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Does this thinly disguised romance book count for you guys? I adopted it today.

Awesome show so far! Bravo!

Picked this up today

Pretty happy to find this at all, let alone in this shape, today. None on census, one lower grade went cheap on eBay recently, one lower grade went in a lot on Heritage. Ogden Whitney and (I think) Bill Ward killing it inside! This is the first issue, as it changed over from Diary Loves. Wasn't on my radar but it needed a proper home.

Fun topic! Certainly in GA, lots of GGA, classic horror and crime are actively collected without necessarily the #1/1st app benefit. I do think some of the influential firsts of that era are undervalued compared to superhero keys (CDNP 22, Mad 1, etc) One could also pick and choose the best runs within full runs to collect, aside from keys and major first apps. (Eg - not just GL 76 but the whole O'Neil/Adams run, though there's a big first app within it), the Byrne/Claremont X-men, certain ASM story arcs such as the drug issues and 31-33 off the top of my head. There's also the Shooter/Perez Avengers era, which was completely overshadowed by the Byrne/Claremont X-men, but I actually preferred the Avengers run. So I guess I'm saying sub-runs are an option for those who neither want to chase full sets or expensive keys.

Maybe that's it...maybe my itchometer is turned up too high!

Phew! It's not just me....anytime the usual suspects haven't called me with anything new, I start driving more slowly, looking for places that might have old comics...trolling CL at night.... I tell myself that's the time to figure what I want to cull, to plan and prep a sales thread, but I look to scratch the itch instead. Even though I know the quiet spells end and something else turns up, and it's good to be ready....

Rats & bats to cats and dogs

I'm thinking 5.5, low side of mid-grade, still well worth grading for sale. (Lots of little stuff on FC; blunted lower left corner, color scuffs in upper left box, color breaks in green on right, thin color breaking line across very bottom, lots of spine tweaks that would be color breaks if not white) still well worth slabbing for sale as a major marvel key. Is Time to liquidation of the essence as well? If so, in short, I'd slab anything that's in DD1 weight class or above in most any collectible grade, and any other stuff that's pretty high grade. (If a Marvel Silver collection, for example, I'd go 9 or better at least). That said, this is fun and keep the grey area decision points coming! Good luck!

Fear 19/Man-Thing 1 is a terrific read...I kept waiting for Dr Strange to show up...

Or does anybody else get...I dunno ... A little ...itchy...when they don't add a book for a while?

Rope rats to cave, Bats

Productive farmland. (And a Cap 1 )

I agree with early bronze guys who said Black Widow and Grell's female Legionnaires, but no one else is calling out Shanna the She-Devil?????

When you get the credit memo in the mail, post it in "this week in your collection." I still have some from the 80's.

I'm not being cheap. A small stack of WF comics (non keys, not exceptional grade) just can't equal a barn full of parts. You would think he would take the cash and go focus on what he finds to be fun, but people can be strange

Torture me...I've been trying to get a non-collector in my area to part with a stack of WF from that very era (plus a few either side) for over a year now....he found them while cleaning out his parents' house, but he's a car guy and wants to parse the antique car parts that he found first...

Branding to branding

Damsel with chair woes to damsel with chair woes

Gone too. I really wanted page 4, but I figured what the heck, make the shipping worth it. I do like the table scene across the top of 5.

Sorry, I was unclear. This is all that was available. The dealer had sold the other half of the story already.

Thx! Not sure about sales thread...other half of story is already out there (I inquired about the whole thing, but only these three ages were to be had). I will keep page 4 for sure, not sure about the other two. I have wall space for them. But they will get added to my pile of OA. Framing art, like slabbing, is often something I put off in favor of buying books.

That helps, thanks! But while 121 may be the biggest key book among SA Bats villain intro keys, if the question is who is the biggest Bats villain introduced in the SA, Poison Ivy jumps to mind for me.

Noose to guillotines