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And another addition... This just goes to show how tough it is to put together a high grade set. Wonder Woman #259 has only 2 copies on the Census, of which this 7.0 copy is the 2nd highest.

Neither… Blue Devil for the win.

I'm not really looking for these price variants specifically, but I do rescue them from the wild when I see them! My big focus these days is CGC copies of DC Whitmans, though... if you have any of those, I'd be very interested!

Bankruptcy doesn't necessarily mean they are out of business or not operating, only that they are protected from their creditors/lenders for a time.

I'm also a big Booster Gold fan, going back to the original series. I think most writers (even Jurgens, who created him) are pretty uneven in their handling of him, but the concept is strong - the thief from the future trying to make his way as a hero in the past, and mostly ending up as a fish out of water in an array of chaotic situations. I think he appeals most to those that love the idea of connecting all the obscure bits of DC continuity, like "What if we sent a guy with a Legion flight ring back to the time of Jonah Hex, and had him team up with Rip Hunter and Vandal Savage to stop a Thanagarian invasion?" Sometimes it veers into silliness, but the story potential is almost limitless.

I found a few price variants out in the wild. Like most of these that I find, they're beat but complete.

I feel like treasuries are definitely getting more popular in the past year or so, and prices are rising quite quickly...

Shipping to Canada?

Whoops... editing for clarity! I think the only other one that has a number on the cover is Limited Collector's Edition #C-61. There are quite a few others that have no price, such as the first seven issues Superman (#321 to #327) or the first three issues of DC Comics Presents (#1-#3).

Sorry, all - the storm took down my Internet late on Friday, and it just got restored. I have several (!) PMs to respond to. Here's what I have, and I've highlighted the ones I think (after a reasonably quick look) are 6.0 or better in green, and 8.0 or better (but not higher than 9.0) in red. I guess it's not quite as many as I thought, but there are still 65+ books here. Dennis the Menace - 72, 76, 84, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108 Dennis the Menace and His Friends - 5, And Joey 2, And Ruff 2, And Mr. Wilson 1, And Margaret 1 Dennis the Menace Comics Digest (Marvel) - 1, 3 (1 is VF, 3 is NM) Dennis the Menace (Giants) - 14, 17, 22, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 61, 62, 63 Dennis the Menace Bonus Magazine - 76, 78, 194 I have not done any sales threads on the Boards, though that may be a good suggestion. I have sold in response to WTB posts a number of times. Now if only you could point me toward a group of rabid Richie Rich collectors...

Maybe this belongs in the "books you can't find in the wild" thread? But is was Canadian $1.50, which is US $1.10 today...

I picked up a collection recently that had about 150 Dennis issues in the 1965 to 1973 range. They’re cool, but they’re not my focus. I can’t imagine them doing that well on eBay. What’s the best place to move something like this?

So think I may have solved this mystery... I reached out on social media to one of the young students pictured in the original post here. His initials are RJB, but I want to avoid "doxxing" him in future web searches. I asked him about the term blexcroid, and here's his response: This is a very interesting question with even more interesting timing. Things from my past seem to be popping up lately like mushrooms after a summer rain. Of course, I wouldn't have guessed "blexcroid" would be one of those mushrooms...In any case, here goes. I will tell you what I know and try to put it in some kind of logical order. If you find it valuable, great. If not, then I hope what I have to say doesn't throw you off the trail. By the way, I should add that I am very impressed with your detective skills and what must have been dogged determination to get to me. And how you found the 1978 Ursinus College yearbook is anybody's guess, especially being in Canada and not Pennsylvania. During my final years at Ursinus (1977-78), I came across stickers plastered around campus with the single word "blexcroid" on them, much as you and Stan Lee describe. I didn't know what it meant and asked several times. I remember getting answers that were vague. Here is what I gathered from direct conversation and inference. 1. Blexcroid was regional; that is, in the Pennsylvania-New Jersey area but especially around Philadelphia and the surrounding counties. 2. It was not used by locals (i.e., "townies") but college students. 3. It did not mean anything in the etymological sense but rather was a made-up word that stood for a few things. Those things were vague but had to do with resistance, subculture, rock music, trickery, knavery, jestering, and a sort of underground conspiracy that was not serious but a very student-picaresque-Peter Pan counter to the adult world of Philadelphia bankers (of which I became one briefly...!). It was also working class and pre-grunge at the same time. 4. The resistance dimension of blexcroid reminded me at the time, and still does, of Kilroy in the forties. And, oddly enough, it also had a FUBAR connotation to it. So, in that sense it was almost like the next generation's resistance-graffiti, although not as widespread as Kilroy. 5. Finally, I can see blexcroid now as an innocent, harmless counter to the dullness of bureaucracy and the managerial class that so many of us went into after college, especially since back then unemployment and interest rates were sky high. 6. In a very real sense, blexcroid was a game that didn't mean anything but made you part of an invisible brotherhood/club if you took up the mantle, which I did by putting it with my graduation photo. Actually, at the time everybody else was putting that saying on their photo that if you love something you have to let it go and if it comes back/doesn't come back something or other will happen, blah blah. So blexcroid was a subtle, secretive way of saying up yours. It was code.

Still slowly chipping away at my set. Here's the latest addition, courtesy of a seller in Texas. This is the 3rd highest copy on the census.

I agree, but I also think a lot of DC stuff in general is starting to look like a bargain. Golden Age Flash and Green Lantern, Silver Age Wonder Woman, Flash and Green Lantern, and "cult hits" like silver/bronze Teen Titans and Doom Patrol... When you put them next to Marvels of the same timeframe, or even Batman and Superman books, you can see how low the prices actually are.

It's still pretty ugly, but my detailed fiscal analysis has determined that the amount of green is increasing as one moves from right to left. The red bloodbath is becoming a rather Christmas-y colour combination.

And the long-awaited sequel to the Wind in the Willows… No evidence, but this strikes me as something he wrote himself, and made his agent take credit for.

Marjorie Finnegan: Temporal Criminal from AWA is heating up on movie news.

You continue to amaze me…

Awesome books! Shame I’m in Canada…

Yes, the Star books with the Marvel Anniversary border often do well in high grade. This one is known to be tough, and it’s a top of the census newsstand to boot…

I think for most sets, it’s more how the factors (scarcity, demand, etc.) were perceived years ago when the person who created the set took a brief look at GPA. Some sets are so out of whack after the passage of time that it’s painful… look at the DC Whitman variant registry set, where some books that trade for reasonable sums (say, $400 plus in 8.0 or 9.0) will see the highest graded copy on the census get 8 or 12 points.

A few finds small finds at an antique mall, for about $2 each.

No, that was Boris.