Hard to find

[Rip]

Are there honestly ANY hard to find Marvel books?

Other than variants and books above 7.5

[justiceleaguer]

I completely agree with you Rip. Every single comic shop tends to have a disproprtionate number of marvel comics displayed than dc's on their walls. Id say to every 10 marvels displayed you see 2 or 3 dc's. Makes marvels a heck of a lot easier to find.

[drbanner]

Are there honestly ANY hard to find Marvel books?

Other than variants and books above 7.5

 

Yes - the late 60's/early 70's Marvel humor titles like Lil Kids, Petey (Peter the Pest), and Harvey ( it seems like there are a few others) are just about impossible to find in any grade. You just never see these books for sale!!

[Rip]

I see Lil Kids. I think A1 has some nice copies. Petey (Peter the Pest), and Harvey don't remember seeing too many. I remember the Lil Kids because Brian (the owner) said "Check these out." and showed me a high grade number 1 along with a few other high grade copies about a year ago.

[murph0]

Since they're easy for you to find, could you run out and find me a STT 107? I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks

 

Brian

[Zonker]

Isn't conventional wisdom (e.g. Overstreet, Gary Carter) that More Fun Comics is the most difficult run to assemble? And likely the priciest! Ian Levine is missing 14 from that title.

[Rip]

What grade?

[murph0]

9.2/9.4, please find it

 

Brian

[Rip]

Doesn't Metropolis have like 5 copies of that book with a VF+ as their top copy.

Comiclink had a VF+ also. A 9.2 may take a little bit, but I'm sure it shouldn't be too hard. Also Mile High Comics has a CGC 9.0

http://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=direct&issue=82854655732%20107%20CGC%209.0%20DS

[murph0]

Yeh, lots of people have VF+ copies.. and 9.0's are avail on Comiclink and MHC. I'm looking for a 9.2 or 9.4, never seen anything higher than a 9.0

 

Thanks though

 

Brian

 

P.S. Wow MHC 700 dollars..? Hate to see what they'd want for a 9.2, 2000 dollars?

[Rip]

There are quite a few Marvels tough in 9.2 or better. I'd be glad to admit that. I'd also be glad to admit MHC prices suck. But we were talking about rare books hard to find above 7.5. (I will however try to find a 9.2 for you)

But find a book like Tomahawk 116 in VF or better

[murph0]

How high was Tomahawk on the monthly seller list? Was it even one of the top 100 sellers? Obscure titles will always be much more hard to find than main Superhero titles.

 

Brian

[drbanner]

Obscure titles will always be much more hard to find than main Superhero titles.

 

Really?

[murph0]

Just trying out he was comparing apples to oranges.

 

Brian

[Rip]

True, it was low but what a great Adams cover. Superhero wise for Silver (However there's some debate on if its Silver) I'd say its got to be Detective 225 for rarity in high grade.

[murph0]

That's a G.A. book, came out in 1955

 

Brian

[Rip]

There is some debate on if thats silver. OK how about Showcase 8 (2nd Flash 1957 if thats ok) Or does it have to be from the same year?

[murph0]

Well, preferably from the years when collecting really started picking up.. and super-hero books started catching on.. so like 60's

The only thing I could compare either of the two books you mentioned would be with a book that as put out 3 years earlier or a book that was put out 6 years later.

 

Brian

[Bronty]

Focus, people, focus...

 

The original question was:

 

Im curious to know what all of you feel the most difficult DC and Marvel series is to complete, of any age?

 

We are not talking about rarity in grade - the issue is overall rarity... so, I'd have to think it's More Fun.

 

 

 

 

[murph0]

For "Marvel", I'll go with Amazing Adventures #1 from 1961.

It's the best I could do..

 

Brian