october Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Got this in trade from the Erroneous Geek (Xavier Logan) a few years back in trade. I love this cover. Looks like something from a turn of the century sci-fi pulp. Great book! I will take a 4.5 that looks like that any day! An unobtrusive stain, but the eye appeal of a 9.0. Gorgeous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBedrock Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Got this in trade from the Erroneous Geek (Xavier Logan) a few years back in trade. I love this cover. Looks like something from a turn of the century sci-fi pulp. Great book! I will take a 4.5 that looks like that any day! An unobtrusive stain, but the eye appeal of a 9.0. Gorgeous! Exactly! and at 1/3 the money or less. YAHOO!!!!!!!! It is amazing how small an amount of water it takes to equal 4.5 worth of grade. If our water bills were on the same scale water would be more expensive than gold! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 The Ray was a Great character with wonderful Lou Fine art. Unfortunately most of his covers were LAME! This is an exeption. No kidding. Quality would have been better off and a couple $$ richer had they simply used Fine's splashes as covers. In fact, they may well have sold a couple of ten of thousands copies more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
october Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Got this in trade from the Erroneous Geek (Xavier Logan) a few years back in trade. I love this cover. Looks like something from a turn of the century sci-fi pulp. Great book! I will take a 4.5 that looks like that any day! An unobtrusive stain, but the eye appeal of a 9.0. Gorgeous! Exactly! and at 1/3 the money or less. YAHOO!!!!!!!! It is amazing how small an amount of water it takes to equal 4.5 worth of grade. If our water bills were on the same scale water would be more expensive than gold! Right, but the back cover could be foxed to death and still get an 8.0....or the front could have a miswrap, poor colors and production bindery tears and get a 9.4. Out of the three, there is no question which one I would choose. Nice to see someone else probably agrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
143ksk Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Got this in trade from the Erroneous Geek (Xavier Logan) a few years back in trade. I love this cover. Looks like something from a turn of the century sci-fi pulp. Great book! I will take a 4.5 that looks like that any day! An unobtrusive stain, but the eye appeal of a 9.0. Gorgeous! Exactly! and at 1/3 the money or less. YAHOO!!!!!!!! It is amazing how small an amount of water it takes to equal 4.5 worth of grade. If our water bills were on the same scale water would be more expensive than gold! Right, but the back cover could be foxed to death and still get an 8.0....or the front could have a miswrap, poor colors and production bindery tears and get a 9.4. Out of the three, there is no question which one I would choose. Nice to see someone else probably agrees. Hey, that used to be mine I think I traded it to XL as a part of the pile for his Daring Mystery 1. Glad it ended up with you, Mr. B(thumbs up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBedrock Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 The Ray was a Great character with wonderful Lou Fine art. Unfortunately most of his covers were LAME! This is an exeption. No kidding. Quality would have been better off and a couple $$ richer had they simply used Fine's splashes as covers. In fact, they may well have sold a couple of ten of thousands copies more! We'd probably be paying $10,000 more for each one today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBedrock Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Got this in trade from the Erroneous Geek (Xavier Logan) a few years back in trade. I love this cover. Looks like something from a turn of the century sci-fi pulp. Great book! I will take a 4.5 that looks like that any day! An unobtrusive stain, but the eye appeal of a 9.0. Gorgeous! Exactly! and at 1/3 the money or less. YAHOO!!!!!!!! It is amazing how small an amount of water it takes to equal 4.5 worth of grade. If our water bills were on the same scale water would be more expensive than gold! Right, but the back cover could be foxed to death and still get an 8.0....or the front could have a miswrap, poor colors and production bindery tears and get a 9.4. Out of the three, there is no question which one I would choose. Nice to see someone else probably agrees. Absolutely. I think we agree that the one thing CGC can never properly take into account is Eye Appeal. I will always take a good looking copy over a structural high grade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBedrock Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Got this in trade from the Erroneous Geek (Xavier Logan) a few years back in trade. I love this cover. Looks like something from a turn of the century sci-fi pulp. Great book! I will take a 4.5 that looks like that any day! An unobtrusive stain, but the eye appeal of a 9.0. Gorgeous! Exactly! and at 1/3 the money or less. YAHOO!!!!!!!! It is amazing how small an amount of water it takes to equal 4.5 worth of grade. If our water bills were on the same scale water would be more expensive than gold! Right, but the back cover could be foxed to death and still get an 8.0....or the front could have a miswrap, poor colors and production bindery tears and get a 9.4. Out of the three, there is no question which one I would choose. Nice to see someone else probably agrees. Hey, that used to be mine I think I traded it to XL as a part of the pile for his Daring Mystery 1. Glad it ended up with you, Mr. B(thumbs up Thanks! It has found a good home. You can visit anytime! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
october Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Absolutely. I think we agree that the one thing CGC can never properly take into account is Eye Appeal. I will always take a good looking copy over a structural high grade. Very true. Actually, I think that's true of grades in general. One number and a note on page quality just isn't enough to encompass how nice a book is. Your new 4.5 is a perfect case in point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
october Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Got this in today from Inaflash. Great looking cover colors, just as promised! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttock Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 I owned a copy of this years ago and (as usual) foolishly sold it. I waited a while for a reasonably priced copy to come up and recently got this off ebay for what I consider to be a pretty good price. If anyone has any other Harvey digests, I'm looking. Nicely done - the Harvey digests are cool. Are the Speeds rarer than the Pockets? It's hard to say. I think they all come up with some frequency as they tend to fetch nice prices. Certainly more frequently than you'd expect from their rarity (that being said, maybe 1-2 of each a year). I can't say that I could really compare commonness. I think Pocket 1 and Speed 14 seem to be the most available. But try to find one 10 years ago when they guided for pennies.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffreykli Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Here's my latest addition, from Paris and picked up at Wondercon. My first Xela cover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garthgantu Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 That is gorgeous, Jeff! Here are a few of my WonderCon purchases... Police #30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garthgantu Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Trippy cover! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garthgantu Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Action 113 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garthgantu Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 More Police... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciorac Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Here's my latest addition, from Paris and picked up at Wondercon. My first Xela cover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electron Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Got this in trade from the Erroneous Geek (Xavier Logan) a few years back in trade. I love this cover. Looks like something from a turn of the century sci-fi pulp. Any chance you want to trade back,I've grown tired of the pile of ROM you gave me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBedrock Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Got this in trade from the Erroneous Geek (Xavier Logan) a few years back in trade. I love this cover. Looks like something from a turn of the century sci-fi pulp. Any chance you want to trade back,I've grown tired of the pile of ROM you gave me Aren't you collecting Micronauts now? I know you have a Fighting Yank I've been eyeing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garthgantu Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Got this in trade from the Erroneous Geek (Xavier Logan) a few years back in trade. I love this cover. Looks like something from a turn of the century sci-fi pulp. That's beeyootiful... there's a hint of early Wolverton about it...especially the monster and terrain... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
