Bought my first collection: merry Christmas to me! 2 2

[Vfactor1]

Nice find SpeedCake!

 

Congrats!

[oakman29]

One day I would like to find a nice collection,  have never done it before.

[Comicdey]

Congratulations.  I do recommend saving some of them and noting which collection they came from for your personal collection.  It’s easy to sell them all and poof gone 

[speedcake]

3 hours ago, Vfactor1 said:

Nice find SpeedCake!

 

Congrats!

Thanks! I’ll post some more group shots tomorrow maybe. 😍

[speedcake]

35 minutes ago, Comicdey said:

Congratulations.  I do recommend saving some of them and noting which collection they came from for your personal collection.  It’s easy to sell them all and poof gone 

I’m definitely keeping a decent chunk of this: good idea about notating what I keep . Thanks!

[Alf Pogs]

On 12/15/2018 at 5:51 PM, speedcake said:

[Darth Corgi]

Congrats! Looks like a nice collection of books.

[Darth Corgi]

10 hours ago, speedcake said:

Finally able to get back to sorting and grading the books and...Hoo boy 

Looks like this copy was actually read by a werewolf. Well loved copy.  

[herc2000]

9 hours ago, Not A Clone said:

PGX 9.4

That's mean, PGX are not that bad, it would most probably get a PGX 5.0.

[speedcake]

11 hours ago, Alf Pogs said:

two of them are around 9.2, the third is  mid grade but all three would improve with a press. 

[speedcake]

Astonishing Tales, missing a few issues including Deathlok, but still a sweet set. Not sure how much I’ll keep. Have three or four issues picked out so far.

[speedcake]

Get some!

 

Missing #8 but what can ya do. Also haven’t rebagged/boarded these yet. Sorry about the glare and wrinkley plastic. The comics are not wrinkly 😍😍

Edited January 1, 2019 by speedcake

[speedcake]

Really sharp copy of this book going in the keep pile 

[speedcake]

Here’s all the Treasuries I got. They are in old bags still, sorry about the glare.  

[speedcake]

Random mags and etc . The stamp album is complete (stamps applied) but has a quarter size bit of water damage to the top right cover. 

[speedcake]

Can anyone help with value on the marvel indexes? The two I have are pretty sharp but there isn’t much to go on via eBay 

[speedcake]

Guess I’ll wrap it Up with all the Ms Marvel books. It’s funny that when the collection was originally picked, only the 16, 17, 18 Mystique issues were taken. Movie madness is mad, ha 

gonna be selling all of these, I reckon. They are mostly very nice copies.

Stuff i didn’t show was a nice stack of Conan, Daredevil, pretty big pile of Captain America, some Namor, a handful of Fantastic Four, Iron Man, and other various super hero stuff like Fantasy Masterpieces #1, 2, 3 the silver surfer reprints, the human fly, Marvel Feature with Ant Man, etc.

there was quite a lot of sci-fi, fantasy and horror, which is very cool. Nearly complete Ka-Zar through #19, marvel chillers, man-thing, a complete Planet of the Apes set, Omega the Unknown #1 through 9, Tarzan #1 through 12, adventure into fear, creatures on the loose, supernatural thrillers, Skull the Slayer 1 through 8, Son of Satan 1 through 7. 

Are you STILL reading?

some early but low grade Ghost Rider including #2 and 4, Logan’s run #1-7, 2001 a space odyssey 1- 10, John Carter Warlord of Mars #1 - 11 and a couple annuals, a handful of tomb of Dracula. 

It’s a fun bunch of books. A lot it is mid grade but there are many gems and high grade books as well. The hardest part is deciding what to keep and what to sell, and for how much as this is my first Bronze Age collection. My main goal is put aside what I’m definitely keeping, a second “maybe” pile, then sell the rest  until I’ve made back what I paid for it.

 

thanks everyone for the kind words and the grats! It’s a lot of fun and it was a good size collection to not overwhelm me but to also give me an idea of what it’ll be like to buy a big collection as far As work and storage. 

Hope you all enjoyed the pics!

[speedcake]

Here’s the ms marvel books since that last post got away from me a bit. Ooh la la!

Everything except the #1s needs to be rebagged, so again sorry about the glare. This is mostly a really nice set of books  with loads is vf+ through nm copies 

Edited January 5, 2019 by speedcake

[speedcake]

I already lied ! Forgot I wanted to show off the Inhumans! Missing #2 but in great shape and in the keep pile

ok now I’m done ha 

[Robot Man]

On 12/30/2018 at 9:52 PM, speedcake said:

I’m definitely keeping a decent chunk of this: good idea about notating what I keep . Thanks!

In the past 40 years of heavily collecting, I've found my fair share of cool collections. I gave them each their own "title" and noted them on the backing boards. Means nothing to anyone else but always fun when I pull books out to look at brings back that great feeling all over again.