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I don't know if these are niches in the collectors market, but if not they should be. Superheroes and/or their friends behaving like absolute d*cks. Superheroes breaking bad. Women scheming to trap the super guy into marriage. Friends and sidekicks betraying the hero, even murdering him/her while they cackle with evil delight, DC comics was the undisputed king of psychologically effed up comic covers in the 60s. Every other issue seemed to have Superman laughing as he tortured Jimmy Olsen or Perry White. Lois Lane tricking a very reluctant Superman into marriage; And Superman triumphantly flaunting his rejection of her in the most hurtful ways. You have to wonder if the DC editors were seriously messed up, and/or were they trying to mess with the heads of pre-pubescent readers.
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What Hitler And Axis Covers Comics Do You Have?
BLUECHIPCOLLECTIBLES replied to Ferdelance's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
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The Merry Marvel Marching Society (MMMS)
BLUECHIPCOLLECTIBLES replied to ivrimark's topic in Silver Age Comic Books
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According to Overstreet this 1930 comic may be the first one made entirely of original material (which I only found out by decoding the oddly, oblique notation -- "not-r" This predates the original material comics from 1933 (can't recall the names) which supposedly got Siegel and Shuster inspired to sell Superman as a comicbook
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Moving stuff from one storage to another and finding things I'd forgotten about, I had to stop and read through these large syndicated newspaper strip proofs from 1940. As I recall, they came from the estate of one of the ghost artists for the strip. I remember they were selling a bunch and I only bought a dozen or so. Guess if I'd bought them all I could read the complete story.
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Heritage Auctions Apr 4-7 2024
BLUECHIPCOLLECTIBLES replied to batman_fan's topic in Original Comic Art
Little known fact: some of the North Vietnamese soldiers were part Apache -
Heritage Auctions Apr 4-7 2024
BLUECHIPCOLLECTIBLES replied to batman_fan's topic in Original Comic Art
I did not know those pages were listed or I might have bid against you -
Heritage Auctions Apr 4-7 2024
BLUECHIPCOLLECTIBLES replied to batman_fan's topic in Original Comic Art
I thought the price was in line with other Fury splashes. This is a bit unusual with the Vietnam setting and the direct reference to date of publication -
Marie Severin did the Daredevil and Thor covers. Not sure who did the ASM 96 prelim. For some reason there were two prelims made of that issue. One def by Kane and the other by Severin or maybe Romita? That one has a pasted on piece with prelim drawings of spiders and the Goblin's head by Stan Lee
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Detective 36 is an underappreciated book. Scarer than most in the run and one of the few times that Batman deliberately killed people. Changes to his costume. Drug smuggling story. And the first recurring super-villain* that was written to be a recurring villain -- complete with a last panel in jail vowing revenge on the Batman. *second recurring villain in DC, after the Ultra-humanite in Action Comics (and before the Joker or Lex Luthor. ("Dr. Death" had appeared in two issues but it was one two-party story and he died for good** at the end. **although I would not be surprised if somebody tells me DC resurrected him decades later.
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Buyers may be more aware than they have been that highest graded means more in GA than SA. Of course there can never be 100% certainty, even with Golden Age books. But if this was a 9.8 Action 1 people would feel pretty confident it is likely to remain the highest graded copy. If people felt the same level of confidence about the future and ongoing uniqueness of a 9.8 TOS 39, then $2 million might seem more reasonable or even a bargain.
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SUPERMAN #1 different printings
BLUECHIPCOLLECTIBLES replied to Hoarder's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
We have apparently decided that the operative rule is not Occam's Razor but Owner's Razor: Whatever answer explains all the variables and concludes that my book is not a second printing or second state first printing, that is the correct answer. For Superman 1 owners, try this: If your book has the Action 14 "now on sale" ad -- it was printed before the books with ads saying "on sale June 2nd" because they originally thought the books would be on sale at the same time, hence the words "now on sale" When the book was printed , they realized the Action comic was not on sale yet, stopped the presses and changed the ad to read "on sale June 2" , -
SUPERMAN #1 different printings
BLUECHIPCOLLECTIBLES replied to Hoarder's topic in Golden Age Comic Books
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I have some intact comic packs which contain books that I know would almost certainly be worth more than the pack itself, but I cannot bring myself to cut the packs apart since they're artifacts of cultural history.