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The Everett story in Romance Tales #8 was so great we even exclaimed about it in the description on our website. It's got a real horror feel, esp. at the beginning.

Marc

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Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies # 125 - Bought from Tomorrow's Treasures

And they were probably thrilled to sell it and keep hoping that guy who bought the Looney Tunes will come back and buy more... little knowing that you needed it for your nefarious scholastic purposes.

Congrats on the one year! Love the thread.

Marc

That one got my number one vote in the recent board contest for the best covers of the silver age.

Definitely my favorite out of all the nominations.

Marc

Haha, that cowboy kissing the horse is priceless!

That's great. In the underworld, we use tommy guns for pointers!

Super books.

Marc

So... what's the worst you've done to a nice book? Dropped it? Sliced a piece off on the edge of mylar? Bent a nice crease into the spine?

I had a beautiful Warlock #1 (black cover, so tougher) in a fresh bag on a small pile and somehow it was so slippery that a second later it slid right off and fell a few feet. It it had made it to mylar it might've been saved but the backing board hit and put a bend in the back cover of the book.

I heard a story that Redbeard was reading a Timely and fell asleep face forward into the book, causing a few hundred dollars of damage.

Dare you to ask jbud about his ASM 50...

Cool story about that GIC 7 btw.

Marc

As I said earlier (not sure if it was this board) those late GIC's were just not ordered in any quantity. I'd order one a month and it would never sell and it would get placed in a box with a bag, no board, and lugged to conventions every weekend. So it's not suprising to me that someone would have trouble with any of those late ones, especially in grade.

For some fun reading about the early days of The Great Escape you have to go maybe 1/4 of the way into this series of blogs:

http://www.thatse.com/phowley.html

If only the good ole LCS had a few more SSWS like this and the 151 I recently picked up...

 

Love that book... I'm looking to upgrade!

 

I found a total beater in a nickel box when I was a kid - it was the first time I ever read Enemy Ace.

 

Speaking of first times, The Great Escape was the first comic book store I ever set foot in! Blew me away. (As I posted in the Your First Comic Book Store thread.) Nashville was our stopping point for family drives from Michigan to Florida and The Great Escape was always the highlight of the trip for me.

 

Marc

Here's the Cap #1 stolen from Harley Yee last Sunday in Montreal.

Weird: Great, great books! That Brave and the Bold was the first thing I thought of when I heard that Aparo had passed away. I got to see some of his work in Phantom Stranger for the first time yesterday and was impressed as always. He did great rainstorms!

This OAAW is tremendous. Just pure Rock with his amazing determination. I don't think I have this one.

Btw, speaking of determination, I just read this book by Dean Karnazes:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1585424...5Fencoding=UTF8

OAAW 231: Little dist. ink at the top. Cover reminds me a lot of SSWS 151 with the color scheme. This is a 9.4 OW-W.

 

Hey, that looks great having the names next to it. Good job on some tough ones to spell as well.

That 169 looks like a great read. Great cover too!

I just read the Batman stories from WF 25-27 last night (via archive). Pat, but a lot of fun.

Marc

I'm not one who generally spends a lot of time looking at the work of the colorist but I thought the coloring in those albums was fantastic. It's probably one of the main reasons why those are my favorite reprints (format-wise) of all time.

Marc

Talk about cruelty to animals! Any chance the writer was a cat-hater, because the guy is certainly dishing it out to the head of the pack!

 

Well, after all Kitty is the "head of a pack of killer-cats"

 

Still seemed a little gratuitous to me.

Beyond gratuitous...

Thanks to Gifflefunk and Artboy99 for recent buys through the mail. Plus the whole gang at Wondercon including Rip, Wormboy, Jeffreykli, Jimm94, Jbud, Garthgantu, TheCollector, and probably others.

Thanks to Artboy99 for his Avengers purchases. I posted on his WTB thread and he went right to the site and bought every one on his list without even asking for the forum discount I'd mentioned in the thread. (I gave it to him anyway.)

Marc

Thanks to Flying Donut for purchasing the last Jumbo Comics on his wantlist from us. I saw his new wantlist go up in his sig, PM'd him, and minutes later he had bought it. Extra props to him for actually going through our website to place the order. Makes it a little easier on us to generate a packing slip and for our bookkeeping.

Anybody else looking for any obscure 50s comics?

It just seems a little weird to use prices to determine a comic age. Not disagreeing necessarily but comic ages before had been determine by changes within the industry.

It's just a rough guide though. Maybe one can say that the silver age ended with the final 12-cent comics even if one doesn't feel that the bronze age had quite begun.

In any case, for our website purposes we can't pick one book and then remember which issue of each title therefore becomes the first bronze age issue. So for us if we're putting a 15-center into the database it's in as bronze, 12-cent as silver. Makes it easier on us and it's just as arguably accurate as any other system. I know some dealers call 15-centers honorary silver age but to me that's another reason not to put them into SA.

Marc

We use 15-cent covers for the start of our bronze age section on the website.

Agree. Conan #1.

I always enjoy this thread! Gaute, refreshing to see some pages instead of the steady forum diet of covers--very cool.

Marc

It wasn't until the nation returned to hard times again in the 70's that he went back to his GA roots as a more gritty avenging hero.

Well, thank god for oil shocks, terrorism, watergate, and inflation then!

Yes. Harley provided his usual help. He had a couple of things he didn't even realize he had.

Nor his webmaster!

If Harley got those from Shin at the Oakland show, that was quite a buying show for Harley, esp. considering what a strange, quiet show it was. Of course that was something Harley understood right from the beginning. The bad shows are the ones you buy like crazy at. When he was starting out we would do this tiny show in South Bend, Indiana and he would go just to buy. Of course then he was trying to pick up stuff like Elf Lord #1.

Arex, wow, you're really picking up a lot of nice stuff.

Marc

Thanks for adding us to the master list. We have over 1000 GA (pre-code) listed on the site now and probably up to 2,000 waiting to be added.

Always happy to talk to forum members about the books.

Marc

Currently over 5,500 SA on our site and all coded to appear in the Silver Age section. Plus another 5,000-6,000 SA waiting to be added, mostly 1950s. (It's laborious.)

www.HouseofComics.com

Cheers,

Marc