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50YrsCollctngCmcs
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On 10/26/2022 at 3:02 AM, ttecwaf said:
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Oh and here Tom Mix bounces Hopalong! Get along Hopalong!
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On 10/11/2022 at 6:28 PM, ttecwaf said:
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The last Bulletman cover blurb; he lasted longer than I thought.
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On 11/4/2022 at 10:08 AM, dikran said:
Some disappointing results so far for Doug’s Ducks… Let’s see how the Scrooges do…
I thought some of the prices were strong for the early non Barks WDCS which are pretty rare and under appreciated.
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Yeah; Charltons used to show up in bulk back east in discount department stores. Sometimes books from the early sixties for sale in the mid seventies. I got some early Ditko giants that way and some Peacemaker books as well. God knows where they had been sitting and how they came to be jobbed out to these stores. I bet there are still some piles gathering dust in the back of some old warehouse that have been forgotten. That or walled in by some sheetrock when someone was too lazy to move them.
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On 10/29/2022 at 8:54 PM, ttecwaf said:
It is a countdown. Nothing wrong with a little preview.
WOW! That's something worth waiting for!
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On 10/22/2022 at 11:16 PM, BitterOldMan said:
Don’t know which Doug, but here is Heritage info.
Yeah but no real information when you look at the Auction Details.
Who is Doug? Doug Sulpia comes to mind as he used to have a huge inventory of Gold Key books, not sure of Dell though.
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The depth of the Dell books in this auction is pretty astounding. I've been trying to decide if I want to go for any particular book. One thing I have no interest in is chasing upper 9 grading points as that seems line a no win game. Instead I'll be looking for that sweet spot of underappreciated gems in very nice shape.
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Who is Doug?
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I'm curious if pulps were strictly a newsstand purchase or if subscriptions were available. In a similar vein when were comics subscriptions first offered. I know that early Dell comics did subscriptions but I don't recall seeing ads for early DC Golden Age comics but maybe I just haven't looked hard enough.
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Well we get to test the waters again with a 9.0 is in the Dell / Gold Key signature auction. Good timing as we approach Halloween!
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On 10/13/2022 at 1:03 AM, Badger said:
I'm flabbergasted an 8.5 sold for that much. Still, one thing I've noticed about the higher grade duck books is that they tend to go into permanent collections. Nobody is buying them to flip. Might change with recent duck book results but you probably will not see that same issue pop up for sale anytime soon. It's not just supply but market supply that drives these prices. Right now, none of the big Internet dealers have any copies above ungraded 7.0. Even eBay only has one, not professionally graded, in 7.0. The only professionally, using that term generously, graded copy is a PGX 6.0.
And another factor is this book not only has a great Barks cover and story but is an adaptation of an actual Donald Duck cartoon. Add in the Halloween motif and I see this book being a perennial collectible favorite. If I had to choose between some of the later Four Color issues and this book this one would probably get the nod.
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On 10/11/2022 at 8:50 AM, Forbush-Man said:
Quite the lineup of credits on that label!
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Strong result on an 8.5 Donald Duck #26 in Heritage this weekend. $1140 with commission. I'm not too surprised as this is a real classic book.
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That was a great movie though the depiction of Lex Luthor bugs me every time I see it.
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Thanks for posting. You never saw these books back in the seventies and eighties and to get a semi complete collection even if cover less must have been awesome.
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On 10/7/2022 at 5:12 AM, ThothAmon said:
Made for this thread. Silver age start date should be re-written as this guy graced the newsstands some 11 months before Showcase 4.
Clearly the editorial group who came up with this concept had just finished a three or possibly four Martini lunch!
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On 10/4/2022 at 4:36 PM, zzutak said:
Today's installment of "Trivia You Didn't Know You Needed" (
): Mayer's model was an Electrolux Model 30 canister-type vacuum. Memories ...... 
We had one of those! What a beast and it could pull out tree stumps it was so powerful, And I guess woman then had muscles (men didn’t vacuum in those days) because lifting it to go upstairs was no easy chore as that’s all metal construction!
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I read over the document linked above about why Don stopped doing Disney comics. It squared well with the conversation I had with him back in the nineties though that was before his eye troubles. He was pretty straight up about his choices and eventual decisions. One thing of note is that the auction of his books were his later copies and he is still holding onto an incredible collection of earlier books. His column in RBCC where he would answer questions about popular culture was always a fun read. It's too bad he isn't involved on the boards as he has great knowledge. Someone alluded to him having a hard time here; too bad that's the board's loss.
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On 9/28/2022 at 11:32 AM, OtherEric said:
Pretty sure they’re from the Duck family tree Rosa did.
I bet Don is steaming about that. @BustedFlush and I ran into him at SDCC in the early nineties at an Eisner Awards presentation. We talked for a long time about his work for Disney and his views on how he felt they were taking advantage of him. I think he eventually stopped working for them due to that. Too bad I was a fan of his work since I read the Pertwillaby Papers in RBCC in the later seventies. It seems like he could have made a go of that work with an independent publisher without the Disney attachment.
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On 9/27/2022 at 10:25 AM, dikran1 said:
Could not pass this up when I saw it on a D23 video
Are those Rosa or Barks ducks? Kind of hard to make out. Awesome shirt!
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Here's the C from a Wonder Woman sold to me as an Ohio copy.
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On 9/22/2022 at 8:44 AM, Kromak said:
One of nicest Walt Kelly covers.
Agreed! I picked up this sweet copy many many years ago for a song when you'd find books like this at cons for five to ten bucks and less sometimes. I always figured this to be a file copy it's so nice.
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I wonder if the early Scrooge's go for big Duck Bucks in Scandinavia? That would be an awesome set to put together to go with the US edition. I was lucky enough to score what is probably an 8.5 copy when I was in high school for $125. My Dad never thought I'd get my money back but that turned out to be one of my wiser comic investments. For my reader copy I just go to this book. And you can follow up with Mummy's Ring to boot! This is also the book (not this copy though) where I first read the "Only a Poor Old Man" story when I was a kid. The image of the money dam bursting was etched in the memory banks!
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This is cool but I sure hope you plan on counting down to #1!
): Mayer's model was an 
The Marvel Family Bound Countdown
in Golden Age Comic Books
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Hope Radar lasted longer than Hopalong!