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SteveDuin

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  1. SteveDuin
    Animal Comics 26 SOLD TO AJD Fine. Bumps at top and bottom of spine, but OW/W pages. $24
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    Animal Comics 27 Sold to Bobpfef VG/Fine. Light creases top left corner, light creases lower right back cover. A sweet Newark store stamp on the back cover for Jersey Girls in the crowd. A bit of tanning on otherwise OW pages. $18
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    Animal Comics 28 Good/Very Good. Off-white/white pages. Small piece out bottom front cover, and small piece out on several interior pages. Walt Kelly, John Stanley interiors. $12
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    Animal Comics 29 Very good. Off-white pages. The usual wear, and the unusual pencil impressions at the center of the cover, over those great looking dogs. Pogo and more John Stanley interior art. $15
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    Animal Comics 30 Very Good. OW/W pages. Tiny nicks, arrival date, back-cover tears, and bumps at the top and bottom of spine. But we are talking Walt Kelly and John Stanley art and affordable Golden Age. $15
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    Tiny Tots 1 Good/VG, as the cover is detached. Off-white pages. Small piece missing bottom of back cover. And we're talking 1943. $60
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    Looney Tunes Merrie Melodies 8 Fine+. Off-white pages (or better). Crease bottom right corner of the front cover. Tiny dings at three of the four corners, and a stress line or two at the spine on the back cover. Slight pulls at the staples, and a tiny folded corner on an interior page. A 6.5 copy of this 1942 book sold for $198 last December, according to GPA. $225
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    Two more Looney Tunes in the batch. Looney Tunes Merrie Melodies 15 Good+. Spine roll. Christmas cover. Significant wear at the right edge of said cover, and small tears at the spine. The occasional fold or pencil mark on the OW pages. Apologies, but the connect-the-dot puzzle at the centerfold is already complete. $60
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    Looney Tunes Merrie Melodies 21 Fine/Fine+. Off-white pages. Light crease top right front cover. Scuff at the ol' rocket rip. Light crease breaking color at the bottom of the front cover. Light creases back cover and top interior pages. $120
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    Looney Tunes Merrie Melodies 22 Good+. Off-white pages. Tape on spine on the back cover. Pencil on the cover and filling in the interior puzzles. $35
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    Looney Tunes Merrie Melodies 23 VG. Tears at spine. Light spine roll. Creases top right corner front cover. Staple pull and small tear. Good pages. $55
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    Looney Tunes 24 Fine+. OW/White pages. Light creases lower right corner front cover. Penciled "24" at the top of the cover. A really sweet 1943 book. $140
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    Four Color 68 Sold to jimjun12 Fine+. Off-white pages. Bumped at upper right corner of the front cover, a flaw that is better seen on the back-cover scan. Light creases interior pages. A complete Walt Kelly book, with quite the fairy queen. $65
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    Over the next several days, I'll list a large Walt Kelly collection. The owner of the books bought most of them in the 1970s. The collection includes the full run of Animal Comics (1-30), several dozen Raggedy Ann + Andy, a large group of Our Gangs, and assorted Looney Tunes, New Funnies and Four Colors. The basic rules apply. in the thread trumps all. PayPal or personal check. $10 for U.S. shipping, priority insured, for up to four books, $5 if you want the comics to arrive via Pony Express. Postage for larger groups of books will be calculated along those lines. Most of the comics are in the Good-VG range. Page quality is surprisingly good. Whenever possible, I'll show examples of the interior art. I've tried to make note of interior page tears and folds, penciled puzzles and other such "flaws," but I can't guarantee I caught them all. Once upon a time, the comics were read by children. They are graded accordingly. No, none of the books are slabbed. Kelly's work doesn't belong inside plastic. As always, I take returns if you're not happy with the comics. Invoices won't go out until early next week, when I return from the Baltimore con. I'll ship as quickly as possible thereafter. PM me with any questions.
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    Two grade points? Yep. That's my most recent experience. My final experience, I might add, with those fine gentlemen.
  16. SteveDuin
    Shannon Maer can draw. With all due respect, J. Scott Campbell can't.
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    Take
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    Thank God some other collectors are still up and about on the West Coast
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    I was surprised it was still available
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    Take
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    I interviewed both Stan Lee and Gil Kane -- and so many others -- for "Comics: Between the Panels." Stan claimed, "In those (early) days, you would buy a book according to what cover appealed to you the most. You had to make your covers stand out. On every cover, I made up the title, I wrote the cover blurbs, and I designed the cover." I had to ask: Every cover? "The monster covers and everything," Stan said. "All the time I was there. For 50 years. Every cover that went through that place went through me. Covers were strictly my area." Your witness, Gil: "That happens to be absolutely untrue," Kane said. "I did 900 covers and the only thing that he would say is, 'We need a cover for this.' You would have to submit ideas; after a while, he didn't even get involved in the covers."
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    Love his work, and own that original.
  23. SteveDuin
    Well, one of the ones I was waiting for ...
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    That sigh when you roll past the one I was waiting for ...