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Planet Comics 55                        $125

Piece out of top left, bottom right and two on right side, with a 1” tear, with 

a lot of edge wear on spine and right side

Foxing down right side 

No gloss left on this book 

Small pencil on P in Planet

PS The Preventive Maintenance 3   $75

This is a small format approximately 5 x 7.5”

Will Eisner - the power of comics and knowing your audience this helped the Army train their soldiers 

I think there is a new hardcover reprint of this series.

Small tear and fold on back cover as can be seen in scan

Murderous Gangsters 4                $35

Kinstler Cover

Spine glued to front and back pages 

Very heavily worn with lots of crease 

Multiple tears on front on back cover 

Mopsy 14                                      $15

Lots of writing on cover

Tear on back cover

Top staple pull 

Love Diary 50.                               $10 

“Are You Deaf?”

I like how the small words almost speak louder because the are so small

Katy Keene 62                              $50 . --- sold to ComCav

skinny girl - with large robot…

1 piece of tape on inside front cover at the bottom

Small piece out on top of one page - does not affect art 

Inside Crime 3                             $115 .  --- -sold to ComCav

hoped to hold on this one longer - but I’ve been buying some other great books, 

1950 Fox. 5 on census (1 restored).     

Spine wear, wear on cover

Stain on back cover goes through 5 pages

1/2” spine spilt from the bottom

First Romance 26                          $15

Large tear on back cover, 1” spine split from top, 2” in the middle of spine

(Looks like I opened the scanner a little early - let me know if you want a rescan)

First Romance 21                          $15

Top staple popped on centrefold 

Spine split bottom inch, writing on cover

Fantastic Adventures 17                $35

1964 Seven Seas story - Baker art

Ok - on with the show - more of the same: GGA in red!

20 books tonight - and maybe some more cheapies added tomorrow and then the thread will close on Sunday night

One big book - a couple really nice books and then a lot of affordable and fun. 

Starting in a few minutes...   in the meantime take a look at the books still left from Tuesday.... 

17 hours ago, rjpb said:

It's yours. Thank you! 

Archie 50 ---- sold per PM

Recap has been done on page 1 and all individual posts....

all PMs responded to. 

Over 1300 views in an hour... 

8 of the first 16 books sold.

Thanks and see you on Thursday

Fun?   Nice books to look at?    

Seems like a good place to wrap this thread for the night. 

Thanks for all of the looks - and action - so far - 

I will update the recap on page 1 and mark sold book in each post  

The other half - will be a pretty similar selection - new books posted on Thursday

Fight Against Crime 20                        $  800   

just to be extra clear -----    missing centrefold

and now for one of the bigger books in the thread....

 

Fight Against Crime 20                        $  800   ---- sold!

missing centrefold, name and address writer on 1st page 

The tear visible by the bottom staple goes through the first half of the book, and about 1/4” goes through all pages and can be seen on the scan of the back cover. Pages are supple. 

Another book that I may have paid too much for - but a chance to get it under $1k made it too tempting for me

I've missed out on a couple coverless - which has frustrated my efforts to marry this book up 

Eerie 1 - 1951                                    $325 .       Sold to ComCav

Tight single staple book with a lot of edge wear and corner creasing

3/4” Tear on right side of cover 

Large diagonal crease on back cover

Crime Reporter 1                          $155

Paper loss on front cover near staple and top 

one day I'm going to buy the highest grade I can find on this one.... 

Crime Patrol 7                                 $50

Piece torn off bottom right corner, strong foxing on back cover  - not in great shape obviously 

Crime Mysteries 5                           $135 .      Sold to Roger66

1953  Only 1 (4.0) on census              

Spine chipping and edge wear, 1” tear top and bottom of spine

Tight and supple pages

Cow Puncher 4                                $50

Ok - so maybe I’m stretching the wearing red with the hat - but a nice cover none the less

Centrefold missing —— repeat centrefold is MISSING

Staining front and back cover

2” tear on bottom left of front cover

Confessions of the Lovelorn  83           $25

what you see is what you get... nice composition even if the lighting is over dramatic 

Captain Science 2                            $125

Small piece out bottom front cover, nicks along edges

Pen all over back cover, including 1/2” pen tear that goes through 8 page

red shirt and a robot - what more could want! (if you even saw the robot ha!)

Blackstone the Magician Detective 1 $225 .   Sold to ComCav

A one off 1947 EC book that you don’t see often - 13 on census

Great Moon Girl 1 full page ad - va va voom 

The first of two great octopus covers for this thread

Small piece out of front cover, nicks on spine

Top Staple pull from centrefold

Writing on cover in 2 places on front and back cover