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    X-Men #58 - VGFN OWW - $39 First apperance of Havok. It’s a decent copy but it has slight rust on staples (only on the outside).
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    SOLD
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    SOLD
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    Vintage italian X-Men sticker (one of two, originally from Capitan America #17) - $5
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    Blackstone the Magician (Atlas) #2 (1948) - FRGD OWW - $65 Complete lower grade copy. The cover is barely hanging at top staple, bottom staple is detached. Paper quality is nice.
It contains a Blonde Phantom short story by Mike Sekowsky.
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    Some mixed books from the 1950s/60s Small sales threads of books, 1950s-70s with a few Marvel books relists from previous threads at new prices. My Kudos thread I try to grade books accurately but I’m not a professional, so if you have doubts feel free to ask me more details via PM. 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. Shipping: Rates indicatively as follows (Zone 1 is Europe, Zone 2 is Americas, Asia and Africa, and Zone 3 Oceania). Airmail does not have a tracking number, so for more expensive purchases I recommend Registered (which is darn expensive, I know). Zone1 Zone2 Zone3 Economy Airmail / 1-2 bks: 8.00 11.00 16.50 USD Economy Airmail / up to 8-10 bks: 9.00 15.00 19.50 USD Economy Airmail / up to 15-20 bks: 15.00 25.50 29.50 USD Registered / 1-2 bks: 13.50 19.00 24.00 USD Registered / up to 8-10 bks: 19.50 27.50 36.50 USD Registered / up to 16-20 bks: 29.00 41.00 51.50 USD Return policy: I do not offer returns as it would be impractical cost-wise from here, but in the unfortunate case I missed something drastic (like a cut out page or ad) I will make sure to make you whole. Thanks for looking!
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    Is this the uncensored version? The one in black and white which was printed as an "advance" copy? I would love to have good quality scans of that one!
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    +1
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    @TheAvenger80 I see your listing but it does not allow me to look at your items on sale. Do you have the "international" option disabled?
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    Thanks, I see. So it’s useful if you list more than 50 items per month, not for occasional sellers.
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    I’m curious to know how the strategy of having multiple accounts to reduce fees work. I like Divad’s approach, and I am sure there is nothing dishonest with it.
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    Yes, but there is a big qualitative difference (in terms of faithfulness or color reproduction) depending on the models. And Xerox is not the only brand doing copiers, that’s why I said "others". Regardless of the acquisition device (be it a copier or a flatbed scanne, of varying hardware quality) it’s also very important to have the color settings costantly balanced, otherwise you will have a "color shift" or worse, and not a faithful reproduction. Sorry about my bad english, but these technical things are hard to articulate as I do not know certain terms in english.
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    We know, we know.
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    For all the good and the bad, we have been very much "culturally colonized" by the american culture at the time. The postwar climate in Italy was pretty unique: de facto we were coming out of a sort of "civil war" lasted twenty years and more: nothing like this happened in Germany, where the consensus, even with popular elements, was not coinciding with regular people's aspirations. And as far as Japan goes, what I can grasp is that their loss of the war was heavy on the spiritual plane, as they regarded the emperor as a semi-divine figure: it was the end of an era. It would be cool to have a comics-related discussion about these topics…
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    The fact that makes Sciuscià particularly relevant – despite the fact that it was published after the war – is that the De Sica movie which inspired the comic depicts a reality which presented itself in Italy slight after the war, during the american occupation (1944-45): the term originated in the Napoli dialect, as a distortion of the english "shoeshine": the "sciuscià" were kids that earned some money by polishing the shoes of the more well-heeled, and was probably coined by the american soldiers, and then adopted in italian. The leading character of the strip is a sort of "teenage sidekick", of the same kind of the ones you see in Lev Gleason's Daredevil, which tries to beat the poorness and survive the climate of the end of the war by traveling with his friends: his girl friend and some adults.
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    That Boy Comics #24 was gorgeous!
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    Very sweet! How are the inside stories?
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    At the beginning there was also Stalin, but eventually he became an ally so they adjusted the cover art. The original one can be seen in the ads.
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    To be fair, they’re all caricaturized here. Not all of the adults, but many of the sidekicks, and many secondary characters.
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    In Italy (eBay.it) it's worse, if it can console you a bit. Around 14%, I believe.
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    Actually, the Xerox (or other) copier should have correct color settings, otherwise even a direct photocopy will have colors that are entirely altered. The replicas are very well done, but I suppose it is digital printing of better quality than the one you have with basic color laser copies, or am i wrong?
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    That’s bad… I hope he becomes reasonable and replies.
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    A pair of "Albo Impero" (Empire Comics). These are landscape format, and also digest sized, and they are from 1942 and 1943, so during the war. They contain war-themed stories.
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    The french edition is very cool, because the same material (issue numbers correspond) is published in mini-comic book format, with new custom covers drawn by a french artist. Here’s a few from my collection: #12, 13 and 35 (I am still missing the original italian #35).