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I'm intrigued by the Quebec edition. Do you know how many different ones were issued? according to the quebec page of the collectmad web site , there were just 12 issues. they all have unique covers and look pretty cool in my humble opinion.

Here's an eBay auction I was watching earlier this week. Looks like a really nice copy of Venus #18. Quite a price!

It's not as bad as it looks. This woman just has a fence-shaped torso. Dig the shoulder pads. She also was recently competing in a cherry-pie eating contest, hence the reddish stains. The moral is: Don't jump to conclusions, Renaissance Fair guy.

That's one way to press a comic.

I put in what turned out to be a thrill bid. That was too much dough to risk for me. But you are right, some of those books looked to be in quite nice shape. Would love to know how this works out for the buyer. My thrill bid turned out to be pretty un-thrilling, relative to the sale price. I am pretty sure you have most of those issues pretty well covered with your Cochran bound volume, you lucky person....

Just an FYI, but there is a " marketplace" section on the boards for selling your stuff directly. Regarding your list, by all means send it to me in a Private Message, or post it in the Marketplace area with prices, but be sure to become familiar first with how the marketplace works.

Just noticed somebody liquidating a full run of Mads (all the comics and mags from #1 to past #500) with what appears to be most of the Specials (Worst/Trash/Follies), many paperbacks, and nearly a full run of Dutch issues (weird -- I wish those were listed separately). It's always interesting to see what full runs of Mads sell for. I doubt this will sell at or near its BIN price but who knows. I'm tempted to buy it just to cherry-pick rarities and then resell. Unfortunately the early comics all look pretty rough -- in higher grade they'd pay for much of the cost of the lot. #1-#3 look kinda chippy. Anyway it's fun to see a full run in one place.

Just watched this eBay auction end... Item number #190700463313... I would have posted about it earlier but didn't want to annoy any bidders by drawing attention to it. It was an 18-comic lot of early EC horror issues in what appears to be fine-plus condition. It includes the first Tales From the Crypt #20 (#1), and two issues of Crypt of Terror (#18 and #19). Also there was Vault of Horror #13 (#2), and Haunt of Fear #4, along with numerous other early issues of the above titles. Auction ended at $2,676.26, which is just shy of averaging $150 per comic. If they're as nice as they look, a $150-per-issue average is a pretty good deal. Though it was still quite a bit higher than I could or would have bid!

On a final note, here's a suddenly relevant issue from 2006. Maybe this is the reason Katie Holmes is getting the divorce?

Here are two Bush covers that I think go nicely together -- father and son! The issue with Bush Jr. and Alfred's "I'm with stupid" shirt was part of a care package I sent to a friend in Iraq who was stationed at Camp Fallujah. He said he had to keep the cover folded back because it was considered bad form to refer to the Commander in Chief as stupid, even if Alfred E. Neuman was the one making the reference.

Here's the "missing" Obama cover.

For some reason I thought it would be a fun idea to hold on to all the Obama covers Mad released. This is not for political reasons (I am nonpartisan) but just because I thought it would be interesting. Unfortunately I have already missed one and don't feel particularly compelled to track it down (though it would probably be easy to do so). But here are the 4 in my collection. No political comments please!

I can't remember if I posted this before, but here are the 4 variant covers from the 1997 issue that lampooned Batman. These are all in high-grade (basically near mint)...how much do you think I could get for them? $5 each? Or a MILLION DOLLARS? I am holding out for the million.

....and from Turkey and (French) Canada:

Here are the #1 Mad issues from Holland and Argentina:

Just putting away some stuff and decided to snap some pics of a few Mads. I've shown the foreign issue #1's before, but I've since added a couple to the collection, so here they are again. It will likely be near-impossible to track all of them down. To begin with, here are the #1's from Britain, France, and Sweden.

That is definitely one of the coolest old Mad covers. Maybe THE coolest.

I would say so!

In my experience, that is the absolute toughest book to find intact, among all the Mad specials. Other tough ones include the specials with the floppy records (the early ones, like the Worst issue with the Beatles cover), the zeppelin issue, and the mobile (sculpture) issue. But the full-length Alfred issue is by far the toughest. Imagine how many kids' closet doors and dormitory walls had that poster on them.

Just got another #1 foreign-variant issue, this time from Sweden. Not much different about the cover or the insides, except the language, but it's still cool to have. I also have the English and French #1 issues, which are similar and also from 1960 (if memory serves). The really tough one will be the Danish "Gas" variant (who knew that "Mad" in Danish was "Gas"?) as it usually goes for big bucks and, like many of these variants, rarely if ever shows up for auction. Anyway, here's the #1 Swedish ("Svenska") Mad:

Thanks for that! Nice to see Paul Coker. (Feldstein and Jaffee too, but I've seen them before.)

What year is that from? Looks suitable for framing.

This is interesting. When did Gaines start filing copies? Was it when he began the New Trend stuff? Are there file copies of comics before then? (Moon Girl, War Against Crime, etc.)

So he's not a "close talker" then? That's good. Did he wear a puffy shirt? Anyway, you getting this issue signed definitely gives you "hand" over other Mad collectors here. Do be warned, though: Mads in CGC holders sometimes are subject to shrinkage.

That's pretty grody.