Sal

BenSoloMORE.gif HGOOSADC FTW Seriously want a list of books with prices lol. Try to stay calm, Sal, i know you can do it

Looking forward to seeing the DCs hit the market, or the boards, or really just the internet in general. HG OO SA DC is not only a terrible acronym but also my kryptonite

comics suck, and you are all just a bunch of nerds

yeah i was just wondering that. they're from AndyL, and according to the Registry, he's 200,000 registry points from being the #1 set

you, sir, are the very sort for whom this Association was created. well done

here i was, thinking we hadn't gotten a good pedantic row going on here in quite a while. this thread delivers. all involved should feel good about it

415.18 You sir are a gentleman and a scholar for running this each year. Merry Hanukwanzmas to you and yours

that's a great book! i would advise you to get that thing graded only if you plan on selling it, which it seems like you're not interested in doing right now. it would be spending money for the purpose of seeing what grade a 3rd party service would give it, which is of some value but not enough to justify the expense and risk, imho. if i had that book and planned on keeping it, i would investigate perhaps sending it in for a resto check, but i doubt i would slab something just to do it for my collection. there are people who prefer their books in slabs, so it's not a universal opinion by any means, but those are my thoughts

after i posted it i read the notes and was like hope you're safe, friend. have you thought about sending your Western Penn copies of MGA over to me for, uh, safe keeping?

not sure this counts...

yes, GR is one of them. Bethlehem, Boston, Sucha News, Circle 8, couple others i believe but have no immediate corroboration on

there are 5 or 6 SA pedigrees with multiple copies per title.

Rick Fortenberry is Captain Comics, can't remember his exact board handle...mayb Capt_Comics? Has Gene switched over from those open-top mylars yet?

100% agree, that Steranko cover had someone come behind him and add stuff. Hulk's right arm is coming out of his chest muscle; you can see clearly that his shoulder is extending past that wall

never seen one of those before...pretty cool!

oh, any of these, really...

Walt Kelly goodness...

is that color touch in the top left? nice book though

sorry to hear this, but glad you are able to get back here if at least with some difficulty. best wishes to you dude, hope your recovery is swift and uneventful

interesting thread. collecting keys and hot covers is pretty easy. a person with a modicum of intelligence and an internet connection could do it and with a few month's dedicated effort, become fairly good at it. collecting runs takes a much more intense effort from the collector. they have to be familiar with the character, his/her tropes, the relative influence the story has on the universe in which it exists...as well as know where in the run the thing is in the first place. this takes a lot of time and experience, for the most part, and is sort of a barrier for entry insofar as the collectibility of story runs goes. i think what you're describing, RMA, is the explosion of - to use a slightly pejorative term - casuals in the hobby. seems like many people get into the back issue floppy part of the hobby as a way of finding arbitrage opportunities rather than exploration of the medium. i mean no disrespect to anyone reading this who might be of this mindset, just trying to - as the man said in the greatest movie of the last thirty years, Miller's Crossing - "(speculate) on a hypothesis." er...no pun intended

nobody has the time to be both RMA and another account. it's literally not possible unless they have found a cure for sleep

Thank you to the anonymous boardie who disregarded my intention of skipping the prize award portion of this contest. His or her generosity outweighed my sense of impropriety, apparently. It's one thing to abstain but another to refuse another's request. So, to whomever you are, mystery person, thank you!

interior back cover has some damage on the spine above the top staple that the exterior wrap doesn't have. that is confusing to me

i already linked to an HA auction that had the actual book they used for the mock-up. it's a 6.5 ow