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mysterio
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Betty and Veronica #95 VG -- asking $7 + shipping SOLD Everything attached at both staples, good color. Tiny chips along right edge, a couple of small spots, nice pages.
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Betty and Veronica #94 G/VG -- asking $5 + shipping SOLD Looks like a solid VG, everything attached at both staples, nice color, but that moisture stain on the back cover...
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Betty and Veronica #93 VG/F -- asking $13 + shipping SOLD With a press it should get up to Fine range. Great eye appeal. Ding at top of spine.
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Betty and Veronica #92 VG -- asking $9 + shipping SOLD Standard VG, moderate wear, small chip out at bottom spine, slight spine roll. Everything well attached at both staples, good color.
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Betty and Veronica #91 VG++ -- asking $8 + shipping Looks much nicer, but moisture to the back cover at lower spine knocks it down a couple of pegs. Everything attached at both staples, pages unaffected by moisture.
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Betty and Veronica #90 VFish -- asking $39 + shipping SOLD Bit of a stacking curl at spine, but otherwise colorful, glossy, and really pretty.
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Have to work on some online lessons this morning, but will intersperse Archie titles to break up the work. Betty and Veronica #89 Fine -- asking $19 + shipping SOLD Very nice copy, everything well attached at both staples, light wear. Main issue to note is that the upper right corner of the front cover let go at that crease so a tiny corner is missing.
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I hope to pick up the pace over the weekend, long week of keeping a lot of plates spinning at once.
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Betty and Veronica #88 F- -- asking $13 + shipping SOLD Tight, colorful, glossy, would be more like F/VF if not for the missing corners on the front cover.
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Betty and Veronica will run up to #100, plus a couple of early annuals. Then I will probably move on to some of the Giant Size books. Betty and Veronica #86 VG+ -- asking $9 + shipping SOLD Pretty, great color and gloss. Minor roll and reading wear at spine. Great pages.
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Thanks, and Betty and Veronica #80 is also yours!
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Betty and Veronica #84 VG+ -- asking $11 + shipping SOLD Flat, colorful, glossy, nice pages, light wear. 1/4" tear in lower edge of front cover, minor moisture stain on back that does not affect pages. Everything attached at both staples.
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Betty and Veronica #83 VG -- asking $9 + shipping SOLD Fine or F+ structure, but moisture in lower right corner and the fact that the lower staple is only barely holding onto the cover ding it a bit. Looks great in a bag and board. Lovely pages.
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These types of discussions are a good reason for you to visit the thread more often.
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I completely agree. JIM #49 does not look like a pre-implosion book at all, and would fit in much better with a title like Mystery Tales than what had been (and would be) published in JIM. I've always thought that that cover looked out of place in this title.
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I don't disagree, but Mystic had 61 issues by then and Mystery Tales had 54, for example. Both were ended in 8/57, same month as the hiatus started for JIM. Those two had a longer track record than JIM or ST at that point in time. So it may be due to sales numbers, sure, but I wonder how good a handle they had on those back in the day.
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Come to think of it, this may also explain why JIM #49 is a very difficult book to find. Distribution was likely pretty awful after many of these titles started back up. I'd also be curious to know why titles like JIM and ST were continued a year+ later and others that were very similar were not.
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Can't add much to the fine explanation provided by @bc, but will just chime in that you can see evidence of this implosion in the length of time that passed between JIM #48 and #49. Same with Strange Tales. It is why many of these other cool titles (Mystic, Mystery Tales, etc.) disappeared.
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Thanks, but I can't claim too much credit. I keep a folder of cover scans to randomly cycle as my screen saver. I'm approaching 12,000 different, and the books that got me started were pre-hero (probably no surprise there). Just had to check my Timely/Atlas folder to see which covers fit the bill.
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Betty and Veronica #82 VG -- asking $10 + shipping SOLD Typical VG, might be VG+, everything well attached at both staples.
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Marvel Tales (second to last issue, also not my copy).
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Journey Into Unknown Worlds had a crack at them too (also not my copy).
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Here are the STs, I own none of them. Thought they were in a run like JIM but I was apparently mistaken.
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I've always liked the multiple panel/story teaser covers. Plenty of great ones in these books. I know that ST and JIM did a three book run with multiple vignettes, and they're all generally tough. Here are the JIMs. I've got a #31 with a detached cover but grabbed this scan, and this is my former #32 (can't find the scan of my current 5.5) and 33.
