archiefan

Bought a Venus 17 from Karl. Wonderful transaction. Bullet-proof packing. Could not ask for more!!! Thanks

Jeremy bought a GA Daredevil #47 from me and it could not have been a smoother transaction. A+++++

Offering a CAP JR #14 with a nice Raboy holiday cover. Single highest graded in the census.

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6115525#Post6115525

On its way to me from CGC. Single highest graded with O/W pages

I will certainly be an active bidder on the copy!

You have excellent taste Gator. That is a one of a kind copy!!!

I personally like shazam more than superman

My childhood of the 70s revolved around shazam tv show...my grandmother made me a shazam costume (and then Proceeded to beat my rear end when I lept from furniture to furniture...what'd she expect )

That said whiz 2/1 in general is a tough sell. Sure this phenomenal copy will do nicely and in general better results from unrestored copies reselling versus restored but over the past 10 years this book has been flat or even gone backwards. I would not "bank" on any major value increase short of some major rehauling of the character, which there has been no evidence of for decades

As mentioned i believe I have owned 10 copies over the past decade and I struggled (with 2 exceptions) to even get my cost out when I sold. But I love the book and the character so never really concerned me!

I loved Captain Marvel and Shazam myself over the other heroes back in the 70s. Heck I even had a fan letter published in one of the issues that I drafted as a nine or ten year old. The comic reboot, the Fieffer "Comic Book Heroes" book with that teaser intro, the Filmation Saturday morning TV show, and those wonderful WGSH Mego action figures are cemented in many a kid's memory. One of the biggest though was the Famous First Edition of this issue. I loved it. That and the GA reprints in Shazam sparked my interest in finding the original issues.

Captain Marvel will always have a nostalgic fan base among our generation due to these factors. The trouble is that new collectors have no idea who these characters are.

Has anyone noticed that Fawcett used some Raboy art on the Jr. covers well after Mac had left the company? I was looking at #57 and #59 in particular. The art for #59 was used in the newspaper picture Freddy is holding on the cover of Master Comics #45 so I'm sure that is by Raboy. I don't think it was redrawn either. These must have been leftover covers from their inventory and they a lot different than the artwork for the surrounding issues.

Just completed 2 straightforward, no hassle transactions with Scott. Very prompt payment. Couldn't ask for a better buyer!! (thumbs u

For all you Chesler fans - selling the catalog for the exhibition of his original art collection in 1974

Link

Listed a First British Edition OBADIAH OLDBUCK (1841) that predates the American edition by one year. Link is here

I would love to get a PM on it as well

+1

This has been the most beautiful thread lately. Thanks for posting all of these wonderful books tb (thumbs u

I agree!

Same here

Great transaction with Jeff. He bought a couple of Platinum era books and paid very fast. (thumbs u

Some great books and stories here. Thanks everyone for sharing.

Always a pleasure to deal with Rick. And he took a creepy Disney book off my hands. Big Kudos to him.

I need a Human Torch #5 cover for my coverless copy (The 60 pg Fall 1941 issue with the Torch vs Sub Mariner story)

Beautiful!!

Billy I really love these Raboy covers you are posting

I've posted a scarce run of The Triumph (Superman's first U.K. appearances) over in the Sale forum

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=4397975#Post4397975

According to GCD it is from Action Comics #3

Sorry - my bad!!

The first "appearance" was on the rear cover of #771 advertising the next issue. The first story was in #772 (first cover appearance out of 4 altogether) and ran through #792. Then there was a little break and the "second" series resumed with #807 and ran seven issues through #814. The newspaper then combined with another newspaper weekly so this number was the real end of the "Triumph". The first series reprinted some Zatanna stories as well in a few issues. There were usually 2 to 3 pages for Superman.

The general consensus is that these are scarce to rare and extremely hard to find as a complete set.

I figured I would bump this up as I have a centerfold from an issue and I would like to get an id on it. I believe only the centerfold and at times the covers had superman content? the one I have is framed and has both staple holes pulled. It is otherwise nice.

 

Issue would be great and an opinions on the value as well?

 

 

Thanks

 

James G

Your Superman centerfold is from issue 810 of The Triumph. Here is the cover:

They seem to range in value from possibly $200 to $700 from a search on AbeBooks

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?bi=0&bx=off&ds=30&kn=joyce&recentlyadded=all&sortby=1&sts=t&tn=two+worlds&x=0&y=0

+1