Appreciating Church Copies More Than Ever 0

[Moondog]

I was shown 7 Wings comics today.  2, 4, 6-8, 10-11.  The images I saw beforehand (front cover IPhone pics) gave me the impression they were VF.  Sure I new the interiors could be brittle. but the seller was telling me how supple the pages were - "not brittle at all."

So I meet the seller today, take the books out of the envelope, and my heart leaps - beautiful copies!  Then my heart breaks, the spines are all split.  Right on the edge of the spine.  For no reason other than age.  I still bought them but at a fraction of what I would have happily paid.

It's really f'ing hard to find an 75-80 year old comic book in top condition.  It makes the existence of the Church copies even more amazing.  Thank god for Edgar Church and the collectors preserving his books.

[comicjack]

If we could only preserve ourselves as well as a Church book or Larson we would have it made 

[Sqeggs]

31 minutes ago, Moondog said:

I was shown 7 Wings comics today.  2, 4, 6-8, 10-11.  The images I saw beforehand (front cover IPhone pics) gave me the impression they were VF.  Sure I new the interiors could be brittle. but the seller was telling me how supple the pages were - "not brittle at all."

So I meet the seller today, take the books out of the envelope, and my heart leaps - beautiful copies!  Then my heart breaks, the spines are all split.  Right on the edge of the spine.  For no reason other than age.  I still bought them but at a fraction of what I would have happily paid.

It's really f'ing hard to find an 75-80 year old comic book in top condition.  It makes the existence of the Church copies even more amazing.  Thank god for Edgar Church and the collectors preserving his books.

It does, although I have the Church copy of Comics 8.  Beautiful book ... except for a humongous spine split that led to its being graded 1.8 by CGC. Not sure how the split happened.  I wonder if Edgar actually read it? 

[Sqeggs]

2 minutes ago, comicjack said:

If we could only preserve ourselves as well as a Church book or Larson we would have it made 

I've got some foxing along the edges, just like some Larsons. 

[tth2]

We're remarkably spoiled by the Churches and other pedigrees. 

[goldust40]

3 hours ago, tth2 said:

We're remarkably spoiled by the Churches and other pedigrees. 

Well, those of us who can afford them.

[Robot Man]

13 hours ago, Sqeggs said:

I've got some foxing along the edges, just like some Larsons. 

My page quality isn't what it used to be either... 

[Flex Mentallo]

15 hours ago, Moondog said:

It makes the existence of the Church copies even more amazing.

Somewhere out beyond the boundraies of our reality there is an alternate universe in which Edgar never existed, all GA comics have brittle pages, and the hobby is universally derided. How lucky we are!

[MrBedrock]

2 hours ago, Flex Mentallo said:

17 hours ago, Moondog said:

It makes the existence of the Church copies even more amazing.

Somewhere out beyond the boundraies of our reality there is an alternate universe in which Edgar never existed, all GA comics have brittle pages, and the hobby is universally derided. How lucky we are!

There is another alternate universe where paper doesn't age, colors don't fade, and prices don't rise.

[Bronty]

5 minutes ago, MrBedrock said:

There is another alternate universe where paper doesn't age, colors don't fade, and prices don't rise.

[Flex Mentallo]

1 minute ago, Bronty said:

On a good day I can almost see it.

[N e r V]

11 minutes ago, MrBedrock said:

There is another alternate universe where paper doesn't age, colors don't fade, and prices don't rise.

But you might get killed for your books....

[tth2]

6 hours ago, MrBedrock said:

There is another alternate universe where paper doesn't age, colors don't fade, and prices don't rise.

That's called Copper Age collecting.

[adamstrange]

 

After seeing the title and reading the first post I assumed that Gary was telling us of the tragic spine splits on Church copies of Wings Comics.

Don't scare me like this!