Bunky Brian

I want to play,fresh from SDCC

Note the amazing facial resemblence to Billy P, (thumbs u

Luv you Bill

Bunk

Very cool stuff. Not a big "Centaur-Head", but I do have a couple-

 

 

 

One of two CGC graded, this is the higher of the two:

 

 

 

 

 

Wowers, I have not seen that copy live anywhere, very nice (thumbs u

Thought this thread could use a little bump...

 

Got this one a little while ago...luhvs it!!!

 

Wowzers, a beaut

Well ... I know this one has seen a few homes over the past several years. I'll see if I can't give it a nice home now. I've wanted this one for quite awhile.

 

Jeff,

 

Your 36 looks like a pretty book and one of my personal favs Anbody, know who has the Church copy?

 

 

#36 has always been a favorite of mine too! Have no idea who owns the Church, but I'm sure it's one sharp book!

 

I have the Cosmic Aeroplane copy....VF+

 

oh and here is the Church copy ("double slash") of 37

 

Data noted in my super secret file on who owns what Church Centaur

Here's the "Buttock":

 

 

I love me some Buttock Centaurs

Jeff,

 

Your 36 looks like a pretty book and one of my personal favs Anbody, know who has the Church copy?

 

 

#36 has always been a favorite of mine too! Have no idea who owns the Church, but I'm sure it's one sharp book!

 

I have the Cosmic Aeroplane copy....VF+

 

Well of course you have the Cosmic copy, as is, what don't you have?

Sweet book Jon, really sweet, I needs me a copy of this book

Jeff, sweet Mings

 

Thanks Brian. Your sharp #37 made me pull out my mini-run to check them out! They are just too cool. My #37 is not as nice are your Pinnacle Hill, but I'm happy to have it!

 

Jeff,

Your 36 looks like a pretty book and one of my personal favs Anbody, know who has the Church copy?

Mr. Boot hats off you you, Mr. Advanced Collector,

 

 

I posted these a while back in the 1930s thread, but maybe they should also take a trot in the Centaur corral.

 

Thanks for the compliment. Coming from you it's high praise indeed! But compared to many here I'm a newbie, and until I get one of those Mad Ming covers I'm just a novice.

come on Mr. Boot, I seen your posts around these parts, Many 1930's cool books you have ! Very impressive stuff, and many differant genres.

So bringing this thread back to where it belongs, with a nice favorite Mad Ming,BUMP

 

 

 

Nice pick up! How about another Mad Ming BUMP with the surrounding issues to keep this one company?

 

Jeff, sweet Mings

Mr. Boot hats off you you, Mr. Advanced Collector,

I posted these a while back in the 1930s thread, but maybe they should also take a trot in the Centaur corral.

First time that I have gone to Church

 

Stunning, BTW, were prices on Adventure Church a little softer, than thought, this time around with Heritage?

Curious,

B

Quite Stunning Steve,

FINALLY...

 

some day...

I once bought a $180 Fawcett from him. I wasn't happy with the book, and asked him if I could exchange it for a $180 DC he had for sale.

 

He replied that a $180 Fawcett isn't worth as much as a $180 DC.

 

You should have asked him to pencil a nice Church code on the Fawcett to make you feel better.

 

Why not? He's done it to other books.

 

Roy, bringing the cheese, I also heard he and some Geppi guy marked up bunch a books to look like and sell off as Church copies,

I once bought a $180 Fawcett from him. I wasn't happy with the book, and asked him if I could exchange it for a $180 DC he had for sale.

 

He replied that a $180 Fawcett isn't worth as much as a $180 DC.

 

If he's not selling them he wouldn't care.

Bingo.

I also think that as time has gone by he realizes that those two particular books will have much more of an aura surrounding them as long as they remain unslabbed. The speculation about grade and value will continue to be fodder for new chat-board threads, convention discussions, and collector's fantasies until the moment the books are graded and/or sold. All of the talk adds to the perceived value in the long run. I would bet that the three million dollar books all hit those prices exactly because Dave's books have not been graded.

 

I couldn't agree more. The mystique of the books unslabbed is fascinating . It would be cool to see a 9.4 or 9.6 on them someday.

 

When I look at Eric Roberts AF15 in that grade, I get woozy!

 

By the way, I met the dentist in Baltimore and he was carrying a box of GA with him. I asked him if I could look at them and were they for sale but he refered me to his ad in Overstreet and walked away. Strange and unfriendly but conventions are a busy place with lots of people to see when you have a box of top of the line comics.

bb

 

And a dentist, hmmmm, makes sense to me,

 

 

 

Interesting thread I'm sorry I didn't see sooner. Those of you that know me know I've been around a long time and graded hundreds of thousands of books. But.. they were by Overstreet standards that I helped formulate back in the 80's. I was on a grading panel at San Diego before CGC came into existence and I remember Steve Fischler saying he didn't need anyone to tell him how to grade a book.I made the now idiotic statement that I didn't think comic collectors would support slabbing books because they wanted to look at the insides. Couldn't have been more wrong. When CGC came into existence I person_without_enough_empathyed and moaned as they were not using Overstreet standards. Some of the things I complained about were very high grades on books with bad pages and CGC's ignoring of off center cuts. People are now looking at both. But I'm off point. I was and am an expert grader of comics by Overstreet standards. I am not, however, an expert grader based on CGC standards. CGC standards are now accepted by this market. CGC can be off but so can I. I sent the same copy of a She-Hulk 1 in twice got a 9.4 the first time and a 9.6 the second. The book was a NM+ by Overstreet standards but I could easily have graded it NM. CGC looks for things on new books that I simply can't detect. Having submitted hundreds and purchased thousands of CGC graded books, I'm getting better at predicting CGC grades but am not an expert by their standards. I haven't graded thousands of books using their standards and freely admit I'm clouded by the vast number I graded by Overstreet standards. I suspect the "expert" grader this guy is using is someone with a lot of comic experience but not CGC. His expert simply is not a CGC expert. As someone has already pointed out, the difference between a 9.4 and 9.8 on a new book may be microscopic. Don't complain about CGC. They are the new experts and if he wants to complain to anyone it should be to his expert who obviously doesn't know the difference between a 9.4 and 9.8 CGC new comic. Stop complaining and get a new expert or just buy already graded books.

keith contarino

Thanks Peter,

Rumor has it, I might be holding a beauty of a AMF#1 in SD this year,

Windy City copy

Hey Jerry, what grade you put on that thar book,

Jerry

More adult oriented seems more like Atlas to me? What do you guys think? I just read Wild Western #7 last night (Marvel, 1949) and it's reasonably gritty. Maybe westerns from Fox and Avon are even more adult.

 

Atlas comics in general seem more adult oriented than their DC counterparts. Just a scan of covers will confirm that. Atlas put out some great stuff.

 

Don't know about Avon but some Fox comics have just horrible artwork. Admittedly, that's somewhat of a generalization. Covers are often cool but interior work is lacking

 

I am not sure why Timely is considered more adult. The covers remind me of Crime Does Not Pay because they tend to be more violent. DC tended to have more horsey covers but I like horses.

 

ME westerns are my favorite. I liked Straight Arrow and Ghost Rider and usually buy books with stories that feature those characters. Frazetta covers on westerns are really nice to have too.

So bringing this thread back to where it belongs, with a nice favorite Mad Ming,BUMP

My knob is a glorius purple bule shine to it,

Now this is what funny books are all about,

Funny Pages -

 

 

 

OMG sorry to come in late, but is any of these for sale?

 

 

Get to the back of the line......