Theagenes Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 Wow! What a cool collection, Rick! Congrats! Was this an original owner collection? Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comicdey Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 a few more nedors: many of the books have wonderful ow/w pages...all seem to have a "WWW and year" penciled on the FC gator PM me prices on those bad girls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.A.tor Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 Wow! What a cool collection, Rick! Congrats! Was this an original owner collection? Jeff yep...original owner..his name was Earnest, and he was from France and learned to read from comics....the lovely 71 year old lady (yes, it really was a "little old lady") that sold them to me, inherited them when Earnest recently passed... virtually all comics have 2 "w" penciled on the front cover, and the date of the comic written on each...so, I have dubbed it the "ww" collection... Earnest lived/grew up in San Fran, where all the copies were purchased by him (some pq like the rileys, really white...others not so good...all the books were well read)...they moved to GA a few years back, and when he passed, Wattie (the lovely lady whom lives 5 minutes from me) got the comics because she and Earnest used to both read them as a child (or something along those lines)... 280 or so books from 1943 to 1955...Wattie's daughter's (Rebecca) husband (Clay) did a wonderful job organizing, researching, and contacting perspective buyers in the area...just so happened that Brent from quality and I were really the only 2 interested in taking time to view them (isn't that so funny)...since I was only 5 minutes away, I got to view them today.... they asked me to make an offer, I did, they were happy (I bought most as a collector would ) and I have 2 wonderful boxes of comics that Brent is coming down Saturday to look at with me! gator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kakapo Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 ...And nice Pep shot, Kakapo, lots of tough books there. :thumbsup: Thanks! Speaking of tough books, thanks for not pointing out the mysterious gap between 40 and 50...I wonder why those are so scarce. Paper recycling drives during WWII? Anyway, this was my one chance to make a substantial post in this thread (don't have that many Archies from 1-100), so thanks for your attention! Great Startling Comics run, too! When I'm done with Archie, I think I'll move onto GGA - as if Betty and Veronica aren't that already... Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.A.tor Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 as I am putting these into mylars (just ordered some more!), figured I would take a few more random shots: these are a few promo type comics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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G.A.tor Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 not very much in the way of DC superhero: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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G.A.tor Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 a couple of cool LB Cole covers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 WOW!! Those are lovely! I'm glad someone so nice got them:) (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batman_fan Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 Hey Rick, ya need to get ya onea these Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciorac Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 Rick scores again. Way to go bro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swapto Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 nice one rick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivanko Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 Wow! What a cool collection, Rick! Congrats! Was this an original owner collection? Jeff yep...original owner..his name was Earnest, and he was from France and learned to read from comics....the lovely 71 year old lady (yes, it really was a "little old lady") that sold them to me, inherited them when Earnest recently passed... virtually all comics have 2 "w" penciled on the front cover, and the date of the comic written on each...so, I have dubbed it the "ww" collection... Earnest lived/grew up in San Fran, where all the copies were purchased by him (some pq like the rileys, really white...others not so good...all the books were well read)...they moved to GA a few years back, and when he passed, Wattie (the lovely lady whom lives 5 minutes from me) got the comics because she and Earnest used to both read them as a child (or something along those lines)... 280 or so books from 1943 to 1955...Wattie's daughter's (Rebecca) husband (Clay) did a wonderful job organizing, researching, and contacting perspective buyers in the area...just so happened that Brent from quality and I were really the only 2 interested in taking time to view them (isn't that so funny)...since I was only 5 minutes away, I got to view them today.... they asked me to make an offer, I did, they were happy (I bought most as a collector would ) and I have 2 wonderful boxes of comics that Brent is coming down Saturday to look at with me! gator That's why I love pedigrees----the story!! Congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.A.tor Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 a few more mylar transfers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Point Five Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 That Startling shot looks like something that would take me 5 or 10 years to assemble in lower grade....if I started today. Unreal! Great collection & story Rick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.A.tor Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 That Startling shot looks like something that would take me 5 or 10 years to assemble in lower grade....if I started today. Unreal! Great collection & story Rick! very cool...you know, I will admit, I knew that the 49 was "classic" (schomburg/robot), but I honestly did not pay attention to the other 5 issues...I singled the 49 out, paid a nice premium for it...but, based on the PM's I have gotten, the Startlings are the "hit" of the bunch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
