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Where do you excel?

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shiverbones

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hmmm... jack of all trades from 1943-2004, but i do think i excel in horror comics 1950-1954 & 1968-1983. In between '55 & 67 i suck though, WAY too many atlas, DC & ACG post codes with precious little to attract me to them. There are some incredible artists in the early post code atlas books, and of course the big monsters are fun, but i just don't have the knowledge there.

 

In 1968-1983 Horror, On a pure knowledge basis, yes, but not on a single collection since i am always selling books, but keeping info! thumbsup2.gif

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Scrooge

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Great question and awesome variety of answers from the board members.

 

1) I excel at: I am putting together a synchronic collection of all books with publishing date of March 1952. (You might remember a CBM article about a similar collection a couple of years back)

 

And before you ask why?: because

 

a) FC 386 came out about that time with the first Uncle $crooge title book and

b) it turns out to be a great way to learn about the history of this medium / marketplace / trends / publishers / genres / artists from the time period. I am constantly surprised at which books I like to read from my expanding set.

 

Sidenote: my collection goal allowed me not to be surprised by some of the last holes in Ian's collection. There are still books out of the 423 (give or take one or two Romance books with a screwy publishing schedule) (and yes that's 423 ! that month, remember 1952 is the year that saw the most book published) that I have never seen at cons, on eBay and of course are not pictured in Gerber.

 

2) Do I have the best such collection. Who knows? My copies are all mid-grades but then again I might be the only one with this goal wink.gif

 

 

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Great question and awesome variety of answers from the board members.

 

1) I excel at: I am putting together a synchronic collection of all books with publishing date of March 1952. (You might remember a CBM article about a similar collection a couple of years back)

 

And before you ask why?: because

 

a) FC 386 came out about that time with the first Uncle $crooge title book and

b) it turns out to be a great way to learn about the history of this medium / marketplace / trends / publishers / genres / artists from the time period. I am constantly surprised at which books I like to read from my expanding set.

 

Sidenote: my collection goal allowed me not to be surprised by some of the last holes in Ian's collection. There are still books out of the 423 (give or take one or two Romance books with a screwy publishing schedule) (and yes that's 423 ! that month, remember 1952 is the year that saw the most book published) that I have never seen at cons, on eBay and of course are not pictured in Gerber.

 

2) Do I have the best such collection. Who knows? My copies are all mid-grades but then again I might be the only one with this goal wink.gif

 

 

And which books are they? 893scratchchin-thumb.gif

 

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ya know donut, i think subliminally you have convinced me that ron jeremy is on these boards. Thats a creepy power to have! 893whatthe.gif

 

speaking of ron jeremy(hyatt), if you have SHOwtime, his documentry "pornstar" is currently in rotation. blush.gif HIGHLY RECOMMENDED thumbsup2.gif

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Scrooge

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"Re: And which books are they? 893scratchchin-thumb.gif"

 

Well, if you mean the ones I Iiked more than I'd anticipated:

 

Henry: very imaginative dream sequence with play on words

 

Henry Aldrich was truly funny (as are some of the radio show episodes)

 

Would love to know who is the artist on the second story in Love Diary 26

 

Was extremely surprised by the downbeat ending of the last story in Girls' Love Stories

 

I could go on. It has been a rewarding collecting goal.

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garthgantu

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I'm all over the map in my collecting, like many other board members. I'm working on runs of everything from Daredevil (Marvel, #s 1-150, about 90% complete) to Dennis the Menace (#1 - 100, about 50% complete), and also striving to obtain every Barks duck story in its original form (e.g., not reprints). On that last goal, I'd guess that I'm about 65-70% of the way there, but the remaining 30-35% will be the toughest part, as it includes the six or eight earliest Four Colors, March of Comics, Firestone giveaways and so forth.

 

Then there are the titles I'd like to collect in runs, but have been sane enough to avoid while I work on existing challenges: Sugar and Spike, Four Color (does anyone have a complete run of Four Color?), Jughead and others...

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

 

Identifying books from the Salida collection. I've even found some that were slabbed but not marked as being from the pedigree!

 

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

 

Currently, probably so. I'm Hoovering up every one I come across. cool.gif

 

Alan

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CGCMINT

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1. Golden & Silver Age Batman & Detetective Comics, DC Comics and some Centaurs

 

2. One of the biggest collectors in that area? Not by a longshot. Too many collectors ahead of me, ie: Jon Berk, Gary Carter and many others.

 

John

 

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Scrooge

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About the Four Color series, I know that Don Rosa has a complete set and seem to remember him mentioning he knows of another collector in Mexico with a complete set as well as Geppi. Trust my word only on the Rosa reference though. Now, as far as forum members only, I don't know.

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Scrooge

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Some I rarely see or have never seen are:

 

Boy Detective 3, Gabby Hayes 40, Here's Howie 2, Mopsy 16, Nellie the Nurse 32, Nyoka 65, Redskin 8, Rod Cameron 13, Texas Kid 8.

 

Nothing scientific but these don't show up frequently if ever. Most likely, since they tend to be cheap in the guide, no one bothers to bring them to cons or to put them on eBay. I still have plenty others to buy before I hunt these down.

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thecomicsheet

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Great question and awesome variety of answers from the board members.

 

1) I excel at: I am putting together a synchronic collection of all books with publishing date of March 1952. (You might remember a CBM article about a similar collection a couple of years back)

 

And before you ask why?: because

 

a) FC 386 came out about that time with the first Uncle $crooge title book and

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cloud9.gifflowerred.gif I was born in 1952. I've been thinking about putting together a 1952 collection.

 

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garthgantu

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About the Four Color series, I know that Don Rosa has a complete set and seem to remember him mentioning he knows of another collector in Mexico with a complete set as well as Geppi. Trust my word only on the Rosa reference though. Now, as far as forum members only, I don't know.

 

Interesting, Scrooge... are you sure these folks all have complete runs of the Four Color title? We're talking 1,300+ issues over what, ~25 years? That's damned impressive if so. I could see Don Rosa collecting every Barks FC, or every "Duck" FC, but every single issue? That's pretty mind-blowing... if true, it does provide some inspiration, tho 893applaud-thumb.gif

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