Your Top 3 pick ups of 2017 7 7

[Ricksneatstuff]

6 hours ago, Mr.Illmannered said:

It was a good year for pickups.

If that’s good I can’t even imagine what Great would be 

[vaillant]

So many terrific books! (That Cap #1…  )

If I have to go by rarity/toughness for me to acquire, they would be these three:

My first Timely (a Cap #19). No Kirby but awesome art and stories.


The beautiful center-spread:


Spirou reliure for the year run 1944
(including the famous "Liberation" issue with american soldiers on cover. And Superman too… )



And this awesome rarity: Waldl’s cartoon book "Lacht ihn tot!" ("Laugh him dead") from 1937 in the rarer hardbound edition and in incredible shape.
Waldl (Walter Hoffman) worked for the SS Journal "De Schwarze Korps" for which he did cartoons with nasty satire directed towards hebrews, the catholic church and bolshevism (there is even a cartoon about Goering). After the war he was arrested and spent time in an Allied POW camp, an experience he recollected in a following cartoon book done in 1947 but published in the 1950s.




This is the softcover edition, which I already had (I will have a copy for sale in my upcoming "worldwide WW2 thread"):


Anti-catholic satire from the insides:

 

[gino2paulus2]

3 hours ago, vaillant said:

So many terrific books! (That Cap #1…  )

If I have to go by rarity/toughness for me to acquire, they would be these three:

My first Timely (a Cap #19). No Kirby but awesome art and stories.


The beautiful center-spread:


Spirou reliure for the year run 1944
(including the famous "Liberation" issue with american soldiers on cover. And Superman too… )



And this awesome rarity: Waldl’s cartoon book "Lacht ihn tot!" ("Laugh him dead") from 1937 in the rarer hardbound edition and in incredible shape.
Waldl (Walter Hoffman) worked for the SS Journal "De Schwarze Korps" for which he did cartoons with nasty satire directed towards hebrews, the catholic church and bolshevism (there is even a cartoon about Goering). After the war he was arrested and spent time in an Allied POW camp, an experience he recollected in a following cartoon book done in 1947 but published in the 1950s.




This is the softcover edition, which I already had (I will have a copy for sale in my upcoming "worldwide WW2 thread"):


Anti-catholic satire from the insides:

 

VERY COOL stuff Brother as always!! 

[Straw-Man]

this pick-up sorta came out of the blue, and necessitates a change to my top-3 on page 1.  i love the target too much to drop it, so the ww 6 is subbed out for this one.

[comicjack]

We should all look that good at 77 years old 

[gino2paulus2]

8 minutes ago, Straw-Man said:

this pick-up sorta came out of the blue, and necessitates a change to my top-3 on page 1.  i love the target too much to drop it, so the ww 6 is subbed out for this one.

Good Golly miss Molly that is AWESOME!! This is what I must have looked like this morning when my son crawled into bed with me at 0400 and asked me if I was ready to get up 

[woowoo]

On ‎12‎/‎28‎/‎2017 at 10:46 PM, Mr.Illmannered said:

It was a good year for pickups.

I don't see Spirit 22  Guess I have to drive down and see the books in person G. Great book's what days are you at the Batcave ?

[Mr.Illmannered]

55 minutes ago, woowoo said:

I don't see Spirit 22  Guess I have to drive down and see the books in person G. Great book's what days are you at the Batcave ?

I’m rarely there brother. Saturday’s here and there.

[scooter99]

I need to pay a visit as well.  I'm sure that undercopy of BC 50 is not for sale, but I'd love to look at the masterpieces in person.  Any high grade bronze books available besides PCH? 

[tth2]

Beautiful book, Billy! 

[jimjum12]

5 minutes ago, tth2 said:

Beautiful book, Billy! 

I still got my mint copy of HA's Intelligent Collector with my man Tim beaming out from the pages .............. NFS ....................GOD BLESS...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[Pat Calhoun]

[Readcomix]

Pat, forgive my ignorance, but what is that first item? Did you move beyond PCH and just hire your own witch doctor to Shrink a head??? It looks pretty cool, but I am not sure what I'm looking at.

[Pat Calhoun]

I collect vintage Mexican sterling and stone maskettes and had a great year - unlikely to be matched in the future. They are approximately 1940-1960, a couple of inches tall and wide.

[vaillant]

Very cool!
Love the Manly Wade Wellman paperback as well. Is that uncommon?

Better pictures of the comic item I am most excited about – I never saw an hardcover copy previously, except from this one that was in less nice shape than mine!
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/24136473_nazi-anti-semitic-anti-bolshevik-joke-book

[Pat Calhoun]

Many of the early '50s UK 'mushroom jungle' (small publishers sprouting in dank dark alleys...) books are kinda scarce. They did spell Manly's name wrong. Though I was originally attracted to the MJ SF PBs by USA reprints like this (nice pulp repackagings are one of my specialties - Startling cov shown that I don't own) soon John Russell Fearn and E C Tubb (Brit SF writers) also crowded my want list, after reading some of their novels and finding them excellent. My want list is much smaller now which makes the fact that I just got in a Fearn (Statten) and a Tubb into quite the score. Plus another of my bumper crop of maskettes from 2017.

[Pat Calhoun]

[mwotka]

Great stuff from everyone.  I'm a little late to the game, but here are my 3 favorite pickups from 2017.  Happy hunting in 2018!

 

[Tri-Color Brian]

Top 3?  One of them is easy...the other 2 are going to be tougher to pick...I found a few scarce one's in 2017...but here goes...

First Pick

Second Pick

Third Pick

Runners Up...

Edited January 3, 2018 by Tri-ColorBrian