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Thrilling 7 to Thrilling 14 (in a fraction of the grade!)

Redhead on platform to redhead on horseback

Always loved this one-shot

Trim figures, but knowing how 95% of our Archie fan base are pervs... anything is possible !

I was thinking the highlighted word "trimmed," and the corresponding level of detail given to certain of B&V's anatomy....kind of out there even for an Archie cover.

I posted this in another thread but I think these are two undiscovered innuendo covers.

 

 

Agreed.

Just photographed mine, but I've had it since it was a run book:

Finally photographed mine

Late Cap to last Cap

Just Married to feeling harried

How about a Pearl Harbor cover?

Can I come in? (That 94 on the left was bought off the racks...)

Ok, here's the splash from Police 109. Bondage and whiplashing:

Am I the only one who reads sexual innuendo on this cover? I think It's up there with the pearl necklace cover and Betty and Me 16.

 

Trying again

Rope-cutting woman to rope-dangling Robin

This one's kind of under the radar

 

Really cool funny book! I've never seen it before,thanks for sharing.

Thanks! I don't have too many Street and Smith books, but there's a cluster of gems out there it seems.

Always surprising how little Amazing Adventures #1 goes for these days.

 

It's a book that features the 1st Inhumans series by Kirby and the 1st Black Widow series. Early Bronze Age Marvel. The Black Widow had always been somewhat of a Villain/Hero type with this series being her 1st full fledged hero stint. All other Inhumans appearances have shot up in value, Black Widow is big time in the Marvel cinematic universe, yet you can still pick up VF/NMish raw copies of this book for 25-50 dollars if you wait around on ebay.

 

 

I agree. I am convinced it is the split image cover that keeps this book and AT #1 at shockingly low prices. We are in the age of the cover image, and the split covers are big time fail.

 

I was NEVER a fan of the split cover; the only thing worse was the onset of the barcode . . .

 

One of my favorite cover tricks though, was when the cover figure grabbed or broke the logo - what was it X-Men 56 that first did that? (the Adams cover) Later, it led to be a staple of the BA.

Isn't there a Batman or Tec cover with Blockbuster shattering the logo with a punch? Mid-silver either way. Great idea for a cross-era thread Post your broken logo covers!

Shouldn't AF15 be worth more?

 

lolll yes maybe in a year from now it will!!

 

Maybe the spiderman / star wars crossover treasury with the aunt may slapping darth vader panel!

and throw in holding a pile of logs and a cameo or 2

Preferably by Woodgod....

Well, ya never see them in the same place...

This one's kind of under the radar

Love to see what you guys think about this book...for the life of me, I'm surprised it doesn't get more love. Bondage? Check. Headlights? Check. Korean War-era racist stereotype for a villain? Check. And there's a whipping on the splash page too. I can go back and photograph that later.

 

Oh, and Crandall, Check

That's right, mea culpa, failed to mention in my rush to post before preparing dinner. Had this book on my mind for this thread for a few days and finally had a chance to dig it out this a.m.

Mrmyst, we may all be looking for a nice one for a while ... Last I checked, which was a while ago, there were four on the census, with the highest being a 6.

There are some cool post-Plastic Man Police covers, but I've pored over Gerber and I think this is head and shoulders above the rest. I'll do the splash page after I settle the house down.

...to silver age nova scotia! [don't y'all fuss at me; we get pulps, paperbacks and o.a. in this glorious thread]

 

Hey, if posting that "Snarky Parker" didn't kill this thread, a little SA sure ain't.

I got the idea to post OA from DavidMerryweather...don't blame me! Buuut....last time I did, it flushed All Star 3, All-Winners 19, and ShockSuspenstories 6....so I'm taking some credit

As to Snarky Parker, that post has me considering pulling the trigger on a Howdy Doody #1....is there a Therapy thread???

Carry on...

Love to see what you guys think about this book...for the life of me, I'm surprised it doesn't get more love. Bondage? Check. Headlights? Check. Korean War-era racist stereotype for a villain? Check. And there's a whipping on the splash page too. I can go back and photograph that later.

I'm puzzled too (sorry Greg). How do you get 100% of the price it would hammer for by working with a dealer? Dealers have to get their cut too... ?

 

They charge a buyer's premium.

 

The buyer pays their fee, not the seller.

 

Buyer's premium

 

Screwing buyers every day...because they can

+1

Smokescreen. If I'm the buyer, I look at how much I'm putting into the book. Total spend is total spend. Yes the agent should make a cut of course but let's not pretend there's any substance to the name we give it. To be clear, I DO NOT think anyone is being disingenuous, I just find buyer's premium/seller's premium to be an irrelevant distinction.

So far, the advice I've gotten has been really sound. At this point, I'm contacting the presser in Sarasota and will take about 20-25 books there for his opinion on what is worth pressing. Then, it's over to CGC to have some of the higher dollar ones graded. I'm joining GPAnalysis for a few months and have pretty much decided that the AF15 should go to auction. Deciding on the auction house is now the issue. I don't need the money desperately at all so I have the luxury of time. If the book indeed pulls a 7.5 and I think it certainly could, it takes things to a new level. I do not believe it can pull an 8 over the simple issue of off white pages. Everything else would be good. Somehow restoring it doesn't appeal to me. It's so beautiful now.

 

The other books help pull the over all value up, particularly the spidey 129's of which there are two . The iron man 55 is excellent. Luke Cage #1, blah blah blah. The ones I hold more dear are the 84-90 journey into mystery and I will have them slabbed. The FF4 group may get slabbed but it remains to see what that costs on books of more marginal value.

 

Someone asked about the prices. I really get taken literally too much. When I said that it was a 15 cent biz, I was waxing eloquent. Much of what I bought on the newsstand was .15 cents. I got some at .20. Way back, I got some at .12. When I was a little boy, it was a dime.

One person wanted my xmen and I simply quoted Overstreet as a starter and that seemed to really put him off a bit. . If I sold off a title, I would sell the whole title that I owns. As many have said, "Don't get cherry picked"

 

Thank you all who have been so generous with your time and knowledge. The Internet is really quite an amazing thing. High tech info at your fingertips with an ample dash of bandits.

 

.One of my favorite ads from an early book on the back cover is "Amaze your Friends! Become popular and the life of the Party! LEARN TO PLAY THE PIANO!

 

nuff said.

IF the Journey Into Mystery #89 is in high grade, it may surprise you at auction as that one is tough in higher grades.

Fast Willie Jackson.

Not cheap, but cheap for what they are. All fairly tough, especially the last one. The 1970's African-American answer to Archie comics. Same guy who did those Golden Legacy comics, I think. Apochrypha has it that they had an Archie artist doing it on the side and there was pressure applied to shut it down, or somesuch.