harry Anderson cover doesn't get more attention, it's one of my favorites of the run:

The only one that comes to mind for me was Astarita's cover to Jungle 46, but that was in 1999.

Awesome-thanks! Looks like a pretty direct lift from it too, with a little extra to fill it out.

I love the deep reds on yours!!

The mailman delivered this to me today....I just can't say no to Everett horror covers:

Sweet and tough book! GLWS.

Just because the top graded copy is a 9.0 does not by any means signify that there are zero copies that would grade higher. DC war collectors are a lot like PCH collectors in that they were around before CGC and see no current reason to submit them.

As long as bidding stays where it is RIGHT NOW, I've got a shot at the 79 I'm tracking......

I love the thrill of the hunt as well. I started collecting back when most dealers expected a self-addressed stamped envelope if you wanted a response. In those pre-Gerber book days I had a list with every source indexed for pictures of covers so I'd have an idea of what book I'd be getting. Back in those days a letter to Metropolis asking what GA books were available resulted in a one page typed list, lol.

More Funs are generally tough, but the #'s 40-51 seem to be especially so. This one has only 4 copies. The have a huge grade range too, the lowest at a 0.5 and the highest at 9.4. Mine falls right in the middle:

Sgt. Rock vs the Grim Reaper? It happened in France....at least it happened on this cover to Brulant #15, shown here as the original cover art. Brulant would take covers from DC issues and paint them for their covers-a handful of SSWS dinosaur covers received this treatment. I haven't found a copy of the issue yet, so I'm not sure what issue this is supposed to be reprinted from. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Hitler as WWII Horror A large amount of GA Hitler covers involve him being punched or captured and as such are more "realistic". What I am hoping to see here are the ones where Hitler is depicted with a horror image. There are plenty of Nazi and Imperial Japanese pictured as monsters, etc, but how many where the most horrible man of the 20th Century is depicted as a monster himself? Here's my entry and the one that started me thinking about this topic:

Thanks to a boardie, I was finally able to strike one more off of last year's want list. I'm extremely happy to have this one:

Robot, I've never seen this one before-when was it published, before or after Chilling 13? Looks like he swiped himself; I'm curious which was first.

Atomic Age is a pretty perfect term also if you consider the fact that the Golden Age ends at the end of WWII. The end of WWII is the start of the Atomic Age/Cold War in the real world. Then, in comics, that age leads right up to the early Silver Age, where most of Marvel's stable has atomic radiation as a catalyst in some form or another. It's the ideal term for the bridge between the GA & SA.

I noticed the same thing. 1-4 are there, but that horror cover is absent. I'm tracking a lot of eye candy, with 3 extreme wants that I'm going to mortgage the house to get.

Very surprising to me. I understand that it's a recently hot book, but for me, it's just "meh?". There are a lot of other PCH books that are higher on my want list for a lot less. Just my 2 cents, mind you; your mileage may vary.

I have one Grail. At present, it is unattainable because the current owner has already expressed on multiple occasions that he has no interest in selling it. When he does, if I'm lucky enough to buy it, one of the other pieces that are high on my want list currently will no doubt become the new Grail. One term that I feel apt is when people use the adjective "Grail-level" piece. It's vague, but also conveys the fact that it's good enough/striking enough/rare enough that it is likely someone's Grail.

I was happy to upgrade to this copy of this key book: