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How about Marvel's Greatest Comics MGC

Another time in the 80’s, I had gone back to school and just graduated so I was pretty much broke. I got a lead on a collection in Hoople North Dakota. A lady had 750 comics from the late 40’s through the 50’s. I went through the collection, and there were no keys, but a lot of nice late golden age stuff. About 10% of it had been read in the bath tub and so had water damage to the bottom edge, and 20% was westerns, but the rest were nice mid-grade. I told the lady that she had a little over $3,000 in comics, but that I couldn’t come up with the money to buy them. I suggested that if she sold me the run of Little Lulu (Yeah, I’ve always loved Dell) I’d broker the collection to a dealer for her. Her response was that she’d already talked to a dealer and he’d said the comics were only worth 25 to 50 cents apiece so she didn’t want to go through a dealer. She asked how much I could offer and I told that the most I could come up with was $500. She said that since I had been honest I could have them for that. (Means I got them at 75 cents each) A couple years later she contacted me and said her son had a bunch of silver age comics. I went again, it was a couple hundred later silver age books, all keys missing, and all had subscription creases. Not really anything I was interested in, but since I had gotten such a deal on the first collection I paid up for the second. From the first collection

I've found a few over the decades, one in the early 80's was fun. I was set up at a flea market in northern Minnesota and a kid came up to me wanting Thor comics. I had a over a long box of them and showed him; however he didn't have much money, but he had 23 comics he had gotten out of the wall of a house they were tearing down. Turned out all 23 were from the 1930's and in real nice shape. 4 of them had paint stripes on the cover where paint had come through the wall slats, but even those were structurally nice. Nothing major in the group, mostly strip reprints like Tip Top. But I was thrilled, gave him a couple long boxes of mostly bronze age comics in trade so he was also happy. Best of the bunch was this Harvey arvey

Back in the 60's we had neighbors who were ultra religious, and would let my parent's know I was going to end up no good because of all the comics I always had around me. Their kids would never be afflicted with the evil things. Thankfully my parents ignored them. The in the 1980's I was digging through boxes of paper at an antique store in a completely different state and came up with a copy of a subscription comic from the 1950's with their name and address on it. Bought and showed it to my mother who had a good laugh.

$1 a month not a week, lived in a rural area and rarely got to town. Rich was finding soda bottle at 3 cents each or trapping gophers for 25 cents

That fateful day sitting in front of the comics at Woolworth's and learning that my $1 allowance would only buy me 8 comic instead of the usual 10. Math was hard.

There's a Nationwide counter rack that's kind of the same except it's made out of cardboard. I've only seen one that I got out bid on a couple years ago. It's for the 4 Nationwide 5 cent Digest titles.

Dover Obie Conquest It was made our a group of comics that came out in 1953

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How about a comic adaption of the Mile High II collection

Foodini was before my time, but supposedly pretty popular in the late 40's, early 50's. I do remember Winky Dink, though most likely from reruns since I would have been too young during the first run. It had to be about the first interactive TV. You got the comic, a plastic overlay to put on the TV screen,and a box of crayons.When Winky got to a river, the animation would stop to give you time to draw a bridge that he could cross.

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3D comics for $50 and Private Detective Vol. 21 #3 - June 1949 - good - $25 take

I've got this one listed as #2

Local Toy show deal, most expensive one was $5

It can be funny sometimes. I remember an auction where they were doing choice of a comic lot that contained a low grade Aquaman 1, a nice John Wayne 2, A VG Action 123, and a lot of other mixed books. I got outbid at a pretty high price, and an old lady walked up and picked out a Hayley Mills gold key issue with a big grin on her face. I won the next round at $4 a piece.

It's possibly Flower, not Pepe