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On 11/16/2023 at 6:28 PM, fifties said:

Not too sure about that, if you go by Overstreet's definition of GA years.   After the inflation of 1951, a number of publishers put out narrower books, including Harvey, Ajax-Farrell, CDC, Minoan, Fawcett and others that easily fit into Silver Age bags, as they were all 7" or less in width.

Easy peasy. Those are silver.

I always have a laugh when an October Marvel Comics 1 shows up. It reminds me how Metropolis Comics would go on and on about comic collectors don't distinguish between multiple printings of Golden Age comic book keys and they are all worth the same as all that's important is it's the first issue. That was until they had an October Marvel Comics 1 they were selling. They did a complete 180 and went on an on about how important and more valuable the first printing is.

There's always the bag test. If it doesn't fit in a Silver Age bag then it's a Golden Age book.

On 11/5/2023 at 5:17 PM, Elizabeth B1 said:

Thanks for this information. I tried accessing Terapeak myself and it keeps telling me the server is down. Anyway, Is there any forum you’re aware of where I could possibly sell this comic as is other than eBay? Thanks!

If you have an ebay seller account you go to selling and then click the research tab and it gives you free access to Terapeak.

I agree with the other responder about mycomicshop.com as a possible way to sell the book on consignment for you. Send them a query asking about their interest of selling it on consignment. There's a stand up board member named Conan who works for them who is very helpful. You can try to message him on the boards here about it for his advice.

Let us know what you end up deciding what to do.

Have a great Thanksgiving.

1933-Sept 1945

On 10/29/2023 at 4:24 PM, Elizabeth B1 said:

I’m looking to sell this comic, where would be the best place to do that— eBay? Mercari? 
I received this comic on the maiden voyage of the Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser on 3.1.2022. I put in a sleeve  but have done nothing else with it. It’s in great condition no tears etc. some guy just posted one for sale on Mercari for over $600 which seems really high and mine looks to be in better condition. Obviously I know very little about comics and looking for tips on what to do with it if anything.

Thanks for your time and input.

Elizabeth

After reading the first reply you got I checked on ebay sold items for this comic to get you some more data points. I quickly noticed everything sold was not the exclusive variant.  Terapeak shows 2 sales in the past two years for the book on Ebay:

March 23, 2022 auction sale for $375.00 with free shipping. 13 bids.

April 6, 2022 fixed price sale for $400.00 with free shipping.

Don't know if they are real sales. But If I were you I would spend time investigating the book more before selling it.

On 10/29/2023 at 8:44 AM, Antillia Island said:

Haha the world.

Where I live in Asia these books are cheep.  I mean when I show people, they can't believe I can get them under $100, they always say why do they so cheep in US, I shrug my shoulders. Ha I've already thought about selling people a token to books I own, but I just want to collect, and don't need more projects. Shipping sucks, like my mother is cooked, and has expressed more and more frustration with the stacks filling her house.

For example,  I would love to click every Wolverine to buy the whole run, it drop into my wallet and I sleep cozy.

Maybe tomorrow I wake up and sale it. IDK but that is the freedom of NFT collecting, part of the fun of collecting is also "trading" so it isn't practical to ship a book back and forth. Decentralized comic pricing, non-fungiable tokens, and comic vaults are the future in my opinion. Slabbing is part of that future, so yes I have already started a steady goal of 10 books a month going to the CGC. Call it silly but that is how I want to collect. 

What part of Asia do you live? I used to work all over the Asia-Pacific area for several years.

Have you sold anything to these people who tell you they value these books so high? What people say is vastly different from what people do when they have to hand over large sums of their money. You just bought one for $20 that you said is worth thousands. See what these folks are willing to pay you for it.

On 10/28/2023 at 1:32 AM, AJD said:

I just read this about the Shakespeare 'First Folio'...

"Some of the 235 First Folios that are known to have survived remain in private hands, but most are held by research institutions, and nearly a third (eighty-two in all) reside in a single place: the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., built to house the rare book collection of Henry Folger, early-twentieth-century chairman of Standard Oil."

... and it got me wondering...are there any big GA books where a single collector has grabbed a sizeable percentage of the known copies? (By my math 82 of 235 is actually more than a third.) I know that copies of Fantastic Comics #3 had a habit of ending up in NYC at some stage, but what's the best example you know of?

  What do you consider extreme?

On 7/5/2023 at 9:53 AM, Shazbot said:

Recently spotted this example down at the Bay. I think it demonstrates well, as @OtherEric suggested, how the second cover that got stapled on would have been strictly for store promo, not a second comic book cover like the OP has.

Would be interested to see a slab with a promo cover attached & how CGC would handle it.

Thanks for posting this example.

Did you try sending as books instead of choosing collectables?

HS Code 49019900 - Printed, books, brochures

I was looking forward to getting Star Wars - but my shop was out of them. Also missed out on getting the TMNT, Archie, Smurfs. I did get a Dogman and the Garbage Pail kids one though.

Where did you find it and how much did you pay? Also I believe 20 or so years ago there was a March of Comics 4 done for free comic book day. I wasn't able to get one for myself and someone on the boards told me they would send one to me for free, but I never received it.

I just saw this. Would have been nice to meet some local people with similar interests. Anyone take any photos?

On 9/28/2021 at 12:50 PM, RareHighGrade said:

The one book I can think of that once met that description is Double Action #1.  After decades of speculation about whether it existed and what the cover looked like, the single existing copy finally surfaced a few years abo and now resides in the collection of Mark Zaid.

Did a Double Action 1 really appear? Or are you thinking of the Ashcan copy of Double Action Comics 1 that was listed in Overstreet that came back to market awhile back?

You said you looked at pictures online to identify it as the first edition. Did you verify the book measures 6.2" x 9.25" x 1.0", states FIRST EDITION on the copyright page, is bound in maroon cloth and are there color pictorials on the end papers? Also the dust jacket will have a $20 price.

9 hours ago, Bronty said:

Basically, he wished it into existence.

from what little I can recall he was very motivated to find it, and more than a few people were very motivated to jerk him around.    He was sent a 1950s looking cover purported to be 1930s and he printed it out in color and wrapped it around some innards (don’t recall the innards).

The innards are xerox copies of the Dr Occult Stories from More Fun.

Not sure why you posted this one. They look like two completely different books to me.

For those who cannot login because it never takes you to where you can enter your id and password, I found a workaround. If you go the the cgc census you will have a login prompt on the left using your email address. After that it wants you to accept the terms and conditions, privacy policy etc. Although you have to click that you read them - you cannot read them as the links go to blank pages. After accepting the terms of service you are logged in and then can just hop over to the boards and they will recognize you are actually logged in.

Golden Age: high grade Marvel Comics #1 was tanking with every sale for several years before someone took them off the market.

Atomic Age: high grade Mad #1 tanked as more Gaines copies were graded.

Lobtrosity/cstojano,

I do not know what you mean to ship flat? Are you saying USPS First Class Large Rate envelope? (This is the flat I'm most used to) I ship vintage paper items to people - some First Class Large Envelope some First Class Package Rate - but the paper items are much smaller than an uncut animation cel. So I'm at a loss on how to ship the safely.

Thanks for the heads up on only to sell in the cooler months of the year!

I don't know what masonite is. I think I might have used some old foamcore, someone gave me, while mailing paper items - but only used a single board when mailing those. Where does someone buy these type of things does the local Staples or Office Max have them? Or do I have to find some type of artist store. Also how thick of cardboard should I use?

Do they make polybags for cells? Not sure what to place them in before packaging them up.

comicwhiz,

  What do you use as a buffer between the cell and drawing?

cstajano/fsumavilla,

My goal of this post so I can figure out how to ship the animation art and what my costs are to do it.  I'm not ready to sell the art just yet and since the warmer months are here at the earliest time would be at the end of the year.

I've been thinking about selling some animation art (mostly untrimmed cels with their matching drawings) on Ebay or other venues, but I have no idea how to safely ship the art.  If anyone has experience in shipping this type of art, I would be very interested how it should be done.

Also, are there other online venues to sell animation art other than Ebay?

Thank you

1 hour ago, Robot Man said:

Nice! I'm a big Felix collector. Not just comics just anything mostly from the 1920's-1930's. Never seen that book before. Probably English?

Yes, it is from England published in 1924. There were also a different annual for the following years: 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, and 1929. They reprint the Sunday strips from the previous year and they add four color plates (which one or more commonly missing from surviving copies)

If you are talking about post 1933 US comic books. I believe the book is New Funnies 66 (If memory serves me right) (Its worth noting, Overstreet states Funnies 64 has Felix the Cat but I have verified with five people with that comic that Felix does not appear anywhere) There are several earlier platinum age books with Felix the Cat in them. 

19 minutes ago, Robot Man said:

I believe the first two appearances of Felix in "comic book" form are in the two "all picture stories" Big Little Books. Sorry but I don't have pictures of my copies in my bucket

I do have this late 1920's US published book. I wouldn't consider it an actual comic book though because the illustrations are not in panel form. Still coo and hard to find none the less.

Robot Man your book was published in 1931 (if it is indeed the first print of that specific book) But all printings of this book I've seen are in panel form. So I would love to see what is contained in yours.

Felix Annual (published in the UK in 1924) = First World-Wide Appearance.  It is the book pictured as Beige's profile pic. I had located that copy for him.