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    What’s the cheapest anyone’s seen AC 1 or DC 27

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    On ‎1‎/‎21‎/‎2018 at 7:54 AM, otherworldsj331 said:

    Not a Action 1, but in 1969 I asked my dad to buy me a Superman 1 at My Friends Book store on Flatbush Ave in Brooklyn. Paul Levitz later worked there as well as Roger Stern. They were known for their considerable comic inventory probably more then their books.  They said they could get a Superman 1 for $100. My dad said no way would he pay $100 for a "used comic". The grade was never even discussed. So instead he got me a Act 37 and Batman 14, for $20 each. Both around vg+/fine.

    I recall seeing an Action 1 for sale at the 1971 NYC July 4th convention. I was only 12 at the time, so no way I could afford the $200 ask price. I do not remember the dealer or condition. 

    Much later, around 1982 I was at a book store on 86th street on Brooklyn NY. The owner was known to deal in comics. Fischler often went there; I did not go there so much. Anyway, I was offered a Act 1 for $1800 at the time. I think it was around fine. I just did not have the money for it.

    Wow... My Friends Bookstore...  it was an incredible place for kids in Flatbush back then. Always hated that they price marked all the comics they had in the bins in the corner where the CCA stamp was. You could always tell a book that came from there by the magic maker price in the corner. I have a friend who still has his whole childhood collection including hundreds of those books. For years they had a copy of All Star #36 with the Superman Batman cover on top in the glass case up front where they kept the good stuff. I assembled a collection of Spider-Man back to #2 and FF back to #3 from that case. They're long gone but I still remember what they looked like.

    The bookstore on 86th Street was a similar type place. I think it was near 20th or 21st Avenue. It was still there into the 90's and they had a significant back stock of the Marvel Key Golden Record Reprints for $15-$25 each depending on how the owner felt that day. They must have been from a warehouse as they had dozens of them. I bought several of each back then, including some NM ones, and used them for trade bait. They also still had random hoards of 60's Marvels - I remember a short box of Marvel Superheroes #12 & Ghost Rider (1967) #1's that I picked some out of. I still have one of the Ghost Rider #1's.

    At the Seuling shows in the mid 70's , we considered it a "good show" if you saw Action 1 and/or Detective 27 there, which was quite often. They were in the several hundreds of dollars and up range at the time. One time a guy was showing a dealer a stack of books, each separated by a piece of cardboard. He started flipping the cardboards over one at a time and we were amazed to see 2 copies of Detective 27 in a row. I'd love to know where they are now.  

     

    Comics, Pulps, and Paperbacks: Why such a discrepancy in values?

    in Pulp Magazines

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    7 hours ago, the blob said:

    Every few years I buy some pulps. I try to go a little older, maybe cool covers, try not to spend much. I try to get some authors I have heard of. Last round I bought a pulp with Frank Herbert's first published work. Apparently, nobody cares as it didn't cost much.

    As for why they aren't as collectible....maybe less interior art? Also, hard for people to gauge what they're worth? We might make fun of Overstreet now as being antiquated, buyt for decades it has provided a frame of reference for comic collectors. For a long time If something was $20 in there I knew i wouldn't be paying more than that unless I knew it had suddenly got really hot.

    No doubt Overstreet was a market maker for comics. There are guides for these other paper books but not the every year consistency Overstreet provided.

    Boy Comics

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    22 hours ago, gino2paulus2 said:

    Awesome books!! Btw in regards to your board name I was wondering is it related to Joe Satriani or just Silver Surfer or both? If it is Satch related I’m going to see G3 (Satriani/Petrucci/Collen) when I get back from Florida in late February!! ?

     

    I was raised on the FF in the Silver Surfer age... and I play a little gitar as well... so... 

    Have a great time at the show... sounds killer!

     

    Comics, Pulps, and Paperbacks: Why such a discrepancy in values?

    in Pulp Magazines

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    On 1/17/2018 at 10:46 AM, Arkadin said:

    Just wondering if anyone here has any White Mountain paperbacks - that is, paperbacks from the famed White Mountain comic pedigree.

    There were some being auctioned on eBay a while back. They looked nice, of course, but were priced on the high side, so I didn't get any.

    There are pics of a few on Pinterest from old ebay auctions. The samples there look like late 70's early 80's sci-fi digests and paperbacks.