Marty Mann Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 here's a recent pick up Land of the lost 3, the last issue I needed to finish the run, nice copy to boot. TERRIFIC! mm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 here's a recent pick up Land of the lost 3, the last issue I needed to finish the run, nice copy to boot. Those are cool books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 Another great Evans cover... Very cool! One of my favorite EC titles and my favorite cover of the run. I got my run all at one time with all the EC annuals (except TOT #1) from a guy's garage over 40 years ago for $100. He had complete EC runs but wouldn't break them up and all I had was $100. So that is what I took. I remember leaving a nice Subby #1 for $45. To get them. I saved up some more money for a month and went back but the guy was gone and that garage full of comics, pulps and mags were gone. Never found out what happened to the guy. I still have dreams about that garage... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29dukedog Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 Another great Evans cover... Very cool! One of my favorite EC titles and my favorite cover of the run. I got my run all at one time with all the EC annuals (except TOT #1) from a guy's garage over 40 years ago for $100. He had complete EC runs but wouldn't break them up and all I had was $100. So that is what I took. I remember leaving a nice Subby #1 for $45. To get them. I saved up some more money for a month and went back but the guy was gone and that garage full of comics, pulps and mags were gone. Never found out what happened to the guy. I still have dreams about that garage... I love hearing those kind of stories. Seems that magical garages like that just don't show up anymore. When I was a teen-ager, sometime in the late '70's, a friend of my step-father's brought over a box of silver age marvels that he collected when he was a kid. He told me, if I helped him sell some of them, he'd give me the Fantastic Fours he had. Nothing was in exceptional grade, and most of the keys and first issues were missing, but there was a very beat but complete FF 1 and 2, and 7 through about 50 which started at about 3.0 and got progressively nicer up to about 7.0. I got those for free, after selling off everything else. The 'everything else' included the first twenty X-Men in 3.0 and slightly better... ASM 7 through 35, some in nice mid grades... the first twenty Sgt. Fury's in mid grades... and a smattering of misc. early Avengers, and assorted odds and ends. Sold them to a local dealer, all the while wishing I could afford to just buy them at the same prices myself. But at least I got all those FF's for free. They were all upgraded in the years that followed, but they formed the nucleus of my FF run, and were responsible for my introduction to, and interest in, the silver age Marvel Universe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 Great story! I'm sure your eyes bugged out when you looked through that box. It never gets old does it? The "garage" was mind blowing. It was just PACKED with paper of all kinds. I saw a ton of SA Marvel and DC. There were tons of nice GA as well but I was after ECs and he had 'em all. When I saw those, everything else was a blur. It's kind of funny how we realize how cheap that stuff was then. But, everything is realative and there was only so much a kid could make mowing lawns, paper route and turning in pop bottles. $100. Was a LOT of money to me then. I have picked a few good garages and basements over the years but this guy's load was incredible. I had always planned to go back but when I finally did, he and that incredible load of stuff was gone... My first ECs came from a small pile my uncle gave me. Maybe 25 or 30 he had when he was a kid. I was hooked right away. My mom caught me with one of the horror books and tore it up. I stashed the rest in the tree house where she couldn't find them. I still have a few including his MAD #1 which I have upgraded but couldn't part with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Picked this up with my tax return. I'll crack it sooner rather than later, but a nice one to have: Sorry for the poor scan, my scanner isn't quite big enough for the slab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Caught in one of society's great schisms: miners versus farmers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HorrorFan8 Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 very cool!! have a copy of modern love 1? i have a 7.0 blue.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 Nice Modern Love #3! Love this EC Love stuff with Feldstein covers. Here are a couple more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 very cool!! have a copy of modern love 1? i have a 7.0 blue.... No, that is the only issue of Modern Love that I have a copy of. Congrats on the 7.0 copy of ML 1. Would love to see a scan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 Nice Modern Love #3! Love this EC Love stuff with Feldstein covers. Here are a couple more Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Mann Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 TERRIFIC! mm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 Nice copy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaultkeeper Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 Great book! Is this from the Aurora collection? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 Great book! Is this from the Aurora collection? Thanks - I bought the book long ago as a pedigree, but it's never been certified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifties Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 A recent pick up; can't remember if I've posted it here before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 The cover to WS 8 has really grown on me, I like it a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pipe Dream Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 One of my most treasured books: [/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmitchgro Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Seeing sacentaur's Weird Science with the distributor mark made me think about one of my ECs - does this notation look familiar to anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
