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    Nit Picky - Ebay listings Pet Peeve

    in Comics General

    Posted · Edited by iggy
    Typo

    Wrong category wouldn’t stop me from buying a book I really want, it could even be an advantage on price if others aren’t seeing it. Maybe try to zero in more on your search terms... for example if looking for Byrne era X-Men, add “Byrne” as an additional search word. You might already know this, but you can also exclude certain pesky search terms by placing a minus sign with no space before a search word... I do that “-manga” “-tpb” for example...

    Fun finds....

    in Comics General

    Posted · Edited by iggy

    Got this from a clueless eBay seller awhile back- must have inherited their comics or something... the sig wasn’t mentioned.

    Edit: just noticed the bus windows changed shape from the first 3 panels to the long shot. Way to go, Steranko!

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    Bronze age comics that are heating up on eBay...

    in Bronze Age Comic Books

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    23 minutes ago, Pantodude said:

    I collect currency, too, mostly early U.S.  That background makes the disparity between Can PVs and UKPVs even more baffling if, as you suggest, it is because of the mere presence of the "9d" vs "12c" in that tiny section of the UKPV cover.  Seems like folks forget that our first currency was colonial currency in the few decades leading to the creation of this country, and that currency (in the mid-1700s) was often denominated using the British system!   See below for a Pennsylvania note. How cool is that?  That (and of course the relative scarcity!) makes the UKPVs very intriguing to me.  And then there's the completionist in me, too.  Hope to amass more fraternal twins (cents/UKPVs) for my early SA keys, but I expect that will take a life time.  Eager for the hunt!   To each his own, of course. 

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    Cool! I can dig it, I was checking out some colonial currency within the last month advertised for some upcoming auction through Facebook ads and was pretty fascinated by it. My dad was a serious coin collector and got into comic collecting later in life to reacquire the ones he enjoyed as a kid (born in 1930 and used to say he probably had Action 1). Carl Barks ducks were his favorite as well as the Mr. Mind serial in Captain Marvel. The only coin collecting from him that rubbed off on me is Indian head cents. I love them.

    Bronze age comics that are heating up on eBay...

    in Bronze Age Comic Books

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    30 minutes ago, Pantodude said:

    I dunno.  Folks should know by now that it was the Canadians reading those late Bronze/early Copper CanPVs back in the day, not U.S. kids!  Those books did not sell this side of the border.  Just like it was the English reading those early Silver Age UKPVs even further back in the day, after they were shipped across the Atlantic.  So there is no actual "nostalgia" factor for U.S. collectors to explain the disparate treatment between the two.  In the end, CanPVs and UKPVs are essentially identical with respect to what makes CanPVs (and  Australian PVs) special--they are both a tiny subset of the initial print run.  UKPVs correspond to the older, less common SA keys, so the lingering price disparity is dumbfounding (although we are seeing premiums more and more nowadays).     

    Yup, everyone’s different. I don’t collect Canadian price variants beyond the ones I mentioned which are late silver, early bronze. I dislike U.K. price variants but like U.K. people :foryou: