Crimebuster

Got these at a flea market today for $1 each.

Nothing crazy but got all 5 issues of Green Arrow Quiver by Kevin Smith and 3 issues of All Star Batman & Robin by Jim Lee and Frank Miller. $1 per issue. I'm happy! Zia Records

Pretty cool. I hate to mention this, though, but Quiver is a 10 part story.

Hey folks. I am trying to track down the original art for the cover of Jughead #215 by Rex W. Lindsey:

As some of you may know, Jughead was abruptly canceled with #214 after solicits for both #215 and #216 had already been sent out.

This art was then re-purposed and used as the cover for Jughead Double Digest #191 instead (and recolored for no apparent reason):

I have tried to contact Rex W. Lindsey himself, but have no success doing so. When Jughead was canceled in the fall of 2012, Rex sold off all or most of his original art. However, I don't believe this cover was among the art he sold off at that time. Archie Comics didn't use the cover until the summer of 2013 and I believe that Rex had almost certainly not yet received this back from the publisher before his sell-off.

As a result, I have no idea where this cover ended up or how to contact anybody who knows. If anybody knows where this is or has any leads on it, I would appreciate it. Thanks.

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(I'm also still looking for Rex W. Lindsey's covers for Jughead #199, 202 and 205 if anyone has leads on those either.)

Ahhh! Did you buy this off ebay a couple weeks ago? This copy has been taunting me on ebay for months; it's pretty much the only Boy Comics #10 I've seen come up on ebay in the couple of years I've been looking for one.

Wolverine #1 CGC 9.8 @ 47 watchers and no, I'm not talking the Limited Series but the regular series. Seems to have been gaining steam for some time.

 

I've noticed that too. The dark cover makes it hard in 9.8 but there are quite a few around.

Quite a few around is a massive understatement. When this came out everybody I knew bought multiple copies, and we were just dumb kids; I'm sure actual dealers and speculators bought far more copies. It kinda boggles me that stuff from this period is worth anything given there aren't just a ton of copies around, but most of them are in high grade as well.

[font:Times New Roman]I received this recently. It took me a while to find this issue:[/font]

 

 

Very nice. I actually came to this thread to ask how rare this variant is, and this was the first post that popped up for me.

So... um, how rare is this variant, anyway? I checked ebay and didn't find any copies up for sale, and only one sold listing since November.

You guys must get tired to tourists like me popping in this thread every time we stumble on a price variant.

Valliant, he's referring to Rodney King, whose beating at the hands of Los Angeles policemen caused a massive city-wide riot in 1992.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots

Henro, Valliant is from Italy and probably still has no idea what you are referring even with what you just quoted.

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true that Cheetah, nothing special "to me" about a run of the mill Boy Comics #16

There's nothing run of the mill about any copy of Boy Comics #16!

Pretty crispy and has a fairly large tear on the urfc.

But it looks nice

there goes any chance of it going for a reasonable price....

 

let the games begin!

Unfortunately, I just don't have the money at the moment to even try. If this were a year ago... but no. Unless a gold brick falls out of a passing airplane and crashes through my ceiling, I'm going to have to let this one go.

added boy comic 16 to the list, ive already been out bid but hopefully someone here will win it

auction link and pic

http://www.comiclink.com/auctions/item.asp?back=%2FAuctions%2Fdefault%2Easp%3F%5FSORT%3DYES%26Focused%3D1%2Btarget%253Dblank%26f2%3Di%2ETitle%252C%2Bi%2EIssueNumber%26f3%3Da%2EMaxBid%26f1%3Da%2ENoofbids%26ODire1%3DDESC%26ODire2%3DASC%26ODire3%3DDESC%26x%3D0%26y%3D0%26pg%3D9%23Item%5F994585&id=994585

 

Boy Comics #16 and Okajima. Oh sweet jeezo beezo.

Oh, if only I had some way of getting the money to buy this. I would love to have an Okajima book and #16 is one of my two or three favorite Boy Comics covers. I even paid a boardie to do a re-imagination of this cover a while back.

Must... control... self...

 

This is so unbelievably stupid

Sorry if I offended you. I wasn't implying you were trying to boost sales.

 

No worries.

 

Now what book you want to boost next?

 

 

 

Seriously, I don't think what is said on these boards has an impact whatsoever on the marketplace-at-large. It's a far bigger world out there than you think.

 

You know, it would be easy enough to find out! Take a completely useless book featuring the 1st appearance of some throwaway character. Throw out some "facts" about a movie announcement with said character. My bets are on that book generating heat. If you could get a couple of boardies to go in with you on the scam, I wouldn't be surprised if the book took off in price.

 

As an experiment, it would be interesting to see the results. Just not sure how people would treat the person who starts the rumor, especially if real money is spent on the book...

I think someone already did that, with New Mutants #98.

Pence variants have traditionally sold for about 30% less than U.S. copies, but that is changing. I personally would take a pence version over a U.S. version every time and I know others on here feel the same way. I think eventually there will be enough people collecting pence variants to push them above U.S. values, as the supply is so much lower. But that might still be a few years off.

 

 

 

That's never going to happen. American comic books are American not english. Purists will always choose cents copies

Well, we'll see I guess. It's my understanding the print run on the pence editions is 10% (or less) than the cents version. Because the supply is so much lower, even if all the purists stick to the cents edition, there may still be enough demand from variant collectors to create a premium for pence editions.

I know most pence enthusiasts (including myself) consider these to be true price variants, similar to the 30 or 35 cent variants from the 70's or the Canadian price variants from the 80's. They are not reprints, they were printed during the same print run as the cents editions, they just swapped out the price box. So while "American comic books are American not english," in this case, the English comic books are also American as well.

Pence variants have traditionally sold for about 30% less than U.S. copies, but that is changing. I personally would take a pence version over a U.S. version every time and I know others on here feel the same way. I think eventually there will be enough people collecting pence variants to push them above U.S. values, as the supply is so much lower. But that might still be a few years off.

We're looking at Silver Age only?

 

For the most part. Some books may push the envelope by a year or two, like Two Gun Kid #24. (It's ok by me). I'm sure there have been a few others, but the vast majority, I'm going be memory here, have been Silver Age books.

Okey dokey. That's what I figured, given this is the Silver Age forum and all.

The comics with similar covers I have to post are copper age though, so...

We're looking at Silver Age only?

Wow! Any chance of seeing the whole story?

As long as you don't mind photos instead of scans, sure.

Better late than never!

It's too bad the covers of most issues of Boy Comics are so boring, because many of them hide some great stuff. This isn't the best story Biro and Maurer did, but it's certainly a vivid example of their work. This is right when they were really starting to put it together. This story, as you will see, is 12 pages, but once they started doing 15, 17 or even 20 page stories, they really hit gold. The next 2-3 years following this were top notch.

Perhaps atypical for stories of this period, but very typical for Crimebuster stories, is the fact that Crimebuster doesn't actually show up in his own strip until page 7, halfway through the story.

Anyway, here's the so-so cover to Boy Comics #28:

And here's the lurid tale of murder hiding inside:

That's amazing.. He did a really good job...

He did, yeah. (thumbs u

I tried to photoshop in a background. I did my best to make it look like it was drawn, though I think it's still pretty obvious it's a photo. But it was the best I could do for now.

I wanted to do an interior, haunted house scene, like the original in #16. But I couldn't find any images that worked for me, so I went with this outdoor scene instead:

Still hoping to eventually commission a cover for #121 from someone, but I don't have the money at the moment.

 

a) Does anyone know if Allen Bellman ever worked on Boy Comics or the Crimebuster strip specifically? The new Alter Ego has an interview with him where he mentions working for Biro and Gleason, but it doesn't mention what titles he was on. I've looked around the internet and apparently he worked on Boy Meets Girl and a couple others, but I haven't found any mention of Boy Comics; it's not listed on Bellman's official website. But he also says he doesn't remember everything and some of the listings on his site were provided by readers and collectors who are filling in the gaps, so I thought there might be a chance. If he did work on the Crimebuster strip, I am thinking about commissioning something but I'm not sure he worked on it.

I met Allan Bellman at a con a few weeks ago and asked him whether or not he worked on Boy Comics. And the answer is: He can't remember. He didn't think so, though.

He did say he thought he worked on Girl Comics, which I wish I had known, as I am also putting together a run of Girl Comics to accompany my Boy Comics run. But I got him to sign a couple issues of Man Comics, which again, I am collection as a supplement to my Boy Comics collection. He didn't actually remember working on those either. When I brought them out, he said "did I work on those?" And I replied, "I have no idea! Your website says you did."

But, anyway, he appears to have not worked on Boy Comics, alas.

For what it's worth, I asked him about working for Lev Gleason and he talked about how great a guy Bob Wood was. Right up until Bob Wood murdered a woman in a drunken rage. They were, as Bellman put it to me, "in a hotel room screwing."

So, I posted this in another thread already, but since this is where the Archie experts hang out I thought this might be a more productive place to post it.

I received today a shipment of Archie back issues I ordered off ebay. Among these was a copy of Archie #401, which as you can see is not the normal version, but rather a free Club Med variant:

As the cover story is set at Club Med, my assumption is that this was a one-off deal between Archie and Club Med. But I am am curious if there were any other free Club Med giveaways. Or if Archie did something like this with any other companies. Or if maybe Club Med had variants of comics from other publishers?

Just wondering if anyone knows anything about this. Thanks.

Yeah, and may a rumour surface one day about that mythic truckload of longboxes stuffed with crisp NM Actions 1's ...

well it will likely turn out that it was sailed in from Asia (freshly minted ).

 

Lots of this hearsay (on insane hoarding with the effect of a great number # of copies amassed) might likely turn out to be BS if attempted verified

 

A full short box exclusively stuffed with raw AF15 surely seems insane (or somehow a little abnormal a little like these arab Sheiks who has 60-80 kids each

It might be insane, but G.A.tor said he saw it with his own eyeballs:

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2486186&fpart=654

Which is proof enough for me.

Just got my (customized) Archie cover book from Craig Yoe.

 

 

Can we consult with you regarding this year's forum gift exchange?

I would look to hallmark first

I told Hallmark who I got this year and they laughed in my face.