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1 hour ago, Straw-Man said:

from tablecloth-sized cape to napkin-sized cape.

Cleaving the red raider to cleavage in red dress

Werewolf to subway monster

Forgive me if the new search function has failed me, but I thought we could use a thread to place any books that we have that are not in the Gerber Photo-Journals. I'll kick us off with an E.C., the only Picture Stories from the Bible that is not in there:

Eight hours in this thread? Where ARE you guys?!?!?

making a splash to flying four flags at full staff

4 hours ago, Straw-Man said:

last place i'll post this'un, i promise.

Don't stop! It's a beaut!

2 minutes ago, Grantley Goddard said:

Those pesky LSD books 

2 minutes ago, Grantley Goddard said:

Those pesky LSD books 

Yep...I suspect they mislabeled the pedigree....I believe it's from the Timothy Leary collection

7 hours ago, path4play said:

Got a Dell that looks to be around a 7.0 the on bay for 0.99 cents.  Which got me wondering...

The U.S. dollar saw inflation at an average rate of 3.39% per year between 1948 and 2017. $0.10 in the year 1948 is worth $1.00 in 2017.

http://www.in2013dollars.com/1948-dollars-in-2017?amount=0.10

So I'm payin' newstand prices.  I guess anything GA post war above a buck, and that's collector value above inflation.  Kinda like a paying just for the paint and canvas without the Picasso sig.

 

 

So a new comic is actually priced at four times inflation. Makes the dollar bins today's quarter bins, sort of. 

Though I guess if you factor in the ever-inflating money supply it's all a bargain.

December to December

2 hours ago, Junkdrawer said:

Really happy with this upgrade this week.

....and one that hasn't shown up in this thread before:

with one of my favorite underappreciated books

And this one I've had since the 1980s.....made a trade in high school with a friend who got a huge SA collection somehow....I forget the story behind his score....anyway, he was an aspiring artist (wound up in Marvel production dept for a while) and gave me Avengers 3-19, ASM 17, a few DD's below 10 and I forget what else (that was most of it) for an OA Byrne page from Avengers 183 (an awesome page, fight scene with the Absorbing Man). 

Okay, I'm overdue in punching my ticket...doing it in two posts .... These were acquired in a trade in spring 2016...gave a stack of 18 books, headlined by an ASM#129:

Thank you! I was thinking it looked like Gray Morrow, kinda.

Tales of horror to Tales of Horror

green arrow and yellow hat to red menace

....And batch 2, acquired yesterday:

PS, I now need that Detective with Batman and Solomon Grundy.....never saw that before; awesome cover! Do you have a reader?  Is it good?

Batch 1, acquired Monday:

Incoming.....two new acquisitions in trades since Monday....

THANK you! I just made a large trade and saw this in the guy's long boxes for $3 and insisted on it as a throw-in. I kinda felt like the Yankees acquiring an 18-year-old Dave Righetti in a 10-player deal (why do I remember that???)

On February 1, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Jaydogrules said:

 

...It also has first Drax of GotG fame to continue to push it.....

 

-J.

1 hour ago, Jking3437 said:

Still love this book , I hope marvel makes thanks the b@dass he is supposed to be 

And Thanos' father and brother, as well. Depending upon how the big guy is used it could be looked back upon as a foundational book in the Thanos-related mythos. He has the chance to be the bronze age's transcendent villain key, as Action 23 is to Gold and FF 5 is to silver. Tougher with villains, but it happens. JIM85 also has moved in that direction; will be interesting to see if it can keep up. 

Problem with villain keys is half the ones with Luthor/Dr Doom-level potential appear first in books that would be keys anyway, though I argue they add to the significance greatly -- referring to Joker and Catwoman in Batman 1 and Magneto in X-Men 1.

Scarlet to sterling

Interior, from the cover story, "Men are Unessential"

Get a load of this cover:

33 minutes ago, 40YrsCollctngCmcs said:

I haven't seen that one; would love to get a copy some day.

Me neither until I stumbled across it. So I grabbed it. Nice mid-gradish; tough for treasury size. This is actually a little taller, but the cover stock is a bit thicker than Marvel/DC treasuries, at least going by hand feel.