cheetah Posted September 24, 2013 Author Share Posted September 24, 2013 A ComicLink purchase that the owner was kind enough to give me a couple of months to pay off when cash flow got tight at work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetah Posted September 24, 2013 Author Share Posted September 24, 2013 My old copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetah Posted September 24, 2013 Author Share Posted September 24, 2013 My new copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timely Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 When I got back into collecting in 2006, I was dead set on getting a full run of Avengers. With ebay, I found it took a couple of months and I had a ton of raw Avengers. Then I decided to get a full run of high-grade Avengers. Assembling that run took me about 3.5 years. Along the way, I put together complete runs of Defenders, Marvel Team-up, Doctor Strange, John Carter, and some others. I also put together near complete runs of ASM and X-men. It became pretty clear to me that putting together fulls runs of silver, bronze, copper and modern books wasn't very hard. It was just a matter of being aggressive during auctions and frequenting ebay. I ended up feeling underwhelmed with my collection. It was huge, over 7,000 graded books. My Avengers alone had over 500 9.8 issues. I only needed three X-men and 50 ASM to complete those runs. But it didn't excite me like it had a couple of years previously. This was about the time that SA keys started to explode in price. I looked at my collection and knew that completing X-men in the grade I wanted would cost me $100k+. ASM was going to be more. And I didn't really want the books that much. While I was knee-deep in Marvel insanity, I started paying more attention to Golden Age books. Alex Schomburg's airbrush covers on Exciting, Startling, and Thrilling really captivated me. I picked up a low-grade Startling 47 as my first GA purchase. I also looked through ebay and CLink and saw a LOT of Fiction House books, particularly Jumbo and Jungle Comics, that I liked. The Good Girl covers were great and the jungle art was pretty cool. So I started working on these titles in 2008/2009. As my interest in GA waxed and my interest in Marvel waned, I hit a crossroad and decided to take a left. I sold my Avengers set through Metro as a single lot at a jaw-dropping profit. I took part of the return and bought a number of golden age books. I then auctioned off my ASM and X-men, at no profit at all, and bought some more GA including a few Church copies. Oh, lord, do I love Edgar's books. After 4-5 years, it is pretty clear that completing a golden age run in high grade is monumentally more difficult than silver age titles. Every GA title seems to have at least one non-key that is freaking impossible to find. Sure, we all know that Jumbo 31 and Planet 15 are notoriously rare, but what about Jungle 29? Or Captain Midnight 47, Exciting Comics 54, Black Cat Mystery 49, Clue Comics 3, Dotty Dripple 1, Incredible Science Fiction 33, Jamboree Comics 3, Li'l Abner 77, Terry and the Pirates 28.... I have found more rocks to turn over looking for books than I ever knew existed. I've gone so far as to pester, beg, and plead to many boardies who owned one of the last issues I needed. There are boardies on my list that don't even know it yet, who have books I would like to barter. I managed to finish my Jumbo run solely because Flex and Mr.Bedrock were willing to give up books they really loved and pass them along to me: Jumbo 31 and Jumbo 11. So, with all of the rambling self-expose' out of the way, I'm going to start posting my Jumbo run. It starts at #9, the first non-oversized issue. I haven't picked up the first 8 issues because the ones I would like are owned by a boardie. That's a great story! It gives a good perspective on why many Silver Age collectors transition in the the Golden Age era. Even though I appreciate the Silver Age as much as the next guy, I always felt the fun factor of collecting Golden Age books were multiples higher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetah Posted September 24, 2013 Author Share Posted September 24, 2013 Purchased raw from Metro in Chicago on my first trip to Wizard World. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetah Posted September 24, 2013 Author Share Posted September 24, 2013 Another old copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetah Posted September 24, 2013 Author Share Posted September 24, 2013 Replaced by this one thanks to John Verzyl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetah Posted September 24, 2013 Author Share Posted September 24, 2013 When I got back into collecting in 2006, I was dead set on getting a full run of Avengers. With ebay, I found it took a couple of months and I had a ton of raw Avengers. Then I decided to get a full run of high-grade Avengers. Assembling that run took me about 3.5 years. Along the way, I put together complete runs of Defenders, Marvel Team-up, Doctor Strange, John Carter, and some others. I also put together near complete runs of ASM and X-men. It became pretty clear to me that putting together fulls runs of silver, bronze, copper and modern books wasn't very hard. It was just a matter of being aggressive during auctions and frequenting ebay. I ended up feeling underwhelmed with my collection. It was huge, over 7,000 graded books. My Avengers alone had over 500 9.8 issues. I only needed three X-men and 50 ASM to complete those runs. But it didn't excite me like it had a couple of years previously. This was about the time that SA keys started to explode in price. I looked at my collection and knew that completing X-men in the grade I wanted would cost me $100k+. ASM was going to be more. And I didn't really want the books that much. While I was knee-deep in Marvel insanity, I started paying more attention to Golden Age books. Alex Schomburg's airbrush covers on Exciting, Startling, and Thrilling really captivated me. I picked up a low-grade Startling 47 as my first GA purchase. I also looked through ebay and CLink and saw a LOT of Fiction House books, particularly Jumbo and Jungle Comics, that I liked. The Good Girl covers were great and the jungle art was pretty cool. So I started working on these titles in 2008/2009. As my interest in GA waxed and my interest in Marvel waned, I hit a crossroad and decided to take a left. I sold my Avengers set through Metro as a single lot at a jaw-dropping profit. I took part of the return and bought a number of golden age books. I then auctioned off my ASM and X-men, at no profit at all, and bought some more GA including a few Church copies. Oh, lord, do I love Edgar's books. After 4-5 years, it is pretty clear that completing a golden age run in high grade is monumentally more difficult than silver age titles. Every GA title seems to have at least one non-key that is freaking impossible to find. Sure, we all know that Jumbo 31 and Planet 15 are notoriously rare, but what about Jungle 29? Or Captain Midnight 47, Exciting Comics 54, Black Cat Mystery 49, Clue Comics 3, Dotty Dripple 1, Incredible Science Fiction 33, Jamboree Comics 3, Li'l Abner 77, Terry and the Pirates 28.... I have found more rocks to turn over looking for books than I ever knew existed. I've gone so far as to pester, beg, and plead to many boardies who owned one of the last issues I needed. There are boardies on my list that don't even know it yet, who have books I would like to barter. I managed to finish my Jumbo run solely because Flex and Mr.Bedrock were willing to give up books they really loved and pass them along to me: Jumbo 31 and Jumbo 11. So, with all of the rambling self-expose' out of the way, I'm going to start posting my Jumbo run. It starts at #9, the first non-oversized issue. I haven't picked up the first 8 issues because the ones I would like are owned by a boardie. That's a great story! It gives a good perspective on why many Silver Age collectors transition in the the Golden Age era. Even though I appreciate the Silver Age as much as the next guy, I always felt the fun factor of collecting Golden Age books were multiples higher. Thanks, West. The challenge is greater and it's pretty sweet to hold a book in your hands that you absolutely know is the best copy on the planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetah Posted September 24, 2013 Author Share Posted September 24, 2013 That's it for now. More at another time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timely Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Do you know how many Church books you have in your collection now? Must be hundreds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 A ComicLink purchase that the owner was kind enough to give me a couple of months to pay off when cash flow got tight at work. 9.6 White Page non-ped book :hail: You know I'm going to enjoy this thread. Firehair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetah Posted September 24, 2013 Author Share Posted September 24, 2013 Do you know how many Church books you have in your collection now? Must be hundreds. I believe it is a little over 300. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetah Posted September 24, 2013 Author Share Posted September 24, 2013 A ComicLink purchase that the owner was kind enough to give me a couple of months to pay off when cash flow got tight at work. 9.6 White Page non-ped book :hail: You know I'm going to enjoy this thread. Firehair It makes you wonder if this one lost its designation somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBedrock Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Thanks for the thread, Jeff. I never get tired of your scans....or your pestering! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicjack Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 My new copy. Wow that's some upgrade.Nice!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 When I got back into collecting in 2006, I was dead set on getting a full run of Avengers. With ebay, I found it took a couple of months and I had a ton of raw Avengers. Then I decided to get a full run of high-grade Avengers. Assembling that run took me about 3.5 years. Along the way, I put together complete runs of Defenders, Marvel Team-up, Doctor Strange, John Carter, and some others. I also put together near complete runs of ASM and X-men. It became pretty clear to me that putting together fulls runs of silver, bronze, copper and modern books wasn't very hard. It was just a matter of being aggressive during auctions and frequenting ebay. I ended up feeling underwhelmed with my collection. It was huge, over 7,000 graded books. My Avengers alone had over 500 9.8 issues. I only needed three X-men and 50 ASM to complete those runs. But it didn't excite me like it had a couple of years previously. This was about the time that SA keys started to explode in price. I looked at my collection and knew that completing X-men in the grade I wanted would cost me $100k+. ASM was going to be more. And I didn't really want the books that much. While I was knee-deep in Marvel insanity, I started paying more attention to Golden Age books. Alex Schomburg's airbrush covers on Exciting, Startling, and Thrilling really captivated me. I picked up a low-grade Startling 47 as my first GA purchase. I also looked through ebay and CLink and saw a LOT of Fiction House books, particularly Jumbo and Jungle Comics, that I liked. The Good Girl covers were great and the jungle art was pretty cool. So I started working on these titles in 2008/2009. As my interest in GA waxed and my interest in Marvel waned, I hit a crossroad and decided to take a left. I sold my Avengers set through Metro as a single lot at a jaw-dropping profit. I took part of the return and bought a number of golden age books. I then auctioned off my ASM and X-men, at no profit at all, and bought some more GA including a few Church copies. Oh, lord, do I love Edgar's books. After 4-5 years, it is pretty clear that completing a golden age run in high grade is monumentally more difficult than silver age titles. Every GA title seems to have at least one non-key that is freaking impossible to find. Sure, we all know that Jumbo 31 and Planet 15 are notoriously rare, but what about Jungle 29? Or Captain Midnight 47, Exciting Comics 54, Black Cat Mystery 49, Clue Comics 3, Dotty Dripple 1, Incredible Science Fiction 33, Jamboree Comics 3, Li'l Abner 77, Terry and the Pirates 28.... I have found more rocks to turn over looking for books than I ever knew existed. I've gone so far as to pester, beg, and plead to many boardies who owned one of the last issues I needed. There are boardies on my list that don't even know it yet, who have books I would like to barter. I managed to finish my Jumbo run solely because Flex and Mr.Bedrock were willing to give up books they really loved and pass them along to me: Jumbo 31 and Jumbo 11. So, with all of the rambling self-expose' out of the way, I'm going to start posting my Jumbo run. It starts at #9, the first non-oversized issue. I haven't picked up the first 8 issues because the ones I would like are owned by a boardie. That's a great story! It gives a good perspective on why many Silver Age collectors transition in the the Golden Age era. Even though I appreciate the Silver Age as much as the next guy, I always felt the fun factor of collecting Golden Age books were multiples higher. Thanks, West. The challenge is greater and it's pretty sweet to hold a book in your hands that you absolutely know is the best copy on the planet. More stories please! This thread is the best thing that's happened to Gold in ages! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny545 Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 When I got back into collecting in 2006, I was dead set on getting a full run of Avengers. With ebay, I found it took a couple of months and I had a ton of raw Avengers. Then I decided to get a full run of high-grade Avengers. Assembling that run took me about 3.5 years. Along the way, I put together complete runs of Defenders, Marvel Team-up, Doctor Strange, John Carter, and some others. I also put together near complete runs of ASM and X-men. It became pretty clear to me that putting together fulls runs of silver, bronze, copper and modern books wasn't very hard. It was just a matter of being aggressive during auctions and frequenting ebay. I ended up feeling underwhelmed with my collection. It was huge, over 7,000 graded books. My Avengers alone had over 500 9.8 issues. I only needed three X-men and 50 ASM to complete those runs. But it didn't excite me like it had a couple of years previously. This was about the time that SA keys started to explode in price. I looked at my collection and knew that completing X-men in the grade I wanted would cost me $100k+. ASM was going to be more. And I didn't really want the books that much. While I was knee-deep in Marvel insanity, I started paying more attention to Golden Age books. Alex Schomburg's airbrush covers on Exciting, Startling, and Thrilling really captivated me. I picked up a low-grade Startling 47 as my first GA purchase. I also looked through ebay and CLink and saw a LOT of Fiction House books, particularly Jumbo and Jungle Comics, that I liked. The Good Girl covers were great and the jungle art was pretty cool. So I started working on these titles in 2008/2009. As my interest in GA waxed and my interest in Marvel waned, I hit a crossroad and decided to take a left. I sold my Avengers set through Metro as a single lot at a jaw-dropping profit. I took part of the return and bought a number of golden age books. I then auctioned off my ASM and X-men, at no profit at all, and bought some more GA including a few Church copies. Oh, lord, do I love Edgar's books. After 4-5 years, it is pretty clear that completing a golden age run in high grade is monumentally more difficult than silver age titles. Every GA title seems to have at least one non-key that is freaking impossible to find. Sure, we all know that Jumbo 31 and Planet 15 are notoriously rare, but what about Jungle 29? Or Captain Midnight 47, Exciting Comics 54, Black Cat Mystery 49, Clue Comics 3, Dotty Dripple 1, Incredible Science Fiction 33, Jamboree Comics 3, Li'l Abner 77, Terry and the Pirates 28.... I have found more rocks to turn over looking for books than I ever knew existed. I've gone so far as to pester, beg, and plead to many boardies who owned one of the last issues I needed. There are boardies on my list that don't even know it yet, who have books I would like to barter. I managed to finish my Jumbo run solely because Flex and Mr.Bedrock were willing to give up books they really loved and pass them along to me: Jumbo 31 and Jumbo 11. So, with all of the rambling self-expose' out of the way, I'm going to start posting my Jumbo run. It starts at #9, the first non-oversized issue. I haven't picked up the first 8 issues because the ones I would like are owned by a boardie. That's a great story! It gives a good perspective on why many Silver Age collectors transition in the the Golden Age era. Even though I appreciate the Silver Age as much as the next guy, I always felt the fun factor of collecting Golden Age books were multiples higher. I have basically sold every silver age and bronze slabbed book I own at this point. I realized I could buy them back whenever I wanted, but the GA books I really, really wanted may only come up for sale once in a blue moon...or never again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny545 Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 My new copy. Insane to see a book that is 73 yrs. old in this shape....beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timely Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Do you know how many Church books you have in your collection now? Must be hundreds. I believe it is a little over 300. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Corgi Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Do you know how many Church books you have in your collection now? Must be hundreds. I believe it is a little over 300. Soon to be adding one of mine to your collection too. Awesome books and story. Thanks for sharing. Those early Jumbo covers have some excellent drawing going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...