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[Ghost Town]

Great books, MC.

 

I knew these Sgt. Furys would be more difficult to find in high grade than superhero books, but I've been surprised how hard it is to find nice copies. The #105 and a few others are beasts. Anybody have a nice #101 or 103?

Edited August 18, 2011 by Ghost_Town

[MasterChief]

You make it look easy to find Sgt Fury picture frames in great shape and with exceptional cover registration.

 

Great set of books!

 

This is more commonly how I find the high grade issues:

 

 

You make a great point, Bob.

 

Print production quality control lacked big time during the time period, that's for sure.

 

There are countless PF books that illustrate both miswrapped & miscut bindery defects

as depicted in the Comic Book Grading Guide.

 

 

 

 

[MasterChief]

I knew these Sgt. Furys would be more difficult to find in high grade than superhero books, but I've been surprised how hard it is to find nice copies. The #105 and a few others are beasts. Anybody have a nice #101 or 103?

Here's a #103... which I believed to be a great score.

 

The cost was $1.75 and the expectation high.

 

The book-in-hand realization, however, was the letdown as the back cover revealed (minor)

moisture damage.

 

Oh well...

 

 

 

[Ghost Town]

A couple recent arrivals:

 

 

[sufunk]

A couple recent arrivals:

 

 

 

INSANE!!!

[MasterChief]

A couple recent arrivals:

Love this copy! Wish I had seen it first.

[joeypost]

Baltimore was a very good show for picture frame books. Picked up some hard to find horror, western and Romance PF's this weekend.

[Ghost Town]

Just back from CGC:

 

[sufunk]

Thats a damn nice looking 9.2

 

From the cover colors, looks like her Woodstock "trip" is starting to kick in!

[Ken Aldred]

Exactly why I can be perfectly happy with a 9.2 rather than 9.8, when you can find them looking this good!

[sufunk]

Might as well throw it up here also for what it cost me and how much i love it!!!

 

[Ken Aldred]

You know I'm going to like that one!

 

(Adams fan - 3 favourite Marvel issues = Avengers 93, 96 and X-Men 58) (thumbs u

[sufunk]

 

You know I'm going to like that one!

 

(Adams fan - 3 favourite Marvel issues = Avengers 93, 96 and X-Men 58) (thumbs u

 

Me too!

 

I have the 9.8 TC #98 as well. My x-men 58 is an old label 8.5 I got like 10 years ago. Definitely high up on my upgrade list (thumbs u

[Ghost Town]

I think I started trying to assemble a full run of the 25¢ Picture frame books in 2007. I already owned most of the superhero books by then and figured it would be a fun to complete the run in high grade. I liked square bound books and I liked picture frames too. It's just 31 books from the 1970s. How hard could it be?

 

Little did I know just how freaking tough it would be. I started out wanting 9.6s but I quickly realized that it was pretty unrealistic with some of these books. It's almost five years later and today I finally completed the registry set with a 9.2 copy of My Love #14.

 

I'd still love to get them all in 9.4 or better, but that might take another five years. So in the meantime, forgive me while I show them off.

 

(Thanks to JiveTurkeyMofo, joeypost, and Spiderman-on-Tilt for hooking me up with three of the tougher books.)

 

[sufunk]

If I can ever finish my 9.2+ Avengers 1-225 and my 9.0+ BA 1st issue runs, that will probably be my next project. Right now though, the only ones I have are the Avengers 93 and annual 5, the chamber of darkness annual 1 and the marvel triple action 1 in HG. I have 3 of the others raw but that's it

 

That's a SICK run you have there ghost town!!! Congrats

 

I especially love the special marvel edition #4

 

I've always loved that cover and have been trying to find a HG copy for like 20 years. The closest I ever came was a browned out cover 8.0-8.5ish copy that didn't present very well and passed on. Someday, I would kill to get a bright and beautiful copy like yours

[Doc Joe]

 

nuff said

[batmiesta]

That's a SICK run you have there ghost town!!! Congrats

 

I agree.

[MasterChief]

I think I started trying to assemble a full run of the 25¢ Picture frame books in 2007... Little did I know just how freaking tough it would be. I started out wanting 9.6s but I quickly realized that it was pretty unrealistic with some of these books. It's almost five years later and today I finally completed the registry set with a 9.2 copy of My Love #14.

What a remarkable achievement and a job well done!

 

Congratulations on your success, Barton.

 

[Dmac538]

Baltimore was a very good show for picture frame books. Picked up some hard to find horror, western and Romance PF's this weekend.

Ugh now i wished i had gone.

[Ken Aldred]

That's a great collecting achievement.