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Two interesting auctions that closed a few days ago: This n°2 seems a real bargain By the way, I read not too long ago THE Disney story that's fits perfectly this thread. A comic book collecting story! Exceptionally good stuff good IMO.

Please grade this Brazilian publication of the US Fantastic Four n°15:

Please, PGM this avengers annual n°10:

5.5. ANything from 5 to 6 would not surprise me.

This one: If the panel that is not the first Venon appearance, neither the one from black costume, is worth $3.3 million, this original art from Flash Gordon, due to being from Platinum Era, hence for being much scarcer and also to belong to a far more popular/read character, should be worth over 100.000.000 million dollars. Or perhaps the aforementioned panel should be worth something like $33.600 and the above OA continue to be a half million piece or a bit upgraded

Ebay. If not Golden Age focused, you could look into places like HipComics

That's the kind of thing that would never be considered acceptable prior mid 90's.

From which country?

Glad you liked it

A few Mexican stuff: Mexicans are likely the third easiest foreign to find here, after US and Portuguese material I don't even remember if I posted this earlier this year, but here it goes: If you pay attention to the covers, will notice that these first three Argentinean copies were actually distributed in Uruguay . Last one is Chilean .

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And I found something! He was the art director on Ebal publisher. He was the artist on numbers 7 and 9 on the comic book "O Judoca", that you can see the covers (and also download a digital copy) on this link: http://guiaebal.com/judomaster02.html I will try to find something else about him.

It's usually a cheap one?

I will try to find something in the next days.

Well, it shouldn't be too difficult :P

In my last post I said there was four comic books that could be considered the Golden's age end on Brazil (actually there are five, I forgot the one that I deem as the less exciting one). Today, another of these arrived. It has, a very, very special meeting between two characters that should not be meeting! P.S:Note the Brazilian Code of Ethics logo in the upper right corner.

Some great stuff in the last pages. I will post some foreign (well for you) that I got this year. This first one, that I already posted in the golden age section, is nothing more nothing less than the 1949 Almanaque (usually a "deluxe" annual edition) for both the Superman title and "O Herói" title. O Herói was publishing things like Sheena and would bring the first classic comics stories. This time I added more photos of the inner pages. This second one is quite important historically. Is a "Good Bye" comic book. This and other three were the last representatives of the classic style of comic book publication on Brazil. Unlike US publications, dedicated to a single or perhaps a few characters of a single publisher, on Brazil there was basically five publications from mid 30's and on that basically published everything, mixing National, Timely, Western, MLJ, etc.. characters into a single title. One can say that the beginning of the end of this format was when the tabloid format started to be replaced by the modern comic book format. This started in 1939/1940 and continued slowly to gain adoption through the 40's. Although these Modern comic book also published everything mixed up, it would lead to successors that would not follow this style. In 1947, National started to do a worldwide effort to give Superman a title of his own in many countries. Australia was the first and Brazil followed them in December of that year. This would be the first of many characters that would acquire their own titles through end 40's and the 50's. And slowly with that, the popularity of the classic "mixed up" publications would slowly vanishing. First the tabloid format titles ended between late 40's and early 50's. Then the comic books of that category would becoming less and less important. One (O Lobinho) already perished in the first half of the 50's Then, early 60's most of these titles would come to an end. "O Guri" ended in 1962 and next year, would be the time of "Gibi Mensal" and "Globo Juvenil Mensal". However, there would a last farewell. The four last publications of this style would be Almanaque(s). This one, the only "Super" Almanaque do Gibi is one of the most difficult to obtain. I think I only ever saw two copies available. The cover represents it pretty well, mixing up characters from several publishers, some that were mainly newspaper characters. In many ways, a last goodbye from an amateur era of comic book publishing, unthinkable in modern times and in the US, from were most stories were originated . From the way I see it, a beautiful farewell to days that marked the end of golden age in Brazil If the above images depicts the end of an era, the next ones represents the beginning of another one. Brazil's first comic book publication was "O Tico Tico" * (apparently there was a short XIX publication, but no one was able to find copies of it yet). It had great printing quality for that time. mixing up European, US and Brazilian stuff. Being published weekly, it quickly reached a very high number of published editions. I wonder if it was the first ever comic book publication to reach number 1000? Anyway, in 1907, its publisher, "O Malho" had the idea of creating an "Almanaque D'o Tico-Tico", the first ever Brazilian comic book Almanaque, one of the first ever annual comic book publications. The idea of it was to be an annual deluxe publication, released at the end of the year, to work as a Christmas present to children. During more than half century, O Malho would keep that tradition. Another interesting curiosity is that Tico Tico n° 1277 of 1930, was likely the first ever appearance of Mickey outside newspapers!

Please pgm this Strange Tales 129 copy. Small rip on photo n°4.

Actually I did not watch the whole DS9 series. I believe I lost much that came after Odo's origin is revealed. If I watched the Dominion war, it was a few sporadic episodes here and there. And I can't remember nothing about its conclusion. In fact, all I can remember now from the final seasons is the last episode. That's why I started to re watch the series earlier this year. I am still approaching the end of season 2, fortunately.a long road ahead. Overall, I like DS characters more than NG. Especially Garak, Gul Dukat, Quark, Nog, Jake, Dax and Sisko a bit less. On NG I like Data, Lwaxana Troi, Pulaski, Alexander Rozhenko and Picard and Riker to a lower degree. Best of both Worlds is one of my personal favorites, together with All good Things, Inner Light, Chain of Command" and perhaps two or more three episodes. I don't know anything about B5 books, but I will keep a mental note to one day go after this book. I always wondered why Michael O'Hare leaved. And Claudia Christian

Please, PGM this War is hell n°9. Pay attention to the borders on the back cover.

Hmmm, no they command top dollar because that's what most people like to collect and because that's also what is the best to invest.

This is amazing. So difficult to see a full (or nearly full) run of Golden age comics. One of coolest images I ever saw on this board. Congrats! Now something I bought this year:

Actually, Star Trek was not only following the old episodic TV storytelling format. The next Generation was doing that, but Deep Space Nine was doing the same as B5. Anyway, I personally don't think it's necessarily better than the episodic format. It depends a lot on how strong the plot it is. When it is well done, it can be astoundingly good, but on the other hand, it can be an outstanding disaster. B5 is an exception and even it was affected by actors leaving the series and cancellation threats.

The AU copy looks better, since there is no missing piece. Do you know why it has an inferior grade?

No idea he worked on Defenders.