iggy Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 (edited) I wonder who owned these... anyone know? The pic isn't a link, just a clue of how to check out the auction. Edited January 31, 2020 by iggy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 They might be these from an old CBM story... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iggy Posted January 31, 2020 Author Share Posted January 31, 2020 They're all stamped like this, with "property of" crossed out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Boy Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 These are so cool ! iggy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pemart1966 Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 Why would DC have divested from these...? iggy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iggy Posted February 1, 2020 Author Share Posted February 1, 2020 There's an OO comic collection being sold on the same day, so these may be from that individual's collection. I noticed that there are duplicates of some of the bound volumes in the collection, so DC may have decided to sell some of them at some point...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnkurJ Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 Says from a Staten Island estate. Orig owner passed and wife found them. Historically, nothing in these sales goes for a bargain and doubt these will either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 17 hours ago, pemart1966 said: Why would DC have divested from these...? Probably came from someone who worked there in some capacity. Maybe an executive or an artist. Possibly some one “purloined” them over a period of time. Often, publishers made up several sets. I have a publisher Fiction House by of Wings #1-12. The person I got it from had no info on it. He also had a Planet #13-24 volume but wouldn’t sell it to me. Many years ago I worked at Disneyland in their art department on premises. One day I was walking through the merchandising department. Sitting on the floor next to a trash can Was a large pile of WSCS from the late ‘40’s-early ‘50’s. They were all stamped Disney file copies. I asked some one about them and was told if I wanted them, to take them. I filled up a couple large boxes and home they went. Still amazing to me that they were simply throwing them away. Some lower level employee made a stupid decision. Yellow Kid and iggy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pemart1966 Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 35 minutes ago, Robot Man said: Probably came from someone who worked there in some capacity. Maybe an executive or an artist. Possibly some one “purloined” them over a period of time. Often, publishers made up several sets. I have a publisher Fiction House by of Wings #1-12. The person I got it from had no info on it. He also had a Planet #13-24 volume but wouldn’t sell it to me. Many years ago I worked at Disneyland in their art department on premises. One day I was walking through the merchandising department. Sitting on the floor next to a trash can Was a large pile of WSCS from the late ‘40’s-early ‘50’s. They were all stamped Disney file copies. I asked some one about them and was told if I wanted them, to take them. I filled up a couple large boxes and home they went. Still amazing to me that they were simply throwing them away. Some lower level employee made a stupid decision. Mine was a rhetorical question. I don't see any reason why DC would have unloaded these and I suspect that "purloined" sums the situation up quite well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 21 hours ago, iggy said: I wonder who owned these... anyone know? The pic isn't a link, just a clue of how to check out the auction. I wonder if these are from the same set as the CBM article. The ones in the article are #1-24. These seem to start just after that. Both seem to originate from the same geographical area. Could the owner have sold off the first two years before? There can’t be many of these bound sets in existence at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N e r V Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 10 hours ago, Robot Man said: Probably came from someone who worked there in some capacity. Maybe an executive or an artist. Possibly some one “purloined” them over a period of time. Often, publishers made up several sets. I have a publisher Fiction House by of Wings #1-12. The person I got it from had no info on it. He also had a Planet #13-24 volume but wouldn’t sell it to me. Many years ago I worked at Disneyland in their art department on premises. One day I was walking through the merchandising department. Sitting on the floor next to a trash can Was a large pile of WSCS from the late ‘40’s-early ‘50’s. They were all stamped Disney file copies. I asked some one about them and was told if I wanted them, to take them. I filled up a couple large boxes and home they went. Still amazing to me that they were simply throwing them away. Some lower level employee made a stupid decision. That doesn’t surprise me. They used to throw away any number of cels over the years. Some sold for nothing in their park stores. No one ever anticipated the collectors market for this stuff. Lots of Hollywood collectible stuff was destroyed, thrown out, given away or sold for next to nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N e r V Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 (edited) On 1/31/2020 at 2:27 PM, Robot Man said: They might be these from an old CBM story... What issue/date is this? Robert Rogovin of 4 color looks a bit younger than today... Edited February 2, 2020 by N e r V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingDonut Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 Some pictures from Bodnar's site. Note that their auction 2/8 is pretty tremendous, but nothing in Bodnar's auctions goes for cheap. Linky-dinky for those interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bird Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 I go to every bodnars, youz guyz are killin' me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingDonut Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 1 minute ago, Bird said: I go to every bodnars, youz guyz are killin' me! We'll need a price report and pictures! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bird Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 Just now, FlyingDonut said: We'll need a price report and pictures! you'll get nothing and like it! (I usually do pictures and such. I hope to come home with a bound volume or two and some of the other stuff.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mmehdy Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 these books look super...thanks for the link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 13 hours ago, N e r V said: What issue/date is this? Robert Rogovin of 4 color looks a bit younger than today... Not sure. I don’t have it anymore. I would guess probably mid 90s. And we all looked a lot younger back then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 Wow, 97 volumes stashed away on Staten Island his wife didn't know about. Nothing suspicious about that. Maybe they'll find Jimmy Hoffa next!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnkurJ Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 1 hour ago, 50YrsCollctngCmcs said: Wow, 97 volumes stashed away on Staten Island his wife didn't know about. Nothing suspicious about that. Maybe they'll find Jimmy Hoffa next!! It really isn't suspicious. Considering how many books people amass in their life time, these on a bookshelf would look no different than anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
