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Back in early 1970s, when I was around 8-10 years old, I would go with my mom to Wonderland Mall while she grocery shopped. Usually I would park myself at the comic rack while she grocery shopped and then we would walk through the mall when she had finished. As we were walking through the mall I noticed a new setup made of about 10 glass showcases in the middle of the mall walkway, full of old comic books! This was my first experience in buying old comics. I would visit the shop on a weekly basis for a year or so, sometimes buying stuff and other times just looking. Most of the time I would be buying .15 - .30 cent books, but I had my eye on a Silver Surfer #1 that he had for $4 or $5. My mom took note of it and said we would come back by for it on my Birthday. About a month later we head back over to get my Silver Surfer #1 and the glass showcases were gone, yeah, I was devastated. Life goes on, I collect through High School, College, Marriage, children, etc, never owned a Silver Surfer #1. Flash forward 25 years, in the mid/late 1990s I'm looking through some want ads in the newspaper and a guy is selling his collection. I call and make arrangements to go look at it a few days later. He gives me a call a day later and says he has a guy that was really pushy that wanted the full collection, but since he spoke with me first wanted to give me first look if I could come out now. Very nice of him I thought and headed over to look at it. I got there and started looking through the books, mostly late 1960s to early 1970s books (much of it bulk #1s from the time period), a box full of the old Marvel marx windup toys, boxes of the old Doc Savage type paperback books and about a dozen pages of original art. I started discussing the collection with him and he mentions that they were his dads stuff, he used to have a setup in the old Wonderland Mall back in the early 1970s. It was the most nostalgic feeling I had ever experienced. Long story short, I split the collection with the "pushy" collector. High lights of my portion of the collection included dozens of Swamp Things #1, close to 100 Shazam #1, multiple Savage Tales & Savage Sword of Conan #1, and most of the other #1s from that time period. Ended up with about 3 long boxes from the 1967-1974 time period. And yes, my Silver Surfer #1 was still there.

It's like getting last years pricing this year

I would be pretty ticked off if I got that response after taking the time actually call about the issue before bidding. Although in all fairness, you should probably post your "polite message" you sent them just to see if it could be taken the wrong way.

Anybody else getting this bs message with their latest ebay listing: To help you sell your item, fixed price listings can only be listed with a Good 'Til Cancelled duration. The listing duration has been set to Good 'Til Cancelled There are no other options!! I can no longer choose 30 day listing. Is there a way around this???

Also picked up a copy of "Vamps and Vixens" in the same deal. It's a little smaller in size than "Just Teasing," but has a better assortment of art imo.

I got lucky!

Anybody know if the Just Teasing Hardcovers published by Ursus back in 91 were all signed and numbered or was there an unsigned version? I won an auction but no mention of signed/Numbered.

I met Dave in Austin during his World Tour back in the mid 90s. While I was waiting in a short line for him to show up, my wife, who had our youngest son strapped to her, needed something from the car. I asked her to bring up a handful of books to get autographed. She got down there & decided to bring the whole short box up. She was struggling with the baby and box and a guy on the elevator offered to carry the box, he was going to the show also. He opened it up and started to flip through the books and my wife told him "not to do that." Anyway, when she gets to the line she doesn't have the books and I give her a "what the heck look?" She points to the guy heading to the front of the line with my short box. I said "You gave Dave Sim my box?" She looked at me like ho is Dave Sim, but did tell me she told him not to mess with my books. Anyway, Dave announced that my books were up there whenever I reached the front of the line. Wife said he was a really nice guy. The boy in the picture is my oldest and is in his 30s now. How time flies.

I don't really think they have much value. I picked up a copy of the 100 Bullets #1 because I'm a big fan and it was an oddity I hadn't seen before. Think I paid around $20 or so. Someone has a copy of the Harley Quinn #1 up for around $2000 right now but I wouldn't hold my breath expecting it to sell (one sold a few months back for $19.99). The previously mentioned Batman Crimson Mist is on ebay for $9.99, a little more reasonable there. These would be super easy to scan & print out as many copies as you want once you get hold of an original, if they were selling for any kind of good money that would be abused.

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That was a mess up, I copied and pasted Bird's message but it didn't get the "I'll Take It" sign. So i went back and edited it in to the 2 original posts & accidentally copied it into a new one

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I'm somewhat colorblind so I always had problems with the shades of red used on the background. I mentioned it to Dave when I met him years ago and he pointed out the issues with the black ink and the sword handle. as an easy look. That's what I have always used as an initial check. Then I check the Dragon page and the other checks. This one seems to have most of the checks in common with the original book, but the black ink on the cover isn't bleeding badly. I've also got a handful of autographs and none of them have that circle as the dot of the "i" in Sim. That said, the wording "Best Wishes" is perfect to the ones in my books.

Any opinions on this copy that is up for sale on ebay? https://www.ebay.com/itm/Cerebus-the-Aardvark-1-NM-9-2-Autographed-Dave-Sim-Original-1st-Print/392234262990?hash=item5b52fbe1ce:g:1HYAAOSw~TdcXhcn It seems to pass most of the check points and is signed by Sim in his actual name (assuming that wasn't forged). My problem with it is that my go to check point has always been the "handle" of the sword in Cerebus hand and the outline on the shield. The original version has the black ink bleeding badly to the point it fills in noticeably. This one doesn't have the bleed. Other than that it appears to check out.

The screening Marvel used to print that cover really took out a lot of the fine details. It's even more fabulous in its original form. Adams paint work in this book, Savage Tales/Sword and the Horror books still stand out as some of the best work ever in the comic medium. Congrats on a beautiful piece.

Oh, and the Adams covers (along with the rest of his cover work on the Marvel Mag Line) were the best work he ever did. Fabulous stuff.

One of my favorite series of all time. I discovered George Perez through the Sons of the Tiger and Rudy Nebres was a visually stunning artist with his Iron Fist work. Sons of the Tiger my have been my favorite run of all time, I'm probably one of the few that was upset when the characters were moved into the background in order to focus on the White Tiger.