Hepcat

My Wheaties C premium comics:

Four more of my Atom comics:

My Captain Cold covers:

One lighthouse cover deserves another:

On 7/19/2024 at 6:04 PM, Tri-Color Brian said:

And, a few Lois' I bought off the spinner rack that survived pretty nicely...

Yes, they did indeed survive rather nicely!

On 7/20/2024 at 11:12 AM, mhuge said:

I've had them for over 5 years now and have always been curious if they are worth anything or worth being submitted for grading.

CGC would find each and every one of those comics well worth slabbing.

Four of my E-Man comics: 

They feature Joe Staton's artwork:

How about a gorilla with wings?

On 7/20/2024 at 9:06 PM, Frisco Larson said:

I love this cover! It's my favorite Atlas jungle cover!

 

My favourite too! Excellent work by Russ Heath.

On 7/19/2024 at 7:59 PM, southern cross said:

You can buy comic books off sellers that sell other stuff as well on eBay?

What a world.

What?! Who would have thought it?

I like Alex Toth's hot rod cartoon art that he did for magazines such as Drag Cartoons:

But I don't much like most of the comic art he did in a more "serious" vane. In fact, when I first encountered it as an eleven year old in Brave and the Bold 53, I found it so "off" that it was unsettling:

My two oldest Daffy comics:

4

13

On 7/20/2024 at 11:16 AM, MAR1979 said:

Nothing special or unique or interesting in owning a book with such a huge population in that grade.  After all we have someone in this thread that when all is said and done will have 800 copies...

By 1988 when this comic was printed most buyers of Amazing Spider-Man treated their comics with care. And because it was the "Special 25th Anniversary Issue" and #300, quite a few collectors hoarded multiple copies. Meaning there could be more than one copy in existence for every Amazing Spider-Man collector out there in a condition that the man on the street would describe as "straight off the newsstand". So why the price insanity? I could understand it if it was a comic from 1955 with one 9.4 in the census and below that only an 8.0 so if you really want it "Well take it or leave it because you might never find another."

Cool! Have you posted it in the Flash or Ten Cent Comic threads?

On 7/20/2024 at 11:17 AM, jjonahjameson11 said:

It happens.

i felt the same way when I picked up Showcase 4.  I was underwhelmed.

Was it in astonishingly nice condition for a comic from 1956? I find delight in basically any pre-1964 or so comic that survives in such condition.

On 7/20/2024 at 1:21 AM, Motor City Rob said:

Like many during that time, there was a thought that prices would keep going higher on every sale. Every day seemed like a new record was being set. He just happened to be the one who bought at the high point.

Well then I don't sympathize with him any more than I do any buyer of stocks or bonds who ends up being the one buying at the high and holding the bag because he was simply extrapolating the trend. In other words playing the greater fool theory.

And of course comics aren't an investment instrument per se. Investment instruments have the potential to spin off an income stream (hopefully one that grows) and comics simply aren't capable of spinning off an income stream. They started out as kids' reading, became a prized collectible due to nostalgia as these kids grew older, and then became a vehicle for speculation as their prices rose. Note the word "speculation". The last thing I do is sympathize with comic buyers who were simply buying with a view to flipping at a higher price. Screw them.

On 7/18/2024 at 1:13 PM, Motor City Rob said:

I do feel a little bit badly for the person who bought that book....but only a little.

I don't feel bad for the fellow at all. He must have felt the comic was worth that much to him and I don't see that the comic has changed. But if it wasn't worth that much to him, why then did he pay so much to buy it?

A heavy load:

PSA doesn't penalize cards for toning. Meanwhile whiteness and page quality are paramount considerations for comic collectors. Therefore I'm unlikely to trust PSA's comic grading until and unless they demonstrate otherwise. (That is not to say I have full confidence in CGC's grading.)

Four more of my Atom comics:

Northland copy

Northland copy

Another Titano!

Here are a couple more of my Captain Atom comics:

84

85

I have issues #86-89 as well but Captain Atom's costume change left me so miffed I've never bothered to scan them!

On 7/18/2024 at 2:12 PM, frozentundraguy said:

1st issue of FF to 1st issue of World of Mystery

Wow! That's one not often seen!

On 7/18/2024 at 8:12 AM, Straw-Man said:

to a different cowboy.

I always liked the new re-launched Two-Gun Kid's duds, but I wish he was a hard core cowboy instead of a runt and tinhorn from out East. My ideal I guess would have been for the traditional Two-Gun Hid to don the new vest in a new territory.

Hmmm. I didn't realize that I'd posted a lot of my Atomic Age comics in this thread beginning on page 62 back in 2011.