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Is there even a price difference in clipped ce raw and clipped ce in a case? Some people do collect ce and ie, but as far as I'm aware people buying clipped are buying them to play with, and ce hasn't had counterfeits yet.

Ditto, 39 😄

That's a monster of a book, one of my grails!

Couple recent pick-ups from Fantasy Illustrsted. First time buying from him and I'm pretty impressed. Best packing I've gotten for pulps through the mail bar none, even came in mylar.

The centerfold for AF15 just sold for over 2 grand on ebay. The whole book at 28k looks like a steal now *edit* oh, and what shocked me is there isnt even a picture of spidey on the centerfolds! That's like buying a page from Cap 1 and getting one an add on one side and little orphan annie on the other!

Having lived through the collapse of the mid 90s can traumatize oneself. You'll always be looking at the market waiting for the next bubble burst.

Just a couple books I was trying for on ebay and their final realized prices. Two bidders brought this from 100 to 410 in the final minutes of bidding. I dropped out below 80. Sharp copy, healthy price. Bookery has this slightly higher than the run issues around it, bondage cover. I couldn't find much information about this book, might not technically be a pulp I guess. Seems to not have a square spine, but stapled like a comic. Short run of 2 or so issues. Ended at 561. This shadow went for 150. It's interesting to look at the bid histories to kind of get a feel of how many people are pushing the price. A number of pulp auctions seem to have 2-3 bidders for most of the price increase. Blissard has a number of pulps ending on Monday, mostly lower to mid grade. Curious how those will end, as his auctions tend to get a lot of eyes. One of the pulps I'm thinking of trying for already has 20 watchers

While I'd love to see the creator (or heirs) get some better financial compensation for works they've created that have generated so much in profit, copyrights in general have transformed beyond what they were meant to be in the first place. The fact that say, superman or micky mouse aren't public domain almost a century after their creation is just iabsurd

Got some time off finally so doing my thing and digging around ebay pestering some of the big pulp sellers with lowball best offers, and came across this book which seemed really familiar. Took a bit of digging, but I think it reminds me of a Rangers comic. Swipe? Homage? Or something obvious a newbie like me missed?

Gotta say I don't have a dog in this fight, but really enough reading posts from those that do. That said, isn't there a similar issue with Lex Luthor? Where his first published story is set after his first apperance story? And batman #1 is not the first Catwoman. I've had that chip on my shoulder since reading the greatest batman tpb #2 30 years ago. 😡

Wait, cable predates gambit!?

Some great pick ups, love any tarzan cover and that March issue is neat for other reasons. And that Amazing Stories annual is thiiiic!

I guess that's one way to look at it. All I took from that post was there is yet more middle-men investors trying to cram themselves between me and the books I want to collect, adding even more cost to the hobby. I miss the days when it was just me and the comic shop guy waging battle.

Wonder if the box qualifies as a DC bullet variant.

I recognize the cover but just searched my books and I'm missing it Is it the cover or the hubbrd story thts making it hot?

Got the bewitched cover of startling stories a bit ago and liked it so much I'm working on the run. Picked up around 30 reader copies recently.

Wait, you'd put the promise above Church? I guess I haven't been following this promise collection that closely, but it seems like a decent story (brothers to korea, the surviving brother holds the younger's collection) but the whole thing still seems a little marred by a lack of details, over grading, chain of custody, etc. The church collection just rings to me as such an amazing story. Man collects piles of comics for decades. Kids put him in the hospital/home and want his junk gone. Young collector by luck gets into the house before the books hit the dumpster and jumpstarts the high end golden age collecting hobby.

Blissard just posted a good 50 mid grade cole books on ebay, if anyone's in the market. I put tracking bids on a few dozen and expect to win none

Small personal victory. Found an antique mall in the middle of nowhere Idaho that has a surprising collection of comic in a couple of booths. Guy who owns them, who i've never met, seems to know his stuff. Selection is great, prices are good, but it's the only shop I've been to that recognizes DCUs and prices them accordingly. After digging through dozens of boxes over the last few months, I finally found one he missed! Common book but I got a rush.

Looks fun I'll try to make it. Only a 3 hour drive 😃 Haven't been to a comic show in almost 30 years.

These look great. I wonder if you could pack them with dryer sheets to help get out the smell, like they do with old trading cards that smell like smoke.

Interesting. By 78 a lot of the strip books I like such as single series 20 fell off the list, but duck books were still red hot.

Got my first 2 weird tales! I've wanted a Brundage cover and an early conan for a while, and with the grading coming down the road figured I should finally pull the trigger. Got these froma heritage auction, and probably paid a bit higher than I would on other platforms. Honestly, I'm a little disappointed. The March 33 issue was listed as VG+. It is in decent shape, but had a severely rusty stable that was not disclosed. I'm pretty lax when it comes to condition I like to think, but I hate rusty staples. Even without the rusty staple, I think vg+ is a bit generous based on a lot of warping and impacts to the cover. The November 33 copy was listed as vg/fn. It looks great, but at some point it was folded, so there you have to squeeze it a bit to straighten it to be able to open and read it. Happy to finally have some weird tales, but a bit disappointed with the rusty staples and folded book. Figured buying from HA would be a good experience, but I'm a little on the fence. Especially with the rusty staples. Buying pulps is tricky

Looks like it might be the case. Pulled some pics from ebay, and the spine on the first image has that extra white space below the title.

Leafing through a reader I just got, and saw a house ad for a comic that's been hunting my ebay saved search list for years 😄 For the wonder stories, the thinner issue has a star stamp. Many decades later comics sold in military exchanges had star stamps, but 32 is pretty early for that kind of distribution. The Nex started after ww2, and the army knock off a few years prior. Cool books either way.