gadzukes Posted January 29, 2019 Author Share Posted January 29, 2019 That is SO cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThothAmon Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 (edited) That Archie Annual 1 swag is great. Saw this on comiclink last night. Seemed like a bargain. http://www.comiclink.com/Auctions/item.asp?back=%2FComicTrack%2FAuctions%2Fbids.asp%3FAll%3D2&id=1292415 Edited February 2, 2019 by ThothAmon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Mann Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 (edited) Edited February 2, 2019 by Marty Mann Point Five, archiecomicscollector and Patriot6 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadzukes Posted February 8, 2019 Author Share Posted February 8, 2019 On 2/2/2019 at 12:40 PM, Marty Mann said: Gorgeous copy Marty Mann 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadzukes Posted February 8, 2019 Author Share Posted February 8, 2019 (edited) My latest Australian find on the right. Hmmm.... looks oddly similar to Ginger 8. Can you see the mistake on the Archie cover? Edited February 8, 2019 by gadzukes archiecomicscollector 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Action252Kid Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 1 hour ago, gadzukes said: My latest Australian find on the right. Hmmm.... looks oddly similar to Ginger 8. Can you see the mistake on the Archie cover? Hilldale! (Plus spelling "favorite" funny ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadzukes Posted February 8, 2019 Author Share Posted February 8, 2019 12 minutes ago, Action252Kid said: Hilldale! (Plus spelling "favorite" funny ) Ha! I only caught the "Hilldale/Riverdale" mistake. Those funny Aussies love to misspell words like "favorite" (of course they say we misspell it). Action252Kid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheycallmeArchie Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 Nice Archie Annual #1 lotemo! This issue was always hard to find for me with the binding intact. I bought a couple before I finally found the one below that is nice enough to keep. In 2003 (I think), I made my first and only trip to San Diego for the con and the Archie bigwigs were there and had a panel discussion. There were some Archie writers and artists there along with Victor Gorelick. He's been at Archie forever and I asked him about the annual buyback. Unfortunately he wasn't much help as he said he didn't know the reason why. A friend of mine is an Archie historian and he wrote a letter to Archie Comics back in the 1990's asking about the buy back of Archie Annual #1 that was advertised in Archie #56. Getting $1.00 for a 25 cent comic was a great profit back in the 50's and an expensive one for Archie. He gave me a copy of the letter from Archie Comics. ThothAmon, gadzukes and archiecomicscollector 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lotemo Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 16 hours ago, TheycallmeArchie said: Nice Archie Annual #1 lotemo! This issue was always hard to find for me with the binding intact. I bought a couple before I finally found the one below that is nice enough to keep. In 2003 (I think), I made my first and only trip to San Diego for the con and the Archie bigwigs were there and had a panel discussion. There were some Archie writers and artists there along with Victor Gorelick. He's been at Archie forever and I asked him about the annual buyback. Unfortunately he wasn't much help as he said he didn't know the reason why. A friend of mine is an Archie historian and he wrote a letter to Archie Comics back in the 1990's asking about the buy back of Archie Annual #1 that was advertised in Archie #56. Getting $1.00 for a 25 cent comic was a great profit back in the 50's and an expensive one for Archie. He gave me a copy of the letter from Archie Comics. Thanks for sharing this. I've always believed that this was just a marketing thing that they did. I'm glad you included the scan of the inside front cover of Archie Annual #1. Since it mentions how publishers occasionally buy back copies of publications after the fact, I always assumed that they had planned to do a buyback all along. I'm not sure what they'd gain from a marketing perspective but it's just too coincidental that they would publish this message and then subsequently offer to buy copies back at a premium price several years later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
143ksk Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 Agreed. It seems much more like some sort of publicity stunt than any of the three possibilities given in the letter from Archie. As to possibility 3, I can’t imagine that a copy of Archie 1 was worth a whole lot in the early 50s... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 2 hours ago, 143ksk said: Agreed. It seems much more like some sort of publicity stunt than any of the three possibilities given in the letter from Archie. As to possibility 3, I can’t imagine that a copy of Archie 1 was worth a whole lot in the early 50s... I think I agree as well. Very odd. Can't think of another instance of anything like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 One of my favorites. Marty Mann, archiecomicscollector and Patriot6 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 Early B&Vs seems to be escalating in price -- unfortunately, because I have some holes to fill. archiecomicscollector and TheycallmeArchie 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patriot6 Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 2 hours ago, Sqeggs said: One of my favorites. I know they're out there, but have had a relatively hard time tracking this one down in decent shape, among others of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 On 2/9/2019 at 8:45 PM, Patriot6 said: I know they're out there, but have had a relatively hard time tracking this one down in decent shape, among others of course. You know, I just noticed the goofy picture of V that Juggy is drawing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patriot6 Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 51 minutes ago, Sqeggs said: You know, I just noticed the goofy picture of V that Juggy is drawing. Haha, yeah Jug always gets an F. I always felt that he should have been sketching the fruit bowl licking his lips to stay in line with the character, but hey it works! Sqeggs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadzukes Posted February 12, 2019 Author Share Posted February 12, 2019 2 hours ago, Patriot6 said: Haha, yeah Jug always gets an F. I always felt that he should have been sketching the fruit bowl licking his lips to stay in line with the character, but hey it works! And if we could see Betty's drawing it would probably have a mustache & devil's horns on it. Sqeggs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patriot6 Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 3 minutes ago, gadzukes said: And if we could see Betty's drawing it would probably have a mustache & devil's horns on it. One of the greatest 'what ifs' of our time! I always like going deep into cover and teasing out all of the possibilities. Really gets the old imagination going! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lotemo Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 2 hours ago, gadzukes said: And if we could see Betty's drawing it would probably have a mustache & devil's horns on it. 2 hours ago, Patriot6 said: One of the greatest 'what ifs' of our time! I always like going deep into cover and teasing out all of the possibilities. Really gets the old imagination going! Betty really needs to have those daggers shooting from her eyes like they do in some comic strips. Patriot6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lotemo Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 2 minutes ago, lotemo said: Betty really needs to have those daggers shooting from her eyes like they do in some comic strips. I forgot that Archie #13 has those daggers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
