Sqeggs Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 4 minutes ago, Yorick said: "Downes" The same cover artist as Teen-age Romances 26-30. Yorick, MrBedrock, pmpknface and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorick Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 1 minute ago, Sqeggs said: I believe I'm still missing this one. I want one with some really red color strike (I probably need to lower my expectations). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 4 minutes ago, Sqeggs said: 2,000! Holy cow! I know Thing 16 in high grade has always been very common. I wonder if there are still piles of high-grade copies of both issues still sitting somewhere waiting to be slabbed? Probably...or rotting in some Bay Area land fill...after all, it is only a Charlton... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 The guy is a cad! A cad, I tell ya! Fred Kida also did some good work. sacentaur 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 Just now, Tri-ColorBrian said: Probably...or rotting in some Bay Area land fill...after all, it is only a Charlton... I wonder what Charlton Guy is up to these days? He got kicked off the boards ages ago for some long-forgotten offense. Too bad because he really knew those books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 Just now, Sqeggs said: I wonder what Charlton Guy is up to these days? He got kicked off the boards ages ago for some long-forgotten offense. Too bad because he really knew those books. I don't know anything about him. Maybe he was before my time. You should go read my responses to your PM...go now...do it, just do it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorick Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 12 minutes ago, Sqeggs said: 2,000! Holy cow! I know Thing 16 in high grade has always been very common. I wonder if there are still piles of high-grade copies of both issues still sitting somewhere waiting to be slabbed? 6 minutes ago, Tri-ColorBrian said: Probably...or rotting in some Bay Area land fill...after all, it is only a Charlton... Mine is ungraded. I should sell it before word gets out that there was a warehouse find.... Sqeggs and Tri-Color Brian 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 6 minutes ago, Yorick said: Mine is ungraded. I should sell it before word gets out that there was a warehouse find.... I will give you $20 for yours if it's in 6.0 or better condition... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorick Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 2 minutes ago, Tri-ColorBrian said: I will give you $20 for yours if it's in 6.0 or better condition... I should be asking crazy feebay prices! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 4 minutes ago, Tri-ColorBrian said: I will give you $20 for yours if it's in 6.0 or better condition... post paid of course... Tri-Color Brian and Sqeggs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 Just now, Robot Man said: post paid of course... Absolutely! Thanks for reminding me of that Robot Man... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MrBedrock Posted May 11, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted May 11, 2020 1 hour ago, Sqeggs said: Love most of the covers in this series. Fairly common to find beater copies of this run, but mid-grade and above are really tough. Not sure I've seen any high-grade copies, although I wouldn't put it past @MrBedrock to have some. You rang? Sqeggs, damonwad, davet75 and 4 others 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 35 minutes ago, MrBedrock said: You rang? These are pretty nice, but I can see some major defects in a lot of them...especially #6...it has white spots in the blue sky background. You can do better... waaaghboss 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBedrock Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 Just now, Tri-ColorBrian said: You can do better... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobbledclam Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 Back in the mid late 90s and early 2000's seemingly billions of those in the bay area. Yes I said billions, prove me wrong! Thing, Blue Beetle, a couple of different True Life, a couple of oddball Star westerns and a couple of Charton crime as well as a bunch of misc LB Cole cover titles. You could go to a knitting needle convention and there would be Little old ladies with big stacks of all of them for sale. Mostly high grade, but if you were lucky you could find a good VG copy, those are the scarce rare ones.👌😃😂Especially if you were allowed the privilege to dig through Gary Arlington's, bookstore. Boxes and boxes.Buy them for a buck and put them out at five dollars apiece and then...money money money! pmpknface, Sqeggs, MrBedrock and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tri-Color Brian Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 48 minutes ago, Cobbledclam said: You could go to a knitting needle convention and there would be Little old ladies with big stacks of all of them for sale. Mostly high grade, but if you were lucky you could find a good VG copy, those are the scarce rare ones. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say this is exaggerated just a little... However, I remember a twenty-something guy that always set up at SDCC in the mid-90s who had a bunch of Thing #16s. He only displayed one at a time, but you could see the stack behind his table if you were nosy enough. He sold them at guide, but was well aware of the warehouse find. I wonder how many he had, and if he's still selling them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobbledclam Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 Wee bit. Actually the little old ladies were set up at the PMA antique shows in San Mateo and the collectors shows at the Cow Palace, and it was in the early nineties. They would also have stacks of Kaluta Shadows and misc. Wrightson Swamp Thing along with Kirby Jimmie Olsen and other 4th world titles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBedrock Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 12 hours ago, Cobbledclam said: Wee bit. Actually the little old ladies were set up at the PMA antique shows in San Mateo and the collectors shows at the Cow Palace, and it was in the early nineties. They would also have stacks of Kaluta Shadows and misc. Wrightson Swamp Thing along with Kirby Jimmie Olsen and other 4th world titles. Any Major Inapaks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobbledclam Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 Yes. If you were on the funny book circuit between Sacramento, Central CA and the Bay Area there was plenty of all of the above and more including these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobbledclam Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 (edited) Such fun artwork! Sorry getting off topic of thread, but I guess it's romantic fantasizing about the nostalgia of our hobby. And the fact that you can find these in people's boxes at for 1,2,3 bucks apiece Good times always worth the price of admission. Edited May 12, 2020 by Cobbledclam Forgot some text MrBedrock 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
