New in your Silver/Bronze Age Collection

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 11:55 am

Firing up a thread for people to post pics of the Silver Age books they acquire. If you pick up a new Silver book, post it here for others to see.

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 11:57 am

Here's one I got in the last week. With this issue, I've completed my Silver Age Avengers run from 1-106. Still a few books remaining to take me to 150 and eventually on to 300!

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 11:59 am

Took advantage of a trade credit with mycomicshop to fill some holes in my Legion Adventure Comics run. I think I bought almost everything they had in the stock that was a hole in my run and 5.0 or better.

atomic99 · Post by **atomic99** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 2:42 pm

Nice books, Trev. I've gotten a number of those Adventure/Legion books on the cheap in lower grades over the years with my hunt for cheap DC Silver. And I think I've got a really hacked version of AVENGERS #6 that I bought as a kid.

Unfortunately, my purchases of late have been zero. No Wonder Con, no regular LCS visits, and tight funds. All my money seems to be gobbled up on DCBS.

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 5:18 pm

atomic99 wrote:Nice books, Trev. I've gotten a number of those Adventure/Legion books on the cheap in lower grades over the years with my hunt for cheap DC Silver. And I think I've got a really hacked version of AVENGERS #6 that I bought as a kid.

Unfortunately, my purchases of late have been zero. No Wonder Con, no regular LCS visits, and tight funds. All my money seems to be gobbled up on DCBS.

these books are all primarily a result of trading in books I bought through dcbs that I no longer wanted to mycomicshop.

i get to read new books, then later sell them to mcs and end up filling holes in some silver runs. plus reducing the amount of storage i need.

I probably traded a short box worth of modern books for these.

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 6:41 pm

Here are some I bought a few weeks back:

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 12:17 am

Man, do many cool dc war covers. And that tec is great. Might have to try some silver batman.

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 1:28 am

Trev wrote:Man, do many cool dc war covers. And that tec is great. Might have to try some silver batman.

I love silver age Unknown Soldier & Enemy Ace comics (both ran in Star Spangled), those were some of the 1st war comics I dipped my toe into.....they were a bit outside of the "normal" war like Sgt. Rock, and were more realistic (to a kid) than Sgt. Fury which was just kind of benignly goofy.

I'm working on completing my collection of all Unknown Soldier (I need 8 more Star Spangled issues) & Enemy Ace (I need 4 Star Spangled & his 1st 3 appearances in Our Army At War).

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 2:40 pm

Got a couple of Archies over the weekend as part of a larger group that had mostly bronze stuff in it.

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 10:27 pm

Got my latest batch from MyComicShop.com......

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 1:28 am

Only one of those I have is the ff. doom patrol issue is awesome.

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 2:35 pm

Trev wrote:Only one of those I have is the ff. doom patrol issue is awesome.

I love the Romita cover on Our Love Story..... Those old romance comics are really hard to find.

BadDeacon · Post by **BadDeacon** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 4:16 pm

BobBretall wrote:I love the Romita cover on Our Love Story..... Those old romance comics are really hard to find.

That is a really great cover. I didn't even know that series existed!

Perseus · Post by **Perseus** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 11:33 am

That Romita cover is stunning. What grades do you all look for in your older comic back issue purchases? I'm looking to start getting some older Supergirl and Aquaman. Also All Star Western and DC war comics.

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 11:46 am

Perseus wrote:That Romita cover is stunning. What grades do you all look for in your older comic back issue purchases? I'm looking to start getting some older Supergirl and Aquaman. Also All Star Western and DC war comics.

I buy mostly in VG & F, but you need to be very careful in VG as it's open to extremely wide interpretation. You can get that Our Love Story which is VG+ and has what I'd call "great eye appeal" then there are other sellers that grade stuff as VG that look as if they were used to wipe up kitchen spills.

That FF book is VG and looks very nice (to me). Again, good eye appeal.

High-grade silver is significantly more expensive to collect than mid-grade. If you are collecting as an investment, go with higher grades VF. If you are collecting for yourself (like I do) then being very selective about your mid-grade purchases is a good way to go.