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I'm in the US also. I would pick up the occasional UK imprint every now and then and became interested in completing a set of Mighty World of Marvel. Prices from the US retailers was going to cost me an arm and leg so I started watching the Ebay UK site. After winning a handful of auctions for cheap, I realized that the shipping was going to eat me up. So then I started ordering large bulk lots from the UK. I've completed my Mighty World of Marvel set and started focusing on the FANTASTIC and TERRIFIC runs from the 1960s. I had almost put together complete sets when I came across a guy selling the complete runs from a single collector. Now I almost have 2 complete sets! Always on the lookout on Ebay UK for the huge lots. The Fantastic/Terrific books used terrible quality staples and it's almost impossible to find these things without some type of rust accumulation. It really bothered me for awhile, but after talking with some collectors in the UK, they say that the vast majority are like that. It's taken me back to when I collected to collect, not overly worried about high grade books only. It's a lot of fun!

Came across another batch of early Barry Smith Pin-Ups back from when he was still a teen in the UK. These are from the Fantastic Weekly put out by the Oldham Press in 1967/68, and were used for the back covers. No Smith Collectors Collection is complete without these classics!

No, the theater took the photos and I never saw any of them. I wouldn't be surprised if they were used somewhere but I never saw them. Really, the open snack bar was the best part of the deal, if it hadn't been offered I would have probably walked.

I was 12 years old when the Ron Ely Doc Savage Movie came out in the Summer of 1975. Me and a group of friends were dropped off to see it the day it was released in San Antonio, TX. There was a group of like 7 or 8 of us and we were the only people in the theater, it was dead. So we get out and are heading for the exit to wait for our ride home when the manager rushes up to us. We figured, , they want us to clean up the mess we left behind, but no, it was better than that. Ron Ely was running late but was on his way to make a surprise appearance at the theater, we were the only kids there that had watched the movie. The manager was desperate to keep us there so we got to sit around for 20-30 minutes waiting with the snack bar opened up for us at no charge. Got to meet Ron Ely and had a bunch of photos taken (never saw them in the newspaper) and got a stack of autographs on the promo poster (same image as Doc Savage #1 mag). As a kid I was pretty excited, but looking back on it, it had to be a huge disappointment for Ron Ely to walk in and realize that the movie was going to bomb.

Werewolf by Night Splash by Leonardo Manco.

My favorite by far. As a kid, it drove me crazy when they got rid of the "horns" on the helmet.

This is such a shame. Recently reread the series after picking up the Omnibus and it may be my all time favorite read. Well written, well drawn, basically every issue is a stand alone story that interlocks into one great epic. I think I've heard it described as a love letter to the history of comics. I'm not sure comics could be done any better than this series was. I know they are worthless, but I still buy them whenever I see them cheap. I say this as someone who had no interest in the series until I picked up a handful of them in a short box I bought wholesale.

Take Shazam 1 - 7.0 OWW $15

Take Tales Of Suspense 75

Grainger was my favorite inker on Sal Buscema, back on the Avengers in the late 1960s, really nice work. Later with Perez, he was a godsend after the Colletta books.

Leonardo Manco. Did a bunch of work for Marvel in the 1990s and then Hellblazer for DC for a good run of issues.

Picked up Cover art for Blaze of Glory #1. Had my eyes on this many, many years ago when it was posted on the Artist Choice site and it disappeared before I could grab it. Very happy to stumble across it on ebay. Colors are sooo much brighter in hand.

I've got a handful of books signed by Adams, that's his sig.

All 3 books + #122

It looks like it was sold for $3995 as a buy it now on Aug 19th, and then resold on Aug 29th for the $83,100. Was the first sale a mistake, or did someone get to him and let him know it was wayyyy underpriced?

So now the work around is to run a few pieces of archival tape on a married book to get a conserved instead of qualified label? I guess it makes as much sense as chopping up a book to remove color touch and get that blue label.

It is a stand alone story, featuring the 1st appearance of the New Teen Titans. This story leads into the story in New Teen Titans #1, it is not a preview of the story in New Teen Titans #1.

As a fan reading in the Copper Age it had to be the Great Darkness Saga from the Legion of Super Heroes (By Levitz and Giffen).

If the book was the X-Men #2 that he sold last May 2019 here on the boards, ebay sold prices have been between $430-$480 for the last 3 or 4 books.

PowerMan Ironfist 50

Defenders 10 - 8.5 OWW $60 Dr Strange 1 - 8.5 OWW $75 MTU 1 - 9.0 CROW $145 DC Presents 1 (Superman Flash) - 8.0 OWW $5 Showcase Presents 100 - 8.5 OWW $5 Teen Titans 48 - 7.5 OWW $

X-men 19 - 3.5 CROW $35

Assuming it was because of the 1st appearance of that super cool new motorcycle. Who came up with that ridiculous looking thing