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A guy posted this back in April to an Aurora Model Kit group on Facebook that I’m a member of: .

I sold Ruben a CGC 4.5 or 5.0 1930s Buck Rogers mini promo comic on eBay long ago. Sold Terry Austin some GGA comics too and that led to a trade of a piece of OA for other comics (nice guy, fun to deal with). My most memorable celebrity dealing was pretty interesting and involved 3 generations of celebrities in a single family. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. bought a rare old song book of Opera singer Alma Gluck (his mother) for his daughter, Stephanie Zimbalist, for her birthday. It needed to be overnighted so he paid a lot extra for it. Its always pretty rewarding to sell items of famous people to their descendants. Makes me feel warm & fuzzy inside. I sold a rare 45 record like that to a family member but don’t remember the details. Most recently I sold some family photos of William Beebe to a descendant who was named after him. Still have some items from the Beebe/Elswyth Thane estate but I think it’s a bit too pricey for him.

An eBay win, arrived in the mail (late) Friday.

This was a purchase from a comic shop going out of business 20 or so years ago. Bulk comics were going too cheap so they stopped the auction an hour or so into it to sell everything to someone who made a blanket offer for everything.

Most of it is series 2 #1 stored multiple issues per bag

I knew I had a bunch but I’d have to dig, so did that today...

Plenty of action on solo Predator #1 today...

I think they did it because it was kind of a "last chance" at 25¢, kids... to make it easier to find them amongst all the emerging 30¢ copies commingling on the store shelves at that devastating time (allowances probably weren't going up).

There's an OO comic collection being sold on the same day, so these may be from that individual's collection. I noticed that there are duplicates of some of the bound volumes in the collection, so DC may have decided to sell some of them at some point...?

They're all stamped like this, with "property of" crossed out.

I wonder who owned these... anyone know? The pic isn't a link, just a clue of how to check out the auction.

...But they actually do visit a comic shop in one episode. Congrats on the great looking store! Best of Luck!

You won't be disappointed. Blickenstaff is like Wolverton reincarnated. They sent me some sample cards or stickers about a year ago as they were first being developed, offered through that Facebook group I mentioned free with SASE. I stashed them in an Overstreet to rediscover some year...

Yeah they are cool, based off Ugly stickers that had Basil Wolverton characters, little rubber monsters with sculpts mainly by Norm Saunders. Rubber Uglies is the general name but they were packaged under many variations. Mine were "Horror Pets" packed 72 to a box. There's a Facebook group devoted to them that I'm still a member of even though I sold out "Jigglers Rubber Monsters and Figures". The artist Stephen Blickenstaff who did the classic Cramps album cover and his friend are putting out a homage to the Ugly Stickers called Funny Fiends. The kickstarter boxes were finalized a day or 2 ago so they should be showing up retail soon...

1960s boxes of Rubber Uglies! Yes that was me and it was the same auction house. Close by my house and happens every week.

Oh, I forgot to mention- the box with that magazine in it wasn't the first to sell. It was choice per box, I won first bid per box at $10, grabbed three others, continued researching, bought others at slightly lower prices, I'm thinking I paid $7 or less by the time I saw the magazine to look for and found it in a box. I paid $201 total for 60 jam packed boxes, most at $2 or $1 per and I think most of it has good potential singly or in groups.

Yeah they failed trying to talk condition. I totally lucked out at the auction. There was the 60 boxes of mags to look through, they sold near the beginning of the auction so little time to research them. I typed in "electronics" on my eBay app, sort by sold, sort by highest price and this popped up: That listing was only visible on eBay for another half hour to an hour before it expired and disappeared. I luckily screen captured it. I noticed the seller had a negative feedback and it was for that listing. The buyer said something like "Seller accepted my offer, then cancelled tying up my money for weeks". Maybe he contacted Intel and sold to them. His copy and my copy were very similar in condition. Would like to know what he got since I'm now fielding offers with a high BIN.

Thanks! Sorry I forgot to revisit this post. Here's the story of how Intel paid $10k for a cruddy copy of it in 2005: https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/moores-law-electronics-magazine/#gs.636o2u

I bought 60 banker boxes jam packed with the magazine etc. collection of an engineer who worked at Rockwell-Collins and he had a beautiful copy of a fabled mag:

CAK Kav & Cal

It's about 4:30 into it...

Just got done watching your unboxing video for this, Rene & was going to post the news here. Didn't realize you were a member here and beat me to it.

1992 McDonald's (Happy Meal?) Promos #1 & 2 Pssst! I have doubles... PM if interested.

I just stumbled upon this on eBay after looking up something completely different. Great illustration, never seen it before.