Ricksneatstuff Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 (edited) Another cigar worthy trade book this week. an LB Cole cover I have admired. Captain Flight 11. Edited July 31, 2017 by Ricksneatstuff MustEatBrains, porcupine48 and lbcolefan 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 1 hour ago, Ricksneatstuff said: Church copy of Sunny 13- My first raw Mile High and it is a Feldstein classic!! It is not one of those 9.4 Church copies but I will take it. Pretty freaking excited! I don't get that butterflies feeling too often anymore but this one did it. (No, it will not be in a sales thread ) Part of a trade with a fellow boardie. Nothing like a naked Church book. I have quite a few I bought direct from Chuckie a million years ago raw. Just can't bring myself to slab them. Does yours have "the smell"? Hang on to that one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricksneatstuff Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 16 minutes ago, Robot Man said: Nothing like a naked Church book. I have quite a few I bought direct from Chuckie a million years ago raw. Just can't bring myself to slab them. Does yours have "the smell"? Hang on to that one... First time I smelled one but kind of like pine or something. Definitely a different smell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 (edited) Bunch of nice covers. Don't often see copies of Crown 9. Edited to add: This comment was in reference to Entalmighty1's post. Edited July 31, 2017 by Sqeggs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 2 hours ago, Ricksneatstuff said: Church copy of Sunny 13- My first raw Mile High and it is a Feldstein classic!! It is not one of those 9.4 Church copies but I will take it. Pretty freaking excited! I don't get that butterflies feeling too often anymore but this one did it. (No, it will not be in a sales thread ) Part of a trade with a fellow boardie. Great book. Doesn't seem to be on Chuck's list (none of the four issues of Sunny are). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricksneatstuff Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Sqeggs said: Great book. Doesn't seem to be on Chuck's list (none of the four issues of Sunny are). If anyone has more info much appreciated. I do see that the Church copy on HA from 2006 is miscut and this is not. Edited July 31, 2017 by Ricksneatstuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 1 minute ago, Ricksneatstuff said: 3 minutes ago, Sqeggs said: Great book. Doesn't seem to be on Chuck's list (none of the four issues of Sunny are). It was sold in HA as Church copy in 2006. Ah, ok, a John McLaughlin book. I know he scooped up some romance/teen humor books (among others) prior to Chuck doing the catalog. Might be worth bringing the HA listing to the attention of the CGC graders if you ever send it in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricksneatstuff Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 4 minutes ago, Sqeggs said: Ah, ok, a John McLaughlin book. I know he scooped up some romance/teen humor books (among others) prior to Chuck doing the catalog. Might be worth bringing the HA listing to the attention of the CGC graders if you ever send it in. I see it is a different book than the HA listing. I traded with a reputable source. We will see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Readcomix Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Ricksneatstuff said: I see it is a different book than the HA listing. I traded with a reputable source. We will see. 9 minutes ago, Ricksneatstuff said: I see it is a different book than the HA listing. I traded with a reputable source. We will see. I read on a blog once (while researching my Vic Torry, sold to me as a Church by a Midwest dealer who has been around a long time) that Edgar had some doubles in his collection, though not many. I would not rule it out just because it's not 9.4-ish without coding nomenclature in the upper left, especially a post-1950 book. But there's others here who can offer way more insight; I'm just peeking into the rabbit hole like you, Rick, just maybe a month or so earlier, so I did some poking. I guess that Sunny is late 40's, but I think it's still something to be open to. Edited July 31, 2017 by Readcomix Ricksneatstuff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 28 minutes ago, Sqeggs said: Ah, ok, a John McLaughlin book. I know he scooped up some romance/teen humor books (among others) prior to Chuck doing the catalog. Might be worth bringing the HA listing to the attention of the CGC graders if you ever send it in. Yeah, he was one of the original "big dollar" buyers. Instead of buying the keys though, he bought as much of the cheap stuff as Chuck would sell him. I think Chuck had a cap of 10K a year in sales for tax reasons. He would call people on a list and John was one of them. John also advertised locally that he would pay double guide for Church books. A lot of them came his way that way. I remember going over to his place with a guy that was a good friend of his. There were 5 or 6 four foot piles of un-bagged Church books on his living room floor. Some had the sad fate of having one of his many cats whizzing on them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 21 minutes ago, Readcomix said: I read on a blog once (while researching my Vic Torry, sold to me as a Church by a Midwest dealer who has been around a long time) that Edgar had some doubles in his collection, though not many. I would not rule it out just because it's not 9.4-ish without coding nomenclature in the upper left, especially a post-1950 book. But there's others here who can offer way more insight; I'm just peeking into the rabbit hole like you, Rick, just maybe a month or so earlier, so I did some poking. I guess that Sunny is late 40's, but I think it's still something to be open to. I have a later Jumbo #155 I think that I bought directly from Check that was used in a censhorship book. Parade of Pleasure I think. It is ungraded and I noticed that there is another copy in the cencus. So Edgar for sure had more than one copy of some of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricksneatstuff Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 Somebody needs to send me a stack of raw Church books with "the smell" so I can compare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Readcomix Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 3 minutes ago, Ricksneatstuff said: Somebody needs to send me a stack of raw Church books with "the smell" so I can compare. Me too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 2 minutes ago, Ricksneatstuff said: Somebody needs to send me a stack of raw Church books with "the smell" so I can compare. Some people say pine, some people say cedar or even moth balls. I've had mine so long that I think most of the smell is gone. Although Adam Strange was over about a year ago and he said he could smell them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricksneatstuff Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 Just now, Robot Man said: Some people say pine, some people say cedar or even moth balls. I've had mine so long that I think most of the smell is gone. Although Adam Strange was over about a year ago and he said he could smell them. That cedar or pine smell is there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThothAmon Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 3 hours ago, Ricksneatstuff said: Church copy of Sunny 13- My first raw Mile High and it is a Feldstein classic!! It is not one of those 9.4 Church copies but I will take it. Pretty freaking excited! I don't get that butterflies feeling too often anymore but this one did it. (No, it will not be in a sales thread ) Part of a trade with a fellow boardie. Holy Rick that is outstanding. Paper is pristine. Put that one with the other Sunny's and now we're talking! Great comments above make for a fun read. If you ever need to raise cash for your Grail please put me on the short list. Ricksneatstuff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThothAmon Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 Not a Church book, sadly. Ricksneatstuff and Mr. Lady Luck 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 35 minutes ago, Robot Man said: I have a later Jumbo #155 I think that I bought directly from Check that was used in a censhorship book. Parade of Pleasure I think. It is ungraded and I noticed that there is another copy in the cencus. So Edgar for sure had more than one copy of some of them. Unfortunately, there also some misattributions -- books slabbed as Church books that actually aren't. Iirc correctly, there are two copies of Terrific 44 slabbed as Church copies, but the attribution is incorrect for one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frisco Larson Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 Thanks for the props gang I have so few Fawcetts ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frisco Larson Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 On 7/30/2017 at 8:21 AM, Straw-Man said: not what i collect, but it walked into the local coin shop i used to do my commemorative collecting thru, and he gave me a call. i couldn't say no. Did Louis cut ya a good price Billy Boy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
