Readcomix

So how much do you think all that tape brings it down?

And here's the back; unnecessary tape on two sides. Go figure.

PGM Silver Surfer #1

Picked up a full set 1-18 from a collector's estate; everything else is solid VG up through 8.5-9.0ish, with the majority falling in 6.0-7.0 territory, but this #1 has pesky and unnecessary tape on front and back covers. Here's the front; look at letters across bottom for tape strip.

Strangulation to strangulation

3 minutes ago, Dreamtoreal1 said:

Hey amigo! you are everywhere   Testing waters here. Found some good deals on the IG so why not here?. As you know, I am a sucker for Golden Age comics so if the right trade comes along I will take it. Otherwise I will hold this beauty .... thanks for stopping by

3 minutes ago, Dreamtoreal1 said:

Hey amigo! you are everywhere   Testing waters here. Found some good deals on the IG so why not here?. As you know, I am a sucker for Golden Age comics so if the right trade comes along I will take it. Otherwise I will hold this beauty .... thanks for stopping by

I get it! I'm camping on this thread to see the trade offers, and what if anything gets you to pull the trigger on a trade deal. Cheers, and again, welcome to the boards, Pablo!

Wild find in the wild

So I picked this up in a $2 bin, simply thinking I'm getting a cool Archie cover (waterskiing with B&V) with a poster insert that actually intact. Then I get home and open to page 1:

Is that Dan DeCarlo in green on the lower left?

Didn't you just pick this up? Anyway, congrats and GLWTS! Cool trade potential brewing in this thread

5 hours ago, Cat-Man_America said:

Sunken ship ...or rather, amphibious battleship... to surface warship being sunk...

Sinking Nazi ship to smashing Nazi tank

21 hours ago, Readcomix said:

Happy to land the last of the Fox Giants today

I want to apologize for confusing you guys....I did not complete a set of Fox Giants; I merely acquired the final issue of the run. That said, I think it's one of the toughest. There's one on the registry, and it's not in the Gerber Photo-Journal. And if you Fox guys haven't seen it before, I KNOW it's tough!

Thank you, Chadwick! Much-appreciated. Backatcha from what I see on these boards. I love how it's a community of collectors in it for the long haul.

This hardly follows up a Hulk 5, but the two Marvels were plucked from a dollar box of one those LCS's that's all about new comics and game-playing. And the Atom Ant ... I'm sucker for any of those Gold Key silver one-shots.

Someone say Swamp Thing? Just picked these up from a collector's estate. Near-full short box, about 150 books, all swamp thing second run (near complete, obviously) from 1-152 including most of the keys, if I'm not mistaken: 1, 20, 21, 25, 37, 50, annual  HOS92 homage cover. Couldn't leave them there even though I've read it already!

Green creatures to Green Mask

Is it just me? I have always found BB to look creepy on this cover

24 minutes ago, comicjack said:

Had an uncle that looked like him cigar and all 

He was probably at my house every other Friday night for my dad's poker game. I knew he looked familiar!

7 minutes ago, Point Five said:

Wow. Never seen that one!
 

Congrats on finishing the set! 

7 minutes ago, Point Five said:

Wow. Never seen that one!
 

Congrats on finishing the set! 

Oh, I'm sorry...thanks but I did not finish. I meant this was the last issue of the Fox Giants run. I think they are pretty uncommon. There's only 1 on the registry. Curiously, the contents are slightly different from those listed in GCD. But it does have an issue of Pedro, and the GGA in the Chiquita story appears top-notch at first glance. Just settled kids; will check the book out shortly.

4 minutes ago, comicjack said:

C'mon, he's gorgeous!

Happy to land the last of the Fox Giants today

This just in...last of the Fox Giants...

Pretty happy to land this today....last of the Fox Giants...there's only 1 on the registry

21 minutes ago, lou_fine said:

To be honest and looking back now, virtually all of the prices for the comic books pictured and listed in their brochure were relatively reasonable. 

It was the prices for the piles of books that were pulled out and set aside for Steve and Bob to priced out later that went through the stratosphere and became relatively unreasonable.  And I guess we would have the East Coast Triumvirate to thank for that and how they subsequently handled the Terrific 5 transaction.   

I would love to have beers with you and hear these stories! I was not there; I'm just looking back at the brochure. How cool that must have been.

Smashing through to splashing through

I once posted this for the Bronze guys when they were talking about the trio of Catholic one-shots from Marvel (John Paul II, St Francis, Mother Theresa) and got told it was creepy...

Without regard to ranking, 11 books have been named thus far in the thread if I have counted correctly: Action 1, Tec 27, Supes, Bats, Cap, Marvel, AF15, AA16, Fantastic 3, Suspense 3, All-Star 8.

Are the "right" 10 in those 11? If no, who is in? Who is out? I guess that all comes ahead of ranking. That's all rhetorical as yet; would need to think on my own answers. Pep 22 comes to mind for me.

of course, we usually correlate biggest with price tag, but if we look at impact upon the hobby and its creators through the years, it's easy to take many of those grails off the list in favor of much "cheaper" books such as CDNP22 or Mad 1 and All-Star 3.

18 hours ago, lou_fine said:

Well, since that was 22 years ago back in 1995, the prices on all of the books would look like a bargain today. 

Since the condition guide price for the Black Terror #1 was at only $310 back then, the brochure listed price of $600 might not seem like such a bargain after all. 

Geez, Lou...I'm being a bit silly

Point is, then or now, Black Terror #1 looks like the Mediterranean Ave of this Monopoly board.

That said, some of those books are basically kinda flat at best, considering the 22 years (Tec 225, World's Best #1). But obviously more than not would be considered bargains today.