Black_Adam

5 hours ago, Crimebuster said:

Are there any Richie Rich books worth any money, other than 1st issues or his 1st appearance? There are so many titles with so many issues, it's hard to even know where to start. They all just seem interchangeable, especially in the Bronze Age. 

Yet I get the sense form looking at ebay sold auctions that people do collect them. A couple in particular had me scratching my head - what seemed to be a random issue in CGC 3.0 with brittle pages - brittle! - sold for $51. That was a Silver Age book, but... yeah. Don't even know where to start when it comes to Richie Rich. 

Any pointers appreciated! 

With Richie Rich his first issue is the only real key, with later first issues semi-keys at best. However, I think this lack of keys actually steers many Richie Rich collectors toward being completionists (chasing complete runs due to the lack of keys). Some of the early issues are hard to find, though I wouldn't include #37 in that group.

I collect bronze age Harvey adventure covers (from 1974-75) and many of these are hard to find in high grade while others are like warehouse finds with multiple file copies and unopened multi-packs. With these issues the census really is your friend, but I doubt many Richie Rich non-keys hold any real collecting value other than for true fans of the Poor Little Rich Boy.

5 hours ago, ThothAmon said:

I’ve had this book a long time. Never really understood how Panic fit into Gaines plan for EC. It appears he was trying to rip off his own Mad success?  Pretty book though. 

 

 

Been a while since I read it, and I may have this all wrong, but I think in the Ten Cent Plague they explained that Al Feldstein was envious of Kurtzman's success with Mad and twisted Bill Gaines' arm until Gaines - against his better judgement - allowed Feldstein to proceed with Panic, which was basically a ripoff of Mad and served to only further alienate Kurtzman.

On 5/25/2018 at 4:44 PM, electricprune said:

It didn’t run all that long, but what about Marvel Classics Comics. I don’t think there is a single set in the registry.

I'm a little surprised Barton doesn't have a set listed. Every time I see a Ghost Town sales thread it always seems to have a nice selection of slabbed, high-grade Marvel Classics Comics that, unfortunately for Barton, nobody seems to collect...

I'm in like Flint.

1 hour ago, valiantman said:

You forgot Jerome Walton.  But not $200.  The only "recent" baseball card that would have been in demand at $200 in 1990 was 1986 Donruss Jose Canseco.

Unless you want to talk about 1984 Fleer Update. 

Maybe it was the Donruss RC...I didn't collect Canseco - I was too busy stocking up on the aforementioned Gregg Jefferies RCs. But I do remember one other high ticket card at the time: the infamous Billy Ripken F-Face error card.

29 minutes ago, KirbyJack said:

I read this whole thread to make sure that title got mentioned.

 

I've never even heard of Treasure Chest. It was a long running Bronze Age title? Gold Key? Charlton? Oooh, that reminds me, anyone collect the Phantom? I actually loved those comics when I was a kid (though I don't collect them).

Not comic-related, but may still be relevant: I remember a friend at a baseball card show during the craze in 1990 going table to table offering $200 to anyone who would sell him a Fleer Jose Canseco rookie card (ungraded of course - they all were back then). Every single vendor turned him down, knowing they were sitting on a future gold mine and would be nuts to part with it for that pittance. The card sells on Ebay now for $5...

Found this one hiding on MCS and couldn't resist pulling the trigger...

Nice looking trio, Neurosis138, always loved that Severin cover on War is Hell #2! 

I didn't win anything - struck out three times at the plate. Maybe I need to stop swinging so low. 

One summer in the 1970s we made weekly trips (they were like a family outing) to the dump because my mom and her boyfriend at the time knew a local magazine distributor would dump all of their book returns with only the front cover torn off. They were both voracious readers and loved getting free books and, of course, I was happy because the discarded books included tons of coverless comics. I ended up with stacks of them which I shared with family and friends and read throughout the summer, though I do remember feeling ripped off when I went to the corner store with my allowance and bought a new Richie Rich only to realize when I got home it was one I already owned a coverless copy of. I also remember finding a huge lot of O-pee-chee hockey cards from the early seventies which I promptly lost shooting stand-ups at school and a sweet goalie stick. Unfortunately, after about a half dozen trips to the dump the powers that be decided all the scroungers were a safety risk and barred us from going in. Though I do remember making a few forays back during my teenage years at the break of dawn (before the workers arrived), but by that time I was mainly hunting for discarded dirty magazines.

10 hours ago, electricprune said:

Picked this up at Motor City.

 

One of my favorite Wrightson covers. Great pickup! 

Finally saw Infinity War this weekend and thought it was amazing! Thanos and his crew (and his gauntlet) were badass. Stormbreaker! Scarlet Witch 

As others have mentioned, this movie ranks right near the top of all Marvel movies made to date. Ten out of Ten for me.

42 minutes ago, Black_Adam said:

And it sold even worse when they revived Dial H for Hero and plugged it into Adventure Comics, one of the final nails in the coffin for the iconic series after nearly 45 years...

Actually, I guess we can add Adventure Comics to the list also as the Bronze Age stuff is very lightly collected, with the possible exception of the Aparo Spectre run. Does anyone colect Supergirl? 

1 hour ago, electricprune said:

It's a sub set, but Dial H for Hero in House of Mystery probably doesn't sell well.

And it sold even worse when they revived Dial H for Hero and plugged it into Adventure Comics, one of the final nails in the coffin for the iconic series after nearly 45 years...

Thanks, Barton! Highest-graded copies may be beyond my pay grade but I figure I can't go wrong settling for nicely-centered near mint white pagers. 

I keep my Giant-Sized Man-Thing sheathed for protection, and all my other Man-Things of course...

Dredged this one up in the last Comiclink auction...

1 hour ago, MisterX said:

Jonah Hex 

And Weird Western Tales, especially once Scalphunter began...

<insert title here> by Charlton Comics.