Comic book collecting with a foreign variant focus 20 20

[lscomics]

Yours has staples??

Yes it does.

[Mijael.Levy]

Yours has staples??

Yes it does.

 

Great man ,i am selling it already at ebay, but if if no one buys it i am gonna try to find someone here on Mexico to help me restore it

[howardhallis]

Yours has staples??

Yes it does.

 

Great man ,i am selling it already at ebay, but if if no one buys it i am gonna try to find someone here on Mexico to help me restore it

 

I'm interested. PM me because I couldn't find the eBay auction.

[Chespirito]

 

[vaillant]

An unusual short-lived pocket sized italian title, which has published some of the Midnight Sons/Blaze material (original cover by Claudio Castellini):

 

[Chespirito]

Mexico

 

 

Australia

 

[Chespirito]

Superman A'La Bondage, Mexico

 

 

 

[Chespirito]

Australian ~~~ .75 cent Canadian Variant ~~~ French Canadian

 

[Eerie Publication]

upgrade photo group

 

 

[lscomics]

Nice!

[lscomics]

Got these in the mail yesterday.

 

This one was a freebie from the seller. Great Jay Scott Pike cover.

 

This was the one I was really after. Neal Adams foreign romance!

 

And look at this...

 

The same seller had this so I figured I should take it off his hands.

 

And I had forgotten I had a CGC copy of the US edition.

[Chespirito]

I like Susy.... (thumbs u

[lscomics]

I like Susy.... (thumbs u

It takes a real man to admit he has a fondness for romance comics.

[vaillant]

As promised to Elisa, the italian Spidey #2, my copy which is about a GD+.

In this grade, it usually goes for 20-25 Euro or so.

 

[vaillant]

Just noticed this on eBay.it – most Captain Marvel covers were unused as the character was published as a backup feature, but here oddly they used the cover of Captain Marvel #26 for a remaindered edition collecting 3 issues (each one of those remaindered books collected different issues, so they are a mess to categorize).

I never saw that one before…

 

http://www.ebay.it/itm/racc-dei-s-eroi-n-56-del-1977-if-4-dentro-ce-luomo-ragno-/261287391486?pt=Fumetti_Occidentali&hash=item3cd5f130fe

 

[lscomics]

Nice! Thanos isn't quite as shadowed in the window as in the US version.

[vaillant]

The colors are all messed up, but that’s how it went with these covers for the remaindered books: they probably did not wish to spend a single Lira and very likely the colorist worked almost for free…

 

They are a really curious item, however, as many italian readers have fond childhood memories associated with some of them, but they are not trackable as most got either dismantled (to separate the books, which were already ruined by the binding anyway) or have been thrown away.

[vaillant]

To add randomness to randomness, the remaindered book cover says "Fantastici Quattro" (and indeed Captain Marvel was a backup feature of the FF) but the eBay seller shows that actually the book contains Uomo Ragno issues…

[lscomics]

The thing you have to keep in mind as far as the American collectors of foreign editions goes though is that the important parts of it is the use of the original cover and story content. When assembling a "set" of a particular book from various countries that's the key.

[vaillant]

I know, and that is why I pointed this out: Captain Marvel covers were NEVER used in Italy on the outside cover (only in the inside pages, occasionally), I am 99% sure of that, as I have the full Fantastici Quattro series, and this is an odd exception as it happened with these remainders alone.

 

Here’s a vintage Eternals sticker which I absolutely love…