speedcake Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 also, dang you guys have been busy lately. I'm still working on catching up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevalmeow Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 10 hours ago, speedcake said: Got a decent starter copy from eBay today. That is a nicely centered copy and presents well. Congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedcake Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 4 minutes ago, chevalmeow said: That is a nicely centered copy and presents well. Congrats! thanks! i'm happy with it for sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakman29 Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 6 hours ago, speedcake said: thanks! i'm happy with it for sure Yeah the early Vampirella's are getting to be hard to find in nice shape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Stevemmg Posted October 4, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 4, 2020 Congratulations, Charlie. That is a McHenry collection copy, and I think the only Vampirella 7 from that collection that I don’t own. This was a spectacular original owner collection that was bought by an antique mall dealer, well, at least part of the collection. While there were some copies that were lower grade, most were news stand fresh. They were stored in banker boxes and each box had the description of the contents. As it arrived, it included Cartoons, National Lampoon, Heavy Metal, Vampirella and then a smattering of other titles. It was brought in by a young man in his early ’20’s, who had simply asked the dealer if they would buy magazines. He described it as some car magazines and “Vampira” and they reluctantly agreed to look at them. Very unfortunately didn’t ask him anything about the origins of these magazines. There were boxes labeled with other titles like Savage Tales, Epic, etc that weren’t included. Interestingly, none have any kind of date stamps or markings, and he had multiples of all the Frazetta covers and some other keys. It was very apparent to me the type of collector this was, and I have been hoping now for four years that the rest of this will turn up. I bought a limited number of Creepy, Eerie and Skywalds from it, and runs of NL and HM that were complete from their first issues and running up to 1985/6. The Vampirella’s stopped at #87, so likely the rest of those are still out there too. The dealer also didn’t bother to get any contact information of the young man that brought them into the antique mall. It could have been an inheritance, a theft, a storage unit find, or any number of situations. What a shame, a phone call could solve a lot of the mystery perhaps. FoggyNelson, The Lions Den, speedcake and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedcake Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 That's wild, it did ship from McHenry, Illinois. How did you spot this? And thanks! It'd been a while since I added to my mags, so it felt nice to receive this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lions Den Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 On 9/25/2020 at 12:20 PM, 90sChild said: Few pickups from the boards, and a Creepy #7 ebay 9.0 that might be undergraded?... you be the judge I'll post scans below. If the pages have chipped corners that can lower the grade as well. It's a pretty common flaw for early Warrens. Looks pretty nice to me, though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lions Den Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 8 hours ago, Stevemmg said: Congratulations, Charlie. That is a McHenry collection copy, and I think the only Vampirella 7 from that collection that I don’t own. This was a spectacular original owner collection that was bought by an antique mall dealer, well, at least part of the collection. While there were some copies that were lower grade, most were news stand fresh. They were stored in banker boxes and each box had the description of the contents. As it arrived, it included Cartoons, National Lampoon, Heavy Metal, Vampirella and then a smattering of other titles. It was brought in by a young man in his early ’20’s, who had simply asked the dealer if they would buy magazines. He described it as some car magazines and “Vampira” and they reluctantly agreed to look at them. Very unfortunately didn’t ask him anything about the origins of these magazines. There were boxes labeled with other titles like Savage Tales, Epic, etc that weren’t included. Interestingly, none have any kind of date stamps or markings, and he had multiples of all the Frazetta covers and some other keys. It was very apparent to me the type of collector this was, and I have been hoping now for four years that the rest of this will turn up. I bought a limited number of Creepy, Eerie and Skywalds from it, and runs of NL and HM that were complete from their first issues and running up to 1985/6. The Vampirella’s stopped at #87, so likely the rest of those are still out there too. The dealer also didn’t bother to get any contact information of the young man that brought them into the antique mall. It could have been an inheritance, a theft, a storage unit find, or any number of situations. What a shame, a phone call could solve a lot of the mystery perhaps. I always enjoy hearing stories like this...it gives me hope. Randall Dowling, oakman29 and speedcake 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batmiesta Posted October 5, 2020 Author Share Posted October 5, 2020 On 10/3/2020 at 9:36 PM, 90sChild said: Three new black cover Skywalds, at $90 I think I did ok not amazing. The more popular covers were getting $60-100 a piece and it just didn't feel like great value to spend that. Also added two vf/nm vampire tales, I have more than half of them now in 9.0 so I guess this means I'm required to finish the set. Where did you get these beauty's from? chevalmeow and The Lions Den 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoggyNelson Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 Great haul above👍👍😷am jealous‼️‼️👏👏 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevalmeow Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 I just found out that my submission of Eerie #25 to CGC for the Steranko in house signing has finally been graded (after 8 weeks). I don't have a lot of signed slabs so I obviously don't do this very often. The only books that I have signed and slabbed are Vampirella Commemorative Blue #1 (Frazetta), Vampirella V5 #1 (Middleton), Stabbity Bunny #1 (Rivera), and a non-CGC Frankenstein Alive, Alive 1 (Wrightson). I should be getting it back by the end of this week. This graded out as a 9.6 with OW-W pages! I was expecting maybe a 8.5 - 9.2 grade. Happy, Happy! Joy, Joy!! speedcake, Jasonmorris1000000, The Lions Den and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedcake Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 35 minutes ago, chevalmeow said: I just found out that my submission of Eerie #25 to CGC for the Steranko in house signing has finally been graded (after 8 weeks). I don't have a lot of signed slabs so I obviously don't do this very often. The only books that I have signed and slabbed are Vampirella Commemorative Blue #1 (Frazetta), Vampirella V5 #1 (Middleton), Stabbity Bunny #1 (Rivera), and a non-CGC Frankenstein Alive, Alive 1 (Wrightson). I should be getting it back by the end of this week. This graded out as a 9.6 with OW-W pages! I was expecting maybe a 8.5 - 9.2 grade. Happy, Happy! Joy, Joy!! Nice, grats! I considered sending mine in as well for the signing but I didn't want @Stevemmg to hunt me down and punt me into the East River... chevalmeow, jimjum12 and Stevemmg 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakman29 Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 (edited) 21 hours ago, chevalmeow said: I just found out that my submission of Eerie #25 to CGC for the Steranko in house signing has finally been graded (after 8 weeks). I don't have a lot of signed slabs so I obviously don't do this very often. The only books that I have signed and slabbed are Vampirella Commemorative Blue #1 (Frazetta), Vampirella V5 #1 (Middleton), Stabbity Bunny #1 (Rivera), and a non-CGC Frankenstein Alive, Alive 1 (Wrightson). I should be getting it back by the end of this week. This graded out as a 9.6 with OW-W pages! I was expecting maybe a 8.5 - 9.2 grade. Happy, Happy! Joy, Joy!! You I was gonna say something. The Eerie 25 you sold me looks way better than an VF. I think I owe you money. Edited October 7, 2020 by oakman29 It's a 9.2 chevalmeow, Randall Dowling and The Lions Den 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevalmeow Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 2 hours ago, oakman29 said: You I was gonna say something. The Eerie 25 you sold me looks way better than an VF. I think I owe you money. My pleasure. I am very glad that you gave it a good home. oakman29 and Randall Dowling 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post chevalmeow Posted October 8, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 8, 2020 My latest arrived today! Second highest on the census out of 22 and highest signature series (so far). Jasonmorris1000000, bounty_coder, Randall Dowling and 10 others 12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombat Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 bounty_coder and chevalmeow 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedcake Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 Squeezy McSphincter , bounty_coder and chevalmeow 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAKI Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 18 hours ago, chevalmeow said: My latest arrived today! Second highest on the census out of 22 and highest signature series (so far). Wow! Such a beautiful copy. Congratulations! bounty_coder, FoggyNelson, oakman29 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post speedcake Posted October 10, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 10, 2020 FoggyNelson, Brandon Shepherd, Jayman and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoggyNelson Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 Nice vampire cover , not very scary but nice🤣🤣😷😷 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...