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Thanks Ron! I'm delighted you're happy with the outcome. There's plenty more where those came from.

One of the most considerate buyers out there. Thank you for your prompt payment. Your 100-pager went out yesterday!

That says it best. Thanks greggy: Batch #2 is even nicer than the first.

Greggy's legendary status as purveyor of high-auction-price-generating slabbed Marvels masks one of the forum's worst kept secrets-- he is The Man for early 1970s raw books. Generous pricing, accurate grading, world-class shipping & exceptional turnaround time. Unfortunately for me, his current sale of unslabbed Giant Size Marvels is going to let the cat out of the bag among the Zombie-fied population , and so there will be even more competition for Greggy hand-me-downs in the future. A new arrival from Vancouver is always cause for celebration around here. Looking forward to the next one!

Thank you for the prompt payment! Your books go out today via Priority Mail.

Beautiful books, johnenock ! Tight grading, fast shipping... great to do business with. Keep 'em coming!

Thanks to shadroch Timulty comicseekers bobpfef for helping me move my 50 cent books, and for paying so promptly. You guys rock!

I had suspected 187 was tough, but this thread is the first confirmation I've seen. A while back, I wanted to read all the pre-Batman 234 Two-Face stories-- they've all been reprinted in various places except for this one. It took me forever to find a copy on eBay. I had it on daily email alerts via My Favorite Searches, and I think I only saw 2 or 3 copies show up in a year or so of searching. I finally settled on a taped spine copy (and I hate tape ), just to read the story. The cover with him hanging on the hands of the massive clock is an iconic Two Face image-- Neal Adams used that as one of the central flashbacks in the Batman 234 story that introduced me to the character.

the "vast majority of flippers don't mind bidding up pressed books as long as pressing is not detectable and they can therefore pass them down the food chain..."

Possibly Joe Staton... though he usually signed his work. But he's who came to mind as soon as I saw the cover. Shep In my opinion, this is unlikely to be Staton-- he's much looser, cartoony if you will. Plus in 1974 I think Staton was still a fan artist-- maybe he was doing E-Man for Charlton by then, but nothing for DC or Marvel. Chua is a good guess, although '74 is a bit early for him as well. Hmmm, Dan Adkins?

Ditto! Thanks Jeff for the lightning-fast shipment and discounted pricing on those EC sf Feldstein covers

You guys know serpi is now a forumite here, yes? A big contributor to the show us your 12/15/giant DC thread.

Wasn't there a find about 10 years ago marketed as the "Hole-in-the-Wall- Collection?" I believe Lee's Comics in Palo Alto was connected with that one. Or am I misremembering?

Thanks Underdog for the fast payment! I'm glad those Teen Titans issues found a good home!

I think you're thinking of the Sgt Rock issue of Showcase.

One of the rare Doug (Johnny Quest) Wildey Sgt. Rock jobs! Sorry, I don't have a HG copy.

Buck, the 106 is my favorite House of Secrets bronze cover too. I think I've posted this before but does anyone else see a strong Steranko influence on the lady in white? Her face seems more graphically-stylized than a typical Wrightson of the period. And the shadowing is very Steranko noir-ish.

Bigfiver69's shipment must have busted through the border all at once today! Kudos to Shep for some classic Sgt. Rock Our Army at War issues & many thanks for the freebie: Jackie Johnson rocks!

That's an interesting date notation for a quarterly book: July-Sept Usually the publishers lined it up with a season: Fall, Summer, etc. As a result, both DC Special 4 and HoS 81 have the same cover date of September. But from the page 1 scan posted earlier, DC Special 4 was written as if it was the reader's first introduction to Abel. It's the first Abel appearance, and a significant one: I count 9 panels he appears in, and he introduces 2 of the 13 stories. I'd be surprised if the appearance in HoS 81 is any less "brief."

Big buy-side kudos to October and Greggy for-- as always-- tight grading and generous pricing for some fantastic Bronze Age DCs. You guys And huge sell-side kudos to CrowsQB and towards2112 for prompt payment and excellent communication. Hope to do business again!

Thanks for lightening it up, Scrooge! When you first posted Saturday, I didn't really see the point, as the two versions looked very similar on my home computer. Here at work though my original is very hard to see. I'm not sure if it is due to different graphics cards in the two different systems, or just the lighting here in cubicle-land, but regardless... thank you!

Thanks! It's all low grade, with maybe a few Fines or Fine+. I went nuts when I first discovered eBay in '99. I never really saw much Golden Age material at the regional cons I had access to growing up.

Great Robinson/Ray covers on these early cardboard-covered WFs. I'm done for now...someone else's turn...

I love this stuff!

That Adventure 65 looks really strange. I've seen loads of copies and the blue is always more turquoise than that. Either it's an oddment with different colour, or the camera has changed the tone of the blue. I wondered who would be the first to catch that! My copy was purchased "stripped" with the top 1/3 of the front cover missing. I grabbed the remainder off a Heritage scan of #65 and printed it out on paper of approximate thickness to these Golden Age covers. So it is a married copy / mock-up, but a cheap Starman cover. I haven't even attached the mockup part of the cover to the original, the two pieces are just lined up together and held in place by the Mylar bag. And I think the original part of my copy was pretty badly sun faded, as you can see the greens on the plane don't really match up to the greens from the Heritage scan. I'd do the same if I could find a similar Dr. Fate or Spectre More Fun, or a Flessel-version Sandman Adventure Comics.