The-Collector

It's so good looking…its almost an 8.0….but not quite! You wouldn't believe how stinking beautiful this book is. No visible flaws anywhere. Do you have pre-slabbing scans? I believe I have a front cover scan of the raw book. I received the slab today so I'll post front and back cover scans tomorrow. Here's the front cover scan raw (the dirt specks you see are from my scanner and not on the book): And here's the slabbed scans (front and back): If I hold the slab up to the light, I can make out 1 tiny spine bend and a small top edge bend on the front cover. Other than that, it appears to be clean. Only thing I can think of is a stain some where, maybe on the interior?

Awesome.

It's so good looking…its almost an 8.0….but not quite! You wouldn't believe how stinking beautiful this book is. No visible flaws anywhere. Do you have pre-slabbing scans?

+10000000000

Thx Harv A wise man pointed out you can also just google 'collector's society' and what yer lookin for. I prefer using this, it gives much more relevant results.

Just hazzarding a guess, it looks like a Bob Storm's scan.

I live eat and breath comic books. I would spend 2 hrs a day reading about them and looking at books and I still regularly get schooled.

Awesome Harvey. I think you won the copy of DD 159 9.8 white I sold on comiclink. You should treasure that book it came out of an OO collection and the original owner was a stand up guy. Believe it or not that book spent 20 years in a box with no bag or board!

Why not a 9.8? Who knows. Grading at that level is a mystery to me, I just thought it looked nice so I sent it in. My jaw dropped when I pulled it out of the box. I hear ya, I've had a few of those myself, but sometimes it was because the grades went the other way. Oh, I've been there too....about a week ago. I was there last night Awesome sub. Keep em coming!

Marty it is great to watch the process of you slabbing your OO collection and learning about lots of rarer GA books. Thanks for your kind words and interest. This is the next comic waiting at CGC for grading. mm Very nice. Startling comics is one of my favorite GA runs.

Still waiting.

By issue 44 they start mixing in WWII and Nazis too. Such a cool title.

well done. Post some pics when it arrives? Marty it is great to watch the process of you slabbing your OO collection and learning about lots of rarer GA books.

I don't want to argue about this. I too think the art world is a ponzi scheme. But even there, many works "speak to people's emotions" beyond the hype that may or may not have been responsible for you seeing it somewhere. As for the old masters, basically they were old, working a long time ago. Times were very different. They painted NOT what they felt or even chose to paint.. They painted to eat! They always had a benefactor paying them for each portrait, etc. It wasn't until centuries later that the leisure classes could paint from the heart. Ironically a large impetus came in the early 19th century with the invention of the camera, and more specifically, film on which to record with photographic realism. That was the painters goal all along, and now painters weren't necessary for realism, or even as good as a camera. Soon after widespread usage of film and prints did Impressionism begin, when an artist could interpret what he say on canvas. One more thing about the old masters. Many scholars call them that because they had the god given talent to paint so realistically suddenly. Well, did you know they cheated? Just as artists today utilize technology to make their work easier, so did the old masters after the invention of lenses and then the camera obscura. Hockney published an exhaustive study proving the use of lenses so that artists could trace (light box) from real life, then paint on top of the accurate photographic layouts. Shocking!!!! There is an element of subterfuge in some sales. Look at the non-completed sales rates in Chinese contemporary art auctions circa 2010-2012 all while record prices were being set. And on the 12 million dollar shark, remember when Hirst's "For the Love of God" sold for a reported 50 million pounds only for it later to be revealed Hirst had essentially sold the work to himself...

..... smart buy, Gabe. I was busy getting smacked down on the JIUW 22 ..... I just hope Chris or one of you ended up with it. GOD BLESS..... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u Gabe you have excellent taste. A real keeper.

Wow that is one sharp book!

WTF? I this really a $2,700 book in 9.6?? Sure is, despite the rubbish interior!!

I've come to the conclusion that if you really want a book, you'll probably have to overpay. Well done. (thumbs u Great pickup! I think this book is a great buy at anything even close to gpa. Census numbers are crazy low and when I was a casual comic collector, before I became sersiously addicted, the only other superman villain I was familiar with, besides lex luthor, was bizzaro. Looks like I was correct and your purchase was a great one. From memory you paid around $950 which is an absolute steal at current prices. I think you might have trouble buying a 6.0 for under 1000 in the near future.

People are finally realizing what a great book it is and how hard it is to find in grade.

It is I who should be bowing to you Joey since you helped. Thanks heaps.

Cross posting because I am happy and want attention.

Posted the AV 10 a while ago it just took a while to ship. Super Happy with the IF 14. Both books are White pages with excellent centering.

In my collection Want to sell me some? 1 million pms sent... I'm still looking for a burns and a ware myself.....hard to find, there were definitely more available a few years ago I keed I keed. I am trying hard not to be the overzealous newbie.

In my collection Want to sell me some? 1 million pms sent...

Yeah. Fingers crossed for a VF. Though she is a keeper so I am tempted to just put it in a mylar and read it.