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Merry Christmas everyone! You guys are the best. Here's your Christmas

presents for being good all year :)

 

 

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Merry Christmas all !

 

Love the presents Rosland !

 

That ST98 is :cloud9:

 

Hope everyone grabs a grail in 2017 :)

-bc

 

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Welcome to 2017 !

 

To start the new year, just grabbed this :

 

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It has the same numbering (104??) on the inside cover (above the CCA stamp) as a couple of other slabs I have.

 

Also grabbed a handful of raw books off Philreal and a TTA2 from Dale's recent sales thread. Missed that Colossus issue that Vintage sold yesterday.

 

Hope everyone had a great holidays !

-bc

 

 

 

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Welcome to 2017 !

 

To start the new year, just grabbed this :

 

tos_16_zpsrflum3c0.jpg

 

It has the same numbering (104??) on the inside cover (above the CCA stamp) as a couple of other slabs I have.

 

Also grabbed a handful of raw books off Philreal and a TTA2 from Dale's recent sales thread. Missed that Colossus issue that Vintage sold yesterday.

 

Hope everyone had a great holidays !

-bc

 

 

Great book !!!!
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I am of the school of thought that most PHM "prototype" claims are just wishful thinking. However, ToS #16 has a pretty solid argument! Nicely done!

 

I agree, just look at Metallo and compare it to early Iron Man. How can there be no reference on the CGC label at all ? Nice book, 8.5 is an amazing grade for this era.

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I am of the school of thought that most PHM "prototype" claims are just wishful thinking. However, ToS #16 has a pretty solid argument! Nicely done!

 

I agree (thumbs u

 

Think most of the "prototype" claims came from a comfortable stock of characters that the artists were able to crank out on a monthly basis. This meets both company deadlines and pays the bills.

 

As an example - kav's thread in CG about AAF14 having so many Spiderman related prototypes. Those were just characters Ditko utilized regularly in other stories.

 

It's still really cool to see the evolution/development of the characters (or character ideas) from one period to the next :)

-bc

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Welcome to 2017 !

 

To start the new year, just grabbed this :

 

tos_16_zpsrflum3c0.jpg

 

It has the same numbering (104??) on the inside cover (above the CCA stamp) as a couple of other slabs I have.

 

Also grabbed a handful of raw books off Philreal and a TTA2 from Dale's recent sales thread. Missed that Colossus issue that Vintage sold yesterday.

 

Hope everyone had a great holidays !

 

-bc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Awesome book, congrats!!

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Merry Christmas everyone! You guys are the best. Here's your Christmas

presents for being good all year :)

 

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This is a fabulous thread, one of the very best on the board! And that Strange Tales 87 has one of the most spectacular covers of all the ones in this thread.

 

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Yeah, the ST 87 ranks right up there for best PH covers. Also, it one of the more difficult issues to find in high grades. So is this issue which I have yet to acquire in great condition. This copy looks great, but has a light sub crease.

 

 

 

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Grottu is indeed elusive in high grade!

Who has all the nice copies? I say it's..."Them!"

 

Great reference to a classic flick!

 

I'm also having trouble finding a high grade copy of both this and ST75....but the hunt continues !

-bc

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Grottu is indeed elusive in high grade!

Who has all the nice copies? I say it's..."Them!"

 

Great reference to a classic flick!

 

I'm also having trouble finding a high grade copy of both this and ST75....but the hunt continues !

-bc

 

ST #75 is a toughie in anything approaching midgrade even.

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