Redbeard

Had to get out of the wine business when I found out I had liver problems from Hepatitis. That eventually turned to liver cancer and the resultant transplant this year. Couldn't stand looking at all those great wines and be unable to drink any of them. At least I got to taste almost everything up until the time I quit that would be considered the greatest wines from all over the world. I can still close my eyes and taste a great Latour. No longer have my favorite book the Uncle Scrooge 7. I sold my Poughkeepsie file copy when I noticed that the off white pages were turning to cream color on their way to heading further south. BTW, almost all of the Poughkeepsie copies I have seen did not have a stamp, but they did suffer from discoloration. From the warehouse finds, the best page quality would be the Nedor/Better warehouse find.

The Ace warehouse included most everything from them from the 50s. Multiple copies of all the horror titles. I don't recall seeing many Space Actions though. I would guess the find occurred in the latter 1970s. I don't know if you ever saw them at my house, but I had 6 original art horror covers from them that I got from George Hagenauer. I believe they were Baffling Mysteries and Web of Mystery covers. Interesting thing about these is they did not have the logos. Those were added later in printing. Totally different than all the other original cover art that I used to own from the GA. The Nedor warehouse came out when I lived in Newport Beach. I remember consigning some of those Startling and Thrilling Schomburg cover books to Dave Smith's store in Garden Grove. So, I would have to say that was also in the latter 1970s. Yes Bob, it is your fault I'm on these boards. Thx old friend. You'll be mentioned in some of my upcoming posts when I talk about the days of us looking for SOTI, POP, drug stories, GGA art books along with our other old cohorts some who are no longer with us. For those that didn't know, that is how Bob Overstreet got a lot of that information on these type of books for the Price Guide. Some of the notables are Bob Barrett, Bob Nastasi, R C Holland, Carl Macek, Bob Selvig, Terry Stroud, David Alexander, etc. Wasn't it you the found the bums and bombs away one that eluded us for years. I remember I found the Jungle Comics 98.

It is indeed the Beard...

You would be correct. The Harvey warehouse was indeed was 50s stuff, not the vintage early stuff such as wartime Speed, Champion, etc.

It seems that the knowledge of warehouse finds of the past has been lost except for us old timers. I base this statement on the bidding and pricing I see on books that are listed as scarce that are for GA books rather common. Did you know that their was a major Dell warehouse find called Poughkeepsie. In the early 1980s you couldn't do a show back east with out seeing 4 Color one shot file copies at every booth. There were multiples of most titles including Duck and Mouse one shots. PCH books are very hot right now, but are you aware that there were Ace, Nedor/Better and Harvey warehouse finds that had multiples of all the horror books and in the case of Nedor/Better that means yes those treasured Startling, Thrilling and Fighting Yank books were all there in multiples? If you are using the term scarce to mean tougher to find than a SA book, that would be true. But, in terms of what we have always meant in the past, it is untrue. One of the most satisfying aspects of collecting GA books is that you can't go to 1-2 shows and complete your collection, the only variable is price. When you collect GA books it can take several years if not your entire collecting lifetime to complete a title or a publisher. If you can't wait, then collect SA books to present books, GA books is not where you belong. More to come... Best, Ron Pussell, aka Redbeard.