PreHero

NC #2 is tough book to find. Never seen card to report sales - that's a real cool item!

Will be looking forward to your return! Posting of my favorite book of the series - Thompson art & graphic novel prototype(?) - and more detailed write-up!

Glad to see a PA forum! Don’t have a lot of PA books (few are scanned), but will post some of what I have and look forward to others sharing their collections and adding more information about Embee. Embee‘s Comic Monthly appears to be an early step in the transition to the modern comic book format; first monthly comic and early (first?) newsstand distribution. Much of following is paraphrased from dailycartoonist.com’s entry on Comic Monthly: Embee Distribution Company was formed by George McManus (creator of Bringing up Father) and Rudolph Block Jr (who’s father was editor for Hearst Newspapers). It appears all issues contain reprints from King Features and Hearst Syndicate. Embee’s first books were published in 1921 consisting of two one-shots and two proposed quarterlies – all lasted only one issue. In January 1922, Embee launched Comic Monthly priced at ten cents. All 12 issues were published monthly, though only the first three had issue number and publication month printed on front cover. All issues were approximately 8 ½ by 9 (I’ve found they tend to vary in both dimensions) and had only 24 pages. All issues are rare, with a few being near impossible! Denis Gifford wrote that Embee went bankrupt in Sept 1922 and issues #8-12 were never distributed, but that seems unlikely. This was quite a pioneering effort, unfortunately the experiment was over by 1923.

I've posted this book in other threads, but this seems to be most appropriate forum! My earliest "prehero" DC:

Not a collector of FB, but enjoying the show! The transition from PA to GA will impact to a number of titles.

With Uncle Sam as cover feature, National had number of covers that might fit bill! In addition to great ones posted on first page, here's a couple more...

One of my favorite covers:

Always enjoy seeing books/info posted in this thread! First 3 issues were reprinted, explaining why a something over 100 years old is so common - several on eBay. 4 and 5 may not have been reprinted, so scarce to rare. Interesting note, newspaper title varies on cover of #1 - wonder if that's related to reprinting. "American" seems most common. And yes I have a copy too...

Kitty on BC:

Very impressive! After New Fun, this might be toughest run to complete. Doubly impressive if rest of books are in grades close to those so far!!

Unfortunately, USPS is not much better. Sent a book worth north of $15k and paid extra for Registered Mail. Buyer even told carrier he would be receiving a Registered Mail package - to which carrier replied "Never heard of that, what is it?". When package was delivered, carrier signed for it and dropped it on porch without even ringing doorbell - buyer's MIL was in house at the time. Buyer noticed USPS updated tracking to delivered, so call home and she was able to retrieve package! This seems to be standard practice now. In the old days, they'd leave an unable to deliver slip. Delivery companies don't seem to care that people are paying extra money for services they're not even providing. Companies rarely actually delete info you request to be removed, they just stop displaying it to you.

Beautiful copy with bright color with minor conservation! One of my favorite all-time book/cover!

That was quick - numbers now appear in census! Late for this auction, but this capability is really handy when interested in a book.

Buy when competition low! I wince when thinking of the books I passed on because I had a copy or wasn't on my want list! Slow to learn I could turn books I didn't want into those I did! Agree, not everyone has unlimited funds, plus interests change. If it wasn't for dealers, I wouldn't have much of a collection.

None of the Centaurs showed up on census, but that didn't appear to hurt bidding - $5,218 w/BP! Uncommon book with a tough black cover.

Ouch! Price has been stable, but treading down: 9/25/13: $6,601, 6/8/22: $6,300, 2/17/24: $6,222 w/BP ($5,100 bid). Plus, seller also had book re-slabbed. Bit of a head scratcher - though CC, CGC & Goldin made money. Otherwise, some strong prices, except for Circus #1 - love book, but apparently I'm the only one (generic cover doesn't help)!

Does seem optimistic for flip a non-key/hot book in such a short time, esp. with a less known auction house. Then again, this auction does have a blue Superman #1 and a few really tough Centaurs.

Oddly, after being challenged twice within 5-10 mins in two different browsers, not seen it since...

Apparently, CGC's firewall recently detected increased activity from the Delta Quadrant...

Ok, it's not just me. Maybe I'm wrong, but they seem to have bigger problems than robots visiting the chat boards. Due to storm and high winds lost power for a couple days - and apparently my memory, as I forgot to enter grades before cutoff! Probably saved me from a last place finish!

Anyone else getting the confirm you are human to get onto the boards? After recent issues, seems CGC might have better places to focus security funds!

Cliff Notes version; Comics Magazine started in 1936 and Chesler in 1937. In late 1937, Ultem published for, then took over Funny Pages and Funny Picture Stories from Comics Magazine. Around same time, Ultem took over both Chesler titles, keeping Harry Chesler on as Editor (suspect Chesler's shop was contributing material to all three companies). In early 1938, Centaur took over all 4 Ultem titles - over next couple years, Centaur launched several new titles. In late 1939, Centaur owners formed a sister company, Comic Corporation of America, to publish Amazing-Man and related titles, then added comic digests in late 1941. Though Comic Corporation of America stopped publishing comic books in 1942, they continued to publish comic digests until at least 1946.

May've halved my round 1 score - not a good as it sounds!