MattTheDuck

There's a rumor going around that, having hit a dead end in his art career in his mid-20s, Andy Warhol cut out and sent in the coupon from this very book, and that was the turning point that led his to becoming one of the most influential American artists of the 20th Century. That true?

There are more posts in the complaint thread than in any of the poll threads. 😜

It's awesome regardless. Once I sold my "old" set of clubs to the boyfriend of one of my spouse's work colleagues. He had a hole-in-one during his first round playing with them on a local executive course. I've never had one with any set of clubs. My mother had two in her late 70s.

A par 3 is the #1 handicap hole?

Way to go, bro!

BA773 vs Fine09

Probably more like an "ouch!"

Found it

It's real, and it's spectacular.

I was napping

If she's interested in emigrating to the United States, please let me know.

Here's my "advice" for what it's worth. The first question to ask yourself is why you want to have books slabbed. Is it to sell them? Is it to preserve them? Is it for display purposes? The second question is one you've already touched on - where do you think these books would grade? I would look at the big keys you have - FF #49 & #50, ASM #121 and #129 and so on - first. Those will be the ones most worthy of slabbing. I think what you'll find is that at least some of these books may not provide a really huge price bump if you're intending to sell them. The third question is: how much money do you have to spend on this project? Slabbing isn't cheap and you may want to focus on the key books for that reason as well. The fourth question - and you've already touched on this as well - is how patient a person are you? You won't have any real problem with the books being out of your hands if you already haven't seen them for a quarter of a century without really noticing. But it's different when you've sent them off and paid for the privilege of having them in someone else's hands. Yes - it will take months, at least, for your books to be returned to you. There's some indication turnaround times have improved a bit, but that might depend on the tier they're sent in under. If it will freak you out if it does take a year, it might not be worth it. Good luck! Be sure to let us know what decisions you make.

It could just be the pictures, but the colors on the more expensive 6.5 seem a lot brighter to me. This is most pronounced in the yellow at the top and the Hulk in the bottom right. As you know, I'm always willing to spend more of your money than you are, but if it were me, I'd take the more expensive copy as it presents quite a bit better in my view.

I wonder if they hired a new crew just for pulps.

In most instances, two weeks seems like plenty to evaluate slabs and decide whether they need to be returned. Most sellers here don't offer that much time. If you were not around to receive and inspect the work, the "clock" ought to start when you returned and could. If you haven't already, contact Customer Service and explain the situation. Perhaps a full or partial refund could be offered.

You have collected some of the most amazing pieces. Every time you have a sales thread it just blows my mind.

I just never had a shot at any books like that, sad to say, but I was way too passive. The most I paid during my "first phase" of collecting was $30 for a really nice ASM #94 and $25 for a JIM #113 that was marked as "Fine." Almost every other back issue I bought from 1973-1978 was $1.00 or less, but again, the quality of most of these books is not particularly high. It was not until 1992 that I breached the three-digit barrier when I had another brief burst of collecting and picked up a very, very nice ASM #19 for $100 when, on a whim while on a work trip, I stopped at an LCS in the southern part of the State.

Might have been 1975 - all I know is I had to have my mom drive me over to look at it so it had to be before 1976. I had previously told the LCS owner that I was looking for some older Silver Age books like that one but by that time I had all the chewed-up, low grade books I needed (all of which, of course, I still have). Man, was I disappointed. What I wanted was reasonably nice, complete books, but after I turned the #10 down, he never called me again although I continued shopping there for a few more years.

I'd be in today, but I declined a $10 remaindered copy of this book in 1974. Very nice books, everyone!

I'm kicking myself for not buying another 25 copies when I got this one off the rack. If only we could see the future, eh? It's easy to have more regrets than joy from this hobby if you focus on lost financial opportunity.

Probably showing on Syfy because whoever schedules their shows to rent thought more people would watch it than the other choices they had.

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