The Less Blob

I bought them all from him for $1 each. Sold many of them too early. I'm not thinking as much about the #1s (afterall, he didn't put them in the 10 - 50 cent boxes (yes, he had a 10 cent box, but only later valiants in there)), but some of the other pre-unity books only a few people cared about. Seen them in 25 - 50 cent boxes getting smashed.

Yes, he wasn't physically able past the early 80s.

I love the chunky art on these 4th world books. It isn't quite as good in the Eternals and it just doesn't play as well when he went back to Marvel to do super hero stuff in the later 70s. He tried it again later with Captain Victory and it is, again, just not quite as good as what he was doing 10-12 years earlier. I had a pretty nifty Captain Victory page, but I needed the $1200, so it is gone :-(

How many had coupons that got ripped out?

Yes, very fond of Aparo. Upsetting story.... So I was at my old LCS b.s.ing with the owner, probably around 1997/98, and another regular comes in, picks up a bunch of stuff and asks how much a stack of early 70s OA that had been sitting under a pile of junk was...he pulls it out and says $20 a page. At this point I was like "WTF, I'd buy those for that price" (in my head) and the guy takes them...a bunch of 70s Aparo Batman pages (not sure which title)..uhg. I was like "why didn't you ever offer those to me??" and he was "oh, they're just jim aparo pages, nobody wants his stuff" I can't be too mad because the guy who bought them was the manager at the Beacon Theatre in manhattan, so I did wind up seeing a bunch of concerts for free through him who basically let the comic shop owner go to any show (except the almon brothers..) and take people in.

Are you saying you spent less than $100 on all that stuff pictured, including all the MIBs, Bizarre Sex, Omaha 1s, Tick 1s, and Nexus 1s?

Does this have to be a CGC certified witness? I am a lawyer and work down there.

Right, like forever, maybe it is at a new stage of hotness, but it has been spensive for like 10 years.

I saw the bottom one front and center on the racks at Midtown comics

His prints are all over the interweb. It looks lone he does multiple sizes. While the bigger ones "retail" for four digits, i see slightly smaller ones for $150.

I have heard that picasso would scribble out a doodle to pay for a dinner party. There are a lot of "picassos" out there that were given little thought it seems.

Yes, but honestly, would it be surprising if a lot of those late valiants got tossed or otherwise trashed as valiant was just the worst in the eyes of many collectors and dealers? I remember my LCS putting copies of Magnus 1, X-O 1, and Solar 1 out on the rack in the late 90s at cover price and nobody bought them. Of course, I guess a lot of the current valiant books are getting trashed too as I pass plenty in the cheap boxes.

A lot of them have cool covers. Yes, I suppose other than the last 1 or 2 issues maybe the broader collecting community isn't going to care so much and the hard core valiant people have them already.

194 has been expensive for a while though?

Book does well on ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Secret-Hearts-83-Silver-Age-DC-Comics-1962-Romance/302684314701?hash=item4679641c4d:g:gdwAAOSwfXJauVVm

Trying to figure out when to start picking up the later issues is a challenge too. The last one or two of many of the titles have popped (Turok 47, etc.), but honestly, it isn't like I run into a lot of Turok 42s either. They may have had slightly higher print runs, but the title was dying at that point too and were quarter box books for a while. 47 might have gotten into a bag and board. The market hasn't responded on many of those books that had reasonably low print runs. (The same is true of some of the marvel titles that died in the late/mid 90s like Punisher, Ghost Rider, Dr. Strange...)

They have cajones, I'll give them credit for that. Or monumental chutzpah, one or the other. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100507/0231219332.shtml

Lichtenstein (did Warhold do a couple of these too?) making all that money basically coloring in other peoples' art has been a bone of contention on these boards for some time now, particularly as a couple of the artists (not romita) wound up in dire straights financially later on (not that they owned the rights to the art anyway).

So despite all of us 35 - 48 year olds buying these en masse and hoarding them there still seems to be an unlimited supply! Borderline copper/modern, but I also have an affinity for the Sam Kieth MCP covers. When I see them 3 for $2 I buy them. I've stopped at a full $1 other than a couple of issues. I was sorting comics with my son the other day and he hit a bunch of them and he is like "WTF dad, why are you buying 5 - 10 of each of these, what is wrong with you??" And he picked up one that awsn't bagged or boarded in a not careful way that could have caused a spine tick and I said "that's not how to handle a comic...!" and his reponse was "dad, you have 10 more of this issue to replace it with!" I need to stop with those. Lately I have taken a pass.

Would be kind of ironic is the lichtenstein estate sued this artist...

Weird how they came out with a one shot nearly 5 years after the second prophet series was cancelled (frankly, i don't see the second series much either in the cheap-o bins, although i guess they are worthless, ..it has some nice cover guest artists)

What is the date on them? I have not seen them, but then again maybe they doing find their way into a dollar box?

You missed a genital in the last panel.

I think there is more sniping on moderns. Old people who buy GA may not know how to use sniping software. So bids may not be reflected.

I got very excited when i found a grimm #1 too, until i saw it was a second print.