shadroch

On 9/4/2023 at 12:35 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

A good number of the 15cvs that I have seen have 6p UK price stamps of various descriptions but mostly concentrated around one style. There are some 6p stickered examples too. 

So they ignored the cover price and put their 6P stickers on both? Thats strange.

Did the fifteen-cent variants have the same British price stamps on them? 

Nice copy.  I always assumed books that had low distribution had a better chance of turning up as warehouse finds.

This was a hard book to find, until a warehouse with tens of thousands of undistributed copies turned up. In the early 80s, this was a $10 book; by the late 80s, it was a dollar if you could sell one.  Supply greatly exceeds demand.

I walked into my candy/card distributor once to find a weekend warrior dealer using a metal detector to scan boxes for the metallic inserts.  When I  complained, I was told it was common practice.

On 7/11/2022 at 12:28 PM, Buzzetta said:

I guess I cannot walk around the house in my underwear anymore. 

Bye Lil' Green Monster of Little Fenway.

See you in five years. 

The first house I bought on Long Island had been tied up in court for years, and while someone cut the grass, they allowed the hedges and bushes  to grow.  I found myself hanging out the second story window with a hedge trimmer when I had a brainstorm.  I got a chainsaw and cut them all down right at ground level. 

The problem was my house looked naked comparted to the neighbors and their finely trimmed hedges and bushes. 

So I went to Harrows, bought six fake Christmas trees. Four five and a half foott ones, with  two seven foot ones, and planted three on either side of my front door.

I'm surprised that distributor ink came off the FF like that. I've used that Absorbelene on similar books with far worse results. What is your secret? I have ,literally, hundreds  of BA books I bought off of Joe Koch that suffer from that condition.

My Grandparents lived in small towns in Ireland. Each town was less than a few hundred people and the next town was around ten miles away.  They were farmers and worked long hours.  My Mothers Mom had never been outside of the town of Doon when her parents decided she was old enough to take care of herself and hired her out to a rich family in Boston where she worked two years to pay off her travel expenses. My Dads father supposedly walked twelve miles each Sunday just to have Sunday dinner with his future wife. The way they told it, there was one bicycle in the whole town and the eligible men fought over who got to use it.

 I wonder how they'd have reacted as kids to know their grandchildren would be born in five different countries.

Well I've been to the mountain and I've been in the wind,
I've been in and out of happiness.
I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings
And I've never been too impressed.

This is the first Conan I ever bought.  I'd read a few early Barry Smith issues, #2 and an Elric issue but didn't care for the art and wasn't big on the sword and sorcery genre. I liked this cover and the art inside was much better. Only later did I realize the art was by Neal Adams.

Sell me your unwanted 9.4.

I dont deal with many Archie collectors, but mcs has the book you posted- That wilkins boy 11 for $6 in Fine. 

Either you are misreading your uncles records or he got ripped off. 

I bought an Avengers 1 from MCS they graded a 2.0.  CGC called it a 4.0.

A TTA they called 3.5 came back a CGC 6.0

Very nice.  I've been looking for someone to paint some 54mm figures. PM me if interested. 

Larry?

 Buy what you like. If comics don't thrill you, sell them and use some of the money on what you like. I haven't been buying many books lately, but have been hunting down some great 1/72 scale armored vehicles from about ten year ago. Most of the companies went out of business as the products were.too expensive for toy stores but have taken on a second life on the secondary market They are hard enough to find to make the hunt fun, but still cheap. Most sell for under $25.

This week I've sold three books on MCS for a $135 profit and spent $15 on a post Dunkirk British tank. The English Army left almost all their armor on the beaches of Dunkirk, and anticipating an imminent invasion, they created all sorts of haphazardly produced armored vehicles,  Few saw actual combat as Uncle Sam leased England a couple thousand of their top of the line tanks, and Hitler turned from the West to the East.

I skipped these on the newsstand but picked up a huge box of these and Wardens about 1981. Found some great covers, but didn't really care for the stories by either company. When I was selling, Warren was much more desirable, and Skywald was almost an afterthought. I have dozens but haven't looked inside one in decades.

Nice book. Do people really factor in registry points when considering if a book is a good deal?

Their web site says to allow two to three weeks. The book was in your hand within that period. 

Sterenko is great. Just seems like a total class act. How Hollywood never grabbed him for mob movies is an injustice.

Wasn't a huge Valiant fan. Enjoyed Eternal Warrior and Archer and Armstrong but never got into the others. I didn't start with them until Unity, and the back issues then were less than two years old and cost move than many SA Marvel runs.

Years later, I obtained an OO collection that included most of the early stuff and liked reading Harbinger. Solar, Magnus and Rai just never made the grade for me. 

Interesting concept. Hope it goes well for you.

I have about twenty, give or take a couple.  At first I was only buying the Schomburg covers, but they tend to be pretty pricey.   I found a coverless #2 that I had a replica cover made, and at this point I don't think I'll ever get a number 1, its just way out of my price range. Thought I saw one for $13,000 but I missed the last zero.

Best of luck with your quest.

Fantastic.    Much as I'd love one, I would never ever be able to do that.

Great workshop, by the way.

I'm sure Conan forgot her name in a matter of days.  Bar Wench will do.