Christmas shopping? I haven’t even started. I like working under pressure so I’ll start the grind this Friday the 20th. That whole weekend will be a zoo wherever I go but honestly, that’s where the fun is, everyone will be in good spirits, everyone will be behaving lest Santa gets wind of some transgressions. Speaking of Santa, there’s a crazy Santa actually opening up sealed collectible toys and putting them together, can Santas be sacrilegious?
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I’m writing this up on Sunday, football day, I just checked the scores and see that my Bills won today! Nice work lads. Buffalo is an hour’s drive from Hamilton and since we don’t have an NFL team in Canada yet I root for the Bills, its important to go out and support your local businesses folks. Having football on the mind and coming across a great Bob Powell football cover in my “going to eBay auction” pile made my Cover of the Week choice a no brainer. True Sport Picture Stories v4 #11 dates back to 1949 and it really is a strong cover.
I also loved the back cover to True Sport Picture Stories v4 #11, I mean this is a no nonsense, football guy, grease monkey type of ad, great marketing by Audels if you ask me, way better than say, Patsy Walker or Young Love. As always, I wonder how many young men wrote away for these guides and I wonder how many, if any, went on to make a living in these trades. I’m hopeful that it was lots, those were good days for finding work, the trick was finishing up a trade, sort of like today!
I went down the rabbit hole with True Sport Picture Stories v4 #11, there were some great features in this comic. Back in 1949 information moved slow, there was no TV yet, not in many homes at that time, so kids read sports magazines and ate up comic books featuring their sports heroes. I had to do a double take on the page with the water polo feature, if you look closely you’ll see one guy trying to push the opponent underwater and it you look even closer there’s another guy grabbing an opponent by the throat, looks like a damn hockey game out there. The cherry on top for me was the artist’s name Clem Boddington, not enough Clem’s out there if you ask me.
Our latest icecollectibles eBay auction ended last night, it was a busy auction, there was a great mix of graded and raw, new and old and people were bidding! I really liked the flash #113 CGC 7.0 we offered up for auction, its from 1960 features a 1st Villain appearance and boasts White Pages, it sold for $432 on the 45th bid, beating the last sale comfortably. The White pages are so rare for DC’s from this era, I think that sealed the deal.
Good thing you featured a fairly priced book from last night’s auction, rather than one where you gouged clearly naiive bidders and distorted the GPA records. Presumably by today your shame is eating your liver.
That True Sport cover is beautiful work, but I think westerns will take off before this book. From the looks of Tom McCarthy, he is on so much stuff that he’s in no condition to keep his guys from cheating and killing. I played intramural _inner tube_ water polo in college, and there was even cheating there.
Got outbid, didn’t you Meli?
Old Tom is not someone you want to mess with, actually anyone that into watersports should be steered clear of
The Powell cover on True Sports is top notch! I only kept one early Flash and it was a pretty nice copy of 113. Something about the colors and dynamics screamed out 1960 to me and I couldn’t give it up.