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Another auction of Canadian golden age comics, hockey cards, toys, premiums, pulps, original art, and sundry by ICEcollectibles ending this Sunday-- well worth a look. https://www.ebay.ca/sch/i.html?_trkparms=folent%3Aicecollectibles%7Cfolenttp%3A1&_ssn=icecollectibles&LH_Auction=1

Another auction of Canadian golden age comics, hockey cards, toys, premiums, pulps, original art, and sundry by ICEcollectibles on Ebay finishes up on Sunday--well worth a look. https://www.ebay.ca/sch/i.html?_trkparms=folent%3Aicecollectibles%7Cfolenttp%3A1&_ssn=icecollectibles&LH_Auction=1

You outbid me for that copy in that Bellville auction. I stopped because I already had a lower grade copy. The character on the cover is The Hangman and it's taken from a Pep splash.

I am currently working on a book of covers from the Canadian war time comics along the lines of Gerber's Photo Journals of American Golden Age Comics. I've managed to source out 97% of these covers and obtained hi-def scans of them. Some members of these boards have already helped me out. I still need 16 hi def scans of covers to complete this project. I am asking if members might have copies of any of these books that they might be able to scan at 300 dpi and share the scan with me for my project. Here is a list of the covers I still need: Grand Slam Comics Vol. 2 No. 3 Grand Slam Comics Vol. 3 No. 7 Lucky Comics No. 33 Robin Hood Comics Vol. 1 No. 4 Rocket Comics Vol. 4 No. 30 Spy Smasher Vol. 1 No. 5 Spy Smasher Vol. 2 No. 2 Spy Smasher Vol. 2 No. 5 Spy Smasher Vol. 2 No. 6 Spy Smasher Vol. 2 No. 8 Spy Smasher Vol. 4 No. 11 Three Aces Comics Vol. 1 No. 11 Three Aces Comics Vol. 3 No. 2 Three Ring Comics No. 2 Whiz Comics Vol. 1 No. 2 Jinx Comics (coverless) nn Hoping some of you can help. Ivan Kocmarek

Large auction of Canadian golden age comics coming up. https://www.comicbookdaily.com/collecting-community/whites-tsunami-weca-splashes/first-annual-canadian-comics-auction-on-i-c-e/

A quick announcement that beginning on June 18 and ending on June 28 there will be an Ebay auction of strictly Canadian comic books and related material. The auction will run on Big B Comics Ebay seller site under the seller name “internationalcollectiblesexchange” (all one lower case word). Proceeds from the auction will go towards helping fund 80th Anniversary of Canadian Comic Books projects such as the reprint of Better Comics No. 1. More than two dozen war time Canadian comics have been donated including items such as Super Comics Vol. 2 No. 6, Canadian Heroes Vol. 1 No. 5, Triumph Comics No. 23, Commando Comics No. 11, and Triumph-Adventure Comics No. 4 (coverless) with more items coming in. There will also be a number of Anglo-American books, both black-and-white and in colour as well as a good number of reprint era books, including a handful of Canadian EC reprints. Get the word out! Get ready to bid on these hard to find Canadian golden age books.

Thanks for putting this up, Stephen. However, it still doesn't establish the fact that it is a Canadian publication. A comic indicia usually has the full title of the publication and issue number along with the Publisher's name and city of publication among some other things. This is only a copyright statement and it's a New York-based company which I've never heard of before. I would have thought that the copyright should have been Timely. There is no indication that the book was published in Canada and I think the resolution of this is still a mystery. CGC didn't state it was a Canadian edition. Something definitive needs to come out so that we can go one way or another. The assumption is that. because the interior is in black-and-white, it must be a Canadian publication, but I think that this is an unwarranted assumption. We need to know more... Here is the indicia for Better Comics Vol. 2 No. 10 which is probably from around the same time as these 'Timely' annuals came out.

You know, there's no direct indication that these books were printed in Canada. Most people assume this because the interiors are black-and-white, but they have no indicia and no marking to link them to any of the Canadian publishers that were in operation at the time, or any other indication that they were printed and distributed in Canada. Even the CGC labels choose not to call them Canadian editions. I can't call them Canadian until we have proof that they are and I wonder if we ever will...?

These just in...

Just in case anybody from Comic Link reads this. The Dime 34 in the auction that starts Oct. 12 is listed as a "Canadian White" with that long vague paragraph trying to define what a "Canadian White" is. As most of us know this is a comic from 1952 that uses the old Dime masthead but is actually a reprint of the American Space Squadron #4 (Dec. 51). I hope they can fix this in the next few days. Thanks for Jim Finlay for bringing this to my attention.

Thanks for the update, Jon. I'm sure things will be in order when the auctions starts

A few of us have noticed two glaring CGC slabbing errors in the books being offered for the August CLINK auction. First, the Victory #1 is not a comic book. It is a Canadian pulp with a Ted Steele cover. The CGC description should list it as a pulp. Second the listed and CGC labelled Freelance #1 is actually a Freelance Vol. 1 No. 12. Bidders and buyers who only know a little about golden age Canadian books are probably going to be misled and bid inappropriately. Hope somebody from CLINK or CGC reads this and gets it fixed before the start of the auction.

Am I mistaken or do all the CLINK WECA books put up for the August auction have the faulty new CGC holders? I guess this won't have any effect on the auction because you can just send them back in for re-slabbing. But certainly puts a wrinkle in it. Maybe CLINK will still send the books back to CGC to get the fixed slabs since there seems to be enough turn around time.

Thanks, I've stopped writing the column for Comic Book Daily due to an editorial conflict but we are revamping our "whites" website, Canada's Own Comics ( http://canadasowncomics.com/ ) and the new iteration should appear sometime in July. I'll be doing my column there and we'll have a "whites" forum or two on the site as well and some other features. As for the WECA Comics Price Guide we're working on, the consensus was that we should plow ahead on it and get it out by Labour Day for Fan Expo in Toronto and not wait for the Clink auctions. No matter when we put the guide out, the prices will be outdated on the day that it's published like any other price guide and since it's main purpose is to be the first real informative checklist of these books we shouldn't be hung up on the prices listed as the main thing.

I know what you mean, I finished grad school 35 years ago at a time way before the internet and google... when all my references and connections were on index cards and in ledgers but the air inside midnight libraries and archival labyrinths is of a special nostalgia for me--like that wonderul musty smell of comics just fished out of a basement.