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Mystery Tales #40

It's all about letting go.... I must profess I missed the episode of the ABC show LOST when this comic first appeared. The title is Mystery Tales, a more difficult Atlas series to collect, and known for short horror stories during pre-code era and then short often whimsical stories with different twists to intrigue after the comics code passed. If you are not familiar with LOST, basically characters crash land on an island and discover the powers it contains in a mysterious very slowly unr
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Power Pack movie?

Really? I picked this oft forgotten gem as a stupid example for the movie craze sweeping comic books. But yes, it is apparently being considered for a movie. How many of you got a tinge of excitement and ran to your comic book box and started to pat yourself on the back for that NM Power Pack book you picked up in the .25 cent bin? Seriously though, if you go on eBay and search for comic books, you are bound to see "movie" in half of the listings. Does it help with the sale? Probably.
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90's dreck

The laughs.... Yes I grew up in the Nineties and started collecting what was around me at the time. That is just what Bob Overstreet recommends you do when you get into the hobby. Fast forward 20 years and guys like me who are cleaning out the basements with all these 90-s issues that were smoking hot back in the day decide it's time to cash in, right? Wrong! Visit your local craigslist and type in comic book in the selling area and have a good chuckle with people who haven't follow
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Atlas Applause!

A successful Atlas grading Okay so I am documenting my search for all Atlas first issues. I started with the Pre-Hero anthologies because they were my favorite titles. But now I have spread my grubby tentacles to include all Atlas first issues. I have managed to land a few winners too. I currently have 3 single highest CGC graded Atlas first issue books in my collection and 1 highest graded first. I just got back 7 books from CGC (all Atlas). 2 losers(1 PLOD & 1 half grade lower the
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Lights Out!

Not sure why I had to have this. I did not grow up in the fifties but I do not care. The fifties had the coolest comic books. Batman and Superman were still chugging, but they had a lot of competition with crime, mystery, love, and of course horror. Then this little forgotten gem from a crime series that would become a New Trend to rock the world. The cover is great for what it shows and does not show. You want to know what is turning out the lights, and the horror she is screaming at.
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Batman #1 - Spring 1940

is on the auction block!!!! If you do not frequent Heritage Auctions that much, I think you should at least stop by to take a look because you may never see it again after August 1st. "http://comics.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=7079&amplotNo=91013" I feel this issue deserves a journal entry because frankly it has it all. It is the Highest Graded universal on census (even though it was a resub from a 9.0). It features the first appearance of the greatest villain of all time, the
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Most Wanted Found!

and it still haunts my nightmares... Way back in the nineties, nestled in one of the seemingly random cover shots that grace the Overstreet guide was cover art depicting a man being buried alive next to a ghoulish skeleton with eyeballs popping out. Strange Tales #28 from May of 1954! As a kid, I used to pull the covers over my head and imagine what it would be like buried alive. An awful thought this cover fully exploits in all its horror. The Jack Katz story from this same issue was
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What CGC grade are you?

If you were a CGC grade right now, what would it be? I'd say from age six to ten we are all CGC 9.9.s - youthful and carefree, not rare at all by nature's standards. Surprisingly, before that we were mostly 5.0's. Wrinkled babies who made a mess. A rare 10.0 gem during this age category is a possibility, but they get a 9.9 because nobody wants to be the one who took responsibility for it. Around ages 11 to 14 some of us drop to a respectable 9.8. Some of us took the 9.6 hit with a random paper
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An Amazing Adventure...

is where it all started. I made it my goal to find all the premiere first issues of Pre-Hero turned Hero comic books from the Atlas/Marvel days. If you are unfamiliar, the title "Tales of Suspense" introduced the world to Iron Man and re-introduced a solo Captain America. "Journey into Mystery" introduced us to Thor. "Tales to Astonish" introduced us to Ant-Man, and revived Namor and Hulk. "Strange Tales" gave us solo Torch, Nick Fury, and introduced Dr. Strange. I thought I had all the
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Marvel NOW + DC 52 =

I'm sick of the DC Marvel quest to draw in more readers while alienating the rest of us. Restart all titles with #1. Hasn't that been done before? I refuse to be THAT collector to sift through a pile of books looking for the best one, because I disagree with the whole thing, therefore a 9.8 copy of one of the hundreds of X titles to me is worthless. Doctor Octopus as the new Spider-man? Really? I immediately stopped buying Spider-man after this, and won't do so for as long as Superior Sp
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Random CGC thoughts

Ok, I'm really bored. Nothing else to do on the east coast since I'm stuck inside from the storm, so I thought I'd share my random thoughts. I'm really sad that I accidentally sat on my CGC stack and cracked a few. Now I have to get them reholdered. Does it really take 10 business days? Anyone get them back sooner? I think CGC needs an XPress Reholder tier. People who crop out corners of comic books on EBAY are underhanded and sneaky. I know this isn't a CGC comment but it needs to be
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The Fabulous Pre-Marvel Fifties!

Why one comic book collector suddenly became so obsessed with the Atlas decade before Marvel I remember as a 12 year old wondering why book value for a Tales of Suspense #1, the series that would introduce Iron Man, bring Captain America back into solo action , and eventually lead to his own series was so undervalued. I even remember thinking how obscure the issue probably was, and where would you even go to get one. It seemed nobody even cared about the early pre-superhero Atlas issues bef
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