Best2u

Don't blame me there is no spell checking. Star Trek #1 needs fixing. First I'd like to say "Sorry" for all the bad spelling that happens in my journals. I just got done reading a few of my old entries and saw how many misspelled words and typos there were. I don't know how to type, I just pick, and sometimes spend 20 seconds looking for the right letter. There is no spell check for the journal and I'm to lazy to go back and correct them all. Once again "Sorry" and I'll try to do better. I'd like to take a look at the rarity of the Gold Key Star Trek #1 issue. I was recently looking at the auction lots at Vintage Collectables where they have a Star Trek #1 photo back up for bids. The auction discreption calls this-This copy has the rare variant photo back cover, the most valuable version of the run's most valuable issue. Ya right, the photo back version is the least valuable of the three variants. There is a variant for the photo back, I've never seen a picture of it, where something on the front cover is differant that has only one copy graded, a quaified CGC-5.5. Then there is the ad back, which I've seen but never up for auction which has only 20 copies graded, three are CGC-9.0 and two CGC-8.5s. Then there is the photo back that you always see up for sale and listed as rare. There are 161 graded copies with 1 CGC-9.6 and 6 at CGC-9.4 and a bunch more in the mid grades. My guess is that every dealer that has ever sold one of these photo back issues knows that it is very easy to find and not rare, maybe scarce, at all. I think it all started with Overstreet calling it rare many years ago and never changing it. Shame on them. I'd love to have one of the ad backs but it's hard not to like the photo backs the most. I mean, William Shatner as a Pin-Up. That's hard to beat

Big news makes me change my plans for this weeks journal. I really don't know if I lied. Last week I said I was going to show you my favorite cover from a comic that I owned. I just can't do that as I won a lot in the last Heritage auction that I just have to tell about. Besides collecting the series I have in my registry I also am putting together a set of all the different pedigrees that CGC lists. Now this is a very hard task to do for a man with a very limited budget. I'd like to thank my wife Evy at this time as she is the main donater to my budget, I'm out of work. When a nice pedigree comic comes up anywhere the skin on the back of my neck stands up and almost jumps off if it's for a series I collect. I always try to bid a little bit more for something like that. CGC now lists about 50 diff. pedigrees so this may be a collection that will take the rest of my life or maybe a bit longer. There are a few pedigrees that I've never seen come up for sale like Twilight, San Francisco, or a Hawkeye among others. One I do see come up all the time is the Egar Church Mile High Pedigree. Now this is where the limited budget comes in. Seem like all of the books in this pedigree are so high on the grading scale, and the fact that everyone would like to own a Mile High, I've always been priced out of the market for them. That is until now. In this weeks Sunday night Heritage auction they had a Headline Comics #60, a series I collect, up for bidding from the Mile High collection. It was a low to mid grade (CGC 7.0) copy with white pages that had sold in 2006 for under $70. There is no longer any hair on my neck. This comic was going to be mine. I watched this lot every day to see if I was going to be out priced for the book before the auction day even came. On Sunday, with about 10 hours to go, I came up with the amount I felt was the most I could bid. With an hour to go I started sitting in front of the laptop watching and updating the current bids to see if I still had a shot. I was still in it with 5 min. to go. I typed in my max bid of $105 and shut down the computer and went to bed. I guess I was thinking I didn't have a chance of winning the book due to the fact that every other Mile High I've bid on I've always have been out bid at the last second. By going to bed it gave me a whole night of thinking I may have one. Waking up the next morning I ran to the desk, booted up the machine, and low and behold I had won it for $65. What was I thinking a $105. Hey, you know what, I would have been just as happy paying the $105. I now own a Edgar Church Mile High pedigreed comic. Now if I could only find a Allentown pedigree comic book, a Aurora pedigree, a Big Apple, a Central Vally ...

Two things that kind of make me mad. This will be short and sweet, and nobody get made at me, it's just the way I feel. The first is. People who use the Registry and sign up for ever series of comic listed in the Registry. Not only that but then they never list a issue in thier set. What's up with that, make you feel good that you've got the highest graded set when you don't even have a comic listed in it. I'm thinking CGC should delist any set that doesn't have a comic in it within one month after it's been created. That goes for sets that have all thier issue taken out and are now empty. Good Knight, if you aren't going to put something in you set, take it down. The second is. The Registry needs to creat a catch-all set listing for all the comics that will never have thier series listed in the Registry. Example, Doctor Graves #73-75. This three issue series is a reboot of The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves some three years after it finished its run. I don't think CGC needs to list this set in the Registry, as it's only three issues from the mid 80's and only one has been graded, and why the hell didn't the Registry add them to the end of the Many Ghosts of... set, anyway, I'd love to show off my Dr. Graves #73 in a catch-all set in the Registry. There you go. My first weekly journal. I could have gone on a lot more on these two subjects but maybe later. Hopefully this little venting will make you think about how to make the Registry better. I think next week I'll show my favorite cover that I own. Thanks and best2u. PS- keep on writing in the Journals PSS- photos of Many Ghosts... #1 and Dr. Graves #73

Come on people, write. I love checking my CGC sets every day to see if anythings changed, my rankings, or to add a tid-bit of info to some set. Before I even start to do that I look at the 3 most recent Collectors Journals that have been posted, which are listed on the left hand side of the screen. Over the last month or so I notice a hugh lack of new journals. Sometimes the same journals will stay as the most recent for 3 or 4 days. Come on people write more in your journals so I have something to read. It could be about anything to do with comics, new buys, new info on a series, anything. Okay, okay, I've only written 1 journal myself if you checked. That will change as of 11/15/09. Starting the week of the 15th I'll write one new journal a week and include a picture of something related to that weeks journal. It may just be a cool comic I saw listed at some auction house or some issue I just picked up myself. It could be a ? I have about some comic related issue or I may just put in some cool info I came across. Well, thanks for letting me vent a little and I hope some of you will hop on the wagon and add a journal. Thanks and Best2u. P.S. - Can anyone tell me what comic book cover this is from. Hey, there's no prize here, just knowing that you knew should be enough.

I've given up, I've been waiting for this book for over 5 years it seems and I'm done. If this book ever comes out I'm thinking I won't even buy it now. I'll just get it from the library. It's somewhat of a joke around Christmas time at our house seeing that I've been putting it on my list for 2 or 3 years and then have to cross it off and replace it with fruitcake or socks. It was a great idea and good luck if it ever happens. P.S. War and Peace was written in a shorter amount of time..

Could I have just discovered a new variety for a Batman comic? Well, it took me awhile to find this, it's been sitting in the collection for a year or two, but take a look at the picture below. When the Aurora Comic Scenes hoard started coming to the market I decided to get one copy of each. After getting 5 of the 10 issues I notice that the other five were not coming up for sale very often. I did a CGC pop. check and found that the Batman(15 graded), Tarzan, Tonto, Spider-Man, and Lone Ranger had very few graded copies. I kept trying to get all of the issues and ended up with all but the Tarzn, still trying, and even started to buy more than one copy of the low pop. issues. Just recently I started to update all my collection on the Registry. The Aurora Comic Scenes came first and as I was scaning pictures to upload, I notice the new variety, if that's what it is. When I look at both of then side to side it sure looks like it's an entirely different book. It doesn't look like they ran out of ink during the printing. I don't think it was a mixup in ink because both copies have the person with the yellow shirt toward the right. Both of the front covers on my issues are exactly alike as is everything else but for the tree colors on the back. I may put this up on the Chat Boards just to see what other people think. I know it doesn't seem right but I would like to name the two different varieties Yellow Batman and Green Batman. I guess that sounds kind of lame, lets just forget the naming for now.

I hate to sound stewpid, but, what is a "greytone"? I've heard the term used before but never really knew what they meant by it. Thanks. Best2u.