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[brasseye]

Where do you keep getting these from? Once again hats off to you Korvac

[Korvac Saga]

Where do you keep getting these from? Once again hats off to you Korvac

 

Thanks brasseye!! I'm like a comic collecting black hole: when a book gets too close to me its history My collossal comic lust combined with my reckless spending create such an enormous pull that even light itself cannot escape!!!!!! That and I logged onto www.pedigreecomics.com and made some offers

[Frederic9494]

Where do you keep getting these from? Once again hats off to you Korvac

 

Thanks brasseye!! I'm like a comic collecting black hole: when a book gets too close to me its history My collossal comic lust combined with my reckless spending create such an enormous pull that even light itself cannot escape!!!!!! That and I logged onto www.pedigreecomics.com and made some offers

 

Great books Rich!

 

BTW have you people seen the raw Mass. Fantastic Four on Collectors Assemble ? Great stuff ! It seems that Marnin is ready to sell some of his Mass. copies.

 

Will we see some Pre-Nick Fury Mass. Strange Tales this year ?

[Korvac Saga]

Where do you keep getting these from? Once again hats off to you Korvac

 

Thanks brasseye!! I'm like a comic collecting black hole: when a book gets too close to me its history My collossal comic lust combined with my reckless spending create such an enormous pull that even light itself cannot escape!!!!!! That and I logged onto www.pedigreecomics.com and made some offers

 

Great books Rich!

 

BTW have you people seen the raw Mass. Fantastic Four on Collectors Assemble ? Great stuff ! It seems that Marnin is ready to sell some of his Mass. copies.

 

Will we see some Pre-Nick Fury Mass. Strange Tales this year ?

 

Thanks Frederic!! Yeah, I saw Marnin's books. Beautiful, but prices were

Does he have some Mass ST's or is that just wishful thinking?

[Monkeyman]

I went a little crazy at Metropolis last week and picked up five new ST books. The first two fill holes and the last three are upgrades from raw VFs. Four of them are pedigrees.

 

 

CGC 9.2 Mass Copy

 

Edited May 29, 2007 by Monkeyman

[Monkeyman]

CGC 9.2 Mass Copy

 

[Monkeyman]

CGC 9.2

 

[Monkeyman]

CGC 9.4 Boston Copy

 

I have to assume the white at the top is on the case or it wouldn't have got a 9.4.

 

[Monkeyman]

CGC 9.4 Oakland Copy

 

[Monkeyman]

Where do you keep getting these from? Once again hats off to you Korvac

 

Thanks brasseye!! I'm like a comic collecting black hole: when a book gets too close to me its history My collossal comic lust combined with my reckless spending create such an enormous pull that even light itself cannot escape!!!!!! That and I logged onto www.pedigreecomics.com and made some offers

 

Great books Rich!

 

BTW have you people seen the raw Mass. Fantastic Four on Collectors Assemble ? Great stuff ! It seems that Marnin is ready to sell some of his Mass. copies.

 

Will we see some Pre-Nick Fury Mass. Strange Tales this year ?

 

Thanks Frederic!! Yeah, I saw Marnin's books. Beautiful, but prices were

Does he have some Mass ST's or is that just wishful thinking?

 

 

Two of the books I just posted are Mass copies so I would assume Marnin has already sold at least the latter books in the run.

 

Mike

[Rosland]

Monkeyman,

 

You've picked some of the better covers there. Just coincidence, or were you

specifically after those? Don't see you in the registry for Strange Tales, will you enter

them?

[Monkeyman]

Monkeyman,

 

You've picked some of the better covers there. Just coincidence, or were you

specifically after those? Don't see you in the registry for Strange Tales, will you enter

them?

 

My 135-168 run is about 2/3s raw, many of the copies being high enough grade that they don't need a CGC upgrade. I don't have any reason to slab them so a registry set would be impossible to complete as I don't expect to ever have more than 50% in CGC holders. I only have 12 books between 101 and 134 as I've never focused in that area.

 

Mike

[Monkeyman]

You've picked some of the better covers there. Just coincidence, or were you specifically after those?

 

Just coincidence - filling holes and upgrading. It's always nice to grab pedigree books. I'd rather have a 9.2 pedigree than a regular 9.4.

 

Now I need 136 and 166 in NM- or better to finish the 135-168. Finally I'll upgrade 146, 157 and 158 to have the whole run in NM- or better (although my 135 is borderline, sort of a 9.1). That will represent eight years of collecting if I can finish it this year.

 

Mike

[Rosland]

Monkeyman,

 

I have a spare 9.2 #135 and a 9.4 #158. You can ping me if interested.

 

Do you intend to branch out into 101-135? I started with the 135+ range, and fell victim

to the 101-134 run too. Looks like Korvac Saga is in reverse mode;-)

 

It's really hard to stop halfway...

[Frederic9494]

You've picked some of the better covers there. Just coincidence, or were you specifically after those?

 

Just coincidence - filling holes and upgrading. It's always nice to grab pedigree books. I'd rather have a 9.2 pedigree than a regular 9.4.

 

Now I need 136 and 166 in NM- or better to finish the 135-168. Finally I'll upgrade 146, 157 and 158 to have the whole run in NM- or better (although my 135 is borderline, sort of a 9.1). That will represent eight years of collecting if I can finish it this year.

 

Mike

 

Great addition Mike ! Hope you'll be able to finish your run this year

 

When you do finish it, post a group shot It's always nice to see those, especially since you have a lot of high grade raw books (that we obviously can't "see" in the Registry)

 

Frederic

[Monkeyman]

Monkeyman,

 

I have a spare 9.2 #135 and a 9.4 #158. You can ping me if interested.

 

Do you intend to branch out into 101-135? I started with the 135+ range, and fell victim

to the 101-134 run too. Looks like Korvac Saga is in reverse mode;-)

 

It's really hard to stop halfway...

 

I'm slowly working on the entire run of ST starting at #1. At the rate I'm going it will take about 25 years to complete. I'll start focusing on 101-134 next and just pick up VF or better pre-hero books as they come along, which isn't often!

 

PM sent concerning 135 and 158.

 

Mike

[GarryM]

I have "some" of the Strange Tales # 81, 87, 115, 126, 127, 130, 131, 133, 134, 135, 139, 141, 144, 146, 152, 154, 155, 158, 159, 161, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 175, 184

 

Here are a few scans of the books. Just started going thru my collection after sitting in boxes for the last 25yrs. If you'd like to see more, let me know which issues and I"ll scan them for you guys.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 2, 2007 by GarryM

[rtarturo]

Going back to the topic of how the monster era started, there is a very interesting

4 page introduction by Dr. Michael J. Vassallo at the beginning of the new Tales of

Suspense Masterworks collection.

 

From the solicitation of Tales of Suspense Masterworks:

 

In 1958, Atlas Comics Editor-in-Chief Stan Lee was joined by two titanic talents: Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko. Together this trio of storytellers launched Tales of Suspense and its sister title, Tales to Astonish, and along with them the beginnings of a creative revival that would change comics forever.

 

Kinda wish I knew more about this era, but it looks like Atlas imploded in 1957, and

the combo of Stan, Jack, and Steve clicked the year after.

 

Hi fellas,

I recently discovered this board and have been enjoying these scans of all the hi-grade Strange Tales (does anybody have the one with Ben and Johnny with the Beatles wigs?)

Anyway, I recently read the following on Blake Bells weblog that sheds some light on what happened at Atlas/Marvel in 57/58:

 

http://www.bestofmostof.com/07may/index070518.htm

[brasseye]

Welcome to the boards

 

And your refering to ST's #130. I personally don't have one, sorry.

Someone around here should have one to hand

[Frederic9494]

Going back to the topic of how the monster era started, there is a very interesting

4 page introduction by Dr. Michael J. Vassallo at the beginning of the new Tales of

Suspense Masterworks collection.

 

From the solicitation of Tales of Suspense Masterworks:

 

In 1958, Atlas Comics Editor-in-Chief Stan Lee was joined by two titanic talents: Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko. Together this trio of storytellers launched Tales of Suspense and its sister title, Tales to Astonish, and along with them the beginnings of a creative revival that would change comics forever.

 

Kinda wish I knew more about this era, but it looks like Atlas imploded in 1957, and

the combo of Stan, Jack, and Steve clicked the year after.

 

Hi fellas,

I recently discovered this board and have been enjoying these scans of all the hi-grade Strange Tales (does anybody have the one with Ben and Johnny with the Beatles wigs?)

Anyway, I recently read the following on Blake Bells weblog that sheds some light on what happened at Atlas/Marvel in 57/58:

 

http://www.bestofmostof.com/07may/index070518.htm

 

Thanks for the link ! and welcome to the Board !

 

As for ST 130 there's a scan on page 47, but if you are looking for uber-grade go look at the first page of this thread, there might be one.

 

Finally, my new ST addition (I decided to settle for an 8.0 copy after biting the dust when I tried to upgrade my ST 103 to an 8.5 copy )