Best GA Purchase for 2006

[143ksk]

Very tough for me to answer this one. It's been a great year for books I collect The competition has to include Millie #2 CGC 8.0 (Crippen), Patsy #1 CGC 8.0 (Crippen), Dizzy Dames #1 (Church) and several HG issues of Jackpot. But, I think this is the one that best fits the bill: CGC 8.0 (Crowley)

 

[rob_allan]

Well, I made my first GA purchase this year. Sadly, to this point, it's still my only GA purchase.

 

Whiz Comics 70

 

I think it's about a 5.5 or maybe a 6.0. It has the upper left corner ding and the upper right corner clip. I'm in love with it, in the non-creepy way. It's cool to have a book that has that much history. Post-war advertisements, paper conservation stuff... very cool.

 

[juggernaut]

Damn!! I need my GA comics back from CGC.

[mikephoen]

2006 was my return to collecting and my first real foray into Golden Age. It was a great year and I've made waaaaaay more progress than I expected. Here is my favorite so far. Its low grade and not graded by CGC, but I still love it.

 

[*paull*]

A whole bunch of great books on this thread!

 

Being the horror and L.B. Cole nut that I am, I have to give a nod to the Eerie #1 and Captain Flight #11, since I hope to have both in my collection at some point. Great books!

[Silver Surfer]

Are you going to send it to CGC? Does undeteched resto worry you?

[ciorac]

I'll just post one picture of my favorites of the year to date...

 

[skybolt]

I'll just post one picture of my favorites of the year to date...

 

 

Wow, I think I just went blind.

[skybolt]

Here a few I knocked off my want list this year:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[mikephoen]

Are you going to send it to CGC? Does undeteched resto worry you?

 

I dont forsee getting it CGCed unless I get a better copy and need to sell this one... even then I might just try selling it as is. Who knows, 5 or 10 years from now PGX may have even left its bad reputation behind and be accepted as an equal in the grading game.

 

As for undetected resto... none of the obvious things like color touch or tear seals or cover cleaning have been done so I dont think anything else has. At least thats what I hope

[JiveTurkeyMoFo]

In a year of tremendous market selction for me this was my gem/grail of the year. Show us your favorite pickup.

 

Just drop me a line Peter if you get tired of it.

 

As for me, this is a tough one, but I would have to go with a matched pair of Cape Cod Subbys....

 

 

 

Both books have been traveling together as a pair for close to 60 years. Purchased in a Cape Cod drug store in 1948, locked away in a closet for close to 50 years, then making their way to the comic market where they've switched hands at least seven times. They've never been seperated to my knowledge, always being sold as a matched set. And thus they shall remain in my collection.....

[bye-migration]

I had 2 but this one was hardest to come by...Love the Wally Wood cover.

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[selegue]

Great haul! These "high beam" covers are fun, but this one is just plain anatomically bizarre! Are her breasts made out of granite? Is she a giantess, or are tanks really under 5' wide?

 

Jack

 

Here a few I knocked off my want list this year:

 

 

[action1kid]

Good thread, although I think it's a cop-out to post more than one book. That's the "degree of difficulty" part, picking only one. Enforces discipline, builds character, yada, yada, yada...

 

For me, although I got some pretty cool books this year, there's no way for me not to pick this one:

 

 

talk about blowing my books away!!!!

 

That is a really nice looking book.

[Buck Biggins]

Purchased as a raw VG, certified as a blue label 5.0!

 

 

I love that cover.

[Buck Biggins]

 

 

 

Some runners-up.

 

 

Some day I'll get a copy of this book. NIce one October.

[JJBEE2001]

2006 was the year that I re-entered the hobby after an absence of a few years. I was able to buy 11 GA ashcans, 2 pedigrees (1 Mile High & 1 Ohio), 2 copies of a Gerber 9 book (bringing my total to 4) and ASM #1. But I consider my "best purchase" to be this book which I've wanted for a long time & finally got this year:

 

[Buck Biggins]

Here's my 2 favorite buys from 2006. Both are currently being graded.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One last one even though I posted it in another thread...

 

[JiveTurkeyMoFo]

Here's my 2 favorite buys from 2006. Both are currently being graded.

 

 

 

 

 

Those late-run Sensations are so ridiculously undervalued in the Guide, as evidenced by the many multiples oF NM Guide paid for the Crippen VFs earlier this year. Awesome books.

[Silver Surfer]

In a year of tremendous market selction for me this was my gem/grail of the year. Show us your favorite pickup.

 

Just drop me a line Peter if you get tired of it.

 

 

Probably the last book I would sell in my collection. This one certainly gets honourable meniton. (next to impossible to pick just one).