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I forgot about this recent acquisition having a name on it, but I did not get it from the original owner and have not tried to research him. (I got it from a rare books dealer who occasionally picks up comics. He said he bought the collection from the late OO's daughter about two years ago. I got the last pieces of GA that he had left from the collection, this and an unsigned Leading Comics #7, which is now in the collection of @oceans11.)

A buddy of mine had been talking for the last three years about a co-worker of his whose retired (deceased?) father-in-law had given him and his wife a small stack of his childhood comics, mostly Batman. Finally, a few months back, the guy decided to sell everything at once because he needed a down payment on a piece of real estate. My buddy could not swing them all, so he called me and told me had finally gotten the word the books were available, but it was all or nothing, so he was putting a few guys together. He said he would be taking the #10 and #25, and he had a friend who was a big Alfred fan who wanted #'s 16 and 22. I got first crack at the rest before he called anyone else in. I took these, plus a few others that had no name written on them, including a Batman #17. Walter was the owner of the books; near as the daughter and son-in-law could surmise, Lorraine must have been a neighborhood kid that Walter traded with. Here are the four books with their names on them, of the 10 I bought.

Here's a thread I started on the collection of Beverly Larson. I eventually found that the dealer who bought it is a guy whose shop I visit every so often, but he had since dispersed much of it. The dealer I had gotten my copies from had bought them from him. The LCS owner who first purchased Beverly's collection said he and his brother have some in their collections; I will get a shot when they dig them out.

Gotta love a comic book discussion between two guys named Clark and Bruce! I'll have a couple contributions for this thread, but I will have to dig a bit first. Will be back...

Less than an hour -- Roy Rogers #1, large lot with Hulk #340 & 377, Micronauts lot with #1, Perry Rhodan German mags, Iron Man, more...still with no bids!

I saw that spot and thought it looked like slight paper loss in that area. Any texture to it at all? From the pix, I'm thinking 5-5.5 with those couple odd flaws dragging it down, as it looks to have the spine and gloss and flatness otherwise-overall condition of a 6 or better. Looks like one of those books that if it ends up in a slab, people say about it "presents well for the grade."

Reminder -- auction goes off at 6 pm today. Some lots still available at opening bid.

Never thought to look there....It was a pretty outrageous read, no?

https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/06/15/ebay-employees-arrested-u-s-attorney-andrew-lelling-cyberstalking/

She cooked something spectacular again, didn't she?

It's not -- sorry for any confusion! I'm just suggesting that O'Neil (or anyone who has since followed him as a writer for Batman) would have written that line in response to the Flash's question in the Justice League movie, where instead Batman gave the very un-Batman answer "I'm rich."

I took it to mean the action was so out of character for Batman that O'Neil walked out in disgust. Kind of like the wincing moment in the Justice League film when Flash asks Batman "What are your powers?" and Batman answers, "I'm rich." I can't imagine there's a Batman writer since Denny O'Neil who, given that -script draft, wouldn't have scratched that answer and replaced it with "I don't need any."

I put some lots in a friend's auction again; there's also comics lots that are not mine in there this time, too. And he has lots of other stuff as well. https://hibid.com/catalog/217659/millbrook-summer-auction/?g=all-categories

All too well aware, as there's some I'm still shopping for!

Exactly, it's even more plentiful as a Bronze Age book, but like AF it's low-grade copies bring strong money relative to its high-grade copies. I think that is what makes them similar outliers -- in both cases, beater copies don't entirely fall off a cliff, price-wise. And I don't see what's dumb about enjoying the books you enjoy or deciding to cash out.

It's not that odd; you said it yourself -- people just want it. There's other examples of plentiful books that command strong prices despite not being rare; heck it's the case with most of the valuable silver and bronze keys. AF15 is just the extreme example, but Hulk 181 is pretty extreme too. We in the comics hobby often discuss supply and demand in comics like its a perfect yin-yang balance but it's not, as supply is relative to demand. While they are not still printing AF 15's, yes if the character's popularity goes the way of Tarzan sure then there will be plenty to go around without any additional copies.

He sold his copy a year or so ago for IIRC somewhere in the $50K range. It was a great story.

We have a coupla @Comcav Timely girls lot at $214 shipped! Thank you William! @Qua-Brot Twin Earths lot at $42 shipped! Thank you Joe! @comicnoir Thank you Ron for jumping in; sorry for any confusion but it closed at midnight EST. I hope everyone who looked or bid had some fun. Hopefully the auction added to the boards as a source of distraction in tumultuous times

The Final Hour!

Well, we said we'd have a barn burner, and milhousb and Qua-brot have lit the place up! Thank you both!

Thank you, I couldn't recall which one did that Headmen era without digging them out and checking, but all three did some wacky, fun stuff on that book. A greatly underrated read of a title through most of the run and several writers.

I could see that. I remember thinking of it as a charming tribute, but I could see myself possibly having your reaction on a subsequent read.

Ruby! The Headmen! Two or three of whom were recycled from pre-hero Atlas horror books

Kav, not to derail as everyone seems to agree Moore is Copper Age (I agree too), but did you like his last Superman story? (Superman 423/Action 583)? I would think that would be up your alley.

Other strong horses from a deep era: Shooter's Avengers run David Michelinie on Iron Man David Anthony Kraft on Defenders (as wacky as Engelhart) Kirby also gave us a lot of new stuff for both of the big 2 in the 1970s.