• When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.

juggernaut

Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    2,511

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by juggernaut

    Have a Cigar! Golden Age only....!

    in Golden Age Comic Books

    Posted

    Just got my books in from Heritage today and had to crack this one out. CGC 8.5 with just the cover cleaned and white pages. This book is gorgeous in person and would have gone for much more money if not for the slight professional restoration. I'm very pleased to have such an early Superman in nice shape.

     

    Ken

     

     

     

    superman12.jpg

     

    NICE!!! :golfclap::applause:

    This week in your collection?

    in Comics General

    Posted

    Just got it in the mail today!! Not very many people have seen this before.

     

    Mile High is selling this comic book for over $1000. The original Love and Rockets created, printed and sold by Hernandez Bros.

     

    It took me over a hour to research the comic book to make sure it was genuine and the original comic book that was sold at a comic book convention in 1981. Limited to 1000.

     

    Love and Rockets #1 (Ashcan or Prototype) - B & W cover and interior

     

     

    scan0001-4.jpg

     

     

    Nice!!!... thumbsup2.gif Where did you find it???... 893scratchchin-thumb.gif

    eBay I think.

     

    I was thinking of pulling the trigger on it if it is the same copy. foreheadslap.gif

     

    Guy said his friend bought a few copies and he was selling one every so often. If I remember right!

     

    You would be correct. I am actually going to try to negotiate for another one.

    This week in your collection?

    in Comics General

    Posted

    Just got it in the mail today!! Not very many people have seen this before.

     

    Mile High is selling this comic book for over $1000. The original Love and Rockets created, printed and sold by Hernandez Bros.

     

    It took me over a hour to research the comic book to make sure it was genuine and the original comic book that was sold at a comic book convention in 1981. Limited to 1000.

     

    Love and Rockets #1 (Ashcan or Prototype) - B & W cover and interior

     

     

    scan0001-4.jpg

    Have a Cigar! Golden Age only....!

    in Golden Age Comic Books

    Posted

    Found this in the endless comic box yesterday. It's a late 50s (not technically golden age, but still... ) Australian issue of Catman. I believe the story is unique to this title and not a US reprint (the costume certainly isn't the same) The covers are newsprint and the interior is black-and-white. The Grand Comics Database lists the Phantom comics by the same publisher, but not the others. I've got a similar issue of The Shadow somewhere, too.

     

    catman8.jpg

     

    893applaud-thumb.gif Nice pick-up!! I love to see different things!!

    This week in your collection?

    in Comics General

    Posted

    I didn't know what 'married pages" meant, so I looked it up and found FFB's explaination..

     

    http://boards.collectors-society.com/sho...=0&fpart=12

     

    "Married pages and covers means that you take a wrap or a cover from another comic book and use it to replace a missing or damaged wrap from the comic you're restoring. A wrap is a piece of paper with four comic pages on it. If you took apart a 32 page comic, you'd have eight wraps plus the cover.

     

    There can be different ways to spot married wraps. If the married wrap is either noticeably darker or lighter than the other wraps, that can be clear evidence of marrying. The cut of the married wrap might also be different than the cut of the other pages, and/or the staple holes might be slightly off on the married page in comparison to the other pages, such that the restorer had to create new staple holes. If only a half of a wrap needs to be married (like when someone cuts out a pin-up and the person restoring the book elects to keep the original half wrap that remains) then the married half-wrap can be detected by the presence of Japan paper where the married half-wrap is joined with the original half wrap.

     

    A married cover can be spotted when the cover looks fresher than the interior pages, or when the interior pages have edge wear inconsistent with the pristine edges of the cover, or when the edges appear to be trimmed a certain way along with the other signs I noted. "

     

    If this is the case then this book should be restored not qualified! So, can someone explain how this becomes a qualified book. Removing pages and replacing them with other ones is restoration. Isn't it?