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[porcupine48]

I love that these can still be got fairly cheap in great shape.Loved those DC ghosty titles growing up,I'd get stacks of them at yard sales

 

Edited February 2, 2020 by porcupine48

[porcupine48]

Another sexy shape Charlton-I can't get enough!

[Get Marwood & I]

10 hours ago, Kevin.J said:

Okay, just for you bro

Breaks my heart to think of the comics ruined to make this little book though 

 

 

A comic or three may indeed have had the scissor treatment, but it's of its time Kevin. That's what we were supposed to do back then. And it's not like each comic doesn't have thousands of other examples in existence. I just watched a video of Alan Class explaining how he ripped the cover from a Fantastic Four #1 to give to the printers as a colour guide for one of his old sixties reprints. This is what we did back in the day. I think the full up stamp book is fantastic. Thanks for showing it 

[Kevin.J]

3 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

A comic or three may indeed have had the scissor treatment, but it's of its time Kevin. That's what we were supposed to do back then. And it's not like each comic doesn't have thousands of other examples in existence. I just watched a video of Alan Class explaining how he ripped the cover from a Fantastic Four #1 to give to the printers as a colour guide for one of his old sixties reprints. This is what we did back in the day. I think the full up stamp book is fantastic. Thanks for showing it 

Yeah, I get what you say, I remember using the covers of British marvels to wallpaper my room back in the day when I didnt know any better, I dont collect British comics, but still seems bad to me now.

I know someone out there has a Nice Hulk 181 shaking his fist coz his stamp is missing, its in my new little book 

 

 

[1950's war comics]

8 hours ago, porcupine48 said:

now that is some serious DREK

[Senormac]

15 hours ago, Kevin.J said:

19 hours ago, porcupine48 said:

Show us the innards Kev!

Okay, just for you bro

Breaks my heart to think of the comics ruined to make this little book though 

 

Outstanding !! 

There is one missing though.  Do you know which one ? 

[Aweandlorder]

It never ceases to amaze me how all these value stamps were meticulously cut off the books. Every marvel comic that I find with a missing mvs was cut near perfection around the stamp. Which kinda tells me that the readers/collectors still cared for the book, but I guess cared equally to collecting the stamps. I often come across many older books which had carelessly torn pages around coupon ads, which kinda tells me that in older times people didn’t care much for the comic nor preserving its looks

[exitmusicblue]

OA from Absolute Carnage 1 feat. Venom and Spidey: 

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1604568

[Readcomix]

Ok, everybody sing along now.... "Boar-die books! Boar-die books! Nothin' like gettin' yourself some boardie books!" 

Big shout-out thank you to legendary boardie @oceans11 thank you so much Don for recalling I was looking for a True Life Secrets 23 and working out a deal with me! 

Big shout-out also to great new boardie @Miket123! Been wanting a Lois 106 for a while and this is a nice copy that was reasonably priced, well-packed and quickly shipped. WTTB and thank you @StingerMcK for recruiting him. 

The Kamandi 59 (last issue) is not a boardie book but an eBay purchase, but it finishes my read and release run. Of course, I read 'em then hem and haw for three years about releasing them.....

[Kevin.J]

7 hours ago, Senormac said:

Outstanding !! 

There is one missing though.  Do you know which one ? 

The book is complete with 100 stamps, my pic is quite small, maybe it looks like there is one missing on the last page ?

Here is a bigger scan of the last page 

 

 

Edited February 2, 2020 by Kevin.J

[speedcake]

Got my Dale Roberts holiday thread haul in 

[an99]

Great books @ Readcomix and Speedcake!

[IbukiLord]

[PunisherPunisherPunisher]

Big shout out to @Rich_Henn for getting these for me, very happy 

[ADAMANTIUM]

Some minor keys that I way over paid for

Not NM or anything but decent reads!

Edited February 4, 2020 by ADAMANTIUM

[F For Fake]

On 2/1/2020 at 11:48 PM, porcupine48 said:

I love that these can still be got fairly cheap in great shape.Loved those DC ghosty titles growing up,I'd get stacks of them at yard sales

 

That's a great one! There was a time, I think it was the mid to late 90's, when there was a comic site called coverpricecomics, or something like that. They dealt in back issues, and everything was, as you'd expect, cover price. I picked up TONS of 70's DC horror books from that place ,so many great stories. Ghosts, Sinister House, House of Secrets/Mystery, etc. Terrific stuff. I think I have most of that in Showcase reprints now, and they're great reads.

[F For Fake]

It occurs to me that I haven't bought any comics for myself (outside of hardcovers and trades) since well before X-mas. The LCS had a 50% off sale that I attended yesterday. I got tied up at work, so by the time I got there, all of the great deals were gone, but I dig snag a couple more mid-grade Kirby's for the collection (Death Wish of Terrible Turpin is, of course, one of my all time fave Kirby stories), and this bronze X-Book. This was one of the first X-Men stories I ever read, in the form of Classic X-Men. I picked up UXM 227 (the end of Fall of the Mutants) and this issue of Classic X-Men on the same day, and then spent the next several years obsessed with filling in the gaps between those stories. What happened to those characters? How/why had they changed in that gap of time? It made me a huge fan. Anyway, I'll always have a place in my heart for this book, plus it's a person_without_enough_empathyin' cover!

[Senormac]

On 2/2/2020 at 3:22 PM, Kevin.J said:

On 2/2/2020 at 7:38 AM, Senormac said:

Outstanding !! 

There is one missing though.  Do you know which one ? 

The book is complete with 100 stamps, my pic is quite small, maybe it looks like there is one missing on the last page ?

Here is a bigger scan of the last page 

 

http://www.mvstamps.com/forbushman.htm

[porcupine48]

2 hours ago, F For Fake said:

That's a great one! There was a time, I think it was the mid to late 90's, when there was a comic site called coverpricecomics, or something like that. They dealt in back issues, and everything was, as you'd expect, cover price. I picked up TONS of 70's DC horror books from that place ,so many great stories. Ghosts, Sinister House, House of Secrets/Mystery, etc. Terrific stuff. I think I have most of that in Showcase reprints now, and they're great reads.

I still have most of my stacks of ghosty readers as I call them,in some old fruit box with the EC reprints,some funny animals,Gold Key,I have it around for anyone that wants to(respectfully,not mangle) read em.There's a few extra nostalgic ones I keep separate of course,but they're meant to be enjoyed! I'll always pick stuff like that up for a buck or under,but it was sweet getting some nicer shape ones from John R's thread recent,gave me the bug again! I've noticed,I never seem to see high grade Gold Key around,either no one sells em cause no one wants em,or are they just that tough?

[Get Marwood & I]

6 minutes ago, porcupine48 said:

I still have most of my stacks of ghosty readers as I call them,in some old fruit box with the EC reprints,some funny animals,Gold Key,I have it around for anyone that wants to(respectfully,not mangle) read em.There's a few extra nostalgic ones I keep separate of course,but they're meant to be enjoyed! I'll always pick stuff like that up for a buck or under,but it was sweet getting some nicer shape ones from John R's thread recent,gave me the bug again! I've noticed,I never seem to see high grade Gold Key around,either no one sells em cause no one wants em,or are they just that tough?

High grade Gold Key pence copies are hard to find. They don't appear to have been cherished as much as the Marvels. Or perhaps they're more cherished, and all hiding in collections.