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Next time I get around to posting scans, Ryan, I've got a book that will knock your socks off. It's right up your alley.

 

Lord knows when that'll be, though....

soon

 

Ok Ryan, here you go. Church copy of Superworld #1:

 

great copies! Printer's defect huh...

The tape pull is a little easier to see in this scan than it was in the little ebay photo.

Wow.....that's an impressive tape pull

Some nice Caps being posted

Here's a new addition that presents quite nice....not nearly as nice as those fantastics though.

Very cool covers

Last night I was looking through a box filled with miscellaneous magazines, old catalogs, and assorted papers and came across a bunch of interesting items.

 

Here is a newspaper clipping from 1965 that profiles Houston collector, Gene Arnold.

 

Is he still collecting?

 

very cool... I am sure I can find $100 to buy an action 1!

 

 

I am so jealous seeing stack of comics like that is pisses me off......why couldn't I have been born earlier

even if you had of, your mom would have thrown them away

Did I ever tell you the stroy about my Dad.....his mom threw away his collection of early marvels and DC that spanned from around 1940-1960. I don't want to know exactly what he had but I know he had 3 large boxes of some of the cream of the crop titles like Batman, Superman, MMC, Green latern etc and I have shown him some images of books and he recognized several heavy hitters Why did he have to join the navy and travel the world

I just knew I had to get me a high-grade MMC book some day......when it arrived, it looked just so beyond what the scan could show. Absolutely stunning colours and crispness!! Thanks to CC....sure, no "wiggle room" with all offers completely ignored (so, in the end, a BIN for all intents and purposes) but who cares when it looks this good!!

 

:o (worship)

Last night I was looking through a box filled with miscellaneous magazines, old catalogs, and assorted papers and came across a bunch of interesting items.

 

Here is a newspaper clipping from 1965 that profiles Houston collector, Gene Arnold.

 

Is he still collecting?

 

very cool... I am sure I can find $100 to buy an action 1!

I am so jealous seeing stack of comics like that is pisses me off......why couldn't I have been born earlier

belated kudos to both:

MCMILES and JiveTurkeyMoFo for smooth transactions

Amazing books....I have never seen the covers of #3 or #23 and I am mighty impressed

 

I was fortunate enough to get to see your #4 SF copy in person....great books...one and all. Make me want to sell my timely's and just buy nothing but early Supes

lol

You are paying attention

My half of the trade...Thanks Billy! (thumbs u

 

It goes great with these...

 

Love em

Me too

Amazing books....I have never seen the covers of #3 or #23 and I am mighty impressed

I was fortunate enough to get to see your #4 SF copy in person....great books...one and all. Make me want to sell my timely's and just buy nothing but early Supes

I didn't know there was a pedigree thread.....all of these except one were purchased in the last 4-months so they are pretty recent to me

Rockford Pedigree

'D' copies

Crowley

I bought my first restored book this past weekend. Now I think I'm hooked, not just on this title but possible restored books in general.

 

 

Once I had that one, I needed another and MCMiles was in the right place with a book I had looked at here on the boards before.

Yes after picking up that Restored Superman 24 from you.....I will no longer shun PLOD

shouldn't that be la la land

 

hey, look what i got gator!

 

Can we give out 'you sucks' over on the comic forums

Wow...impressive

Great books one and all....i wish I still had my ASM #1 but I sold it a few years back when money was tight

I also find this book's history interesting. I remember what a big deal it was when they were discovered, and then I noticed over the years how the number of copies cited in the Guide slowly and mysteriously increased. Did more turn up, or did the original finder neglect to count how many there were? Whatever became of the one that's missing six pages?

By the way, I have the coverless copy. Does that mean there are ten with an eleventh suspected?

 

Thanks for adding to the history! Where and when did you obtain the coverless copy? It just seems to have magically appeared one year in the guide? Can you also indicate, if you would, the cost?

 

The coverless copy was auctioned by Sotheby's New York in 1991, in a lot that included a Marvel Comics #1 front cover. If you have the catalog from the 12/18/91 auction, it's lot #48. I saw this copy in person a few years later at WonderCon, maybe 1996 or 1997. I don't remember who had it, or even if it was truly for sale or just window bait, but at the time I didn't really have the cash to make an offer. Since then, I was told Dr. Dave Anderson had owned it, who sold it to another collector who eventually sold it to me, around 2001 I think. Being coverless makes it the least desirable copy, but I was delighted to finally own one.

 

Very helpful provenance, thanks!!!

 

We really should check our old auction catalogues!

 

Lot #48: Marvels Comics #1 Cover, with October date intact. Together with interior of Motion Picture Funnies Weekly No. 1 with ink crossovers to First Funnies, on all three locations at bottom of copyright paragraph on first page of comic indicates that they are from the Estate of Lloyd Jacquet; condition very good. $1,000 - $4,000

 

And there was also a complete copy that was offered:

 

Lot #46: Motion Picture Funnies Weekly No. 1, with cover for Nos. 2, 3, 4. April 1939, origin and first printed appearance of Sub-Mariner by Bill Everett, reprinted in Marvel Mystery No. 1 with color added; only seven known copies with minor restoration to interior spine, paper quality on this copy is slight tanning (it should be noted that most copies have severe yellowing of paper), most likely best interior paper found on any copy, condition fine. $2,000 - $4,000

 

Lot #46 sold on 12/18/91 for $4,950.

Lot #48 sold on 12/18/91 for $2,200.

 

How are people interpreting what is written in Lot #46; is it saying this copy alone has restoration or that all seven known copies have minor restoration? I think it is simply confusing grammar and that it is just this copy that is being referenced.

It sounds like to me they are referring to the copy that is being sold but missed a comma or it would have read something like:

Lot #46: Motion Picture Funnies Weekly No. 1, with cover for Nos. 2, 3, 4. April 1939, origin and first printed appearance of Sub-Mariner by Bill Everett, reprinted in Marvel Mystery No. 1 with color added; only seven known copies, this one with minor restoration to interior spine, paper quality on this copy is slight tanning (it should be noted that most copies have severe yellowing of paper), most likely best interior paper found on any copy, condition fine. $2,000 - $4,000

well, i didn't come home empty-handed. thanks much gator.

 

I am proud to say that slab has my finger prints on it.....and that's about as close as I will ever get to owning a copy

I got to see it at Megacon on Saturday

Thanks all....I bought this sight unseen as I jumped on it before they had a scan up but I was hoping the book would have a clean look with the nice page quality. I was very relieved when they sent me the scans today

8 inches of snow fell here last night, but that didn't stop UPS and the USPS from bringing these beauties to my door.

 

First up, Human Torch #8. Gotta thank Nearmint for this one! Thanks Jeff! What a great cover. I love the way the iron is melting, and the Sub-mariner's "Anti-flame Fluid"! How cool is that?

 

Also got a nice copy of Is This Tomorrow, an upgrade over my old copy.

 

I have never seen this book before.....awsome

you are on a roll... get it "roll" (coin money )

Your losing it

My newest purchase from Metro....

Purchased this off of Metro.....couldn't find another war book to go along with it at Megacon but it won't deminish my enjoyment of this one at all

One of my grails....was able to get a beautiful (restored) copy at Megacon today

Just purchased from Gator and Megacon today...