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Where do you excel?

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goldust40

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There must be a fair few out there who would have every HOM, HOS, Phantom Stranger, Swamp Thing, Witching Hour etc. in 9.2 or better, as they're generally not impossible to obtain. So I'll say no.

 

 

I disagree Andy.

First of all, a complete run of House Of Mystery is incredibly difficult to assemble, Certain numbers like 17, 27, 37, and 50 are seriously scarce. (House Of Secrets is far easier.)

Then if you could assemble a complete run, I'd venture to say that a run of 9.2s of the whole set would be virtually impossible.

 

Sorry Ian, I'm afraid I was only referring to the Bronze Age mystery titles (i.e House Of Mystery 174 onwards, House Of Secrets 81 onwards, Witching Hour 1 on, etc.) I'm not really concentrating on the earlier stuff at present.

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Ian_Levine

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Sorry Ian, I'm afraid I was only referring to the Bronze Age mystery titles (i.e House Of Mystery 174 onwards, House Of Secrets 81 onwards, Witching Hour 1 on, etc.) I'm not really concentrating on the earlier stuff at present.

 

Yeah but when you said every House Of Mystery, it did look like you meant the lot. Especially considering that 174 was only around the half way point.

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goldust40

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Sorry Ian, I'm afraid I was only referring to the Bronze Age mystery titles (i.e House Of Mystery 174 onwards, House Of Secrets 81 onwards, Witching Hour 1 on, etc.) I'm not really concentrating on the earlier stuff at present.

 

Yeah but when you said every House Of Mystery, it did look like you meant the lot. Especially considering that 174 was only around the half way point.

 

 

Issue 174 of HOM was when it switched to the mystery format that characterized its' Bronze Age run. The same for HOS 81.

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CentaurMan

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There must be a fair few out there who would have every HOM, HOS, Phantom Stranger, Swamp Thing, Witching Hour etc. in 9.2 or better, as they're generally not impossible to obtain. So I'll say no.

 

 

I disagree Andy.

First of all, a complete run of House Of Mystery is incredibly difficult to assemble, Certain numbers like 17, 27, 37, and 50 are seriously scarce. (House Of Secrets is far easier.)

Then if you could assemble a complete run, I'd venture to say that a run of 9.2s of the whole set would be virtually impossible.

 

See, now THAT's why Ian is such an asset to these boards, and why it's driving me crazy to see short-sighted posters attempt to drive him away from this forum. Sure, he's probably got a personality disorder, but I'd argue that a ton of hardcore collectors have similar (if lesser) problems. Who else here knew that those issues of HoM are so hard to find?

 

The forum is richer for having people like Ian on it. Lay off him. And Ian, quit responding to obvious bait from 1-post shills, because you're only exacerbating the problem by allowing the trolls to get your goat.

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DiceX

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I was wondering:

 

1. What you excel in eg. Genre, title, publisher etc. ?

 

2. Do you think you are one of the biggest collectors in that area?

 

Danny

 

 

Low grade, raw Golden Age & Silver Age

 

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Ian_Levine

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And Ian, quit responding to obvious bait from 1-post shills, because you're only exacerbating the problem by allowing the trolls to get your goat.

 

You're 100% right, CentaurMan, and I already regret replying to him. But he came on here and with his first posting dredged up some sarcastic skit about me that I'd mercifully never had to see before, and I still wish I hadn't seen it, and I just found it too difficult not to respond. That's my problem - I wear my heart on my sleeve. And sometimes speak first and think later.

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JohnBull

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2b. Once had 818 total copies of Iron Man and Sub-Mariner # 1 of which 55 were CGC'd. I have sold some in 2003 and under 800 left now.

 

Aw, c'mon guys. Am I really the only person who thinks this is strange ?

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Illiterati-migration

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2b. Once had 818 total copies of Iron Man and Sub-Mariner # 1 of which 55 were CGC'd. I have sold some in 2003 and under 800 left now.

 

Aw, c'mon guys. Am I really the only person who thinks this is strange ?

 

Why? How many copies do you have?

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Darthdiesel

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2b. Once had 818 total copies of Iron Man and Sub-Mariner # 1 of which 55 were CGC'd. I have sold some in 2003 and under 800 left now.

 

Aw, c'mon guys. Am I really the only person who thinks this is strange ?

 

Nope - someone has to have the majority of the copies from "that" warehouse find...why not Cal?

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Darthdiesel

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I was wondering:

 

1. What you excel in eg. Genre, title, publisher etc. ?

 

2. Do you think you are one of the biggest collectors in that area?

 

Danny

 

 

Low grade, raw Golden Age & Silver Age

 

 

knowing BRONZEbruce, this was the comment I found strange insane.gif

 

Why he deflects us from his true collecting pride and passion (porn comics), one can only ponder confused-smiley-013.gif ...

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FlyingDonut

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1. 30 cent Marvel price variants, ECs and Bronze Age FFs in 9.8

 

2a. Yes. Only two people in the world have a known set of 30 cent variants, and I was first.

2b. Many people have more ECs than I do, but I'm getting there.

2c. I probably have more than anybody else, but other people have earlier ones than I do.

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