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That TMNT have such staying power with the kids puts TMNT 1 on the map as a must have book over and above Turtle collectors. Art to believe that they have been going strong for 30 years and are as beloved by kids as ever. I also agree that a clean but creased white page AF 15 is a lot more attractive than a chipped Cr to OW one or a 4.0 with a "small piece of tape" etc. So the book matters. Same with the TMNT 1 - if it even had one spine line or corner fleck, I'd pass on it as a soft 9.6 Ed

Given the transaction history of AF 15 and number of copies sold AF 15 is the king of comics.

Indeed the 35 is the book to get but with 42 such a better cover, that one may start to spike and soon.

Man, that is nice especially for a UPC copy. I'm convinced a UPC 9.8 would and should sell for a significant premium over a Direct edition. IIRC this book was sold in a 3 Pack but only the Directs.

If we get into value in terms of $$$$/comic, my list would be a lot different.

I just got in the 8300 and ma very pleased with the images. I'll ask again, does anyone know how to scan more than one image at a time. As in the fastest way possible. Pretend there's a stack of 100 comics. 1. I dont' want to have to preview each image Or if I do, I don't want to have to crop it every single time. 2. Can I set the dpi, color and lighting for all images to something other than default. 3. Is there a way to not "save to file" each individual scan. I think I have 2. figured out as it seems to keep the settings from image to image, but can't solve 1 and 3.

With the 8300 is there a way to set the color and lighting ahead of time if scanning 100+ comics. I don't want to have to do that after the fact if I can help it.

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And then a full run of 1954 Maid in France - 30 1 sheet chapters Bound Over - 10 1 sheet chapters Bondage Correspondence - 9 1 sheet chapters This link is a guy selling ebooks of the Maid in France and gives a background on these. Otherwise I found very little via google or ebay. These are done on Photographic paper which is pretty cool. I believe he did some risque Bettie Page stuff as well. While NSFW, there's minimal outright nudity, but clearly not PG. MODs if you want to delete, feel free but this is pretty tame stuff, all said and historically interesting at least.. http://www.30sg.com/content/802-mif-sw-pp

Some more nice GGA or similar. And some late 1970s early 1980s undergorund mags - part of the collection.

Here we go. Score of the Month!!!!!! for 1/2014 Nearly all VG - Fine with a few with tape. Hoping for an OO collection but this was probably bought in the late 1970's early 1980s. I'll show the rest of the (non FH) books shortly.

A bit of a tease but I just picked up 60 fiction house in the wild. Nice shape too but I only saw them via FaceTime. Most are the classic GGA - wings, rangers, jungle, jumbo. Can't wait to show them off.

Have a full cover Superman 5. I'd pay $200 for a nice coverless.

Great transaction on some oddball books.

It is a magazine that is also a first appearance in the comic universe. How that translates into importance and price is up to the market. Conan (among others) first appearance is in a pulp and is highly collectible. No one can argue that comics have a greater fan base and command higher values than pretty much all other print matter. And the Conan pulp enjoys its value and popularity due in a huge way to comic collectors (who are highly influenced by TV/Movie/Gaming media) much moreso than the stand along pulp collector (does that even exist). Along with that 1978 photo of Boba Fett. Art prelims, posters, new articles, even the infamous promotional comic sales ads predate comic 1st appearances. Ed

Starlord, Rocky Racoon? But the MSS 22 seems to have been massively printed as were the Treasury's. And Treasuries can't be CGC'd but does that hurt or help?

I believe this did (Spring 1980) with Star Wars 42 Dec 1980. And there's a UK weekly I believe preceded the MSS.

I'd go with an Archie 50 club. Who wants to see a Jalopy rolling down a hill when you can see VA-VA-VA-VOOOM instead.

I also think the variants exaggerate the condition exponential curve as you get to smaller print runs. So while a 9.6 ASM 155 is hard enough to find, a variant in 9.6 is just plain tough. As you get to the small print runs, 9.6 and above sometimes don't exist or have only 1 copy at all. One of my more enjoyable moments in comics was coming across a small lot of 30 cent variants from an original owner collection. Two came back as 9.8's and another 5 came back as 9.6's. Four of those are (and remain) single highest graded copies.

No its not. I'm not even sure, if done correctly, disassembly and re "stapling" with the original staple is considered restoration. But either way its incomplete or would need married pages so a blue label is out.

What are queenangelica books? User ID?

I had a cover only and looked for about 4 years for an interior. Found one (for $1500) but it was missing the centerfold. So I'd give it 10 years or so and hope to get lucky with a beater. And enjoy what you have. Ed

Tough but not impossible. Doesn't seem to have skyrocketed what with it being a 35 cent variant key of sorts.

Here we go. Wish me luck picking up this one. This was one of 6 comics that he emailed me scans, needless to say the best of the bunch. Hoping that it stays in the same condition until I get to it. Well, and that I get it at all.

Well the image is at work where pbucket doesn't work do I tried a straight upload. It's a nice VG out in the wild.