Silver Age pedigree thread 3 3

[Hepcat]

On 5/26/2024 at 5:38 PM, adamstrange said:

Mass copy

High grade DC war from '64! Splendid, simply splendid.

[Hepcat]

On 5/26/2024 at 7:03 PM, Dr. Love said:

In my mind I see

Death - on wings of flame, so bright

You and I...tonight

Too kinky for me.  I'm much more conventional. A nice unhurried interlude with a  lithesome lass in a clean bed is the sum total of my own fantasy quotient.

Edited May 27 by Hepcat

[adamstrange]

On 5/26/2024 at 7:03 PM, Dr. Love said:

In my mind I see

Death - on wings of flame, so bright

You and I...tonight

Did not foresee that twist ending...

[Dr. Love]

Like the sun I come

Fully formed, immediate 

You can't look away

[adamstrange]

Salida

[adamstrange]

Bethlehem

[Hepcat]

On 5/26/2024 at 8:25 PM, adamstrange said:

Salida

Oh wow! I love MiG covers.

 

[comicjack]

[namisgr]

More Massachusetts Marvels.  The Journey was a buy from one of Marnin's first listings of the collection in CBG, in or around 1993.

    

Edited May 27 by namisgr
olden tymes: buying from a CBG ad

[Straw-Man]

seeing a buncha mass copies here, not alot from boston...

[Straw-Man]

[Straw-Man]

[Microchip]

On 5/26/2024 at 2:47 PM, Ghost Town said:

I'm about to use the word "provenance" again, again!

Here's a story of provenance lost and found: In 2011, Heritage started listing a bunch of incredibly high grade FF books in an auction. They called the books "The North Star Collection."

The back cover of one of the books caught my eye because Heritage had a sticker with the consignor's name on the back cover. Oops! (See below.)

At least a few people knew that a well-known comic artist had acquired all the Curator FFs after #1. (That was before Tom Brulato bought some of the other big Marvel titles through John Hauser.) So I called Heritage and said, "Hey, you should know those FFs are from the Curator collection." Heritage quickly had CGC re-holder the books with the proper pedigree designation. (Snarky aside: My thank you note must have been lost in the mail.)

And here's a book I didn't win with either label:

 

The back covers do often tell the biggest story of a book's quality.  The back cover has to reflect the grade shown on the front to the same degree.   Personally I've only had a few curator books, and only the Hollywood Hills books were consistently high quality from back and front covers from my knowledge.

But with the example at hand a FF#2 no less, thats a staggering degree of condition on show from the curator pedigree.

[namisgr]

[LordRahl]

On 5/23/2024 at 10:38 PM, Ghost Town said:

These are all Golden State books. I'm probably biased because I own lot of GS books but I think they're pretty great. Probably not quite up there with the Curator or Pacific Coast books because the runs started later. But I think they're nicer than most SA pedigrees.

Sweet Baby Jesus, Barton! And I thought your PF books were impressive!

[adamstrange]

Bethlehem

[steelcity]

Really nice variety of great books in this thread.

[Ghost Town]

I was told by a Green River fanatic this is a GR book.

Like this one:

Edited May 28 by Ghost Town

[Microchip]

On 5/28/2024 at 11:27 AM, Ghost Town said:

I was told by a Green River fanatic this GR book.

Like this one:

You've knocked it out of the park once again.   I never had a high regard for this pedigree, but these two examples are clearly exceptional. 

[Hepcat]

Here are five more of my Northland Herbie comics:

NM-

NM

NM

NM

NM+