Aman619

I know - A Richie Rich Trifecta!

lets see, whats next?

another pretty tough book...

heres a book you dont see very often... this ones pretty nice, but no 9.2 either... woof woof!

after much ado and hand wringing (not to mention some subtle neck wringing by certain parties over the past few months.) I took a few snapshots of some comics to show. I hope it was worth the wait..... A group shot first, in no particular order.... still struggling to get the perfect size and res files.. no, they are not all 9.0 or better, but they looked real good when I bought them!

And that`s why I love NM books, because they are indeed freaks of nature for having survived in this kind of condition. It has actually made me very cynical about things like bags and backing boards. The pedigrees show that storage environment (cool and dark) and not moving the books around is vastly more important than any other storage factor, including bags and boards. I agree. However, youre not really downplaying the role of bags and boards.. The HG collections were stored nocely and left untouched for decades perhaps. Buts its really just a question of WHEN the books were disturbed and stored in some kind of bag or mylar after sitting around untouched but not cared for. Whether that was from 1960 til 1970 when it was placed gingerly in a Bell bag. Or if they sat for another 20 years unmoved and made it into a mylar for th efirst time. Its the UNTOUCHED factor that trumps the bags, board, mylar storage that is the secret to the preservation of NM 60s comics (or any comic. That and picking a NM off the racks. signed: Aman the obvious who lately has spotted so few occasions to comment around here lately that he enjoyed writing this long essay of nothingness to clarify a small point of some interest.

they all look like that. Last minute replacement story I think was the reason... Could have been An Elongated Man by the length of the box..

boy. Sometimes people complain about todays computer coloring being too much. But look at that Conan cover - - it just SCREAMS for more tones, especially on Conan himself. By todays standards, it looks HALF finished! The only areas that were rendered with a WINK to realism are the armor!! Everything is solid paintbucket coloring book style

who wants to bet that store gets audited every year for a while???

I dunno. I picked a a bunch in the bodega around the corner. They looked pretty sharp to me.

yeah...around there. 75 to 150 maybe... hard to say..

i dont know, but back then, there WERE probably only 9 known copies. And probably only 90 known collectors!! Comics collecting was in its infancy. BTW - I was in college at the time and remember hearing about the big sale on the news. Sure seemed like a crazy amount of money for a comic book to ME too! I was still getting em for 5 for a dollar.

whatever happenned to Mehdy, and that copy??

hey Kermit. you price up those Spideys yet?

cause its stolen from DC?

What do you mean, "pressing BOTH sides"? You can't press just one side of a piece of paper. pressing is not the correct process or term... but the spray isnt why its shiny is it? Like oaktag and other forms of two-diffferent sided boards, you can heat-treat one side only to flatten the paper's rag content, thats what I was getting at.

what does the manufacturer say is the side to use? and why? perhaps they think we prefer a shiny board next to our comics and shiny-ing up ONE side is cheaper than pressing BOTH sides... so Im guessing both sides may in fact have diferent ph-levels, but it's due to something else than pre-planning.

what I dont understand really is why would one side be any different than the other? Isnt the board manufactured to ONE ph-level in huge vats and left to fry into sheets which are cut down to comic board size?? Like amy other paper product? Does flattenning one side (accounting for the shininess of it) CHANGE its ph?? Or are these boards 'married' with 2 different kinds of paper used? dont make sense...

Adam Strange has herpes?? Does Alanna know??? Sardath will kill him!

I just clicked this thread and it went straight to your post, but sometimes it goes to posts I've already read,....so yeah... comes and goes...

wasnt the first graded comic the 9.6 FF#1??

Every time I come back to this thread to read a new post or two, the screen always starts way back to comic scans Ive seen before. Anybody else have that problem? It seems to happen only in threads like this with tons of cover scans...

u got it in one note, pardnuh!

shame about the bottom edge. It sure looks pretty. Its got a real pretty mouth... ken it squeel lak a pig?? ken it? lemme heah it squeel! soooueeee sooueeee

ho won earth can that book be a 4.5??? I hope we never see one lik ethat in the grading contest!! Or are the back cover creases THAT fugly??