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Complete Crime Suspenstories This the only complete Crime Suspenstories on the CGC Registry.

Complete Tales From The Crypt

Complete Haunt Of Fear

Complete Vault Of Horror!

Let me know @Mmehdyif the Bobby Blue Tales Of Terror Annual #1 sells for $50K. I’ll be very interested then in reevaluating mine!

Completed my Frontline Combat!

While the coloring on the CC Tales Of Annual #1 is beautiful, I saw it raw on Instagram before it was sent in and a big piece of the upper spine is missing. Considering how harshly CGC grades books with split spines, I’m wondering how it received a 5.0. I’ve had otherwise great looking books with spine splits generally get 3.5’s or 4.0’s.

General Rules: No probation list members or hall of shame members. I reserve the right to not sell to anyone. First post in the thread that says they want a book wins it. I don't go by timestamps, I go by post order. Please either quote the book or post clearly with what you are taking. A "take it" in the thread trumps any and all PM negotiations until the post has been updated as sold in the thread. Payment: Payment by PayPal except for the Captain America #39. Check or money order only on that one Shipping: I'M ONLY SHIPPING TO THE US AT THIS TIME. Shipping is $20 by priority mailincluding signature confirmation Returns: All sales on CGC graded books are final. Captain America #39 CGC 6.0 from June 1944 with an awesome Alex Schomburg WWII cover with the Japanese getting their butts kicked! I’m only considering selling this because I feel that more Captain America Timely’s are now out of reach for me. Really nice 😊 book! Price-$5,000 Vault Of Horror #16 CGC 4.5 from December 1950. Beautiful book that looks like a 6.0 or 7.0 from the front. But the back cover has silver fish damage on the top. Price-$450 All the early MAD Magazines that are listed are in the new 1 inch thick magazine holders. Two copies of the first Alfred E. Neuman cover. Check the GPA. These are great prices! MAD #27 CGC 7.0 Price-$300 MAD #29 CGC 6.0 Price-$125 MAD #30 CGC 6.0 Price-$275 MAD #30 CGC 7.0 Price-$350

I might have been at that same show in 1969 at the Hollywood Women’s Club. I remember my dad drove me there and waited in the car while I went foraging. It was the first time I met Terry Stroud in person and I purchased my first EC from him-Mad #8 for $4. I still have it too!

I don’t think I ever met Richard personally but did his store mostly sell comic related hard back books?

As amazing 🤩 as that story is and it is quite amazing, what is incredible is the original owner Larry Kyle never wrote his name on the membership card or certificate! Highly unusual!

per PM!

Amazing Spider-man 105 9.2 $140 Amazing Spider-man 116 9.2 $140 Take at 20% off!

Ernie are you around?

Wish I had seen this!😟

per PM! Thanks 🙏🏻 Ernie

Finished my Lee-Kirby Fantastic Four #1-#102 Annuals #1-#7 Registry Set.

I would be interested in the Fantastic Four #84 if you decide to break them up. Thanks

Golden Age Action Comics group shot.

I’ve been waiting 14 months for this magazine submission and 8 months for these magazine reholders!

I had only been collecting comics for a couple of months in 1966. One Saturday I went the Roadium Swap Meet in Gardena a town next to the town I lived in. It was there that I met Nancy Scotto, mother of the legendary So Cal dealer Nick Scotto. She first introduced me to the concept that sometimes in order to get older comic books that I wanted, I had to pay more than a nickel or dime than the comic books I was buying at the swap meet. I remember buying 6-7 comics from her that day for .50-.75 each. She gave me her phone number and address and within a few weeks, I was spending most of the $35 a month I earned delivering the Herald Examiner newspaper with her. Nancy Scotto lived in a duplex on 237th St in Torrance between Crenshaw and Arlington. The entire back house was filled with Nick’s comic books. Nick was serving in Vietnam when I first started dealing with her. She eventually opened up a store on 237th and Arlington. When Nick came back in 1970, he took over the store and eventually opened 2 other stores one on Crenshaw near Marine (Compton Blvd at the time) and later another store close to where I lived at the Old Towne Mall on Hawthorne Blvd called Ye Olde Comic Vendor. After he closed the store at the Old Towne Mall, he opened another store in Torrance on the corner of Crenshaw Blvd and Artesia Blvd. Nick could be quite a nasty person if he chose to be and most of time, he ran nasty 🤢! Nick was married to a very attractive woman named Sandy. In 1972, one of his employees Mike, showed up at my door (how he found my address I’ll never know) and told me he had been fired by Nick for making a pass at Sandy! He needed money 💰 and offered to sell me Mad #1-#23 and Panic #1-#12 for $200 which I quickly purchased from him. I lost track of Nick from the 80’s on but I do know back when you could see the buyer of stuff on eBay I would sometimes see his name. He operated some type of comic book distribution warehouse in Carson for a long time. I heard he had died a year or two ago.

There was another comic book store in the South Bay for about 5 or 6 years though not very well known. Bob’s Comics owned Bob Dreyer. Bob worked for Pan Am Airlines as a jet plane mechanic. He was so upset over the way Nick Scotto had treated him that he opened his own comic book store in 1974. Bob’s Comics was located on Hawthorne Blvd just a couple of blocks south of Rosecrans Blvd in Lawndale. I worked there on the weekends for a couple of years while going to college at CSULB. Saturdays were a real busy day there and Rick Durell/Durand? was one of his customers. Bob eventually relocated the store a few blocks down on the opposite side of street on Hawthorne Blvd and in the late 70’s early 80’s opened up a second location in either Garden Grove or Huntington Beach. I lost contact with him in the 80’s but later heard he had died of diabetes complications.

Not directly character related, but this Ideal Fix-It Futuramic Ship from 1954 looks like something off the cover of an EC Sci-Fi book and is one of the coolest toys ever made!