Tales to Astonish Appreciation Thread 1 1

[Aces]

Just checking eBay for a reader 40 and found Heritage has some smoking books up!

 

Egads!

When you BSDs win these be sure an post them here!

 

$1000 even...

[brasseye]

Noooooooo.....don't post a link to the White Mountain book. I beg you, please no action on that book. It's my first foray with Heritage and I don't want it to end bitterly

 

Jim

 

Sooooo, was that $1k of love yours or someones elses???

[Guardian Comics]

It would be mine....yay me I put in $1,700 and I guess a floor bidder and I went at it. So far, a pleasurable experience for my 1st time as a Heritage bidder

 

Jim

[Aces]

Did you have to pay a BP?

[CAP Freak]

WOw those pedigrees are sweet!!!

Here are a couple of my latest pick-ups...I am very happy I had the opportunity to purchase them!! All are pedigrees and all are old labels...

 

First up is the TTA 71 9.4 Western Penn off white to white pages

 

[brasseye]

Really jacked about this one.

 

 

Just for a flashback, but does anyone have a better copy of this??

 

It's still one of the most underated issues in the run, and in an underated title it's plain crazy.

This theortically should be in the top portion of any Hulk collector's want list out there!

[Korvac Saga]

One of my favorites and a tough book in higher grade due to the black cover, here is the TTA 99 9.6 Western Penn with off white pages

 

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One of my favorites as well!! (thumbs u Great books from a range of peds=priceless

[Red Hook]

My Green River copy. Raw for now..... no where near a 9.6, that's for sure!

 

[Genesis Comics]

My Green River copy. Raw for now..... no where near a 9.6, that's for sure!

 

 

But a pretty copy for a fraction of the price is just as nice!!!

[Genesis Comics]

One of my favorites and a tough book in higher grade due to the black cover, here is the TTA 99 9.6 Western Penn with off white pages

 

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One of my favorites as well!! (thumbs u Great books from a range of peds=priceless

 

Thanks Rich!! (thumbs u

[Guardian Comics]

I have almost 10 to add to this thread that I've picked up from Heritage and Chicago but it took me 2 and a half hours to read all the Chicago posts and I need to get to bed. As Arex would say...see ya'll tomorrow.

 

Jim

[Guardian Comics]

As promised (I know, like anyone cares). First off two Heritage wins from last weekend.

 

 

 

Then I was able to pick up these 5 raw White Mountain copies from JHV Associates (amazing guys) this past weekend. It's going to really screw with my registry score though as I have no intentions to have them graded. I so enjoyed opening up the book and getting that White Mountain smell that up until now I had only heard stories about.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love this cover, and picked it up solely as a place holder until the WM copy shows up. It's the Mass copy and it really, really pretty but I can't understand why 67 isn't written on the cover in pen :)

 

 

Thanks for your interest.

 

Jim

[CAP Freak]

Wow...Amazing Books JJ

[Genesis Comics]

Nice books Jim!!

[Korvac Saga]

Sweet books Jim!! WM smell? Sounds !! Love that Mass #93

[Guardian Comics]

I've been told for months they have their own distinctive smell. So one would imagine a beautiful cedar chest aroma or musty basement. Well mothballs it is!!! I'm not one for mothballs but for now on when I enter my Grandmothers basements I will just think White Mountain goodness :)

 

As soon as I saw the centering on the Mass copy...I just couldn't pass it up. Add old label White Pages and you know you're holding something good.

 

Jim

[brasseye]

I've been told for months they have their own distinctive smell. So one would imagine a beautiful cedar chest aroma or musty basement. Well mothballs it is!!! I'm not one for mothballs but for now on when I enter my Grandmothers basements I will just think White Mountain goodness :)

 

As soon as I saw the centering on the Mass copy...I just couldn't pass it up. Add old label White Pages and you know you're holding something good.

 

Jim

 

So are you going to get those puppies slabbed...for your registry set?? They look realy good from photo's you've shown, it'd be pretty interesting to see what they grade out as.

(thumbs u

Edited August 15, 2007 by brasseye

[arexcrooke]

And folks, it is much better looking in person than on the scan.

Jim got a great book :hail:

[Guardian Comics]

Arex: Thanks for the compliment.

 

Brass: I am going to hold off for a while getting them slabbed, if I'm sitting a hundred points behind Korvac or something and need to overtake him than I'll do it. Ah who am I kidding, I wouldn't even do that Rich. The 500 points I would get out of them wouldn't even make a dent in the registry scores.

 

So I'll enjoy them raw for a while longer.

 

Jim

[Moriarty]

As soon as I saw the centering on the Mass copy...I just couldn't pass it up. Add old label White Pages and you know you're holding something good.

 

Jim

 

Congrats on the TTA 93. Glad it's found a new home.

 

Alan