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Readcomix

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    Oh sure, I go run a little copper lots sales thread and you guys slack off for 14 hours! Sheesh! Black Hood to Black Hood
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    G.I Joe #131-134, all books VF/NM. Probably could be called NM but I'm being conservative due to upper and lower left corners showing some wear on each one (and a slight ding on the upper left corner of 131). This lot, if purchased solo, probably also goes first class in a flip n ship comics mailer, so let's say (Was $20 shipped) NOW $15 SHIPPED!
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    Waitaminit .... I got another one here....
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    Ok, that's what I have from these collections that I'm not keeping, from this era. Feel free to PM; yes I will combine shipping and therefore lower purchase price if you want multiple lots. PM me and we will figure it out. (For example, two larger lots might bump up to a USPS large flat rate box, which I think is $18 and change. A medium box is $13.60, so that should cut about $8 off two larger lots. Again, PM me and we will figure it out based on actual postage needs versus the per-lot estimates built into each individual lot listing.) Thanks for looking, and thanks Chris for your purchase!
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    Next up is a dozen from the death of Superman era. There's two copies of #75, bagged and unbagged; three Adventures of Superman #500 still bagged, Man of Steel #19 (1st full Doomsday), two copies of the DC Silver Edition of John Byrne's Man of Steel #1, two copies of Superman #82 (bagged, poster intact, one copy has a Wal-Mart sticker on the bag), and two copies of Adventures of Superman #505 (bagged, postcard of Superman #1 intact). Everything looks to be NM range, other than that Wal-Mart sticker, but the book inside is still nice. Looks to need a medium flat rate box; so $55 shipped. SOLD!
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    Ok, let's go with a Batman lot...15 books, mostly from Knightfall storyline. You get: Batman #'s 492-497; 500 regular and 500 foil; Detective #'s 661,662,664,667,668. Rounding out the lot is Showcase '94 #7 with an awesome Penguin cover, and the DC Silver Edition of Batman Sword of Azrael book two. Everything is NM, flat with nice mostly tick-free spines (Bats 492 and Showcase each have one that I can notice easily. Others, if any, are more subtle.) This one will need a medium flat rate box so let's say (Was $40 shipped.) NOW $35 SHIPPED!
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    Ok, this next lot is really the Pitts Three minty copies of The Pitt #1 and a #4. I'm thinking these go in a flip n ship comics mailer at first class, so let's call it... (Was $15 shipped in the U.S.) NOW $12 SHIPPED!
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    Thank YOU!
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    Sealed DC 20-Book Collector's Pack! Of course you can, Chris! Thx buddy!
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    Next up is a 29-book lot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures (Archie Adventure Series). Average grade, I would say, is VF. Some may well be low 9's, and a couple later numbers might be a 7.5, but this stack is clustered around 8.0-8.5, conservatively. Generally, the lower numbers are nicer and a few higher ones have a bit of curve to the spines, resulting in a couple ticks, as it appears they were stored upright with too few books in the box. That said, they appear to have been maybe read once then bagged and filed. (Part of a large collection I bought.) The #1 pictured is representative of the average nicer book in the stack; the #32 is about the low end of the scale. The 29 books are: three copies of #1, #2-12, #16, 17, 19,20,22, two copies of #24,25-28,32,33, "The Secret of the Ooze" Summer 1991, and "Adventures Special" Summer 1992. (Was $65 shipped.) NOW $55 SHIPPED!
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    First up, we have a nifty "20 DC Comics Collector's Pack" still sealed, containing near as I can tell various May 1994 issues, and a 1994 annual. Please note in third photo some damage to the label sticker and to the lower right cover and first few pages of Green Lantern #51. $35 shipped SOLD!
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    All remaining lots on the first two pages now have lower prices! Hi all, I'm about to offer a pair of lots as follows: Payment is money order or check (I DO NOT have Paypal; apologies in advance) in thread wins U.S. Only; as pricing is based on lot being shipped Priority in a USPS Medium flat rate box. Returns: Sure, just notify within three days of receipt, and ship them back in the same condition on your dime, unless I missed something.
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    About to post a couple lots over in Copper/Modern....Turtles (Archie series) and a sealed 20-book DC collector pack from May 1994. Maybe some more, but those two for certain. Just need a few minutes.
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    What a fun thing to speculate about....my first off the cuff guess is the silver age would have happened later, if at all, as the genres that were defanged by the code woud not have lost steam, at least not when they did, and not so suddenly. (Except maybe westerns, but even they had an audience into the early 70's.) I guess I'm wondering whether a superhero revival would have occurred if publishers hadn't found themselves in need of something new. Then again, we see many a Marvel hero prototype in the post-code pre-hero Atlas brooks, so how would those ideas have instead evolved? Early heroes in the SA revival might have looked very different. And then there's the handful of contiguous DC characters that made it through the 50's....would Batman have been a bloody crime comic, Wonder Woman fending off ghastly people-mauling supernatural creatures, etc? So many possibilities.....
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    Dr Mortal to Dr Crime
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    This. The seller sounds to me mildly sociopathic, frankly, wanting to play some control game. I'd simply reply with my own terms, likely, similar to what MustEatBrains laid out, and if he declined I would politely welcome him to keep my number but assure him I won't be doing business that way. (Let's say box 1 of the 30 is the only one you don't want. His way, you both never know. The conventional way, you might well buy 1 unwanted box along with 29 you do want. Maybe that hypothetical would help him understand.) I have heard of one other guy doing this, but he was a long-time collector, known to the dealer who was doing the buying, and the dealer knew it was all going to be Golden Age horror and war in nice shape, so it was fairly known quantity in comparison. I also do not think he was adamant about closing down the relationship if the dealer passed on anything, but then again they both knew he would want pretty much all of it, so that tactic may not have been applicable. But it was very much a "this is what I am ready to sell now" kind of approach.
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    My fave too -- congrats Rick!
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    Deadly double to dancing duo
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    Well, post away, bro! She's core Archie!
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    Make sense. Either would contribute to scarcity today -- targeted distribution only, or rejection by broader distributors. Targeted does make a lot of sense.
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    Thx! I really don't know the answer either, and we have long lived with the apocrypha that this book is extremely rare. While it may be more common than thought, I think rare is certainly still a fair adjective, though the Overstreet technical definition of scarce is also a possibility. I go back to my speculation that if Dell's Lobo #1 (with a 1965 print run of about 200,000) could experience returns of unopened cases from distributors, (Wikipedia quotes Dell writer of book as saying they sold maybe 10,000-15,000 copies, mostly due to distributors rejecting it), then a 1947 book could well have had a similar experience, at least in terms of proportion of books printed and shipped versus rejected by distributors.
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    Thanks to this thread, I went and tracked this down:
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    No, I haven't lost my mind. See the interior page shot.
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    Found this the other day. I'm a sucker for bright and flat, chips or no.