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Eerie #1 First Printing - 1965 - Near Mint - $2,421.48

Well, these aren't really magazines, but most of us Magazine fans are horror fans, and these are definitely Horror related. Nice to see this specific niche' mini-series starting to get good pricing. Especially since OSPG has them at $3 a pop still... Jason vs Leatherface Comic - Topp Comics - #2 - 4/17/06 - $21.65 Jason Vs. Leatherface #1 from Topps Comics from 1995 - 4/17/06 - $19.50 Jason Vs. Leatherface 1-3 Very Rare. NM Condition. HOT! - 4/17/06 - $81.00 Begs the question...what would the fan-boys do with the original Proof sheets of the art?... http://boards.collectors-society.com/sho...;vc=1&nt=17 -bounty

* Record Alert * Record Alert * Record Alert * Web of Horror #3 Graded NM 9.4/9.5 Raw sells for $550.00 My experience with this seller has been books are overgraded by a grade level. So this is most likely a solid NM 9.2 copy. With maybe a shot at the 9.4 status. None the less, CGC's census has contested that there just are not many High grade copies of this book available... Great to see some of the upper tier quality copies of Comic Magazines making some strides. -bounty

Psycho #2 has always been one of those toughies in VF or better. Was surprised to see this one go off... Psycho #2 *Raw* VF 8.0 Skywald 1971 - $76.00 -bounty

Talk about some serious carnage on the Raw magazine front. Holly [embarrassing lack of self control]. How much would an actual CGC Graded 9.8 WTOTM go for??!?!!....$1,000? Monsters of the Movies #2...$128??!?!..Raw?...Marvel's Satire Mag Crazy #2 & #3 in NM- 9.2 Raw for $61? Hey I'll give them this...they have sweet Ploog art. Are there other collectors besides ast11 and jhalpe realizing that Magazines in High Grades are not the easiest to come by? It is getting interesting as more and more collectors start to get into the magazine arena. I see new faces on eBay buying these books every month. If this keeps on at the rate that it is, not even some of the supplies that I have seen with these books will be able to keep the prices at reasonable levels. I'm already getting priced out of many of the books that I have been buying over the last 6 years. I've seen a dramatic shift in Magazine prices over the last 1.5 years mainly with CGC prices being realized, but now within the last 5 months raw magazines have started to reach CGC levels....and that is because many of the mags being bought as NM or NM+/NM/MT currently only have a highest census of 9.2. Item# Sale Date Price Magazine 6581053588 Nov-20-05 $316.00 WEIRD TALES OF THE MACABRE #1 NEAR MINT / MINT 1975 6580899696 Nov-19-05 $128.49 MONSTERS OF THE MOVIES #2 NEAR MINT / MINT 1974 6580901064 Nov-19-05 $128.49 PLANET OF THE APES #1 NEAR MINT / MINT 1974 PLOOG ART 6580892986 Nov-19-05 $61.00 CRAZY MAGAZINE #2 NEAR MINT- 1974 6580893146 Nov-19-05 $61.00 CRAZY MAGAZINE #3 NEAR MINT 1974 6580896707 Nov-19-05 $57.00 HAUNT OF HORROR #1 NEAR MINT- 1974 6580893298 Nov-19-05 $51.00 CRAZY MAGAZINE #4 NEAR MINT- 1974 PLOOG ART 6580896201 Nov-19-05 $46.00 DRACULA LIVES #6 NEAR MINT- 1974 6580896413 Nov-19-05 $46.00 DRACULA LIVES #7 NEAR MINT- 1974 6580896905 Nov-19-05 $46.00 HAUNT OF HORROR #2 NEAR MINT 1974 6580897114 Nov-19-05 $46.00 HAUNT OF HORROR #3 NEAR MINT- 1974 6580900077 Nov-19-05 $46.00 MONSTERS OF THE MOVIES #4 NEAR MINT- 1974 6580900408 Nov-19-05 $46.00 MONSTERS UNLEASHED #5 NEAR MINT- 1974 6580900590 Nov-19-05 $46.00 MONSTERS UNLEASHED #6 NEAR MINT- 1974 PLOOG ART 6580900717 Nov-19-05 $46.00 MONSTERS UNLEASHED #7 NEAR MINT- 1974 6580895224 Nov-19-05 $36.99 DEADLY HANDS OF KUNG FU SPECIAL #1 VERY FINE+ 1974 -bounty

October, You could say that this is probably the rarest Warren book out there. At least top 2. It has a dismal print run of 400 copies. I'm not even sure how they were distributed to newstands? Maybe just on the East Coast. But Warren, printed this book in order to secure the name House of Horror. If you had heard, Warren had done some work in the European market working with some of the Hammer Magazine groups out there. Where there was a little bit of a falling out as I understand, and Warren caught wind that they were going to create a new magazine titled House of Horror. Well they did, but Warren got the rights to the name first so the House of Horror Mag that was created by the European publisher had to pull their copies immediately. There might be some corrections to be made in that statement, but that is how I understand the situation. As for value, it is really up in the air. I've seen copies go as high as $450+ in stated FN/VF, but they dont come up too often. So I've only seen 2. -bounty

2x Haha, Keith you are a riot. BTW Jay, nice work on keeping the POTA thread going! I have been very busy as of late...looking to contribute here more again soon!?!?! -bounty

... you bet buddy

If that Blazing Combat #1 was a VF+ 8.5 or VF/NM 9.0 as the seller stated, that that would'nt be so bad. I've seen VG 5.0 copies of Blazing Combat #1 alone fetch $150. It's a very tough book to get. I havnt even bothered trying to get one for a long time -bounty

Jay...Did you say you think you got a VF? FAMOUS MONSTERS 1975 Convention Book - CGC Graded 8.0 -- $305.00 -bounty

Finely stated like the Connoisseur you are Precode... Hey by the way PM if you have an extra copy of Kelp Romances #1, Devilrayina #2 or Tales of the Mackinaw #2 from that oh so elusive Seawald collection. boun y

I love this hobby Yeah great books, as usual I have my reading set and a pristine group. Might have an extra #1 & #4 if interested? I have to get my books in check (inventoried ) -bounty

Oh man....Ohhhh man. This Leatherface Mini-series is by FAR the best Horror Slasher flick to ever make it into comics. Northstar really pulled off some great stuff in this series. They were looking to make an actual Texas Chainsaw Massacre Series after this one, but it never made it to print... Though, I guess you got to be happy with what you got, and this series was the cats pajamas for Slasher freaks like myself Alright, now the first issue had a really awesome Painted cover of Leatherface in a great pose. The remaining Issues had, drawn covers. Second issue has a pretty sweet scene with Leatherface shredding into a car through its front windshield. The remaining 2 issues had pretty crude covers. Issue #3, probably containing the most gruesome cover of the series. You can see entrails, guts and an eyeball on Leatherface work space. Great how they show the reflection in the cleaver of the lady's gutted boyfriend who is hanging upside down. Wow! Issue #4, not anything to amazing. Just leatherface standing in the Hewett's family pool of death after a fresh kill. Here is some of the freak'n sweet interior art to these books. The first image is from issue #1. They obviously switched interior artists for the remaining 3 books. Here in the first picture you have leatherface raising a sledge hammer and cracking a victim square in the head (brain matter going everywhere). Really brutul stuff in these mags. They were rated Mature! Next Image Leatherface is at it again with that sledgehammer. Never really have seen comics that were quite this graphic. But I'll tell you, if they were going to do it, doing it for the Texas Chainsaw Massacre series was the correct pick! Really great scenes illustrated in this series. I really like how the panels are almost seamless with eachother. Here we have Leatherface reving the mighty chainsaw right into a hanging victim, as shrills are let out, and Leatherface's psychotic sibling gets his kicks off of the event. Here one of the surviving victims gets some redemption with a knife stab right to the gullet. Leatherface, stands by his family members who was filled with bullets by the Lady in the previous page. Final image here one of the last surviving victims sneaks up on Leatherface as he is looking for her in the woods. She cracks him over the head with a good sized rock a few times and knocks him unconscious while his chainsaw goes wild buzzzzzing in the water with out an orchestrator to lead it. Simply great series if your a horror fanatic. It is graphic I will say that. But by far the best Movie to comic instance to ever grace the newstand! -bounty

Double Amen. eBay has really leveled the playing field for collectors. The internet has amplifies things to the nTH power. If you think about it, you can find certain books that it may of otherwise taken you a decade to find. Since the my time using eBay starting 1999, my collection has grown ten fold. Kinda scary! Haha, its now its own entity. -bounty

I might have an extra copy...

Ohhhhhhh boy Beyonder. You about to be offered some major chedda. -bounty Bell, you got a PM

Anyone here answer how they got a signature series Nightmare #20

.....Fair for who? Fair for me buying it would be $45 ...fair for you selling it would be closer too $300 Your copy is signature certafied correct? I think if you find some real Adams fans, then it could go beyond that. I mean think about it, it is Neal Adams FIRST published work...And you have it certified signed? (by the way how the h-ell did you ever get it certified signed?)...Can I say certified signed one more time? NM- 9.2 guide on that right now is what? $80 or so? I think that 4x guide or $320+++ is the tip of the iceberg. It is just about informing buyers though. Your copy I think is highest in census as well! -bounty Pssst, try John Byrne... Agh...Yes I should try John Byrne. I'll tell you working an 11 hour day definitely shows its signs... (Nice Pickup from Classic tonight! I was watching a few of those books! ...Including that DRACULA!)

.....Fair for who? Fair for me buying it would be $45 ...fair for you selling it would be closer too $300 Your copy is signature certafied correct? I think if you find some real Adams fans, then it could go beyond that. I mean think about it, it is Neal Adams FIRST published work...And you have it certified signed? (by the way how the h-ell did you ever get it certified signed?)...Can I say certified signed one more time? NM- 9.2 guide on that right now is what? $80 or so? I think that 4x guide or $320+++ is the tip of the iceberg. It is just about informing buyers though. Your copy I think is highest in census as well! -bounty

That was a sweeeeet book. Rare as hen's teeth. I wouldn't mind owning one myself if I could ever find one. I'm not sure if there is any interior art in that Gothic Romances... if that matters to you. I believe it was just filled with stories. But none-the-less it didnt have a sweet cover. Was in a Neal Adams cover? I dont recall. -bounty

I can tell you that by looking at a HQ scan of a CGC 8.5 book this is what you should expect in that grade. Vampirella #49 CGC VF+ 8.5 - Extreme detail explanation below. Front Cover: Light abrading/wear at UL corner, light almost non color crease to UR corner. 5 very light spine ticks at 1/16" or less on spine Light Crescent type crease to bottom edge that doest break color but creates 2 very small 1/32" tears Back Cover: Slight tear on opposite of spine site (most likely from cutting). Light blunting to UL corner. 1" Lightly breaking color crease/bend to UR corner (spine side). Color scrape on spine most likely from production. Light color rubbing on an all black back cover. Let me know when you sell your raw "8.5's" Of course I was being SUPER detailed above. But that is about what you should expect. All of the defects sound worse than they are, and the book looks to present amazing. -bounty

Wow really? Only 9.4 and up on early 70's. Let me tell you man, you are going to have a frigg'n tough time doing that unless you get some big paychecks. Looking at the census for Dracula lives #1 we have only 2 NM 9.4's. And 21 have been submitted for grading! For Vampire Tales #1 we have 1 9.6 and 1 9.4 and 12 total graded. Keeping this in mind, I can guarantee you that people have only submitted copies of these books if they really felt they were HG copies (I mean who would send in a copy of they thought it was VF with a OPG value of $40 and a slab cost of $20-$25?). What I mean here is that, you have people who thought they had really HG copies, coming back as VF/NM's or less. These are books that they probably thought were shoe in's for NM 9.4's. IMHO, I bet there are the same number of Dracula Lives #1's in NM/MT 9.8 as there are Action Comics #1 in VF/NM 9.0 (only 1 and it is the highest grade). As you can see 21 copies of Dracula Lives have been submitted all by early adopters of High Grade Magazine. And only 2 have been graded as NM 9.4. It is most likely that these people are not sending in junk but the best copies that they have been able to attain of these magazines. This IMHO says ALOT. Rampaging Hulk #1 will be easier to attain in NM 9.4 (still tough, but a great deal easier). There is something about staple tears with that Dracula Lives #1 and production tears with that Vampire Tales #1. Probably 2 of the toughest Marvel Mags to get in HG. I would say being content with Nice VF/NM 9.0 copies of these books will keep you from going . For those are still probably within the top 10% of nicest copies for those books at that slabbed grade. -bounty

Well here is the deal. If you recall my analysis on the Eerie Pub situation (on the prior page, with chart), getting these books in VF/NM 8.5/9.0 is basically the equivalent of getting a Warren book in NM 9.4 from the same time period. I'll tell you something. With that in mind I would say that if you have Eerie Pub's that are VF/NM then those are slabable candidates if your looking for a high percentile grade for that type of book. And that they should go for 6-5 times their VF/NM guide price. I say this because when you look at CGC 9.4 warrens this is about what they do. And For the few Eerie Pubs that I have seen in VF/NM 9.0 slabbed they have gone for 6-10 times guide (example Guide value on a VF/NM at $30 but selling for $220 slabbed as VF/NM 9.0). Guide simply cannot "guide" on the value of most VF and higher Eerie Pub books. Showing thier true price/scarcity. What would 9.4 and 9.6 of some of these books bring? How about a Eerie Pub 1970 9.6? For those are just about impossible to get in that grade. I think your right. Most Warren books in the 8.0/8.5 range I would recommend not slabbing. Unless issues like Creepy 1, 2, 32, 146. Eerie 2, 17. Vampirella 1, 113 (with a few others). For they are definitely a lot more common in this grade. The more and more I look at CGC mags, they are tougher to get in NM 9.4 than I had initially thought. I finally started to purchase some to get a sense of feel in my hand. -bounty

Jay, a lot of people have underestimated the value of these books for a LONG time. Most not realizing the true scarcity of them in VF 8.0 and better. Sulipa has said it all along; these books are scarce in strict VF and higher. And I have quoted him on that more times than I can count. I'll tell you one thing that I'm suprised about, is the fact that I can't get these f*ers for cheap anymore! I was hoping on getting a handful of these, but prices went above most of my snipes. That Ghoul Tales #1 is shaweet. Been looking for one for quite some time. I'll just have to wait for that Nice raw copy to come along sometime within this next decade. I think that was a decent deal on that Vampi #6. It's got a tough black cover, and a 9.2 NM- sure is sweet. Under guide...I say On a side note I went ahead and compiled some research that I had talked about a little bit before. I wanted to find out the average grade for Skywald, Eerie Pub. and Stanley Pub. books submitted thus far. Below you will see a spread sheet grid that breaks out Quantity of Books graded per Specific Grade per Title (not per issue...that would have been a messy undertaking). It is interesting to see that the majority of the Skywald books are graded at the 8.5-9.0 range, majority of the Eerie Pub books in the 8.0-9.0 range, and the Majority of Stanley's in the 9.0 range (though the lower submittal for Stanley I think skews it to the high end). With the average book across all 3 of these lower distribution publishers coming in at VF 8.0-8.5 53 Skywalds, 54 Eerie Publications and 17 Stanley Publications have been graded thus far for a total of 124 books from these publishers. With Stanley only having 17 books graded and an avg. of 8.92, it skews the norm a little bit, for I think that as more Stanley's get graded it will lower this average closer to 8.5 Here is my stance on the situation and one that I find very interesting. When people submit books to CGC, they obviously submit the books that they feel will grade the Highest correct...or the nicest in their inventory? In addition, I feel that the majority of books that are represented in say the first year of a magazine census (yes its been a year), are most likely some of the highest grades that collectors/investors have been able to get their hands on to submit. With all this said, I find it very remarkable that the average grade on these books are in the 8.0-8.5 range. I mean if you look at the table many people got back 6.0-7.5 copies probably thinking that they were 9.0 books There will definitely be more 9.2 and 9.4's to pop up in the future and some 9.6's as well. But I'll tell you what. You take the number of 9.2, 9.4's and 9.6's that show up over the next 2 years, and I bet at least double that number will also only get a 7.0-8.5 . Which will most likely keep these averages on a slightly declining average. I think that as more collectors start to submit thier books they will find that thier issues that have been read carefully 3 times and stored without a bag an board (common for magazines), in basements stacked horizontal in boxes will most likely be VF copies. And to tell the truth, this is how most magazine collectors stored their books. When you compare this to how comic collectors stored thier stuff during the same time period it is a huge difference. Most comic collectors during this time had ready access to bags, boards and boxes built for comic storage. Which is why a lot more bronze is graded in the 9.2+ arena. Much of what is currently graded (for these 3 publishers) I think is from, people who obviously already know about the scarcity of these books, and the best copies that they have in thier inventory. All in all it is still early to tell. In my oppinion I think that the following breakdown is about right: 9.6/9.8 from (Skywald, Eerie Pub. or Stanley) = 9.9 or Gem Mint Warren Book 9.4 from (Skywald, Eerie Pub. or Stanley) = 9.8 Warren Book 9.2 from (Skywald, Eerie Pub. or Stanley) = 9.6 Warren Book 9.0 from (Skywald, Eerie Pub. or Stanley) = 9.4 Warren Book 8.5 from (Skywald, Eerie Pub. or Stanley) = 9.2 Warren Book So far I have not seen these prices realized for these Specific grades because still there are not enough collectors out there that understand the scarcity. But when you do a breakdown on pure copies available in specific grades, you will see that there are far less than that offered by many Warren books during the same era's. This is not at all a knock on Warren, for it is VERY difficult to get a NM+ 9.6 book, even a NM 9.2 is tough. But in pure comparison, it is much, much harder to get a similair grade from any one of the 3 publishers listed above, when compared to similiar Warren books. -bounty

Straight up Trade...Ghoul Tales #1 CGC 8.5 for Rare Dracula Mag. #1? ... Reply to my PM o' busy one! -b unty