Subliminal

On 4/4/2024 at 6:41 PM, Terry JSA said:

- Classic Matt Baker (Debated)

- Good Girl Cover

I only see this book going up.

Its a GREAT addition to any man's post-nuclear bunker 

My Epson WF7520 just died a few months ago that I've had for many years.

I bought an Epson again because I loved the 7520 but the WorkForce WF-7840 I got as a replacement just doesn't feel the same and I'm not happy with it.

I think its made by another manufacturer ,Seiko, than my old WF7520 and we ain't fitting like a glove in the transition so far.

We were together for 1.5 Terabytes of comic index scans.

On 2/1/2024 at 6:35 PM, LDarkseid1 said:

I know it seems like a wacko number, but I've got a gut feeling man lol.

I'm sorry, but If they throw in the crack pipe they used in making the auction it might help the buyer not have remorse.

I congratulation the seller for timmg the market, to the second, to be the first.

I own both those books and have scanned both of those too.

Canadian publishers were printing as many books as they could for Canadian customers to stop outflow of money from the country and help pay down the War Debt 

I assume American publishers were willing to let them supply the CDN market as long as they got a cut if they couldn't ship them across the border at that point in time.

They printed multiple copies with different covers and even reduced # of pages (US_52 vs CDN_36) so there is a lot of confusion as to what you get in the interior if you just judge it by the cover if the CDN version chose what stories they chose to shorten with a text summary at the bottom of a page on a CDN book summarizing what happened  on the missing US story pages.

It was not the greatest time in comic reading history but collectible for the rarity and the uniqueness as a result of the cover/interior combinations. 

The best time period was when the US books pg count  was reduced to 36 pgs  like the CDN ones that only printed 36 of 52pg US books.

I still scan and index these Canadian books as I can find affordable copies but hope to publish them on a Canadian comic group website site first before relinquishing the data to GCD    

On 12/14/2023 at 2:03 AM, comicnoir said:

Didn't even leave in the purse.

That was a briefcase full of $$$ for Matt and they stole that (too) .

He looks like a Scrooge McDuck .That was his nest egg and he already has hired a crew to take it to market.

On 12/11/2023 at 5:42 PM, Readcomix said:

I don’t see the Duck.

What are you naming it? Howard? Donald? Dopey?

These colossal sized books were probably made up from remaindered books or leftover print stock where they were printed in Canada.

You never know what you were going to get inside and I always wondered if they put a custom cover like yours on different sets of books so each book could be unique in itself.

The timing of their release might have coincided with Nov/Dec when printing large comics during the Christmas holiday time.

That would be a great time for a kid to get a comic as a gift during the holidays AND the workers in the comic industry time off from production of new content. 

The publishers listed in the indicia of mine are :

Randall Publishers Limited, Export Publishing. Bell Features/Elhil Publishing, Anglo-American, Publications Services Ltd and Superior.

Most of these publishers were located in Toronto and the surrounding area.

I love these book because you never know what you get inside.

On 10/18/2023 at 10:52 AM, Robot Man said:

Calling @eccomic

Hangup.

On 9/27/2023 at 10:07 PM, comicnoir said:

BTW this was a strong result from last weekend's auction.

https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/adventure/zago-4-fox-features-syndicate-1949-cgc-fn-65-off-white-pages/a/122339-17418.s?type=bidnotice-dailystatus

 

I like that price Ron and I hope my copy that I bought  from you 11 years ago will get a bump up in its value too.

On 9/5/2023 at 4:13 AM, comicnoir said:

I don't know for sure. She thought at the time the CL was 4.5/5.0.

I bought a lot of books from her as she upgraded around that time but was not able to get any lower grade issues of those particular issues.

Market price now is beyond my ability to add to my collection and I focus on buying  Canadian comics.

I wish I did but I'm just holding what I have now to sell when it feels right and will probably get them graded first. 

On 8/2/2023 at 2:57 PM, Silver Surfer said:

No copies of the Best Western #59 graded as of yet:

I have a complete copy of that book I index scanned key pages of in the past and can do a complete scan of.

I try to complete scan all Whites I have and CDN reprints but I have too many books to do compete scans and not enough spare time. 

M 

On 7/28/2023 at 5:46 PM, Funnybooks said:

lovely!

I love this book. I have two copies

I also live in a part of Ontario ,Canada that is known for Horse breeding

That's quite a find. There must be a story behind this find. 

On 6/16/2023 at 2:47 PM, comicnoir said:

Baker to Baker

I think this is the one you out bid me on ebay  a long time ago *shakes fist*

Day,am... I wish I could find the BIN button on these books.

On 5/19/2023 at 5:44 PM, jhutton2 said:

Hi Folks, 

I keep meaning to list more books but life keeps getting in the way, so here is what I am doing.

30% off remaining unsold books in this thread.  Claim them after this post and they are yours at 30% off.

 

Cheers

Jason

I'll take it at 30% off !

Thanks Jason

Hi Jason

I'm interested in the Joke 15 if it is still available.

Jim

Those months with the decreases are easily explained 

By the seventh day Ron completed His work that He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work that He had done.Genesis 2:2

I have a copy of this book 

On 1/25/2023 at 7:45 PM, thirdgreenham said:

Hi @Subliminal

I'm not sure if you misread the post, but I'm asking $400 for it.

My Bad

On 1/20/2023 at 8:02 PM, thirdgreenham said:

MR. Tracy Monthly #23 Canadian Edition cgc 8.0 WHITE pages $400

 

Hi Andy

I'll take this at $240 if its still available. I don't have this  rare variant "D1(K Tracy Monthly #23" Canadian Edition " and want to crack it and add it to my CDN scans.  ;)

I have the other Canadian books you have in the thread.

My CDN#2 was $225 10 years ago which was higher that most CDN reprints at that time.

I've seen 4 copies of CDN#2 (Cover of US#5) and 2 copies of CDN#1 (Cover of US#3) so there are more issues to find.

On 1/23/2023 at 7:14 PM, Robot Man said:

I prefer ALL of them. I got these many years ago before anybody mentioned Matt Baker. Just liked them and mostly just pulled them out of boxes. I can “Promise” you they were real affordable. Many years later, I paid a LOT more for this Canada printing. 

My Canadian wasn't cheap either