Kromak

Some truly great covers in there!

I wonder if the opposite applies? Newspaper characters, such as Mickey and the Phantom had their first appearance outside newspapers outside the US.

Up. There was a problem with the photos but now everything seems to be working fine.

Congrats. A truly scarce gem.

Please PGM this low grade copy of the Brazilian edition of Tim Holt 17.

Please PGM this Brazilian edition of UF 4. I tried to highlight all the flaws in the many photos, but if you have any doubts, ask me before.

So are you saying that super-hero comic books are the comic equivalent of 3 star restaurants?

99# is a generic term that means "the vast majority" of it, but if you disagree If you disagree, to say " cool story bro" does not help the discussion.

Depends as influential is defined. If you mean to influence the creation of similar characters, or to establish a genre (or change it), its debatable and very difficult to be sure. But between super-hero stuff, the original FF run and Chris Claremont on X-men would easily be on it.

1)I am not sure how "changed society" should be defined and if comics indeed did that, so I don't agree or disagree here. 2)False, at least for collector World Wide, more or less true for US collectors, if one discounts FF, x-men and perhaps Disney stuff 3)I totally and completely disagree. Barks stuff easily trashs 99.9% of anything belonging to the super hero stuff, I would saw. Kirby/Lee FF far above the average super hero stuff of its time, as Claremont/Cockrum or Claremont/"insert random artist here" for its time period. Average Boneli stuff or average Little lulu (from what I read so far), above average super-hero stuff. 4)Quoting wikipedia. "In 1966, King Features stated that The Phantom was being published in 583 newspapers worldwide.[1] At its peak, the strip was read by over 100 million people daily.[2][". Even in comic book format, I would say that the world wide readership would put him among the most read characters of hero/adventure genre.

These original (painted ?) French covers looks great

I read about a week ago or less, about a Finnish that worked for the "O Globo" publisher that was responsible to assemble this covers based on US covers and inner panels.

Is the last one some key issue or you just picked it up because you liked the cover? Anyway, good to know that there is a market for our ASM300.

The absence of Disney, Carl Barks and Gottfredson stuff is preposterous. They are BY FAR the most popular US comics outside US. At least in the comic book format. I would say its characters have by far the greatest readership in the comic book format of all time. Other probably unforgivable absence is the Phantom. I wouldn't be surprised if he was more read than Superman/Batman through story, worldwide. Other possible US characters that could have been on it is the Little Lulu, X-men and FF. Possibly replacing Cap. The absence of Tex or anything Bonelli is also preposterous, although understandable from a US list.

I totally agree about Lone Wolf, Cub and Astro Boy, but I guess in 1999 there was very little information about manga available in the US or most western world. If the list was made today, the last three should have been in it, no doubts.

Yes, Some copies still do exists. I think a copy surfaces every a couple of years, more or less. I once discussed with some countrymen how many copies exists, if more or less than 100. An experienced seller told he already sold some and believes there might be more than 100 surviving copies. Most rare comic books are probably sold in the offline market and that makes difficult to do estimations. Still, it is by far the rarest Brazilian Uncle Scrooge book, and one of the most difficult Disney books in the "modern" comic book format to get. Likely to be one of the rarest uncle scrooge comic books in the world, together with many South Americans "Tio Rico" Once I saw a guy selling the full (or most of it) Brazil's Uncle Scrooge run, including this rare Number 9 'A' copy, plus the full US run (or most of it), including the FC 178. The announcement only lasted a couple of days which makes me think he regretted putting it on sale and gave up, since the price was preposterous. Anyway, here are the photos: Here some photos:

Please, PGM this Brazilian edition of ASM 3. I would pay special attention to the staples, both are disintegrating. There is a 3.5 inches tear around the region where there is paper loss, about one millimeter of being in the junction of both covers. Stains in the lower part of the pages, like in the central fold shows up in pretty much all pages, with varying intensity

Please, PGM this Brazilian edition of ASM 2. I would pay special attention to the staples. In these photos is difficult to see, but both are disintegrating. "upper" part of the lower staple is gone. "upper" part of the superior staple is gone in the internal part. The lower parts are bit better, specially of the upper staple. P.S: Stains as in the central pages above are present in all interior pages, with varying degrees of intensity

Disney likely didn't like humans mixed with their characters. Our local Uncle Scrooge n°9 had a cover with scrooge mixed with photos of two children. That was taken off circulation and a copy with a new cover, an usual duck only cover was made to replace it.

Thanks. More opinions are welcome. P.S: Not sure if visible enough, but the staples were replaced by an elastic

Please PGM this. Feel free to ask me any doubts about what you see in the photos. Attention to the "staples"

I have a soft spot by these "eccentric" Coringa covers.

Out of curiosity, this one was the first edition published in colors by Ebal that was printed inside Brazil (Ebal is one of the four major publishers in Brazil and the one responsible by nearly all DC content that was printed after 1947 until mid 80's and also the responsible by introducing Marvel's superheroes in 1967)

Great to see some funnies on this last page, probably my favorite to collect and read . Were they cheap?

Fan of Roger Stern here. I did not know that he was still on active (neither Buscema). I would buy and read it if it was released over here (unlikely). Hopefully it's a great comic and sells above your expectations.