Robot Man

More Fun Comics #93 Sept-Oct 1943 DC Publications

What a great book! Spectre, Dr. Fate, Aquaman, Green Arrow & Speedy and Johnny Quick. Not a bad read through out. Rarely see More Funs for sale any more.

This copy has a loose married centerfold. Has some small spine and bottom creases as well as a tiny chip out of bottom. Has 3 small pieces of tape on the interior holding the cover to the book. Light waterstain on edges on back cover plus a thin 3" long crease in upper cover edge. Solid copy otherwise with nice supple interior paper.

Was $175.00   Now $150.

Here's a VERY cool item you will just never see for sale here on the boards...

BEANY & Cecil 1962 full color Lampshade. 12” round x 7-1/2” tall. Pictures: Beany, Wong,

Hunny Bear, Dishonest John and Capt. Huffenpuff (No Cecil he was the base) Excellent, un-used condition. Old store stock. Cool huh?  Not hard to find the lamp but the shades are always gone

Was $75.00 (postage will be determined by buyer's location) This is very light but will need to be double boxed. Shouldn't be more than maybe $20 I would think.......Now $65.!!!

Thrilling Sports Pulp Magazine Nov 1940 Thrilling Publication

Colorful football cover

A real nice copy. Tight, square, tight spine with full paper. A few very tiny edge tears as is common with most pulps. Small spot on back cover. Bright and clean with nice supple interior pages. Colors are blinding on this one.

Was $25.  Now $20.

Northwest Mounties (Approved #12) August 1954 St. John Publications

Outstanding signed Matt Baker cover.

Spine neatly split down to top staple. Bottom staple popped but still barely handing on. Very light waterstain down left edge. Some minor wrinkling and a small lower right corner crease. Complete cover with no pieces missing or other major damage. Interior paper is yellowed but supple. Tightly bound centerfold with clean staples. Looks great in a mylar.

Was $140.  Now $130.

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #15 Sept 1956 DC Publications

Tough, fun early issue. Hard to fin these early Jimmys...

Has a light waterstain on left side. Spine is neatly split at top down to first staple. 1-1/2" lower spine split as well. Book and centerfold bound fairly well to covers. Some wrinkling and small corner creases but nothing missing from covers or interiors. A decent reader.

Was $25.  Now $20.

Been buying and upgrading a lot of books since my last sale thread. Also, cleaning out the junk pile collection a little. Got a full box of books and misc weird stuff that has been piling up. I don't have time to do them all now but am planning the big sale in two weeks. This will give you a taste of what is coming up. Probably my last one of the year. Thread crapping is always welcomed!

Rules:

No problem children or HOS members.

Postage is $5.00 each for up to two comics, very well packaged. I will combine postage on multiple purchases. All will come with tracking. 

I prefer to sell only to US addresses but might make an exception if I know you.

PM's and offers... I am trying to sell this stuff and want to get as much listed as I can. I try to price fairly. I probably won't have a lot of time to review PMs if I want to get this stuff listed. An "I'LL TAKE IT" icon takes it first. So, keep that in mind if you want something. When I get done, I will review PMs (in order of when they came in). If you have a question (other than a lower offer) post it and I will try to answer you.

Payment is by PayPal within 3 days FIRM. I will also take checks and money orders if you let me know after I send you an invoice.

Returns: No hassle returns within two weeks from when tracking says it was delivered. Return postage is on you unless I make a gross error and in that case I will "man-up" and pay return postage. I don't expect any returns though as I've only had 3 or 4 in 40 years. 

This stuff all comes from a smoke filled, varmit infested, mouldy junk house. (Just kidding!) Here we go...

This has gotta be the ugliest babe Baker ever drew!

15 hours ago, n2wdw said:

What a great find!  I'm on the east coast so we go to Disney World in Florida and we are big fans.  We own their time share (called the Disney Vacation Club) and used to go 2-3 times a year when the kids were younger.  My oldest, who is 23, has been over 20 times.  Now with the kids grown up we go every 2-3 years.  But still we love it.  In fact that's the origin of my name, in to Walt Disney World -- n2wdw.

Wow, I didn’t realize that. You are a fan. I’ve only been to Disney World once. Had a great time. Kind of strange though that some of the rides there are a little different than Disneyland. Usually a little shorter. Pirates is a good example. I liked Epcot better but it seemed that when I went it seemed a little dated. 

Hard to think about reality when you are there. Truly, a magical place!

21 hours ago, Patriot6 said:

YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!

I love this thing.

I'm pretty sure you had the video last time. 

Coolest Halloween toy ever!!

Any idea what the box looked like?

I don’t have the box but have seen it. Just two colors and not real exciting. The toy it’s self is the winner.

Thanks. Yeah, it has insane gloss. I got the #6 At the same time. I got most of these at the Casual Con in Anaheim the first time Chuck brought them out. None were over 10 bucks. I was buying mostly SOTI and Parade of Pleasure books at the time but there were so many cool ones I just bought till I ran out of money. 

Been grabbing these for years. Love these oddball titles. Most came out of dealer’s boxes at cons. Lots of early Baker and Feldstein. Two of my favorite artists. I think I have all the ones I really want except for #7 which rarely turns up.

Hey Ron, any good stories about Bruce Hamilton? You must have crossed paths with him at one time or another.

16 hours ago, 50YrsCollctngCmcs said:

TOP TEN FAVORITES - Part 3

So after becoming a DC zombie and buying all their books I would have become cognizant of all the various ads for back issue dealers and would no doubt have seen mentions of fanzines or conventions in the letters page or the ads. A quick look at the ad page in the Superman 254 I posted shows ads for well know dealers Howard Rogofsky, Robert Bell and the Passaic Book Center. Also of note is an ad for Comic-Con in San Diego featuring Jack Kirby and Robert Bloch! This is literally a 1" by 2" column ad! So somewhere along the way I must have seen an ad for the Overstreet Guide because I ordered one and it arrived in the mail and then my comic world began to explode!!

 

 

I must have ordered this in the Fall of 1972 or early 1973 because I remember I would come home from school and as the light faded outside I would slowly read each and every page absorbing the name of every book published along with the publisher name and the dates published. New worlds opened up with the amazing data on what was then called Color Comics (later renamed Four Color Comics), EC comics information, a dizzying array of Disney publications, the early Timely line and Captain Marvel. Captain Marvel really caught my Dad's eye as he read lots and lots of Captain Marvel in the 1940's.

Now that I had the guide I was on a quest to prove to people that these comics were worth something and the guide proved it! I even did a speech in eighth grade where I explained how one would use the guide to find and price old comics! I showed the prices to my Dad who kind of harrumphed but it would prove to be important as the years progressed as I needed his help with procuring treasures in the years to come.

The value of old comics proved to be an ongoing joke between my Dad and me over the last forty-five years related to a flea market incident. We used to go the Englishtown flea market every Saturday and I would go out back in search of treasures. One day to my surprise a vendor had piles of old DC comics priced at $1 each. I mainly recall Superman books in the 20's and 30's and still remember some classic covers in those piles (Superman popping up in China, Superman in the barber chair, Superman's foot hurt by Lois' biscuit.) I shouted at my Dad, "We need to buy these!" His response remains something I have reminded him of ever since, "$1! Why those things should only cost ten cents!" We left bookless!!

That was my first Overstreet. Read the hell out it. Made me feel like an “expert” when I was hitting my places for old comics. Still have it.

OK, you got it!

I wish I knew how to post a video to show what it does.

Man, I can't imagine the terror of that. Hope you are coping as well as can be expected Rick.

It goes well with this other one I already had.

Globes and maps always suck me in.

Had a fun antique store find yesterday. Got this awsome 1955 Disneyland tin globe. Love the early Disneyland stuff. Reminds me of fun times with the family when it was a huge deal to go here. Although, I live less than an hour from there, I haven't been there in probably 30 years. My grandkids are just about the right age to tke so I might make a return visit soon.

14 hours ago, Tri-ColorBrian said:

They just keep piling up...a lot of natives seemed to get shot with arrows while holding some girl...

Yep, there are quite a few of those.

I remember that Batman. I bought it off the stands. A yellow cover with some monster ripping down telephone lines or something. I liked Batman and the DC war titles then. I remember my first Marvel. Spiderman #3. Turned me into a Marvel zombie from that point on. I remember visiting my grand parents in the summer around that time. My grandpa was cool. He drove a 1962 Lincoln. We would go out for lunch and go to the cigar store where he would let me get almost everything on the newstand. I remember getting this MAD magazine one trip. This issue was the one that turned me into a true collector. Never seen one but once I did, I had to try to find them all. It all mushroomed from that. My grandpa was a great guy. I have a picture of him from the late teens sitting on his square tank Harley. I guess he also spawned my love for motorcycles. He also bought me the first Led Zeppelin album later on. Man, he hated that record!  Good times...

Nice one Mike and so tough. Here is another Baker digest western.

1 hour ago, hhwolfman said:

And #13

Nice one Howard. Welcome back to the boards!

On 10/12/2018 at 8:50 AM, fifties said:

Hey fifties, if you're going to post them, why not just post 'em all? How can you not have the two Wood cover issues #1,2?

My only question though. Why, just why did you even tell Harley?

Yep, looks like you got a real Tuska autograph there. I also met him at SDCC one year and had him sign a few things.As others have said, great guy and reallyt appreciated his fans. Sadly, not many at his table but was good for me because I got to hear some cool stories about the dawn of comics.

2 minutes ago, ft88 said:

Aces High 2 VG $15

Take it