Point Five's Golden Age Nook!

Point Five · **Joined:** Sep 21, 2009 10:03 AM **Posts:** 922

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.

pwog · **Posted:** Jun 11, 2012 12:20 PM

Point Five wrote:

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:

Point Five · **Joined:** Sep 21, 2009 10:03 AM **Posts:** 922

pwog wrote:

Point Five wrote:

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:

Point Five · **Joined:** Sep 21, 2009 10:03 AM **Posts:** 922

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.

pwog · **Posted:** Jun 12, 2012 2:11 PM

Point Five wrote:

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.

macathro · **Posted:** Jun 12, 2012 3:11 PM

Great EC books! Keep 'em coming!

Point Five · **Joined:** Sep 21, 2009 10:03 AM **Posts:** 922

macathro wrote:

Great EC books! Keep 'em coming!

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!).

pwog · **Posted:** Jun 15, 2012 12:05 PM

Looks like a very nice book to me.

Mac Man · **Posted:** Jun 15, 2012 12:25 PM

Point Five wrote:

Mac Man wrote:

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:

Point Five · **Joined:** Sep 21, 2009 10:03 AM **Posts:** 922

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...

Point Five · **Joined:** Sep 21, 2009 10:03 AM **Posts:** 922

... 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.

pwog · **Posted:** Jun 18, 2012 10:08 AM

Point Five wrote:

... 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.

"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.

Point Five · **Joined:** Sep 21, 2009 10:03 AM **Posts:** 922

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.

macathro · **Posted:** Jun 18, 2012 12:53 PM

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.

pwog · **Posted:** Jun 18, 2012 12:55 PM

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.

Point Five · **Joined:** Sep 21, 2009 10:03 AM **Posts:** 922

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

macathro · **Posted:** Jun 18, 2012 2:09 PM

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:

Point Five · **Joined:** Sep 21, 2009 10:03 AM **Posts:** 922

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:

pwog · **Posted:** Jun 18, 2012 3:40 PM

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:

Point Five · **Joined:** Sep 21, 2009 10:03 AM **Posts:** 922

pwog wrote:

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

Will do.

Point Five · **Joined:** Sep 21, 2009 10:03 AM **Posts:** 922

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.

pwog · **Posted:** Jun 19, 2012 8:37 AM

Point Five wrote:

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.

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

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

macathro · **Posted:** Jun 19, 2012 9:01 AM

What's wrong with that cover? He's obviously just giving the girl a hair cut!

Great books, by the way. Keep 'em coming!

Point Five · **Joined:** Sep 21, 2009 10:03 AM **Posts:** 922

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.

pwog · **Posted:** Jun 19, 2012 9:34 PM

Point Five wrote:

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.

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

Point Five · **Joined:** Sep 21, 2009 10:03 AM **Posts:** 922

pwog wrote:

Yet another on the top of my want list.

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

pwog wrote:

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:

pwog · **Posted:** Jun 20, 2012 7:08 AM

Point Five wrote:

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:

Point Five wrote:

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:

Point Five · **Joined:** Sep 21, 2009 10:03 AM **Posts:** 922

Point Five wrote:

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.

Here's a page!

pwog · **Posted:** Jun 20, 2012 1:21 PM

Point Five · **Joined:** Sep 21, 2009 10:03 AM **Posts:** 922

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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