Ghastly542454

On 7/31/2023 at 9:56 AM, Mmehdy said:

The holly grail of EC comic book collecting the very rare "Tales of Terror Ann #1 "is up for bid today on CC. As most of you are aware this is a fresh copy to the collectors market. It is stunning...to say the least. There are 31 copies on the census and only 5 are rated higher and I know of one ungraded copy which I have held in my hands many times. BUT the deep color on this copy is fantastic. I have seen over the years 3 graded as well and nothing touches this copy by a mile.  It is graded 5.0 unrestored but for color depth I give it a 9.0.  This is probably the last original  owner collection copy to come out. check out out the short video...this is a once in a lifetime book!!!!! I saw it in person at SDCC in the CC glass showcase, it is the real deal!!!!!!

PS: When I saw the book, I placed a value of 50K Min...I think it will go for less at this auction, but whoever gets it...just wow

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.

On 7/27/2023 at 12:04 PM, gooshball said:

Captain Marvel Adventures 67 GGA Cover CGC 7.0 - $225

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

On 7/10/2023 at 5:00 PM, Robot Man said:

I agree. I might be a little biased. It was my first EC sci fi book.

Around 1969, I traded a set of Beatles bobble head figures to Terry Stroud at the Hollywood Women’s club for a very nice copy of this. A trade that was a bit in his favor at the time. He had 3 copies and I insisted on the nicest of the 3.

As luck would have it. I came out WAY ahead in the long run…

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!

On 7/10/2023 at 7:30 AM, Robot Man said:

Yeah, I’m sure I would have.

Being a local LA early collector, you might know the guy I got it from. Richard Kyle owner of Wonderworld Comics. He was Larry’s brother. Larry was the EC guy. Richard was more of a superhero guy. He was also heavily into sci fi. Cool guy and a good friend. 

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

On 6/27/2023 at 5:23 PM, Robot Man said:

Here is a similar EC story.

Probably around 35 years ago, I used to frequent a local book store. It was owned by a guy around 15-20 years older than me. He only sold new comics, mags, sc-fi books ect. I got all my current books there. Some times when it was slow we would talk and he told me about the "old days" of buying/reading comics. Although I knew about and had some GA books, he educated me about some of the lessor known superheroes and other books.

He found out I was an EC lover and collector. He and his brother bought them off the racks. I of course asked if he had any of those old books but he told me they went up in a house fire in Oakland, CA a long time ago.

One day around Christmas he handed me an envelope and said Merry Christmas. Somehow this survived. It had belonged to his brother. My eyes bugged out of their sockets. He said, If I promised never to sell it, it was mine. I have kept my word. Who in their right mind would ever sell something as cool as this for mere money? 

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!

On 6/25/2023 at 10:35 PM, Changer said:

Four Color 275 

$215

 

per PM!

On 6/28/2023 at 1:55 PM, nochips said:

Superman # 180 CGC 8.5 $ 100.00

On 6/20/2023 at 9:53 AM, toro said:

Always happy to have repeat customers, thank you!

Ernie are you around?

On 6/27/2023 at 10:28 AM, Northwest said:

Take please

Wish I had seen this!😟

On 6/17/2023 at 9:18 PM, toro said:

Amazing Spider-Man #126 White CGC 9.4 Semi-Key Harry Osborn Becomes the Green Goblin

Asking $150

per PM! Thanks 🙏🏻 Ernie

On 3/12/2023 at 5:20 PM, jfletch999 said:

Fantastic Four #84-87 CGC 9.0 with Off-White to White pages and custom Dr. Doom labels!  The complete classic story arc by Lee & Kirby where the FF become trapped in Latveria!  All 4 issues have matching grades and lurking Dr. Doom labels -- which have been retired by CGC, they're not issuing any more of them.  Claim the set for $925 shipped! 

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

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

On 5/17/2023 at 5:26 PM, Robot Man said:

We were pretty lucky in SO CA. We had Collector's, Cherokee and Bond Street in Hollywood. Later the American Comic Book Co and Fantasy Castle in the Valley. Then Geoffrey's and Nick Scotto in the South Bay. This was pretty much before comic book shops as we know them now. I never went to Fantasy Castle much. Pretty sure @Tri-ColorBrian hit it. And @Ghastly542454 can speak better of Geoffrey's and Nick Scotto. 

Yeah, a hundred bucks was living LARGE. I rarely spent any more on a book than $20. but I wasn't buying GA Timely's and DC's much. PCH, GGA and the stuff that is so popular now could be found for $5. or in some cases as little as $1. By 17, I was on my own and my $2. an hour job was just enough to pay my rent living in a house full of hippies...

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!