Completed my Bronze Age DC war Collection Today!

[bigfiver69]

Hey all,

 

About a decade ago, I set out to complete a Bronze Age DC war comic collection in an average grade of sharp 9.0

 

It's been a wonderful challenge. Not only have I managed to finally achieve the goal, along the way I have met so many great collectors along the way. Just totally great.

 

There has one book that has proved more elusive than the rest - a rare Whitman variant of Sgt. Rock #329. My understanding is that this was one of the 'bagged' Whitmans. Anyway, I've been on the prowl for one, but have not seen one at a con, and have not seen one appear on ebay (I'm sure I've missed some.)

 

Anyway, one came up on ebid of all places ($14 bucks!)

 

It's not high grade, but at least I can now say I have one!

 

And now... onto the Silver runs!

 

 

Shep

 

 

 

[zuckuss2003]

Nice work! How many comics is that in this collection?

[OldGuy]

That's great, congratulations!

[Comicopolis]

[Mike Bray]

(thumbs u

[MagnusX]

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Congratulations...

 

Any link to your collection images...?[/font]

 

(thumbs u

[Lee K]

Congrats on a seriously hard goal.

 

Lee

[bronze_rules]

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[Jeffro.]

Congrats Shep. Now, I have to find one.

[MisterX]

[*Bronze age fan*]

Thats great Bro! Congrats!!! Home many books? Where is the list??? Finishing something like that is pretty hard! Getting that last one is a great feeling!!!

[Wally's Comics]

A BIG CONGRATS!

 

 

 

 

 

[shiverbones]

Massive! Congrats!!!

 

What is your silver grade threshold?

[flatrock02]

 

 

[bigfiver69]

I call Bronze Age 1968-1988. It's somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 books.

 

I've been planning to rescan the collection this summer, because I have upgraded about 40% of the collection since the last scan-fest a few years back.

 

For the Silver Age pursuit, it's a it of a slding scale... for the late 1950s and onwards, FN to VF but for 1958 and previous, I am happy with 4.0-5.0. Those books are so, so hard to get in any kind of nice shape. But, it's a fun goal...

 

Here are's an old scan bank of Sgt. Rock's, as an example.

 

[godquest]

Congrats. Great achievement, and a cool tough book to say was the last to complete.

[Dmac538]

Many Congrats Shep, no easy task!!

[bigfiver69]

The Our Army at War run is my favorite (and I happen to have an old scan list). As mentioned before, about 50% of these have been upgraded.

 

 

 

 

[JuliusSeizure]

Awesome! What a great feeling, congratulations. Take some time this weekend and read a few long runs.

[GL1]

Shep,

 

Great accomplishment. Very cool to have completed a tremendous task!!