Ian_Levine

On 7/8/2023 at 5:24 PM, tth2 said:

What's the saying about a bird in hand?

I had every single DC comic. She didn't. End of.

On 7/8/2023 at 5:02 PM, woowoo said:

@Ian_Levine what was the last book you needed to complete this collection?

New Adventure 26 preceded by New Adventure 27. I did the deal to buy 26 and Harley Yee kindly collected it for me in San Diego 2004.

Some of the rarest were HOW YOU CAN DEFEND YOUR HOME, SILLY PUTTY MAN, HAPPY TOOTH, WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS COMIC'S SEAL OF APPROVAL, THE SUPERMAN BRADMAN COMIC, and two early Golden Age with plain brown covers - ridiculously rare but one was rarer than the other. They were either E.C. or Gaines or ALL-AMERICAN, but they both counted as early DC comics. I can't remember the titles but I had them both and they were as rare as you can get. Can anybody help me out here please ????

On 7/8/2023 at 1:31 PM, tth2 said:

So it's just Christine with a complete collection now, eh?

Hers was never complete. Every obscure comic I turned up, she had never heard of.

So why has anyone resurrected this six year old thread ??

 

Just for entertainment purposes. The thread is sort of legendary now...

I'd rather it be buried and forgotten.

So why has anyone resurrected this six year old thread ??

 

Do you have a search spider that sends you an e-mail when your name is mentioned here?

 

 

No, it's probably more the the kind of premonition you get when something nasty is about to happen.

Lets call in an inkling.

Ian will appear in 3, 2, 1...

Couldn't resist it.

I waited long enough for Who to come back on the telly, I can wait for #1000 to roll around.

16 years was a ridiculous and sickening wait.

25 is even worse. We'll all be old men.

Yes, I heard that it was scarce but wanted to run it by you.

 

I just posted a copy on ebay.

 

Thanks!

There are six copies on there. I guess that means it's not scarce any longer.

Hi Ian,

 

Do you feel the Fat & Slat Joke Book one-shot (1944 All-American) is scarce?

 

Thanks!

It is fairly scarce, but I do have a spare copy.

For those of you who can't seem to stand Ian: just stay the out of this thread! There are clearly some members of these boards who enjoy Ian's posts, so why must you always do your best to ruin it for these members?

That's a very good question and one I don't understand myself, and the reason I stayed away for a few years.

If their objections against me are because they think I should take more interest in the rest of the boards, then why go out of their way to antagonise me on this thread, which is clearly of no interest to them at all.

I don't go on Marvel threads, after all.

They should have saved a cover like that for #1000 and probably got either Frazetta (too late) or Alex Ross (you never know) to do it.

That's 25 years away, at the rate of one a month.

The amazing cover of Superman 701, which brings it all back full circle.

 

My comment referred to my suspicion that most collectors are not familiar

with the item and would be unlikely to consider it a comic or a DC.

 

But just because most collectors are not familiar with it doesn't stop it being printed by All American Comics.

Most collectors don't realise that Atomic Comics, Federal Men Comics, Warrior Comics, Bingo Comics, and Cavalier Comics are also DCs, printed by Major Malcolm Wheeler Nicholson after he had a major row with Donenfield, comprised entirely of DC reprints, mainly from Detective Comics or Adventure Comics.

 

Yo, yo, dewchebag for life! For shizzle.

What language is this posted in, please ??

Notably I do have what may be a complete set of DC Whitmans, nearly all in high grade. Also, I probably own more DC Whitmans than everyone else posting in this thread all combined!

 

I have all mine in one place now, so if you send me a list, I'll go through and see if I have any you don't know about. I never tried to get them all but I do have most of them.

 

Ah, great to see that you haven't lost that warm bedside manner.

And I never will.

I have seen a copy or two of "How You ..." on e-bay in the past couple of years. I

suspect it was fairly widely distributed during the war so I would not be surprised

if extra copies showed up. The fact that it is not normally found among comics and

that you and I may be the only ones who count is as a DC

It IS a DC.

It was printed and manufactured by All American Comics.

DC themselves recognise it as a DC so any doubt you may harbour is nonsense, frankly.

As I followed Ian's quest many years ago, I became aware of his difficulty

in finding Buzzy 70 and it piqued my interest as I am sure it did other forumites.

Why was that issue so difficult? I understand that these boards are a small part

of the overall comic collecting community, but you would have thought with

more awareness, a few more copies would have shown up. I think more collectors put that

comic on their radar not necessarily because they wanted it, but because it

was hard to find. I generally wouldn't look at a Buzzy comic unless it was dirt

cheap, but after becoming aware of #70, any time I saw a Buzzy comic, I quickly

looked to see if it was #70. If I was in a comic shop, I would look to see if

they had one. I am sure there are other forumites who did the same, so there

probably aren't too many dealers who attend cons that didn't have

their store inventory checked for that issue.

 

I don't swim in high-grade waters and my completionist tendencies are beginning

to wane, but I still enjoy comics for the same reason that I collect other pop

culture collectibles: for the thrill of the chase. I am out in the field every weekend

scouring flea markets, thrift shops,used bookstores looking for those elusive issues.

If I were to stumble upon a Buzzy 70, I would buy it (probably for well above guide)

not because I am a huge fan, but because I "found it".

It would represent the enjoyment I get from spending time with the wife

pretending we are Indiana Jones looking for the Ark of the Covenant. There are

many facets to collecting comics and you don't have to be a completionist or a

"gotta-have-it" collector to enjoy a Buzzy #70.

Well said.

Ian:

The ones you name are (with the exception of

"How You ...") are ones that will never be common. The

woodwork was cleaned out of those years ago.

 

For you and me, items that we consider "scarce" are ones

the were scarce from when we started hunting until we got

our copies. Then we stop looking but still consider them

scarce. Some of them (due, in part, to our hunts) become

less scarce; some become even harder to find.

 

There are items we found early in our search and got that

are scarce. Some are documented, some are not. For

example, you got your New Adventure 13 early so, for you,

there was no reason to look and no reason to think, based

exclusively on your own collecting experience, that it is scarce.

 

So anytime you, or I, or any other collector names an issue

as being scarce it is implied that it was scarce while we looked.

Probably such issues are at a later date "scarce," "very scarce,"

or just "hard to find."

 

There are many very hard to find items you have gotten for me

and believe me, I appreciate it and will continue to appreciate it.

Were a warehouse find of an issue to appear, it would not cause

any change in my thankfulness for your help.

The Dirt-Minator I got you, when I found two copies, is simply the rarest DC giveaway of the lot, and has never turned up since, not anywhere, not one single copy.

Why do you exclude "How You Can Defend Your Home" ??

Is there something I don't know about ??

Many years ago, Michele Nolan published a note on the DC teenage

books and claimed Buzzy 70 was the hardest to get. I kept a special

eye out for it and eventually got one for a reasonable price

(according to Overstreet). Once Ian and I connected, I hunted for a copy

for him but was not able to find one.

 

Within the past month or so, on e-bay, there was a lot which had a

low grade copy of Buzzy 70 in among a few other books. It sold for

a relatively modest price.

 

While the book was hare do get in the 1980's, and 1990's, I think that

(partially due to Ian's search) enough copies have come out of the

woodwork that it is no longer a very rare book. It is not an easy

book but it should no longer be considered to be rare.

 

As a result, there is little reason for it to be marked up to very high

prices. If Overstreet corrects the price to about double or maybe

triple the current price, it would be more sensible.

 

Isn't it nice that the woodwork can produce these books as soon as

a lot of dealers believe (with, alas, reason) that they can sell them for

obscene prices?

But there are some books like Double Action 2, Narrative Illustration, Good Triumphs Over Evil, How You Can Defend Your Home, and Big Book Of Fun Comics that, no matter how much publicity they get, they will never be common.

I found mine at mega con in March...$15 from a smaller dealer...

I put it on my wall (no price) and due to the "legend" of the book from the cgc boards, I got a VERY nice offer for it ...so, indirectly, I have Ian to thank

I cannot believe anyone would sell that for fifteen dollars. It makes my head reel.

 

Hey Ian I just located another Buzzy 70 recently. That is only the third copy I'm aware of since I spotted the one you have

Wow.

How much was it ?? How did you get it ?? Mine was six years ago.