shadroch

I've a number of double and triple cover GLODs and only purchased them because double cover SA.DC Adventures are hard to find. When my downsizing hits the multicover boxes, they will be the first to go. The only one that makes my semi-permanent collection is an witnessed Paul Gulacy, which is #1 of 2500.

I'd certainly discuss this with the seller. In most cases a green label 3.0 will sell for a fraction of what a blue label will bring. Most slab collectors are addicted to blue labels.

Mercy bullets.

It's strange that DC didn't start over with 1st issues, instead of sticking with the old numbering so 207 is the first DC, whereas Marvel starts with #1. Seems strange that at a time Conan was king and Sword and Sorcery was big, that Tarzan wasn't a bit.

The Tarzan family of books is pretty unique in that it was published by DC, Marvel and Gold Key in the Bronze Age. I didn't care for Joe Kubert so I never read the DC version and barely remember browsing a few Marvel and not being impressed. Was one version better than the others? Is there an EBB story that both Marvel and DC did that would serve as fodder for a compare and contrast situation? Any classic story that will hook me?

Just spitballing here but I can think of a few reason why a kid might tear random strips off the edges of his comic.

An 8.5 PLOD Brave and Bold 28. I'd been looking for one for years and couldn't believe how cheap it went for. I was willing to go low four figures but won it for $428 dollars.

Punisher issues broke out in 1986. 1986 also was when a little publication called Comic Value Monthly first appeared. In my shop, CVM outsold X-Men and they changed the way many people priced their books. Quite a coincidence.

I come across lots of signed comics. The supply exceeds the demand in most cases. As far as grading goes, I believe you can ask for blue labels on these but the signatures will be treated as a defect. Having a green label probably turns off 90% of the hobby so deep discounts generally are in order.

I once was close to having every 12 cent Marvel but realized I was spending money on books I didn't care for just to complete a goal no one but me cared about. The only long runs I currently have are MOKF, and Legion Adventures.

Many, if not most, newsstands also functioned as bookies and numbers runners. Comics were just another means for the mob to handle it's cash.

They don't have a lot of value, but people seem to trade these. Foreign comics are a small but intense niche in the hobby.

Huge would be an understatement. Everybody wanted those books.

With very few exceptions, First Issues dominated the hobby rather than first appearances. By the mid to late 80s, the influx of baseball card dealers and collectors and their Rookie Card mentality stirred the First Appearance craze. While DC fans chased books like Adventure 247 and Flash 105, Marvel fans mostly chased first issues, with the exception of Avengers 4 and the Trilogy.

Thai was much much later, but when Atlas/Seaboard was announced, I asked my regular candy store to make sure they carried them and was told what comes in, comes in. When the first ones showed up, I pointed them out to the owner and he didn't care. I did ask him if he could reorder a book I missed and he said he would try but it never showed up. He only carried DC, Marvel and Charlton until carrying Atlas for a few months. Interestingly, he did not get any of the last issues of the Atlas titles, so I guess the distributor bailed on them early.

The Punished didn't really get popular until Miller brought him into the Daredevil run, years after he was first introduced. His first appearance didn't break out for even longer.

There are plenty of signature series books in purple labels.

No. Is there any demand for the books?

The old "my brother stole my password" routine. I guess its a good thing your brother doesnt have the sense to change your password.

The man is doing a homage to his favorite creator. Mad respect.

Why wouldn't that book get a purple label?

That is a tape pull and will kill whatever hopes you might have had for a high grade. None of the books from that series are worth slabbing, in my opinion.

Do you think that would have been the case twenty years ago?

People who were reading Marvel at the time were used to fill in issues, as Marvel had terrible deadline problems. One year, the Avengers had three fill ins in a little over six months, including the landmark 150th issue that was supposed to introduce a new lineup. It sucked, but we simply had to buy these issues to keep our runs going. Occasionally, these fill in issues weren't bad, but mostly there was a reason why they didn't make the cut in the first place.

I was thrilled when Wendy Pini purchased an Elfquest inspired t-shirt I'd made to advertise my first shop, Quest End. I was embarrassed when Richard Pini used the shirt as an example of how unprincipled people were costing them money by using his properties without compensation.