Tri-Color Brian

On 10/2/2023 at 8:57 PM, tth2 said:

The article is a great example of how comics very rarely ever appear to be a bargain at the time they are up for sale.  It's usually only in retrospect, for those who were bold enough to take the plunge, that they became bargains.  For the cheapskates and wimps, they just become "Woulda coulda shoulda" stories that they bore us with ad nauseum.

Hey...I resemble that remark...

On 9/13/2023 at 9:25 PM, Telegan said:

That looks like an international/UK variant.  The US version has it spelled "Catalog".  You're welcome.

That's funny.  I got that catalogue at the Cherokee store, then took it home and read it on the chesterfield...

On 9/13/2023 at 5:24 PM, Robot Man said:

Wow, what an artifact. But it only counts if you show some of those interior pages with prices that chizzler Burt was charging…

I'll get right on that...

1970 catalog...

On 9/6/2023 at 8:38 PM, jpepx78 said:

 
Try saying “your books are way over guide and they are not even mint” to any dealer nowadays when you are interested in his books and see how they respond.

 

I say that all the time.  Just ask Robot Man...

On 8/18/2023 at 8:15 PM, szav said:

I went big for one last night.  I know at any given time there's like 30 of these in VG- or worse shape for sale on eBay, but I like the genuine file copies and this one has the best back cover of the 3 Baker Lassies IMO.  Love the painted covers by Gollub too.

I took your advice and picked up a so-called 6.0 on ebay for 11 bucks...It's good to be ME...

On 8/24/2023 at 6:33 AM, Robot Man said:

Tell Howard I said Hi. Miss seeing him. He is a great guy to deal with. 

Howard says he loves you too...

On 8/24/2023 at 7:51 AM, sagii said:

Maybe cheap, but you always seem to score such high grade copies of these 

Congrats!

Are they file copies?

No...and they aren't real high grade, just nice looking copies with good color.  They are from an OO collection my LCS got in this week.  There were a lot of nicer looking copies, but I didn't care for the covers that much, so I passed on those. 

On 8/23/2023 at 2:23 AM, 50YrsCollctngCmcs said:

Depending on the price I would probably pick up a bunch of those.

It was $30 for both of them ($15 each) or ($20 for #130 and $10 for #155).  I guess that's cheap enough...

On 8/23/2023 at 12:34 AM, 50YrsCollctngCmcs said:

I wish I had an LCS that got books in like that!!

It's a good one...I'm going to look at the rest and see if I can upgrade more.

On 8/21/2023 at 6:29 AM, AJD said:

Wow, those are beautiful Brian!

Thanks.  The OO took good care of them.  All I did was buy them...

I have 2 Bethlehem books from 1959 with no stamps at all.  I always wondered why mine had no stamps.  Now I know...and I could care less.  They're Dennis the Menace's...

On 8/18/2023 at 4:35 PM, 50YrsCollctngCmcs said:

Makes me wonder what that picture was taken for since there was no publicity and I doubt Barks worked wearing a tie in his home studio.

It was after he retired, and he was applying for a greeter position at Walmart...