Infinite Marvel Picture Frame books 22 22

[Sweet Lou 14]

On 10/17/2022 at 11:38 AM, ThothAmon said:

Underrated book!  I have wanted to get a slabbed 9.6 WP but I don't recall ever seeing one.

[namisgr]

I used to own one, but not with white pages.  Barton has one in his Registry Set.  They are scarce.

Edited October 18, 2022 by namisgr

[namisgr]

My current copy is from the Suscha News pedigree, and has white page quality but some very minor corner wear that keeps it out of slab-worthy condition.  It's perfect for my unslabbed reader collection:

Edited October 18, 2022 by namisgr

[MasterChief]

Love seeing this book -- especially at this time of year!

Picked this up during the original sale of the Rosa collection on eBay. Not white pages but IIRC, it was the only 9.8 copy graded at the time...

 

[workingdog]

New slots to fill!  I realize they are not any of the heavy hitters but I still enjoy these just the same.

 

[Ghost Town]

On 10/19/2022 at 8:11 AM, workingdog said:

New slots to fill!  I realize they are not any of the heavy hitters but I still enjoy these just the same.

They're plenty heavy. All super sweet and super tough in those grades. I think the #105 is a unicorn.

[djpinkpanther67]

On 10/19/2022 at 11:24 AM, Ghost Town said:

They're plenty heavy. All super sweet and super tough in those grades. I think the #105 is a unicorn.

I’m always on the lookout for a nice 105

[djpinkpanther67]

On 10/19/2022 at 11:11 AM, workingdog said:

New slots to fill!  I realize they are not any of the heavy hitters but I still enjoy these just the same.

 

Nice books, Jim!

[workingdog]

On 10/19/2022 at 7:08 PM, djpinkpanther67 said:

Nice books, Jim!

Thank you, Thomas and Barton!

[namisgr]

Wowza!  The 103 with the black cover and Fury capturing Hitler is an especially great high grade copy.

[MAR1979]

On 10/19/2022 at 11:11 AM, workingdog said:

New slots to fill!  I realize they are not any of the heavy hitters but I still enjoy these just the same.

 

I am sooooooooo jelly

It was actually easier for me to find Fury 1972-1973 OA Cover and Splash art than the books in high grade 

 

Edited October 21, 2022 by MAR1979

[southern cross]

Another one for my Mpf run

[namisgr]

A hand-me-down from Barton, so you know it's going to be a great copy.  An original old label slabbed copy cracked out for my raw picture frame collection, it was interesting to have the chance to see how ~20 years of encapsulation might have affected the book's condition.

Very little, is the answer.  The interior pages were originally graded ow/w, but looked to me very close to white paged books that I've cracked out of recent slabs.  It's at least an ow/w now every day of the week.  The cover whites, gloss, and ink colors were still strong.  For those storing their prized books long-term in CGC slabs it's good news that even after a couple of decades, with storage under the right conditions, there can be no appreciable deterioration of condition.

Only the teensiest bend in the lower right corner of the front cover was perceptible as wear to keep the CGC grade from a 9.8.  It looks fantastic in a mylar and fullback.  Any color differences between the two versions are due to visual effects of the slab and the use of two separate scanning and image processing systems (the picture of the slab is from Barton's sales thread).

    

Edited October 31, 2022 by namisgr

[djpinkpanther67]

PFs acquired in Baltimore 

 

[namisgr]

Recent upgrade.  The copy I bought off the rack was well read and survived only in mid-grade.  While Barry Smith's interior art doesn't have quite the attention to detail that his fabulous work on Conan does, it's still an inventive and great take on the Master of the Mystic Arts.

[ThothAmon]

Been meaning to get this one graded. 
 

[jimjum12]

Always liked this one ... although when it first came out it was tainted with my deep trauma and denial of Kirby leaving Marvel. I finally recovered, though I'm not sure exactly when. GOD BLESS ... 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

@drbanner

[namisgr]

Sweet drama-loaded Kane cover.

It's my current copy above.  I've owned a few others over the years.  The copy I bought off the rack is top left:

        

    

Edited December 13, 2022 by namisgr

[Ghost Town]

On 12/12/2022 at 4:59 PM, namisgr said:

Sweet drama-loaded Kane cover.

My hot take, even though these books are over years old: Gil Kane was, by far, the best cover artist in the PF era. He might have had a few clunkers but the vast majority of are pretty dynamic and memorable.

[Sweet Lou 14]

On 12/13/2022 at 1:23 PM, Ghost Town said:

My hot take, even though these books are over years old: Gil Kane was, by far, the best cover artist in the PF era. He might have had a few clunkers but the vast majority of are pretty dynamic and memorable.

There are a few distinctive features of his art I'm not crazy about that always jump out at me, most notably the frequent "up the nostrils" camera angle ...

... and the strange, unconvincing way he did reptile skin.

There are also a few times where he gave Thor or especially the Hulk weird "updated" hairstyles that didn't look right for them.

I'm not sure if I could call him the "best" when John Buscema is standing right over there!    But Kane was definitely a huge Marvel Bronze Age mainstay and I do agree that his fingerprints are all over that picture frame period.