Annihilus

After 29 years of collecting comics (off and on....mostly on) and a week of admiring the covers in this thread and reading the stories you guys have posted, Annihilus has broken down and bought his first (and second) ever Golden Age books.....both L.B. Cole covers.

The very first exposure to L.B. Cole (and really, comic collecting as a hobby) came with the purchase of the OSPG #11 with the Cole feature in it, so it's only appropriate that the first foray into the Golden Age be Cole. Always thought his covers were the bomb, but for some reason never really even thought about collecting them.

So, hope you'll forgive the lame-o first post here in the Gold Comics forum from a noob that doesn't know a whole lot about this era of comics, but it's kind of exciting to take a plunge into a part of the hobby that I never really paid much attention to for some reason. It's pretty obvious that the upper grade issues will be out of my reach, but if there was ever a person that is now determined to find a bunch of those Blue Bolt Weird Tales (how cool are those?), Mask & Ghostly Weird Stories books in a G/VG grade.....it's this guy. You guys have some great books in your collections....it should be a blast to try to get my own slice of L.B. Cole heaven. I've never really had grails in my comic collecting....until now. Thanks for the inspiration to all of you.

Below are the first two Golden Age books that have found homes in casa Annihilus. The Horrors of Mystery is a bit faded, unfortunately (but hey, $20). The Ghostly Weird Stories has some creases but is still pretty colorful and a cool cover. We've got a smallish convention (FallCon) coming in October in the Twin Cities and it should be fun to root around and see if there are any floating around there.

The books scanned below have already been posted here in this thread, so hope you don't mind me posting these just so I can feel part of the Cole club.

If any of you experts decide you want to part with any lower grade copies any time, you know who to call!

Props to:

Moonlite for the 2 essential trades and to tatterdemalion for a nice box of dollar books from that came in the USPS today.

Thanks guys!

Props to cd4ever for some nice Hulks and a sweet IMSM.

Thanks brah!

Thanks to Bronzed Jbone for immediate payment on some Flash books (and a Nova). Thanks man!

Big ups to DKB for the pile of Daredevils and sundry other stuff. Great packaging and nice books. Thanks bro!

Big ups to arexcrooke who jet-planed my Tomb of Draculas 2,3 & 4 to me in two days. Awesome books - thanks man!

(thumbs u

Many thanks for the immediate payments from

 

Annihilus

 

You guys all rock!

Dang man, got your books already! Great deal for a buck a pop and fast....thanks much!