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[Gatsby77]

On 4/30/2021 at 12:48 PM, namisgr said:

The Gaines file copies certainly.  In my experience with Silver Age, not so much for the Random House archives/Dell file copies.

Can confirm re. Gold Key / Random House FCs.

For Magnus and Doctor Solar, at least, the FCs are nearly all 9.0-9.4.

Rather, the best pedigrees for those titles (for 9.6/9.8 books) are Pacific Coast, Twin Cities, White Mountain and Boston. 

[Randall Dowling]

30 minutes ago, cheetah said:

Which Eldon is this?  I their is more than one.

I'm still trying to get that straight.  As previous threads have explored, there were the following:

• Eldon Dedini (cartoonist for Playboy magazine), many of his books are signed "Dedini"
• Eldon Hamann (1934-1987)
• Eldon Tuffenstamer (who's cursive writing seems awful similar to the cursive signature copies).

My current thinking is that the majority of books that people call "Eldons" are from Tuffenstamer but I'm happy to be corrected.  

There's definitely more than one.

Edited May 2, 2021 by Randall Dowling

[sfcityduck]

20 hours ago, Rip said:

Adamstrange is correct. There are numerous examples of 9.6 and 9.8 copies from non-pedigrees with writing on the front. In fact I can think of an example where there is small first name written on the front cover,

Here's a 9.6 I sold on Heritage, one of three census topping 9.6s, the only one with a well-placed date stamp:

One of the others:

[BarristerBaker]

1 hour ago, Gatsby77 said:

Hmm...yeah. It's a 9.2 (shown on p. 11 in this thread).

Question is whether it was just pulled from this auction or already sold privately?

BTW - that 1.5 sold for *stupid* money. I don't get it.

No Flash 96, though every other book around that is listed. Wonder if some are getting plucked?

Also, what did the Flash 104 1.5 sell for?

Edited May 2, 2021 by BarristerBaker

[tth2]

10 hours ago, Spyder! said:

Care to provide any evidence to support this claim? What you are accusing the auction houses of doing is illegal. Any evidence at all? No? I didn’t think so. 

[innocuous]

3 hours ago, BarristerBaker said:

Also, what did the Flash 104 1.5 sell for?

$1001 (Maybe the winner thought the the "other guy" that graded this was being harsh?)

https://www.comiclink.com/Auctions/item.asp?id=1470698

[path4play]

12 hours ago, lou_fine said:

Are you confident that your wallet can take the hit for any of the Police Comics that might eminate from this Promise Collection here?  

As per your post below, how did you make out in your quest for the Chinatown copies, or are you going to ditch them like yesterday's old lover and go after your fresh new love:    

 

Chinatown was a strike out....:(

 

[entalmighty1]

@Spyder! @MrBedrock

It isn't that I'm unimpressed with the books.  It's mind-blowing.  It would also still be mind-blowing without CGC gifting VF grades on F- books.  Just my opinion.  

[batman_fan]

I would personally say Heritage was negligent if they didn't maximize the potential of these books so the seller can achieve the highest dollar amount for the collection.  In this case it seems Heritage did right by the sellers 

[Robot Man]

15 hours ago, aardvark88 said:

Hope you are saving up your Bitcoin to snipe:

Lordy! That is the one I want. One of the most iconic and well known comic covers of all time. I love it so much that it is my screen saver every time I turn on my phone. 

[sagii]

33 minutes ago, Robot Man said:

Lordy! That is the one I want. One of the most iconic and well known comic covers of all time. I love it so much that it is my screen saver every time I turn on my phone. 

..somebody i know has some doubles of some a listers that just could bring this home  

Edited May 2, 2021 by sagii

[Mmehdy]

2 hours ago, Robot Man said:

Lordy! That is the one I want. One of the most iconic and well known comic covers of all time. I love it so much that it is my screen saver every time I turn on my phone. 

Mine too, Fav of the books seen so far..any idea on what price it might go for?

[lou_fine]

2 hours ago, Robot Man said:

18 hours ago, aardvark88 said:

Hope you are saving up your Bitcoin to snipe:

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Lordy! That is the one I want. One of the most iconic and well known comic covers of all time. I love it so much that it is my screen saver every time I turn on my phone. 

 

30 minutes ago, Mmehdy said:

Mine too, Fav of the books seen so far..any idea on what price it might go for?

Well, unlike most of you who tends to go for the long time classic favorites, I guess I always like to go for the underdogs since they seem to be much more underrated and underappreciated.  

As such, I have always tended to favor the PL 23 cover over the PL 17 cover and in a similar vein, the Blue Beetle 52 cover with the beautiful blend of colors over the long recognized classic cover BB54.      

Then again, maybe it's simply nothing more than my senses becoming more muted and bored after seeing the PL 17  and BB 54 covers being highlighted for almost 50 long years now.    

[Robot Man]

17 minutes ago, szav said:

Well the 9.4 went for 120k what 2 years ago? but that looked a little better than this one as I recall.  

I know it’s a bit nitpicky and this is still an astoundingly gorgeous copy but those little beginnings of staple tears that I see bother me in a 9.6.  As i recall the 9.4 had a perfect cut too.

That said it says 9.6, and we know enough people care even if we don’t to make it matter, and at this point in time I think this copy has to get at least 150k, but probably ends up closer to 200k. 

So I guess I’m going to have to be happy with my lowly vg copy that I paid $25. for 40 years ago...

For that 150k, I’d rather have a nice hot rod and a couple vintage bikes instead...

[Robot Man]

1 hour ago, lou_fine said:

 

Well, unlike most of you who tends to go for the long time classic favorites, I guess I always like to go for the underdogs since they seem to be much more underrated and underappreciated.  

As such, I have always tended to favor the PL 23 cover over the PL 17 cover and in a similar vein, the Blue Beetle 52 cover with the beautiful blend of colors over the long recognized classic cover BB54.      

Then again, maybe it's simply nothing more than my senses becoming more muted and bored after seeing the PL 17  and BB 54 covers being highlighted for almost 50 long years now.    

I’m with you on the BB 52 over the 54. But I can’t think of much of anything that tops PL 17 in that genre. I never get tired of looking into Sandra’s eyes...

[lou_fine]

5 minutes ago, szav said:

Even through the slab when I hold her up close to my ear I can hear her whisper seductively  “save me Scott”...

Since we are all adults here, the Mods would hopefully not banish you to the CGC sin bin if you finish Sandra's line here:  

......................."and I'll be yours , allll night longgg!!!"    

[RareHighGrade]

7 hours ago, entalmighty1 said:

@Spyder! @MrBedrock

It isn't that I'm unimpressed with the books.  It's mind-blowing.  It would also still be mind-blowing without CGC gifting VF grades on F- books.  Just my opinion.  

[batman_fan]

Not part of the Promise collection but this one is cool

[sagii]

1 hour ago, batman_fan said:

Not part of the Promise collection but this one is cool

Stunner! 

[Moondog]

10 hours ago, Robot Man said:

Lordy! That is the one I want. One of the most iconic and well known comic covers of all time. I love it so much that it is my screen saver every time I turn on my phone. 

Agreed, Bob.  It's just so f'ing cool.  It's beyond cool.  When I was a freshman and first saw it in SotI in my high school library.I went nuts.  I've owned 2 or 3 over the years, but this is just too much.