RICK STARR Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Start a "B" copy run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronty Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Steve. I feel sorry for you You'll be done with pre hero marvels before summers out Ahh. A good question for the advanced pre-hero collector...what to do once you have collected ALL the Marvel pre-hero books? There are a number of paths (or combinations thereof...): 1) Start collecting the "monster apocrypha". Such as the monster issues that cross into the Atlas Western and Romance titles. 2) Start collecting Ditko Charlton Anthology titles. The art and stories vary in quality, but there are a (very) few gems there that are just as good as some of Steve's Marvel pre-hero stories. 3) Charlton Monster comics - issues of Konga, Gorgo, Reptilicus... 4) Star Spangled War Stories - dinosaurs, dinosaurs, and more dinosaurs! 5) DC Sci-Fi anthology titles - great art, great stories. Its particularly fun looking for Marvel prototypes in these DC books! 6) Harvey Sci-Fi anthology titles - lots of decent Kirby stories (maybe even a Marvel prototype or two!). 7) Crestwood titles - Black Magic, Strange Worlds of Your Dreams, etc. lots of good 50's Simon & Kirby horror/fantasy. Any other suggestions? Bill well there's always 8) upgrades, and 9) original art The monster comics will always be a small but challenging set, that's part of their appeal. I don't know that there is a lot to move onto after that that's in precisely the same vein but that's part of their charm; there's nothing else quite like them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronty Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Just to pick up on 9) there is just a gorgeous OOG story on clink. Reserve it too high at 25k but if I was an advanced prehero collector I'd probably try and work something out at a lower number. The splash page is just gorgeous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbyJack Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 Ahh. A good question for the advanced pre-hero collector...what to do once you have collected ALL the Marvel pre-hero books? This is why I love being a Kirby collector; you never have to worry about being done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Picked up these two today, both with white pages: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mysterio Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronty Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 what happened to this no higher grades business? Congrats!!! great looking books. What are the technical grades, anyways? Congrats again. I'm hatching on a plan to be able to post a couple myself soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Thnx Mysterio, I think so too. Bronty, well they just kind of fell into my lap and aren't in tombs, so... (haha). Hard for me to assign a technical grade because of a few Marvel chips/pre-chipping, but they were sold to me at VF- and VF respectively, FWIW. However, it was the white pages that hooked me, not their technical grade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronty Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Yeah I love white pages too congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bronze age fan* Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Picked up these two today, both with white pages: Nice copy Bro...I still need this one. Where do you find all these cool books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Where do you find all these cool books. Shangri-La Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comicdey Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Cards close to the Chest :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bronze age fan* Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Cards close to the Chest :: Yeah, he gives up no info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Honestly guys, it's just a lot of legwork... Bunky Brothers, Worldwide, Harley Yee, Jim Payette, my LCS, plus Board members. They've all taken good care of me. (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaillant Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 I told myself, I told myself, I told myself... that I'm not going to get into higher grade pre-hero Marvels. And then this comes along yesterday; it's my first pre-hero Marvel slab: Now you just have to crack it out of the case, Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronty Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Not yet in hand but thanks to everybody's favorite dealer, Roy Delic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bronze age fan* Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Not yet in hand but thanks to everybody's favorite dealer, Roy Delic Wow, that is real nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronty Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Probably my very favorite PH cover Thanks again to our man Roy as I was really really bummed over losing the clink copy and am thrilled to find a real nice replacement so soon after losing that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
