Silver

On 4/13/2024 at 6:32 PM, Topnotchman said:

Katy 

 

That book looks FRESH!

Is this event really happening? They are selling tickets on their website, but other information seems really scarce. 

Those are great books! As a collector of some other esoteric DC's I think these are awesome!

Hep, I’d love to see your Fox and Crow books. I agree it is likely harder to complete, especially in grade. On the positive side though, they are likely cheaper when they come up, I’ve had to pay some pretty steep prices for some of my S&S books.

As for Fox and the Crow, I do collect the non square bound funny animal Comic Cavalcades, I have about a dozen. They are super tough in fine or better.

On 4/12/2024 at 4:29 AM, steelcity said:

A few posts previous to this one Silver has posted two books with "Exciting News! Gigantic Contest! 5000 Prizes"

Books with this cover feature are a collecting subset in their own right. Except that the contest would have tempted readers to take a pair of scissors to their books of this type...

 

 

 

Thanks for sharing these! I may have most of these ads in different titles, but I don't think I've ever seen them al before!

Hepcat, when I first started "collecting" comics in 1973 at the age of eleven I predominantly bought the Superman titles including Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane, Action, World's Finest, and the Superboy and Adventure titles as well. I specifically remember buying DC 100 Page Super Spectacular #21 (a Superboy issue) that when I opened it up and the Superboy story had a little box that said "Adventure of Superman when he was a boy" that was when I first realized they were the same person 

I also remember cleaning my neighbor's garage for $1 and the immediately going to 7-11 and buying DC 100 Page Super Spectacular #22 with the Flash and a Slurpee! I really loved those early giants, I also started buying Brave and the Bold starting with #112 and fell in love with the Viking Prince reprints. I ended up buying B&B until it's final issue, #200. t

Those giants frequently had cover galleries of the original issues or referred to them, that got me going on back issue hunts from an early age. 

I eventually started buying Amazing Spider-man, Avengers (George Perez issues) and the New X-Men as well. Around '84 I decided to narrow my back issue collecting to DC's and went on to complete Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, and Superboy runs, and got deep runs of silver age Superman, Action, Adventure and World's Finest. I limited myself to silver and early bronze age to keep the scope as something achievable, plus, those were the books I liked the most always. 

I bought new comics up till about five years ago, but have since mostly lost interest in them, although I do pick up the random TP now and then if something interests me. 

I think those of us that collect runs are a dying breed in comics. I love putting together full sets or deep runs. I have some titles I have been working on for decades, like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. I have every issue but continue to upgrade whenever I see a nice copy. 

Sugar and Spike, five issues away and a dozen or so I'd like to upgrade, a seriously impossible run to put together but I think I have a really nice run, possibly the best. 

Ok, enough rambling 

There were three of these in last weeks Heritage, I won the cheap one 😂😳😭

On 4/7/2024 at 9:44 PM, Tri-Color Brian said:

And a few Archie's I've had for awhile...

I am amazed at the breadth of your collection Brian, and as usual, super nice copies!

Dang Ian, those are just gorgeous!

I believe every book being mentioned is sole census highest. Which is insane. One person grades a Frontier Fighters 8 in 8.5 and poof, there goes your $4,300.

Also, Brave and the Bolds 1-24 are way better books and have never commanded those prices in 8.0.

Look at the great colors on this issue!

On 4/8/2024 at 3:16 PM, steelcity said:

I have a really nice copy of this issue I bought from an ad in the CBG around late 80’s. I paid $5 for it and it arrived in a plain manila envelope with no backing board or bag. I can’t believe it survived the trip like that! 

Here's another 

Seriously? And wow! 

On 4/5/2024 at 10:22 PM, Hepcat said:

Hmmmm. Methinks $2595 is somewhat over Overstreet.

That dealer is not known for using Overstreet 😂

My three Cave Carson’s reposted from earlier:

If you want to spend the bucks, here’s a 9.0 #32. Myself I have an 8.0 I’ve had a long time. I’ve always thought the 31 was the most difficult of the three personally. I have a raw 9.0 I picked up a couple of years ago after owning lower graded copies.

https://comicbookaddiction.com/products/brave-and-the-bold-1955-1st-series-dc-32-cgc

If that 7.0 number two ever comes up there will probably be a bidding war. 

On 4/5/2024 at 9:43 AM, Hepcat said:

Here then are scans of my earliest Brave and the Bold issues:

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Tracking down those Cave Carson issues in reasonably high grade is beyond tough. Maybe one day....

Very nice, the colors on all of those issues are fantastic!

On 4/5/2024 at 3:33 AM, RickHigh said:

It’s been one year since I posted the above picture of my pre-hero Brave & Bold collection so I thought that I would post an update of where my collection stands a year later.

 

I picked up three books that I did not have:

B&B #7, CGC 7.0

B&B #18, CGC 7.5 (thanks Brad!)

B&B #21, CGC 8.0

 

I also managed to upgrade a few:

B&B #4, from a 6.5 to a 7.0

B&B #15, from a 6.5 to a 7.5

B&B #19, from a 6.5 to a 7.5

B&B #24 from a 6.0 to a 7.5

 

So I only have four more issues to go to complete the run — #’s 2, 8, 12 and 16. — all tough books to find in the grade I want. Also, I would like to upgrade the 6.5’s if the right book comes along.

Anyway, I will keep plugging along, and hopefully, complete the run at some point.

Rick

Very nice! There are some really tough issues in your run! 

I need to take a nice group shot of my 1-24, that looks great!

The toughest issue you still need is #2...by far the toughest. 

My latest addition, 5 more to go. I have no hope I will get those quickly, some I've never seen other than very low grade. 

Yeah, he was really awesome. I'd love to buy fine or better copies of Three Mouseketeers, but they just aren't out there.

Three Mouseketeers and Comic Cavalcade (which has Fox and Crow). 

5 more to go!