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seawald is the collective term for those two companies anyway, magazines with great covers make perfect sense the way things are collected now

J&S had a ton of allegedly high grade 60s and 70s magazines up... that was magazine central a week or so ago. i got outbid on nearly everything at the last minute, although some stuff was too rich for my blood by the time i saw it. i nailed one of these non-warren/marvel magazines in alleged high grade. we'll see what it looks like in person. anyway, i think those seawald books in high grade (and even nice grade) show up infrequently enough that you can, in fact, put aside your guide when they do. granted, not in a slab, but $50-$100 for a sharp copy of these doesn't seem such huge money when that's the cost of many a mid-grade marvel comic from the 60s that are far far more common.

gosh, i can't believe this thread has actually got me interested in DTM books

Whilst expensive in slabbed high grade, these books are still affordable as reader copies. I just sold 199 and 223 for $20 and $26 yes, they were low grade copies, but the covers were mainly intact pretty big spread between "fair" (or maybe better than fair... i figured somewhere between fair and good but these readers can be tricky) and 9.2! $20ish vs. $1500! but hey, i made a profit on them, so i'm cool. i'm almost certain i paid under $10 each for them and may have been under $5. anyway, they were beat up enough that i wasn't particularly partial to them. i'm probably going to keep my FC 108 ("terror on the river") which is probably somewhere between a fine and a VF.

archie published comics throughout that whole period too, not just digests. thanks... so no point in looking for "rare last issues" of RR or any other such fun nonsense i suppose.

you guys are sick! (it's not sick to have over 10,000 comics sitting in a storage room because there's no space in your house, that's normal... :-) It's not about DTM, but i'll ask it here given that there has been some discussion abount rarity of certain 1980s cartoon books --- I see that almost all the Richie Rich titles stopped publication in 1982 and then RR started getting printed again a few years later. Did Harvey go temporarily bankrupt or something? Seemed like a weird time because there was a RR TV cartoon at the time and the books seemed plentifull from the early 80s. So why did they stop? Unlike Gold Keys or Charltons, OPG doesn't seem to indicate any scarcity for these last books and it sure seems like there are plenty of 60 cent cover price Harveys out there. Was it cancelled for reasons other than circulation?

looking at the FC 348 and the newer comic, they sure do look like the same lines exactly. the colors are different.

Here's the FC 348 that inspired Rosa's (although it must have been posted here already): http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3972&item=6518863376

I have a stunning copy of that VP 1 too.... stunning other than the 1 1/2" spine split on the front cover. Very distressing. Then again, it would have cost me 300% as much without it.

a yes, the good 'ole days when marvel would introduce 2-3 new characters a comic hoping that some of them would stick

ok, i went back looked at pictures and have answer my own question... my dennis bonus magazine series # 114 contains reprints from 1962 and later question is whether i should go back and get some more in case i ever want to let any of my kid read 'em ... a nice thick child appropriate comic from the 70s for 50 cents is worth the price of admission this part i don't understand about many comic shops... they'll have the expensive new donald duck books on the rack ($6.95) and archies at cover price, etc., but they'll toss nice looking gold key/whitman donald duck, deniis the menace, archies, etc. and other child appropriate books in the 50 cents/$1 bin where nobody will look at them -- they could just bag 'n board these oldies, put them on the rack for $2.00 - $3.00 and I bet they sell great to a parent looking for some comics for their kids anyway, just a thought. comics aren't just about super stregth, spidey sense and retractable blades

"Dennis the Menace in Hawaii (Giant # 6) – Possibly the best-selling comic of all time and the 1st of the classic “on-location” vacation specials" So was the Hawaii issue in 1973 (#114) a reprint of this? Mid-70s giant size Dennises not worth the bother even if really cheap? I'll be honest, it's not a title the has much appeal to me other than being an important piece of americana. I didn't even read it as a kid, although i did read Richie Rich.

is CGC getting meaner on the GA slabs? that 5.0 looks a lot better than many GA 5.0s I've seen. like a 6 or 6.5.

The CBG has a bigger circulation than middle of the road Marvel comics? I'm suspicious of that 40K circulation figure. OTOH, 3K of those may be comic shops who buy a copy for themselves. One of my LCSes, which is pretty busy on new comic day given that it's right near Wall Street (but which only does a small back issue business) seems to order 4 or 5 of them a month. Why would this give you more exposure than selling on ebay (through a store or whatever?). Personally, I'd be really hesitant sending a M.O. or giving my CC info to some guy running an ad.

I guess Barks art disappearing should not be surprising, but I've been told that his stuff went for big bucks (relatively speaking) even in the late 60s when comic collecting was just starting.

mr. donut - which image server do you use? i guess i should be fishing through quarter bins to try and hunt down one of those 30 cent variant weird wonder tales!

the difference between comics and original art is.... the comic that came from, x-factor 70, is pretty much unsellable on ebay at any price, in part due to shipping costs whereas pretty much any decent marvel page, even from the 90s, is going to get at least $10 + the cost of shipping and probably more than $10 if it has a popular character in it (e.g., wolverine) doing anything interesting and if it's done by a popular artist i can't tell from overstreet who did the art on #70 it's going to depend on the artist and what's going on in the page people sitting around talking -- low bucks a page featuring wolverine slicing up a bunch of baddies gets better bucks

so, between the two you paid what, $1.50, $1.75 a book? Not bad if you plugged in some holes you were looking to plug with high grades. the 12 and 15 centers were crusty i presume, but how were the 20 and 25 centers? Some of the charlton stuff is just terrible, but some not so bad. Don't know about your run, but there were some cool covers on some of Charlton's 70s horror/monster comics.

sounds innovative. no wonder it only lasted 2 issues. wish i could fish more (albeit ragedy) 1946 books out of dollar bins.

the mad hatter! somewhere around here i have a beat up copy of #2 that i fished out of a dollar bin.

so DC did the opposite of marvel? they took their most horrid books and test marketed whether they would sell at 35 cents rather than the regular 60 cents?

aw jeez, so there are none starburst 30 cent variants how many books have i already flipped through looking for only the starbursts...

that subbie 17 is the only timely i have, at least of the big names like cap, torch, etc. maybe i have others that i don't know are timelys, but not in slabs. looking at some of those great covers here it's a bit tame in comparison. there's a reason why even in terrible condition these are expensive (in guide and market) you can get some beat to heck DCs from the WWII era for not so much money sometimes, as well as fawcetts, not so with timelys.

live in a manhattan apartment. that's all you need to keep some semblance of control over your collecting habits. the $120/mo I spend on a climate controlled storage room makes me cry. that's a bunch of nice comics every month lost.

the GKs can have great covers. the interiors, not so good usually.