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Ok, here it is, finally photographed....BWS on Savage Tales #1 interior

On January 28, 2017 at 10:27 PM, JohnT said:

 

"If only we knew where Torr was..."

Does this book have its own club? I think it deserves one.

From kids' humor to satire

4 hours ago, the blob said:

If another one of these bronze romancers is going to pop (and obviously a couple of the giant DCs have), I tend to think it's going to be a marvel or DC, not a charlton.  I was aware of DC super spec 5 and DC giant S-17, but I see S-21, which Octobe has in his thread now, is another one of those desired giant DC romance books.

The early SA DC Romance books seem to have exploded, even some of the 12 centers.  I don't remember them doing this well.

You're most likely right; the Charltons may be unresurrectable, but they do have their nuggets, if you collect this genre. Soap Opera Love, built around a Jewish-Irish romance, is another bronze Charlton romance gem. Dirt cheap too.

1 hour ago, Sqeggs said:

Long gone, I think.  So I would guess this is either a repurposed S&K cover (unpublished?) or someone intentionally aping their style. 

 Meskin? Not sure if he was there, but he could knock them off reliably.

2 minutes ago, comicjack said:

Great war cover

Thx! I was stunned to find it in an antiques shop.

Found in the wild!

Found in the wild!

41 minutes ago, rjrjr said:

Encapsulated books can have this same issue.  I live in Arizona.  If I stored the CGC books in the garage for a year or two, I guarantee you, they will not be in the same grade that is written on the CGC slab.

Bam! This. A friend of mine has a copper x-men, 200-something, that is labeled 9.0 but is faded and shriveled looking in the sealed case.  CGC did not blow the call; an LCS hung it with window exposure for faaaar too long. He bought it for laughs, curiousity, a reminder that slabs still need care. The big difference that some fear, I suspect, is not knowing that the book was left in the Mylar. Odds are good of course that if it is, its in the same condition as when it's inserted. My mylar'ed books are. But yes handling mistakes can occur. I'm all for the extra protection of slabs for super-valuable stuff but I would be kind of sad to have an ENTIRE collection of books I could not read. 

As as to the new service, I'm not much interested but not upset. It's a big world, there's room.

7 minutes ago, jimjum12 said:

For years I've hated them.... cluttering up my searches and *spooning* me off...... but I finally broke down and ordered one to go with a book I thought best left slabbed. It was on glossy paper and from an original book and was kind of cool. Any one else gone this route for a cheap reader ? GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

I haven't but I have wondered, thanks! I just wish I could block them from my search results when I do not want them since they are not originals. It is kind of a spam when looking for actual collectibles"

I'd also like to be able to block selected sellers (Mile High) from my search results.

2nd Thor, to go with Iron Man

Deep-sea divers to Sub-Mariner

AND Timely #7 to Timely #7! Very nice!

On August 11, 2015 at 11:24 PM, oakman29 said:

High grade is for speculating suckers.

This. I'll give a rat's patootie (as a buyer) about 9.6 vs 9.8 when I start seeing 6.8, 5.4 etc. showing up in slabs. I collect comics; the better the grade it's in, the better, sure. Who doesn't prefer them as nice as possible? But I collect comics first, and in best possible grade second. To me, if the book is not inherently important, or for some content-based reason of interest to me, then a high-grade copy is just kind of, "Gee whiz, that's neat."

Torch vs Nazis to Torch vs Japs

Women in green to hawks in black

This thread's theme song is "Smoke on the Water"....in the 60's, Marvel used a deep purple cover color on occasion that when clean and glossy still looks like it's wet off the press to this day. Off the top of my head there's Iron Man #1, ASM#11, DD#7, Strange Tales #'s 135 and 148; Shield #1...let's compile 'em! Please post 'em if ya got 'em! I'll kick us off with my shellheads.

Candle flame to angry dame

22 minutes ago, drotto said:

Actually ended up just buying them.  I had set aside some money to help me buy some keys, although I am planning to sell some other stuff in the near future.  I just could not pass up on the opportunity to get my hands on two decent copies of pretty much an iron clad book.  I am guessing the one book is about a 5.5 to 6 and the other is a 7.5 or 8.0.  I could be way off however.

Bravo! I thought that might be the other possibility. So you bought the two 181's, kept the AF15, and passed on the other items? From the other books you named in the collection he acquired, I think that was the best move, for what my two cents are worth. An even bigger congrats, I say!

I'm in

The Swamp Girl of Venus to the Beautiful Ruler of the Jungle

Congrats, Drotto! From the pair of 181's you posted in the club, I'm guessing you got the trade you wanted. Do you mind us asking what all you landed? 

5 hours ago, the blob said:

yes, carolyn's first appearance.  i dunno, i feel like there are a lot of uniquely hokey romance books that could get such special attention.  collectors only seem to care about the few books from this era that had lower print runs.  i collect romance books because i like the corniness, but I do so on a low budget.

I agree; I think we are saying similar things. There's lot of relatively cheap pre-code that's as outrageous as the notorious ones. And I think low budget bronze romances, carefully selected as you're doing (me too) is not a bad bet long-term either. We're visionaries, blob!

I see this a lot I notice on raw early Marvel/late Atlas....maybe '62ish and back, it seems to me. Almost like a waxy look to the inside cover.