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[pemart1966]

22 minutes ago, lou_fine said:

Well, I just ran down to my local Superstore as fast as my little feet could take me and loaded up on the margarine before everybody else finds out about this new way to preserve the color gloss and freshness of your comic books.  

Did they say how many layers of margarine I should be applying to my books to get the optimal preservation effect on my books.  

Forget the comic books!  I'm going to lather margarine all over MYSELF and then see what happ...UH...never mind...this isn't coming out the way that I intended  

[Buliwyf]

..Promise Margarine, good one but couldn't be further from the actual origin of the collection name..

[Funnybooks]

Just now, nooncee said:

..Promise Margarine, good one but couldn't be further from the actual origin of the collection name..

The collector's name is Promise..case closed 

[Buliwyf]

..my reference was to the margarine not the last name.."nuff said" 

[MrBedrock]

3 hours ago, vheflin said:

One Fight so far although a lowly 8.5 shabby beater

 

[sfcityduck]

4 minutes ago, MrBedrock said:

 

Easy choice on which is better ... by far.

[Robot Man]

4 minutes ago, MrBedrock said:

 

[MrBedrock]

18 minutes ago, sfcityduck said:

Easy choice on which is better ... by far.

I manipulated the scan and removed the pedigree notation.

[Spyder!]

7 hours ago, cheetah said:

Personally, I'm still waiting to see if there are any Fiction House books in the mix.

 

7 hours ago, Ricksneatstuff said:

Planets?  I sure hope so.  Not that I'll be able to afford them, but maybe some undercopies will come to market after.

[tth2]

6 hours ago, sfcityduck said:

The vast majority of pedigree stories don't really matter to me.  At their core, they boil down to X person saved X number of comics with an average condition of X for X years.  And for most of the pedigrees, we don't even know what the X's are.  Even when we do, for most its just boring info that is true for pretty much every comic on the market:

The Billy Wright backstory, for example, is pretty typical:  Billy Wright saved 340 comics purchased from 1936 to 1941 that remained neatly stacked in a basement closet until discovered by a family member and sold on Heritage.  It's the comics that were exciting!  Not the back story.  

So right now, I'm not sitting on pins and needles wanting to know the "backstory" on this collection.  The fact they chose to call it the "Promise" collection suggests that the info will be limited, probably not revealing the original owner's name, and therefore might be unverifiable.  Someone up thread speculated that this was a collection kept for a soldier who "promised" to come back from war.  Guess what?  We already got that story for the "Tom Reilly" or "San Francisco" pedigree, and it has never been verified.  Some of the tactics used to hype comics just don't move the needle for me.

 

 

Thanks, sfcitygrinch.

[sfcityduck]

19 minutes ago, tth2 said:

Thanks, sfcitygrinch.

I wish I looked that good!  I'm much thinner on top.

Sincerely,

SFcitycynic

[Mmehdy]

What is HA waiting for...I don't understand why no announcement about this collection..they are already posting books?

[adamstrange]

[Spyder!]

38 minutes ago, adamstrange said:

Wow, those are some beautiful Planets. Very impressed with issue 38. There are only a handful of 9.8’s across the entire run. 

[fast eddie]

It's time to liquidate some of my SA books and get ready to rumble! 

[jimbo_7071]

On 5/2/2021 at 11:09 AM, Robot Man said:

Lordy! That is the one I want. One of the most iconic and well known comic covers of all time. I love it so much that it is my screen saver every time I turn on my phone. 

I understand the appeal to some collectors because of the headlights, but that cover has never really done anything for me. I don't think it's by Baker; if it is, it's one of his most poorly-drawn covers. He could have produced better artwork in his sleep, which is why I'm certain it isn't his work.

[jimbo_7071]

On 5/1/2021 at 11:15 AM, Robot Man said:

Codes don’t bother me if they are small, light and unobtrusive. It was such a common practice back in the GA that many books had. Often, they add to or make a book more desiresble to identify pedigrees. Church, Ohio come to mind. Who finds the name Larson or Okajima a problem? 

Pressing, or “maximizing” pedigree books is just wrong to me. Isn’t the whole point of a pedigree owning a nice book from a one owner collection? Don’t we pay more for these because of their special untouched state? Once they have been “maximized” they just lose a little of that sparkle to me...

The books in this collection don’t look like they need any help. The raw ones I saw were jaw dropping. I think they would bring record prices just the way they were found. 

"Who finds the name Larson or Okajima a problem?" The writing wouldn't be a deal-breaker for me, but I don't agree with the way the books were graded. I would have graded them much lower. In the case of the Okajima camp books, the writing adds to the charm, but that's a separate issue from the grade. Writing on the cover should reduce the grade, period. It might make sense for an Okajima camp book with a grade of 4.0 to be worth more than a non-pedigree book in 9.0 because of the historical significance of the former, but the grade on the camp book should still be 4.0. Damage is damage, whether it occurred in 1945 or 2015. (I also find the whole "Signature Series" concept absurd; to me, any book that has been signed on the cover is low grade—but assigning low grades to autographed books would hurt CGC's profits, so they call low-grade books high grade, and the sheeple go along with it en masse. Mind you, there's nothing wrong with collecting autographed books, but the grade should be no higher than if a comparable amount of random writing was on the cover.)

 

Edited May 4, 2021 by jimbo_7071

[Pickie]

Man, where did this collection hide when Gerber took his pics ... and in order to do that, travelled the USA ...

This OO/family can't have had ANY strings to fandom, what makes it even more fascinating 

[vheflin]

Did the printer deliberately stiff Fiction House on magenta?  There are so many bile tone covers.

I guess magenta was the most costly ink.

[Qalyar]

39 minutes ago, vheflin said:

Did the printer deliberately stiff Fiction House on magenta?  There are so many bile tone covers.

I guess magenta was the most costly ink.

These low-to-zero red/magenta FH books are weirdly frequent, such as you can call FH stuff frequent. I'm pretty sure FH did color control exactly the same way I deal with my printer. Magenta ink low? Eh. Magenta's a dumb color anyway, just keep printing.

Anyway, the books definitely look better when they actually used ALL the ink colors. So there's no need to even auction these yellowy-orangeish copies off. Just send them to me.