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Re-Opened! A very special full Godzilla run (#1-24)
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5 Simple Rules (Please, please read)

:rulez:

1st :takeit: wins; tie/indeterminate goes to the thread.

Payment is Check or Money Order (yeah, yeah I know I'm a dinosaur, troglodyte, luddite, mennonite, hermaphrodite etc. - I just don't have or want e-payments.)

Shipping: U.S. priority shipping included

Don't be listy (tsk) including the little one in my head.

Returns: Sure, just notify me within three days of receipt and get it back to me in the same shape, on your dime.

(Kudos thread linked under my avatar.)

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First, a word about why it’s special. It’s my mostly off the racks run, but thats not why it’s special. That’s just it’s provenance/history, for them that likes to know. I discovered the title with #2 and faithfully plucked it off the racks, later mail-ordering a #1 and a couple later issues that I missed on the stands. If it’s a more Fine-range book, I got it off the stands and read the heck out of it. The VFish and better-looking books came a little later as mail order, for the most part. Though my 15 and 16 are nice but I know I got those off the rack. So it’s not a perfect rule.

Now, why is it special? Every issue that Herb Trimpe and/or Dan Green worked on is signed by them, as you’ll see in the following pictures. They signed on the white margins of the splash pages of all issues except #4, on which Herb only did the cover, so he signed that; and #5, which is unsigned as neither guy had a hand in it. (GCD notes cover as “Herb Trimpe?” — I’m confident they can remove the question mark - it ain’t Herb or he would have signed it.) 

As a high schooler, I organized a comic con in the Hudson Valley and both Herb and Dan, among others came as guests to support a local teens’ comic club effort.  I’m not heartless; I can let them go because I also have a Hulk sketch by Herb that Dan inked from that same day. It’s time for this set to be shared with the comics community. I’d like to move it as a set as I don’t want to end up with a mish mosh half set or so, but if enough boardies want one I guess I could break it up and maybe keep either #1 or #23 and 24. But I’m offering it as a set for now. Price and pics to follow.

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Herb Trimpe (and his family!) were the NICEST people...he's missed.  And I have my Captain Marvel sketch he did for me up on my wall, and I have my Godzilla 1, Hulk 182 and MSH 16 (Herb's first work!) signed by him and tucked away in my PC.  Good luck with the sale!!

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I’m re-opening this thread mostly because I never said thanks for all the kind words I received here from so many of you. Also, lest you think I am heartless, here is why I can let it go, done for me at the same show where all these were signed by Herb and Dan. NFS :cloud9:

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