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Do you think CGC would consider that a production defect?

Adventure Comics #82 Great ads, great Simon & Kirby. Reader copy, no cover or centerfold. When I bought it recently, I missed the whole "no centerfold" bit, but it was in the description. D'oh! Still a fun read. Two holes through the book near the spine. $25 shipped in the US.

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Thanks for posting this. I had no idea what became of him, so I had to Google him after reading your post. It was the raisin in AFTA #2 that caught my attention, back when I really had no clue what a fanzine was. It was the irreverent humor that really made me a fan of AFTA. Many years after, I found issue #1 and #3, but to this day my #2 is only half complete. The part with the raisin taped into it vanished many years ago, I believe swiped by the same "friend" who made off with my FF #5.

Wait, what's this doing here? Archie #139. Bikini cover. Yours for $5 plus $5 US shipping. Is there any appetite here for more Archie books? I've got a stack of spares sitting around here somewhere...

Cosmic Sorcery #1 Really cool zine with Neal Adams, Dave Cockrum (mis-attributed as R. Cochrum), Jeff Jones, Howard Chaykin, Ken Landgraf, George Perez, Gil Kane and more. Rich Buckler cover. Is it my imagination, or does that Black Scarab look like Mick Jagger? $25 + $5 shipping

Captain George's Whizzbang #17 Movie zine, with a Canadian reprint (Three Aces). $12, plus $5 US shipping.

Endeavor #10 $20 plus $5 shipping in the US. Notable for letters from future Dark Horse Comics stalwarts Paul Chadwick and Mark Verheiden.

And another Comic World. This one's ish #21. Same price: $20 plus $5 US shipping.

Thanks for the pickup. I have a few more zines, including one from the 70's with some really cool art (Jones, Cockrum, Adams...)

As a matter of fact, I do have one or two coming up. I'm not sure when I'll have time to post again, but I do know it won't be before 8pm EDT tonight. Thanks for asking.

Comic World #19. Fanzine from October, 1978. Green Arrow article. Reviews of other fanzines of the day, including Afta #2, one of my favorite fanzines in the universe. I love the blurb about the 1978 Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide that calls it the classic "injury to the bankbook" issue. $20 plus $5 shipping in the US.

Up first, a low grade Ladies' Home Journal from November, 1953. "What Parents Don't Know About Comic Books" was a preview of Dr. Wertham's "Seduction of the Innocent." Most of the text was printed verbatim in SOTI when it was published a few months later (April, 1954). However, some of the photos and panels reproduced for this article never made it to the final cut of SOTI. This magazine had widespread exposure, and woke up parents to the "fact" that comic books were rotting their kids' brains. Front cover detached, but the article is fully intact and is a fascinating read. A great companion to that copy of SOTI you bought from me in one of my prior threads... I love the way the article state that comic books are dangerous for kids, and yet it includes a posed photo of a girl reading a comic book, while Haunt of Fear #19 sits in her lap. Another photo shows a kid reading Justice Traps the Guilty. Really? What if they had presented an article indicating that drugs are dangerous for kids, and then gave a child some coke to snort so they could photograph it for the magazine? $40, plus $10 for US shipping. This puppy is large and on glossy paper, so it's heavy.

Hi there, I hope you and yours are able to stay safe and healthy during these trying times. Welcome to my thread. I'll list things over the next few nights as time permits. Payment via PayPal goods & services. Local pickup in the Springfield, MA area can be arranged. Payment is expected within 7 days of invoicing. After 7 days, I may relist an item if I haven't heard from you. Returns for any reason welcome within 14 days. If the return is due to my error, I pay return shipping; otherwise, you pay return shipping. These items come from a smoke-free and, to the best of our knowledge, COVID-free house. No probationites or shameful ones. I'm happy to combine shipping when I can, so buy as many items as you like! I am limiting my shipping to once a week during COVID. If you're in a rush, let me know in advance and I'll let you know what I can accommodate. PM's are welcome, but "take it" in thread beats everything else. Please understand that this applies to everybody equally. If you send me a PM, I'll get to it eventually but probably not while I'm in the middle of posting books. My top priority is my family and my second priority is my full-time job. After that, it's comics. So please understand if I don't reply to your inquiries immediately. I try to make sure that I check in at least once every 24 hours while I have a sales thread going. All books are unpressed and unrestored unless noted. I used to be able to say "I have never pressed a book or bought a book I knew to be pressed", but right now I have some books in Sarasota being squished. But suffice it to say that if I know that a book is pressed, I will disclose it. Prices listed are for US shipping. If you're outside the US, just contact me and I'll find out how much shipping will be. Here's my feedback thread. Recap as of 7/15: Page 1 Ladies Home Journal preview of Seduction of the Innocent. $40 plus $10 shipping Comic World #19 $20 plus $5 shipping SOLD NerV Comic World #21 $20 plus $5 shipping SOLD NerV Endeavor #10 $20 plus $5 shipping Captain George's Whizzbang #17 $12 plus $5 shipping Cosmic Sorcery #1 $25 plus $5 shipping SOLD NerV Archie #139 $5 plus $5 shipping SOLD PeterPark Page 2 Adventure Comics #82 $25 shipped Strange Terrors #6 cracked CGC 5.0 $500 shipped Seduction of the Innocent first print, second state, with dust jacket. $275 shipped. SOLD GoldenAgeAddict Your Child and Radio, TV, Comics and Movies $35 plus $5 shipping Picture Post May 17, 1952 $65 plus $5 shipping Parade of Pleasure, US edition, $255 shipped Phantom Lady #20 $650 shipped True Crime #3 $295 shipped SOLD MiamiKnight3434 Famous First Editions hardcovers. $10 each or all three for 20, plus $8 shipping. Mighty Midget Comics five for $68 plus $5 shipping Page 3 Parade of Pleasure, UK edition, $595 shipped SOLD snitzer Seduction of the Innocent, first print, first state, with dust jacket $795 shipped. Archie 50 & 53 $200 shipped. Betty & Veronica 40 $200 shipped Love & Death $50 plus $5 shipping True Crime #5 $25 shipped True Crime #2 $495 shipped True Crime #3 $595 shipped Inside Crime nn CGC 8.5 $225 shipped

Phantom Lady 20, per pm.

Thanks to RickHigh's recent sales thread, I'm so thrilled to finally add a nice True Crime #3 to my Magazine Village collection that I had to do a quick group shot. This includes all of the US and Canadian True Crime comics, plus some paperbacks and mags from the same company. One of these days I need to do a group shot of #2, along with all the ancillary items that pictured it: Seduction of the Innocent, the Ladies Home Journal "What Parents Don't Know about Comic Books", the photo of Wertham at a newsstand perusing comics including True Crime #2, and so on.

Thanks for checking out my thread, and thanks to all for the purchases. Invoices have been sent. On Friday, I expect to ship everything that's been paid for.

Nice! Congrats on an amazing book!

Thread closes tonight. Feel free to make an offer on what remains (see p. 1 for a summary). Thanks for looking!

Wertham missed the mark on a lot of things. Yes, he tried to "cure" people who were gay. And we're quite familiar with the anti-comics work he did. Some things he did were terrible at the time, some society has come to recognize as terrible with the benefit of hindsight. But he wasn't all bad. Wertham founded a clinic that provided free and low-cost ($0.25) psychiatric services to youths in Harlem at a time when these services would have been otherwise available. And he testified in the Delaware court case that ended segregation in that state. That decision was, in turn, quoted in the US Supreme Court's Brown vs. the Board of Education decision that overturned school segregation nationally in 1954. From a letter in the New York Times, December 11, 1981: [Wertham's] testimony was based upon his examination of Delaware children whom I brought to the LaFargue Clinic, which he directed in St. Philip's Episcopal Church in New York City. The results of these examinations led the Delaware Chancellor to write: ''One of America's foremost psychiatrists testified that state imposed school segregation produces in Negro children an unsolvable conflict which seriously interferes with the mental health of such children. ''He conceded that the form or combination of forms of hardship vary in different cases and he further conceded that the results are not caused by school segregation alone. However, he pointed out that state-enforced segregation is important, because it is clear-cut and gives legal sanction to the differences, and is of continuous duration.'' The Supreme Court of the United States, in support of its decision holding racial segregation unconstitutional, quoted the Delaware Chancellor's words: ''I conclude from the testimony that in our Delaware society state-imposed segregation in education itself results in the Negro children, as a class, receiving educational opportunities which are substantially inferior to those available to white children otherwise similarly situated.'' JACK GREENBERG, Director and Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, New York, Dec. 1, 1981

It's a SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL! Starting now, till I close the thread, anything that's left is 20% off the listed price!

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Close-Up, August, 1941. This is an oversized pinup magazine with an article "How Comic Magazine Characters Are Made." Somebody had the genius idea... "Let's make a fumetto that involves pinup models showing how comics books are made. We'll caption photos of models posing for artists who are drawing MLJ comics." The result is a five-page spread that combines cheesecake and comics. A model lounges while reading Shield-Wizard #3 (Spring, 1941), and strewn about her are Pep Comics #15 (May, 1941), Top-Notch #14 (April, 1941), Jackpot Comics #1 (Spring, 1941), Zip Comics #15 (June, 1941), and Blue Ribbon Comics #11 (April, 1941). In addition to a great old comics article from the very early days of the industry, you have lots of great pinup photos as well. $195 shipped in the US.

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