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Fantastic group of books! I've always felt that adv 61-71 have the most bang for the buck.Three heroes behind those great Burnley covers.Starman,Hourman and Sandman all for one thin dime.I'd like to think that formula sold a few books. Nice! I like the covers on 65 and 71 in particular. Ken

Wow! What a pretty copy. Ken

I love the final few issues of the pre-code period; the books are so hard to find;s it's a real challenge finding them is most any grade, but especially VG or higher. Due to the Cold War Comic Scare, the companies cut back on their print runs. What are your thoughts? That Adventure is dynamite. Great Book! Well, it is commonly known that comic books were at a low ebb in the early to mid 1950s, resulting in small print runs and, it seems, fewer copies being stored away in collections. Taking Adventure Comics as an example. #247 was published in 1958. A major key, copies were kept in far greater numbers than, say, #246 and #248. Yet only three years earlier, Adventure #210 was hardly kept at all, resulting in its huge scarcity later on. Yet at the time would not #210 and #247 be seen by collectors to be about equally important? Here is the last pre-code issue of Detective Comics: I'm sure many readers would have viewed the code stamp as am unwelcome intruder on comic book covers. And some of the stamps got HUGE during 1956, almost adding insult to injury! Stunning!! Ken

My favorite SA cover. Ken

They don't get much better than this. Ken

Very nice! Love the Diary Secrets too. Ken

What a cool book and one that I have not seen before! Ken

Nice book. Oaklands are great books. Ken

Nice looking copy with beautiful colors. Ken

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Much thanks to board member TeddieMercede for selling me these two books. Here they are, freshly cracked from the CGC holders. Ken

Great books you have been posting Mick. I really like the cover to the Star Spangled 79. (thumbs u Ken

Very bizarre Kirby covers! (thumbs u The Black Magic 29 is very cool. Is this an adaptation of a Ray Bradbury story, or did EC do some type of story similar to this? I know I have seen this premise before. Ken

Nice copy. (thumbs u Ken

I just checked the Gerber Photo-Journal Guide and the book is listed as a Baker cover. Ken

IMHO It doesn't look like Baker to me. Did he ever work for Avon? bb I agree. Not Baker, IMHO. Not Baker according to OS also. But it's still a great cover and a nice book. Are the innards as good as the cover? The CGC lable that was with the book says Matt Baker cover. Any way to tell for sure? Ken

After many years, I finally cracked this baby out of the holder, and I'm much happier with it now. Classic Baker cover in my opinion. Ken

Did any title have more greytone covers than Sea Devils? Recent pick-up at Wondercon. Ken

My offer didn't have any strings attached to grade (although I was going to complain if they didn't come back 9.4 or better), and my understanding based on our conversation was that you weren't even remotely interested in selling either one (although you seemed to be more positive about #175). You waivered on the 179 (and later indicated you were not selling it) and never bothered negotations further. I even went so far as to say go get them graded so you can ask for more. I wasn't happy taking all the risk with raw. You said you weren't going to grade them. I contacted you several times over the next year or so just to see where you were at. Nothing happened. It was definitely an excellent starting point that had room to go up, but you didn't bother, which I took as your unwillingness to sell (most people would start with counteroffers if they were interested). If you had lines of people waiting to meet or exceed my initial price without negotiations on the raw books, then I stand corrected. Apparently the art of negotation must be an absolute mystery to me (pun intended). I'm sure a ton of people can attest to the money I've paid dearly for this title...this is one title I do want to complete. Good luck on the sale. I'm sure it will do well. Sterling, I stand corrected on one point, and that is stating that the books needed to grade out at 9.6. I went back and read the PM you sent me regarding these two books and you did state that the books are " gonna need CGC plastic with the numbers 9.4 in order for me to pay it". You are correct that at the time I was uncertain as to whether I wanted to sell the books but this was November of 2006 and you said that you would be willing to pay for them assuming the 9.4 grades "at some point next year". I am sorry we did not work something out, but I decided to simply let the market decide the book's value and if it sells for less than your offer then so be it. Ken

I'd like to bid on it...but my best shot was when I was offering crazy money for the book raw. I'm not touching this one at all...so go for it. I'm sure between the pedigree, Adams collectors and one or more HOM fanatics like myself it's going to be tuff enough without me. Seeing the books come out like this give me hope that I can wait until enough copies spill over into the market. As for the seller, he should've priced the books at 175 ($500) 176 ($700) and 179 ($1,500-$2,000). Congrats to LordRahl... Considering the book graded out at 9.6 and you made an offer for the 175 and 179 as a pair and wanted me to guarantee both books graded out at 9.6, I don't think your offer would be considered crazy money at all. Ken

Same scanner. I just realized that if I scan at 300 dpi instead of 200, the images show up much larger. Do you have a copy of the Peter Panda? Ken

I bought this book at Wondercon. Colors and gloss are newstand fresh. Ken

Found this very elusive Baker book at the show in Anaheim on Sunday. Only one 4.5 CGC graded copy in the census, so I was surprised and thrilled to find it. Ken

I picked up this obscure book at the show in Anaheim on Sunday. Ken