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Patrick is one of the good'ns. Friendly communication. Package received well packed and comic in condition described. No doubts about future horse trading.
Thanks, Patrick!

On 11/8/2021 at 4:34 PM, october said:

A few recent pickups. 

 

Woaaaaah!!!!! Nice copies of those two!!!! The mind boggles at the thought of those two landing in the mail. Those are such tough books in nice shape like that. Great work, Mr. October!!!

On 11/6/2021 at 2:52 PM, Randall Dowling said:

Jungle Comics 159, CGC 8.5 C/OW Pages.  The later books in all the Fiction House runs have some of the best covers.  This is my personal favorite of Jungle Comics.  This copy is nice and vibrant in the slab (probably even better out!).  The reds, blues and greens are true to the scan.  There are only 3 copies graded higher than this copy- 2 in 9.4 and 1 in 9.2.  Very difficult book in high grade that I won't be sad if it doesn't sell.  $580 firm.

Jungle 159

On 10/31/2021 at 10:09 AM, OV said:

It's been a while since I've posted here, and I get anxious when the War Comics thread falls off the first page so.....here are three awesome signed books! 

My late grandfather was a sergeant in WW2, so Sgt. Rock has always been special to me.  I was thrilled I got to meet the late, great Russ Heath a couple times, the best experience was at the San Diego War Comics dinner!  I met the late, great Joe Kubert at a comic con in SF and got to visit with him and he signed a big number of his comics for me!  I love the flourish he gave on his autograph on the Enemy Ace cover!  The G.I. Combat issue is one of the very few that both legendary creators signed for me.  I hope everyone is doing well, Happy Halloween!

 

 

Beautiful books, Chag. Getting a chance to meet these creator heroes was a great honor. Their art was the main reason I collected comics for the last 35 years. Whenever I see the crosshatching and photorealism of Heath and the abstract figures and beautiful inks of Kubert, it's like revisiting defining moments of wonder and revelation from my childhood. Their styles are and will always remain indelible. 

On 10/23/2021 at 7:23 PM, jbpez said:

ASM 14

CGC 6.5 (looks better)!

1st Green Goblin...of course!

Last 2 sales...$6200 and $6100 (last week)

disregard scanner shadows..

$5500!!

AM #14 Take per PM

On 10/23/2021 at 7:20 PM, jbpez said:

Fantastic Four 7

CGC 8.5

Old Slabbage!!!

$1750

Take FF #7 per PM

On 8/31/2021 at 3:20 PM, MrBedrock said:

Oh, hael yeah!!!!!

On 9/12/2021 at 1:53 AM, ft88 said:

Fantastic Four 25 VG $320

 per PM

Woops, too late.
All yours, DocSaum.

On 9/11/2021 at 7:56 PM, GAFLASH said:

CAPTAIN AMERICA  #113

CGC 9.0

$200

John, love your ideas, my friend! You're hired for the next report. Seriously. We'd love to have your input. Well stated indeed!

per PM on the following:

Thor 146 VFNM
Thor 148 VFNM
Thor 157 NM
Avengers 47 VFNM
Avengers 55 NM-

On 8/25/2021 at 1:54 PM, Jonathan78 said:

Awwww yeah!

On 8/30/2021 at 5:29 PM, jimjum12 said:

 

Take per PM

On 8/30/2021 at 5:03 PM, jimjum12 said:

Take it per PM

On 8/30/2021 at 4:32 PM, jimjum12 said:

Take per PM

On 7/25/2021 at 12:45 PM, buttock said:

Smokin' cover by Grandenetti.  

Staggering!! Such a badass book!

On 6/2/2021 at 7:08 AM, JLA Brad said:

Well...it took another 20 months or so from the last entry in this message thread (what? has it been that long?), but I finally picked up the final copy I needed to complete this min-run.  B&B #6 and #11 were proving to be stubborn, but in the last couple months I was finally able to get nice copies to fill out the set.  I've included a picture of the final piece of the puzzle.  

I'm pretty happy with the set I've compiled.  The lowest graded book in the set (Batman Free B&B on the registry) is B&B#2 at a CGC 7.0 and nine of my issues are graded at 9.0 or higher.

 

 

Congrats on completing the set, JLA Brad. I've been working on my own high-grade set for more than 30 years and still am about 5 issues shy. No, I don't have a nice #2. They are ALL difficult in grade, but that #2 is in a stratosphere of its own. Love this entire run more than life itself. The Kubert and Heath stories alone are worth it for the price of admission!

On 6/17/2021 at 3:20 PM, kagemusha7s said:

One of my favorite War Books

 

 

That whole run (and especially that FIRST issue) has grown on me over the years. Love that book!

Late to the party. . .

1 hour ago, kagemusha7s said:

This copy, if I'm not mistaken, was the first book I ever bought on the boards.  

 

That's awesome. One helluva nice book to get as a first board-purchase.

On 1/22/2021 at 9:28 AM, buttock said:

The past year I've been fortunate enough to get a few nice books with Drucker art and I've developed a deep appreciation for how good he was in this genre.  Not that I'm saying he wasn't good elsewhere, because I think he's just outstanding as an artist.  But when I see his war stuff, I see genius level stuff.  (Kubert cover)

Drucker is and always will be a stratospheric rockstar for his indelible work on MAD Magazine. I loved it as a teenager along with Aragones, Don Martin, Prohias, Al Jaffee, etc. But I was surprised to see--as I started to assemble DC war books back in the late 80s--that that same guy who did all those movie/TV parodies was responsible for some utterly STAGGERING artwork in some of the same issues that contained Kubert and Heath artwork. I place Drucker's work in that same echelon. There were a lot of amazing artists that were the "mainstays" of DC, but those 3 will always be my favs from that era. Disappointingly, Drucker was underappreciated by Kanigher and that might explain why he never was chosen to illustrate any covers. To my knowledge, Drucker didn't do much [if anything] in the way of cover work for MAD, either.

There IS a western cover that he did for a somewhat obscure publisher--Timor--from the 1950s--Blazing Western #4. It stands out in my mind because it's the ONLY cover I've ever seen that's drawn by Drucker. Maybe he did others (Bob Hope? Jerry Lewis?), but I don't know which of those comedy covers [if any] he did. I know he did interiors, just not sure about the covers. If anybody knows about other covers by Drucker, lemme know. I've always wondered how a guy as prolific and talented as Drucker during the 50s wouldn't get more cover assignments.

On 2/13/2021 at 5:39 PM, kagemusha7s said:

Mike, that is an absolutely SPARKLING copy of GIC 91. Sooooooo nice! Love that book. It took me forEVER to score a nice copy of that book. About 30 years to be precise. For awhile there, there was a SINGLE copy that had made the rounds to different collectors and it changed hands to everybody except me (if it fell into my hands, I would've kept it), and then another 20 years passed before I saw a truly nice copy again. It's a 12¢er that--in high grade--is easily as difficult to score as most of the 10¢ DCs from the 5-10 years previous. Just a bear to find by my personal experience. There are still a few 12¢ war books I need in grade (no, I'm not announcing which ones they are), but that GIC 91 is--in my opinion--one of the toughest.

13 hours ago, CycloneComics said:

I am amazed that this thread is still going strong....What started out with the question  "Does anyone know who was actually answering all those letters in Sgt. Rocks Combat Corner"

Turned into a thread with 10.8k replies and over 1.1m views....

Truely amazing

 

John

John, you're a bad@$$ for asking that question way back in the day. Started a good thing. . .well before I joined up back in 2007. There have been a LOT of good people who've filtered in and out of [and a good chunk of them stayed for the duration of] this thread over these past 14 years. I've made friends with a number of good folks who I've met in this exact thread. Thanks for getting this off the ground, my friend.