A Centaur a day...Funny Picture Stories 2/5 upgrade 4 4

[gino2paulus2]

I really appreciate threads like this one I got see to see many books I had never seen before including ones I may now be on the hunt for. Thanks Rick great stuff brother!! 

[podboy66]

Thanks for taking the time to post the entire run.  It was very informative as I have not seen most of these books!

[Johnny545]

Epic thread, well done and thank you.

[G.A.tor]

On 7/30/2017 at 2:21 AM, G.A.tor said:

Cowboy Comics 13

a name change with the 13th issue

i tried to win the Berk copy to upgrade mine, but was unsuccessful 

however, did manage to track down another copy that I will pick up in a few weeks in Chicago 

till then, here is the lowest condition centaur I currently own , but given how impossible the book appears to be to locate, at least I have one!

Here is an upgrade I'm very happy with. This book is top 5 rarest centaurs. Wasn't sure I'd be able to upgrade given the Berk Larson copy eluded me. Thankfully someone just so happened to have this little diddy tucked away and saw fit to trade it to me for big stacks of benjamins!

[damonwad]

47 minutes ago, G.A.tor said:

Here is an upgrade I'm very happy with. This book is top 5 rarest centaurs. Wasn't sure I'd be able to upgrade given the Berk Larson copy eluded me. Thankfully someone just so happened to have this little diddy tucked away and saw fit to trade it to me for big stacks of benjamins!

A great book and a heck of a nice upgrade.

[Robot Man]

Wow Rick what a great ride! I now have a lot better appreciation of this publisher. I can't imagine how hard and expensive it was to complete this tough publisher. now that it is all said and done, A tough choice, but my favorite...Funny Pages #40. 

Thanks for staying with it. Now, what's next?

[G.A.tor]

6 hours ago, Robot Man said:

Wow Rick what a great ride! I now have a lot better appreciation of this publisher. I can't imagine how hard and expensive it was to complete this tough publisher. now that it is all said and done, A tough choice, but my favorite...Funny Pages #40. 

Thanks for staying with it. Now, what's next?

I concur about funny Pages 40!

going to list some 15-20 upgrades I've managed then I will continue to work on the 3 runs I'm currently building and maybe post them when completed. 

Thanks for viewing

[comicjack]

Seems like three agree on the FP40 which has been coming out to the market lately 

[G.A.tor]

23 minutes ago, comicjack said:

Seems like three agree on the FP40 which has been coming out to the market lately 

rumor has it at least 2 more copies will be coming to auction/market soon...its a great book!

[G.A.tor]

On 1/25/2017 at 8:47 AM, G.A.tor said:

Amazing man 25

 

This is a notoriously difficult book to obtain. The first time I collected I was unable to obtain one. Metropolis Auctioned the mile high copy about 6 years ago, but I lost out. So i obsessed over locating

 

Since then I've tried to acquire every copy I've seen over the past years

 

Going to try to post upgrades in order. Not sure how successful I will be. 

Wanted the Berk 25 and 26...got one out of two

[Hudson]

Awesome thread, Rick.

[sacentaur]

Rick, why is the A-Man 25 only a 1.8 (I noticed it had nice pages so obviously not brittle)?

[G.A.tor]

5 hours ago, sacentaur said:

Rick, why is the A-Man 25 only a 1.8 (I noticed it had nice pages so obviously not brittle)?

No idea. It's a beaut. I assume spine split?

[Larryw7]

Congrats on a great thread, Rick!

[G.A.tor]

On 1/27/2017 at 7:36 AM, G.A.tor said:

Amazing mystery funnies v1, #1

 

While every Centaur collector has their favorite issue or run , this title seems to gather the most interest from collectors of all genres

 

I believe the first issue of this title I ever owned was v1,1 and if I recall correctly it was the Larson copy

 

Bill Everett's first nationally published work in comics was the cover to this issue

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There are issues in this run that are every bit as rare and difficult to obtain as any centaur out there

 

So let's begin

 

My 2 favorite runs within titles are amf 1/1-2/6 and funny Pages 35-42

im not a high grade guy by nature and with centaurs, well, good luck insisting on only high grade copies. 

Yet recently , the opportunity to upgrade some amfs into the higher grade presented itself...opportunity knocked and I answered, as you will see over the next couple of days

 

[comicjack]

You can't be a grade snob when it comes to Centaurs just buy them anyway you come across them 

[G.A.tor]

On 1/28/2017 at 10:23 AM, G.A.tor said:

Amazing mystery funnies v1,#2

 

My higher grade quest continues with this upgrade

 

[sacentaur]

That is a great book. 

[circumstances]

On 8/29/2017 at 9:31 PM, G.A.tor said:

Here is an upgrade I'm very happy with. This book is top 5 rarest centaurs. Wasn't sure I'd be able to upgrade given the Berk Larson copy eluded me. Thankfully someone just so happened to have this little diddy tucked away and saw fit to trade it to me for big stacks of benjamins!

I wish every comic from the publisher had that logo!

 

[G.A.tor]

33 minutes ago, circumstances said:

I wish every comic from the publisher had that logo!

 

It's cool, right!