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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!

Just completed my EC Fan-Addict Club! It’s all here including the Announcement 📣!

Junior Justice Society Membership Kit from 1945.

Ideal Caption Action Superboy, Superman, Batman, and Robin from 1966-67.

Palmer Movie 🎥 Monsters 👹 from 1964 one of only three known to still exist in the original packaging.

Ideal Shirley Temple dolls from the 1930’s, Ideal Bewitched doll from 1965, and Gilbert Honey West doll from 1965.

Hubley Atomic Disintegrator Gun, 1930’s Daisy Buck Rogers Ray Guns, Ideal Space Fighter Transport from 1954.

Marx MIB Captain Gallant Playset from 1955.

Rempel Smil’in Ed’s Froggy The Gremlin early 50’s.

Marx Roy Rogers Nellybelle early 50’s.

Marx Space Patrol Playset from 1952

Marx Howdy Doody figures matched set from 1952

I have 2 magazine submissions that have been at CGC for way too long! The first one, 4045417, has been there since 4/14/22, that's over a year. Sadly, around February of this year, they were almost close to being finished as they were in the Grading/Encapsulation/Imaging stage and then CGC had problems with the machines or the new magazine slabs. These problems have been resolved yet my submission has just festered somewhere without being complete. Please don't tell me to contact customer service. I can't even begin to tell you how many times I have talked to someone from customer service and them telling me that they will send a message to someone to see if they can do something but to date, nothing has been resolved. I have a second submission 4143977 that is a magazine reholder for 4 books that has been there for 7 months since 10/19/22. This hasn't even been touched! Again no one from customer service has been able to get this this completed. Now recently I've heard two things. The first one I heard was on Friday, 4/28/23, that supposably all of the magazine backlogs will be completed by this Friday 5/5/23. So far I have not seen any movement on my submissions so at this point, I don't believe it. The second thing I heard and I do believe it, is that there are 2 teams working on magazine submissions. The first team is working on new magazine submissions only and they are being handled very quickly. In fact the person who told me this said he sent in a magazine submission and he had it back in 20 days. Then there is a second team that is working strictly on the magazine backlog submissions and as you can see from how long my two submissions have been there, they are not moving quickly and no one seems to be able to get them move any faster. The fact that new submissions are being finished before submissions that have been there for months or over a year is unfair and should not be allowed. When can I expect my magazine submissions back?

per PM. Thanks 🙏🏻 Sha!