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[OtherEric]

On 3/5/2024 at 9:03 AM, Robot Man said:

It’s raining pre trends!

 

Not nearly as impressive as yours, but I'll take what I can find:

[EC ed]

 for today's mail call - a bit of an upgrade to my raw VG/FN'ish copy. Would still love to upgrade issues 3, 5, 6, & 7 of this title...but talk about TOUGH 

 

[OtherEric]

In today, from @SNiPER's recent thread:

 

[KirbyJack]

Great book!

Interesting similarity between Feldstein’s attacking ship there and Wood’s mother ship here.

 

[Robot Man]

On 3/21/2024 at 12:27 PM, EC ed said:

 for today's mail call - a bit of an upgrade to my raw VG/FN'ish copy. Would still love to upgrade issues 3, 5, 6, & 7 of this title...but talk about TOUGH 

 

Nice one Ed and yes very tough. As are all the humor EC pre trends. Books like this have very minimal interest these days except to EC completists. And higher grade ones still bring pretty good money.

I still hunt them just for fun but I really have no need to complete them unless I bump into them cheap and lower grade. I think pumping a lot of money into them is a losing proposition long term to me. 

[Telegan]

On 3/22/2024 at 7:09 AM, KirbyJack said:

Great book!

Interesting similarity between Feldstein’s attacking ship there and Wood’s mother ship here.

 

I always thought Ford got their idea for their 50's TBirds from the mother ship on this Wally Wood cover.

I've always loved this cover and the cover of Tales from the Crypt #39 and was happy to finally get a nice copy of each of them within a month of one another not too long ago.  I could stare at the art for days.

[KirbyJack]

On 3/23/2024 at 8:20 PM, Telegan said:

I always thought Ford got their idea for their 50's TBirds from the mother ship on this Wally Wood cover.

 

I get you. I’ve referred to it as a Space Studebaker. 

[fifties]

Score!  Came in today, and I'm finally able to complete my HOF run.  This was the most elusive issue.

[vaultkeeper]

On 3/26/2024 at 12:48 AM, fifties said:

Score!  Came in today, and I'm finally able to complete my HOF run.  This was the most elusive issue.

Hopefully we'll see a group-shot soon.  

[Robot Man]

On 3/25/2024 at 9:48 PM, fifties said:

Score!  Came in today, and I'm finally able to complete my HOF run.  This was the most elusive issue.

Congrats. Tough indeed! I got mine from Ron Murray @Cobbledclam at WonderCon many years ago. 

[OtherEric]

The Crypt is new, the rest I've had.  Not perfect, but definitely a far better than average complete set of the non-MAD Ballantines:

[OtherEric]

Is Panic #1 heating up for some reason?  Someone posted they were looking for a copy in the Want to Buy threads, and I thought I could track one down quickly.  But a check on eBay shows that a copy missing a back cover went for $79 and a 1.5 for $179.  For ages it was a book you could get a decent mid-grade copy cheap.

 

[KirbyJack]

I understand your confusion. 
You’re right; Panic 1 was easy and cheap. Then the universe heard that I kind of wanted one, and the pricing you see now kicked in. 
The good news is, after I get a copy and then make the decision to sell it, prices will drop right back down again. 

[conan09279]

Big score today. This was super hard to find. Now I have to find the #2, which is proving equally elusive. 
 

[KirbyJack]

It was all I could do to resist posting this after fifties’ copy, but two on one page was too much for me. 

[conan09279]

On 4/10/2024 at 12:28 PM, KirbyJack said:

It was all I could do to resist posting this after fifties’ copy, but two on one page was too much for me. 

I was thinking the same.  Its been awhile since I saw a single copy.  Now all of a sudden, they are popping up. 

[OtherEric]

A button from the Oni table at ECCC I forgot to post earlier, roughly the size of a quarter:

 

[Robot Man]

Got this one in today. Down to 3 left. Buy them when you find them. Overstreet lists as scarce and I concur. Can’t remember seeing a copy for sale in many years. Maybe in one of the big auction companies, but I rarely look there. Someone found a few coverless ones that got snatched up quick. This is the type of book I go to conventions for but never see.

And what a cover. Dare I say “classic”? I know Feldstein did very few romance covers. But some incredible ones. I won’t post in the Romance thread as I don’t want to make all those Atlas covers look bad…

[EC ed]

A Mail Call for the Ages!

Last month (in the ComicConnect auction) we saw the liquidation of one of the great EC Collections out there, as part of the "PACole" collection (as some of you surely know, his ECs represented only one of his many uber-impressive collecting strands)  .

@Pacole (aka Phil, who happens to be a boardie) and I go back a ways as collecting buddies - when he was building his collection back in the day, he bought a bunch of my EC undercopies behind the scenes (and he helped me out with a few books here and there, as well). He was also able to amass a bunch of pre-trend books that I have been coveting for years. He messaged me not too long ago to let me know that he was finally "ripping the band-aid off" and auctioning his entire collection (not just his ECs...everything!)...but that message came after the books were already in the hands of ComicConnect       . I understand... 

As for the auction...Phil was auctioning so many books, I had to pick my battles going in. Gunfighter was the main battle I decided to pick, and it worked out OK. Phil, we'll miss you. Enjoy life, my friend. I feel privileged that I could drag a few more of your books into my collection on your way out...here's the haul (arrived today):