fifties Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 I can very seldom win on eBay anymore. Raze 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 Got a nice email from the seller with an apology and an offer to make everything right. My apologies to him and everyone here for my rant. I will be leaving nice positive feed back for all 6 books. I still think eBay as a whole stinks though... Back to your regularly scheduled programming. Somebody please show some nice ECs for us to enjoy. Raze 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbyJack Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 Might be my favorite EC. Phenomenal cover, and features my favorite EC war story, “Corpse On The Imjin”. AJD, Raze and OtherEric 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifties Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 Hard to pick favorites, there are so many b itchen covers. Here's a few from my musty vault, lol. OtherEric, Larryw7, KirbyJack and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raze Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 (edited) @Robot Man I was the under bidder on the weird science 15 you suck Obviously I am playing around Im glad it went to a fellow board!!!!!! Also I felt like your "rant" was justified. Plus you didn't out the seller and you were honest and upfront with us. I got my 2 books from the same seller and I've not had a problem before. Im happy to hear that they are making it right! Spoiler ( you also could have just sold my that moldy thing to me...it would have fit in nice with all my other horrendous ECs!!) But It was a EC weekend for me (labor day)!!! I got some killer books. BUUUUUUT which one do I read first..... Edited September 7, 2019 by Raze KirbyJack, Larryw7 and OtherEric 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbyJack Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 7 hours ago, fifties said: Hard to pick favorites, there are so many b itchen covers. Here's a few from my musty vault, lol. All classics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbyJack Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 7 hours ago, Raze said: @Robot Man I was the under bidder on the weird science 15 you suck Obviously I am playing around Im glad it went to a fellow board!!!!!! Also I felt like your "rant" was justified. Plus you didn't out the seller and you were honest and upfront with us. I got my 2 books from the same seller and I've not had a problem before. Im happy to hear that they are making it right! Reveal hidden contents ( you also could have just sold my that moldy thing to me...it would have fit in nice with all my other horrendous ECs!!) But It was a EC weekend for me (labor day)!!! I got some killer books. BUUUUUUT which one do I read first..... Big time congrats, Raze! Read the war book first! Robot Man and Raze 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 11 hours ago, fifties said: Hard to pick favorites, there are so many b itchen covers. Here's a few from my musty vault, lol. All 3 are stellar fifties. I do have a sentimental favorite though. I got a small pile of ECs from my uncle as a kid. My first real exposure to them. That Crypt #23 was a real stand out and shook me up. Still at the top of the heap for me today! KirbyJack and Larryw7 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Robot Man Posted September 7, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted September 7, 2019 This is an undercopy. I got it from Ritchie Munchin at a show pretty cheap because it had a little resto. Because of that, I broke all my rules and had Al Feldstein deface it a little further... AJD, KirbyJack, Larryw7 and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 12 hours ago, Raze said: @Robot Man I was the under bidder on the weird science 15 you suck Obviously I am playing around Im glad it went to a fellow board!!!!!! Also I felt like your "rant" was justified. Plus you didn't out the seller and you were honest and upfront with us. I got my 2 books from the same seller and I've not had a problem before. Im happy to hear that they are making it right! Hide contents ( you also could have just sold my that moldy thing to me...it would have fit in nice with all my other horrendous ECs!!) But It was a EC weekend for me (labor day)!!! I got some killer books. BUUUUUUT which one do I read first..... No comment on which to read first, since I assume you've already read both in the 12 hours since this was posted. Gratz, in particular, in picking up the Shock #1. I'll have a good Labor Day pickup to show once it arrives, but since I only got the pay from the overtime day I worked on the weekend today it only just got ordered. Raze and KirbyJack 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raze Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 8 hours ago, KirbyJack said: Big time congrats, Raze! Read the war book first! Thats what I thought youd say!! and @OtherEric I havent read them yet. Ive been getting caught up on moderns....I know they are nit as good but i still read them. Plus I just got a “real” book from the library today. Ill read them this week. KirbyJack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 27 minutes ago, Raze said: Thats what I thought youd say!! and @OtherEric I havent read them yet. Ive been getting caught up on moderns....I know they are nit as good but i still read them. Plus I just got a “real” book from the library today. Ill read them this week. Fair enough. I would start with Two-Fisted, myself. But I've read a reprint of the Shock, while the Two-Fisted is one of the only four Kurtzman-edited EC's I haven't read in either original or reprint. Raze 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ghastly542454 Posted September 7, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted September 7, 2019 Mad #7 from the Bill Elder collection. Hutch88, Larryw7, Marty Mann and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 I didn’t know there was a Bill Elder collection. I have a few from Johnny Craig’s collection as well as a Kurtzman and Feldstein file copy. Raze 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Ivanstein Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Hi gang, I'm new to the boards but have been an EC and Pre-Code fan for decades. Back in the 1990s I was the comic book specialist for Green Apple Books, San Francisco's largest and best bookstore, and I did a couple of catalogues for them. One of my catalogues showcased EC, Mad and Pre-Code Horror. It was incredibly fun to put together! Every now and then a copy of the catalogue pops up on eBay. I wonder if anyone here was a Green Apple comics buyer back then? Cheers, Ivan Director of Comics, PBA Galleries Auctioneers, San Francisco Bay Area. Raze, AJD, Larryw7 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HouseofComics.Com Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Hilarious cover! I definitely went to Green Apple back in the day. Ivan Ivanstein 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Ivanstein Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 There was a ton of fun stuff in the Green Apple catalogue... It's startling to see how cheaply one could buy certain comics back then relative to today's prices! The best item in the catalogue, in my opinion, was the original front cover to Mad #21, featuring the first cover appearance of Alfred E. Neuman. I was the former owner of the piece... it's probably the only thing I've ever sold that I feel a bit of remorse about! Ivan Briggs, Director of Comics, PBA Galleries Auctioneers, San Francisco Bay Area Raze and KirbyJack 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BitterOldMan Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 5 minutes ago, Ivan Ivanstein said: Hi gang, I'm new to the boards but have been an EC and Pre-Code fan for decades. Back in the 1990s I was the comic book specialist for Green Apple Books, San Francisco's largest and best bookstore, and I did a couple of catalogues for them. One of my catalogues showcased EC, Mad and Pre-Code Horror. It was incredibly fun to put together! Every now and then a copy of the catalogue pops up on eBay. I wonder if anyone here was a Green Apple comics buyer back then? Cheers, Ivan Director of Comics, PBA Galleries Auctioneers, San Francisco Bay Area. Been Green Apple customer since the seventies. Briefly browsed in the Annex several weeks ago. Ivan Ivanstein 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ivan Ivanstein Posted September 9, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted September 9, 2019 Anyway, after leaving Green Apple I worked for Bonhams Auctioneers for quite a few years. I started in the Rare Books & Manuscripts department and then became the Director of Fine Writing Instruments. It was a fun gig and involved lots of international travel, but what I really wanted was to return to selling comics. Bonhams had no interest in letting me start a comics department, as they felt comics didn't match their branding. So I left Bonhams and now I'm Director of Comics for PBA Galleries in the San Francisco Bay Area. I'm putting together our debut comics auction, featuring (you guessed it!) EC, Mad, Pre-Code Horror and Undergrounds! The sale will be on February 13th, 2020. We already have some tasty tidbits for the sale, and we're seeking additional consignments! If anyone has material to consign, please let me know. Larryw7, Marty Mann, KirbyJack and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifties Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Here's my copy; KirbyJack, Ivan Ivanstein and Larryw7 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...