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A 9.8 copy sold for $4780 (includes BP) on Heritage today, about $300 less than the last sale in November, according to GPA.

I just won this in the Heritage Auction.

The cover with the white border around the artwork is the 1st print. The cover with the full bleed cover art is 2nd print. there are 2 different covers with different fonts for the nonplayer title, both being sold as 1st prints. Was there a variant cover that came out with the 1st printing? Not to my knowledge. Got any pics? I believe the people on Ebay who are using the cover with the #1 within the words are using a stock pic taken from Image's site. This was used for their ads and did not end up being the actual cover for their first print. The first print cover looks like this:

The 2nd print has the words "second print" on the cover, right by #1.

Stan Lee in front of a wall of books

What books were in that lot and what were the conditions on them? Odd mix. One SA book, an ASM 14 that was a 9.0 or 9.2, I think Foolkiller owns it now. A bunch of nice EC comics, and some early pre-hero GA Sounds like it was a cool lot -- EC comics

What books were in that lot and what were the conditions on them?

Here's an interesting article about him. from 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last hurrah for Hollywood memorabilia Collectors Book Store packs up its collection of 3 million items for storage before auction. They are packing up Old Hollywood and moving it to Newbury Park. That's where about 3 million film studio publicity stills, 50,000 original movie posters and 20,000 vintage fan magazines will be stored until they are auctioned off six months from now. The huge cache of movie memorabilia, gathered over the last 43 years by film fan and collectibles dealer Malcolm Willits, includes original scripts and studio contracts signed by such actors as Boris Karloff, Frank Sinatra and Vincent Price, and one that was signed by Elizabeth Taylor -- and her parents. The collection, housed in a storefront on Hollywood Boulevard near the Pantages Theater, is considered by some experts to be second in size only to that of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. "I have a huge respect for this," said collection manager Craig Gilbert as he worked Wednesday to catalog the contents of large envelopes stuffed with movie publicity photos, press kits and other original materials. "I've worked here six years and I've barely scratched the surface of what we have in here. The owner couldn't know what was in every envelope. Actors and studio people would sell their entire estates to him." At the front of the sprawling shop, which bears the name Collectors Book Store, Willits' partner Mark Willoughby leafed through large movie posters -- some bearing the autograph of local studio artists who created the colorful ads. Willoughby, 51, has worked with Willits for 30 years. He recalled how stars such as Mae West would come in to inspect the still photos of her that were stored in Willits' steel file cabinets. "Mae was so nice. She would trade us better pictures of herself for the ones that she didn't like. Janet Leigh was another one who was always nice. She would come in and sign things for fans." The star of "Psycho" balked only once at an autograph request, Willoughby said. "A man said, 'I hope you don't take this the wrong way' and unwrapped a butcher knife for her to sign. She said she was sorry, but she wouldn't autograph that." Some Hollywood figures were less appreciative of the memorabilia. Willits ran afoul of Academy Awards officials in the 1980s when he auctioned off Marlon Brando's Oscar from "On the Waterfront." He has sold about half a dozen of the statuettes over the years. Younger actors sometimes objected to their likenesses being sold and demanded that glossies of them be removed from the collection. Actor Sylvester Stallone complained when he heard that a copy of the -script from "Rocky" was in the collection, Willoughby said. Willits, 74, now retired and living in Palm Desert, was a Washington Preparatory High School history and English teacher when he teamed up with a friend, comic book collector Leonard Brown, to open Collectors Book Store in 1965. "The big studio system was collapsing right when we opened. They were closing back lots and moving out of Hollywood. They were throwing things away. We were able to buy some excellent material. We could buy a poster for $1 and sell it for $20," Willits said Wednesday. One poster -- for 1924's "Alice in Wonderland" -- sold for $5,000. "It went for more than the film cost to make. It only cost $3,000 to make the film," he said. The shop moved several times before landing in its Hollywood Boulevard location 10 years ago. Six years ago the store was closed to the public, and sales of photographs and posters were switched to the Internet. Liquidation of the entire collection will take place at an auction planned for mid-December in Calabasas, said Joe Maddalena, president of Profiles in History, a firm that specializes in the sale of authenticated historical documents and Hollywood memorabilia. The rarest and most valuable items -- things like formal, 11-by-14-inch studio portraits of stars of the 1930s by photographers such as George Hurrell -- will be sold separately. But much of the material will be sold by the file cabinet, Maddalena said. "Each drawer holds 5,000 stills. This one has movies starting with the letter 'F,' running from 'Fame' to 'Fort Apache,' " he said, picking one filling cabinet at random and pulling open drawers filled with well-preserved 8-by-10 glossy photographs. In an upstairs storeroom, Maddalena, 47, of Topanga Canyon walked along rows of orange crates crammed with fan magazines. Even titles dated 1919 remained in remarkably good shape. The magazines will be sold by the complete run, he said. The room next door to them houses 150,000 original photo negatives and 50,000 color transparencies of actors and film scenes. Downstairs by the front door, Willoughby was remembering how tourists once snapped up movie posters for as little as $25 a pop -- and how a king-sized "Casablanca" poster went to a collector for $300,000. Willoughby, who lives about a mile from the shop, plans to do volunteer work with Hollywood's Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church once the last of the Tinseltown trove is carted off. He figures that Collectors Book Store was done for when it became clear that rent on its storefront would soar once the W Hotel being built across the street is finished. Hollywood is changing, he says. And it's time to go.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Wolverine-35-1988-CGC-9-6-NM-1-4-rare-high-grade-/320828172615?pt=US_Comic_Books&hash=item4ab2d96947#ht_500wt_1261 The only thing that link shows is that a 9.6 isn't worth $250 :shrug: GPA shows a SS 9.6 sold for $50 in May 2010.

My understanding is that it includes PM transactions. Further, I think any transaction with a basis here is eligible (the genesis for a number of complaints against Russ/Comic Supply...you advertise here, drive people to your site then rip them off). Correct on all counts! It covers transactions off the boards too (i.e. ebay), as long as both parties are boardies, right? That's the way I understood it to be. +1

Thanks brendan. Are you in the entertainment business? Not quite, I work for a major cable company and get to interact with reps and marketing departments for the bigger channels including the premimum channels like Showtime and HBO. A lot of cool perks come with this job. I get to see what is in development for these channels which is really cool so that we can put together different marketing campaigns or sales campaigns together for our side of the business. Sounds like a cool job. Do you get to keep promo posters or any other promo material and if so what is the coolest item you have. I get cool promo stuff all the time. Especially from HBO, Showtime and Starz. I don't have room in my house for it though so I generally give them away. I sometimes get full size movie theatre style posters for their shows, also a whole range of things from calendars to coffee cups, tshirts, jackets, hats, etc. For Boardwalk Empire I got a really sweet custom set of poker chips in a case along with some nice custom Copag plastic playing cards. I held onto those but don't know where my wife hide them. Anymore when we do special promos with these channels I usually get cash kickbacks instead of promo items, once they started giving me a choice of cash vs. whatever it was an easy decision. That's great stuff. You should have a sales thread. I'm sure there would be a lot of interest for it.

Thanks brendan. Are you in the entertainment business? Not quite, I work for a major cable company and get to interact with reps and marketing departments for the bigger channels including the premimum channels like Showtime and HBO. A lot of cool perks come with this job. I get to see what is in development for these channels which is really cool so that we can put together different marketing campaigns or sales campaigns together for our side of the business. Sounds like a cool job. Do you get to keep promo posters or any other promo material and if so what is the coolest item you have.

Thanks brendan. Are you in the entertainment business?

Where did you get these signed?

Do you happen to recall the title of last night's Car 54 episode? There were two episodes on that night. The first one was THE WHITE ELEPHANT, followed by BENNY THE BOOKIES LAST CHANCE

Checked a couple of LCS but no luck.

My copy has only one stress line. Both front & back cover look pretty good Just looked at my copy and it has two stress lines.

The Vault #1 (Image Comics). One sold for $12 and another for $20 on Ebay. A movie is on the way (Johnny Depp is involved) and a really good story to boot!

Looks like there's a Locke & Key board game coming out.

I thought it accentuated the eyes and facial expression. Thank you! (thumbs u Oakman's art rocks!