jimbo_7071

I think most of those old supplies and pieces of equipment have already been bought up by the guys who are trying to print "original" Action 1s and Tec 27s.

Baker waterfall cover to Baker underwater cover.

Dell photo cover to Dell photo cover.

I don't get it either. I guess some people consider that a classic cover now? I've never been that Crazy about Lee Elias's artwork; I don't think I've ever had a book with a Lee Elias cover on my want list.

Bandaged arm to bandaged foot.

That's true. Many of the books were highest-graded copies; some had especially sought-after covers. Maybe you could say that classic covers and single-highest-graded copies aren't down, and low-grade readers aren't down because they can't go much lower, but most everything in between may well be down.

The prices tonight wouldn't surprise me that much if there were high-resolution scans and back cover scans. I've seen books that appear to be significantly overgraded sell for very strong prices tonight, so I guess the mantra "Buy the book, not the label" hasn't aged well, either.

Spokane Witchcraft no. 5 . . .

I like and collect PCH books, but one problem with them from an investment standpoint is that they're somewhat interchangeable. There are no iconic characters like Batman or Superman—just random creeps, animated corpses, and monsters and random victims. There are some classic covers but no important books per se.

Quinlan Catman & Kitten to Palais Catman & Kitten.

If that's the case, they should void the auctions for those books if they're consignment items; it's pretty unfair to the consignors. If they're Metro stock, then it isn't as important.

I want to sincerely and publicly apologize to you for not reading and responding to your original post with my third-party objective opinion before Frisco saw your post and was offended. By failing to act in a timely manner, I bungled the situation horrendously. My apologies to you and to those that I've upset by never posting several books in a row and instead helping to set a discriminatory precedent by only posting in response to others' books.

Some guy named Rob from Metro called me once before to ask me about consigning books; I told him in no uncertain terms that I buy my books to keep and that he was not to call me again. Then, a couple of weeks ago, he called me again about consigning books—interrupted me during a conference call for work. I guess they're trying to see just how fast they can lose customers.

Well, one of the highlights of the Cookeville collection was the Cap run, and there was a Cap no. 1. Considering that CGC is giving pedigree status to Silver Age and Bronze Age collections, it makes sense that they would back off on their requirements for GA collections.

The Comic Book Pedigrees web site has three pages of Cookevilles. http://comicpedigrees.com/gallery.php?pedigree_menu=59 The highest grade shown on that site is 9.2, which belongs to the Captain Marvel Adventures 60. Many of the books are still raw, though, and a few of them look like they might have a chance at 9.4 if they aren't penalized for the writing (which they should be but won't be now that the pedigree is recognized).

Bad girl in a red dress to good girl in a red skirt.

How does Continental fit in? These Cat-Men from '42 and '43 both say Continental. I've seen other issues for sale with Et-Es-Go listed as the publisher.

Cat and bird to cat and mice.

Back to D ick Tracy.

I was stunned that Frazetta made it so far. I know he has many fans based on his later work, but he didn't do very many GA covers.

I am tempted to just stick to mid grade books with nice eye appeal. I enjoy looking at my comic books, but I don't know that I enjoy looking at 9.4s much more than I enjoy looking at 7.0s as long as the 7.0s don't having any glaring defects that detract from the artwork. The possibility of shenanigans still exists with mid-grade books, but at least I won't be putting quite as much money into the pockets of the presser-grifters (prifters?).

Graham Ingels is my favorite horror cover artist, but he didn't make it past Everett (who is probably my second favorite). - I'm a Schomburg fan mainly because of his early covers for Timely. I like some of his later Timely covers, but they were a little too noisy and a little too cartoonish. Many of the Marvel Mysteries start to look the same after a while. Schomburg's non-airbrushed Better/Nedor covers were very bland; I assume that they were just potboilers that he did quickly for extra money. His airbrushed covers are growing on me. - L. B. Cole produced some of my favorite covers of the Golden Age, but many of his covers are lackluster, and he didn't seem to be very good at drawing human faces. - I didn't have a chance to vote before the contest was hacked. It would have been a very close call, but I suppose I would have had to vote for Schomburg on the strength of his early Timely covers.

Lily Renee to Lily Renee.

Robin in trouble to Robin and Batman both in trouble.

Earth in the background to Earth in the background.