Ebel 1911

Here are some of my newest pickups, mail man rang twice yesterday

 

and grabbed this from ebay last night

 

Love the Batman 189! (thumbs u

Fun trio of covers.

 

That's a great cover!

Yeah, especially with the shadow of the noose & yardarm in the background. (thumbs u

Very nice!

Well you do make a good point about that being a way to share love of the hobby without worrying about people damaging your actual copies. Never considered that...

I love the way Snoopy was drawn on those. Haven't seen them before, thanks!

i traded my ff 25 & 26 away this year [along with a few more s.a. books], to get into a g.a. key. managed to get 'em back the last couple weeks.

 

 

Nice that you got them back in your collection. Cool!

Here's a pretty one I just picked up from Harley Yee Rare Comics:

 

 

I liked a lot of the imaginary tales from those days, gave the writers a chance to get pretty creative.

Wow, that number 143 is pretty brutal in concept but sure is a nice looking copy.

Nice! (thumbs u

Curious...why do so many of you display expensive or beloved comic books in the light? I've never understood this. I suppose it's OK with expensive and UV protected holders, but it's so easy to print out a nice color copy of a favorite comic. With a printed copy, who cares what happens to it, and you can still enjoy the cover. Shouldn't comics be stored in a dark, cool, relatively dry, and pest free room?

 

Just wondering... I am a collector who really enjoys Amazing Spider-Man issues in high grade, and I have never displayed a copy in the light. I put them in a Mylar with a full back or send them for CGCing.

 

All the best and Merry Christmas!

V/R,

Mike

 

For me, I go by the motto of collect what you like, and because I like it, I want to see it. While there's certainly some potential of long term value in the items, that's not why I buy them. I buy them because I like them and therefore want to see them. Same philosophy with my other collections, if I'm not looking through my card collection regularly, I get rid of it as it's stopped meaning something to me. I would agree with the other statement above, if I'm just going to display a copy, I might as well just get prints of high end books I don't own that look cool. Just my 2 cents.

 

Exactly how I feel.

My thoughts too. I don't have any direct light on the books in my comic room but I have a room to see what I like. I have more than I can display so I change out much of what's on the walls every so often but a few I always want to see so they're pretty much on permanent display.

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So, after driving home with awful traffic as I pass two malls and countless shopping centers to get home, I finally arrive home to this:

 

 

I haven't ordered anything lately? So then I see the return address - from Jim/Jking3437 - That's cool and SO nice of Jim! I wonder what it is...?

 

This note slides out of the tube:

 

 

Here's what was inside:

 

 

 

U-N-B-E-L-I-E-A-V-A-B-L-E!!! Thank you so much Jim! Absolute great guy!!

 

Merry Christmas to you as well my friend!

 

Your welcome

Really nice move.

My ST collection is relatively small. Only 3 issues at this time:

 

Wow, great bunch of SS books!

Cool thread, didn't know about these.

Nice pick-up. I've gotten a couple Don Winslows over the years because they either had very cool WW2 covers or were a good deal and filled out my Golden Age issues a bit.

Even a Stan Lee story, pretty cool!

Saw "The Good Humor Man" (1950) the other day. It features Jack Carson, a club of Captain Marvel-obsessed kids, and some "ahead of it's time" product placement from Fawcett!

 

Here's what the well-dressed Big Red Cheese fan was wearing back in the day.

 

 

Naturally there's a Captain Marvel comic book too in several scenes - but is this an actual issue, or a prop?

 

 

I couldn't find it either but I thought the comic needed to be posted here.

 

Sure seems weird if it was a prop since it has the logo and the whole Captain Marvel club promotes the character, unless maybe Fawcett didn't want any single issue to be promoted over the others? Pretty cool that George Reeves was in this.

Definitely worth a hot pink DSi.

Wow, 27 sigs is awesome!

Didn't think I was gonna be buying anything for the rest of the year, but I have such poor self control. Wish it didn't have that blue marker on it, but beggars can't be choosers.

Yeah, cool WW2 covers can definitely cause unexpected purchases. Nice issue, haven't seen that before.

Sheldon Mayer swiped from himself, this isn't a reprint, look closely, it's redrawn:

 

 

That's just too funny!

I realize that this will be a stretch but, ASM18 and Rawhide 48 seemed similar to me.

 

 

So much so that I combined them into one cover.

 

 

Wow! Impressive feat!

 

(thumbs u

Yeah, nice work!

My entire CGC collection so far....

 

 

There are too many

 

 

 

 

 

Nice display

 

I know...only room for one more, then I have to stop collecting

Nice that most are Signature Series. (thumbs u

10k in books and art on the wall and a CRT TV in the corner?

 

Hell yeah!

 

 

What else would THIS be hooked up to?

 

 

Peace,

 

Chip

 

That's awesome!