Frisco Larson

I love single pages too!!! I don't have many, but here are a couple that tie-in with your posting.

Fantastic call to make!!!

Lay out the details brother and I'm with you!!! Kirby-palooza!!!

Thank you so much! I had been thinking about a way to get something going to generate more frequent cover postings and that's what I came up with. This thread is one of my very favorites and I think we've got such a great community of collectors here! I hate to see this thread sink off the first page. I'll think about it and see if I can cook up another party theme.

Thanks pal. That piece off the top corner saved me quite a bit of cash, as you can only grade it 'so' high with a piece that size off.

BIG favorite of mine, but I still need to replace my old #62 which I sold back in the 90s to go after Golden Age. I semi-recently snagged this one though!

I knew you guys could fill in the ones I only had one copy of!!!

Oh how well you know him!!! Btw, "Benjy's extra rocky" sounds suspiciously like an ice cream flavor!!!

You're correct, many collectors DO overreact to restoration and I've been around long enough to remember a time that greatly contributed to that reaction. You see, "most" of the prevailing hatred toward restoration was born out of collectors unknowingly buying books with undisclosed restoration and finding out at a later point in time that their book had 'work' on it and was therefore worth substantially less than they thought it was. That left them feeling 'ripped off' by the dealer or collector they purchased it from, so of course, they blamed the seller as well as the comic book, not themselves for failing to spot the restoration. Their future attitude: Restoration BAD!!! Well, not really. If disclosed in advance, a restored comic is a fantastic way to obtain a copy of a book that you might not otherwise be able to afford in an unrestored state. So, knowledge is power and lack of it is sour ... but don't blame the comic book! All a comic book wants is for you to be happy! As far as your Human Torch issue is concerned, some mild conservation might really tighten it up nicely. Tape removal and split and tear sealing done professionally would be considered conservation. Once color touch is introduced it becomes restored though. Matt or Kenny could give you a better idea of what you'd be looking at for cost and such.

It's difficult for me to remember exactly the brittleness of the pages apart from the edges this long afterward, but Matt was able to save it and as I understand it, Matt is responsible for a lot of Kenny's training, so I would guess Matt shared his knowledge on the process. Kenny is amazing, an absolute WIZARD with that leaf casting technique!!! His work in the field is absolutely revolutionary!!! A perfect example of a process that needed to be developed so that rare paper artifacts have a long future for later generations to enjoy and learn from!!! What did you end up doing with that Hangman #3, if you don't mind me asking?

Really great paper and nice looking 1.5 Gino!

Deadly sea creature & beautiful woman in the same scene on a cover to deadly sea creature & a beautiful woman in different scenes on a cover.

In the stack for tonight's reading material!!! I read it as a kid and remember really liking the story at the time, now I can't remember it, so it'll be almost like my first time reading it!

Spectacular copy!!!

Does THIS one count Billy?

Gorilla-Man 2nd appearance.

Gorilla-Man 1st appearance.

Grogg 2nd appearance.

Grogg 1st appearance.

Gargantus 2nd appearance.

LOTS of holes in my PHM collection, so I don't have ALL of the appearances, but I'm really digging when the monsters making more than one appearance!!! Gargantus 1st appearance.

That is so cool!!! I LOVE Godzilla!!! I'm SURE that's why RRO is my favorite PHM monster!!!

THAT is awesome!!!

Deadly sea creature to deadly sea creatures.

Bully attacking defenseless sea creatures with a closed fist to hero having his hands full with a deadly sea creature.