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I seem to have found another newsstand second printing and would like all of your opinions on it. Even though it’s an Archie this seems like the right thread for it. I have a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Movie newsstand second print Canadian variant. I have held this identical cdn variant newsstand copy in my hands before as a first print, so we can rule out anyone’s possible assumptions that all the cdn copies were 2nd prints. Also it appears all the ads for the 2nd printing are identical to the ads in the first printing. I have to date also not found a direct copy or USA newsstand copy 2nd printing, although I would “assume” they would also exist. TMNT adventures books are full of 2nd-5th printings as well as the direct AND newsstand cdn variants so a 2nd printing of a newsstand probably shouldn’t be too much of a surprise. Can anyone who has a copy of this book in whatever version confirm any other 2nd printing copies. Any info or thoughts would be appreciated.
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Figured I’d start a new thread for a very exclusive club. CPVs are hard enough to find to begin with, but double cover CPVs are an extreme rarity. I’ve seen a few posted on ebay, I think a “little shop of horrors #1” being the most recent I’ve noticed. My book to start with is a real doozy..the holy trifecta in my opinion. A CPV, double cover and key issue all in one. Enjoy, and please continue to add any you may have.
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Does anyone else remember Unknown Worlds comic shop in Toronto?
DonSal1976 replied to DonSal1976's topic in Comics General
That looks like the right location. 👍🏻 Just west of Pape on the Danforth. Do you remember the store or are you just bringing up a picture of the address on the flyer? -
I was recently looking through some old comics I hadn’t touched in decades and in-between one of the bags and the boards I came across a Halloween sale flyer from an old comic shop in Toronto called Unknown Worlds, circa late 1980s/early 1990s, and it triggered some great old memories. It was an amazing store and even to this day I can remember walking through the front door and taking in the strong smell of pulp that filled the air. I remembered it so vividly that I decided to draw a quick sketch of where everything was located. It had a massive tiered new comic rack, lots of back issue bins and the entire wall was covered in high end comics. It was marketed as a sci-fi/horror book shop and the entire back end of the store was geared specifically to that but I never actually went back there so I can’t for the life of me remembered what it looked like. The store had two big front windows but they were covered up with posters or something so the place was always very dimly lit which added to the ambience of the place. Sadly it closed down sometime in the early/mid 1990s. I was wondering if any other Torontonians on these boards remember this place?
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Absolutely idiotic. I love comics and CGC does a great job but they are NOT by any means an “essential service”. If anyone is wondering why they forecast over 100k deaths in the USA alone it’s because of idiotic things like this.
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Top Ten Most Valuable Comic Magazines
DonSal1976 replied to Randall Dowling's topic in Comic Magazines
Pussycats #1 and Vampirella #113 both have Canadian variants which are virtually impossible to find in high grade. -
Charlton Canadian Price Variants
DonSal1976 replied to Get Marwood & I's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
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Official Canadian Newsstand Cover Price V****** Thread
DonSal1976 replied to davidpg's topic in Copper Age Comic Books
I need this issue. Its actually one of the tougher NKOTB issues to find, especially with the cdn variant pricing. Im currently putting together the Harvey cdn database right now and they are actually incredibly difficult to find. Keep the pics of Harveys coming -
80's and 90's nostalgia collection
DonSal1976 replied to McCaw1980's topic in Modern Age Comic Books
That Married With Children #1 9.8 is sweet -
Charlton Canadian Price Variants
DonSal1976 replied to Get Marwood & I's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
I believe I may actually be wrong Marwood. When I said oct/84 I was looking at my original notes. I’ve only done about 25% of the research on charlton so far. April/May 84 may be the correct end date after all. I’m currently elbows deep in research for another publishers CPVs so I haven’t been able to spend the time necessary on charlton yet. There’s always the possibility they jumped back to cdn pricing for a few months later in the run, I’ve seen it before. Keep the discussion and research going. 👍🏻 -
Charlton Canadian Price Variants
DonSal1976 replied to Get Marwood & I's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
Charlton $0.75 Canadians exist until Oct 1984. I’m currently in the process of researching them for Bens Blog. Good job gathering all that info. 👍🏻 -
Archie Canadian price variants blog is up
DonSal1976 replied to DonSal1976's topic in Comics General
The Archie Canadian Price Variants covered 113 separate titles/offshoots and just under 1,400 individual issue between Sept/1982 and May/1997. It would truly be an enormous task for anyone to try and collect every single copy. Should provide years of hunting fun. Sal -
Archie Canadian price variants blog is up
DonSal1976 replied to DonSal1976's topic in Comics General
Amadeus, whatever issues you have with anyone is your business, please don’t involve me. Everyone that has collaborated on it were complete professionals and have done spectacular work. As for the link to the blog I posted, all information relating to it is 100% correct. There has been hundreds of hours of research put into it between myself and the other involved parties. Please allow everyone to enjoy the blog for themselves. -
Please take a look. Ben has done a wonderful job on it. https://rarecomics.wordpress.com/2019/06/01/archie-canadian-price-variants/
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Official Canadian Newsstand Cover Price V****** Thread
DonSal1976 replied to davidpg's topic in Copper Age Comic Books
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I have inquired many times since around June/July. Was told repeatedly over the phone by various employees that there was a bigger than normal backlog because of con season and also because of the rush of people sending in books to get SS by Stan Lee. This same statement was pretty much repeated monthly since then up until this suddenly blew up. I would guess most others got the same explanation.
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Just got this from paradise. .....Hi Sal, it has been confirmed today that your CGC order has been verified and is scheduled to ship from CGC on Thursday March 29th. We should receive them on the following Monday and will have them recorded and be calling people on Tuesday. Thank you for your patience and we will be giving you a call soon. Sounds promising. My next issue would be making sure all the books sent back were the actual books I submitted. There are 6 high grade, high value Canadian price variants in the submissions and a great pence variant. Can’t wait to find out if any of them have mysteriously disappeared.
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I appreciate your comment and yes I agree, it’s all a little confusing. My invoice has my personal info on it, so you are right that something doesn’t add up. I gave my invoice numbers to CGC when I called and they should have all my info on that invoice, unless like you’ve said, something is off. Either way, hopefully all of our books return safe and sound. I haven’t fully made up my mind about CGC yet, so far I am very unhappy, but time will tell.