This Week in Your Bronze Age Collection!! 35 35

[comicnoir]

On 11/13/2023 at 11:40 PM, Ricksneatstuff said:

A recent pickup I really like

 

Congrats. I have a 9.6 of this.

[batmiesta]

On 11/14/2023 at 4:40 AM, Ricksneatstuff said:

A recent pickup I really like

 

[batmiesta]

What's the crack with the Greenwich collection? 

[comic_memories]

[Spider-Variant]

On 11/14/2023 at 3:27 PM, comic_memories said:

Two months before the publication of Ghost Rider #2, Beware the Claws of the Cat #5 would have hit the stands, had it not been cancelled.  Here is Gil Kane's preliminary cover for that book.  I see a lot of similarities between the two covers.  Perhaps Gil, knowing about the cancellation, repurposed his design for Ghost Rider #2.

 

[BrightSide77]

On 11/12/2023 at 4:23 PM, greggy said:

Who's the bindery? I've recently run into a few Essentials in hard cover.

[N e r V]

A couple of high grade raws. First is a really cool DC horror cover that I really, really like with all the bells and whistles of a creepy haunted house, full moon, skeleton and even young kids and a dog for good measure.

 

Next up is a White Mountain pedigree copy with a really early Jim Starlin cover.

Edited November 16, 2023 by N e r V

[ADAMANTIUM]

Upgrade froma 5.5

[Ricksneatstuff]

Completed this run recently. 
I would like to upgrade the #1

[Sal]

I realize this is fringe, but you'll just have to deal with it. Unused 3rd ed. set from 1979, including box (which regrettably has some damage). Dice are still in their original molded plastic holder

[BrightSide77]

Large reader, Limited Edition with HOM reprints and Sergio Aragones vignettes throughout!

 

[EMazman]

On 10/23/2023 at 8:46 PM, Sweet Lou 14 said:

If you're getting them graded, let us know how they come back.  The upper left corners on each of these books look worrisome to me.

Cleaning/Pressing done off to CGC.

[N e r V]

Giant Millie is highest graded with white pages.

 

[Mr.Fantastic]

First, let me state that I'm not a price variant collector.  But, the story behind this recent purchase goes like this.......

Eight year old me was standing at the spinner rack in my local convenience store. Among my choices were this book, which instantly popped out at me due to the cover, and the fact that it was ¢35 while most others were still ¢30.  I spent the extra nickel and opted for this one, cause I already had the #1 issue. Took it home, read it, and laid it on top of a magazine rack where it stayed for years.(for some reason I always kept this book on top)  It stayed there until I was about 17 years old, when I traded to a friend of mine who came over and looked through my books. It was a book that I saw every time I walked into my room as a kid for almost ten years.  So, when I saw it this week in this condition, I brought it "home".

[ADAMANTIUM]

On 11/21/2023 at 5:20 PM, Mr.Fantastic said:

First, let me state that I'm not a price variant collector.  But, the story behind this recent purchase goes like this.......

Eight year old me was standing at the spinner rack in my local convenience store. Among my choices were this book, which instantly popped out at me due to the cover, and the fact that it was ¢35 while most others were still ¢30.  I spent the extra nickel and opted for this one, cause I already had the #1 issue. Took it home, read it, and laid it on top of a magazine rack where it stayed for years.(for some reason I always kept this book on top)  It stayed there until I was about 17 years old, when I traded to a friend of mine who came over and looked through my books. It was a book that I saw every time I walked into my room as a kid for almost ten years.  So, when I saw it this week in this condition, I brought it "home".

That's FANTASTIC!

 

Makes A nice detail for sure.

 

Edited November 21, 2023 by ADAMANTIUM

[greggy]

On 11/16/2023 at 8:06 AM, BrightSide77 said:

Who's the bindery? I've recently run into a few Essentials in hard cover.

Have no clue.  These were probably done in the 70s

[BrightSide77]

On 11/21/2023 at 5:46 PM, greggy said:

Have no clue.  These were probably done in the 70s

These are by Guardian Bindery, here's another example with Tale of the Zombie.  Interesting way to preserve and read.

[LudaToke]

Can't go wrong with white pages and Neal Adams:

Edited November 22, 2023 by LudaToke

[BuscemasAvengers]

Just in

[dover]

Some other artists occasionally creep into the collection.