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    GA with 10 or fewer universal graded census: FMV at least $500 at grade 5.0 edition!

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    On 7/3/2023 at 7:38 AM, Frisco Larson said:

    These All-American issues are very cool, and I seldom see them posted!!! That #4 in particular is nearly impossible to find. I saw a low grade. I didn't know how rare it actually was, so I let it slip away. SOMEONE bought it though.

    Maybe collectors aren't slabbing issue 4 because it has the baseball back cover image from Double Action #2? The other ad like page from DA 2 is spendy, as it is attached to Tec #27 front cover.

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    THE FLASH starring Ezra Miller 2022

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    On 7/2/2023 at 9:30 AM, Dr. Balls said:

    So, question to the Box Office experts here:

    When you get a film with a reported $290M take, that's gross receipts correct? And movie theaters make 40% of the ticket sale (I just Googled that, I don't know for sure). And it seems the budget for producing the film is $200M.

    If the studios were expecting this to be a big payday and it's the opposite, I can see how it really puts everyone into a tailspin, especially with all the other companies involved.

    But u forgot to factor in the int'l ad budget which may be an extra $175M to $200M. Now 'The Flash' has been pulled from movie theaters b4 the 4th of July and Canada Day (July 1) long weekend potential viewership.

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    in Golden/Silver/Bronze Age Only

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    On 6/30/2023 at 8:59 AM, The-Collector said:

    How about some OA? Witches Tales 4 "Bells of Doom" complete four page story by Rudy Palais. Check out the woman being trampled to death on P3! Asking $1400 (bank transfer for this one please). BONG BONG!

    Note I'm pretty sure the margins have been trimmed down but all the art is still there. 

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    Do u mean the bristol board has been trimmed down to 11 x 17 inches in size?

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    'Fantast Collection' Kick Starter 'Selling Superman' (#1 CGC 7.0 blue) documentary 2024

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    On 6/26/2023 at 3:40 PM, southern cross said:

    I know of a collection of 300k books that sold roughly last year in the Northwest, it had a safe where there was a wonder woman 1, sensation comics 1, golden age Sub-mariners, Detective comics started at around the issue 30s and went up, Captain America's, All stars, single numbered batman's and up ECT.

    The silver age were in piles in the bookcase, Spidey 1 up, Fantastic four 1 up, X-Men 1 up, Avengers 1 up ECT.

    There was so many comics one had to walk a path throughout the home. 

    The garage had a stack of comic boxes 6 ft high and about 10ft square.

    There were boxes where the collector had bought comics from comic stores and have never been opened.

    He also collected records and there were 1000s of vinyl records from the 60s - 80s. Most never played and still in unopened plastic.

    The family wanted to sell all the comics all at once and have to comics moved out of the house as quickly as possible.

    They decided on a silent auction where three bidders put in a bid.

    Instead of taking the highest bid they'd extend deadlines and go back to the bidders saying you've been outbid, do you want to up it. There was a minimum percentage you had to bid up. So after the first few bump ups my mate stopped bidding.

    So we are talking multiples of 6 figures here, I'd better not say what this collection roughly sold for.

    My mate at the time organized a vintage record store to buy the records and didn't even get a thank you from the family.

    I still think there are collections like these out there.

    I know of a older gentleman who walks into a comic book store with shopping bag of 15 to 20 bronze age comics.

    Yeah I know it's bronze age, the interesting thing is when he was in his 20s he worked in a distributor business and the staff were allowed to buy comics, magazines and books at cost. This was before they were shipped out to the news stands.

    So he would buy a book here, 3 books there, 5 - 10 - 20 - 50 -100 comics of a single issue at a time. The shopping bag he brought in had 7 copies of Green Lantern 87 1st John Stewart, 6 copies of Strange tales 169, 5 copies of Swamp Thing 3. He never read them, he just bought them and took them home and put them in a box for 50 years.

    Here's a copy of Swamp Thing 3.

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    As for Golden age it's going to be collections put together after they were released.

     

     

    Agreed, as this is a pic from the former Ian Levine complete DC collection finally coming out for sale later in 2023:

    May be an image of vulture and Superman

    TCBS Toronto Comic Book Show Brief Report

    in Comics General

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    On 6/26/2023 at 6:41 PM, Wahoo88 said:

    Canadians buy and sell comic books?  I thought they paddle around in canoes trading beaver pelts...

    We also wear a toque and balance a long box against a 6 pack of Canadian beer while riding a horse thru the snow on the frozen tundra of Canada while listening to Celine Dion on a Sony Walkman.