MrBedrock

i am appreciating all the love for the book big time. thanks, all. We are just sucking up so maybe if you ever let it go one of us (me?) will have a shot at it! In comic collecting there is no love, it's all about the books!

Bill; Great little story and that's a nice looking Mystery Men #1 you got in the Fotress. Which was the better copy and do you remember whatever happened to your two copies of Mystery Men #1? The More Fun copy was the best by far, the bathroom copy was a GD+ if memory serves. I will have to find the old catalog list to verify the MF copy, but I think it was VF+. They both sold at shows, to whom? I don't recall. Wish I had the MF copy back. Actually, Bill, you sold it to me. It was vf+ with a minor amount of resto to the bindery chips and staple reinforcement. Beautiful paper. I sold it to a collector in New York who has since passed it on to someone else. You are quite correct Richard! Thanks for refreshing my old memory. Wish I had that sucker back! You and me both.

Bill; Great little story and that's a nice looking Mystery Men #1 you got in the Fotress. Which was the better copy and do you remember whatever happened to your two copies of Mystery Men #1? The More Fun copy was the best by far, the bathroom copy was a GD+ if memory serves. I will have to find the old catalog list to verify the MF copy, but I think it was VF+. They both sold at shows, to whom? I don't recall. Wish I had the MF copy back. Actually, Bill, you sold it to me. It was vf+ with a minor amount of resto to the bindery chips and staple reinforcement. Beautiful paper. I sold it to a collector in New York who has since passed it on to someone else.

Ain't it a beaut! Attaboy Bill. And five pages of kudos to boot!!!!!

I have to ask: What grade did he give it back then? I don't remember the grade, but the price would have put it at a 10.8! I had to resubmit to get the price that I wanted!!!!!!!

and one more, that just went up on the m.m. pedigree thread. This is the greatest book in the history of geekdom! But you are still a showoff.

Any chance you want to trade back,I've grown tired of the pile of ROM you gave me Aren't you collecting Micronauts now? I know you have a Fighting Yank I've been eyeing.

Great book! I will take a 4.5 that looks like that any day! An unobtrusive stain, but the eye appeal of a 9.0. Gorgeous! Exactly! and at 1/3 the money or less. YAHOO!!!!!!!! It is amazing how small an amount of water it takes to equal 4.5 worth of grade. If our water bills were on the same scale water would be more expensive than gold! Right, but the back cover could be foxed to death and still get an 8.0....or the front could have a miswrap, poor colors and production bindery tears and get a 9.4. Out of the three, there is no question which one I would choose. Nice to see someone else probably agrees. Hey, that used to be mine I think I traded it to XL as a part of the pile for his Daring Mystery 1. Glad it ended up with you, Mr. B(thumbs up Thanks! It has found a good home. You can visit anytime!

Great book! I will take a 4.5 that looks like that any day! An unobtrusive stain, but the eye appeal of a 9.0. Gorgeous! Exactly! and at 1/3 the money or less. YAHOO!!!!!!!! It is amazing how small an amount of water it takes to equal 4.5 worth of grade. If our water bills were on the same scale water would be more expensive than gold! Right, but the back cover could be foxed to death and still get an 8.0....or the front could have a miswrap, poor colors and production bindery tears and get a 9.4. Out of the three, there is no question which one I would choose. Nice to see someone else probably agrees. Absolutely. I think we agree that the one thing CGC can never properly take into account is Eye Appeal. I will always take a good looking copy over a structural high grade.

No kidding. Quality would have been better off and a couple $$ richer had they simply used Fine's splashes as covers. In fact, they may well have sold a couple of ten of thousands copies more! We'd probably be paying $10,000 more for each one today!

Great book! I will take a 4.5 that looks like that any day! An unobtrusive stain, but the eye appeal of a 9.0. Gorgeous! Exactly! and at 1/3 the money or less. YAHOO!!!!!!!! It is amazing how small an amount of water it takes to equal 4.5 worth of grade. If our water bills were on the same scale water would be more expensive than gold!

This came from Bachara and the Crowley collection. At one time in the early 80's I bought the Mile High Slam Bang 2 and 3 for $50 each. About a year later I sold them to Bruce Hamilton for $150 each. I made a killing. Darn I wish I had those back!!!!!!! While Slam Bang had a very obscure line-up each issue is a little treasure trove and I would put the covers of 2,3,and 4 up against just about anything that isn't a Timely.

Got this in trade from the Erroneous Geek (Xavier Logan) a few years back in trade. I love this cover. Looks like something from a turn of the century sci-fi pulp.

The Ray was a Great character with wonderful Lou Fine art. Unfortunately most of his covers were LAME! This is an exeption.

Just back from CGC. Got this through a Heritage auction a couple of years back. I'm trying to get a cool cover from every golden age title and some of the Quality books are hard. Frankly their covers were some of the worst in my opinion. But I think this is a pretty neat Clock cover.

And here's my copy. Other than these two, there's only one other copy graded... That's two tongues! Awesome!

I agree! Must have been the inspiration for Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots! Absolutely! And you gotta love a robot with a hairy chest!

Got this from Chris Foss at Heroes and Dragons. Awesome cover!

Got this a few years back in a trade with Bill Hughes. I am a sucker for those tongue covers!

And one of the louder Marvel Mystery covers!

One of the quieter Marvel Mystery covers.

Always liked this cover. Most of the Kid run doesn't do much for me. I think someone said before, if this cover was on another title it would be HUGE!

Got this from Steve Borock at a Chicago Con back when he was still behind a table selling books.

What a cover!

Congrats on the upgrade Thanks. I just posted something on the manufactured gold thread about that. Interesting dilemma.