My kind of books especially the 35. Man I am starting to think a large part of the pre Robin books are owned by only a select few that hoard them....
James G
When there's only 20-40 unrestored copies of a book known to exist that isn't really that hard to do. (thumbs u
-J.
There are hundreds of copies (large portion unrestored) of these books out there. They may not come to market that often bc folks don't want to sell them, but 20-40 is absurdly low. I myself have sold over 30 copies of Tec 31 of which some 18 were unrestored.
That wouldn't surprise me but Rick, how many of those copies do u think may have just been the same copies circulating back to you. And how many copies on the census do u think might be resubs? I just don't think there's many of these books out there, or readily available as you said.
-J.
These were each unique books I sold. True, I did resell many of the same copies too (about a dozen)
As for readily available, they are not. As for existing, they do. I know, literally dozens and dozens of folks that have raw copies and cgc copies. I know folks that own (like i did) multiple restored and unrestored copies. There was a fellow at sdcc a few years ago (2006, I believe) that had 8 copies (all raw, none that I know he ever sold or made available)
It's similar to folks guesstimating that only 75 copies of action 1 exist, or insert whatever overly conservative #.... there are hundreds and hundreds of copies out there!