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Wonder Woman #65, CGC 4.5 C/OW, 1954, Duke of Deception appearance 23 on the census, only 22 blue labels. Bin is $325.00 Now $285 *That's glare on the front of the book, weather was not great for pictures this week;) I will try and add a better one tomorrow, there is no line in Diana

Wonder Woman #61, CGC 2.5 OW/W 1953. There are 17 blue copies (total copies) on the census.sold to rdp collectibles. There are some newton rings and it was never cleaned nor pressed Bin is $165 Now $145 Quote

Wonder Woman #54, CGC 4.5 OW/W 1952 Sold to Crassus! 24 blue labels on the census One of my favorite covers. Bin is $425 now $400 That's glare on the lower right of the back cover. I will add a detail picture.

Wonder Woman #50 CGC 4.0 OW 1951, The Origin of the Magic Lasso . Bin is $485 Now $465

Wonder Woman #45 CGC 2.0 OW, notes include (very minor amount of color touch on label) 1951 Sold to a private buyer Not cleaned nor pressed Origin of Wonder Woman Retold Bin $285.00 now $265

Wonder Woman #29, CGC 4.5 OW, 1948 Notes on cover state tape on interior cover, I had this slabbed, as far as I can recall and per my notes, tape was minimal and seemed to be a magic tape type near the staples. The book was not pressed or cleaned. Ist appearance of Minister Blizzard Bin is $450 Now $400

This sale will consist of books from my Wonder Woman collection I found out about GA comics about 24 years ago on eBay. At the time, I knew there were SA books, but had never seen any from the 40's and early 50's. I was really fascinated at the art, paper, themes...you name it, I was hooked. So I decided maybe I'd collect Batman...only I was getting outbid on everything... A wise eBay friend told me that Batman with the exception of a few books was overpriced, but Wonder Woman was scarcer and "undervalued" My answer..."are you trying to get me to collect a GIRL's comic? and my friend said no, just look at the numbers. He was right ...actually they are still "undervalued" next to Batman and Supes, but they are also much harder to find. So I got hooked. At first I was collecting just Wonder Woman...then Sensations, too. I just wanted to find A copy of each book...with pages, my only criteria...I wanted all the pages;) Well, it was not as easy as I thought it would be, took me over 10 years to get all of them...some were hanging by a thread;) but they had pages. Then I decided to upgrade. I wanted to have a complete set on the Census...maybe even the best set (little did I know how the Census worked, lol;) but I set out to find each one in at least 4.0...Maybe be one of the few women with a top set of something. I never realized someone else could have just a few books at very high grades and be higher (my friends were mostly low grade collectors and that was who I learned from). I found some in 4.0, quite a few higher, but some I really couldn't find at 4.0 without getting a mortgage;) I was a little more successful with the Sensations. I finally had them all slabbed and put the set on GPA...I also put the Sensations on GPA. I have all the Sensations except for the Mystery books (because I didn't consider them Wonder Womans) but never slabbed the SA or Bronze age WW books...so it was not a complete set listed on the census. There are something like 338 books in the series...so...it would have just been way too expensive for me. Once I got the set listed, I realized I could never have the highest set, because I'd have to compete with some really high grade stuff...but it didn't really matter, it was fun seeing them all listed:) After a bunch of years with the complete set, I finally decided I was going to keep one of the sets (the Sensations) and break up the Wonder Womans. I sold the raw SA books to a nice collector who actually wanted the run...and I did speak to an auction house about selling most of the Wonder Womans on their site, but they really wanted me to list all of them and I didn't want to do that because I wanted to keep some that were sentimental to me. A few were gifts, one is the 1st Mile High I ever saw etc ..and I was /am in no rush. So I decided not to auction them and just break them up slowly and I will keep a few... and that I'd rather list them here first. This sale is going to contain almost everything except a few early books, that are 4.5 or lower. They are also probably the scarcest of the series...that is why I was unable to upgrade them. It also means that pricing is difficult. Some have only one sale in a few years. Most of the books have under 30 copies on the census, quite a few have less than 20. So pricing...who knows, sometimes I'm using what I paid at auction as a basis, sometimes I'm not able to find any raw books sold on eBay or Heritage to add to the GPA figures...so some of the prices are guesses. Sorry for the long story...but I was in story mode after posting in @Hudson's wonderful story thread. The rules First wins, whether here or in a PM, I'm the sold arbitrator of who wins., but tie is going to go to the person who posts in this thread. I accept Zelle Pay, Checks, Money Orders and Paypal. Payment is due within 3 days unless we have made other arrangements before you post a take it.. If you don't think you can pay in 3 days, just let me know before, because wait times at the PO are not fun later in Dec;) I only ship slabs some kind of priority mail, there are some new kinds now. Anything over $500 must have signature required...because otherwise I'm going to worry that something will get lost or worse;) I want to be able to ship anywhere, so shipping will be extra, but I charge exact shipping, no fees added. I usually do take returns on slabs but not this time because of the time of year because of the issues with shipping.. There will be about 22 slabs in this sale...maybe a few more later in the week or next week, depending on whether I have time...I'm starting with the lowest grades (mostly scarcest issues) first.

I had planned to list a sales thread today, but I totally forgot about the VCC so I will be listing about 22 Wonder Woman GA or very early SA comics from my collection tomorrow night. Sunday...Figure 7:30 PM EST. and good luck on the VCC everyone...I will be shopping later.

Yes of course, but I'm trying to decide what to offer, it's worse than picking out shoes;) I'm traveling a few days later, so my first idea won't work...

I've been accused of a few things over the years, but none of them was being male... Not that there's anything wrong with it;)

"Boy"? Darn...I'm disqualified

I have no problem posting what is an appropriate response for that post....((((Dr.Balls))))) @ComicMike we really do need a hug emoji...I'm sure I'm not the only one who will use it.

Hudson kindly suggested I paste this here. I had posted it in my sales thread in answer to a few requests. That thread is closed, so in case anyone else was wondering about her. I will paste this here. I'll also add some information from @ameri, who knew her husband and wrote some very interesting information including something about the origin of the hard cover archives The Evelyn Collection I'm going to leave out last names because I'm not in touch with the people and I don't like to share last names unless I have permission. Evelyn is the widow of a comic book collector. She lives in New Jersey. She is a great grandmother with a big happy Italian family. Her husband was an engineer and amateur artist. He collected the books. Her husband ( I can't remember his first name) was part of a number of groups involving comic books. He was one of the people who Ernie Gerber traveled to in order to photo their comics for his books. There was also a group of people,one is still a boarder but doesn't post often, and one who recently (the Yellow Kid) passed away, who were interested in preserving the history of some of the books, so they set up a microfiche project. They rounded up people with comics (I believe one was the owner of MyComicShop). So they gathered comics and disassembled some of them to take pictures, some of Evelyn's husbands books were part of the project. @Ameri Frank, if you are around I think you know more of this than I do...please post;) Evelyn's husband amassed a huge collection of very old comics, some he may have bought new, but most he bought 2nd hand. She told me that he would stop at used books stores on his way to work in Philly for years (and this was way before online sales) Since he was an artist, he was obviously interested in color, so the books all have wonderful color. I have never seen a faded copy...and some he "fixed". He used tempora, and would fill in some spots, so a number of them were marked restored when they were graded later on. There was quite a mixture, Larson's (Fantastic 22 was in that group) Marvel Mysteries, a long run of Top Notch, Blue Ribbons, Amazing Man, Wonder Worlds, Mystery Man, Superman...I was told there was an Action 1, but I never saw it...I own the Action 13...He just kept accumulating. There was a huge run of Famous Funnies, all kinds of odd books that I had never heard of let alone seen. He didn't slab any, he collected them before CGC. Then he became ill, he had Alzheimers. Eventually he passed away. While he was suffering from the disease, Evelyn told me he started trying to destroy the comic books he had loved. She rescued most of them and put them away where he couldn't get to them. Once her husband had passed, Evelyn was left with all these boxes of books. She contacted some dealers who purchased some...then about 20 years ago, a very nice man named Richard who somehow knew her... would buy them and put them on eBay. Richard the eBay seller had also had his comics photographed by Ernie Gerber. Both the eBay seller (Richard) and Evelyn were older and not exactly computer literate, so she would send him lists of the comics written in pencil, no pictures, no or very few details. ..he would buy them and then sell them on eBay...people would grab them like they were hotcakes. I only saw his listings after he had sold a few hundred. I think they were mostly DCs that sold first. I really knew very little about GA books at the time, but I LOVED the covers and the colors, I had no idea that some were rare. So I started watching the auctions and ..when I saw the listings...YIKES...between the descriptions and the lack of information...it was scary. Anyway, I won a few and Richard and I started talking on eBay ...you could do that in those days. Then he asked me to help him with his auctions...and I did, I edited them. I posted pictures for him too sometimes. As a way of thanking me, he'd call me when he was putting up the books so I could be there to hit bins...after a while, he just contacted Evelyn, bought books and sold them directly to me. I had a limited budget so when he bought books and I had reached my...(am I going to get divorced if I spend more limit;) sometimes I'd sell them for him on these boards. I made a few big mistakes, (someone got a very nice copy of Amazing Man 22 very cheap) lol...but it was ok. Richard was retired and his son no longer collected comics so he wanted a comic book friend. Really sweet man. I have to see if I have any of those penciled lists, but I doubt it. Then Richard moved to be with one of his sons and I didn't hear anything else about the collection or him...until I got a phone call a few years ago from Richard (the ebay seller) telling me that Evelyn needed some help. She was trying to sell the leftover books (the ones left after the dealers had cherry picked) and he thought she was getting cheated, so would I sell them for her, since he was not longer doing that? It was not on the top of my list, She had been told they were all junk and the "dealers" she was talking to wanted to buy them at junk prices. When I spoke to her she was so nice, I said OK, I'd try selling them for her...IF she would trust me and mail me the books...and she did, a box at a time. It turned out she had some very interesting things left, so I sold them here on the boards for her. Nice lady, very interesting to talk to... She was shocked at how much money she got ...all through boards sales. The books I have mostly came from Richard's (the eBay seller) sales. When I listed the books and mentioned her name was Evelyn, Richard Olsen (The Yellow Kid) contacted me, told me he knew her husband and her...he was involved in the comic book group and he wanted to speak with her. She was delighted to find out that Richard Olsen (the Yellow Kid) not the Richard from Ebay...was around and they spoke with each other. They remembered each other and were friendly after all those years and even though they were 1,000 miles away. Richard Olsen told me quite a bit about the history. I was very sad at his passing and realized I should have asked MORE before he passed...which is the reason I'm sitting here and typing for you guys;) I hope this helps Ameri's response Hi Sharon, long time no hear. Miss you! I was always on the phone with Evelyn's husband who was Pat. He told me a different story about the microfiche project. Pat told me he was in the army corp of engineers during WW2 with a bunch of other guys in the microfiche and photographic departments. They were responsible for producing and supplying blueprints and maps to the army brass. His buddies were also avid comic book readers and they got together after the war to photograph every page of all their comic books from cover to cover. It was a massive undertaking. Most of the digital comics on CDs out there today are Pat's comic books that he personally microfiched in the 1950's and 1960's. In 1990, he was contacted by Microfiche International in New Jersey to supply that company with full series of DC, Timely and Fawcett comics. Those microfiche from the 90's have become collectors items. They were eventually phased out because DC and Marvel no longer wanted to license reprints on microfiche. Instead, DC and Marvel figured they could reprint the stories themselves in hardcover which is exactly what happened and that's when the Marvel Masterworks and DC Archives started. I bought many microfiche from Pat's own collection. These have made their way to Digital Comic Museum and other public domain platforms. When Pat took ill, Evelyn was trying to sell off his comics and she contacted our mutual friend Richard (the Ebay seller) to facilitate sales. Pat had everything. Full runs of Action, Detective, Marvel Mystery. You name it, he had it. He was missing some early New Funs and More Funs and to this day the digital CD companies still don't have those missing issues like 3,6,7,8,18,20,26. For those unacquainted with microfiche, here's an example and the reader needed to view them. I did add that there might have been two projects, or at least another group of people involved because both the Yellow Kid and Richard S. the eBay seller told me about something in the 50's. .. There is another boarder who was involved, but I have not seen him post in a long time. Maybe he will.

BTW, Richard Olsen also told me about A microfiche project, only it wasn't about the army, so maybe there was some kind of secondary project. In any case yours is much more interesting...I never knew about the archives starting that way...Thanks again!

Thanks, Frank! I knew you knew about the microfiches...the info I got was from Richard S. Yes, now that Covid is done, we should make plans after the holidays:)...give my regards to your wife!

Thanks everyone...all sold and the thread is closed. I will be having another sale either later this week or this weekend. It will be GA Wonder Woman books. I'll post in the announcement thread once I figure out how long it will take me to take pictures . Hope to see you there and enjoy the week!

Thanks so much, Robert! WF #71, sold to Casablanca!

Thanks, Tom! Marvel Mystery #30 is sold!

I'm going to leave out last names because I'm not in touch with the people and I don't like to share last names unless I have permission. Evelyn is the widow of a comic book collector. She lives in New Jersey. She is a great grandmother with a big happy Italian family. Her husband was an engineer and amateur artist. He collected the books. Her husband ( I can't remember his first name) was part of a number of groups involving comic books. He was one of the people who Ernie Gerber traveled to in order to photo their comics for his books. There was also a group of people,one is still a boarder but doesn't post often, and one who recently (the Yellow Kid) passed away, who were interested in preserving the history of some of the books, so they set up a microfiche project. They rounded up people with comics (I believe one was the owner of MyComicShop). So they gathered comics and disassembled some of them to take pictures, some of Evelyn's husbands books were part of the project. @Ameri Frank, if you are around I think you know more of this than I do...please post;) Evelyn's husband amassed a huge collection of very old comics, some he may have bought new, but most he bought 2nd hand. She told me that he would stop at used books stores on his way to work in Philly for years (and this was way before online sales) Since he was an artist, he was obviously interested in color, so the books all have wonderful color. I have never seen a faded copy...and some he "fixed". He used tempora, and would fill in some spots, so a number of them were marked restored when they were graded later on. There was quite a mixture, Larson's (Fantastic 22 was in that group) Marvel Mysteries, a long run of Top Notch, Blue Ribbons, Amazing Man, Wonder Worlds, Mystery Man, Superman...I was told there was an Action 1, but I never saw it...I own the Action 13...He just kept accumulating. There was a huge run of Famous Funnies, all kinds of odd books that I had never heard of let alone seen. He didn't slab any, he collected them before CGC. Then he became ill, he had Alzheimers. Eventually he passed away. While he was suffering from the disease, Evelyn told me he started trying to destroy the comic books he had loved. She rescued most of them and put them away where he couldn't get to them. Once her husband had passed, Evelyn was left with all these boxes of books. She contacted some dealers who purchased some...then about 20 years ago, a very nice man named Richard who somehow knew her... would buy them and put them on eBay. Richard the eBay seller had also had his comics photographed by Ernie Gerber. Both the eBay seller (Richard) and Evelyn were older and not exactly computer literate, so she would send him lists of the comics written in pencil, no pictures, no or very few details. ..he would buy them and then sell them on eBay...people would grab them like they were hotcakes. I only saw his listings after he had sold a few hundred. I think they were mostly DCs that sold first. I really knew very little about GA books at the time, but I LOVED the covers and the colors, I had no idea that some were rare. So I started watching the auctions and ..when I saw the listings...YIKES...between the descriptions and the lack of information...it was scary. Anyway, I won a few and Richard and I started talking on eBay ...you could do that in those days. Then he asked me to help him with his auctions...and I did, I edited them. I posted pictures for him too sometimes. As a way of thanking me, he'd call me when he was putting up the books so I could be there to hit bins...after a while, he just contacted Evelyn, bought books and sold them directly to me. I had a limited budget so when he bought books and I had reached my...(am I going to get divorced if I spend more limit;) sometimes I'd sell them for him on these boards. I made a few big mistakes, (someone got a very nice copy of Amazing Man 22 very cheap) lol...but it was ok. Richard was retired and his son no longer collected comics so he wanted a comic book friend. Really sweet man. I have to see if I have any of those penciled lists, but I doubt it. Then Richard moved to be with one of his sons and I didn't hear anything else about the collection or him...until I got a phone call a few years ago from Richard (the ebay seller) telling me that Evelyn needed some help. She was trying to sell the leftover books (the ones left after the dealers had cherry picked) and he thought she was getting cheated, so would I sell them for her, since he was not longer doing that? It was not on the top of my list, She had been told they were all junk and the "dealers" she was talking to wanted to buy them at junk prices. When I spoke to her she was so nice, I said OK, I'd try selling them for her...IF she would trust me and mail me the books...and she did, a box at a time. It turned out she had some very interesting things left, so I sold them here on the boards for her. Nice lady, very interesting to talk to... She was shocked at how much money she got ...all through boards sales. The books I have mostly came from Richard's (the eBay seller) sales. When I listed the books and mentioned her name was Evelyn, Richard Olsen (The Yellow Kid) contacted me, told me he knew her husband and her...he was involved in the comic book group and he wanted to speak with her. She was delighted to find out that Richard Olsen (the Yellow Kid) not the Richard from Ebay...was around and they spoke with each other. They remembered each other and were friendly after all those years and even though they were 1,000 miles away. Richard Olsen told me quite a bit about the history. I was very sad at his passing and realized I should have asked MORE before he passed...which is the reason I'm sitting here and typing for you guys;) I hope this helps

The Batman and the Pep are sold by PM. If anyone has a reasonable offer on the Marvel Mystery or the World's Finest, just PM me. The thread will stay open a few more days. Thank you! Happy Cyber Monday.

Thanks, that was one of the last MLJs that I kept because it's super cool...I had a bunch more years ago...all from the same collection, I had never even seen one before that.

Thank you both!

World's Finest #71 , CGC 3.5 OW pages. 1954 Superman and Batman begin as a team. Bin is $595

Pep Comics #7, from the Evelyn Collection! CGC 3.0 SB, MLJ 1940 There are only 24 of this issue on the Census. Again, I had it slabbed, I didn't see any problem with the pages, or I would not have sent it in, so if there is a problem, it should be very minor. Bin is $1500 SOLD ! First picture was taken in the daylight, it shows a shadow, but the colors are true.

Marvel Mystery 30, CGC 2.5 SB, 1942, Timely, 1942 "Remember Pearl Harbor" issue., Mickey Spillane text story. Art Comments Bill Everett & Carl Burgos story & art, Bob Oksner, Syd Shores, Gus Schrotter &, Al Fagaly art, Al Gabriele cover Just a note, I had this book graded, I didn't see any problem with the pages, it was very readable. So I'm guessing if there is a problem, it's small. Bin is $2500.00 Sold to WASM I am posting several different pictures. I took some that looked ok, but when I looked the next day, they looked faded, so there is a picture with natural light, but again it has a shadow from my window. I found a daylight picture of the back cover, it's the 2nd one, shows true colors Daylight picture with shadow from window, these are the true colors. Tru True colors but there is a shadow from the window lors but with shadow from window.