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[KirbyJack]

How about a group shot of all the annuals, Hap? 

 

@Hap Hazard

Edited January 1, 2023 by KirbyJack

[Hap Hazard]

On 1/1/2023 at 8:11 AM, KirbyJack said:

How about a group shot of all the annuals, Hap? 

 

@Hap Hazard

Here's a floor shot of the three Tales of Terror Annuals and another with all the EC Annuals.

And yes, I removed the Book from from the slab, It had done it's job, it made the purchase process must simpler but I wanted

to see the interior of the book. Some tape was listed I wanted to see  that for myself. Nuff said on that subject.

Edited January 2, 2023 by Hap Hazard

[originalisbest]

It's an unusual book in that I imagine it's a keeper for the forseeable future, so doesn't hurt to unslab it if it'll help you enjoy it more. Keep the label anyway and if it ever needs to be sold again, likely the label with it is more than enough, or it can always be slabbed at that time. :-)

[OtherEric]

On 1/1/2023 at 6:34 PM, Hap Hazard said:

And yes, I removed the Book from from the slab, It had done it's job, it made the purchase process must simpler but I wanted

to see the interior of the book. Some tape was listed I wanted to see the that for myself. Nuff said on that subject.

 

Huzzah!  I firmly believe that there is a place for slabbing, but low grade EC's are not that place.  A book like that is absolutely where it's worth getting slabbed to facilitate the sale but once it's changed hands crack that sucker out!

Seeing it set free makes me happy, thank you for that.

[grendelbo]

On 1/1/2023 at 7:34 PM, Hap Hazard said:

And yes, I removed the Book from from the slab, It had done it's job, it made the purchase process must simpler but I wanted

 

On 1/1/2023 at 10:19 PM, originalisbest said:

It's an unusual book in that I imagine it's a keeper for the forseeable future, so doesn't hurt to unslab it if it'll help you enjoy it more. Keep the label anyway and if it ever needs to be sold again, likely the label with it is more than enough, or it can always be slabbed at that time. :-)

 

On 1/1/2023 at 10:23 PM, OtherEric said:

Huzzah!  I firmly believe that there is a place for slabbing, but low grade EC's are not that place.  A book like that is absolutely where it's worth getting slabbed to facilitate the sale but once it's changed hands crack that sucker out!

Seeing it set free makes me happy, thank you for that.

Spot on.

[KirbyJack]

Nice.

The E.C. thread has been stepping up its game lately.

[Robot Man]

EC Annual collectors unite! Fun story about mine.

In 1969, I met an older guy at the Rose Bowl flea market that said he had old comics for sale including all the ECs. So I met him at his garage. Upon entering the garage, I could see it was literally packed with magazines, pulps and comics as well as other ephemera.

I asked about ECs. He directed me over to a table piled with them. He said it was a complete run. I started to pull out issues I wanted and he stopped me. They were only for sale in complete runs. Well of course I couldn’t afford them. So I asked if he would sell the run of annuals. I had only been able to scrape up $100. (Hey a LOT of money for a kid at the time). He wanted more but saw how much I wanted them so he sold them to me. All at once except TOT #1 which wasn’t there. He even threw in the whole run of Piracy! I didn’t really look at anything else since I was out of money. But I did see a nice copy of the original Submariner #1 that he wanted $40. for.

I asked him if I could come back for more once I saved up some more money and he said sure.

So a few months later I went back with a few hundred bucks I had hussled up. No one answered the door so I went back to the garage which was locked up. I looked in the side window and it was empty! The guy and the massive garage load of paper were gone. Never saw him again or found out what happened. I still wonder what was in there…

So this is my annual story. I finally got TOT #1 in the early days of ebay. Bought it from Gary Colombato in one of his first auctions. 

[KirbyJack]

I used to have a TOT annual 3, but it was given away in one of the Board Secret Santa exchanges. A previous owner had taken a pair of pinking shears to the cover!
Other than that, I just have the Two-Fisted Tales annuals.

[Hap Hazard]

On 1/1/2023 at 6:34 PM, Hap Hazard said:

Here's a floor shop of the three Tales of Terror Annuals and another with all the EC Annuals.

And yes, I removed the Book from from the slab, It had done it's job, it made the purchase process must simpler but I wanted

to see the interior of the book. Some tape was listed I wanted to see the that for myself. Nuff said on that subject.

Thanks for sharing Robot Man, I'm assuming you will be selling at Terry's show in February?

[Robot Man]

On 1/2/2023 at 10:57 AM, Hap Hazard said:

Thanks for sharing Robot Man, I'm assuming you will be selling at Terry's show in February?

Yep. Are you helping Bob this year?

[Hap Hazard]

On 1/3/2023 at 8:22 AM, Robot Man said:

Yep. Are you helping Bob this year?

Bob's not setting up this year will be helping Jamie.

[fifties]

I have a few E.C. annuals.

[Illustrious]

Had this on my want-list for a while, finally got one this week:

[Ghastly542454]

Group shot of all 7 EC Annuals

[Ghastly542454]

Although I’ve had the whole run for many years, I just completed an entire graded run of Haunt Of Fear 😧!

[KirbyJack]

[Illustrious]

Marked off another one from my E.C. want-list this week:

[OtherEric]

Not something we often cover here… but still, they’re 50’s EC’s, so why not? 

Edited January 12, 2023 by OtherEric

[KirbyJack]

On 1/11/2023 at 12:57 PM, Illustrious said:

Marked off another one from my E.C. want-list this week:

A top 5 EC horror cover, I think.

[Robot Man]

On 1/11/2023 at 2:06 PM, KirbyJack said:

A top 5 EC horror cover, I think.

Although #23 is my sentimental favorite, I think #24 is very close. These early Feldstein covers really helped define EC and PCH in general.