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PostPosted: Jun 11, 2012 9:30 AM 
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Here's CSS #22. Talk about a hot book!... this issue has gotten a crazy amount of attention the last few years. Classic Johnny Craig cover, with nice Reed Crandall art on the matching interior story.

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Here's CSS #22. Talk about a hot book!... this issue has gotten a crazy amount of attention the last few years. Classic Johnny Craig cover, with nice Reed Crandall art on the matching interior story.

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This is on my top 5 wanted list! :hail:


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PostPosted: Jun 11, 2012 8:00 PM 
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pwog wrote:
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Here's CSS #22. Talk about a hot book!... this issue has gotten a crazy amount of attention the last few years. Classic Johnny Craig cover, with nice Reed Crandall art on the matching interior story.


This is on my top 5 wanted list! :hail:

Keep watching, and have patience! There's one out there with your name on it. :hope:


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CSS #23 with a beautiful George Evans cover. I think this one's a real sleeper... the cover is fantastic (I love that for once there's no band of color behind the logo), and the black background make this a very tough find in midgrade or better.

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CSS #23 with a beautiful George Evans cover. I think this one's a real sleeper... the cover is fantastic (I love that for once there's no band of color behind the logo), and the black background make this a very tough find in midgrade or better.

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Great EC books! Keep 'em coming!


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macathro wrote:
Great EC books! Keep 'em coming!

:righton:

Here's CSS #27, an issue you don't see every day and the last of the series. Beautiful black cover by Jack Kamen, and a neat matching interior story drawn by George Evans... the 'twist ending' is actually a really good one. I bought this copy a million years ago from Harley Yee (probably should have been pursuing high-grade #22s instead, but oh well!).

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:applause: Looks like a very nice book to me.


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You need to add a 4-Color #16 to your collection :evillaugh: It'd CERTAINLY round out your Disney book collection! :righton:

Why, you selling one? :baiting:

I kind of go hot and cold on the Four Colors. Some of the Donald and Scrooge Four Colors are all-time classics; others are so-so. The earliest ones are definitely cool, but I don't really want to spend what it takes to nab them... heck, the first few approach pre-Robin-Tec territory in price.


No kidding, right? I had a chance to look over a heavily (amateur) restored copy of FC 16 but it was priced about two whole marks above its actual grade...and the resto wasn't disclosed until after I pointed it all out. :noway: Of course, when I got home, I discovered the "special" reputation Greg White seems to have built for himself on the internet with past customers! lol :doh:

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Moving on to Shock Suspenstories, another fave EC title.

Here's Shock #7. Crazy Feldstein electrocution cover, top lineup inside with George Evans on a Ray Bradbury story...

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PostPosted: Jun 18, 2012 9:57 AM 
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... but here's the really cool thing about this copy. :) I didn't get the signature myself, but I'm reasonably confident it's authentic, using "Jon Voight's car"-type reasoning. The inside front cover facing the sig is an ad for then-current Mad #3.


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... but here's the really cool thing about this copy. :) I didn't get the signature myself, but I'm reasonably confident it's authentic, using "Jon Voight's car"-type reasoning. The inside front cover facing the sig is an ad for then-current Mad #3.


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"Jon Voight's Car - type reasoning - :roflmao:

Good one!

Nice book and signature is very cool.

BTW- I just finished reading, "The Ten-Cent Plague" by David Hajdu - amazing stuff.


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I still have to pick up The Ten-Cent Plague. I know I'm going to enjoy it! It's been on my list forever.


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I still have to pick up The Ten-Cent Plague. I know I'm going to enjoy it! It's been on my list forever.


+1. I have been wanting that book as well.


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It's becoming an obsession. I just started "Foul Play!: The Art and Artists of the Notorious 1950s E.C. Comics!" by Grant Geissman. The more I learn about EC; their comics, artists and writers the more I appreciate their importance. Bill Gaines has become on of my heroes.


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macathro wrote:
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I still have to pick up The Ten-Cent Plague. I know I'm going to enjoy it! It's been on my list forever.


+1. I have been wanting that book as well.

What the heck... just BIN'd a copy on ebay. ($7.60 shipped for a new copy... works for me!)

Link if you're interested... http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Ten-Cent-Pl ... 2571ce4752


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Point Five wrote:
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I still have to pick up The Ten-Cent Plague. I know I'm going to enjoy it! It's been on my list forever.


+1. I have been wanting that book as well.

What the heck... just BIN'd a copy on ebay. ($7.60 shipped for a new copy... works for me!)

Link if you're interested... http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Ten-Cent-Pl ... 2571ce4752


Thanks for the link! I just picked up a copy as well! :righton:


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macathro wrote:
Point Five wrote:
macathro wrote:
Point Five wrote:
I still have to pick up The Ten-Cent Plague. I know I'm going to enjoy it! It's been on my list forever.


+1. I have been wanting that book as well.

What the heck... just BIN'd a copy on ebay. ($7.60 shipped for a new copy... works for me!)

Link if you're interested... http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Ten-Cent-Pl ... 2571ce4752


Thanks for the link! I just picked up a copy as well! :righton:

The seller will wonder why two copies sold in ten minutes... and maybe raise his price on the other two copies. :lol:


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Point Five wrote:
macathro wrote:
Point Five wrote:
macathro wrote:
Point Five wrote:
I still have to pick up The Ten-Cent Plague. I know I'm going to enjoy it! It's been on my list forever.


+1. I have been wanting that book as well.

What the heck... just BIN'd a copy on ebay. ($7.60 shipped for a new copy... works for me!)

Link if you're interested... http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Ten-Cent-Pl ... 2571ce4752


Thanks for the link! I just picked up a copy as well! :righton:

The seller will wonder why two copies sold in ten minutes... and maybe raise his price on the other two copies. :lol:

You guys crack me up! Let me know after you've read it so we can discuss. :hilarious:


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You guys crack me up! Let me know after you've read it so we can discuss. :hilarious:

Will do. :righton:


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 Post subject: Re: Point Five's Golden Age Nook!
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Here's Shock Suspenstories #8. Pretty nasty cover even by precode standards... I'm surprised Wertham never made noise about this one. Great stories and art inside.

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Here's Shock Suspenstories #8. Pretty nasty cover even by precode standards... I'm surprised Wertham never made noise about this one. Great stories and art inside.

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Wertham probably had a copy in his bottom drawer :sinister:

You have some great books! This one is looks in top shape


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What's wrong with that cover? He's obviously just giving the girl a hair cut! :) Great books, by the way. Keep 'em coming!


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Shock Suspenstories #9... an underrated EC, and one of my all-time favorites! Kicks off with Jack Kamen on a terrific Ray Bradbury horror story, "The October Game"... then "Came The Dawn," with sweet Wally Wood GGA... but the real highlight is the story "Carrion Death", drawn by the great Reed Crandall. This EC story more than any other seems to me a direct predecessor of the "Tales of the Black Freighter" story in Watchmen...the bleak tone of the first-person narrative, the striking use of camera angles, the contrasty black shadows that suggest intense sunlight from above, etc. Awesome piece of work.

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Shock Suspenstories #9... an underrated EC, and one of my all-time favorites! Kicks off with Jack Kamen on a terrific Ray Bradbury horror story, "The October Game"... then "Came The Dawn," with sweet Wally Wood GGA... but the real highlight is the story "Carrion Death", drawn by the great Reed Crandall. This EC story more than any other seems to me a direct predecessor of the "Tales of the Black Freighter" story in Watchmen...the bleak tone of the first-person narrative, the striking use of camera angles, the contrasty black shadows that suggest intense sunlight from above, etc. Awesome piece of work.

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Yet another on the top of my want list. Your books look as if they are in terrific condition! :hail:


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pwog wrote:
Yet another on the top of my want list.

I had a feeling I could sell you on this one. :winkgrin:
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Your books look as if they are in terrific condition! :hail:

Thanks! With ECs, as with any golden age books, I recommend going for nice eye appeal (bold color strike, etc) and decent paper quality (within reason), and not worrying excessively about the technical grades. My ECs probably average no better than 4.5/5.0 or so, but some are indeed better or at least present better. Got some nice ones coming up... :cheers:


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I had a feeling I could sell you on this one. :winkgrin:


Absolutely! Speaking of which, if you ever feel the need to thin the herd of any ECs, PM me. :winkgrin:


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Thanks! With ECs, as with any golden age books, I recommend going for nice eye appeal (bold color strike, etc) and decent paper quality (within reason), and not worrying excessively about the technical grades. My ECs probably average no better than 4.5/5.0 or so, but some are indeed better or at least present better. Got some nice ones coming up... :cheers:


I must agree. Besides, the prices of the higher grade books are out of my reach. Although, I wouldn't mind having at least one book that was from Gaines' collection. :yes:


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Shock Suspenstories #9... the real highlight is the story "Carrion Death", drawn by the great Reed Crandall. This EC story more than any other seems to me a direct predecessor of the "Tales of the Black Freighter" story in Watchmen...the bleak tone of the first-person narrative, the striking use of camera angles, the contrasty black shadows that suggest intense sunlight from above, etc. Awesome piece of work.

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Shock Suspenstories #10... another underrated EC, and a surprisingly nice copy. Powerful teen drug use story by Wood, and Jack Kamen does a great film noirish story related to the cover. I bought this one at a NYC convention from Vincent Zurzolo, before he was with Metropolis (there's still a "Vincent's Collectibles" sticker on the back of the Mylar).

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