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They are auction material. Pricing them would be very hard and I'll admit that I have no idea how to price anything over a 9.4.

Okay.... now that's a great score. With all the light spaces on this one it's amazing to see any grade this high.

Nice Dynabrites! The heavy stock covers makes for gorgeous copies with HORRIBLE spines! The covers and corners are super-sharp on many copies I've seen, but the spines are generally very bad. These copies are a real find.

I'll probably get laughed at by the "serious" collectors, but I really have to say I kinda like little Eddie Harris' signature at the top of this book. It doesn't detract from the book at all in my opinion and it adds a little "personality" to it. Of course, I also prefer high-quality USED stamps over MINT stamps in my philatelic efforts as well. To me a used stamp is more "honest" somehow. The idea that some 60+ years ago a little kid named Eddie was reading this comic makes it a far better collectible than one that was bought, lost on a shelf and never read.... Begin your laughing....

Opps - forgot to ask - is the #10 a Vol 1 #10 or some other volume? I'm far from complete on my WDCS run - so we may need to enlist some others to assist here.

Thanks! I'll check the issues out and let you know about the stories. I'm at work and teaching a night class - so it'll have to wait until Wednesday night. FC #189 is indeed the very first Uncle Scrooge and an excellent find. For some odd-ball reason, I have three of that issue (I keep finding better grade ones!). I've never seen the "Red Circle" one though?! I'd love to see a post. It *may* be a Canadian edition. They exist for this time-period and might have the initials "CDL" on the cover somewhere. Although this might be a little early for the "CDL" notation. What happened was that during WWII, there was an act to ban all non-essential imports into Canada and this included comics books. This created the birth of Canadian comic industry (which all but collapsed when the act was removed). I collect this era very seriously. Several US companies engaged with Canadian companies to publish their material in Canada. Many times they were exactly the same books, just different distributors and very slight changes. This continued for years and you see some price variants and some cover modifications (not the art - just a small "CDL" or "Canadian" somewhere. Some are extremely rare. Not the Disney material, but later EC books and some Timely books.

Several new ducks (and a mouse or two) over the past few months. Some were to fill gaps and some were to get a little grade bump. The Mickey 4 Color was just to say I had one! HTF!

Well - I've has a busy couple of weeks! in the mail I received 4 more Dan Parent covers, 4 Dan DeCarlo covers, 21 pages of Dan DeCarlo art (the complete interior artwork for Veronica #100) Plus, I have my absolute most important piece of art in my collection up for viewing. An Ed Furness original from his sketchbook featuring Freelance (Canadian Golden-Age) The reason the Ed Furness piece means so much to me is for several reasons. - He's an inductee into Hall of Fame on the Joe Shuster Awards. - He's a very important and talented artist - I really like the character Freelance Most important is the way in which I acquired the work - it was a gift from a fellow collector! Ed left his sketchbook to this collector as he recognized how important his collection of Canadian Comics is. (it's really the most amazing collection I've ever seen - and I've seen ROOMS of Golden-Age keys). The sketchbook is amazing and this collector was kind enough to not only invite to to see it, but to present be the gift of this page. How lucky am I? Here are the links to all the art! Ed Furness http://gallery.me.com/bergdoll#100346&bgcolor=black&view=carouseljs&sel=0 Dan DeCarlo http://gallery.me.com/bergdoll#100373&bgcolor=black&view=carouseljs&sel=0 Dan Parent (all my older material is here too) http://gallery.me.com/bergdoll#100396&bgcolor=black&view=carouseljs&sel=0 Fernando Ruiz http://gallery.me.com/bergdoll#100330&bgcolor=black&view=carouseljs&sel=0 Three on a soda Project http://gallery.me.com/bergdoll#100362&bgcolor=black&view=grid Riley Rossmo http://gallery.me.com/bergdoll#100386&bgcolor=black&view=carouseljs&sel=0

It's true - the prices have been on a 3-4 year rise. It just seemed like yesterday..... An area that I also think we'll see some price increases in are the books from the late 60's to the late 70's. (on Uncle Scrooge that's the post-Barks issues to issue #209). Personally, I noticed some price pushes a few years back, but no "catalogue" adjustments. Similar to Archie's, many Dealers will tell me "They aren't worth anything" - yet they never seem to have large amounts in high-grade to give me for free! In this case, I think it's something that had little value because they were books that few local collectors collected. So they would move slowly as the local collector (or two) slowly picked away at them. Of course, this also trained the collector to have patience and buy them slowly. Now that we see internet demand getting these sold, they are "buy them when you see them" books. The way I see it, the current challenge for buyers are the ungraded Internet offered books. They are often sold as "really old comic in great shape!" - and they are VG copies from 1975.... so we have unsophisticated sellers offering them to a larger, but skeptical group of buyers. CGC them....the story changes. Now we have sophisticated sellers, sophisticated buyers, and a world-wide audience. I dare say that a 9.6 copy of a book such as Uncle Scrooge #112 would sell for an amount that defies any price guide. (I just chose that issue randomly, there's nothing particularly special about it....except finding a 9.6 copy!). Okay....best let everyone get back to the thread I just high-jacked....bad, bad, comic collector.

BSFUC was a great series. One of the few from the era that I keep "handy"

I'm working on a "project" to get as many artists as I can to do a take on the classic Archie "Three on a Soda" image. Here are the first three.

That's quite the damaged holder. I received some OA that was bent up the other day - NOT HAPPY! Fortunately, it wasn't insanely expensive OA. Duck prices do seem to be on the rise - or at least demand seems to be increasing. My theory is that they have been under-valued in comparison to other genres and as the super-hero books from the Golden-Age become crazy expensive, collectors start looking to other areas: Horror, War, Funny Animal, Western. What then happens is that the supply is seen for what it really is - pitiful! There are very, very few high-grade Ducks out there. (don't even TRY to find high-grade horror and war from 1955-1975). My first love are the ducks, so it's difficult to see them rising in value as much as they are. (although, I'll pay whatever I need to pay... I just love them that much). I'm seeing the same trend in high-grade Archie's lately. The thing with the Archie's and Ducks is that they had high print runs, but this was foiled by the target audience and survival rates. So low-grade isn't too hard to find. High grade - almost getting impossible.

I'll have to post some of my books here. My collection of Golden-Age Canadians is pretty meager (about 50-60 books), but there are some neat ones. Mostly all Anglo-Americans. (Grand Slam, Freelance, Robin Hood)

On a recent business trip - I had the great honour to visit this comic room and enjoy the company of my fellow Canadian collector. While the room is very nice - the person owning it is even nicer! What a great, great experience!!!! You guys have no idea how little justice the photos do to the actual collection housed in this room. The original art is amazing, and the rarest of the rare. The comics are stunning! (and his wife and daughter are super-hosts! Tea and Peak Freen cookies Years ago, I visited a similar "basement museum" that featured pretty much every key book you care to mention (Action 1, Superman 1, Detective 27, Batman 1 and on and on - including most first appearances). Stephens room is was even better! The Canadian material really is the premiere collection I have ever seen or heard of.

Stunning! That is a real gem of a copy. The issues from 1-25 are, from what I have been told, incredibly difficult to find (my #3 is tattered and restored). The real "kids" comics from this period are sure hard to find as nice as this copy!

That's a bad scan of the book. To be fair, I haven't called for notes so I'm not sure what they hammered it for. I'll say this. My limited experience is that early Duck book have a tough going in the CGC grading. Here are some links to huge scans before slabbing, if you're still interested. Front. Back. Okay - I can see *some* of their reasoning a little more clearly, but I still probably would have over-graded this book personally. It's a very nice copy - and except for the one obvious flaw on the spine - I would probably have gone 6.0-6.5 Good thing I'm not a seller!

I've decided that I have absolutely no ability to grade comics! That FC 386 a few posts back at 5.5 just doesn't look like a 5.5 to me. Is the back cover cut or something?

Here's a link to some of my original art collection that includes several more recent Archie covers. http://gallery.mac.com/bergdoll#100161

Here's an external link to my "Fan of Dan" gallery - it's my collection of original art by Dan Parent. http://gallery.mac.com/bergdoll#100161 I also have some other artwork that I'll post shortly from other artists.

I have one in.....slightly "lesser" conditon. It's always a thrill to find an older Archie in nice shape. Thanks for sharing those - I especially like the fact that the covers are so unique as well. The "sputnik" reference is a gem.

VERY nice!

I know I'm ALWAYS happy to see a nice duck book! 50 years or 5 months old!

From a dealer that I have been buying books from since... 1978!

Eight new books for me! The Uncle Scrooge books are all condition upgrades and the WDCS are just "glad I found them" copies. Seems the person before me was a Christmas collector. WDCS 16 WDCS 51 WDCS 76 US 22 US 32 US 42 US 64 US 69

Best of the best. That cover is really iconic. At this point in my collecting frenzy it now holds the #1 position. I really, really want that book!