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[Mr. Lady Luck]

14 hours ago, Sqeggs said:

Steve,

Honestly, in my years in the hobby this is one of great collecting accomplishments, given how tough (impossible!) many of these books are to find in high grade -- or in any grade, for some of them.  The diligence it took to assemble these books is just mind boggling.  

You deserve a bust in the main room of the Comic Collectors Hall of Fame. 

Whose bust would he prefer - Betty or Veronica's?

Steve, you are a comic legend and my hero

[jimjum12]

When I was a kid, my Aunt gave a pile of comics that filled the trunk of her Chevelle to me, my sister, and my two cousins. I happened upon a Paperheart thread that had a 9.4 copy of Action 344..... one of those early books that was seared into my memory. I made a comment about how I would love to get it but money was just impossibly tight at the time. About a week later a package showed up at my house with that book in it. Turns out Steve bought it FOR me.... out of the goodness of his heart, out of the blue. It's a book I'll never sell. I had the good fortune of running into him at Baltimore last year.... a high point of the show. Steve is awesome..... I would have loved to add the Hedy 22 from his collection to my group, but alas, it scooted out of reach. GOD BLESS....

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

Edited February 25, 2018 by jimjum12

[Straw-Man]

15 hours ago, Sqeggs said:

Steve,

Honestly, in my years in the hobby this is one of great collecting accomplishments, given how tough (impossible!) many of these books are to find in high grade -- or in any grade, for some of them.  The diligence it took to assemble these books is just mind boggling.  

You deserve a bust in the main room of the Comic Collectors Hall of Fame. 

yeah, but if you knew him personally, you'd realize...

 

he's a better guy than he is a collector!

[jhutton2]

13 hours ago, Zolnerowich said:

Now that's funny! Tell me that's your cute doggy!

 

Not mine...lol.   I do have a cute dog who is no longer a pup (He turns 14 in March)

Warmest Regards,

Jason 

Here is my daughter with him on a family trip last Summer.

 

Edited February 25, 2018 by jhutton2

[Point Five]

13 hours ago, Badger said:

Well, I can confirm the B&V #40 went to a boardie.   A few years from now I'll either feel like a genius or a sucker.

I bid on a lot of stuff, what I thought were good, reasonable bids, only to see them blown out the water by 2 and even 3 times more than I bid.  On a lot of books, the bidding was crazy and I admit I helped it along.

Congrats! That is one stunning copy.

[telerites]

4 hours ago, jhutton2 said:

Not mine...lol.   I do have a cute dog who is no longer a pup (He turns 14 in March)

Warmest Regards,

Jason 

Here is my daughter with him on a family trip last Summer.

 

Great pic, Jason.  Enjoy all the time you spend with your daughter - time goes so fast.  Mine is a college senior and it seemed like only yesterday, I was taking her to her first day of kindergarten.  

Oh, and cute dog too.  I have not had the heart to adopt another one after my last dogs.  They made it to 16.  An English Setter which I named Mr. Spock.  His yardmate was a Brittany Spaniel I named Captain Kirk.  Kirk passed about 6 months before Spock at the same age.  They grew together and I think Spock lost is Captain and his "katra" left him.  

 

Edited February 25, 2018 by telerites

[Zolnerowich]

9 hours ago, Flex Mentallo said:

I'm so glad you asked me! It's one of a series of -I think - eight or nine 'literary maps' commissioned from artist Edward Everett Henry by the Cleveland Printers Harris-Seybold in the 1950's. Others include Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.

 

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/land/

Neat stuff! Your collection knows no bounds.

[Zolnerowich]

6 hours ago, jhutton2 said:

Not mine...lol.   I do have a cute dog who is no longer a pup (He turns 14 in March)

Warmest Regards,

Jason 

Here is my daughter with him on a family trip last Summer.

 

Good ol’ dog. 

From the crowd of people in the background of the photo, it looks the 3 of you are at a comic con!

Here’s my 8-1/2 year old pooch, a terrier mutt mid-chew. 

[Flex Mentallo]

3 minutes ago, Zolnerowich said:

Neat stuff! Your collection knows no bounds.

It also knows no literary maps - but I'm on the look out for a decent book on the subject!

[Knightsofold]

On 2/24/2018 at 12:53 PM, szavisca said:

Well I can join the oh my god the one book I wanted went for twice what I thought was my ridiculous bid club with that wings 82.

I said the same thing on a bunch of books I wanted.  But as high as these GA books sell for, I’m thankful I’m not in the OG art market, I can’t believe the $ being thrown around there.  10k pages are “cheap”.   It’s like pre tobin tec prices just on entry level decent pages.

[Sqeggs]

1 hour ago, Flex Mentallo said:

1 hour ago, Zolnerowich said:

Neat stuff! Your collection knows no bounds.

It also knows no literary maps - but I'm on the look out for a decent book on the subject!

I went on the loc.gov web site hoping that they might be selling prints of these maps, but, alas, it appears that they aren't.  Or maybe I just couldn't find them. 

[Sqeggs]

16 hours ago, Inaflash said:

18 hours ago, Straw-Man said:

i own this only because of the quasi-blonde phantom appearance.  might just have to get it slabbed and to auction.

I'll give you $300...cash.

Ken

Or how about $200 in cash and $500 in my best wishes?