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Super Kool Kirby Variant!!!

More antique mall/flea market/LCS goodies from this weekend's "end of summer" 2-day roadtrip w/the family. The UK price variants were a nice surprise, as were the Starlin readers. But the < $10 higher grade Kirby stuff (all keepers for me) were the real winners for my collection. And that Tarzan Family #61 (2nd issue) is easily one of the nicest 50-cent DC giants from that era I have ever seen -- bright colors, full gloss, sharp corners, and perfectly centered. Keep digging in those ragged long white boxes...you never know what you'll find!!!

Thanks Ray!

Thursday, 8/24 UPDATE: The price for all 18 books in this thread has been reduced to $60 shipped (boxed Priority; US only). I'll also throw in several more readers from the same collection/era. That's right around 3 bucks apiece for some classic DC readers...

Okay...I'd like to wrap this up tonight -- the price for the original lot has been reduced to $75 $60 shipped in the US, and I will throw in the 8 freebies pictured below as well -- all from the same collection, and all complete and readable: Action 335, 354...Superboy 106, 111...Superman 181...Supe's Pal Jimmy Olsen 75, 91, & Supe's GF Lois Lane 52. Any takers???

SA DC lot: Late 10¢/early 12¢ era Superman & related readers w/minor keys… The Mort Weisinger era at its wackiest and most wonderful...! All of these copies came from the same original owner, and all are lower grade with various defects -- spine rolls, stains, pieces missing here and there, insect damage, popped staples, etc., etc. BUT they are all complete and readable: NO coupons clipped; NO pages are missing. And the page quality overall is surprisingly good…supple and readable. (NOTE: Defects not obvious in the scans are noted in the listings.) Bottom line? These are affordable readers that won't fall apart in your hands. Don't expect too much in terms of grade. But if you just want some "entry level" late 10-cent era superhero DCs to read or as place holders, you could to a whole lot worse than these! Here's what you get: • Action Comics #292: Fair-. 2nd Super-Horse. Cover detached from top staple. Insect damage to the back cover and the bottom edge/lower right-hand corner of most interior pages. NOTHING missing, and all stories are complete and readable. • Adventure Comics #278: Fair. Small piece missing from the upper rhc bc. Cover detached from bottom staple. NOTHING missing -- all stories are complete and readable. • Adventure Comics #282: Fair. 5th Legion of Super-Heroes appearance; intro/origin of Star Boy. NOTHING missing -- all stories are complete and readable. • Superman #141: Poor/Fair. Half of the last page (ad page) is missing -- does not effect story. Upper left-hand corner has been cut off from the entire book (see scan). Cover detached from bottom staple. NOTHING missing -- all stories are complete and readable. • Superman #147: Fair. 7th Legion of Super-Heroes; 1st Legion of Super-Villains. Cover detached from top staple; large tear to the front cover from the upper lh corner down through the bottom of the "S" in the Superman logo; lots of tears on the back cover, but no large pieces missing. NOTHING missing -- all stories are complete and readable. • Superman Annual #5: Fair. 1962 80-page Giant. NOTHING missing -- all stories are complete and readable. • Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane #23. Fair. Cover partially detached from top staple. NOTHING missing -- all stories are complete and readable. • BONUS!!! This lot also includes the following 3 coverless (but otherwise complete) "Superman Family" comics from the same era: Adventure 281 & 283 (first General Zod & the Phantom Zone!), and Superman 135 (2nd Lori Lemaris; cf detached -- not missing!). Ten books total. $75 shipped and insured REDUCED...now...$60 shipped and insured via boxed USPS Priority Mail (US only) for the whole lot.

Hey, thanks. As I recall, it used to be very close to "real time" updates here...but maybe that changed with the format change last year?

Sorry! Getting some VERY heavy weather here in north-central MD at the moment -- will be back with the listings on the other side of it (if the power stays on, that is!)...

I know it's a Tuesday night, but none of the "views" counts (at least on the front page) have changed for any of the threads in the GA/SA/BA sales forum for the past 30 minutes or so. Something on my end maybe?

Up for sale tonight -- a lower grade lot of cool, late "10¢-era" DC readers featuring the Superman family, including a few (fairly minor) SA Superman-related keys (first General Zod/Phantom Zone; early LSH appearances, etc.)! ============================================================================ TERMS: • in the thread rules. • PayPal ONLY for this sale. • No HOS'ers/probies/etc. • Payment is due within 2 days of closing the deal unless we've made other arrangements. DOMESTIC US SHIPPING (w/extremely secure packaging): • FREE in the US at the BIN price listed below. • I am sometimes able to ship the same day that payment is received, but usually no later than one day after payment is received. ***IMPORTANT NOTE -- US shipping only, very sorry!*** RETURNS: • Shouldn't be necessary, but…I'm reasonable -- if there's a problem of any kind, please PM and we'll sort it out. Need larger scans? Detail pics? Interior pics? More info? Please feel free to PM me. Finally, my feedback thread is located here (under my old username, but it's still me): https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/198709-mikeyriffhards-feedback-thread/ ============================================================================

Here are this weekend's road-trip finds. I've said it before many times and I'll say it again -- it's always AMAZING to me how many perfectly respectable BA books are still available in various LCS back-issue bins for $5 or less...

No clue. Here's what Doug Sulipa has to say about them in general...

Looks like these were cobbled together from randomly selected remaindered comics, and priced differently according to the year of release: https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=423931 https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=429531 Maybe they didn't sell well the first time around at $1.25, so they tried again a year later at .98?

Fabulous Flo was also a stone fox. LOVE this pic of her -- she looks like Betty Weiss from The Shangri-Las! Very sad news indeed...so much is being lost, and far too quickly.

Thanks!

LIFE magazine - March 11, 1966 (vol. 60, no. 10): This popular issue, released during the early days of "Batmania" in the mid '60s, is widely sought after for its cover. But...the 10-page illustrated feature story (10.5 pages if you count the Editor's Note on p. 3, which tackles the same subject), is a real hoot, too, linking as it does the "lunacy" of the Batman TV show, the then concurrent and very wacky theatrical production of the kitschy Superman musical ("It's a Bird…It's a Plane…It's Superman"), and (of all things) Peter Weiss's very strange "Brechtian" Broadway drama w/music, Marat/Sade, in which the Marquis de Sade directs a play within the play while locked up in the lunatic asylum in which he spent 12 years of his life. As Otto Preminger, Mr. Freeze himself, might have said: "...WILD!!!" This copy is 100% complete with all interior pages, including the fold-out poster illustrating the history of the Roman Empire (which the writing in ballpoint pen on the front cover references). There is light foxing on the front cover; the cover itself is detached from the top staple, but firmly attached to the middle and bottom staples; and there are a few rust spots on the top and bottom staples (middle staple is shiny!), but nothing which migrates to the interior. All in all, a solid VG copy which presents very nicely indeed. $50 bagged & boarded, and securely shipped & insured in the US.

Just one item tonight: A copy of the March 11, 1966 edition of LIFE magazine, featuring a classic Adam West Batman cover... ----------------------------------- TERMS: • in the thread rules. • PayPal ONLY for this sale. • No HOS'ers/probies/etc. • Payment is due within 3 days of closing the deal unless we've made other arrangements. DOMESTIC US SHIPPING (w/extremely secure packaging): • FREE in the US at the BIN price listed below. • I'm sometimes able to ship the same day that payment is received, but usually no later than one day after payment is received. ***IMPORTANT NOTE -- US shipping only, very sorry!*** RETURNS: • Shouldn't be necessary, but…I'm reasonable -- if there's a problem of any kind, please PM and we'll sort it out. Need larger scans? Detail pics? Interior pics? More info? Please feel free to PM me. Finally, my feedback thread is located here (under my old username, but it's still me): https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/198709-mikeyriffhards-feedback-thread/ ============================================================

Btw...did you ask the original owner?

Here's what I saw, but maybe it's just a coincidence of the color streaking...

If you look very closely at the upper left-hand portion of the blotted out word balloon, you can still make out the first word of the dialogue ("IF"...). Not sure how it was defaced, but it does look like the original text was there at some point...

Thanks! Here's a postimage test...

Imgur... imgbb: Grrr...this shows as an image in preview mode, but when I update the post, all that appears is the image name.

Grrr...very sorry: I'll experiment elsewhere...

Wow...very low-class move by Photobucket. I'm trying imgbb -- uploading to it is easy, but the "BBCode link" they provide won't display the image, just the name of the file. UPDATE: I figured it out...I think... Nope...still no good...