drewincanada

Woo hoo! Just sealed the deal for my very first pedigree!

Nice Spirit! Dang!! I missed that one. Congratulations!

Great story, and a lesson for me to learn: patience! I've quite new to collecting - at least this time around. (I was a big collector in the late sixties and through the seventies, but sold everything around 79.) All of my purchases have been 'net based so far. I've gone through the "wishful thinking" Ebay phase: hoping those raw books are as nice in hand has they are in the seller's description. Lately the majority of my purchases have been via Heritage (where I've landed some good deals) or Comiclink auctions, or if it's on Ebay I've been mainly sticking to slabbed books. I also bought a set of raw books through a dealer on comicspriceguide.com that were optimistically graded, but not too far off, and it was a good deal. But instead of getting good deals on raw 7.5-8.5 books, I'd rather wait and get true 9.2 or higher books, like you. I have to slow down, talk to more boarders, get out to cons in Toronto (I missed Paradise last month), and try the LCSs. We've got some good ones here in TO. I'm going to check out Pendragon (?) on Saturday. They're very close to me. (They advertising in Overstreet.)

BTW, Nick - those raw books are unbelievable! I'd kill for a #52 like that. It's one of my favorite covers - great composition and I love that vibrant yellow - and yours is virtually flawless. Where do you find raw books like these???

Yeah, the biggest problem is with the upper staple. It looks like the front cover has been tugged at some point and the upper arm of the top staple can caused a tear in the cover (just to the left of the upper staple arm). There are a number of spine stress lines, and there's a bit of color that's rubbed off of the top right corner. Otherwise, it presents nicely.

Four more arrived today. One small step closer to my 1-100 goal! Sorry about the scan for #20. It's the seller's scan; I haven't had time to do my own yet.

I posted my latest Avengers snags yesterday in the "This week in my collection" thread. Nothing quite as early and sweet as a 9.4 #11, but still nice...

That was such a brilliant find, Mac Man. Congrats! Where do you live? #4 is #1 on my list right now, but even a 6.5 goes for $600. A copy just sold on Ebay from a selling with 15 feedback, a tiny scan, and no detail in the description about the condition (other than "extra extra sharp"). I asked him for high res scans, but didn't hear back from him, so I stayed away from it. It went for over $1200 today, which is the OSG price for an 8.0... I don't know how anyone can take a $1200 flyer on a book like that.

And one more!

A few of my nicer recent acquisitions. The first one just arrived today. The other two arrived very recently...

OK - here's a newbie-ish question: what's the LCS?

It was a great ish. I know 'cause they said so.

And Wally Wood inks, to boot.

My past eight days:

I've got the complete Warren/Kitchen run, plus the over-sized Kitchen magazines. Also have the two-issue Kitchen mini-series from 1973, and a few other one-off things. My prize Eisner is the signed, limited first edition hard cover of A Contract with God. It was a run of 1,500 by Baronet (I think). LOVE Eisner!!!!

Love the JIM. Nice Kirby cover. I bought an original Spirit section many years ago at a Con, and for the life of me I now have no idea where I stored it. I do know I still have it somewhere, though! .

Here's the other one I got yesterday. The scan makes the back look a little dirty, but it's really as white as I've ever seen, and so are the interior pages.

Received these yesterday. Curious to hear what everyone thinks CGC would grade these at. There's damage to the cover and the center spread around the top staple on #2, I think caused by rust. See the closeup. The staple has popped through the center spread, but the spread is still securely attached by the bottom staple and the book is still very tight. There's also some darkening (sun shadow?) on the back cover down the spine side. Otherwise, it's a nice book. Pages are OW.

Here are my slabbed Avengers. Still waiting for a few of these to arrive, and when they do I'll scan and post 'em: #3 - CGC 6.0 #7 - CGC 7.0 #14 - CGC 9.2 #20 - CGC 9.2 #40 - CGC 9.2 #47 - CGC 9.8 !!! #48 - CGC 9.4 #54 - CGC 9.2 #55 - CGC 9.2 #100 - CGC 9.2 I have some others that I think are worth slabbing. I'll submit them this summer, but here's where I think they'll end up: #2 - I think a 9.0 #22 - 9.0 #52 - I think 9.4 or 9.6 #53 - 9.4 #57 - 9.4 #66 - 9.4 #69 - 9.2 or 9.4 #74 - 9.4 #76 - 9.2 or 9.4 #98 - 9.2 I'll try to do scans of these soon...