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Killer skeleton husband classic to killer skeleton husband classic

Gut punch to a monster to backstab by a monster

Lobbing a Hail Mary for a friend - he has covers to Top Notch #2, needs a coverless.

Doesn’t look like much of an effort to accomplish anything. Shot in the dark here — any of that same color on the edges anywhere? It IS a classic overspray color that does not at all match the color of the book. I wonder if it sat funny in a pile of newsstand returns and got barely sprayed, in the wrong spot? It’s such a lousy match that that almost seems more likely to me. Not that I’d want to take the risk of paying up for it then paying to sub it, but it’s the first thing that crossed my mind because the color is familiar and it’s such a mismatch.

Well, that’s all of them, representing the entirety of Joe Sinnott’s work for Archie Comics. I’ll leave this open a bit and will start a very random thread over in Mixed soon as I can. Those who want to maximize shipping can do so. If you’re done here and don’t want to wait, just let me know. Thanks everyone, and I hope you’ve enjoyed this historic retrospective and peek at how Joe Sinnott cataloged his personal copies of his published work.

SOLD! Archie Giant Series #205 Christmas Love-in. One Joe sig, inking Al Hartley. Not sure where he bought this one, no Mile High Comics sticker on the bag. Solid VG book, with good gloss. $15

SOLD! Archie Giant Series #192 Christmas Love-in, graded VG by Mile High.more Joe sig, inking Al Hartley. $15

SOLD! Betty and Me #43 Mile High Good. One Joe sig, inking Al Hartley again. $10

SOLD! Betty and Me #41 Mile High gave it a Good, probably due to detached cf as it’s otherwise nicer looking. One Joe sig, inking Al Hartley. Betty out of the shower page. $10

SOLD! Betty and Me #38 Mile High gave it a Fair for some ink in the back and on the cover but the book itself is solid. One Joe sig, inking Al Hartley here. One of the more sought after Archie covers of the Bronze Age. $15

SOLD! Betty and Me #23 Mile High gave it a Good but missed a missing page, so it’s really a Poor. But both Joe sigs are present! He inked Al Hartley in both cases here. $10

Last half dozen signed books coming in the a.m.

Archie and Me #46 another nice-looking VG. GCD doesn’t know who did the “Crash Program” story, but we do because it’s on the back of the Sinnotts’ backing board - Joe and Al Hartley. His trademark paper slip is in place, but he never signed it. $5

SOLD! Archie Giant Series Magazine #196 — Sabrina’s Christmas Magic. GCD shows why Joe didn’t sign this one — he inked 13 stories here! All were either Al Hartley or Stan Goldberg. Nice looking copy, on the higher side of VG range. $15

Pep #237 in VGFN to FN-. GCD no help on what story(s) Joe inked in this issue. $5

There were 5 unsigned books among the 45. I am keeping the unsigned Pals n Gals #’s 71 & 72, and I’ll offer the other three unsigned ones now. I’ll try to finish up in the a.m. with the rest of the signed books. We have Betty and Me and a couple Christmas Love-ins for the morning.

SOLD! Sabrina the Teenage Witch #10 Mile High Good. Water damage texture. One Joe sig, he inked Stan Goldberg in this one. $5

SOLD! Sabrina the Teenage Witch #5 in Mile High VG. Two sigs as Joe inked a pair of Al Hartley stories in this one. $15

Sabrina the Teenage Witch #2 Mile High-graded Good. One sig, ten pages of Joe inking Bob Bolling. $15

Next up, Sabrina…

SOLD! Archie’s TV Laugh-Out #23 one Joe sig here, inking over Stan Goldberg in this one. Mile High gave it a Good, but this time they were too generous — general wear, cf detached, cover detached at top staple. $5

Thanks Matt; when I was offered the chance to get them all, my first thought was I have to share these, and this place is the home of so many heartfelt, dedicated collectors. I saw the chance to do that and have an old school sales thread that gets some good conversation going within it and captures some more comics history within this great repository of comics knowledge that these boards are.

Well, I didn't stay a part of it in that way (as a comic con promoter), in that I only did a handful of cons as a kid because I wanted them in my smalltown area. I stopped when I went on to college and others filled the gap locally as the hobby grew everywhere. But I certainly watched and participated as a collector, as so many of us did.

Thank you for pointing this out. And I want to clarify for anyone seeing these, if it seems like suddenly I have a lot of Joe signed books, it is because his family has begun moving his collection, including his personal file copies, which he usually signed on the margin of the first page of each story he did in a given book. They are handling his OA themselves, but through an intermediary I have been given the chance to obtain some of his 50’s Atlas file copies (I did share a couple on here in sales threads but have kept most of the handful I have gotten) and his total Archie output file copies (45 books from 1969-1974). I HOPE to be able to attain a slightly larger but still smallish set of Joe file copies of total output for another publisher; if I am able, I will also share those here less some keepers, but I will record the entire output in a thread as a record of Joe’s file copies. I’ve posted this before, but I knew Joe since I was a high school kid in the 80’s. I had organized some local comic cons and Joe and other local artists (Herb Trimpe, Dan Green, the Pinis, Greg LaRocque) were our most regular local guests. In the 90’s, I had the chance to interview Joe a couple times, including for a profile for Comic Book Marketplace. We stayed in touch off and on over the years. I just wanted everyone to understand how this thread and other offerings came about, and I’m honored to be trusted to be part of their dissemination to fellow collectors.

Pals n Gals #69 goes to Bluemedgroup! Thank you and welcome to the thread!