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    Linus n. 10 / Anno LV Baldini & Castoldi, 2019 A special issue of the historical italian comics magazine and criticism publication devoted to Astro Boy and its creator, Osamu Tezuka. Beautiful features, see spoiler tags for content. VF $19 Back cover:
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    Ms. Marvel (2014) Lot Includes Ms. Marvel #6 (first Inventor) FN+, Ms. Marvel #13 (2 copies) FN+ and NM-/NM and #19 in VFNM/NM-. $49 for all four MOVED
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    I will be back later to list more…
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    Daredevil #105 Lot Original US edition in FN+ condition and Italian first edition (scarce) in FNVF. $140 for both
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    Spirou Star Wars Commemorative issue “30 ans de Guerre des Étoiles” Not common. FN condition. $25
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    Amazing Spider-Man #605 NM $9
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    Amazing Spider-Man #602 Adi Granov Mary Jane cover. NM $19
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    Jane Foster as Thor Lot Original US edition in about FN condition, scarce Italian Panini edition in VF+/VFNM and True Believers reprint of the Jane Foster What If in VF-. $120 for the lot
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    Jungle Action Lot Lot of #9, 10 together with the Italian commemorative edition of “Panther’s Rage” storyline still shrinkwrapped with metal plate reproducing the cover. #9 is FN-/FN and #10 is FN+, #10 is also the first apperance of King Cadaver. $100 for the lot
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    Hi everyone! It’s been a while since I ran a sale, I decided to ran this one in the Mixed section so it will allow me to list an assortment of pretty much varied material. IMPORTANT: As many of you know, I am based in Italy. Postage costs for Registered are high, so I’ve decided to offer Priority (which has no tracking) as well, but only to people which I already know and with the agreed upon condition that if the packages gets lost we have no means to check it. Both methods have more or less the same transit times: 12-15 days to USA/Americas or less. Please send me a message for postage costs to other locations. Shipping costs are as follows: Registered: 19.00€ up to 350g (1-2 comic books, or the equivalent) 26.00€ up to 1kg. Priority (not trackable): 13.00€ up to 350g (1-2 comic books, or the equivalent) 18.00€ up to 1kg For heavier packages we may consider an Express Courrier which will be cheaper than Poste Italiane. As a general rule, I always try to price fairly but without discounts. Of course I will combine shipping costs and try to have the less expensive options from Italy. You can find my kudos thread here. I try to grade books accurately but I’m no professional grader – mostly the grade listed is the grade I’d be satisfied with if I was the buyer. Rules: The first (icon or text) in thread wins. You can purchase by PM but at your own risk – I will go by time stamp. Payment methods accepted: Paypal, Wise. Please no people on the HoS or Probation list.
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    Unfortunately I am in Modena, so pretty far from the cities you’ll visit, but I have found this page listing comic shops in Napoli: https://nicelocal.it/naples/shops/type/fumetti/ Here there’s a list for Roma (leave out the newsstands: edicole): https://nicelocal.it/rome/shops/type/fumetti/ And for Firenze: https://nicelocal.it/firenze/shops/type/fumetti/
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    OK, @gunsmokin, @Eddy707 and @Xeno1997 are ready will be mailed very soon. I apologize to the others, but I have not been able to invoice everyone. I will have a convention next week (20-21 may) so I prefer to invoice afterwards not to keep payments hanging for too long. Thanks for your patience!
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    Hi, I am 99% sure that in the meantime I sold this, but if not I’ll let you know.
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    I am going to send out the remaining invoices and wrap up the thread. If there is interest for the remaining items, please send me a message. Given the very good welcome of materials and topics, I wish to run a new sales thread with the same focus, so hopefully I will find more interesting material in the meanwhile. Thanks to everyone, especially those which purchased and made it possible!
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    Thanks much again.
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    Spirou Special Nöel 1944 (Dupuis)
 Copy B - VG- Another copy of the special (not numbered) issue from the 1944 year run of the belgian french journal Spirou, featuring this merry cover with the character parading in a jeep with American soldiers. Pretty solid lowgrade, obvious wear, tiny pieces/bits out of upper right corner and bottom, some fraying on spine, 1" spine split at the bottom. Single staple holding well. Asking $65 / 59€ SOLD to MusterMark
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    Il Vittorioso (A.V.E., 1941) No_12, 13 "Il Vittorioso" has been the starting point of my research. Published from 1937 up to 1966, the journal, conceived by the publishing division of the italian Catholic Action, had since its beginnings the aim to educate while entertaining.
For this reason, a lot of care was taken in producing comics of good quality, and the choice was to have them all produced by italian authors (as opposed to most journals which published excellent US syndicate strips material). Other two issues from the 1941 year run with the gorgeously drawn Romano pages by Kurt Caesar. These issues include installments from Romano's sixth war themed adventure, "Verso A.O.I." ("Towards Oriental Italian Africa"), "Verso il paese dell’oro" ("Towards the country of Gold")
also drawn by Caesar, the story of a boy and his father living an adventure in Klondike, and Craveri's futuristic "Tabuì il cane meccanico", with the unexpected adventures of a robot dog.

 #12 is about a VG, #13 is in pretty nice shape. Asking $18 / 16€ each or $30 / 28€ for both
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    Timeless Topix (v2) #10 (Catechetical Guild, 1944) Another wartime issue of Topix, this one has an odd "War Bonds" feature. 
In nice shape, but has small binder holes. Asking $18 / 16€
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    Le Journal de Toto (1937-1940) No. 166, 167 "Le Journal de Toto" was a french comics journal published between 1937 and 1940, whose flagship character, Toto, conceived by Spirou's creator Rob-Vel and his wife, was a boy sailor. Starting with issue 141 war themes begin to appear in the stories, and 156 sees the launch of a new strip dedicated to a pretty original character, “Boule de neige tirailleur sénégalais”, a black soldier enrolled in the French Army, created by the great french comics author, René Pellarin aka Pellos. The tirailleurs were a corps of colonial infantry in the French Army, initially recruited from Senegal, and subsequently throughout Western, Central and Eastern Africa. Alessandro Costantini, a historian, noted that the two protagonists, Boule de Neige and Totoche, are «two heroes in the moral, narratological and military sense of the term, and also two who are not integrated into the "good society". As sociologically marginal, they use a centrifugal language, marginal in turn: "parisian argot" in one case, "petit-nègre" in the other». What I find most fascinating is the characters' personalities, especially Boule de Neige, hilarious when they clash with Wehrmacht soldiers. Clever, original and fun, a character like "Boule de Neige" would have been pretty unlikely in, say, an american or italian comic. This is a lot of two of the rare last issues, before the title was canceled with #171 (as most of the others) when Germany occupied France, each one feature an episode of Toto and Boule de Neige, among other features and american strips ( Tracy). Asking $40 / 36€ each
 or $70 for the pair SOLD to MusterMark
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    I will list a few more tomorrow. Here’s a very cool American travel brochure from 1937 Nazi Germany straight from my collection. NFS.
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    Il Vittorioso (A.V.E., 1941) Issues 2, 3, 4 from the 1941 run. "Il Vittorioso" has been the starting point of my research. Published from 1937 up to 1966, the journal, conceived by the publishing division of the italian Catholic Action, had since its beginnings the aim to educate while entertaining.
For this reason, a lot of care was taken in producing comics of good quality, and the choice was to have them all produced by italian authors (as opposed to most journals which published excellent US syndicate strips material). These issues include installments from Romano's sixth war themed adventure, "Mare Nostro" ("Our Sea"), early Jacovitti with his "Pippo" which would "explode" a few years later (he was just sixteen when he started the strip!), Sebastiano Craveri’s masterful and surreal "Il Castello dei Pupazzi", where drawings come to life to haunt his animal characters of the "Zoo" family, and another strip drawn by Caesar, "Beowulf", an adaptation of the Old English epic poem.

The copies are in pretty nice shape, especially #3 and #4- Asking $18 / 17€ each
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    So sah ich mich. Aufzeichungen des PW 31G-5181013 (J. Stampfl, 1952) ("That's how I saw myself. Records of the POW 31G-5181013") by Walter Hofmann (Waldl) This is Waldl’s second collection of cartoons, after the famous "Lacht Ihn Tot!" which I already listed. At the end of the war, like many former SS members, the cartoonist was held in a POW camp, and these cartoons testify his personal experience. Unlike "Lacht Ihn Tot!", which basically collected satiric cartoons already published on the SS journal "Das Schwarze Corps", "So sah ich mich" material is brand new. I do not know German, but the feelings one gets by browsing the cartoons is a mixture of disillusionment, conflict, humour and melancholy. This is the first German edition, which came out a few years after Waldl’s liberation from the camp, in 1952. There is a later reprint from a different publisher, which came out in 1978. Very nice copy, letterpress printed linen cover without the original dust jacket (which appears to be pretty rare, it took me a while to find one including it). Asking 39$ / 35€ SOLD via PM
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    I wanted to make sure everybody else had a crack at this, since I got the other copy. If nobody else wants it, I'll be happy to purchase a second copy. Many thanks! I’m going to list the few items I prepared in order to wrap up the thread and do the remaining invoices — besides having little time right now, given the very positive welcome, I think it would be great to run a new one when I’ll have accumulated enough nice similar material of interest.
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    Of course, probably Bob & Bobette was not the best example, given their flemish origin, I meant about the tradition of French-Belgian BD.
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    July 1941.