Frisco Larson

Firehair to Firehair

Wow, that is just awful!!! Well, I'll either have to find the right place or go about it in a completely different manner. Thanks for the heads up on that though!!!

Oooooo, I like the sound of a previously unknown to me collection!!! Do you have a picture of the printed number code thingy by chance? I'd love to see it!!!

Outstanding copy of a tough book bc!!!

A cheapie but a keepie.

I still need one of these, but I doubt I'll ever find one as nice as this pedigree copy Billy!!! @Straw-Man It's a beaut!!!!

Perfect pair right there!

LOVE this!!! In fact, when I eventually croak, my plan is to NOT leave my comics and artwork to anyone ... but rather to leave them to EVERYONE!!! I've been thinking that leaving them to the right museum might be the best way to do my part for the hobby.

If you can manage mausoleum money, we can all stop by to say "hi" and thumb up your comics!

Wow Lou, just wow!!!

Yeah, I'D say that's a pretty strong price!!!

Rail car to train cars.

Shocked Everett cover gal to merely startled Everett cover gal.

Cat, thanks for taking the time to respond. I think I have a somewhat better understanding of where you're coming from now. We all have our idiosyncrasies and individual insights as to why we believe what we believe, regardless of whether or not those perceptions are based on provable facts or suppositions based on our observations. We all have different experiences and process the knowledge gleaned from them thru our own filters. This creates a very broad spectrum of individuals with a myriad of different views of the same picture. Like anywhere else in society, we tend to gravitate toward those that are like minded and not so much ones that we just don't understand. I actually think that it's pretty amazing that for the MOST part, people get along really well on here, with only the occasional dust up.

We do indeed occupy common ground RM! I remember bumping into a buddy (Mark Haspel) at Chicago Comic Con in 2000 and him telling me all about CGC and encapsulation and what it would do for the hobby. I also remember telling him (as did my buddy Russ who was with me) that it'd never work, that it's not a baseball card and that people want to look inside their comics to read them and enjoy the artwork. Boy have Russ and I admitted how wrong we were. We completely bet the wrong horse on the idea that collectors would fiercely reject the notion of relinquishing their option to leaf thru their comics at their leisure. That point was really at the heart of my opinion upon being told of the venture. I hadn't thought far enough down the line to see that certification would have its advantages too, for at that time, all I could see was not being able to look thru my comics anymore. Certification has changed some of my collecting methods. I now have high grade certified copies and reader copies of the same issues. I will always have raw comics, always! I also think it's sad when collectors apologize for or even marginalize the comics they post here. It's not a competition. Not everyone has the same life, the same resources, etc. Also, I know friends that have had some of their prized and very expensive comics for many DECADES and if they were to have to buy them now, they'd likely never be able to afford their collections due to the percentage increases over the last number of years. I'm really happy that so many people love comics and make efforts to share them here! We're all just temporary owners of them anyway!

And finally, a Marvel Mystery that I bought certified and cracked and stacked. Why the crack and the stack? It was a certified 4.0 with moderate professional restoration (color touch, a few pieces added, tear seals and reinforced) which looked closer to slight work to me and upon cracking it out, I was happy I did, as the work seems more minimal than the label indicated. Now to be sure, if I owned a census topping 9.9 Pennsyltucky Pedigree copy with SNOW WHITE pages , I'd never crack it out! That'd be a museum piece (tough pedigree too ) and kinda needs to be preserved for future generations. My lil 4.0 with some work will fill the spot for now.

This Cap came from "The Trunk Collection" in the mid 90s and the spine of the covers were split. I had Matt seal the spine split and now it's a sweet copy to handle! No need to be afraid of some conservation kiddies, it was all done by a professional, in a professional environment, using professional materials. Of course, the side benefit to keeping it raw is that I get to thumb it up and take pics to share! Some cool splash pages and a few neato house ads!

A few raw super-hero Timely issues in the boxes. This one has the hero on the inside!

There is a lot of benefit to the attitude presented in your post RM! SO many of the Golden Age comics we see posted have incredible artwork on the inside! I love thumbing thru a big fat Golden Age book, taking in a whiff of that vintage paper as I enjoy looking at the artwork, checking out some cool house ads and occasionally even reading a well written story! However, in this new age of certified collecting, a lot of people I've seen post and some I've met at shows are openly afraid to handle raw comics ... afraid that they might damage them, and many seem to have absolutely no idea how to accurately grade a comic or check it for restoration, SO, they steer clear of them altogether. Another factor is that you were describing your Timely copies as beaters (I suspect a little self-deprecation there), and you can easily see that a LOT of the comics being posted here are very high-grade and therefore, at quite the financial risk if they were to be damaged while thumbing them up. It seems that certification has bred a new way to collect, and many choose that path. I'm crazy ... I have both certified and raw books ... high grade, mid-grade, low grade & no grade are all to be found in my crazy collection. That's perhaps the best part of collecting comics; there's so many ways to do it and all of them are important to maintaining a well-rounded hobby! Keep those beaters coming ... I love to see them!!!

Amazing Mystery Funnies Everett to Amazing-Man Everett.

Yup, original editions!

Also have this gorgeous Baker covered beauty!

I just got this in last week! My only bound volume.

Everett grave cover to Everett grave cover.