A significant piece of comic book history is saved... 1 1

[bronze johnny]

Long before the internet, the Comic Buyer's was for many, the only place to buy books through mail order. Picking up a copy of CBG was always exciting. There was even a time when comics were auctioned off by phone. The era of the CBG is gone but the history has been saved and this is incredible news for the history of the hobby! Check this link out for how this happened:

http://blog.comichron.com/2018/02/history-saved-comics-buyers-guide-bound.html?m=1

 

[drbanner]

1 hour ago, bronze johnny said:

There was even a time when comics were auctioned off by phone.

Continental Comics phone auctions! 

[namisgr]

As well as auctioned by mail, the Comic Heaven mail auctions!

[Bird]

I bought a Sandman page for $125 through an ad in CBG around 1990. You sent in blind bids and I was amazed that I had won...then wondered where I was going to get $125!

[Martin Sinescu]

Wow, @mycomicshop really stepped up big to save this stash 

So many of these supporting publications get discarded over the years, but folks that came in after the dawn of the internet don't realize how critical publications like these were to the hobby back then. They're a great "concrete" record of the times in a hobby where much emphasis is placed on anecdotal evidence. I'll definitely have to keep an eye out to see when they start getting listed, might pick up a few random issues just for reference and reminiscing.

[mysterio]

I loved getting the CBG in the mail, and read every one front to back. Loved the ads (bought several books through them that I still have) and loved “But I Digress...” in the back. 

[CatskillMike]

6 minutes ago, mysterio said:

I loved getting the CBG in the mail, and read every one front to back. Loved the ads (bought several books through them that I still have) and loved “But I Digress...” in the back. 

Same here.  And then I used he old ones for filler in my long boxes.

[comicjack]

I saved a lot of those hoarder that i am,love to go back and look at them .

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[F For Fake]

What a great story! I used to get so excited when CBG would show up in the mail. So much great stuff to dig through, especially the ads in the back.

[g-man]

I remember buyin ASM #14 in an ad for $80...called on a payphone, got a money order, mailed it and the book arrived. Graded out years later at 8.5. 

[Real Elijah Snow]

It's crazy to think that at one point we had a weekly comics magazine. I used to read it cover to cover as well. 

[aardvark88]

3 hours ago, namisgr said:

As well as auctioned by mail, the Comic Heaven mail auctions!

I faxed in my winning bid for a Harvey file copy from the far away tundra of Canada. Old school mail/fax auctions.

[FlyingDonut]

CBG was based in Iola, Wisconsin. I lived in Barrington, Illinois so would get my copies through the mail faster than people on the East Coast. Yes. That made a difference in selling stuff.

BTW the biggest miss in my collecting life came from a CBG ad. Someone sold the cover to X-Men 94 for $200 in 1978(9?) through a CBG ad. I called them and it had just sold. Has it ever come back on the market?

[jaeldubyoo]

It's hard to imagine what the hobby would be like without the Buyer's Guide. I know I depended on it before the internet. It filled a need back then.

[letsgrumble]

16 minutes ago, FlyingDonut said:

BTW the biggest miss in my collecting life came from a CBG ad. Someone sold the cover to X-Men 94 for $200 in 1978(9?) through a CBG ad. I called them and it had just sold. Has it ever come back on the market?

[letsgrumble]

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The issues will take some time to process, but eventually every Krause issue will be available from MyComicShop in some depth -- something which was never the case for anything but the most recent issues while the magazine was running. This is important for the history of the business, as no issues before 2002 were ever digitized, nor can they ever legally be. Rights issues prevent that.

With file copies of every issue now available, this is a rare opportunity to get these scanned once and for all. Who holds copyright for the pre-2002 issues to prevent them from being digitized? 

[Hekla]

39 minutes ago, FlyingDonut said:

CBG was based in Iola, Wisconsin. I lived in Barrington, Illinois so would get my copies through the mail faster than people on the East Coast. Yes. That made a difference in selling stuff.

BTW the biggest miss in my collecting life came from a CBG ad. Someone sold the cover to X-Men 94 for $200 in 1978(9?) through a CBG ad. I called them and it had just sold. Has it ever come back on the market?

Not publicly (I believe), but @romitaman told a story in the Original Art section of a meeting of OA collectors where the 94 cover owner had gotten a then-unheard of offer for $4000 (IIRC) and everyone thought that was a crazy-high offer. I believe late 80's/early 90's was the time frame.

Edited February 28, 2018 by Hekla
link to romitaman

[ThreeSeas]

It's a bummer they cannot digitize the pre-2002 issues. I guess I could always scan mine, but that will be after I get my comic collection scanned. As for the Buyer's Guide. I pretty much have every issue from 1984 until they ceased publication, maybe missing two or three issues. I just need to locate them all and get them organized as I have some in a spare room, the attic, and the garage..etc..

[GM8]

CBG was a great resource back in the pre-internet days.  It was ebay and comic news for the entire country.  I got my Turtles #1 through an ad in the back!  Can't beat that!

[Gaard]

Went right for But I Digress, then to the other columns, then to the articles. Last was the ads.

 

On a side note ... I hated throwing them away, but a weekly paper like that really adds up fast. The pile of old CBGs in the corner got pretty big.