cheetah Posted September 23, 2013 Author Share Posted September 23, 2013 Here is the link. Kelly told me about a low grade copy he was tracking on ebay a few months ago, but I never saw it. I've just got to wonder how much 'repair' has been done. Planet 14 And I should amend a previous comment. Kelly has an 8.5 Planet 13. Just gorgeous and I have always been highly envious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShadowKnows Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Thanks to the folks who gave me a heads up on the Planet 14 Harley had on ebay. I went ahead and picked it up. (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny545 Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 (edited) Thanks to the folks who gave me a heads up on the Planet 14 Harley had on ebay. I went ahead and picked it up. Grats. I scour Ebay for Planets all the time and did so as recently as Saturday afternoon. I didn't see a Planet Comics 14 listed. Makes me think that Ebay doesn't show me everything. Even now as I look to see the book you purchased and I look for completed auctions I can not find it. I think it was listed a mere hour or two before Cheetah bought it. I have missed a few books I was hunting because they were listed overseas and I searched for newly listed, but didn't scroll to the end of the books to see overseas listings. Edited September 23, 2013 by Johnny545 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Lovely book. Hope you still have it In one of those wonderful moments of being an airhead, I have a scan of a better #8. I just don't know where the book is. I think I may have accidentally sold it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telerites Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Strapped in for my viewing pleasure, Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VintageComics Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Thanks to the folks who gave me a heads up on the Planet 14 Harley had on ebay. I went ahead and picked it up. Grats. I scour Ebay for Planets all the time and did so as recently as Saturday afternoon. I didn't see a Planet Comics 14 listed. Makes me think that Ebay doesn't show me everything. Even now as I look to see the book you purchased and I look for completed auctions I can not find it. If you're searching on eBay.ca sometimes books on eBay.com do not show up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Here is the link. Kelly told me about a low grade copy he was tracking on ebay a few months ago, but I never saw it. I've just got to wonder how much 'repair' has been done. Planet 14 Better to have a low grade copy at a low grade price than none at all I suppose - at least I thought so. Mine is about the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 By the way, Jeff, I'm really pleased you decided to create this thread at last! Looking forward to seeing lots of old friends! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artboy99 Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Thanks to the folks who gave me a heads up on the Planet 14 Harley had on ebay. I went ahead and picked it up. Grats. I scour Ebay for Planets all the time and did so as recently as Saturday afternoon. I didn't see a Planet Comics 14 listed. Makes me think that Ebay doesn't show me everything. Even now as I look to see the book you purchased and I look for completed auctions I can not find it. If you're searching on eBay.ca sometimes books on eBay.com do not show up. I can not find this listing on either site. The link provided works though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetah Posted September 24, 2013 Author Share Posted September 24, 2013 My scanner has been getting wonky recently so my colors don't look as natural as they should. Regardless, here's a title you probably never gave a moment's thought to, but I was thrilled to get 50% of the run from Brian Peets and the remaining 50% from Stephen Ritter. Both Central Valley copies, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bronty Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Central Valley.... every time I see one of those books I am impressed 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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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 Richard has a very nice copy of this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetah Posted September 24, 2013 Author Share Posted September 24, 2013 I bought this from Billy Parker on in the sale forum. I had taken my Mom to the hospital when she twisted her knee. Funny how you remember those things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
