Weird Paper

It is a different copy. I believe that Dave Alexander was asking $14,000 for a VG/F.

 

Steve

 

Dave must be sniffing some of the laughing gas he administers to his patients! He also once tried to sell me a set of "VF/NM" Marvel keys, each was replete with some of the worst marvel chipping I have ever seen. The rest of the books were stunnning...if you could get past the 1/4" wide, cover length section missing down the right edge of each cover!!

 

But, he did manage to buy/trade me out of my Bob Kane painting....

 

I know, I know...

 

But sometimes it feels good to

 

So, just to confirm, which Dave didn't grade well, Anderson or Alexander?

 

Now that you mention it Win, in my experience neither one can grade. With Alexander he is consistently bad, so that is something you can work around. At least you know he is a grade off, so if the money is right, you can compensate in your head and determine if the book is still a good deal.

 

With Anderson, you never know what you are going to get.

 

But it was Dave Anderson that sent me the Silver Age keys with the major marvel chipping and still called them VF/NM and NM-.

Just to confuse things further, you're talking about the dentist, right? Not the dealer from Oklahoma who used to crash on people's hotel room floors at conventions to avoid paying for a room.

The last original Sandman cover.

The Punch 20 cover was done by an artist named Paul Gattuso, who drew some really wild covers. For example, the gory cover to Punch 19 is one of Gattuso's more gruesome works. It depicts huge, blood-drenched claws poised above piles of corpses that are laying in pools of their own blood. I don't have a copy, but if anyone else does, please post it.

 

RHG

Just cause I haven't posted anything in a while...

Church copy

Issue 6, this one definately needs an upgrade, but it's the only copy I've found.

You know you're really charting a path for your child when you name her Moronica.

A wonderful package arrived today! Carefully wrapped inside was this lovely unrestored member of my want list. Woohoo!!

 

With my compliments to a board member for filling this whole in my collection.

 

 

Glad you're happy with it. I'm gonna miss it... sniff... but it went to a good home.

 

Let me just say for the record....

 

Weird Paper is THE MAN!!! And he can grade too! How refreshing!

 

 

No, you DA MAN!!! And thanks for the compliment. It means a lot coming from someone with your background in this hobby.

A wonderful package arrived today! Carefully wrapped inside was this lovely unrestored member of my want list. Woohoo!!

 

With my compliments to a board member for filling this whole in my collection.

 

Glad you're happy with it. I'm gonna miss it... sniff... but it went to a good home.

Not exactly a plat, but in the right spirit. The book is 8 1/2 x 5 1/2--the yellow kid folds out.

I just looked up what you ask about - that is just an omission

 

- i had meant to come back to fill in a price and will make sure it is filled into the next Guide -

 

who was the publisher? Stokes or C&L?

 

sounds like you have a nice collection as well - can you post some of your treasures?

Thanks. I think I'd have a hard time coming up with something you don't have, but some of my best plats are posted earlier in this thread (Mose, Alfonse and Gaston). My favorite plat is Willie and His Papa (also posted earlier in this thread).

The BB and his Pets 26-pager is C&L.

Here's a pretty nifty one--guest starring the Chinese Yellow Kid.

Bob,

As long as you're active on here, let me toss one at you. I recently turned up a pretty nice copy of the 26-page version of Buster Brown and his Pets. I noticed in the guide, you have no prices listed on that reprint version. Is that because its existence had not yet been verified? Is it that much more rare than the 58-pager, or was it just an omission?

By the way, thanks for sharing all these with us. It's great fun to see them all--some beautiful copies there, too.

James Montgomery Flagg in 1904, long before Uncle Sam.

Bob, I sent you info on this last year for possible inclusion in the guide. Do you want me to resend it or did it just not make the cut?

Just came today... some resto work (most evident on the staples), but I don't care. Its a TARGET #7... the Wolverton cover is killer. Great paper quality, and amazing colors. It was one of those "must have's" for me.

 

 

I am slowly accumulating comics from "The Golden Age of Comics", by Richard O'Brien (1977). Does anyone else own this book? Its a great reference, with full size photos (ranging in quality). I am in the process of beginning time payments on Silver Streak #6 (G/VG), one of the many amazing covers found in this book. Will be sure to post that one when it comes in (many months from now).

 

that is one of the all time great covers IMHO.

I'll second that--I've got a framed dye-sub print of that cover on my office wall. I'm not sure if it's really as scarce as Gerber believed, but an awesome comic, nonetheless.

Adam,

 

Did the Mile High Subby 32 sell before Chuck published his 1977 catalog? Look at those prices - would have bought the lot.

 

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I've tried to look over these before, but my eyes have always glazed over by the time I got this far in the catalog. I notice the Superman 1 is listed as F. Didn't the Church Superman 1 sell a few years ago for six figures? It was far better than a Fine. Were there books in this catalog that didn't come from Church? I know there were some duplicates--so was there another Superman 1? What's the deal? :

which one BUF do you still need?

I just need #15--not that difficult to find on ebay, so I've been holding out for a nice one.

Ok, really impress me--show me #s 25 and 26. I don't think they exist.

I wish i could -

I am just about ready to delete 25 26 from Overstreet as not existing

Great, then I only need 1 issue to complete the set.

Ok, really impress me--show me #s 25 and 26. I don't think they exist.

That is a really beautiful cover.

 

There is a lower grade one on e-bay at the moment and I was tempted to buy unti I saw one of the interior pages..

 

Example Below..

 

 

Is this typical of most pages in the book or are most pages more like standard comic strip panel layouts?

 

Thanks Earl.

That is fairly typical of the book's pages. It is illustrated on about every page, but more like a children's book format than a comic format. The artist is a guy named Louis Biedermann, there's no work by the actual creators or artists known for those characters. The book is more interesting as an early attempt to shove a bunch of contextually unrelated characters together, which they do in a fairly detailed story.

Just picked this up on ebay. I've been looking for a decent copy for over 10 years.

The bugaboo with this book is historically the extremely delicate binding. This copy

isn't perfect, nor was it NM like the seller said, but it's as good a binding as I've ever

seen on one. A pretty cool book for anyone who's into Plats. It's a jam story featuring

all the King humor characters (1926)

A little big for my scanner, but you get the general idea.

From the More Fun Collection...

Yep! Golden Age in Vancouver.

One of the nicer comic shops I've been to, anywhere. Of course, it's been 8 years since I've been there, but it looks like they still have good stuff.

to both Jon and Fuelman! All three of those books are tough (especially the Amazing-Man and the Funny Pages).

 

I've always loved that Funny Pages cover, but doesn't that lion look larger than any lion you've ever seen (especially in the neck area)?

 

Yeah, Gustavson had a penchant for action, but his perspective was terrible. Contrast that to 35, though, and he did a pretty good job.

 

Maybe the bear was supposed to be a groundhog.

No, this cover is dead on. Little Sue of the circus is actually only 18 inches high, and Arrow had a bum leg.

Concerning the Yellowjacket, though, here's a puzzler: What classic oddball title did this book later become? No fair consulting your Photo Journals.

Picked up at the SD Con yesterday.

 

 

features a story narrated by the old witch. I'm curious how you hard-core horror collector's feel about this possibly being the first horror series, as noted by Overstreet.

Sigh... I used to have this book. Sold it a few years ago through Heritage. I completely agree with the "first horror series" designation, but I don't see it as a "classic" cover.

I've posted this in 10-centers, but hey, it fits here too.

 

Those Personal Love issues are all but impossible.How much difficulty did you encounter on those?Thanks for sharing and GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

Actually those two weren't so tough. The 32, from a classified ad in CBG (around '94) -- probably my first Frazetta book -- and the other a couple of years later from John Fairless. After that, I failed to ever score any more in high grade in all the time I was looking.