Knightsofold

On 11/25/2018 at 10:14 AM, 50YrsCollctngCmcs said:

So I was surprised this morning to see this post come through on a Facebook group. A long time collector had some extra time and decided to sort his books on his kitchen table this weekend. That's some sorting!

It just goes to show that there are still plenty of raw gems out there destined to come for sale someday!!

 

 

Amazing!!!  Could be 500k-1 mill on that table.

5 hours ago, skypinkblu said:

 

 

But this one (unless the accepted offer was way lower), shocked me. It's a nice looking copy, but it's raw from a fairly new person.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sensation-Comics-12-Nice-Original-Owner-Early-Wonder-Woman-DC-1942-VG-/143010092404?epid=85450271&hash=item214c10d574%3Ag%3ALUQAAOSwkHFb6MeG&nma=true&si=lGw3GZcvi2yfvzYDKaIuiREFU54%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

I saw some of these Sensations go for high dollar, but blissard is a well known solid seller.  Sells on here sometimes too I forgot his user name though.

Action 1 and superman 1 remind me of Amazing fantasy 15 and spiderman 1.  

From the present to the distant future if someone looks up the what/where/when of the “comic book”, the prevailing information will be a Action 1 cover to represent the origin of the medium and the super hero and Captain America 1 cover will represent the time, place, and the greatest comic creator in history.

Oishii (美味しい)

Welcome to the best hunting of all comic eras!

These took me years to find.

I hope you get a break soon...

I saw this and thought of you.

19 hours ago, entalmighty1 said:

Awesome!  Probably in the top 5 nest Cap Schomburg covers of all time.  Please post a group shot of this and Exciting 28!! 

On 10/23/2018 at 10:25 AM, Phill the Governor said:

Picked this up a few months back. 

One of the BEST torch toro covers!!! Grats!

Grats on your first Timely!  In golden age the Timely rabbit hole isn’t as bad as the DC one.  Marvel 1 and Cap 1 are the only books priced higher than your friendly neighborhood Amazing Fantasy 15.  Although Cap 3 and Marvel Mystery 9 are getting up there.  

MMC 17 is solid!  Has so much going for it.  

On 10/12/2018 at 9:07 AM, Artboy99 said:

I believe books with married pages/ covers get a qualified label.

That's correct, Green label.

Grade if selling. 

Hard to tell without a higher res photo.  Might have to gamble on graders notes telling you more specifics.

Hoping you and your family are safe Rick.  

I looked up a few megas so I’ll put the #’s here.

Cgc total census numbers 10/10/18

Action Comics #1 - 69 copies 

Superman #1 - 143 copies 

Detective Comics #27 - 68 Copies

Batman #1 - 252 copies  

Captain America comics #1 - 164 copies 

Marvel Comics #1 - 61 copies

All Star comics #8 - 166 copies 

Sensation Comics #1 - 91 copies

Wonder Woman #1 - 159 copies  

Flash comics #1 - 77 copies 

3 hours ago, AGGIEZ said:

I like the list, but the more D-level characters that you include, alla Night Nurse, Moondragon, etc., the more exponential the list becomes. Is New Gods #7 (1st Steppenwolf) really a "definitive Bronze Age Key"? If you want to just make a listing of all BA 1st appearance books, we can do that...but in my collection, not all 1st appearance books are "Keys". 

 

If we're doing that, I'd add these...a notation as to why they are "key" would be nice for any listing as well:

·        2001 #8 (1st Machine Man)

·        All-Star Comics #58 (1st Power Girl)

·        All-Star Western #10 (1st Jonah Hex)

·        Amazing Adventures #11 (1st Beast w/ fur)

·        Amazing Spider-Man #101, 121, 122, 124 (1st Man-Wolf),129, 135, 136, 149, 194

·        Astonishing Tales #25 (1st Deathlok)

·        Avengers #83, 93, 100, 112, 181, 196

·        Avengers Annual #10 (1st Rogue)

·        Batman #232 (1st Ra's Al Gul)

·        Captain America #117 (1st Falcon - SA?), 180 (1st Nomad), 217 (1st Quasar)

·        Captain Marvel #25

·        Cat #1

·        Conan the Barbarian #1 (1st Conan), 23 (1st Red Sonja), 24 (1st full Red Sonja)

·        Daredevil #111 (1st Silver Samurai), 131 (1st Bullseye), 158 (Frank Miller begins), 168 (1st Elektra), 181 (Death Elektra)

·        DC Superstars #17 (1st Huntress)

·        Deadly Hands of Kung-Fu #19 (1st White Tiger)

·        Defenders #1 (1st Defenders)

·        Defenders #27 (1st Starhawk), 28 (1st full Starhawk)

·        Demon #1 (1st Entrigen)

·        Detective Comics #400 (1st Man-Bat), 474 (1st Deadshot)

·        Eternals #1 (1st Eternals)

·        Eternals #2 (1st Celestials)

·        Fantastic Four #112 (Hulk vs. Thing)

·        Fantasy Quarterly #1 (1st Elf Quest)

·        Fear #19 (1st Howard the Duck)

·        Firestorm #1 (1st Firestorm)

·        Forever People #1 (1st full Darkseid)

·        Ghost Rider #1

·        Giant-Size Creatures #1 (1st Tigra)

·        Giant-Size X-Men #1 (1st new X-Men, Storm,, Nightcrawler, Colossus & Thunderbird., 2nd full Wolverine)

·        Hero For Hire #1 (1st Luke Cage)

·        Howard the Duck #1

·        Incredible Hulk #141 (1st Doc Samson), 180 (1st Wolverine), 181 (1st full Wolverine)

·        Incredible Hulk Annual #6 (1st appearance of Paragon (later, becomes Her, Kismet & Ayesha))

·        Iron Fist #1, 14 (1st Sabertooth)

·        Iron Man #54, 55 (1st Thanos and Drax), 128

·        Jungle Action #6 (1st Kill Monger)

·        Kamandi #1 (1st Kamandi)

·        Marvel Feature #1 (1st Defenders)

·        Marvel Premiere #1 (1st Adam Warlock), 15 (1st Iron Fist), 47 (1st Scott Lang as Ant-Man)

·        Marvel Premiere #28 (1st Legion of Monsters)

·        Marvel Preview #4 (1st Star-Lord), 7 (1st Rocket Racoon)

·        Marvel Spotlight #2 (1st Werewolf by Night), 5 (1st Ghost Rider), 12, 32 (1st Spider-Woman)

·        Marvel Spotlight #6 (1st Star-Lord in comics)

·        Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (1st Guardians of the Galaxy) - SA?1969 and 25-cent cover?

·        Marvel Team-Up #1

·        Marvel Team-Up #95 (1st Mockingbird)

·        Ms. Marvel #1, 16, 17, 18

·        New Gods #1 (1st Orion),7 (1st Steppenwolf)

·        Night Nurse #1 (1st Night Nurse)

·        Nova #1 (1st Nova)

·        ROM #1 (1st ROM Space Knight)

·        Savage She-Hulk #1 (1st She-Hulk)

·        Shadow #1 (1st Shadow)

·        Special Marvel Edition #15 (1st Master of Kung-Fu)

·        Star Wars #1, 42 (1st Boba Fett in comics - Copper?)

·        Strange Tales #169 (1st Brother Voodoo), 180 (1st Gamora)

·        Sub-Mariner #34 (Defenders prelude), 35 (Defenders prelude)

·        Thor #193 (Silver Surfer app.), 225 (1st Firelord)

·        Tomb of Dracula #1, 10 (1st Blade)

·        Warlock #1 (1st In-Betweener, Thanos/Gamora origin)

·        Werewolf By Night #32 (1st Moon Knight)

·        X-Men #94, 101, 107 (1st Starjammers), 109, 120, 121, 129, 130 (1st Dazzler), 141

Great seeing the notes.   I have a few questions on some:

Can you add the notations to the Amazing Spidermans, Avengers, Captain Marvel 25?

Is Cat #1 the fist app?

What’s marvel spotlight 12?

Why Marvel team up #1? 

Why Ms Marvel 16,17,18?

I’d like to see this list ranked by value, but don’t have the time atm to do that.

I’ve been shopping for bronze x-men recently, I’d say x-men #135 has key status now.

Not sure if it’s your issue or not, but sometimes they have to wait to get the book from the consigner, check it, pack it up in a new box and ship it to you.  If you call and ask after you win they can tell you if they already have it or not.  I want yo say that some places will only auction books that are on site.  But I’m not sure if that’s CC or CL etc.   

On 9/30/2018 at 5:40 PM, Aliens said:

Hey guys, so some horrible stuff happened yearserday to me, long story short I bought a copy of strange tales 89 and I’m lookin through it being very careful as o always try to be with older comics, the whole bottom spine was gone but the back cover was still attached by a thread or so to the top staple and the back was attached for eh front... well I guess I opened they book a wrong way and it touched the backboard strange and “RIP” the back cover detached from the top and the from cover... so now it went from a attached cover and not Fully split to a fully split cover and attachment... ? I feel so horrible... the comic is for my PC anyway so o don’t really care about the value as that’s not why I collect but i am so angry at myself because it did not have to happen and I caused it... any insights or anything on what to do... what should I do with it... etc. just wanted to ask you guys... though when I put it in the Mylar and place the front dm back rightfully it looks great... then again I like opening it... ? pictures attached are in the bag (detached and split)

Don’t feel bad.  Books like that are a ticking time bomb so it was just a matter of time.  Imo it’s better now that it’s clean apart.  Much easier to handle.  I found it easy to damage a book in other ways if you have have to awkwardly hold it to compensate for the fragile area.  

On 8/30/2018 at 3:25 PM, RedFury said:

Jungle Stories, Vol 1 No 1, Winter 1938

1st appearance of Ki-Gor.

There was an earlier Jungle Stories title published by Clayton in 1931.  That one only ran 3 issues, but this later one published by Fiction House ran 59 issues (1938-1954).

Cover by Norman Saunders.

Awesome colors!

Some great shows on that podcast, thanks for sharing!

7 hours ago, Gotham Kid said:

also the beginning of the Finger/Kane/Robinson team

I don’t know too much on these guys, can you elaborate on their collaboration within 36?  Finger was involved early right?  Thx

8 hours ago, bluechip said:

A much underappreciated book.   Batman kills people.   The first arch-villain in superhero comics created to be recurring villain; 1st use of a major comic trope: the end panel with a bad guy behind bars vowing to return.  

 

Thanks for the info, I didn’t know all of this.