Arkadin

Found this Pinterest page with a lot of comic book newsstand pics that maybe haven't been shown here before. 

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/525795325216344566/

On 6/2/2021 at 3:38 AM, Surfing Alien said:

Just opened up insane copies of the early Goodis Gold Medals. They are a bit musty but never read for sure.

Goodis is good. 

Nominations for worst publisher for condition!

My nomination: Lancer.  

What say you all?

Forget it, Jake. They're Chinatowns.

Definitely a nice site.

I have to hand it to you if you've read all these - some of them look great, but some look a bit sluggish. Covers are all nice, though!

Have you noticed the paperback thread? It's always on page one, very active. 

Maybe people are just getting tired of golden age comics. 

7 hours ago, ThothAmon said:

My first comic was read at a Toronto barbershop (also my first Playboy). My father would take me weekly starting in 1967. 

You must have been as shaggy as Cousin It. 

Hi everyone,

I have a large lot of Prince Valiant Sunday strips (nearly 400 pages, tabs and halves, 1943-1956) for sale on eBay. 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Prince-Valiant-huge-collection-of-Sunday-pages-1943-1956/193716038615?hash=item2d1a602bd7:g:LicAAOSw~ZlffJra

Let me know if you have any questions.

I have one comic in the current ComicLink auction: Melvin the Monster #3 CGC 5.0 Single highest graded

1957, Atlas; Joe Maneely cover & art

Later reprinted as Peter the Little Pest #1 in 1969.

Check it out - and thanks for looking!

11 hours ago, Electricmastro said:

1954:

I wonder why, of all these magazines and papers, the only ones hermetically sealed in plastic cases today and commanding huge amounts of money are the comics. 

Here's a pretty interesting Bloomberg article (and video) from 2019 about the company. This is before they were doing comics, just classic cars - but it does answer a lot of the points people have brought up here. The fact they're still in business today and branching out into other collectibles is interesting.

As Bloomberg points out, the target investors are certainly Millennials (not grumpy 50-year-old collectors like us ).

On 1/2/2019 at 9:58 AM, Arkadin said:

Rally Rd. is a new service that lets people invest in expensive classic cars.

Could it work for comics?  

 

Well, apparently, it did.

 

 

 

A couple of my 1930 Sunday fulls.

Here we go.

And there's the Encyclopedia Brown comic strip, which ran as a daily and Sunday from 1978-1980. 

It's just what you're looking for, including the upside-down answer in the last panel of the Sunday strips.

That's a lot of great books. Aces!

This should be a poll. Worst or best time. But I really can't imagine anyone voting for "best"!

On 3/26/2019 at 9:56 PM, catman76 said:

Ads I always was confused by were all the ads in 40s and 50s funny animal comics aimed at adult women. Funny animal and humor comics of that era are full of ads for tummy flatteners, dresses, nylons, skin creams etc. I guess they were thinking mom might see them when she was cleaning up juniors room.

 

Irv Spector 

Does anyone know if Heritage requires a minimum value for a consignment? I seem to remember them mentioning $5,000 minimum at one point.

On 11/27/2019 at 9:41 PM, Comicopolis said:

Another killer cover - and Fritz Leiber.

You're all Alone is my absolute favourite Fritz Leiber - it's so bizarre and creepy. Though I read it in the 1972 Ace paperback. 

16 hours ago, KirbyJack said:

You’ve probably seen it, but I love it so much I just have to post it again.

 

I like this one too - beautiful composition and the jack-o-lantern sidebar is just the right touch.

Here's mine:

Go for it.

Put it on your wall!

1 hour ago, jpepx78 said:

I did another search and the picture is from a bookstore on Markham St in Toronto Canada around 1974.

http://www.mirvishvillagetg.org/home/good-bye-to-mirvish-village-honest-eds/

I'm guessing it's Memory Lane?