The centerpiece of your collection

[Flex Mentallo]

been out that closet for a long time!

 

 

Uh oh - looks like we need a bigger closet.

[Straw-Man]

my brother! I've been too blinded by your awesome peds and huge books to notice. You are the Renaissance Collector, indeed.

 

[Vision75]

That dude is smooth. I need to send a framed picture of myself - smoke'n a pipe - to all the ladies.

[quadman78]

I'm going to cheat and pick a group of books rather than just one. My under 100 Action Comics.

 

 

If I had to pick just one it would be the #23.

[Straw-Man]

very nice.

[G.A.tor]

I'm going to cheat and pick a group of books rather than just one. My under 100 Action Comics.

 

 

If I had to pick just one it would be the #23.

Fun

[Bronty]

amazing Randy

[Bronty]

I guess I will get off the pot and for a single book say my Nelvana I don't have a good pic of it handy, but there was this pic of my copy floating around on google. I can tell its mine as it has the characteristic light dust shadow along spine.

 

[Theagenes]

For me the center piece is my set of the four John Carter of Mars covers from The Funnies. It took me years to put this set together as these books are incredibly rare -- especially 36. Three of these (35, 37, and 40) are File Copies and three of them (35, 36, and 37) are the highest graded copies. This group may not move the needle like some the big superhero books in this thread, but for this ERB fan, putting this set together was one of the biggest and toughest accomplishments I've done as a collector.

 

 

 

 

 

Outside of comics, my centerpiece is probably my Fantasy Fan #7 from 1934. This rare fanzine is one of only a handful that still exist and features the first publication of the Conan story "Frost Giant's Daughter" (retitled "Gods of the North"). Far rarer than any of the Conan Weird Tales and it's in great shape for such a fragile item.

 

 

 

 

[Silver Surfer]

What a cool set of nice looking books!

[kelholt]

I'm going to cheat and pick a group of books rather than just one. My under 100 Action Comics.

 

 

If I had to pick just one it would be the #23.

Fun

 

What a beautiful group of funny books.

[Weird Paper]

Probably this page full of scribbles.

 

 

[Theagenes]

Probably this page full of scribbles.

 

 

Got to see it in person.

[Weird Paper]

Probably this page full of scribbles.

 

 

Got to see it in person.

(thumbs u Yeah, I got a kick out of the fact that Patrice's picture in the Howard days promo I saw was taken in my comic room.

[quadman78]

amazing Randy

 

Thanks!

[ciorac]

I'm going to cheat and pick a group of books rather than just one. My under 100 Action Comics.

 

 

If I had to pick just one it would be the #23.

 

A stellar group of comics

 

We should start calling you Century Man

[sacentaur]

Outside of comics, my centerpiece is probably my Fantasy Fan #7 from 1934. This rare fanzine is one of only a handful that still exist and features the first publication of the Conan story "Frost Giant's Daughter" (retitled "Gods of the North"). Far rarer than any of the Conan Weird Tales and it's in great shape for such a fragile item.

 

 

 

 

You know I like this (and yes, the condition is incredible for this title)!

[comixcroz]

Probably this page full of scribbles.

 

WOW

[Theagenes]

Probably this page full of scribbles.

 

 

Got to see it in person.

(thumbs u Yeah, I got a kick out of the fact that Patrice's picture in the Howard days promo I saw was taken in my comic room.

 

Yeah, he loves that pic and still talks about that visit to your amazing museu... er... home.

[adamstrange]

There were many wonderful books in this thread (thumbs u

 

My collecting focus is, well, not very focused. I like to own a variety of comics featuring different artists, genres, time periods and themes representative of the first 30 years of the American newsstand comic.

 

That makes it more than a bit difficult to pick a "centerpiece" but this book is as good as any example of the type of comic that is a bit outside the mainstream but still expressing the power and the range of the medium in its early days.