Between a Rock and a Hard Place

[Hepgwyn]

Our Army At War #83

 

If you've read some of my earlier journals you may remember that my dad and I traveled around the US and along the way I got a chance to buy some comics. My dad was never much for fantasy so he didn't really enjoy the super-powered characters, but he did enjoy reading the war comics so I used to scavenge around in the discount boxes looking for them. The DC books were his preference. He enjoyed Gravedigger in "Men at War", The Unknown Soldier and especially Sgt Rock. When I was a kid it didn't really seem like there was huge interest in war comics, it was mostly super heroes and stuff like that. It never really occurred to me at the time that there might be key issues in those war comics. It came as a surprise to me later that I had actually gotten an "Our Army at War" # 83. Don't remember exactly how much I paid for it but I doubt it was more than a buck.

 

It looks like it may have had some ink from the cover pulled off by another comic that was once stuck to it near the bottom . So it's not in great shape I think 3.5 OW/W is fair, but it's a great cover and my dad would be happy that Frank Rock was still popular.

 

So that's all 7 of the non-modern tier books I submitted at ECCC. I was too cheap to fast track the 3 moderns, so it's going to be many months before I have any more graded comics to talk about. I am very curious to see what kind of grade, books that I purchased new and stored myself for their whole lives might receive. I have enjoyed talking about these books, it's been 15 years since I stopped buying books. I have really missed thinking and talking about comics.

 

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[SW3D]

That is a very cool issue. Not only is it the 1st Appearance of Sgt. Rock but it's connected to you in a very petsonal way. And it's going on 53 years... so the condition is pretty good since it's travelled well over 5 decades.

 

Talking about comics is what we do here. It doesn't always have to be about what we own, what we have graded... it could be anything about comics. So whatever's on your mind, comic related, don't be afraid to speak about it.

 

Looking forward to reading more journals from you.

 

SW3D