Professor K

On 4/25/2024 at 9:52 AM, pmpknface said:

If you love ties...

 

Steve! Thanks for bringing you're friend along for Sally, but that tie. 

You're right Ronnie. It's just... just awful. . 

BECAUSE I HATED HIS TIE!

Green Lantern issue 76. CGC 8.0 White. I think this is a very nice 8.0. 

800.00

Hey everyone, 2 books for sale with cool covers by great artists. 

Each book is in a perfect holder and are always stored bagged in Mylite 2's. 

Rules: 1st posted I'll take it or simply Take gets the book. No members of the Hall of Shame allowed. Anyone with accounts less than 30 days old must PM me first otherwise I won't acknowledge you.

Returns accepted only if I'm notified within 3 days of the book being delivered. 

Payment: Check or Money order only. I can't accept paypal at this time. Payment sent within 3 days please. Contact me to discuss any other payment methods if you'd like.

Shipping: USPS priority mail very securely packaged with lots of bubble wrap. Shipped within 24 hours of payment cleared (which usually takes a day or two). Tracking info provided. I'll pay shipping. 

US and Canada only please. Anyone interested from outside those two countries please contact if interested. 

I've bought and sold many books here over the years , never any problems. Made some nice friends along the way.  Everybody Happy! 

1st book- Ghostly Weird Stories issue 122 CGC 3.5 OW. Clean 3.5 with nice colors and full bats. 

3,500.00

On 4/24/2024 at 7:01 PM, ThothAmon said:

Dapper Dan. 

I never read the captions of that cover befor now. Pretty funny. 

I recognize Ronny and Errol Flynn, the 3rd guy I think is Peter Lawford. Blonde on left I think is Lana Turner. Other two not sure. 

On 4/24/2024 at 7:15 PM, adamstrange said:

We need to run a poll:  "Best Shirt in an LB Cole Cover".

That was my original plan but I couldn't handle the responsibilty. There are probably at least 20 shirts/suits worth listing.  

On 4/23/2024 at 11:43 AM, adamstrange said:

Amazing threads.

I'll see myself out.

Well you were my inspiration.  I'd still love to see some more shirts. So many great comics. So many great shirts. 

On 4/23/2024 at 2:41 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

What an outfit 

And 'young love'? He looks about 35.

Wonderful thread, Professor K, wonderful 

Thanks! And if anyone else has some nice shirts to post, L.B. or others, please post em. 

CGC- Saving the planet, one comic at a time.

Alright nice. Thanks for doing this! So that's the top 10?  Little surprised about TTLR 11 came in 2nd but I guess you can't underestimate the appeal of an Red/Orange and Yellow checkered shirt. Without that shirt I doubt it would have been in the top 10. 

One hour later- I wasn't actually joking!!!! It's the shirt.  Other than that it's got a fireplace with some real nice masonry work and a guy getting busted right as he's about to round first base......... "Holy Cow I think he's gonna make it!". It's the shirt that makes it a winner. Just one of many great shirts by Mr. Cole. 

On 4/21/2024 at 5:04 PM, jimbo_7071 said:

One thing I question is the first name "Tom." The name really looks more like Allen or something similar.

The last name does look like Reilly, but that isn't even certain. The first character could be a P, a stylized L, or something else.

Here's a link to the WWII Casualties from California in case anyone has a lot of time on his or her hands and wants to scan the lists for a possible match.

A while back, I spent a fair amount of time looking for possible matching census records for the family. That was before the 1950 census was available, so it might be worth another shot. Bob Beerbohm believes that the comic collection originated in Piedmont, California, which is in Alameda County.

I looked through that pretty good.  Mr. Nelson told me his friend Steve who I guess many of you know (I don't know him personally) looked into the KIA /Military records very deeply and came up empty. Whether or not how much of the story is true we know the soldiers name is not Reilly or Riley or anything close. Someone would have found something proving a person by that name, that fit,  existed by now. No big deal, beautiful books, that's all that matters. 

On 4/21/2024 at 3:10 PM, sfcityduck said:

Prof. K did great work on tracking down the family. Not surprising they had no answers. This came up a year ago, which is when I think he started chasing the story hard back then. As for why the books have the checkmarks, a pretty good theory is that Holt was checking off females, and that maybe as painting references? My book supports the checking off females part. But it could be the subject matter being checked changed over time if he was trying to learn to draw. Here's a thread that was discussed:

As for W.C. Holt, Jr., he was also discussed a bit on this thread, which is incomplete, because it looks like Prof. K pulled some of his comments off from back then I assume to keep the niece from being bothered:

Again, Kudos for Prof. K, and Prof. K don't stop out of deference to CGC. It's your story to develop further.

Thanks to everyone, all of you. Actually I think I did hide some of my posts in that thread, probably after I spoke to the niece. I don't remember exactly why or what I had written. I honestly thought by now more information would have come to light.

I will reach out again to her soon. And to Matt. As far as the markings she doesn't know so that might never be known. But like I said she did say she is still friends, good friends, with the man who purchased the collection from her mother so I think any other important information will come from him if possible. I believe it may be this man Ken Sanders. I'll find out.

https://www.kensandersbooks.com

On 4/21/2024 at 2:47 AM, Telegan said:

 

Now that's awesome!  I love stuff like this - it's like finding a treasure or something!

Yeah it was a pretty fun. After I found his niece and was sure I had the right guy in Bill Holt Jr I decided to look into the San Francisco books (I know many people have over the years). I read the official account and started searching, even buying a month prescription to a major genealogy site and a newspaper archive site. I found nothing of a Tom Rielly or Riley that matched. Found no record of his parents. I even contacted the Veterans building in Peidmont, CA and posted my query on a FB page of the history of Peidmont and nothing. I includede a pic of the markings on the Cap 1. It was said the books were handled or inititially sold by a Doctor Arnheim at the Berkelycon in 1973 so I dug into finding a record of him and found nothing. I did find some people in the area living today with that last name which is not a common name. They were educated, Doctors, one was a big scientist. I found one of their email addresses at I believe UC Berkeley and wrote them but got no response. I figured if they are related to the Dr. Arnheim from the story maybe they may know something. I think that would be the only angle left but I think we aren't going tyo ever find out more.