seank

Batman, Phantom Lady.

Two more:

I'm now down to 12 more for the 68-130 Sky Girl run. These two were liberated saved from the detrimental humidity of Houston for the comic-friendly climate of Sacramento. Thanks Richard!

Two more:

I'm now down to 12 more for the 68-130 Sky Girl run. These two were liberated saved from the detrimental humidity of Houston for the comic-friendly climate of Sacramento. Thanks Richard!

Subby #1.

 

Detached Cover

I'd take a low grade Marvel 1 over the Subby 1, but that detached cover is a big negative which makes me favor the Subby. But I guess you could get the Marvel 1 restored...

...everything is SO nice...

can I fit this in?It is a Canadian variant..

Jim

 

Is that a Xela cover?

I like this one. And they are easy on the pocket book if you can find one.

And good reading too.

This one arrived yesterday. My third Fox book.

According to Gerber and OS, it's a Baker cover. However, I note in OS that this book is cover dated November 1956, near the end of his life, when his comic work was on the decline. I think it's his pencils - look at the guy in the blue suit - but it suffers from horrible inking.

Here's a Rangers I picked up recently. Some great covers on this title (the #26 was my gateway drug), and they are still pretty affordable.

Nice book. I think Rangers are more affordable because the contents were lacking. Planets had great covers and stories. With Rangers, once the war was over,

I imagine that the magazine illustration work paid much better than comics, especially near the end of Baker's life, when anti-comic hysteria was reaching its peak. Also, the anti-comic hysteria may have pushed him (along with many others) away from the comic biz.

Got my Wondercon books back today. With one exception, I'm very pleased:

100 Bullets 28, SS by Azarello and Johnson, 9.0

100 Bullets 61, SS by Azarello and Johnson, 9.6

Brave and the Bold 128, 9.6

Brave and the Bold 129, 9.4

Brave and the Bold 130, 9.4

Batman 286, 9.4 (Joker cover)

Batman 285, 9.4

Batmnan 267, 9.6

All the DCs came back OW-W and all had been purchased raw from sellers here who claimed they were 9.2+. I couldn't have done that on eBay.

New Baker additions I'm one away from completing the Diary Secret run.

The Crime Reporter is a double cover.

 

Can I come over to your house and... um... read your collection?

 

Baker's have the worst art wouldn't even be worth your while (remember this comment until I finish completing my collection...less competition )

Ooh. I forgot about that. Who would want to collect art by a hack like Matt Baker?

(Good plan. If we keep saying this enough, someone may believe it.)

I agree, tough decision, but I'll go with the higher grade blue label Specter over the restored Cap.

New Baker additions I'm one away from completing the Diary Secret run.

The Crime Reporter is a double cover.

Can I come over to your house and... um... read your collection?

When in doubt go with the one with the bondage cover.

That rule of thumb gets a big (thumbs u

More Fun 53,,, one of the coolest Spectre covers there is, in EXTREMELY rare high grade vs. some common Silver Age trash? c'mon, no contest...

Basically what he said. Although I agree with the resale upside for AF 15 implied in the other responses.

However, since this is all play money for me, I'll take the Specter over Spidey any day.

and i've always been morbidly fascinated by this crazy-azz cover; glad [sorta] to get it.

 

Everybody sing:

Dashing through the snow,

In a penguin-driven sleigh,

shooting at the Japanese,

We'll win the war this way,

Tojo smells,

Machine gun's swell,

Shooting all the way!

..but I do love them:)

Isn't that all that really matters in the long run?

And I do like those Planets also. I'd post my group shot of three, but it would be a meager image compared to the ones we've seen.

All newly slabbed.

 

Highest graded Just 4 copies on the census.

 

Great books...I especially like this one.... Congrats...

 

Early Rangers are great. Once the war ended... .

Two new acquisitions, cross posted in the cigar thread. I'm down to 15 more for the 68-130 run.

 

 

 

 

How did I miss these two books? Nice pick up, seank.

Superworld.

I looked at the 68 at Wondercon, didn't buy it, then regretted it the next day. Fortunately, no one else bought it and I managed to purchase it anyway.

Two new acquisitions, cross posted in the Fiction House thread. I'm down to 15 more for the 68-130 run. I may actually get it done this year.

Two new acquisitions, cross posted in the cigar thread. I'm down to 15 more for the 68-130 run.

Were these books just distributed regionally? Seems pretty inefficient during WWII to print something in New York and then ship it to Los Angeles.

 

I am puzzled at what you mean by " ... during WWII ..." You seem, but do not express clearly, to think that it would be difficult to distribute nationally back in the '40's from a central location. I'd argue that it probably was easier for 2 reasons:

 

1) the national distributors had strong established networks for distribution because they carried so much news and magazine products that their distribution costs were low once spread over so much material, i.e., on a "per issue" basis, the cost was small enough to turn an easy profit per magazine (including comics) and

 

2) the rail system as we know it is only a shadow of its former self. Rail must have provided a very useful, efficient and geographically widespread way to get material cross country until local shippers loaded them on trucks.

 

Once you combine the two, printing in one location and distributing nationally seems like the best economical way to do business for the publisher since the distributor did the heavy lifting to get the product on the stands.

 

Also, recall that it was not uncommon for publisher to also be distributors. Heck, Charlton went even one further by being all 3: publisher, printer and distributor. Talk about keeping most of the profit pie

Consider also that we didn't have instant communication then like we have now. You couldn't zap a PDF file across the country in seconds. The original art went to the printer who made plates which were then put on the press. Printing in one location then sending the books out via an established distribution system was probably more efficient at that time.

In addition to poor quality ink or inking, red is also the first color to be affected by sunlight and fading.

Superman #1 for me. Great cover with a bigger wow factor from the civilians. And, as Bill has said, a better investment overall.

I've been looking for quite a while for the "right" copy of Jumbo 99 to pair it with my copy of Jungle 99 (that I got from 143ksk). It came in with today's mail -

Nice bright colors on that Jumbo 99. Many copies I've seen are faded or dirty.