Darwination Posted July 15 Share Posted July 15 I think if we each throw in 50 bucks we can just share custody Point Five and waaaghboss 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Surfing Alien Posted July 15 Share Posted July 15 Pretty staggering . Some of them old time pulp collectors got some amazing goodies stashed away and i'm sure, especially if they (the collector) are of a certain age, will want to be testing the waters on HA with them. tth2, Point Five and jimjum12 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimjum12 Posted July 15 Share Posted July 15 On 7/14/2024 at 7:03 PM, TheGeneral said: Is there a thread on this book yet? Anyone know more of the backstory on it/the collection it came from? Amazing Stories #29 August 1928 CGC 9.8: https://comics.ha.com/itm/pulps/science-fiction/amazing-stories-29-august-1928-gernsback-cgc-nm-mt-98-off-white-to-white-pages/p/7379-155001.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515 @tth2 ..this should be worth coming down from the Tower. GOD BLESS ... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) Point Five and tth2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tth2 Posted July 15 Share Posted July 15 On 7/15/2024 at 7:03 AM, TheGeneral said: Is there a thread on this book yet? Anyone know more of the backstory on it/the collection it came from? Amazing Stories #29 August 1928 CGC 9.8: https://comics.ha.com/itm/pulps/science-fiction/amazing-stories-29-august-1928-gernsback-cgc-nm-mt-98-off-white-to-white-pages/p/7379-155001.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515 The more pre-1940 pulps that CGC slabs in grades above 8.0, the more I'm starting to believe that collectors have been sold a bill of goods about pre-1940 pulps being supposedly impossible to find above 8.0. It's starting to remind me of many years ago when a major dealer tried to convince me to buy mid-grade GA because mid-grade was the best that could be found. As it turns out, I think what he really meant was that mid-grade GA was the best that could be found in his inventory. Aman619, Point Five and jimjum12 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tth2 Posted July 15 Share Posted July 15 On 7/15/2024 at 7:30 PM, jimjum12 said: On 7/15/2024 at 7:03 AM, TheGeneral said: Is there a thread on this book yet? Anyone know more of the backstory on it/the collection it came from? Amazing Stories #29 August 1928 CGC 9.8: https://comics.ha.com/itm/pulps/science-fiction/amazing-stories-29-august-1928-gernsback-cgc-nm-mt-98-off-white-to-white-pages/p/7379-155001.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515 @tth2 ..this should be worth coming down from the Tower. GOD BLESS ... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) I'd be too scared that a 9.9 or 10 will then emerge! But I'm certainly happy now that I've held back on pulling the trigger on 6.0's and 7.0's. jimjum12 and Darwination 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted July 15 Share Posted July 15 Any estimates of value? I've seen plenty of copies of that book, but the condition is staggering - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waaaghboss Posted July 15 Share Posted July 15 On 7/15/2024 at 9:04 AM, tth2 said: I'd be too scared that a 9.9 or 10 will then emerge! But I'm certainly happy now that I've held back on pulling the trigger on 6.0's and 7.0's. This is bait for the 10 pre-screen 😆 tth2, jimjum12 and OtherEric 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bookery Posted July 15 Popular Post Share Posted July 15 On 7/14/2024 at 10:59 AM, RedFury said: That's my fault. I did the notes for Weird Tales for CGC. I meant to mark this as a Classic Cover but simply missed it. I had a lot of problem doing the notes due to limited space. So many issues of Weird Tales have notable authors and stories, and there is not enough space in their notes fields (3 fields of 40 characters, IIRC). But in the case of the Apr 1933 issue there was room, I just forgot. I'll see if I can get it changed. I listed it as a classic cover in the guide out of respect for tradition and to try not to let personal preferences color my notes... but to be perfectly honest, I never quite got the fuss about this one. It's a fine St. John cover to be sure... but then so are most of them. Aside from a big tiger, there's nothing unusual going on, and there's even other tiger covers I like as well if not better. But I know I'm in the minority. PopKulture, jimjum12, PhantomLadyKiller and 4 others 4 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 A solid result for a low grade Lone Ranger Sunday Night Strong results for a couple of lower mid-grade comic-style pbs. Imagine if they'd put them in the right size box And in the hmm, maybe I shouldn't have slabbed this category, a low grade Jungle Stories (just one of a number of similar issues with similar performance) And one more, this Belarski sold for $252, not surprising as the Overboard paperback cover is much chased by pb freaks. I'd like a copy. Just not this copy. 5.0? Staple sticking out? I'm not a condition freak by any means but this one just doesn't do it for me. Big pic - PopKulture, Surfing Alien and Point Five 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfing Alien Posted July 20 Share Posted July 20 On 7/17/2024 at 4:42 PM, Darwination said: A solid result for a low grade Lone Ranger Sunday Night Strong results for a couple of lower mid-grade comic-style pbs. Imagine if they'd put them in the right size box And in the hmm, maybe I shouldn't have slabbed this category, a low grade Jungle Stories (just one of a number of similar issues with similar performance) And one more, this Belarski sold for $252, not surprising as the Overboard paperback cover is much chased by pb freaks. I'd like a copy. Just not this copy. 5.0? Staple sticking out? I'm not a condition freak by any means but this one just doesn't do it for me. Big pic - Maybe I need to get this slabbed pmpknface, Pat Calhoun, comicjack and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 A total sleeper auction last night. I didn't watch, and it doesn't look like there was much interest, some surprisingly low prices for slabbed books: A cool slabbed doc with but with slight resto, a number of others went for 31 dollars each. Mid-grade slabbed Planets didn't exactly set the world on fire An REH Weird Tales with a Brundage cover coming in well below Bookery's value??? (trimmed and yet) This group of 3 had all sorts of issues with spine splits and brittleness as well as glue to the spine, but still REH,Brundage,Doctor Satan, etc Maybe all the collectors were spent out from the big Baker auction earlier in the week... jimjum12, dickymoe74, PopKulture and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Surfing Alien Posted July 23 Popular Post Share Posted July 23 It's been pretty clear to me from the first slab to hit the market that, the slabs have a value, a great value maybe, for top line material and very high grade lower value books. This is not a time, though, like free Covid money days, that newbs are rushing into the market, uneducated and willing to throw easy money at the "hot thing" I think many potential pulp buyers right now are collectors who have been around the block and are not gonna open up their wallets to clear money hustle pricing at "everything is 10x what it was last summer" and are bidding accordingly. jimjum12, comicjack, Point Five and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwination Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 Peeked in at the results of the Sunday night auction at HA. Not real pretty results for mid-grade Planets, Startlings, or Thrillings. Maybe these aren't worth the fuss of slabbing and sending to an auction house...Meanwhile, all sorts of raw rare birds sit likely overpriced and unexamined by the prying eyes of CGC on eBay It seems like a couple of funky week for sales in general. On the other hand, the GA romance comics I watched seemed to do pretty darn well... waaaghboss and Point Five 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicjack Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 On 8/12/2024 at 3:38 AM, Darwination said: Peeked in at the results of the Sunday night auction at HA. Not real pretty results for mid-grade Planets, Startlings, or Thrillings. Maybe these aren't worth the fuss of slabbing and sending to an auction house...Meanwhile, all sorts of raw rare birds sit likely overpriced and unexamined by the prying eyes of CGC on eBay It seems like a couple of funky week for sales in general. On the other hand, the GA romance comics I watched seemed to do pretty darn well... overload on the pulps Point Five and Darwination 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
