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Your best Comic Book acquisition in 2007?

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I previoulsy posted this Spidey #1....but it was not alone in the "best acquisition of 2007" category.

Combined with this FF #1, these 2 books have set my sails to go to back to the Silver Age in 2008....where it all started for me in 1992. Sometimes things in life come full circle unexpectedly.

Steve

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Calamerica

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I previoulsy posted this Spidey #1....but it was not alone in the "best acquisition of 2007" category.

Combined with this FF #1, these 2 books have set my sails to go to back to the Silver Age in 2008....where it all started for me in 1992. Sometimes things in life come full circle unexpectedly.

Steve

 

sorry - the grades DID show ...

 

CAL

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ciorac

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I previoulsy posted this Spidey #1....but it was not alone in the "best acquisition of 2007" category.

Combined with this FF #1, these 2 books have set my sails to go to back to the Silver Age in 2008....where it all started for me in 1992. Sometimes things in life come full circle unexpectedly.

Steve

 

Very nice Steve. I can relate. I've switched back and forth many times. So, I think I will settle on collecting both.

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Finally bought the Spidey #1 from an 80's collector. He sold me his entire 5000 book and magazine collection except for this one book and this was over 2 years ago. I keep pestering him and he kept telling me that his wife wanted him to keep it. Then I asked him for the 5th time if he was selling, and you know what he says? His wife never remembers telling him that and to go ahead and sell it. Only had to pay Fine guide for it too so it was worth the wait.

 

Below that is a Shiverbones painting. Something everyone here should own.

 

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Finally bought the Spidey #1 from an 80's collector. He sold me his entire 5000 book and magazine collection except for this one book and this was over 2 years ago. I keep pestering him and he kept telling me that his wife wanted him to keep it. Then I asked him for the 5th time if he was selling, and you know what he says? His wife never remembers telling him that and to go ahead and sell it. Only had to pay Fine guide for it too so it was worth the wait.

 

Below that is a Shiverbones painting. Something everyone here should own.

 

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:applause: :applause:

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My winner by a landslide:

 

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:applause: GA Everett horror is da bomb!

 

AllI can think of for myself is my most recent buy that I don't even have yet. It'll be my earliest FF.

 

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I also got a mid-grade Yellow Claw 4 that I love. The cover isn't my favorite, and the stories aren't the best, but it's chock-full of great Kirby art with Severin inks. The art is an unusual amalgam of GA/SA Kirby style.

 

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OK, here's mine......with a decent story behind it. I went to a local comic show in North Jersey on Sunday, the 30th. It's a little hotel show, but has some decent dealers like Gary Platt and such.

 

I get there around 10:30. It's a little cramped, so walking around is a bit like going up and down an airplane aisle. I venture to a corner of the room where I see a familiar "dealer" with a few signs taped up on the wall that all say "50% off everything". Now, this dealer is just a young women selling books for someone she works for(I find out later) and I've seen her before at past shows.

 

So I'm just standing there when her "boss" walks behind their set-up and pulls out a copy of Amazing Fantasy 15... :banana: and opens the book to show another person. My AF15 radar instantly turns on and I lock my eyes onto a great mid-grade copy with awesome spine, nice contrasting cover colors(very important to a book as "dull" as the cover colors are on an AF15), bright and vibrant colors on the interior comic panels, a decently clean back cover, great attached centerfold,.......I could go on and on! :applause:

 

Now the "person" who is looking at the AF15 :cry: seems interested in the book. I have seen him before at some shows....he's a kind of little guy with curly hair that pretty much collects Golden Age comics. Brian(Foolkiller) might know his name, I don't.

 

As the owner of the book and this guy continue to go over it, I start, literally, breathing hard and I feel my blood pressure increase........... I want that book! I always bring my full wallet of comic money to every show for the "just in case comic" that may appear(and this was it after years of bringing my money and only buying what I was looking to get into my collection of books).

 

So, I assume this curly-haired gentleman will buy it, but he doesn't realy seem to high on the book :golfclap:. I ask the owner/dealer "how much..?" and says to me something along these lines..."$XXXX.00, I'm selling it for half off, just like my other books". :o

 

At this point the unknown curly-haired guy says he likes the book, but he doesn't have all the money. :cloud9:

 

I say immediately, "I have the $XXXX.00" and the guy sells me the AF15 . :grin:

 

A little later I run into Foolkiller and tell this story and he "inspects" the book, like a good Oversteet advisor should, and he becomes as "happy" for me as I am for myself.

 

My computer is down, but when I get everything up and running I will post some digital pictures of it, including the interior pages.

 

I guess what kind of kicks me in the "ash" is this.... I bought one of the most important books in our hobby just by being in the right place, and at the right time, surrounded by my fellow collectors, and dealers.

 

 

Somehow the comic gods were smiling on me that day...... :grin:

 

 

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OK, here's mine......with a decent story behind it. I went to a local comic show in North Jersey on Sunday, the 30th. It's a little hotel show, but has some decent dealers like Gary Platt and such.

 

I get there around 10:30. It's a little cramped, so walking around is a bit like going up and down an airplane aisle. I venture to a corner of the room where I see a familiar "dealer" with a few signs taped up on the wall that all say "50% off everything". Now, this dealer is just a young women selling books for someone she works for(I find out later) and I've seen her before at past shows.

 

So I'm just standing there when her "boss" walks behind their set-up and pulls out a copy of Amazing Fantasy 15... :banana: and opens the book to show another person. My AF15 radar instantly turns on and I lock my eyes onto a great mid-grade copy with awesome spine, nice contrasting cover colors(very important to a book as "dull" as the cover colors are on an AF15), bright and vibrant colors on the interior comic panels, a decently clean back cover, great attached centerfold,.......I could go on and on! :applause:

 

Now the "person" who is looking at the AF15 :cry: seems interested in the book. I have seen him before at some shows....he's a kind of little guy with curly hair that pretty much collects Golden Age comics. Brian(Foolkiller) might know his name, I don't.

 

As the owner of the book and this guy continue to go over it, I start, literally, breathing hard and I feel my blood pressure increase........... I want that book! I always bring my full wallet of comic money to every show for the "just in case comic" that may appear(and this was it after years of bringing my money and only buying what I was looking to get into my collection of books).

 

So, I assume this curly-haired gentleman will buy it, but he doesn't realy seem to high on the book :golfclap:. I ask the owner/dealer "how much..?" and says to me something along these lines..."$XXXX.00, I'm selling it for half off, just like my other books". :o

 

At this point the unknown curly-haired guy says he likes the book, but he doesn't have all the money. :cloud9:

 

I say immediately, "I have the $XXXX.00" and the guy sells me the AF15 . :grin:

 

A little later I run into Foolkiller and tell this story and he "inspects" the book, like a good Oversteet advisor should, and he becomes as "happy" for me as I am for myself.

 

My computer is down, but when I get everything up and running I will post some digital pictures of it, including the interior pages.

 

I guess what kind of kicks me in the "ash" is this.... I bought one of the most important books in our hobby just by being in the right place, and at the right time, surrounded by my fellow collectors, and dealers.

 

 

Somehow the comic gods were smiling on me that day...... :grin:

 

You have "AF15 RADAR"?????? :roflmao:

"blood pressure increase.....pulse pounding...?" sounds almost pornographic lol

 

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