Randall Dowling

Sony offered Betamax to other manufacturers but required a license fee for use. JVC turned around and offered VHS for free use to all other vendors. Other manufacturers ended up deciding to go with VHS and the content providers responded accordingly.

Very cool! Thanks for sharing, Sara!

You're correct. Avengers 4 is March 1964 and Sgt Fury 13 is December 1964.

While I think I agree with you, wouldn't this then argue for Sgt. Fury 13 being the first SA Captain America?

That writing on the back is... unusual. It looks like young Recil was going through some things.

What a great bunch of books!!

That's a gorgeous book!! Now more than ever, the number at the top is pretty dubious. The same well proven wisdom applies- "Buy the book, not the label". And that one is pretty sweet!

Gorgeous book, Oakman!!

There's a word for those people...

I wonder who will play Groves. For me, Dane DeHaan is like kryptonite to a good movie.

This is a cool book. I've always like the color scheme. And that's a nice looking 7.5! When Adams did work like this, I always wondered what it would have been like if he had done illustrations of the early D&D modules and manuals. That would have been something!

Other people bidding. I really wish they'd stop that.

Apologies if my jest fell flat. That's obviously a tough book to upgrade.

When?

I don't like the way either one is looking at me. They look hungry. And confident.

@Azkaban That's a brutal post, BTW. I had no idea you could get that many images in one posting.

This is the star of that show. Should bring some money compared to others, even in that condition.

I think you're pretty much single handedly responsible for bringing these to the attention of the greater comic collecting world. I would never have known about them had you not been so generous in sharing your research and understanding of ashcans. For that, and many other contributions, I'll always be appreciative. Like @PopKulture said, I'm glad you're doing it on your terms.

It's an unusual space. The exterior is fairly unremarkable but the quality of light inside is carefully mediated. And there are essentially giant Rothko canvases in a midnight blue/purplish/black color with benches in front. If you're ever in Houston, it's worth seeing.

Glad their going to a good home!

Great grab! The rest are yours!

What bothers me is the time between games of the Elder Scrolls seems to be growing geometrically. I'm very excited for the next issue but after that, it could be 20 or 30 years before the one after. I don't know how that's good for business but here I am, waiting patiently for the next one, so there's that.

Great book!

Off the top of my head, ASM 64 belongs on that list. Along with Peter Parker 1

I think the yellow is due to who ever did the stripping for making the printing plates missing a piece. My understanding is that they could stop the run in process and fix it, which is why some copies would have the yellow and others don't. To be clear, I don't personally advocate for this kind of thing, but an argument could be made that the yellow stripe copies are "early print run" books.