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Had a number of excellent transactions with Anthony/mazman and I'm sure I'll have many more in the future.

One of the best sellers on the boards. Period.

Lots of titles, but most of them had only a couple (or, at best, a handful) of issues and almost all of them were bi-monthly or tri-monthly.

I never in a million years would have guessed that Dave Stevens did that cover.

Dave only did the figure in the foreground. The mirror image is by Adam Hughes.

You can even see his signature in the mirror.

A little country with the most beautiful women and no one comic magazine

The first part of this sentence is largely true. Bulgarian women are gorgeous.

The second part is just disappointing. Not even one comics magazine? There is no comics scene in Bulgaria?

I've got a ton of moderns that I'll be trying to move cheap. Included will be a bunch of comics from the last couple of months, so if you missed out on a book...you may be able to find it here. I've also got a bunch of cheap spidey's and blank covers to post.

 

May start tonight, but most likely tomorrow sometime (thumbs u

Posted this one before, but finally in hand today. D copy, I believe it was previously a 7.5 before someone cracked it out. I'll send it back and hopefully it will garner another 7.5 label, but not before I flip through and smell the pages.

 

Murder, Morphine and Me. My favorite non-EC crime story.

 

Jack Cole was wicked!

MM&M was probably the BEST crime story ever put in comics...

 

but it was in #2.

You're right...

Posted this one before, but finally in hand today. D copy, I believe it was previously a 7.5 before someone cracked it out. I'll send it back and hopefully it will garner another 7.5 label, but not before I flip through and smell the pages.

 

Murder, Morphine and Me. My favorite non-EC crime story.

Jack Cole was wicked!

Woo-hoo! I won some stuff!

I've had a few transactions with Marc. Delightful every time.

Excellent seller. A true asset to our community!

Another package from Ed came in the mail today. A couple of Silver/Bronze spideys and two Bronze Bat-books.

As always, a pleasure!

I've bought 3-4 times from Ed in the past (maybe more? - not 100% sure). Top notch every time!

I had one transaction with zuckuss2003 last year, which was as smooth as a baby's behind. (thumbs u

I've bought many books from Jon and look forward to buying many more.

 

First class communication, great prices & an all round nice bloke.

 

And he ships to the UK (thumbs u

 

 

What he said - except replace UK with Australia. Jon is a class act. (thumbs u

He also ships to Greece, as I found out in one of last year's VCCs. Excellent seller. (thumbs u

I've had one excellent transaction with Frank in the past and I'm actually in the middle of another one right now, which I'm sure will be equally great! (thumbs u

I hope someone has something nice to say

I do!

I've bought from faster friends three or four times in the past (last two were back to back, about a month ago) and everything was top notch! Grading, packing, communication, all great!

Paul is really one of the best sellers on these boards!

Huge kudos to ft88 for some lovely, tightly-graded, copper Bat-books! (thumbs u

Big kudos to LoneTree for some lovely bronze ASMs and a few ultra high grade Dawns! (thumbs u

Big kudos to gregreece for a bunch of tightly graded Silver and Bronze ASMs. Thanks Greg! (thumbs u

Anyone know if issues of Eightball #1 tell the printing?

I picked up a nice 9.4/9.6 copy today with date of 10/89 which should be first print.

It is.

Extra kudos to Mutant Manatee for a superb deal on some conservatively graded Silver Age Strange Tales!

Super kudos to faster friends for a sweet deal on three really nice Silver Age DCs! (thumbs u

Kudos to heinlein99 for a great deal on some very nice bronze Avengers, Spideys and Caps. (thumbs u

Nice books. This thread needs at least one Outlaw Kid, no?

 

Maneely

Kudos to faster friends for a bunch of early Marvel G.I.Joes.

Tight grading, great packing, excellent price, fast shipping! What more can one ask?

That could be very true. I suppose printing less than 10K for a publisher like Fantagraphics would not be profitable.

 

However, by 1994 the book had been out for five years and had a large, growing fan base. But the first issue came out in late 1989, I believe, with very little for folks to go on other than that Clowes was the Lloyd Llewellyn guy. Bagge had more fans, I think, when he launched Hate (a few months later in 1990).

That's correct. Hate was far more popular than Eightball when the two titles began. With that in mind, it is entirely possible that the first issues of Eightball had a circulation of less than 10,000.

OK, I just checked Krause's Standard Catalog of Comic Books. It says 2.875 copies ordered for issue #8, with no info for the earlier issues. Keeping in mind these are just the orders from Capital City Distribution, I'd say a ballpark figure for 10,000 copies total would be close to the truth.

Which still doesn't say much about the very early issues, though.