Black_Adam

1975 Harvey 

1 hour ago, BeepBeep said:

So terrible...

This is a real comic book cover? I assumed it was some sort of spoof. Fugly.

2 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

This Charlton often turns up in my online searches:

It's awful isn't it.

 

I thought all of Ditko's late 70s/early 80s stuff was awful, especially his Captain Universe stuff. I had no idea at the time he had been the original Spider-Man artist and it shocked me later to see that work and how it compared to this later stuff, which always seemed rushed and stinky. 

8 hours ago, Larryw7 said:

Bought a copy of Shazam, inside was a Welcome Back Kotter comic. Obviously a factory error. Every copy in the store had the same problem. I told the cranky owner of the store about the problem, and asked if I could pick another comic. He told me to hit the road. It was easy for store owners to bully nine year old kids, and they did it often.

My pet peeve as a kid trying to collect comics was the stores with the signs everywhere saying "This is not a library!" There was one smokeshop/bookstore on Granville near Birks in the 1980s with those signs taped everywhere. If you even cracked open a comic to see who the artist was the store owner would appear behind you in a puff of smoke, pointing at the sign and screaming for you to get out! 

A recently locked thread finally earned me my first warning! 

48 minutes ago, rube11 said:

 

HOUSE OF SECRETS #106  9.4  WHITE  $125

 

 

 

 

29 minutes ago, Buzzetta said:

Long story. 

But for the most part we rarely got anything.  It was a big thing to get a Transformer or a GI Joe figure and if anything happened to it there would not be another one to replace it. 

I learned that lesson the hard way on my 9th birthday when our dog ate my brand new Mike Power (Atomic Man) Secret Mountain Outpost after I played with it in the living room (right after unwrapping it) and forgot to put it away before going to school. 

Edit: He ate Mike Power, too.

15 hours ago, Buzzetta said:

I mention this whenever someone starts threads like this so I apologize to the older board members.  As a kid I used to stash money in between comics and the boards.  Somewhere out there someone has either found or will find a $100 bill or two stashed in a comic book. 

You had $100 bills as a kid? I think the most I ever got for a birthday was a lousy $20. Even worse, it was a Canadian $20. 

On 7/4/2020 at 9:07 PM, oakman29 said:

You need to remove each book individually and inspect them. If they weren't collectible comic books I would put them in a large trash bag  33 gal. and fumigate each box. But the residue may stay with the books. So individual inspection , and remove them from the boxes. It's not like they are going to damage the books any worse than they already are.

Exterminator rule always be honest.

I heard silverfish are repelled by the smell of cedar and you can place small cedar boards or discs in the comic boxes to discourage them. Is this true?

1 hour ago, Jordysnordy said:

TBH this book looks great in a PLOD slab - the purples on the book and label really go well together. 

My thoughts exactly. Comics like these are also great candidates for a Jazzy John Romita sig.

Just now, HighAF said:

He's the Humberto Ramos of Fine Art.

I don't know Ramos. Is his art stinky?

Just now, HighAF said:

This is neither of those. Ya got guts for posting it though.

Not a fan of Modigliani?

Some more fine art from the legendary Wally Wood.

One more porno cover

7 hours ago, THE_BEYONDER said:

On 7/13/2020 at 5:55 PM, Summydad1 said:

I love comics with girls on the cover. I particularly love harder to find or rarer variants with girls on the cover. I prefer good girl covers. Without sounding too spiritual I think being able to draw really well is a God-given talent. Also, I think Gods most beautiful creation is the female form.

I don't think anyone ever accused Cherry Poptart of being a good girl, but Welz can definitely draw the female form!

17 hours ago, gadzukes said:

I can't take my eyes away from this video.

What the Hell kind of fish is that? Is that a catfish?

It's a beerfish.

Picked up this raw low-grade Silver Age DC Key (1st Sinestro) in the MCS Prime auction. This is one comic I can never resist bidding on! 

16 hours ago, Wolverinex said:

Is there a list of all the states comic link  collects sales tax at?

Sales tax is currently charged for shipments made to the following states: AZ, CA, CO, HI, IL, IN, MA (for artwork), MD, ME, MI, MN, NC, NJ, NY, OH, PA, OK, TX, VA, WA, and WI. Effective March 18, 2020, a State Cost-Recovery Fee of 0.375% will be charged on all orders checked out to be shipped to the state of Texas.

15 hours ago, The Lions Den said:

I was feeling a bit of comic related nostalgia today, likely because of the heat wave we're having here in Michigan. Seriously, it's so hot here that yesterday I made the mistake of walking out on our front deck without footwear and within seconds I burned the bottoms of my feet. Yow! For some reason it made me think of all the good times I've had reading and collecting comic books during the summertime. This made me wonder what memories other folks may have related to comic books during the summertime---I can always appreciate a good story. 

But since I brought it up, here's a story that I remember...

When I was about seven years old, my oldest brother had a big box of comics he kept in the upper level of our garage. This was before bags or boards or anything like that. (The only bags I ever saw in those days were available from a guy named Robert Bell. I remember wondering why anyone would put their comics in a bag? I mean, comics were cheap). Anyway, all of us used to go up there and hang out (I have three brothers). I don't really know where my oldest brother got all those books, but he had a lot of them. It was a pretty big box. I remember reading my first Spidey comic up there (the Lizard!) and I was hooked. So it became a pretty regular thing that summer---sneak up to the loft and read some comics. But then one day I went up to the loft...and the box was gone!    What had happened? Well, according to the eldest brother, our father didn't like the comics stinking up his garage, so he took the whole box to the local dump. I was astonished, dismayed, outraged! How could he DO something like that? We all talked it over and we came up with a plan to ride our bikes up to the local dump and "save the comics" (in those days, the dump wasn't called a landfill; it was just a dump. No pass was required for entry). So we all rode our bikes up to the "landfill" and spent a couple of hours looking for the books. No luck. Not a trace. I remember riding home and wondering if someone else had found the box before we did...  

So I spent the next few days moping around, doing other stuff....it's kind of a blur. I remember asking my dad why he threw them out, and he just gave me a look like I was the dumbest kid in the world...and I think that may be the event that triggered my collecting journey, one that's lasted well over 50 years, because I can never forget how great those times were, reading those comic books up in that old loft. 

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed my story, and I hope some other people have some good memories related to summertime...and comics. Stay cool...

 

 

Our local dump was always a goldmine of discarded (usually coverless) comics - and Playboys.  

6 minutes ago, jimjum12 said:

HOUSE OF MYSTERY 290                           9.4                             OW/W                          $ 125 ... 1st I, Vampire

 

 

19 hours ago, lou_fine said:

I actually don't know why consignors get some of these books even slabbed in the first place.  

Especially considering the fact that the slabbing costs for so many of them are higher than what they can sell the slabs for, even before the other ancillary costs associated with selling are added in.  

I would bet a lot of low dollar slabbed books where the case is almost worth more than the comic were sent in by first-time CGC submitters who envisioned nearly every comic returning as an easy 9.8, possibly even a perfect 10! Thank you CGC for crushing their dreams.

5 hours ago, jimjum12 said:

HOUSE OF SECRETS 107                       8.5                       OW                             $ 65  ... Press this