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It started pretty well but died a slow death and really jumped the shark with The Punisher appearences, iirc. A much better read was Apples "Vietnam Journal", but getting that run can be a challange.

Why is this thread not pinned?

There is an interesting story behind these different price fonts. At a Distributors meeting, a Marvel suit made a throwaway statement that Marvel would reprint any book if they had an order for X amount of sales. I believe it was either 10,000 or 20,000. Anyways, New England Comics approachs Marvel with an offer to buy the entire print run if they will do these three issues. GI Joe 2 was a very hot book, approaching the $100 mark at the time. A Marvel suit agrees to this, without consulting with Carol Kalish, the head of Marvel's Direct Marketing. The first she or anyone hears of this is a fullpage ad in The Buyers guide where NEC is selling them for $20 a three pack. Store owners and distributors go nuts, and Marvel does another run offering them to distributors at their regular discount. So one of those is a second print, the other is a third print. NEC which thought it had a huge score with its thousands of multipacks instead took a huge hit as the market was flooded with them. Anyone know what year the reprint was from based on the New England ads? As I recall, it was around 1986 or 1987.

There is an interesting story behind these different price fonts. At a Distributors meeting, a Marvel suit made a throwaway statement that Marvel would reprint any book if they had an order for X amount of sales. I believe it was either 10,000 or 20,000. Anyways, New England Comics approachs Marvel with an offer to buy the entire print run if they will do these three issues. GI Joe 2 was a very hot book, approaching the $100 mark at the time. A Marvel suit agrees to this, without consulting with Carol Kalish, the head of Marvel's Direct Marketing. The first she or anyone hears of this is a fullpage ad in The Buyers guide where NEC is selling them for $20 a three pack. Store owners and distributors go nuts, and Marvel does another run offering them to distributors at their regular discount. So one of those is a second print, the other is a third print. NEC which thought it had a huge score with its thousands of multipacks instead took a huge hit as the market was flooded with them.

I used clothspins in my store for awhile, and stole the idea from a place in Queens called The Memory Bank. Back then, hardly anyone used boards and you'd just tape the bag so there was enough space above the book to pinch the pin. Key was having high ceilings.

They didn't stamp the books they wholesaled, as far as I remember.I never bought anything from them retail. Store stamps are kind of rare on Bronze Age books, much more common on SA stuff.

They were huge in the 1980s. I bought thousands of back issues from them for my stores.

Are the Star Chase variants really going for multiples of the others?

A baseball playe that was succesful at bat 43% of the time would be a gazillionaire. How many zeros is that? a Gazillion is a brazillion brazillions.

A baseball playe that was succesful at bat 43% of the time would be a gazillionaire.

At a flea market today, I saw a bunch of what looked to be undistributed Marvels from the late 70s, early 80s. There were about 50 and there was a piece of paper on top of the pile that said $3. I looked thru and saw some X-men 119, 121, and some Spideys in the 180--200 range. I started to pull out a few books and asked the guy if he'd cut a deal if I bought a couple. He replied no, thats a lot of books for $3 and I can't go any lower. I ended up with 43 books for $3. A few stalls down, the seller saw me with the comics and mentioned how nobody buys comics anymore. I asked if he had any and he said yes, but not in that nice shape. He went in the van and came out with some beat up 12 cent DC comics- Batman, Flash,Blackhawk and such. Wanted two dollars each but I got the lot of 14 for $15. Picked up a few Conan paperbacks with Frazetta covers for $2 each. Not a bad hour and a half.

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The whole poster is definitely Star Wars-influenced. It seems like a Buck Rogers/Battlestar Galactaca/Star Wars mashup.

wow OMG dude, I used to have this poster when I was a kid and didn't remember having it until you posted it, I'm sorry to say I can't remember where it comes from but knowing me as a kid it was probably inside a box of Captain Crunch Very interesting! Thanks for sharing the memory! This isn't one of my childhood posters, just something that came with a stack of DC Whitman comics I bought on ebay. Those are mostly 1979/1980 so I'd have guessed around then for the date range even if it didn't have a date on it. I think it's a very cool poster, you were a lucky kid! If they came with some DC Whitmans, isn't it quite possible the poster came in a sealed Whitman three pack?

It appears Post had a series of DC posters and premiums in their boxes in the late 1970s.

What does the small print at the top say? Above Supes wrist?

It says Bonus Poster, so perhaps it was in a cereal box? It looks like it was folded into quarters, not halves. I'm just guessing , but perhaps in Starlog magazine?

I think most of everyone else on this board did the same. It's kinda funny how gullible we were to buy into the hype of multiple covers, etc. As oppossed to what? Buying into the hype of pretty colored labels on pieces of plastic?

There are a series of these that were put out in the 1980s, recreating his 1940s Timely work. Any idea what the current market value is? I rarely see them offered for sale.

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Nice job.

If I put a deposit down on a book the seller claimed was a 2.5, and it ended up being a .5, I'd be glad the seller turned out to be a POS and sold it out from under me. That said, anyone who read this thread and deals with Yannis now knows just what they are dealing with.