What's new in your Silver Age collection this week 43 43

[Frisco Larson]

[Frisco Larson]

[Corona smith]

[niknikktm]

After my wife passed (about 8 years ago) I finally got back to my collection (after nearly 20 years of not buying back issues) and decided to try to fill in the holes in my FF collection as I never seriously collected that title as a kid. I only started collecting FF as a teenager in the 80's, so I missed out on the first 10 issues and other key issues when they were dirt cheap. My collection was complete from #100 on up with a few dozen lower issues sprinkled in. In the past few years I've picked up a number of high-grade issues that I needed, but two of them were significant. I also finally bought my first piece of original art after spending some time talking to Neal Adams at the Chicago Comicon in 2014. It's a watercolor Neal did for me based on the cover he did for Tarzan of the Apes in the 60's. I paid extra for a "smattering" of background and Neal gave me a bit more than that! He was such a nice guy. I miss seeing and talking to him and his wife at conventions.

Edited October 9, 2022 by niknikktm

[Math Teacher]

I picked this up from Ebay recently. I offered an approximate 20% discount, and the seller accepted it.

[Frisco Larson]

Not "new" as I got it back from CGC a few months ago but got a better pic of it today.

[Corona smith]

It’s a 7.0. 
 

[niknikktm]

Bought this sometime around 1973. The sticker price is for real. It was originally on the PVC bag the book came in, but I peeled it off and stuck it on the 4 mil mylar when I upgraded all my sleeves as a teenager. Avengers 3 thru 16 all have the original price stickers transferred to the mylar bags. They range from $2.75 all the way up to a whopping $6.50. 

 

Edited October 13, 2022 by niknikktm

[niknikktm]

I bought this off the shelf when it first came out. Read it once, then bagged it. Pretty sure I went back a couple of times over next few years and carefully read it again. That 25 cents sure went a long way. Technically these last few aren't "new in my collection", but no one has ever seen them before so maybe that counts???

Edited October 13, 2022 by niknikktm

[niknikktm]

A couple more just for laughs. I sure wish I had spent a couple bucks more for higher grade books when I was buying all of these early issues, but at 8 years old I still had a lot to learn about that sort of thing. It wasn't until about a year later that the owner of Comic City in Minneapolis took me under his wing and taught me some valuable lessons. I read the krap out of these first books.

Edited October 13, 2022 by niknikktm

[Straw-Man]

[ComicsGalore]

Something to smile about today!  

[Math Teacher]

On 10/14/2022 at 11:46 AM, ComicsGalore said:

Something to smile about today!  

I couldn't agree more. Beautiful book!

[Straw-Man]

love that yella thing!!!

[Frisco Larson]

Last of my recent winnings.

[Frisco Larson]

[Frisco Larson]

[Frisco Larson]

[Frisco Larson]

[Frisco Larson]

Ok, new to my collection and yet so NOT new to my collection! This batch of 4 DD issues, recently reacquired by me, were mine over 25 years ago! Purchased back from the friend I sold them to sometime in the mid 90s, it was a real trip seeing and now owning these comics again! While they're never gonna win any beauty contests, I think they're just perfect raw reader copies for me!