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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.

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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.

Odd that they would scan it at 4K but not release a 4K version!😩

Blu-ray is not the same or as good as 4K Ultra HD.

Will they be released in 4K?

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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 check or money order only Shipping: I'M ONLY SHIPPING TO THE US AT THIS TIME. Shipping is $20 by priority mail including signature confirmation Returns: All sales on CGC graded books are final. Fantastic Four #20 CGC 5.5-Off White-White pages from November 1963. Features the origin and 1st appearance of the Molecule Man. Also nice appearing for the grade. My price-GPA has it at $650-My price is $450-$200 below GPA!-SOLD! Amazing Spider-Man #111 CGC 4.0 GPA has the last sale in 2018 for $25. Five years later my price is $35!-SOLD! Amazing Spider-Man #120 CGC 5.0 GPA has a 4.0 that sold in Feb 2023 for $63. My price for my 5.0 is $50!-SOLD! Crime Suspenstories #11 CGC 4.5. GPA has a 4.0 that sold for $435 in April 2022. There is a 4.5 right now on EBay for $595. NEW PRICE-$400🥳and mine is better than the one on EBay because there is no writing on the cover. Panic #8 CGC 6.5 An undervalued and under appreciated title compared to MAD. GPA of no help. My price is $125-SOLD! Panic #12 CGC 3.5 GPA of no help. Hard to find last issue. My price is $35.-SOLD!

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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 check or money order only Shipping: I'M ONLY SHIPPING TO THE US AT THIS TIME. Shipping is $20 by priority mail including signature confirmation Returns: All sales on CGC graded books are final. Fantastic Four #15 CGC 5.0-Off White-White pages from June 1963. Features the 1st appearance of the Mad Thinker and Awesome Android . Presents really nice for the grade. My price-$350-SOLD! Fantastic Four #20 CGC 5.5-Off White-White pages from November 1963. Features the origin and 1st appearance of the Molecule Man. Also nice appearing for the grade. My price-$650. NOW $550 until Friday evening!