The Planet Run is complete! Zolnerowich would be pleased! 2 2

[Zolnerowich]

10 minutes ago, comicjack said:

Really nice colors on that one 

Yep, Soft-Serve was a class act.

[Zolnerowich]

12 minutes ago, comicjack said:

I should have picked up more of Nick Cage books back then.I always tell you and Spyder that you guys are lucky to have copies 

 

 

 

 

Yes. There is a lot of luck in this funny books business. But patience also counts.

So is that copy of Planet 15 yours, Jack? Color strike is pretty close to my copy.

[comicjack]

1 minute ago, Zolnerowich said:

Yes. There is a lot of luck in this funny books business. But patience also counts.

So is that copy of Planet 15 yours, Jack? Color strike is pretty close to my copy.

Had it since Cage sold it to make his wife happy 

[Spyder!]

52 minutes ago, comicjack said:

I should have picked up more of Nick Cage books back then.I always tell you and Spyder that you guys are lucky to have copies 

Wow! The Nick Cage Planet 15!  What a book.  Only 3 graded higher and Zolne has one of them!  I love it when boardies are the ones holding some of the best copies that exist.

I certainly do feel lucky to have one. Not a cheap club to get into with any copy. 

[1950's war comics]

great thread , as good as a good book !

[Zolnerowich]

43 minutes ago, 1950's war comics said:

great thread , as good as a good book !

Maybe I should find a publisher! Clearly Pulitzer Prize-winning material! 

[Zolnerowich]

Now the year is 2018. It's been 10+ years, on and off, in pursuit of Planet Comics. At the beginning of this year, I'm still in need of fifteen issues.

A bit of pseudo-philosophy here, which I'm sure has been said before:

When a collector decides to complete a run, there comes a point when it becomes a VERY difficult job. Imagine, when you first decide to collect Planet Comics, you own none of them, so any issue you come across is an issue you need for the collection. You can cruise along like this for a good long while; after all, there's a heckuva lot of issues you need to find, and as long as a given book fits within your price range and grade range, it's all good. But then the time comes when you're close to completing the run, and that's when it becomes a huge challenge. It's all about the statistics: the chance of finding a Planet book is very high, but the chance of finding a specific Planet book is much lower, especially when there's only a handful of specific Planet books you need to complete the run. Sort of like, the chance of someone winning the lottery is high (since after all, someone will win), but the chance of a specific person winning the lottery (let's say, Sqeggs for example), would be extremely low.

This can lead to one of three outcomes, some involving more questionable judgment than others:

1. Abandon the quest to complete
2. Exercise extreme patience (knowing this might take another few years)
3. Make rash and costly purchases to complete the run whatever it takes

Well, I went with option #3, mostly.

I'll make note of some of those books that -- if I hadn't felt so compelled to complete these Weird Adventures on Other Worlds -- I might have made different choices, mostly in terms of grade/quality.

 

But first up, a very tough book, and my last Rivet:

PLANET #17

 

[Artboy99]

16 hours ago, Zolnerowich said:

Now the year is 2018. It's been 10+ years, on and off, in pursuit of Planet Comics. At the beginning of this year, I'm still in need of fifteen issues.

A bit of pseudo-philosophy here, which I'm sure has been said before:

When a collector decides to complete a run, there comes a point when it becomes a VERY difficult job. Imagine, when you first decide to collect Planet Comics, you own none of them, so any issue you come across is an issue you need for the collection. You can cruise along like this for a good long while; after all, there's a heckuva lot of issues you need to find, and as long as a given book fits within your price range and grade range, it's all good. But then the time comes when you're close to completing the run, and that's when it becomes a huge challenge. It's all about the statistics: the chance of finding a Planet book is very high, but the chance of finding a specific Planet book is much lower, especially when there's only a handful of specific Planet books you need to complete the run. Sort of like, the chance of someone winning the lottery is high (since after all, someone will win), but the chance of a specific person winning the lottery (let's say, Sqeggs for example), would be extremely low.

This can lead to one of three outcomes, some involving more questionable judgment than others:

1. Abandon the quest to complete
2. Exercise extreme patience (knowing this might take another few years)
3. Make rash and costly purchases to complete the run whatever it takes

Well, I went with option #3, mostly.

I'll make note of some of those books that -- if I hadn't felt so compelled to complete these Weird Adventures on Other Worlds -- I might have made different choices, mostly in terms of grade/quality.

 

But first up, a very tough book, and my last Rivet:

PLANET #17

 

so glad you bought that book, you will never regret it.

[Zolnerowich]

Continuing with the 2018 books...

PLANET #24

Nice color palette. I could do without the dust shadows on this one, but there's not many copies out there, and who knew when another nice mid-grade copy would surface!?!

With this book I now had all issues between #1-31.

[Zolnerowich]

Nine of the last thirteen books I needed were late issues, between #60 and #71. As I mentioned earlier, my initial goal of just collecting the issues through the 1940's ended up coming back to bite me, as many of these had climbed in price over the years I had ignored them. 

PLANET #69

Nice dramatic tension in this one. Who will prevail? The red-winged harpy and her green minions, or the hapless space men? Or maybe it's all an innocent mix-up! 

 

[Zolnerowich]

PLANET #61

Another molten space ship hull! We've seen this before. See: Planet #7, on page 5 of this thread. Almost a spitting image. (I prefer #7.)

[Zolnerowich]

PLANET #71

This one's got it all: spectacular space babe taking care of business, a floating upside-down city, and down below in the flying saucer, little egg-brained creatures doing the evil bidding of their harsh mistress.

[comicjack]

6 minutes ago, Zolnerowich said:

PLANET #61

Another molten space ship hull! We've seen this before. See: Planet #7, on page 5 of this thread. Almost a spitting image. (I prefer #7.)

And she does it barefoot

[jhutton2]

I am really enjoying this thread

[Zolnerowich]

1 hour ago, jhutton2 said:

I am really enjoying this thread

Thanks Jason!

Feel free to post some of your Rivets here for some "contrast and compare" banter!

[Zolnerowich]

PLANET #67

One of those Circe "come hither" set-ups. Don't fall for it, boys!

Wow, just had another one of those I-never-noticed-that-on-the-cover-before moments -- from the woman's mid-thigh, look to the right, towards the right edge of the cover. You'll see that one of the spacemen has already become fatally entangled in the monster's scabby tentacles. 

[Zolnerowich]

PLANET #43

This issue isn't super hard to find, though the cover often looks a bit washed out. Thanks to Ricksneatstuff, I was able to land a nice copy with pretty vibrant colors.

Looks like most of North America is on fire. I'm sure Flint Baker and Reef Ryan (aka The Space Rangers) have it all under control.

 

[Zolnerowich]

PLANET #70

One of the more classic, highly stylized sci-fi covers from the 1950's pre-code era. Covers like this really captured the menace of "otherness". The film studios were doing much the same thing stylistically with their advertisements for B movies involving weird sci-fi themes. See below for an example released by MGM (1956), which shares a lot with our #70.

 

[Artboy99]

7 minutes ago, Zolnerowich said:

PLANET #70

One of the more classic, highly stylized sci-fi covers from the 1950's pre-code era. Covers like this really captured the menace of "otherness". The film studios were doing much the same thing stylistically with their advertisements for B movies involving weird sci-fi themes. See below for an example released by MGM (1956), which shares a lot with our #70.

 

I love 70 just for how it captures that vibe!

[1950's war comics]

On 11/24/2018 at 7:01 PM, Zolnerowich said:

I'll begin with the initial bounty of six Planet Comics books that started me off in 2007. Many of these books were purchased raw, or removed from their plastic cases, so that I could enjoy the interiors, more for the art than for the stories per se. It is worth noting that it was the interiors -- as much as, or even more than the covers themselves -- that really got me hooked. Back in 2007 I was a sheer Planet novice, with little awareness of the variable color strike of a Planet cover (as you can see below, I lucked into a nice blue #30), or for unrestored vs. restored (this one had slight color touch, which back then didn't trouble me in the slightest). By the way, all of these photos were taken by my talented son, whose incentive was 30 cents per comic, and 15 cents for reshoots! 

PLANET #30

Looks like trouble in Paris!  

if i had to pick one this is my favorite cover.....