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Rangers 26! Used to have a 4.0 but sold it 5 years ago cause it had a detached cf and it annoyed me. Missed on the 3.5 in Clink, so consoled myself with this one!

Mr F you and I have the exact same taste... your last few buys/posts are the same ones I targeted in Fiction House!

My all time favorite Startling Comic and Schomburg arrived...

Would this golden age book get a restored label due to the amateur application of glue at some point in its life? The glue was used to help keep the book attached to the cover since it was pulling away from the lone staple.

GIMMIE BACK! (yes I'll take it. I've just been getting nostalgic for this collection and have started looking for re-buys of it, so I'd love to re-add one of the OG copies)

New 50s Sci Fi additions.

I only popped back in the thread to add a new purchase. A book previously not on my list, 2N coded, (and now Im gonna keep track of Okajima vs Okagima) OkaGima script 3-2-44 Jumbo Comics #64

Here's a link to my Okajima camp era google doc. If you see any missing books or inaccuracies, please let me know! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19iTb-FgQtnxN-2ArjSZHPsagovaKcIrfkB3AqL-ZNFo/edit?usp=sharing

Super enjoyed the video Karen! "a complete set of coded books will never be found" Other thoughts... The community analysis report part was very interesting. It makes me ask, is the implication that there are other periodicals with the same type code on them? Im with you on any sort of gender-ing of comic types to one person or another is specious at best and not a good way to prove or disprove who the collection was collected by. Whiz 58 (noted "8/22/44, 4T, Camp I") and Mystery Comics 2 (noted "8/9/44, Camp 3") very interesting. There are other comics with codes but no "Okajima" including Big Shot 49 (4M, 8/2/44) Superman #31 ("4xv" no date, no script). (Im gonna post the link to my google doc with all the camp coded books in a separate post) Jane vs Mitsuru. Love the analysis of the Sensation #35. Okajima vis Gima. My wife's family (immigrated from Italy in the 30s) has a mix of spellings thanks to Ellis Island (with the family just adopting the spelling here and there if it was on a particular document), so yeah, sounds plausible. Just a great analysis and creation of a very reasonable narrative based on the historical information that you dug up. If the Pedigree book ever gets published, they should DEFINATELY reach out to you to update the likely history of the collection.

Ok, am I right about this bit of trivia regarding Archie (and the family of titles) comics? Archie comics are famous for GGA and swimsuit shots through the years, but can you tell me the first bikini cover appearance in Archie comics (any title in the family)? Answer: (click on spoiler to see) So am I right? Or did I miss an earlier BIKINI cover?

A great ambassador of comics. Great with fans and a delight at cons right up till the end. I hope she had as much fun in comics as we had enjoying her work.

We're sooooo close to $30k so to put us over. Jim is one of the best!

agreed. When people talk about how there's no way CGC will ever be knocked from their market dominant position, I always say whomever cracks the AI grading code will win, cause that will be the grader that can finally claim grade consistency (and no more joke about "well that must have been graded right after the grader's girlfriend broke up with him"

This is the interesting example of the same seller scam. Youtube video presenting IH181 swap Poster shows an IH181 8.5 qualified that sold, and then later shows up in a Universal 9.0 slab and is sold. I cant imagine that CGC would miss a missing MVS on a comic that they always check that for. And it means it's have to get past all gaders and QC. So It makes me think a seller has figured out how to crack and swap books in slabs.

The 4.5 is mine, and as a GA Sci-Fi collector I can say it's going nowhere, so someone buy this beauty offered up! Great deep blacks on the 7.0!

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Yep that was my Lady in White collection. Kept a few, sold most years back...wish I'd kept some more of them!

Jose is coming to Baltimore and I was trying to see about him doing a pre-show comic sketch commission that I could pick up and submit to CGC for yellow labeling. Anyone know of how to contact Jose for this? I've found a few pages on Facebook, but he doesn't seem to have his own website or a well publicized method of contact for this kind of stuff, so I thought I'd check with you all!

I remembered selling a CGC SS Romita out of my collection recently and was worried I didn't replace it, thankfully I did (came home to dig thru boxes to find it!)

John Sr was the most consistent comic book artist I ever saw. He was great in his early days and his line never wavered. His style was always HIS style. You knew his art as soon as you saw it whether he drew it in 1965 or 2015. His line was always simple, but perfect. Never more than he needed, and never less. That was his super power. I heard him beam about his son, it was my favorite thing to hear him talk about in pure "proud dad" mode.

that's the same thinking Im having... I think having 5-6 books in each auction for 5-6 months that include lots of the top shelf stuff (highest graded and/or pedigrees) and some of the lesser (2nd, 3rd, 5th highest) stuff might lift some of the lesser book lots (consolation prizes). (and just to be clear when I say "as a lot" I merely mean having 30 individual lots all in the same auction, not one lot of all 30 books, that'd be crazy!)

that means I have to figure out what they're worth! (jk)

I dont recall ever seeing lots listed on CLINK, definately not lots of CGCed books. Regardless I would be listing them as 30 individual lots (They've sold registry sets like that in the past, and theyve always listed them individually and just noted that they were part of a top registry set)

Im thinking of shifting gears and selling one of my registry sets. It's about 30 books, of which 22 are highest graded or are pedigree copies. It's 50s sci-fi, but not a widely collected (there are only two collections in the registry with more than 10% of the set, and only a couple of active collections). Books from the set (Space Adventures) don't come up often, but as I said, there's also not a lot of people collecting them. A few months ago there were 3 high grade title copies on CLINK and there was spirited bidding (including me) on the three, but 30 books is a lot more than 3... I'm looking at consigning the set to an auction house to sell them, but don't know if breaking the set up into a few auctions is a better approach versus putting all 30 books in one auction for the sake of making it a "statement" listing. Im sure Im not the first person wrestling with this decision. What's been others experiences? Done it one way and wished for the other? Im not hurting for the money so the timing isnt a driving factor for me...