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What's new in your Silver Age collection this week
Frisco Larson replied to Silver's topic in Silver Age Comic Books
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What's new in your Silver Age collection this week
Frisco Larson replied to Silver's topic in Silver Age Comic Books
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What's new in your Silver Age collection this week
Frisco Larson replied to Silver's topic in Silver Age Comic Books
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What's new in your Silver Age collection this week
Frisco Larson replied to Silver's topic in Silver Age Comic Books
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What's new in your Silver Age collection this week
Frisco Larson replied to Silver's topic in Silver Age Comic Books
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Marvel Humor titles ... post 'em here!
Frisco Larson replied to Frisco Larson's topic in Silver Age Comic Books
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Marvel Westerns (Silver Age)
Frisco Larson replied to crimson dynamo's topic in Silver Age Comic Books
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Marvel Westerns (Silver Age)
Frisco Larson replied to crimson dynamo's topic in Silver Age Comic Books
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Marvel Westerns (Silver Age)
Frisco Larson replied to crimson dynamo's topic in Silver Age Comic Books
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Marvel Westerns (Silver Age)
Frisco Larson replied to crimson dynamo's topic in Silver Age Comic Books
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Strange Tales Collecting Thread !
Frisco Larson replied to Frederic9494's topic in Silver Age Comic Books
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The Thrifty Grocer Collection
Frisco Larson replied to Frisco Larson's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
All of these pics were taken with the comics laying on a bone white magazine sized backing board, just so you know how white we're looking at here. Sub-Mariner #33 -
The Thrifty Grocer Collection
Frisco Larson replied to Frisco Larson's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
Ok, like I mentioned earlier, I photographed the first two books in artificial light, kind of quickly. Well, I just took pics of a few others in a more natural light type setting and these pics much more accurately show the page quality of this collection. I will likely redo the first two examples. Captain America #78 -
The Thrifty Grocer Collection
Frisco Larson replied to Frisco Larson's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
Thanks so much Peter! Yeah, as I was writing out the story, it occurred to me to keep the reveal of the coverless nature for the end, figuring if I said so up front, most people may just stop reading right there. And that would be a shame, as it's always struck me as a neat, working man's pedigree type of story. Kind of funny too, in that it has the qualifications of being a pedigree in most regards (yes, except the covers being gone) as they came from the exact same source, they were meticulously stored away and preserved and as I understand it, the collection was hefty in size. You're very likely spot on in that if these comics didn't have their covers neatly removed and were stored away in the same manner, they'd have very likely grabbed MAJOR LEAGUE attention when they finally made their way to market! Almost CERTAINLY a pedigree if there were other key books included! -
The Thrifty Grocer Collection
Frisco Larson replied to Frisco Larson's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
You bring up an interesting point and a thought that has swirled around in my head over the years! There were a LOT of other books from what I was told, and my friend (a DC man) only really grabbed DCs and the Superhero Atlas books, but he said there was a mix, essentially spread across all relevant publishers of that time period. So, my passing thought over the years is, "Where are all of those other comics???" Certainly, the guy knew enough to offer them to other people beyond my friend!!! There aren't any identifying markings on the comics, just that they are flat, clean copies with very nice page quality. If someone say 'purchased a batch' with uniformly consistent characteristics as this collection, I'd tend to believe that they came from the same original source. -
The Thrifty Grocer Collection
Frisco Larson replied to Frisco Larson's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
Thanks RJ! You've seen 'em up close (and perhaps will again very soon) and you know how fresh they are! Oh, btw, I got tired of calling them the "white page coverless books!" -
The Thrifty Grocer Collection
Frisco Larson replied to Frisco Larson's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
Thanks @comicjack I really appreciate that! I just shot a few pics of other issues, as I felt the lighting of the first few I shot didn't show the page quality very accurately. -
The Thrifty Grocer Collection
Frisco Larson replied to Frisco Larson's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
Thanks! In hindsight, I wish I had bought some of the other titles, as I recall seeing a few Batman issues from the same period and those were relatively inexpensive. These Atlas issues were quite a bit more. -