Redbeard

Hey buddy its been a long time JT. I wanted to go to Balticon this year. Al (Stolz) said I got a badge if I can make it. But, recovery from this surgery is slow so I won't be at Chicago, Balticon or Heroes this year. But, I'm planning on being there in 2019. I'm coming to buy...

Thx for posting this. Since my area of interest is GA books, most of these books would have escaped my notice.

Check the board pages for this thread. I posted a history of that find today.

Sounds like they are indeed Poughkeepsie file copies.

Thx. Getting better every day, but as you know, a slow recovery process. Maybe you have heard of my main doctor at Stanford. His name is Dr Aijaz Ahmed. I believe he is also a gastroenterologist as well as a hepatologist. I know he is head of the Stanford liver transplant program.

Thx.

Thx, I had forgotten to mention the True Life Secrets issue. Same find as the Thing and the Space Adventures.

They came out in the late 1970s to early 1980s. It was books from the late 1940s through the 1950s. The painted Schomburg cover books were all represented in this find.

Thx for the post. Great looking at these covers.

That find was a relative a a former GA comic distributor that found these books some of them unopened bundles of the same book. He also had Capt Marvel Adv 50 as well. I can't remember any more but he also had a few issues of a Marvel Mystery, a Cap and a Detective. I bought all he had of those and sold them. There were many other titles and issues as well. One thing about this find. These books were not stored well for protection so the page quality is at best cream to off white if not worse.

I have never heard of any big ME find other than the Ghost Rider 1 I had mentioned in a previous post. the Major Inapak was an exception.

If John peed on my shoes, I never knew about it. I think John was pulling your leg. Sure do miss John, we had some good laughs through the years. I remember the first time John and Nan came up to see me to buy MH books. They got lost and called me asking me to come to where they were and guide them to my house. I told John, you are on the opposite end of the lake from my house and Tahoe is a 22 mile long lake. No way am I driving all the way to where you are. I gave him new directions and they managed to find there way here. Another funny deriving story happened when I bought out Dave Belmont's marvel inventory. Steve Fisher were both involved and we agree to split the books up. So, Steve flies out and is at my house in Tahoe in the winter time. After we divide the books the next day back down to Reno and the airport. The roads were a bit icy. Being a local, this did not bother me. I am used to having the car go out of control usually at least once every year. So, I am driving down Mount Rose highway to Reno and the car goes into a slide coming out of a turn. I knew we were in no danger as we were sliding toward the mountain versus the cliff side. Steve freaked out. If you see him and ask him he will say he will NEVER get in a car with me driving again.

More than happy to be able to do this. For so many years I was one of Bob Overstreet's senior advisors. Been friends with Bob for a long, long time. Just in case some of you were wondering where the Guide pricing comes from, up until 7-10 years ago, Bob would send me a copy of the Guide for me to indicate the pricing changes I felt were required for next years Guide. It would take me quite awhile to go through the entire Guide and indicate what percentage increase I felt was necessary for every title in the upcoming Guide. I know he also used to send one to Terry Stroud as well. I did this for the Guide for many, many years. So all those that used to complain about the prices being too low or too high, well now you know who to point a finger at, lol.

Thx.

I should have added that I was a big Lou Fine collector. I sold Jon Berk some of his Wonderworld MH books including #3. I had some of his Black Condor MH stuff and several of his National and Hit MH cover books. I collected Lou Fine original cover art back then. I owned Hit 5, the classic Hit bear cover by Lou, Jungle Comics 1 and Science Comics 1. Also had a couple of Matt Baker covers from Seven Seas 5 & 6. I used to own several other artists covers as well such as Reed Crandall, Johnny Craig, L B Cole, Russ Heath, Bill Woggon, etc. Funny thing now that they all have been sold, my wife a few years ago asked me why I sold those. She said she liked them. I told her why the heck didn't you tell me that back then!?! BTW, to Bob Barrett, I never owned the Planet Comics 1 cover, George Hagenaurer owned that. You must be thinking of the Jungle Comics 1 cover by Will Eisner and Lou Fine.

You would be correct. These warehouse finds were mostly post war and 50s stuff. BTW, Ace Comics is an a McKay pub, not an Ace pub. The Nedor find was more of the Schomburg cover stuff. I can't remember how early the Fighting Yank went, but timeframe wise think late 1940s into the 1950s.

Thx.

Thx, I couldn't think of his name either.

Thx.

How about Space Adventures 13? Same find as the Thing 16. There was also many copies of Ghost Rider 1, but you really don't see that offered too often. Nice book, so those found good homes in collections. I know there were quite a few copies of high grade Silver Streak 6, Daredevil Battles Hitler, and Police Comics 1. But, once again, these books were placed in good homes and not offered often. It amazes me how many Dell Poughkeepsie copies there were that have found homes. Yes, they are offered some, but there were so many copies of some of these available at one time. Mark it up to strong demand for these books that keeps the flood gates closed.

Close, but not quite accurate. What happened is someone came to my place in Tahoe selling their collection of books they had found. I paid good prices for the collection, but he also had a stack of coverless comics that he wanted to sell and we added those in at 50¢ each. Many days later I was going through the coverless copies checking them out. Many were missing more than just the cover. One these I picked up and started to thumb through because it had a Human Torch story. The book was missing the cover and the 1st two wraps. It was easily determined it was a Marvel Mystery, not a Human Torch issue. So, now my task was to try and determine the approximate issue number. Well, I could tell it was a fairly early issue, so I looked to see if it had a Vision story. Nope, no Vision story. I then noted it was not a Torch vs Sub-Mariner issue. Next, I noted that there was a Jungle Terror story. When I checked the Guide, it noted this story only appeared in Marvel Comics 1. Now I was saying to myself, wait a minute, wait a minute. With great excitement, I turned to the centerfold and started reading the Sub-Mariner story. Yep, it was the origin of the Sub-Mariner and I realized I held a copy of Marvel Comics 1. I bought this book ignorant of what it was with no malice intended. It was just blind luck.

My love for comics started as a kid like most of us. Loved them. I started reading them in the early 1950s. I remember reading US 1 and DD Trick or Treat off the stands. I also recall an EC that my folks took away because I had nightmares they said. It was a TFTC that had a vampire story. My favorite all time comic book is US 7. I remember that I had two large stacks of comic books. My mom hated them in her house, she was always saying they bring silverfish. Well she got her chance when my father became Cub Scout Master for our neighborhood in Beverly Hills. He organized a comic book drive for the kids at County General Hospital, and there went my original collection. While attending USC, I would burn out at times reading my college textbooks and need a break. I would go to a newsstand at the corner of Pico and Robertson in LA and buy a stack of comic books. I thought of these as brain candy after trying to plow through hours of textbooks. I recall reading the origin of the FF, but not FF1, so it must have been FF Ann 1. I loved the FF, but my favorite was Ditko Dr Strange in Strange Tales. Those surreal pages of Dr Strange battling Dormammu. Every so often I would take these back to my parents house and throw them in the back of my closet. As the stack grew in height, my mom once again tell me to get them out of her house. There went that stack. This repeated itself a few times. Around the time of the 4th Price Guide with the All Star cover, I discovered there were others like me. I went to my parents house and found that I still had Conan 3 in the stack in my closet. Everything earlier than that was gone. I took several positions in the accounting field and worked my way up to controller at a company, but I hated the job. During those years I bought and sold older SA comics, ECs and Disney comic books. While working as an assistant controller at a large women's shoe importer, I once again discovered comic collecting. I found the Book Sail owned by John McLaughlin and run by Dave Smith. I went to my first Casual Con and started buying Timelys. It was at this show that I first met Chuck Rozanski. But, I didn't buy a single book from him. Guide and a half for books back then was unheard of. I was hooked when I started buying those Timelys. It wasn't too long after that I gave up the accounting profession and became a small dealer. From there it just grew and grew. I met John Knight at my 2nd San Diego Con. John and I hit it off and we remain best friends today. He was best man at my wedding, and I was best man at his wedding. We even ran a combined Overstreet ad together for a few years. John, headquartered in Maryland and me in California. Now, we live a few blocks away from each other. We were looking for similar books. It was the end of the GA superhero boom and we were some of the earliest dealers in pursuit of Fox GGA, Avons, PCH and SF titles. Everyone was looking for a copy of Reform School Girl, Teen-age Dope Slaves, etc. I remember getting a call from a longtime friend Dr David Anderson is VA. He called me to ask if I wanted to buy a copy of Reform School Girl he just purchased. He said he din't like the book, it was just a romance book. Naturally, I bought it from him. That's enough for today on this. I'll try and answer some of the pedigree questions you have been asking next.

Hi Rick

That's it for tonight, back tomorrow. I get tired early and off to bed by 10:00 at the latest. Got to get my beauty sleep. Actually, the liver transplant recovery process is slow. I am told you won't feel like yourself until after 7 months and it has been only 3 months at present.

Thx.