KirbyJack Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 It shouldn’t matter to me. I only know you from here. But this makes me very happy, and I’m toasting you with a root beer! Congratulations, Hap! Raze, grendelbo and Point Five 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 (edited) On 12/29/2022 at 4:50 PM, Hap Hazard said: Final pick up for 2022 for, It's a big one I now have all the published EC's. I am still missing a few of the Giveaways KO Punch etc. TALES OF TERROR ANNUAL 1951 Lordy Hap! That is a big one indeed. Congrats on a complete EC collection. A rare and tough goal to finish off! Gotta ask, what are the contents? Edited December 30, 2022 by Robot Man KirbyJack, originalisbest, Raze and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hap Hazard Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 On 12/29/2022 at 4:56 PM, KirbyJack said: It shouldn’t matter to me. I only know you from here. But this makes me very happy, and I’m toasting you with a root beer! Congratulations, Hap! Thanks, Great way to end the year! originalisbest 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Hap Hazard Posted December 30, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 30, 2022 On 12/29/2022 at 5:14 PM, Robot Man said: Lordy Hap! That is a big one indeed. Congrats on a complete EC collection. A rare and tough goal to finish off! Gotta ask, what are the contents? I should have listed them not as good as yours: VOH 14 (3), COT 18 (2), WS 13 (2), and HOF 15 (1) Robot Man, originalisbest, grendelbo and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbyJack Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Them are some fine innards. Raze 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Point Five Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Congrats! originalisbest 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarg Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 (edited) On 12/28/2022 at 5:45 PM, OtherEric said: It’s not super rare compared to most “rare” books, but comparing notes among Mad collectors there’s little doubt it’s the hardest to find of the comic book issues. We don't really know if #5 actually had low distribution, or just that #4 sold really well, and #5 sold less. There is no doubt that the distributor was peeved about #5 -- Gaines had to actually print a formal apology (reprinted in a later issue of Squa Tront). But he would have mainly punished himself financially by withholding copies from sale. Edited December 30, 2022 by Sarg typo OtherEric, Raze and originalisbest 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Robot Man Posted December 30, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 30, 2022 On 12/29/2022 at 4:50 PM, Hap Hazard said: Final pick up for 2022 for, It's a big one I now have all the published EC's. I am still missing a few of the Giveaways KO Punch etc. TALES OF TERROR ANNUAL 1951 I think this thread is officially closed until 1/1/23... KirbyJack, OtherEric, Larryw7 and 7 others 6 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IngelsFan Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 On 12/29/2022 at 4:50 PM, Hap Hazard said: Final pick up for 2022 for, It's a big one I now have all the published EC's. I am still missing a few of the Giveaways KO Punch etc. TALES OF TERROR ANNUAL 1951 That’s a great way to close out the year! Congrats. originalisbest 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post fifties Posted December 31, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 31, 2022 My last (and biggest of the year) H.A. score; 29 EC's. Since I already have full runs of Weird Sci and Weird Fan, will be offering a few duplicates here soon. damonwad, goldust40, Larryw7 and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
originalisbest Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 On 12/28/2022 at 4:24 PM, szav said: I’m not as picky about miscuts as I used to be, especially in harder to find in nice shape GA (although 5 doesn’t seem rare despite the low distribution) but this one’s close to the limit. Anyway, love how much is going on on the cover without it looking too busy. Above and beyond my favorite Mad cover, hope to pick up a nicer copy some day, and since the value hasn’t changed in about 20 years, and the presence of the Gaines copies suppresses the high grade prices a bit, who knows … might land a prettier one some day. It's a great cover indeed, by Elder -- hope you don't take my miscut comment as a slam on your book, it's perfectly acceptable. I have a few books similar, nature of the GA beast. It would take a pretty severe miscut to turn me away. As to fave early MAD cover, mine is #2 by Mr. Davis. :-) Raze 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
originalisbest Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 On 12/30/2022 at 11:40 PM, fifties said: My last (and biggest of the year) H.A. score; 29 EC's. Since I already have full runs of Weird Sci and Weird Fan, will be offering a few duplicates here soon. That is a heck of a grouping to land all at once!!! IngelsFan, fifties, jimjum12 and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarg Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 On 12/29/2022 at 6:50 PM, Hap Hazard said: Final pick up for 2022 for, It's a big one I now have all the published EC's. I am still missing a few of the Giveaways KO Punch etc. TALES OF TERROR ANNUAL 1951 So can we officially say now that TOT #1 is the rarest, most desirable of all commercially sold ECs? jimjum12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbyJack Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 I’ll stipulate that it’s the rarest, but if “most desirable” equals most demand, I think there are some contenders. OtherEric, jimjum12 and grendelbo 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 On 12/31/2022 at 11:45 AM, KirbyJack said: I’ll stipulate that it’s the rarest, but if “most desirable” equals most demand, I think there are some contenders. Well said. Rebound books with variable contents tend to be a very specialist niche item. I'll even grant that the EC annuals are the most generally in demand within that category, other than some of the Matt Baker covers. But it's still on too few people's radar to really get flagged as the most desirable EC over, say, CSS 22. None of the above should be taken as me saying the TOT annual is anything other than an awesome book! KirbyJack and Raze 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarg Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 I thought it'd be helpful to do a quick comparison of some of the most desirous ECs on the GCG Census as of 12/27/2022, and the relative number of slabbed copies. TOT #1 - 29 TOT #2 - 50 TOT #3 - 103 War Against Crime #10 - 48 Crime Patrol #15 - 76 Crypt of Terror #17 - 84 Vault of Horror #12/1 - 88 Haunt of Fear #15/1 - 85 CSS #22 - 378 Weird Science #12/1 - 79 Weird Fantasy #13/1 - 105 SSS #6 - 293 Mad #1 - 548 Weird Science-Fantasy #29 - 269 Shock Illustrated #3 - 22 Thus, as far as the comics go, TOT #1 is far and away the scarcest of the desirous slabbed New Trend ECs. Only Shock Illustrated #3 undercuts it, but Picto-Fiction is a lot less desirous than the comics. grendelbo, Larryw7, Raze and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarg Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Why was never a Mad Annual from the comic era? According to Gaines, #1-3 didn't sell that great. They must have had a lot of unsold copies of those -- but perhaps not enough to rebind into an annual. Raze 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbyJack Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 On 12/31/2022 at 2:21 PM, OtherEric said: None of the above should be taken as me saying the TOT annual is anything other than an awesome book! Absolutely! Tales of Terror annual 1 is an Apex predator. I’ve owned Vault 12 and Crime Patrol 15, but I never even considered the possibility of owning TOT1. That is not a book to be owned by the likes of me. Raze and OtherEric 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted December 31, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 31, 2022 On 12/31/2022 at 3:41 PM, KirbyJack said: Absolutely! Tales of Terror annual 1 is an Apex predator. I’ve owned Vault 12 and Crime Patrol 15, but I never even considered the possibility of owning TOT1. That is not a book to be owned by the likes of me. Agreed... but as I've happily learned, time and time again, you can wind up owning books you had filed as "I'll never own this". In many ways, the first book that ever taught me that lesson was Mad #1, in fact. Robot Man, fifties, KirbyJack and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Hap Hazard Posted January 1, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 1, 2023 On 12/31/2022 at 3:41 PM, KirbyJack said: Absolutely! Tales of Terror annual 1 is an Apex predator. I’ve owned Vault 12 and Crime Patrol 15, but I never even considered the possibility of owning TOT1. That is not a book to be owned by the likes of me. Just to add my 2 cents on big grail purchases I paid about 10 percent on TOT 1 on new monies the rest I financed selling other comics. And yes this is a book I never imagined I could land but sometimes everything comes together making it possible! Jayman, Hutch88, EastEnd1 and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
