Hopefully I'll be able to get through a few of these before the auction closes. This is such a great auction it deserves attention beyond the obsessive refreshing of the Detective 27 page to see if it's received any new bids.
Anyway, for those of you who are unfamiliar with the story of the Gainers file copies, when Jerry Weist and Bob Overstreet were putting together the books for sale they grouped and ranked the books in sets based on condition. The #1 set was the best, the #2 was second best and so on. Many of these sets have been subsequently broken up, so it's interesting to see one with such a low number come up for sale, complete, with a single owner post-Gaines sale.
As you can see from the grades, these books were truly the cream of the crop. So many 9.6s and 9.8s.
Frontline Combat is also one of the great comic series of all time, so I'm basically compelled to share:
By medusanyc February 13, 2010 - 7:04 pm
more than likely the set will be broke up the way it is being sold. either that or it will earn some killer prices for someone who wants the set and wants to keep it together.
By Rob February 13, 2010 - 9:15 pm
yeah, it's a shame that these sets are getting broken up like this. It would be fun to see them kept together (ignoring the fact that I'm bidding on a couple of individual books myself, of course)