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So...Does he shoots Archie?

I would say Silver age starts for real in 58, for the reasons mentioned above of Flash and Lois Lane getting their own titles and also because silver age Superman starts for real with Action Comics 241. To answer the original question, I would add that's mainly an US Cultural thing. Outside it and a few countries (mainly English speaker countries), cartoon books were and still are very popular. Mainly Disney comics that were as or more popular than super-heroes since the 50's

I would like to make a small addend: The final value a consignor receives from Heritage, it is the comics sale value (minus buyer premium), minus Heritage's fee, minus the payment method fee. The last one is often overlooked by the board members, because the majority are from the US and likely receive a direct transfer from Heritage to their bank account. But that's not the case for foreign consignors.

Classic DC stuff. Nice stamps in the back covers:

Sticker on the back cover. Light liquid stains, also on back cover. Small pieces missing on top and bottom of the spine. Around 3.0 to 3.5. Price: $30

Staining on it, mainly on inner pages, also on the covers. Back cover has a decent amount of dirt on it. Creases and wrinkles on the spine and around it. Some wear around the corners. Distribution stamp no back cover. About VG+. Price: $1150

Rules: Payment can be done through pay-pal. Other options might be acceptable. Returns are allowed (if using full tracking), on buyer's account. The buyer has to manifest a week after delivery Shipment starts at $6 and ends at over $50. Depends mainly on whether one wants full tracking or/and insurance and his geographical location. Inquire me for more details.

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Please, lend me hand to grade this old Lois Lane n°10:

Please, help me to evaluate its condition:

Just an observation: It's "Super-Homem" and not Super-HombRe". Super-Hombre is Spanish. About your question, there was a time it was translated:

Thats true only for local US-US transactions (perhaps for more local deals). This was going to be a international transaction, and the % PayPal charges on these cases is significantly larger.

Interesting. I always wondered how old characters, such as Batman and SM would fare in a popularity contest against "new" ones as Harley Quinn and Deadpool. The editor of a middle to small size publisher here told her son that she would buy any super-hero comic that he might be interested in. He was only interested in Deadpool......

Hi Mateus. Sorry to say that, but you have been screwed up. Comics are tax free. You should have contacted Receita and opened a complainant about it. To send individual comics from here is not necessarily costly. I usually offer a $7-$10 dollar shipment options through Ebay (that increases the real cost on 20%-25%). There used to be a +-$4 option until a few months ago. when our wonderful Postal service suspended/extinguished it. And there is also Brazilian comics that goes by a lot of money on Brazil itself Just from early Mickey BR editions, it's approaching $10.000 this year.

Hi. Help me to grade this one. Particularly interested into know the effect of the long vertical mark on back cover:

I always have been a fan of this Dumbo cover

I will now show a more or less recent addition to my collection. Abril's Capitão América n°1, from June of 1979, and use it to tell another part of Marvel's story in Brazil It's in my opinion, the most important super-hero comic book released here in the 70's, slightly above Heróis da TV n°1. Here is it: From 1975 to 1979, the publishing rights were with Bloch publisher, that published Marvel stories until January of that year. The month after, RGE, "O Globo" successor, got the rights and started to publish Marvel heroes. But unlike Bloch, that had the rights of all the big characters, RGE got the publishing rights of a selected few. And they got, in theory, majority of the better ones. Spider-Man, Hulk, X-Men, Daredevil, Fantastic Four were among them. Hulk and Spider-Man even had their TV shows on Brazilian TV to increase their popularity. Abril, that at the time already was our number 1 publisher, decided to try the super hero comic market. They got a few decent ones from Marvel, like Cap, Thor, Master of Kung Fu. But they did not have the super hero firepower that RGE had. And where RGE's Marvel publications would fail, Abril would succeed with an inferior cast While RGE would more more or less publish the stories in chronological order, Abril would carefully choose the best phases and best stories to publish, many times publishing stories out of their chronological order. They would also trim the dialogs (a lot). The result would came quickly. Abril started to publish Capitão and Heróis da TV with modest printing numbers, around 60.000. They would soon be able to increase it to around 85.000. RGE on the other hand, wouldn't eed much time to start to struggle. Here a stock image Heróis da TV n°1: In 1983, when they gave up fully of the Marvel's publishing rights, the printing number of the Spider-Man title shrink-ed from +_ 120.000 to around 20.000 if my memory serves me well. In 1982, Abril got the publishing rights of a few characters that RGE already gave up, such as Daredevil, and created a new title for it, Superaventuras Marvel. This title would initially be shared between him, Conan, Luke Cage and soon, Dr Strange, Black Panther and a few others. Here a stock image of it: The year after, when RGE fully gave up Marvel Rights, Superaventuras would start to receive the X-men adventures. It was once mentioned in one number of our Wizard Magazine that with Miller's Daredevil and Claremont's X-men, it would surpass Heróis da TV as the number title in the reader's heart :). Heróis da TV would start to publish The Avengers, more or less in the same period, a group that had been largely ignored until then. Conan The Barbarian stories. Spider-Man would receive its own title that would be shared with a few more characters, FF being the most important. Hulk would follow the same destiny. There was just someone missing: Conan that had its Conan the Barberian stories published in Herois and Superaventuras, would soon get its own Savage Sword title the year after. It would be a massive success. But Conan deserves a post of its own since its debut in 1972 by Minani e Cunha Homem Aranha and Hulk n°1: Spider-Man would continue to be the number Marvel's number one title, with Conan not much behind. The X-men would continue to increase its popularity until the end of the 80's, when they would finally get a title of their own. A title that would have the privilege of being Heróis da TV sucessor. So, until Abril's day, Marvel only had sporadic sucess since its debut in 1969, mainly with Spider-Man. Abril would change that scenary and make it surpass DC's publication in the readers mind and hearts. Now days, Abril's Marvel super hero titles are the most sought after super hero publications by Brazilian collectors, with plenty of people trying to complete their runs, specially the earliest issues of the oldest titles. They can be quite expensive when compared to US Marvel publications of the same time period.

Anyone knows in which year the Triumph series started?

An apparent very solid result for this Italian Avengers 4: Batman 227 comparison: Batman 232 comparisons: I will continue latter.

One of the many great results on it: Nearly tying the US Avengers at the same grade Great result, not that far away from the US Famous Funnies (a 4.0 sold at $ 2880) Though not in the same ballpark as the US one, but a pretty solid result for this UK publication. Another 4 digit sale for this thick Australian book: Much better result than my 5.5 that sold on Heritage last year. Highest result of all. I never saw a copy sold until today: Second highest result, first ever Superman outside US: I will continue latter in my next post.

A 6.5 sold at $35000 at Ebay and a 8.5 at $19000, if my memory serves me well, on Heritage or CC.

All José Duran originally made Spider-Man stories are worthy a lot, easily 3 digit books. Ones with good looking girls in the cover can reach low four digits; This might end over $1000 with some luck.

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