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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!

I don’t remember if the Roadium Swap Meet was open 7 days a week since when I started going to it in 1966 I was 12 years old and was in 7th grade. I do know that it was open on Tuesdays as well as weekends since if a holiday fell on a Tuesday, I would sometimes go. Saturday always seemed to be the day to find great stuff and I know I went almost every week until around 1970. Most vintage comics could be had for a nickel since new comics were selling for .12. At one point my entire bedroom closet was filled to the top with comic books. Besides comic books, I bought a lot of old toys, Playboys (had to hide them under the mattress from my mom 😂) , old radios, and deer antlers ( I have no idea now why I was interested in those!). 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. Nick could be quite a nasty person if he chose to be. I can’t say I was regular at Cherokee Books, Bond Street, Collectors Books Store but starting during Christmas vacation 1967 until 1970, my Dad would drive me and a couple of friends up there in the morning and pick us up later in the afternoon. I loved all of those places although Burt at Cherokee didn’t care for us teenagers and the guy at Collectors would quote me a price on a book if I wanted it and then only go upstairs and get it if I proved to him I actually had the money to buy it💰! One of my favorite memories of Collectors was going there maybe 🤔 in 1969 and there was a table filled with actual scripts from nearby 20th Century Fox Studios from Batman, Green Hornet, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, Lost In Space, and other shows for $5 each. Unfortunately, I only bought 2 Batman scripts! 🥲

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. About 6 months after I met her in 1967, she offered me the oldest comic book I had ever seen-a Superman #9 (it was only 26 years old at the time) for the princely sum of $15!! I bought it and was amazed at the rich colors on the pages. However, as much as I loved 🥰 the Superman #9, what really fascinated me was the ad inside the book for the Daisy Superman Krypto Raygun!! It took me over 40 years to find a nice complete one!

Some of mine!

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Sorry 😢 I didn’t see that Two Fisted Tales #20 had already been claimed.

Complete CGC graded run of Tales From The Crypt. Per the CGC Registry, a complete run of Tales From The Crypt consists of Crime Patrol #15 and #16, the first and second appearance of the Crypt Keeper, Crypt Of Terror #17-#19, and Tales From The Crypt #20-#46 for a total of 32 issues.

Two new upgrades!

Ever since CGC started using Fed Ex for returning books, I’ve encountered some issues. First CGC does not allow me to redirect my shipments to a Fed Ex location in case I can’t be home when the books are scheduled to be delivered which I don’t like. Secondly this is sometimes a good thing and sometimes a bad thing, but my shipments from CGC from Florida to California seem to arrive faster than initially expected. And they can even arrive on a Sunday. Now the strangest thing is CGC shipments are supposed to require a signature. It’s been my experience that more often than not, the drivers not only don’t require a signature but they just drop off the books and don’t even ring my doorbell!! I only know they’ve dropped off the shipment because I have the RING system on my house.