Post Your Top 3 Golden Age Books

[RareHighGrade]

We have seen a lot of great books from GA forumites over the years. It would be interesting to know which of these books are the owner's prized possessions. In other words, what are the 3 books that are the jewels of your collection, your Holy Grails, your Silmarillions, etc., and why do they hold that distinction? Monetary value is not necessarily a criterion. Scans, however, are requisite.

 

Discussing our favorite books and why we treasure them will help remind us of the joy we get from being in this hobby, and help us look past some of the unpleasantness that can be found in the Comics General Forum.

 

RHG

[ft88]

Four Color 48, Carl Barks art

Four Color 51, Bugs Bunny 2

Funnies 64 (New format, First Woody Woodpecker)

 

All are highest graded copies. And the Four Color 51 I bought from Mile High for guide. Not every day you get a deal from these guys.

 

[143ksk]

Very cool books

 

I especially like The Funnies 64

[143ksk]

We have seen a lot of great books from GA forumites over the years. It would be interesting to know which of these books are the owner's prized possessions. In other words, what are the 3 books that are the jewels of your collection, your Holy Grails, your Silmarillions, etc., and why do they hold that distinction? Monetary value is not necessarily a criterion. Scans, however, are requisite.

RHG

 

So, what are your three?

[143ksk]

Mine are pretty easy, since there are 3 major Archie keys:

 

Pep 22 (First appearance of Archie, Betty and Jughead)

Jackpot 4 (First cover appearance of Archie)

Archie 1

 

 

 

[PUNYHUMAN]

Here's my three, well okay I'm cheating, four reasons for collecting these grails. I'm a big fan of Bill Everett, here's his first art, cover only, scarce book. The second book is my favorite cover by Bill in the Golden Age. My third book is Lou Fine at his best, next to Fantastic Comics # 3 IMO. Lastly fourth, I know I'm cheating, but I feel this is the best cover in the run of the Arrow. A character I really enjoy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[skybolt]

Beautiful books guys.

 

Here are my top 3. I definitely love Timely and GGA books:

 

 

 

[PUNYHUMAN]

Killer books.Wow!!

[ronm3-migration]

These are my favorites. I managed to get them all centered with white pages.

 

 

 

[RareHighGrade]

Four Color 48, Carl Barks art

Four Color 51, Bugs Bunny 2

Funnies 64 (New format, First Woody Woodpecker)

 

All are highest graded copies. And the Four Color 51 I bought from Mile High for guide. Not every day you get a deal from these guys.

 

Those are great books ft88. Have funny animal books always been your favorites, or is that a focus that has developed recently?

[RareHighGrade]

Mine are pretty easy, since there are 3 major Archie keys:

 

Pep 22 (First appearance of Archie, Betty and Jughead)

Jackpot 4 (First cover appearance of Archie)

Archie 1

 

For some reason, your selections don't surprise me -- the grails of the Archie world.

[Bat-Hound]

I have many Batman and Detectives but these yellow covers are some of my favorites. [/img] [/img] [/img]

[ronm3-migration]

Beautiful books!

I love the Yellows and the Red covers as well! What Batman cover dont I like!

I need all 3 of those.

[bobpfef]

These are my current top 3, though this should be changing soon with some upcoming purchases

 

 

 

[RareHighGrade]

We have seen a lot of great books from GA forumites over the years. It would be interesting to know which of these books are the owner's prized possessions. In other words, what are the 3 books that are the jewels of your collection, your Holy Grails, your Silmarillions, etc., and why do they hold that distinction? Monetary value is not necessarily a criterion. Scans, however, are requisite.

RHG

 

So, what are your three?

 

My focus has always been on uncommon books that are in high grade. Therefore, at least a couple of my top 3 will not come as a surprise. I'll start with the third on my list.

 

I have always been a fan of Creig Flessel. His work was perhaps the finest out there in the 1930's. Some of his classic covers were swiped for years by other artists. This is one of them -- Detective #15:

 

[RareHighGrade]

In second place is what many DC completionists consider to be the rarest issue of any regular DC Golden Age title. This is the book that eluded Ian Levine for so many years in his quest to complete his DC collection. I love it not just for its rarity, but also because it is another example of Flessel at his finest. New Adventure Comics #26:

 

[ronm3-migration]

In second place is what many DC completionists consider to be the rarest issue of any regular DC Golden Age title. This is the book that eluded Ian Levine for so many years in his quest to complete his DC collection. I love it not just for its rarity, but also because it is another example of Flessel at his finest. New Adventure Comics #26:

 

 

And I can see the name Church written on it. Awesome book. Absolutely perfect. You can tell that the book must be incredible in person.

I would love to see more of what you have.

[RareHighGrade]

My #1 personal grail is a book that has everything I could ever want. It is the rarest DC book, it has a Creig Flessel cover, and it is in amazing condition with bone-white pages. Double Action Comics #2:

 

[ronm3-migration]

And these books are unrestored?

[RareHighGrade]

And these books are unrestored?

 

Yes.