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Tales To Astonish #50 - 5.5 1st Human Top SOLD TO MUNCHEE1 BP = $50.00 Description - Surface creases and light edge wear. C.F. is well attached. Nice clean copy.

Tales To Astonish #49 - 5.0 1st Giant Man BP = $220.00 SOLD TO BIRD @ 25% off Description - Top corner crease. Back cover lower corner crease about 2 x 2. Surface creases and handling marks.

Tales To Astonish #48 - 3.5 - 1st Porcupine SOLD TO JOEY BP = $65.00 Description - Center crease/fold with heavy wrinkling on the back cover. A press would really bring this grade up. Well attached center fold and complete.

Tales To Astonish #47 - 5.0 1st Trago SOLD TO BIRD BP = $80.00 Description - Book has corner creasing and dings. Pre marvel chipping starting on the right edge of the F.C. about 3" from the top. Book is still very clean, with C.F. well attached.

First in the thread trumps anything else going on. These are my personal books from ages ago. Many of these books I bought over 40 years ago, when I just bought comics to read and trade. Unseen by human eyes, until now. LOL. These are lower grade issues for the most part, and most have defects associated the the grades. Hope someone else enjoys them as much as I did. Just time to thin the heard. U.S. shipping and Canada only!! I can ship up to 8 books secure boxed media for about $5.85. continental U.S.A. Any more books will be additional, less will be not so much. I had to increase postage a bit as box prices went up. U.S. priority shipping or media, you're choice. Never had a problem with media. You guys know how I box up books. Priority will be cost. Canada will be at cost. I take Paypal, checks, money orders, or swamp gas. Checks will be held till they clear before books go out, unless I know you're not a stinker. P.M. me with any questions or offers. If I don't respond I don't like your offer. I offer a full return ( minus shipping ) on anything I sell (including slabs) no questions asked. You guys know the deal if you bought from me before. I will not be sending out "any " invoices until next week, so be patient. I will probably split up between two nights. We'll see how it goes.

After it slapped him right in the teeth.

LOL. My first AK-47 at Jasper County range. First time out of the box. No scope, no bi pods, not into all that krap. Not trying to shoot the ears off a fly. My X neighbor and great friend Nick K. Ex Viet Nam Air Force. this guy was a total bad ess in real life. LOL. Did not take any k rap from anyone. This is an old pic. He passed away some years ago. I shot about five rounds out of it. He was watching with a spotting scope where I was hitting. He takes the gun and resets the sites. LOL. Try in now. Wow. Now we were cooking. Outer ring was first few rounds. Then we starting hitting pay dirt in the center ring. We had psycho George with us, another X Viet Nam Chicago cop. This guy was a dead shot. My target from 100 yards. Some fun days at the range with these two. R.I.P. my friends.

Looks like we should be a go for tonight, around 7 Central? Just checked my wind currents, seismic and nautical charts, and all of them seem to be in order.

LOL. I'd like to see him pop off some rounds like that.

My Tales to Astonish thread is on hold. Stuff came up.

Always wondered why Bat-Hound had a mask.

I am hoping to start a new sales thread Tues night, between 6:30/7:00 Central. My personal stash of Tales To Astonish, I think from about issue 47 and up. I've had most of these books over 40 years, but its getting time to thin stuff out, and let someone else enjoy this stuff. Really tough to let this stuff go, as thumbing through these issues brought back tons of memories, when I just bought books to read. I have a suspicion, that even that sneaky Human Top is going to show up a few times.

A+ transaction.

I'm going to look at this closer tomorrow, and might even put a light on it to see if I can tell what the he ll this is. I'll get back if I discover some new evidence in this crime scene.

Bingo.

4 pages into a PGM book thread. This could be a record.

It's not easy to spot looking directly at the book. Natural light always works best at an angle sometimes. Like I said, I need a good beating. LOL.

I need a good horse whipping. Have at it.

Point Five thanks for pointing this out. Here's what I see, and some pics to boot. I missed this. WTF. Glad you seen it. I was going to run a sales thread with a nice run of Astonish books, but I'm going to postpone it, until I look over the covers of all these copies, again to make sure. Thanks so much, and everyone else who chimed in here. It is obvious someone color touched that darker pink spot. Looks like droplets of some kind in that area also. I can actually scrape the color of some of the spots. As you can see in the pic of the inside, it's obvious the pink bled through and it was touched up with white. You can actually feel the lump of material where it was covered up. Like I said, I bought many of these books over 40 years ago. It goes to show people were doing this krap in there homes or alley's when no one was looking . I learned something here. Slow down and look a little closer. Point Five gets the no prize.

Sure they would. The books pass through 3 layers of inspection and quality control. I mean when a book is put it upside down, no one notices.

This pic with the staple gun is a joke. I would never mutilate a book with such an atrocity. LOL. I'll leave that to the likes of Cupcake Danny.

be sure to use non-archival staple or it will come back purple I've got some old model railroad weathering paint that looks like rust. I'll touch it up for that rustic look.

Okay folks, one more question. Can this book gain Golden Age status if I pop it back together with one staple in the middle.

Doc! This is 100% contrary to all grading rubrics developed for comics. No grading scheme I'm aware of assigns a fixed grade/point deduction for a particular defect. The mantra has always been 'the more otherwise perfect the book, the more significant the deduction for a particular defect." Okay, maybe I need to reword what I said. I was making an " assumption " I guess that the point deduction for detached centerfold " might " carry the same point deduction value regardless of the quality of the book, without the detached center fold. Obviously, by the examples show here, I was dead wrong. Anyway, I learned something in this discussion. Thanks for all the input.

This discussion reminds me of the old days around here when had discussions like this all the time, and learned something.