Zolnerowich

That's really awesome! Must be some interesting back-story to how you landed these great pages....

Such a great cover! X-ray skeleton arms! I've added your book to the recap.

Spectacular stuff! I added your books to the recap on page 141.

Congrats buttock! I was in the mix for a while but shifted my resources to the 10... I'll add this majestic book to the recap.

Goodness gracious. I will add these to the recap!

Superb! I will edit my earlier "recap" post to include 38 and 69!

I believe I have a sufficient amount of OCD to post a summary. First, the success of us boardies is worth emphasizing! Our total haul was 19 books. In numerical order: #5 - buttock #10 - Zolnerowich #11 - shortboxed #16 - Straw-Man #17 - Ricksneatstuff #30 - LordRahl #33 - Ricksneatstuff #34 - Ricksneatstuff #38 - Chickenwings #39 - Ricksneatstuff #49 - Zolnerowich #50 - Bat34 #51 - Tim Weaver #53 - Artboy99 #56 - Ricksneatstuff #58 - GreatCaesarsGhost #59 - shortboxed #69 - Chickenwings #70 - Ricksneatstuff Thus, out of 73 Planet issues, 26.0% of these are in the hands of boardies. Perhaps a more relevant metric would be based on the total number of Church books that were up for auction. There were 14 missing/lost/misfiled Planet issues that didn't make it to the auction: 25, 37, 40, 41, 55, 57, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 71, 72, 73. So based on 59 available Church Planets, 32.2% are boardie-owned. That's nearly one-third of all the books. A very impressive showing! If I left anyone out, or if there's anyone late to post their harvest, please let me know. -------------------- NOW, onto the overall performance of the Planets: This adds up to a grand total of $697,511. And to all a good night!

Thanks very much! Nice to know I was in good bidding company. Congrats to you as well -- the 30 is one of the best covers in the run!!!

Thanks Karl! Your 53 ranks pretty high in my book!

Gosh, I can't even juggle one widow! How do you keep up the stamina?

Looks like I need to make two adjustments to my recently posted Planet run.

Yep, we all saw that coming! I think we boardies made it too easy on you!

Great work Artboy! We knew you had it in you!

I love Lamarckian genetics!

Nicely played!

Now that's what I'd call a punch-up!

Yeah, it seems like with about 37 minutes to go, we're starting to the exponential escalation phase of bidding... (for all those math geeks out there)

Sort of weird that they’re the same price, eh?

Might be a case of swamping the market too fast... (we can only hope!)

My high bid on Planet #1 is still holding fast. But seriously, what's the point of trying to jockey into the highest bidder slot right now? It's just forcing prices up ever higher. There's still 3 days to go...

How so?

Thanks Foggy! It was a labor of love, first, collecting the run, and second, posting all the books to amuse and inspire Planet collectors old and new.

It's kind of fascinating to see the Church copy of Planet 26 sitting next to the pedigree-less copy, the latter of which has superior colors.

Hmm. Page quality as a game of roulette. Seems about right to me.

The seventy-third of seventy-three books to complete my Planet run. Drum roll... PLANET #56 This was one of the first issues of Planet Comics that caught my eye and truly seduced me to the charms and sublime grace of Planet Comics. After scanning eBay for many months without any luck, I finally found a lower-grade copy at a comic con in Chicago. This was back in 2010 or thereabouts. So technically, I did own a copy of this issue pretty early on in my budding collection. Dial forward to 2018 -- when I learned the hard way that if you upgrade a book, wait until you receive that book before selling your undercopy! So basically I had gone from completing the run to being one short. But good luck and timing eventually circled back my way. Actually, it was @Ricksneatstuff who circled my way, kindly offering to sell me this absolutely gorgeous copy at a reasonable price. So I am indebted to Rick to filling in the very last gap in my collection. A great book to finish out the run.