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Just picked up an OO SA collection earlier this week. Would appreciate any thoughts on a couple examples from the collection. I'd like to start with JIM #85 below. Thanks in advance!

Been chasing this for a while...people don't seem to part with these too often.

Happy to be able to bump this thread!

This has eluded me twice in the past couple years...third time's the charm

Green Terror to Green Turtle

I'm not sure. On the one hand, all that is there. On the other, the words are selectively bolded and colored. Consider that if the elements for the visually obvious meaning were not present (bruised eyes) they would not get their double meaning through the code. As to whether the collecting strain is ridiculous, some people pay more for comics with writing on them, copies where a few copies had a different price, etc.....our hobby is full of niches besides the stories and art that got us all started. I don't get half of them myself. But in this case, I don't assume people are collecting the niche for the sophomoric humor of double entendre covers but for the fact that they are a strain of books that creators snuck by the comics code. It's really at root the same appeal as the new X-Men -- the rebellious teen outsider thing, except in these cases the creators not the characters are the rebellious teens. Much cooler to me than the fact that Star Wars 1 cost a nickel more in parts of Ohio.

This thread is closed. It may re-open at some point, but it is at least temporarily, if not eternally, closed. Thank for looking!

Completely agree, Sqeggs....Been wanting one, but Roy said there's brittleness, and I think I'd cry if that centerfold split on me, so I told myself I already swallowed an OO SA collection this week and talked myself out of it....I will sit finger on trigger for a copy for a few more years now, I suspect....congrats to both buyer and seller for stewarding an exceptionally important piece of GA history

Love this guy! Aparo, Dillon, Garcia-Lopez et al were to DC bronze what the Romita/Buscema/Trimpe crew were to Marvel -- the solid sometimes spectacular workhorses who gave the titles of the era a cohesive "house look" to some degree.

Obvious as it is in the middle there, I kinda like the Valentine's Day '64 on there. Also, about 40 years ago, he gave away his ASM's (beginning with #4) and FF's (beginning with #12) for a cystic fibrosis charity fundraiser, so if you find any with "M.R." In the splash margin, they are part of the same collection.

Sure....here's his initials on the splash from DD#6, and the DD1 cover which is exemplary of how his local corner store date stamped it's books, as they are all prominent/easy to see but not over the action or characters.

Thank you; I'm still tired from the rush of closing the deal after a year. I should be downstairs flipping through each one and enjoying them; that was my plan tonight. When I first saw them over a year ago, I told myself it would be nice to buy them (he of course wanted to move it all together) and keep the DD1 and TOS 52, which I did not have, and maybe pick a few others if they are upgrades over mine and sell the rest. Seeing them together though, almost all with similar, distinct date stamping and original owner initials, is just a very cool thing. I can only imagine how someone feels discovering a collection that is bigger and higher grade, destined for pedigree. This is 79 books, mostly lower grade to VG/F on average I would say without carefully grading each one yet, but the provenance is a very cool thing. The guy brought them in a Brooks Brothers suit box (1st pic) and when I walked in the door that night, my wife said, "You bought a sheet cake?" I said, "Nope. (Name's) childhood." He said he had no attachment to them any longer, but when I arrived to meet him at the public library, he was showing the DD1 to a couple guys playing chess. I think about it trying to understand what it will someday be like to part with my collection. I guess you turn over stewardship of the books to someone else at that point, but the child who loves comics is always a part of you.

MORE than double! Find more places around here to post that beauty, Billy! Congrats!

Terror in the tunnel to more tunnel trouble

Ok, I'd probably make that exception too

Sailboat to ship

I hit "pass" at brittle pages....I like cheap major keys, but at five figures I would want something physically stable, however worn/incomplete.

Thank you! I have heard vague versions of the origin of the men in black lore, but never these specifics.

That doesn't mean it's not scarce in this case...you're looking at every extant copy besides the one Sqeggs just bought

Good point! I did!

I didn't have the heart to tell him he let the coveted last, scarce, low print run, low distribution issue go cheaply......

I'm interested, please do.

And how!

+1 what Hudson said

I loved doing that as a kid too! I'll play. If you could magically send me a duplicate of one from each row....the Suspense cover from the top row jumps out at me, Gotta go bondage in the center, and from the bottom I'll say Super Magician because I have none and they always look so cool when I see them. Lots of underrated Street and Smith, IMHO. But I am also tempted to say Monster 1 because it looks like an upgrade over my rough copy.