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On 4/17/2024 at 9:46 AM, adamstrange said:

All scans are the same size which is usually 400 x 575.

They appear to me to be the same size as shown in the post.

That’s interesting. I’ve hit “refresh” a few times on my tablet and only sixteen of the twenty thumbnails show up in the larger format. 

On 4/16/2024 at 11:29 PM, adamstrange said:

Some of the candidates don’t show up full-size.

On 4/12/2024 at 5:18 PM, Point Five said:

I'd say his talent was putting them together in vibrant, poster-like covers.

Very true. He's much more a graphic artist with an eye towards montage and design than an artist per se.' 

The results were right on point: great eye-catching covers!  

On 4/11/2024 at 5:27 PM, adamstrange said:

What is he wearing on his feet?? 

On 4/1/2024 at 1:44 PM, Robot Man said:

That seem like a pretty crazy result for a somewhat common low demand pulp. Is this the now considered “FMV” for this one if I should consider my similar copy?

I’d be very surprised if that’s a legitimate result. There are a lot of shenanigans going on right now in pulps. Jordan Belfort would be proud of some of the “pump and dump” strategies being employed in this newly-hyped field. Unfortunately when some new money comes rushing into a collecting field, there are always going to be big bad actors creating the same sort of FOMO that we just saw unfold in comics over the past four years. Rinse and repeat… 

At least with NFT’s, the treachery was right up front. 

I don’t see how this doesn’t cause a stagnation going forward for the later printings. Who’s going to throw around that kind of money even for a lower grade copy knowing that the asterisk that was perhaps long bubbling under the surface is now front and center for everyone henceforth? 

At the very least, if you have a June 2nd version, you should take some of the people in this thread out to a really, really nice dinner!  

On 3/26/2024 at 12:12 PM, ft88 said:

Tubby VG lot of 3 including Four Color #1 $20

Take

On 3/26/2024 at 11:26 AM, ft88 said:

Little Lulu 150 $5

Take

On 3/26/2024 at 11:33 AM, ft88 said:

Little Lulu Story Telling Time 1 Fine $15

Take

On 3/26/2024 at 11:29 AM, ft88 said:

Little Lulu 139 F/VF $10

On 3/26/2024 at 11:30 AM, ft88 said:

Little Lulu 155 F $5

Take these two

On 3/26/2024 at 11:29 AM, ft88 said:

Little Lulu 156 VG/F $5

 

Take

On 3/22/2024 at 7:44 AM, ft88 said:

Terry and the Pirates 27 Charlton Fine- $10

 

 

 

Take

On 3/13/2024 at 1:31 PM, atomised said:

I wouldn't be coming to this forum if I wasn't a long term boardie, and desperate for options.  In short, I no longer have space to store my books in my residence due to growing family needs.  Is anyone aware of any luxury storage places that can vault high end books anywhere in the US?  The only place I am familiar with is UOVO Art, and after touring their facility in San Francisco, I was not impressed.  They simply cater to an art audience and do not have an adequate facility for collectibles.  Outside of luxury car storage options, I am not finding any facilities that cater to high value collectibles and the like.  Any suggestions welcome and greatly appreciated.  Basically need a space that can accommodate the equivalent of 10 long boxes under the highest security.  If I could put a safe in my residence I would but I simply can't.  Thanks

No joke, consider putting them under your bed even if you need to commission a carpenter to help with some custom cabinetry. There are bedstands online that offer more clearance and sometimes forego a traditional box spring.  

On 3/10/2024 at 5:18 PM, TheAvenger80 said:

Bump! Heading to eBay soon! I thought my prices are maybe on the optimistic side but I expected soooomething. Haha

You have great offerings obviously. Here and elsewhere, it does seem to be a buyer’s market for now. Good luck on the house. 

On 3/7/2024 at 4:12 PM, Hepcat said:

 

These two are especially awesome! Collectors in the US tend to love the 'glamor girls' on bottles, so that Blue Seal bottle is on our radar too. 

On 3/7/2024 at 4:44 PM, Hepcat said:

Sweet! Were most of those brands distributed in Illinois?

No, they're from all over. I have no real affinity for my birth-state. If it's got good graphics, I'm interested. 

Here are some phone pics of the bottles on that same shelf that occasionally rotate through. They're fun to hunt for, and quite inexpensive, and it's absolutely crazy how many different brands there were before the national and then global brands came to dominate. 

On 3/7/2024 at 1:54 PM, pemart1966 said:

Do these collect the strips or do they contain brand new art?

Overwhelmingly, they are strip reprints. On occasion, some of these Platinum Age books collect daily strips which are shown in color for the first time, but more often than not they reprint the Sunday color pages.

On 3/7/2024 at 11:39 AM, Hepcat said:

Oh wow! I love the old ten ounce refillable pop bottles! I have a custom built pantry in the kitchen dedicated to my small bottle and milk glass collection. Here are some pictures from ten to thirteen years ago:

I saw a lot of bottles I've never seen - which is unusual - and then I looked and saw that you're in Canada! Now it makes sense. I did recognize that Canadian Kik, so that tipped me off... 

A lot of your bottles look nice and clean.  

On 3/6/2024 at 7:54 PM, Robot Man said:

Nice group Don! Ever run across a bottle for this soda? Been looking for one for quite a while.

I’ve never seen that bottle. It looks like it was probably a paper label instead of the more familiar pyro-glazed or “painted label” (or alternatively ACL for “applied color label”) as seen above. Perhaps it was never made like Victor Fox’s Kooba Kola? 

It’s a giveaway, but as Point Five has stated, it’s a children’s book and you’ll see them with a few different large store chains not unlike the later giveaway comics like Buster Brown and Weather Bird.