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15 hours ago, Zolnerowich said:

The most likely reasons for a no-show, as you say, are either the book was super rare, or for whatever reason, not available at the time. Of course, the more rare, the less likely to be available, but I'm sure there could have been all sort of exceptions where it just wasn't possible to line up the owner, the book, and the photographer, even if the book was not particularly rare.  

Gerber was trying to photograph as many Church copies as possible.  In the case of Capt Aero 26 it was one of the few books that Chuck had held back for his own collection and didn't surface until he offered them for sale at San Diego Con.  It is a tough book to find in nice shape and none of the collectors that Gerber approached had one in their collection.

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1 hour ago, nearmint said:

I was the underbidder on the 9.0 last September, so didn't want to miss out on this copy from last night's weekly Heritage auction.   One of my favorite GA covers...

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Congrats!  I was thinking that would be on your radar

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8 hours ago, adamstrange said:

No mystery there.  Gerber visited Jon Berk.

Well, when you put it that way, it makes perfect sense! I knew there was a smart boardie out there who could bring some enlightenment. :smile:

Funny, for a relative novice like me, flipping through the Gerber books is paramount to a magical experience (ok, exaggerating a bit...), when in fact, magic had nothing to do with it: it was actual people who put in the hard work to accomplish this feat. 

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1 hour ago, adamstrange said:

Ernie Gerber did 98% of the work.  It was an insane amount of effort and expense and was definitely part of what got him into money troubles.

All very interesting history. Sounds like someone should write a book about the making of the Gerber books. hm

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21 hours ago, nearmint said:

I was the underbidder on the 9.0 last September, so didn't want to miss out on this copy from last night's weekly Heritage auction.   One of my favorite GA covers...

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A wonderful book and right in that sweet spot grade wise!

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