Shark

And here's something extra for the boys on the boards from the UK. These scans of British weeklies are on the inside of the front and back covers.

And here's the Hulkster waving bye-bye to everyone on the back cover....

More Marvel Bullpen pics:

And here are some inside pages showing pics of some of the members of the infamous "Marvel Bullpen". I've circled some of the more familiar names of the writers and artists.

Here's an inside page of Stan Lee welcoming everyone to the convention. Boy, did he look a lot younger then (almost 34 years ago).

I recently picked up a Strange Tales #86 from an eBay seller and also noticed he had something else interesting for sale (which I obviously bought). It's basically a magazine titled "Welcome to the First.... Mighty Marvel Comic Convention. It was apparently held at the Hotel Commodore in New York on March 22nd, 23rd and 24th in 1975. I got it pretty cheap (less than $10) and thought it was a great piece of Marvel history. I'll post more pics here in a few minutes including a pic of a young Stan Lee, pics of the infamous "Marvel Bullpen" and a back cover scan of the Hulk.

Yesterday I was in a local book store and purchased a variety of comics there: 1) A 30 cent price variant Captain America #198 2) 4 Whitman/DC variant issues (Action #483 & 502, Justice League #171, Wonder Woman #258) 3) A number of other Wonder Woman issues 4) A few other misc. comics. While I was grading the Wonder Woman comics, I opened the cover to the #205 issue to get the year published. Lo and behold! Look what I found! The outside cover is only about a 6.0 but the inside cover is about an 8.5. Does anybody know if there are any other Wonder Woman #205 double cover issues out there? GPA doesn't show any sold anyway and I don't think the CGC census even denotes double covers. Mike

You should be proud. You're no longer a double cover virgin!

Recent submissions which came back this month (sorry, scanner doesn't like slabs):

Got all these slabbed double cover issues back from CGC this month: (Sorry for the lousy scans but my scanner does not scan slabs well) I really thought that Marvel Premiere #2 would come back a 9.2/9.4 but I must have missed something on the inside.

Kudos to trmooore54 for a nice batch of 5 Daredevil slabs. Thanks Tom!

I was out doing some Christmas shopping all day and the first place I stopped was a local antique mall. This mall has a few comic sellers and I picked these babies up today: I may end up having all 4 slabbed.

Kudos to JiveTurkeyMoFo for a sweet Heroic Comics #88. Thanks George!

Big kudos also to sborock for a nice Spider-Woman #1 SS CGC issue and a VERY nice freebie! Thanks Steve! Mike

Big kudos to Dover for a nice big lot of #1 issues from the Bronze Age. Thanks Michael! Mike

Big 1960's Marvel Annuals Comics Lot (Amazing Spider-Man, Daredevil, Fantastic Four, Marvel Tales, Strange Tales, etc.) These will be up for sale later tonight. I just received a shipment I won in an online auction and will be grading them shortly. ALL of my undercopies will be sold later tonight. This lot includes the following Marvel Annuals: Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Daredevil Annual #1 Fantastic Four Annual #2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Marvel Tales #1 Strange Tales Annual #2 There will probably be additional annuals included as well. Shark

I'm interested.....

I'll be starting an ALL THOR sales thread tonight and will continue it for a few days. I have a lot of 12, 15, 20 and 25 centers with many being in the Fine to Very Fine range. Shark

Kudos to whet for a nice Cat #3 and a very sweet Human Torch #3. (thumbs u Mike

Kudos to pirate for a nice Conan #24 Nude Variant slab. I've been tempted to buy one of those for some time now and I'm glad I finally did it. Thanks! Mike

Big kudos to sckao for all of the help he has given us in setting up our VCC X booths! You rock! Shark

Kudos to comicwiz for a couple of nice Spideys (153,171) and a nice FF #102. Thanks Joseph! (thumbs u Shark

Some sweet Silver Surfers there Timmay. (thumbs u

Uhhh, it's a bit late for an announcement but I started an impromptu Black Friday sales thread this afternoon. Some nice books are in there - Justice League #1, Funny Stuff #1, Brave and Bold #34 (1st SA Hawkman), World's Finest #19, Four Color #596 (1st Turok), a few 1940's EC comics, Planet Comics #72 (next to last issue), Wings Comics #117, etcetera...... Shark