Sqeggs Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 Ok, here is a revised list: Secrets of True Love Diary Secrets nn All-Picture All-True Love Story 2 Giant Comics Editions 12 Romance Confession Stories Teen-Age Diary Secrets 7 Teen-Age Diary Secrets 9 Record Book of Famous Police Cases Authentic Police Cases 18 I think the last two may not actually be that rare. An APC 18 just sold on eBay last night. Any others? Reasons that some on the list shouldn't be there? How about GCE 13 or 15? Does everyone have either one or both of those books? Except for the Diary Secrets issues (nn, 7 and 9), the others, IMO, there are more than 10 copies but less than 20 that survived. That certainly qualifies as rare, but the later three are ultra rare. I have lower-grade copies of GCE 13 and 15. I'm starting to think that 15 may not be as rare as used to be thought because I've seen several copies (at least three, I think) offered for sale in the past two years. What about Teen-Age Diary Secrets 6 (the one that apparently has a young Marilyn Monroe on the cover)? Rare or have MM fans scooped up most copies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttock Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 Ok, here is a revised list: Secrets of True Love Diary Secrets nn All-Picture All-True Love Story 2 Giant Comics Editions 12 Romance Confession Stories Teen-Age Diary Secrets 7 Teen-Age Diary Secrets 9 Record Book of Famous Police Cases Authentic Police Cases 18 I think the last two may not actually be that rare. An APC 18 just sold on eBay last night. Any others? Reasons that some on the list shouldn't be there? Is APC 18 rare? I think I have one sitting in a "I don't know what do do with these books" pile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlee Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 Ok, here is a revised list: Secrets of True Love Diary Secrets nn All-Picture All-True Love Story 2 Giant Comics Editions 12 Romance Confession Stories Teen-Age Diary Secrets 7 Teen-Age Diary Secrets 9 Record Book of Famous Police Cases Authentic Police Cases 18 I think the last two may not actually be that rare. An APC 18 just sold on eBay last night. Any others? Reasons that some on the list shouldn't be there? The APC 18 is not rare at all in my opinion. I have seen many copies on eBay over the years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RICK STARR Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 (edited) Ok, here is a revised list: Secrets of True Love Diary Secrets nn All-Picture All-True Love Story 2 Giant Comics Editions 12 Romance Confession Stories Teen-Age Diary Secrets 7 Teen-Age Diary Secrets 9 Record Book of Famous Police Cases Authentic Police Cases 18 I think the last two may not actually be that rare. An APC 18 just sold on eBay last night. Any others? Reasons that some on the list shouldn't be there? Is APC 18 rare? I think I have one sitting in a "I don't know what do do with these books" pile. I have two lower grade copies of APC 18. Not even scarce, IMO. Edited February 15, 2014 by RICK STARR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 Ok, here is a revised list: Secrets of True Love Diary Secrets nn All-Picture All-True Love Story 2 Giant Comics Editions 12 Romance Confession Stories Teen-Age Diary Secrets 7 Teen-Age Diary Secrets 9 Record Book of Famous Police Cases Authentic Police Cases 18 I think the last two may not actually be that rare. An APC 18 just sold on eBay last night. Any others? Reasons that some on the list shouldn't be there? Is APC 18 rare? I think I have one sitting in a "I don't know what do do with these books" pile. I have two lower grade copies of APC 18. Not even scarce, IMO. Probably right. It's a Gerber 8. A while back, Michele Nolan had a couple of articles reviewing the Gerber ratings. Iirc, she agreed with this one. Maybe the scarcest issue in that run, but probably still not in the running with these other books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlee Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 Ok, here is a revised list: Secrets of True Love Diary Secrets nn All-Picture All-True Love Story 2 Giant Comics Editions 12 Romance Confession Stories Teen-Age Diary Secrets 7 Teen-Age Diary Secrets 9 Record Book of Famous Police Cases Authentic Police Cases 18 I think the last two may not actually be that rare. An APC 18 just sold on eBay last night. Any others? Reasons that some on the list shouldn't be there? Is APC 18 rare? I think I have one sitting in a "I don't know what do do with these books" pile. I have two lower grade copies of APC 18. Not even scarce, IMO. Probably right. It's a Gerber 8. A while back, Michele Nolan had a couple of articles reviewing the Gerber ratings. Iirc, she agreed with this one. Maybe the scarcest issue in that run, but probably still not in the running with these other books. In completing a run of APC many years ago, there were several issues that seemed scarcer than the 18. I would rate the 18 a Gerber 6 and definitely not a 7 or 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 Where does my former Holy Grail Wartime Romances 17 fit in with scarce issues? It always seemed very difficult to find, but that may be because I wasn't looking in the right places, or everyone was hoarding their copies... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 Where does my former Holy Grail Wartime Romances 17 fit in with scarce issues? It always seemed very difficult to find, but that may be because I wasn't looking in the right places, or everyone was hoarding their copies... Good question. I don't have one and there are only two -- lower grade copies -- on the census. HA has auctioned two copies -- a 2.5 CGC and the raw Crippen copy (twice -- listed as VG/FN in one auction and FN in the other). Those auctions were seven or more years ago. So, it seems to be a tough book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 The Crippen auctions were two different books...look at the scans. There were evidently two Crippen copies... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 Ok, here is a revised list: Secrets of True Love Diary Secrets nn All-Picture All-True Love Story 2 Giant Comics Editions 12 Romance Confession Stories Teen-Age Diary Secrets 7 Teen-Age Diary Secrets 9 Record Book of Famous Police Cases Authentic Police Cases 18 I think the last two may not actually be that rare. An APC 18 just sold on eBay last night. Any others? Reasons that some on the list shouldn't be there? Is APC 18 rare? I think I have one sitting in a "I don't know what do do with these books" pile. I have two lower grade copies of APC 18. Not even scarce, IMO. Probably right. It's a Gerber 8. A while back, Michele Nolan had a couple of articles reviewing the Gerber ratings. Iirc, she agreed with this one. Maybe the scarcest issue in that run, but probably still not in the running with these other books. In completing a run of APC many years ago, there were several issues that seemed scarcer than the 18. I would rate the 18 a Gerber 6 and definitely not a 7 or 8. Do you remember which issues you found toughest to track down? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 (edited) So, counting all WR #17 issues I know of: 2 Crippens 2 graded CGCs 1 owned by an annonymous boardie 1 owned by me 1 owned by 29Dukedog and the high grade Gerber issue That makes 8 known WR #17s...so far. Who else has one? Edited February 15, 2014 by tricolorbrian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29dukedog Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 So, counting all WR #17 issues I know of: 2 Crippens 2 graded CGCs 1 owned by an annonymous boardie 1 owned by me 1 owned by 29Dukedog That makes 7 known WR #17s...so far. Who else has one? I've owned two copies in the past 12 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 (edited) Are either of them mentioned above? (Outside of my mention of you having one?) Edited February 15, 2014 by tricolorbrian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 So, counting all WR #17 issues I know of: 2 Crippens 2 graded CGCs 1 owned by an annonymous boardie 1 owned by me 1 owned by 29Dukedog and the high grade Gerber issue That makes 8 known WR #17s...so far. Who else has one? Ah, so there are two Crippen copies? Looking closely at the HA scans, they do appear to be different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 (edited) Yes, it's kind of hard to miss that crinkly sun shadow on the upper right side of one of them...so here is the revised list: So, counting all WR #17 issues I know of: 2 Crippens 2 graded CGCs 1 owned by an annonymous boardie 1 owned by me 2 owned by 29Dukedog and the high grade Gerber issue That makes 9 known WR #17s...so far. Who else has one? I wonder how many are squirreled away in collections that won't see the light of day for another 20 years? Edited February 15, 2014 by tricolorbrian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29dukedog Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 Are either of them mentioned above? (Outside of my mention of you having one?) I've owned two copies, total. I still own one of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 BB-gun has one shown on pg. 2 of this thread... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 I guess it shows how erratic St. John's distribution was that WR 17 is so scarce, while WR 18 is the easiest issue of the run to find, in my experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29dukedog Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 (edited) I guess it shows how erratic St. John's distribution was that WR 17 is so scarce, while WR 18 is the easiest issue of the run to find, in my experience. I would hasten to add, though, I've seen just as many (few) copies of WR 15 and 16 as I've seen of 17. Definitely, 18 is one of the easiest to find. Edited February 15, 2014 by 29dukedog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 (edited) #4, 6, 10, 12, 14, 15 & 18 were easy for me to find. Most of the odd numbers seem to show up less frequently. Edited February 15, 2014 by tricolorbrian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
