jimjum12

On 5/14/2024 at 4:44 PM, Wally's Comics said:

I love that store!

It's where we did the Stan Lee event at...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdC2J0axK84

I was just wondering about you yesterday. Hope all is well. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

On 5/13/2024 at 7:08 PM, Aman619 said:

it was always a silly origin story.... took DC over a year to realize maybe they needed one!  Then just threw together a plot to bring them together.  Read like any of the other issues, too.    but dang, it HAS been a key for decades, so prob the 8.0 grade explains it better than the content.  How much does anyone want to pay in 2024 for a VF copy of a lesser key DC anyway?  In a pretty dead title too!

 

It's not terribly scarce either, but it does look sharp in grade. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

Love me some Shelton  I've followed him since the quarter pagers in CBG ... I can't think of anyone more deserving of their success. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

On 5/11/2024 at 11:30 PM, Hap Hazard said:

Here's a odd-ball:

Prelude to Space has a double cover. The outer cover is loose the inner cover is bound/glued to the book like normal.

Somebody had a Jack Daniels sandwich for lunch at the Printers'. GOD BLESS ... 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

These three are not vintage,but are 1st Editions, and I did snag them in the wild, AND disabled American Veterans benefited. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

On 5/11/2024 at 4:21 PM, Point Five said:

All good thoughts here. Me, I'm really glad there are great books like the FFMs with better covers that are still available and relatively affordable. I dig the covers and it's been rewarding to land them when I can.

As I continue to delve into e.g. 1930s and 40s weird menace books, it's clear that some issues I would love either 1) are literally not available at all in any condition, or 2) are available but are sitting in ebay stores and MCS with outlandish four-figure pricetags, collecting digital dust. I of course understand that sometimes you need to go big for rare books or go without. But it's not that hard to compare the store prices to Heritage sales from the last year or two to see why (some of them, at least) are sitting.

 

...this is not directed at you, specifically, Jon ... but sometimes we collectors can be too frugal for our own good. We bristle at spending an additional $50 on something we really want, only to spend $50 worth of time in the future, lamenting our indecisiveness. I speak from experience. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

On 5/11/2024 at 3:48 PM, Darwination said:

Lol, Jim, you did manage to get some cheesecake in the post, though

Is that Lucy?  I came across this one not too long ago

That is, absolutely, Lucy ... quite the hottie in her day. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

On 5/11/2024 at 3:03 PM, Darwination said:

Naked bodies have been part of art high and low since the cavemen

I've been posting semi-naked girls in the girlie pulp thread or even some more transgressive stuffs in the underground thread.  It's part of what we collect, and I truly doubt any minors are wandering around here, and, if they are, I'm sure nothing we post even registers on the shocking scale given the depredations of the modern internet.  If I get a warning, I may moderate, but we seem do to do fine...

I'm happy to look at whatevs and am pretty sure Bilbrew wanders into some of the magazine areas I collect in like in this 50s girlie mag:

 

but I really wouldn't have the first clue in being able to distinguish him from imitators.

Nice copy of Black Opium there, Jim!

Thank you, figured that one would be on the permanent wish list. 

The boards, at least at one time, were restricted for membership to18 YO and up .... anonymous lurking is still unrestricted. GOD BLESS .... 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

I once had a Frazetta pen and ink scan (The Giantess) from an issue of Gallery removed for nudity, but the thread itself was drifting towards the off color. 

On 5/10/2024 at 10:59 AM, Robot Man said:

Seems like they are really focused on small overhang tears. Many would actually be considered production faults. If trimming is allowed as blue, I can see some folks trimming their overhangs to avoid the overhang tear stigma…

I was told that back in the day, the trimming was done so the book could stand right on a shelf and the overhangs wouldn't worsen. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

On 5/9/2024 at 11:02 AM, Robot Man said:

and accurately noting all pertinent information on the label. 

This is where the troubles began. The space and time limitations impede the implementation of that, in the fullest sense. With a quick check of eBay, I found only one CGC Slab of a Halloween cover with the notation on the slab, a GA issue of Flash Comics. It's always been my understanding that additional label graphics cost extra if allowed at all. You could lobby them, they are willing to change their minds on occasion. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

On 5/9/2024 at 12:48 AM, Mmehdy said:

I lived it....from 61 up and man or man did we get a bargain for 12cents

We could get TWELVE comics for a dollar, it kept us out of our parent's hair for hours. GOD BLESS... 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

... around here we had Paul's Discount which had piles of comics for a nickel each. Richard got his ASM 1 there. 

On 5/8/2024 at 3:09 PM, the blob said:

BH is not an index fund, but it is one of the few managed funds that actually beat the market.

I was just using it as an example of what the other half invests their money in. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

I still don't think it was Edward, but I did bid on this one. GOD BLESS ... 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

On 5/8/2024 at 11:23 AM, Darwination said:

Unhappy Hooligan - Stuart Palmer (1957. Perma Books M 3079) cover James Meese

I saw this recently when @Robot Man mentioned clowns on pulp covers and had to have it.  Things never do go well for us clowns. It's a plentiful book, and I picked up a cheap copy, but I almost wish I'd found a truly downtrodden beater for the aesthetics of the thing...

If I find you a beater, maybe we can swap out? ... I'm magnanimous enough to take that shiny monstrosity off your hands.  I mean, the audacity of that book, daring to shine while others can't. GOD BLESS ... 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

On 5/8/2024 at 12:50 AM, OtherEric said:

And today I've got a box from @Surfing Alien's latest sale

Mine showed up as well. 

GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

On 5/7/2024 at 9:13 PM, The humble Watcher lurking said:

It really is not that boring, but quite challenging. Let that index fund grow.  ha ha

My Uncle bought Berkshire Hathaway @$2500. It doesn't always have to make sense. GOD BLESS ... 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) 

On 5/6/2024 at 12:35 AM, MattTheDuck said:

I was not buying X-Men off the rack at the time, although I had picked up a few back issues when I saw them at the LCS.  I'm pretty sure I never saw this issue either on the rack or in the back issue boxes.  I did get a #112 at some point.  #94 came out about a year before I waken up and started speculating on a few things (like Howard the Duck, Eternals, Nova, etc) which were, of course, precisely the wrong things on which to speculate.  Before that, it just never occurred to me, despite agreeing with the kids view that "these will be worth a million dollars some day!"  

I bought 5 mint copies of OMAC #1 ...it was Kirby, it HAD to be a winner. I did ,however, buy 3 copies of Thor 337 and 50 copies of ASM 361. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

That's it for now. I did manage to walk almost 20 feet with a short box before I started drifting and listing. Ray offered to do it for me, but I don't want to encourage vegetating, which is easy to fall into. GOD BLESS ...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

On 5/7/2024 at 4:40 PM, jimjum12 said:

FRANKENSTEIN 1                    8.5                                       $ 175 ... Ploog, super gloss and PQ