Montezuma

Here's the rest

I'll try and get more later, a lot of this is thanks to the GCD. Let me know if you see any screw ups on my part.

Leaving aside the little old lady living in rags and dying of starvation who, out of all her possessions managed to keep her NM Action 1 and is now willing to sell it to me for $5. I’ve always lived by the following 1. If the person offers me something at their price, it’s perfectly all right to buy it even if their price is way below FMV. If I sold it for a large profit, I may send them an anonymous donation, but I would not feel obliged to. 2. If someone comes to me with a collection and asks me to estimate what its worth I need to be honest in my estimation and then offer what I’m willing to pay. I also reserve the option of not doing the estimation if I don’t feel it would be worth my time. I used to buy a of collections, and rarely lost any when giving an honest estimate. I once had a lady contact me with 750 Golden Age / 50’s books. Most were in mid-grade and nice. I estimated the collection was worth in the neighborhood of $5,000 (this was around 1982) and told her there was no way I could afford it, but if she’d sell me the high grade Little Lulu run at a fair price I would get her offers from dealers for the rest. She responded that she and her Husband had talked to a couple dealers who told them the collection was worthless and offered them $1 each for some of the books like the one below. She asked me how much I could afford. At the time I had just gotten out of college and was basically broke. I told her I could come up with $500 which was way less than the $1 a book, and she said I could have them for that price. A few years later she called me up when one of her sons wanted to sell his Silver age collection I looked it over, and it had been cherry picked and was mostly subscription copies of DC books; however since I now had money and felt it was appropriate based on first buy, I bought them for considerably more than I would normally have paid As to Grandma and her Action 1, I’d explain to her that the book is only worth $1, but I’d give her the $5 out of generosity, either that or wait until she turned to leave and then mug her.

I pick them up whenever I find cheap copies, along with all the Super Comics reprints they're fun to chase.

He also had some Stanhall covers from somewhere, I bought a few like this one from Fantasia decades ago where the covers are a thing of beauty, and the interiors are 4.0's

Some giveaways

Bought this one years ago, it was cheap due to the amateur resto, The front cover was whitened using "white out"

The sad thing was there was a box full of DeCarlo Millie's and Irma's, but they were all low grade and every one was missing pages. At a buck a piece I picked out any with decent covers, but most were completely shot. A stack of Dell Peanuts, also all missing the centerfold,

Gold Rush Flea Market this last weekend, Nothing great, but a lot of $1-$5 boxes to dig through

Many moons ago my father bought a Lionel Train and got 400 comics thrown in on the deal, this was one.

Thanks, I usually finish about the middle of the pack, so I've got my fingers crossed for this round

Sunday Pix ran weekly and teh Catholic Church published these two, each contained comics, but they we're pretty weak with forgettable art

A lot of them came out of St Paul, so they show up occasionally around here. Treasure Chest and Topix were the big 2 running hundreds of issues over decades And even some collections of stories from the above

It's a real nice book in hand,but with the discoloration and store stamp 8.5 was a happy gift

Well on this one it looks like I was too tough,I was expecting a 1.8, hoping for 2.0 with the press. It got 2.5 so I was happy

Glad to see I wasn't crazy,With the book in hand I was expecting a 6.0 and hoping for a 6.5,it came back 8.5 OW.