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TRUE SPORT PICTURE STORIES V.10 #3 4.0 ow-w pages Classic grim reaper cover. Great color corner chip and 1" tear bottom spine creasing bottom right corner otherwise a pretty solid copy. $350

TRUE CRIME COMICS #3 3.0 ow pages Classic Jack Cole cover & story staple detached top of cover 1" tear on spine at top staple corner chip and 1" split bottom of cover small edge and staple tears $900

FRANKENSTEIN #28 CGC 4.0 ow pages Grader Notes light foxing to cover light staining to cover moderate creasing to cover moderate spine stress lines to cover moderate tears to cover $250

ALL TOP COMICS #14 CGC 8.0 ow pages SOTI book Grader Notes Spine Stress Lines Whole Book Foxing Whole Book Lite Wear All Edges Whole Book Wear All Corners $1300

TOP NOTCH COMICS #19 CGC 3.0 cream-ow pages Bobby Blue Collection Grader Notes staple detached bottom of cover multiple crease cover breaks color staining to cover tears to cover $1000

HANGMAN COMICS #8 CGC 3.0 ow pages Grader Notes piece out right top of whole book reattached with tape cover staple removed tape interior spine spine splits to cover $1350

in thread rules. Returnable in 14 days for any reason. US shipping is $20 on slabbed books $8 on raw. Free shipping on orders over $1000 International shipping at cost. No HOSers or probies. Paypal, Zelle, Venmo, check or M.O. I will hold books for two weeks if you need time to pay. Unfortunately I must collect sales tax from buyers in California. I will invoice when I have zip code. I will discount tax against shipping costs. No sales tax on sales outside California. VENUS #19 CGC .5 cream-ow pages Page 4 & 9 missing - Page 4 is last page of first story and 1st page of text story, page 9 is 2nd page of text story and advertising. Grader Notes missing interior part/page/wrap (QUALIFIED) page(s) 4 & 9 affects story creasing to cover heavy cover tanning pieces out to cover staining to cover $3500

1. It is far more likely that in 1989 the printer used knockouts rather than white ink to achieve the white webbing and lettering. In which case it wouldn't matter which order plates were applied all the webbing and lettering would be visible. 2. The places where the black ink appears to "bite" into the red ink line up exactly where white webbing and lettering would cross from the black into the red. 3. That there is one area where the white webbing is still visible over black indicates the rest was colored over by hand, as does the faint visibility of some of the webbing and letters under the black. If it was a black ink overlay at the printer, why would that area be missed? 4. Black ink does not always bleed through cover stock, it depends on the marker, and quality of the paper coating. Sometimes when you hold a book with color touch at an angle with light reflecting on it, you can tell where black marker has been applied as its reflectivity differs from the black ink. 5. The black marks at the top also line up with where the white webbing would go to the top of the cover art. As certain as I can be without holding the book in hand, all evidence points to the webbing being colored in with marker, and would be very surprised if CGC reversed their notation. It would be helpful if they were more specific about the where of color touch in their notes.

Price reductions on everything. All $5 lots or books are 3 for $10

Nice books, so often personal copies from artists collections are pretty beat.

I think that is it. I might put together some more paperback lots if there is interest.

Classic Hardboiled Fiction 8 Eugene Izzi hardboiled crime novels Mostly out of print (maybe all , I'm not sure) paperbacks published in late 80s, early 90s. All except Safe Harbor and King of the Hustlers are 1st pb editions. Safe Harbor is a UK printing. Conditions varies from showing a moderate amount of wear to looking almost new. Pages generally off white or showing light tanning. Izzi died young under mysterious circumstances, and is a bit of a cult favorite with crime fiction fans, though he never really achieved break through success. $25 $20 for all 8

Classic Hardboiled Fiction Black Mask Quarterly 1 & 2 (1985) with stories by Parker, Chandler, Thompson Leonard, etc. The Black Mask Boys, collection of stories by Black Mask authors, edited by William Nolan The Hardboiled Detectives, collection of stories by Black Mask authors, edited by Herbert Ruhm The Great American Detective - short stories from the pulp era with famous P.I.s All show some wear, but are generally in decent shape, the two smaller paperback show some toning to pages. $20 $17 for all 5

Classic Hardboiled Fiction All four Paul Pine private eye novels by Howard Browne Halo for Satan Halo in Blood Halo in Brass A Taste of Ashes 1980s paperbacks Quill Mysterious classics & McMillan Decent shape with minor wear . The first two have light tanning to pages, the other two have white pages. Excellent reading. $15 $10 for all 4

Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowe lot: All first prints and NM To my knowledge this is the entirety of Raymond Chandler's work adapted to graphic novels RAYMOND CHANDLER'S THE LITTLE SISTER (Simon & Shuster 1997) Steranko cover Michael Lark interior art. RAYMOND CHANDLER'S MARLOWE (ibooks 2003) Short stories adapted by David Lloyd, Ryan Hughes, and Alfredo Alcala. RAYMOND CHANDLER'S PLAYBACK (IDW 2006) Hardback $35 $30 for the set