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I'm not sure, I don't have this book in my possession anymore. I know it's not a color breaking crease. It maybe from printing. Or maybe a scratch on the cover? I'm just speculating now but my instincts tell me it's printing.

I don't have the secret hearts on my check list to get, didn't know a 1972 issue with May on the cover existed so I'll most definitely get that one too off you.

Another bronze age book which was bought directly of a distributor so never hit the news stands, thanks for looking.

Just in case I miss the post for Young love 95, any copy is better then no copy for my May 72 collection

Damn, I missed out on the Heart Throbs 141 to upgrade my vg with writing on the cover for my May 72 collection

I've enjoyed reading the stories here. I'm originally from Australia and got into comics in 1987. Lcs had no Golden age and a small sample of low grade and over priced silver age books. I remember reading the overstreet updates quarterly magazine and remember a dealer talking about golden age covers and mentioned about Bill Battle 3 with its cold war and the striking cover of clairvoyant 3. I Stopped collecting new comics in 1993. 2005 I think when I got back into comics and with the internet I was able to buy back issue silver age books from metropolis. Also this time I looked up if they had those two golden age books the dealer mentioned so many years ago and they had copies so I bought them and still have them today so these are my first golden age books. I collect from all eras though I don't do runs in golden age because of prices. I collect a sample like world war 2 covers from each timely and DC titles. A single digit early Superman and a pre Batman Detective. Just too many cool books from all eras and so little hobby money to aquire them.

If you want it Mars76, send me a pm with your name and postal address and I'll send it to you, the second copy for free.

Mars 76 If you want it, send me a pm with your name and address and I'll post it to you. For free

What do you think about this copy, you think this one is minty?

Yeah I would of loved to see the collection. Someone who did see it mentioned to me that one of the piles had a giant size X-Men 1 on the top of one of the stacks and that was a drek book compared to what he had seen. Then again having all those comics in a residential home plus a big vinyl record collection and only paths that one can walk along, I'm kind of glad I didn't see it.

I had problems logging in yesterday where I'd log in and it would kick me out, I just restarted my phone as that's what I use and logged in successfully the first time after that.

This is another book bought straight off the distributor and never hit the news stand back in the 70s and is unread with full gloss. It was $15 at my lcs so I bought two copies. Thanks for looking.

This book was bought the same time as the other Swamp Thing 3. Manufacturing error with the color on the cover. It's not sun damage as the book was bought off a distributor when first released and never read and was put inside a box for 50 years. There were 3 other copies with this defect that came into my lcs. Would like to know if CGC would grade this differently, The dark mark on the top back cover is distributor spray. Thanks for looking.

I think this collection sold for approx $340k

If you got a Girls love stories 169 or a Young Love 95 I'd be interested in them.

They did, and it was an amazing collection that I was told. I never saw it myself. Just a couple of photos.

There were three bidders and it was supposed to be a silent bid. First bidder dropped out as his bid was 80k. I just think it was ordinary that the family extended the bidding period for way too long and kept going to the last two bidders to bid against each other. And take the families their word that was the bid from the previous bidder

This is a book bought off someone who bought it straight off a distributor and not the news stand and it's never been read. Just put in a box with others for 50 years. I may read it maybe..

I know of a collection of 300k books that sold roughly last year in the Northwest, it had a safe where there was a wonder woman 1, sensation comics 1, golden age Sub-mariners, Detective comics started at around the issue 30s and went up, Captain America's, All stars, single numbered batman's and up ECT. The silver age were in piles in the bookcase, Spidey 1 up, Fantastic four 1 up, X-Men 1 up, Avengers 1 up ECT. There was so many comics one had to walk a path throughout the home. The garage had a stack of comic boxes 6 ft high and about 10ft square. There were boxes where the collector had bought comics from comic stores and have never been opened. He also collected records and there were 1000s of vinyl records from the 60s - 80s. Most never played and still in unopened plastic. The family wanted to sell all the comics all at once and have to comics moved out of the house as quickly as possible. They decided on a silent auction where three bidders put in a bid. Instead of taking the highest bid they'd extend deadlines and go back to the bidders saying you've been outbid, do you want to up it. There was a minimum percentage you had to bid up. So after the first few bump ups my mate stopped bidding. So we are talking multiples of 6 figures here, I'd better not say what this collection roughly sold for. My mate at the time organized a vintage record store to buy the records and didn't even get a thank you from the family. I still think there are collections like these out there. I know of a older gentleman who walks into a comic book store with shopping bag of 15 to 20 bronze age comics. Yeah I know it's bronze age, the interesting thing is when he was in his 20s he worked in a distributor business and the staff were allowed to buy comics, magazines and books at cost. This was before they were shipped out to the news stands. So he would buy a book here, 3 books there, 5 - 10 - 20 - 50 -100 comics of a single issue at a time. The shopping bag he brought in had 7 copies of Green Lantern 87 1st John Stewart, 6 copies of Strange tales 169, 5 copies of Swamp Thing 3. He never read them, he just bought them and took them home and put them in a box for 50 years. Here's a copy of Swamp Thing 3. As I said there's a chance of OO collections for silver and bronze. As for Golden age it's going to be collections put together after they were released.

Some covers that I like.

At summer con today.