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13 hours ago, Qalyar said:

Quick comments on a few of these. Overall, I agree with the the folks who got to this thread before me. The only way you're losing money on this buy is if you light it on fire or otherwise mistreat these books. Great catch.

• Active Comics was a Bell publication, one of the Canadian White publishers. You have issues 29 and 30 (the latter titled on cover as New Active Comics). Technically, these last two issues are reprints of US material rather than newly published Canadian content, but they're still collected as part of the Canadian Whites, and 29 in particular is a really hard book to find. Despite the cover being detached at the lower staple, yours is actually in fairly decent condition for the title, a lot of these are straight-up beat.
• Crackajack Funnies 10 is a decent enough book, although the spine roll and ugly tear on yours are going to keep it down in the $20-25 range, I think, assuming no other problems. It's too bad that's not Crackajack Funnies 9, which is the first comic appearance of Red Ryder and a pretty solid minor key book even in trashy grades. Not that you aren't winning on this buy anyway!
• Your Jeep Comics 2 is quite scarce and rather odd. Only the UK edition has the cover character in blue; he is colored rather like a big flying baby in the US version. I have no idea how to assign a market value to this one. Guessing at condition, the US edition would probably be a $50ish book. British editions that vary only by price are often less desirable, but this is an actual variant cover in the true sense, and zero copies of it have been slabbed by CGC. Too bad about the top right corner, though.
• I have absolutely no idea what that Jet Comics even is. The text on the cover is a little too small for me to read in that pic, but it looks like it may have been some sort of promotional give-away? At the very least, you'll want to investigate that one further.
• Red Hot Comics 3 is another Canadian White by Bell, and this one isn't a reprint book, although ironically Red Hot is probably a less less, well, red hot than Active.
• Three Aces Comics 54 is another book to look at closely for condition. It's hard to tell the grade on these from the overview pics, but a CGC 5.0 copy sold last year for $240.
• World Famous Creatures 1 is a historically important horror magazine, debuting not long after Famous Monsters of Filmland. The UK edition, which yours is, only lasted for this one issue, and is not common. Unfortunately, in low grades, it's probably only a ~$30 book (although I imagine it would sell faster than a lot of stuff in that price range). Make sure the back cover is intact; at least the US editions were published with a cut-out monster mask on the back cover and, predictably, many copies have a big hole in the back cover as a result.

Someone else will have to help you with those Classics Illustrated. That series is a nightmare of weirdness to determine printings on, and I have made it my life's goal never to deal with them if I don't have to. There are undoubtedly some experts around here. No clue if any of these titles are ones worth the trouble.

Long Distance Wife is actually one of the 10 issues of Streamline Pictorial Romance, published by the British paperback publisher (and cheapo repackager of US comics) Streamline. This series reprinted stories from various Fox publications, mostly My Love Life and My Secret Story. I'm not sure which "number" this one is (and not all of them were even officially assigned numbers in the indicia, so they're sort of one-offs, but also not really). GCD only has a handful of images for them. This is 100% going to be an example of "not everything scarce has enough market to be worth money", I'm afraid, unless you get lucky and find someone who actually collects the (lots of) obscure romance stuff Streamline produced in the 50s.

Thanks for the info! I've included more photos of the Three aces comic #54 and turns out the world famous creatures has the mask still!

Thanks for the heads up. I had no idea pulp magazines existed in the 1960s before I got these!

1 minute ago, october said:

If you are looking to sell them, I am sure you could find buyers here for some of them. The problem is pricing. Most of these are British or Canadian and it will be hard/impossible to find completed sales on a lot of these. Several are very scarce, but are not particularly desirable. Something like that Detective Comic could bring $25 or $250 depending on who is paying attention.

Scare and not particularly desirable, sounds like me ha. I might stick them on eBay in a week or so, just to see what happens!

Opinions would be nice, I've no idea what I'm doing apart from basic research. Some are not in the best condition but did I lose money? Pretty sure that here's some golden age, silver age and some pulp. Also a load of British mini ones.

Here are the front and back pages. The inside covers are blank.

Thanks all for your replies. I'll try and answer some of the questions I can.

First, I will not be trimming the cover! On closer inspection on the cover, it is clearly the wrong size for the pages (please see photos). And on even closer inspection, there are two pairs of staples, a pair for the inside pages, and a pair attaching the cover. 

As for the indica, there is none.

Adding a reply to bump due to it being my first post and taking a while to moderate, sorry if against the rules ☺️

Hi folks, this is my first post of probably many as I've just come into some old comics.

I've searched the internet high and low trying to get information about this supplement from a newspaper called New York Star that only seemed to exist for two years. The main question I guess is, is this considered a marvel golden age comic. It seems to be Sub-mariner #28, except with a different cover and minus two ad pages which was released in Oct '48, this being Jan '49. It contains:

Three sub-mariner stories (a case of the king's ransom/kids! Kids! Kids!/crime makes the writer) and a Blonde Phantom story (the test of fear). The first panel of every story has a code, being SL-3323, 3522, 3382 and 3562. There is also a two page story titled 'Imagination' with the code SL-3125. On the front cover is art by Frank Frollo. 

Also included is a full page ad for a 25c beanie copter, a sub-mariner quiz page (3718), a page showing two half page ads, one being for a Simplex Portable Typewriter for $2.98 and a Juke box bank for $1.98, and a back page ad for the new York star newspaper. Every inside page is in colour.

So my questions are does this count as a marvel golden age, is it some kind of rare variant find, is it worth grading, does the SL stand for Stan Lee, anything you can tell me would be gratefully recieved. Also, if I was to grade it, is there such a thing as trimming the cover? It overhangs by about 4mm on the outer edge and doing so would drastically increase its presentation.

I have more comics with questions so this probably won't be my last post. Thanks in advance!