Ricksneatstuff Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Congrats on those great Bakers! I was pretty interested in the Wartime Romances 8 as well, but was sniped in the high 200's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n2wdw Posted March 29, 2017 Author Share Posted March 29, 2017 1 hour ago, Ricksneatstuff said: Congrats on those great Bakers! I was pretty interested in the Wartime Romances 8 as well, but was sniped in the high 200's. I figured you were involved somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n2wdw Posted March 30, 2017 Author Share Posted March 30, 2017 Movie Magazines At the con this past Sunday, I also bought these old movie magazines. These are the mags they used to sell sometimes at the popcorn counter in theaters. (The Gone With The Wind mag is when they did a re-release. I'm not sure when the Battlestar Galactica mag came out.) I almost missed out on these mags because they weren't priced and I assumed they were expensive. But the dealer told me they were $3, $4 or $5 each, depending on which one. I jumped on that! The expensive ones were the Bond mags and ones with an LP inside. I also bought the Star Wars mag because it was cheap and had cool goggles inside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n2wdw Posted March 31, 2017 Author Share Posted March 31, 2017 Two Matt Bakers Via EBay BIN In the last week I've picked up 2 Matt Baker comics while browsing eBay, via Buy-It-Now. From what I can tell, there's some debate whether Baker did the cover for Zago 4. The Amash Book (Art of Glamour) lists it with a question mark, for example. But, enough people I respect think it's Baker. And to my eye it looks like Baker too. As for the Authentic Police Cases 10, the seller (newkadia) contacted me after I paid. He said when he pulled the comic he decided it was VG instead of Fine (as advertised in his eBay listing). He offered to cancel the sale, or to give me the book and refund a third of the price. Well, that's never happened to me before! I took the book+discount, and I'll definitely be shopping newkadia in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n2wdw Posted April 2, 2017 Author Share Posted April 2, 2017 (edited) Completing Titles and Early Appearances of Favorite Characters/Teams Now that I’ve completed my runs of Amazing Spider-Man and Fantastic Four, I feel like I can turn to other parts of my collection. So, today I completed my run of Ultimate Spider-Man (1st series) #1-133 by picking up affordable issues of the last 2 issues I needed, #1 and 5 (I got the pair for $77). Also, I finished the 20 issue run of the Batman Family (1975-1978) by buying #8 from Lone Star. A few years ago I finished its sibling, Superman Family (1974-1982), which continued from Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen, so the series began with # 164 and ran to #222. I'm also having fun collecting early appearances of some favorite characters. I mentioned the Legion of Super-Heroes in an earlier post. For the Legion I’m trying to get all the early issues published prior to Superboy 231 (the issue when the title changes to Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes). Here are others I’m collecting: Early appearances of Teen Titans published prior to Teen Titans #1 (Feb 1966). Here’s the list (I already have the B&B issues): Brave and the Bold 54 (1st app), 60 (2nd app; first mention of TT name) Showcase 59 (3rd app) Doom Patrol 99 (1st app Changeling) The original Wonder Woman series beginning from the new look WW in #178 to the end of the series #329. The issues I need are: 178, 179, 186, 196, 197, 198, 212, 214, 215, 225, 229, 231, 256, 325 Tales of Suspense from the first appearance of Iron Man in #39 to the end of the series #99. I need 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 49, 50, 51, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 61, 63, 65 Strange Tales from the first appearance of Dr. Strange in #110 to the end of the series 188. I need 111, 112, 114, 115, 116, 117, 128 and Annuals 1 and 2 I’m working on finishing other parts of my collection too, like Spider-Man (the title that McFarlane started in 1990) and Submariner (1968-1974). I just need 4 more comics to finish those 2 titles. It makes me feel good to complete titles. Maybe it’s the OCD in me, but I like checking things off lists. Also, ComicBase makes it easy for me to run reports. At this moment, I have 25,742 comics in 1934 titles. 908 of those titles are complete (about 47%). There are 12,544 comics in those complete titles for an average of about 14 issues per complete title, although the average is driven down because complete titles also include 1-shots. Thanks for reading. Edited April 2, 2017 by n2wdw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted April 2, 2017 Share Posted April 2, 2017 On 26/03/2017 at 5:20 AM, n2wdw said: More evidence that this is Baker is the fact that it's also for the Swamp Fever short story. Since Baker did the other one, it seems to make sense he also did this one too. Is this next one Baker? I'm not sure. I go back and forth on it. What do you think? I'm not seeing Baker in this one. The others you showed looked the goods to me, but nothing about this says Baker to me. And what is she looking for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BakerFanOne Posted April 2, 2017 Share Posted April 2, 2017 On 3/5/2017 at 3:29 PM, n2wdw said: Latest CGC Invoice - Schomburg's Fighting Yank 23 Has anyone else noticed CGC's turnaround has gotten a lot faster lately? My most recent Economy invoice took only a month. This is probably an outlier but I've noticed faster turnaround on my last 3 or so invoices. Thanks CGC! Here's one I got back, Fighting Yank 23. As I've written before, Alex Schomburg may have more classic GGA covers than any other golden age artist. The pendulum swings back and forth though so Schomburg isn't super hot now the way Matt Baker is (in my opinion). If I was smart I'd focus more on Schomburg than Baker right now. Here's another Schomburg classic cover that I bought a few years ago at the Baltimore Con. I think one of my goals this year will be to figure out how to take better pictures of my CGC books. I have 2 daughters who are really into photography, so I might see if they can show me how to use a good camera that I can trade in for the HP legal scanner I currently use. Two of Schomburgs greatest GGA covers and a little overlooked right now in my opinion. Thanks for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n2wdw Posted April 2, 2017 Author Share Posted April 2, 2017 5 minutes ago, BakerFanOne said: Two of Schomburgs greatest GGA covers and a little overlooked right now in my opinion. Thanks for sharing! I agree. Lots of love for Baker right now, not enough for Schomburg. Others too, like Frazetta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricksneatstuff Posted April 2, 2017 Share Posted April 2, 2017 If I put a large black piece of construction paper behind my books when I scan it cuts down some on the glare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n2wdw Posted April 2, 2017 Author Share Posted April 2, 2017 5 minutes ago, Ricksneatstuff said: If I put a large black piece of construction paper behind my books when I scan it cuts down some on the glare. Thanks! I'll try that next time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n2wdw Posted April 2, 2017 Author Share Posted April 2, 2017 8 hours ago, AJD said: I'm not seeing Baker in this one. The others you showed looked the goods to me, but nothing about this says Baker to me. And what is she looking for? I agree, I don't think it's Baker. The challenge with collecting Baker outside comics is finding his work. There are sources that point you in the right direction but they don't get you all the way. Like, they might tell you the magazine, but not which issues. And the seller typically doesn't know anything about Matt Baker, so they don't advertise the mag as having his art. That keeps the price down, but makes it difficult to find his work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n2wdw Posted April 2, 2017 Author Share Posted April 2, 2017 (edited) Modern GGA and Jim Shooter Here are a few books I've picked up lately. Bettie Page and Dave Stevens. Just shows the best GGA isn't always golden. (Although with all the amazing gold being offered this weekend it's hard to tell!) Also, I picked up the Harbinger TPB. It was only $5 and signed by Jim Shooter so couldn't pass it up. Edited April 2, 2017 by n2wdw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hepcat Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 On 4/1/2017 at 8:14 PM, n2wdw said: Completing Titles and Early Appearances of Favorite Characters/Teams Now that I’ve completed my runs of Amazing Spider-Man and Fantastic Four, I feel like I can turn to other parts of my collection. It makes me feel good to complete titles. Maybe it’s the OCD in me, but I like checking things off lists. Also, ComicBase makes it easy for me to run reports. At this moment, I have 25,742 comics in 1934 titles. 908 of those titles are complete (about 47%). There are 12,544 comics in those complete titles for an average of about 14 issues per complete title, although the average is driven down because complete titles also include 1-shots. Thanks for reading. Now then might be a good time to post more pictures of your comic room and storage system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB1952 Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 On 4/1/2017 at 10:53 PM, AJD said: I'm not seeing Baker in this one. The others you showed looked the goods to me, but nothing about this says Baker to me. And what is she looking for? Matt Baker 100%- she's getting ready for business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorick Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 3 hours ago, kat123 said: Matt Baker 100%- she's getting ready for business. Kat sees it right. That's Baker work FOR SURE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n2wdw Posted April 4, 2017 Author Share Posted April 4, 2017 Storing Books In My Comic Book Room 9 hours ago, Hepcat said: Now then might be a good time to post more pictures of your comic room and storage system. Well, thanks Hepcat, always looking for a reason to give tours of my comic room. Let me show you how I store books. My room has a small loft with a sloped ceiling. I display Star Wars action figures on the ceiling. There's a green chair with a bookcase behind it. Here's what the bookcase looks like. Because my room is small, I have to make the best use of space. That means I have to use height as well as length. To do that, I stack books up-and-down, as well as left-to-right. On top of the shelf are my large size Dave Stevens art books, next to Khal and Khaleesi, which are next to Milo Manara bookends. Also I've got a framed Jennifer Janesko study (Janesko's one of the best modern pin-up artists IMHO, right there with Olivia), my small collection of Berthet books and prints and some CGC photos. On the right are my Gerber photo guides and the SDCC 40 Year Anniversary book. I mentioned before my cat hates me. Seriously. The only time she doesn't run from me is when I'm feeding her. The funny thing is, the cat likes hanging in my comic room (I think mostly to get away from the dog, who can't get up to the loft). And usually, she sits on the green chair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n2wdw Posted April 4, 2017 Author Share Posted April 4, 2017 Another Busy Collecting Weekend Whew, this was an exhausting weekend. There were so many incredible GA sales threads, I felt like I had to stay glued to my computer so as not to miss something. Despite all the temptation from these CGC sale threads, I ended up buying only this affordable Planet 30 from Soft-Serve. There were many others I wanted to pull the trigger on, but I had a few pending offers to Tomorrow's Treasures and I had to see how those would go (more on that in another post). I love the cover of Planet 30. I think there's an entire sub-genre of "damsel in distress with arched back." And there was stuff going on with eBay too. Sunday night I was bidding on 3 comics. The first to close was Pictorial Romances 19. I was the under bidder . It ended up closing at $228. I really wanted this next one, The Saint #4 (I suppose it goes in the headlights GGA category). In the early evening it went above my max bid. I went back and forth about raising my bid. In the end I decided to let it go. It closed at $290, way above my max bid. Here's the third comic of the evening, this classic Ghost cover. To my eye, the cover looks better than CGC 3.0 but perhaps it has some internal flaws. With the other 2 loses -- and having not heard from TT's yet -- I impulsively upped my max bid a bit. Then I went to bed, expecting to be outbid again. But I ended up winning it! I won it for $322. I then always play a game with myself. I guess it's part of buyer's remorse. If I had to do it over again, would I buy the Saint 4 or the Ghost 2? I think I'd go with the Ghost, because of condition. I'm happy with this Ghost 2 and have no temptation to upgrade. Whereas if I bought the Saint, I'd probably want to upgrade in the future. So the Ghost 2 is better as I'm able to permanently check that one off my list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n2wdw Posted April 5, 2017 Author Share Posted April 5, 2017 (edited) Storing Books In My Comic Book Room - Part 2 Most of the shelving in my comic room is from Ikea. All the pieces are wood, so in places I've custom fit extra shelving using a saw and drill. That's what I did below, where I made shelves that are just deep enough to fit paperbacks. I store my Star Trek and Star Wars books on these shelves. In the foreground is The Overstreet Comic Book Companion that I got signed by Robert Overstreet many years ago at a con in New York. My Overstreet Price Guide collection is stacked on the floor. The last 2 pictures show the shelves as they are now, with my DC digest collection and Dennis the Menace paperbacks, as well as old versions of ComicBase. By the way, the carpet in my comic room is purple. Purple has always been my favorite color, I think because when I was a kid my favorite football team was the Vikings. Edited April 5, 2017 by n2wdw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n2wdw Posted April 5, 2017 Author Share Posted April 5, 2017 (edited) My Thoughts on the New Boards For the most part, I like the new boards more than the old boards. Not that I had a problem with the old boards, and if we went back to the old boards tomorrow I wouldn't miss the new boards. But there are a few features about the new boards I like. I like you can drop pictures directly into posts, so now I don't have to deal with Photobucket anymore. I like the social media aspects of the new boards, i.e., getting notifications when someone likes or replies to your post (to this end, it would be nice to be able to hash tag people so they get notifications in the same way). But it seems like more than a few people do not like the new boards. I may be wrong -- I haven't done a scientific study -- but it seems like traffic is down. That certainly is true in the area I hang out in the most, the journals and the marketplace. As for the latter, the gold/silver marketplace seems to have as many threads as before, but not copper/modern, and mixed age seems pretty dead. I also hang out in the gold section, particularly the 2 Matt Baker threads. Traffic there seems to be about the same. Going back to the journals, I have some trepidation about the announcement that my journal (and all the other "old journals") are going to be migrated over to the new journal format. I've kind of become attached to my journal. I started it over 3 years ago and it's become how I document my collecting life. Often my posts are for me, a way for the "present me" to remind the "future me" what I was doing. What will the "migration" entail? Will it keep all my old posts? Will it keep all my pictures? Or will I have to re-start from page 1? Honestly if I had to start all over, I'd probably not start another journal here. That's not a threat -- after all, who really cares about my journal except me? (I think the answer to that is, no one). But I think I'd re-start on a platform I control. I do miss the traffic on the mixed age marketplace. A couple weeks ago @stippy52 (let's see if the hash tag does anything) had a great sale of eclectic stuff. I was just as excited about his thread as the recent gold GGA threads of @Soft-Serve and @ricksneatstuff (among others). I got Comic Book Marketplace Special #2 (with the Gerber stickers), a sealed Harlan Ellison graphic novel, an Olivia book and portfolio, and a Rocket' Blast CC TPB, all for 27 bucks. It was a way for stippy52 to get rid of some junk, and me to pick up some new treasures. Hopefully people will start selling over there again soon. Edited April 6, 2017 by n2wdw oldmilwaukee6er and Ricksneatstuff 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricksneatstuff Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 If you use the @ symbol instead of the # symbol it will notify people. @n2wdw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
