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Nice books as usual, Andrew

Goodness no I am not a HA employee and as I said I was in no way trying to defend HA, CGC, or any consignor. I have never consigned to HA. I am retired state employee and not even from Texas I was just curious as I said and evidently read too much into your post.

I am not sure if I posted this before and I know it is not a cover but it is one of my splashes by Cole

Tres bien

Being post-code I would assume would make it less desirable than a pre-code book in most cases. As for AJax, it was part of Farrell Publications which had several imprints including Ajax and Ajax-Farrell.

Not trying to be critical with my question but are you saying HA was at fault for not suggesting the CGC grade did not meet your expectation of a 9.0 or that you did not agree with CGC's 9.0 grade when you received the book or that HA and CGC are in some clandestine partnership to sell overgraded slabs? Or something else? Was the book a consignment perhaps from a private party? Again just trying to understand and apologies for my apparent denseness and am not trying to defend HA, CGC, consignor, etc. - it just got curiosity piqued.

That is nice and great display. WW had to be different and be left leg lifter. Must be an Amazonian thing.

Yep, that was the point of my post - I hate leaving her with the headache and that is why I am trying as my health allows to catalog it and even sell off some to leave as much liquid inheritance as possible. Thanks for the support and thoughts.

Neat gesture and very nice, sir.

That Worzel moonlighted as a time traveling Gallifreyan in a blue police box. Yeah my money's on Worzel Gummidge too. (Hats to Jon Pertwee, the second greatest Dr. Who)

I think that is neatstuff's MO with many of their listings and speculators jump in thinking they can parse those out and flip. Of course, you would be trusting their assessment of grade, value, and their hype which generally is not accurate.

I have a couple of sets of Captain George's Whizbang. Neat tabloid fanzine and part of the legacy. The first GA book I bought was from a store called Down Memory Lane in the 70s - I know not the same name as George's as his was Memory Lane and my store was in Oklahoma City.

This brought a tear to my eye. The passion, the tenderness, the poignancy. Bravo, Richard Evans, bravo.

Really cool - thanks for sharing.

Cool book and I like the date stamp, it is my kiddo's birthday, albeit 44 years too early And great cover, a nod/swipe to Bradbury's "Illustrated Man" which was published a year earlier?

That is a name from the past. If I remember correctly, did he not also perform very poor presses - the comics looked like they had been presses in a "waffle iron." And he was banned from here too, correct or self-imposed not to post here again? If mistaken, apologies.

Thanks. I assume it is pretty close to or at the BIN he had listed. I do understand not wanting to disclose a reserve. I personally never even bother with reserve auctions but that is just me. Unless it explodes in the last few hours, I doubt it will get to whatever is set. I am not DC collector so I have no idea what the value and since he doesn't assign a grade, you would think those bidding may have asked to look at the collection. Assume they are local or nearby as it is local pick-up only but I guess someone may drive in or fly in to have them shipped themselves. I still just cannot imagine bidding at that level without prior inspection from an unknown seller with this being their only comic listing in the current for sale items. Still be interesting to see where it ends up.

I actually have been thinking about this for a bit as I have had and am having some somewhat severe health issues. At this point, I don't have a life sentence but it has made me more reflective and outside of my institutional assets, I have my collection. With over 3000 slabbed books and roughly 25000 raw books, a few pieces of OA plus an entire climate controlled storage of vintage toys, games, figures, and other collectibles, I worry about the headache I will be leaving. I only have one daughter and am divorced with no obligation to my ex as we settled amicably and opted to keep our own retirements and not splitting assets or debt as I took the responsibility to pay for our daughter's education, health/dental insurance, and car insurance. To be honest, since my daughter had some major surgery after the divorce and the need to continue meds, and with the constant hikes in tuition and insurance, I came out on the downside but no headaches on the back-end so I am not complaining. My ex and I did split the house proceeds and that was it. So with that said, what I would love to do is to inventory all of my collection. The easiest thing for my daughter to dispose of if she chooses would be the slabs as there is no grading needed and I have told her if nothing else, put them on Ebay for $1 and let the market decide the value. I did also share with her how to use GPA and research HA archives and some other resources. The raws and other collectibles are so mush more problematic. Outside of an inventory, I am not sure how I can help her other than share some resources of values but I suspect the best may for her to hire appraisers and/consign many of the items. Sort of tongue in cheek, I told her she can call American Pickers so she can get on TV My pain is that in a year she graduates and may or may not go after a graduate degree but either way, she will really be starting her life and I really hate leaving her with this big chore. My parents can help her some but they are no experts and obviously are not young themselves. So I am slowly trying as my energy and health allows to catalog as much as I can. The best advice I can give everyone is don't turn 50, I went downhill when I hit that mark 3 years ago Before that I never got sick and am an exercise fanatic. I had been running and biking for over 30 years and went 15 years straight without missing a day for over 3 hours a day. I never smoked or drank alcohol - just lucky that these health issues have hit me (luck can be good or bad, I guess).

That was a good pick-up, sir. I have a pretty nice copy and I still thought about grabbing it.

Do you know what the reserve is? Just curious if the seller put it at at his previous BIN?

Yeah I have been tracking it. Wonder if the reserve is or near his previous BIN. No way I would pay that much for raw books with personal inspection. But then again, I don't have enough swag to play anyway

I still listen to the OTR Doc Savage shows and remember watching the Ron Ely 1975 flick. I had watched all of his Tarzan series. I would have been 11 when the Doc Savage film came out and for my youngster critique, it got a thumbs up. My favorite line and still remember it - "Mona, you're a brick!" And the Bama covers are awesome. I would buy those from my Scholastic book order form just for the covers.

Great stuff, Corey! Congrats!

Very cool, Andrew!