Moondog Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 I am starting to doubt whether even the books that I always heard were "impossible" in high grade really are rare enough to justify prices of 10-30 x guide for 9.4 up. I had never seen any issue of WDCS 1-22 for sale in strict NM until 6 months ago, but since then there have been 5. Totally agree with you. I don't think we'll see the number of multiple ultra-HG copies that we've seen from the Harvey files or Gaines files, but my guess is that more copies exist than previously thought. Maybe with the strengthening of the USD and the increase of supply, the multiples might moderate a bit, because they've been really whacky for the past couple of years. As long as CGC doesn't care about page quality (lots of those Dells are VERY brown) when it gives a numerical grade, there will be MANY high grades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Who is the mystery collector with the warehouse full of pallets of early Dell and Harvey file copies? Must be nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicparadox Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Halperin bought Harvey's file copies, I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tb Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Who is the mystery collector with the warehouse full of pallets of early Dell and Harvey file copies? Must be nice! I know for sure that at least some of the people at CGC know several "hoarders". They probably know what you are talking about if you mention "NJ" in this context. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonds25 Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 I won a WDC&S from him a couple of days ago. It should be here sometime this week. Hi - did you get your item yet from him yet? I paid over a week ago and haven't heard from him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonds25 Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 As promised, here is a checklist of the twelve Scrooge 60th anniversary posters by Don Rosa. I hope it is useful, but I had fun compiling it anyway. 383 – I just realised I haven’t picked this up from my LCS yet! TBA… It's called "Sixty-One Christmases with Uncle Scrooge" - here is the pic: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonds25 Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Here is an updated Don Rosa list with a few additions and the new Uncle Scrooge back covers added: DON ROSA INDEX (All stories are listed in chronological order of first American publication) Gladstone Series 1 (1987 – 1990) Uncle Scrooge #219 – Son of the Sun – 26 pages – (reprinted in Uncle Scrooge #335 – 2004) Uncle Scrooge #220 – Nobody’s Business – 10 pgs (reprinted in Uncle Scrooge #300 – 1996) Walt Disney’s Comics & Stories #523 – Mythological Menagerie – 10 pgs (reprinted in WDCS #600 – 1995) WD Comics & Stories #524 – Recalled Wreck – 10 pgs (reprinted in WDCS #617 – 1997) Uncle Scrooge #224 – Cash Flow – 26 pgs WDC & Stories #526 – Fit to be Pied – 10 pgs (reprinted in WDCS #606 – 1996) Mickey & Donald #1 – Fir Tree Fracas – 10 pgs Donald Duck Adventures #5 – Rocket Reverie – 2 pgs WDC & Stories #528 – Oolated Luck – 10 pgs (reprinted in WDCS #620 – 1998) Uncle Scrooge Adventures #5 – Last Sled to Dawson – 28 pgs (reprinted in Uncle Scrooge #350 – 2006) Uncle Scrooge #226 – The Paper Chase – 2 pgs (reprinted in Uncle Scrooge #322 – 2003) Uncle Scrooge #227 – Fiscal Fitness – 2 pgs (reprinted in Uncle Scrooge #326 – 2004) WDC & Stories #531 – Metaphorically Spanking – 10 pgs (reprinted in WDCS #624 – 1998) Donald Duck Advs. #8 – Crocodile Collector – 18 pgs (reprinted in Uncle Scrooge & Donald Duck #1 -1998 and WD Vacation Parade #4 – 2007) Uncle Scrooge Advs. #9 – Fortune on the Rocks – 12 pgs Donald Duck Advs. #12 – Return to Plain Awful – 28 pgs (reprinted in Uncle Scrooge #362 – 2007) Donald Duck Advs .#13, 16, and 18 - COVERS ONLY Uncle Scrooge #235 – Curse of Nostrildamus – 10 pgs (reprinted in Uncle Scrooge #327 – 2004) Uncle Scrooge Advs. #14 – His Majesty McDuck – 28 pgs (reprinted in Uncle Scrooge #331 – 2004) Mickey & Donald #17 – Give Unto Others – 7 pgs (reprinted in WDCS #619 – 1997) Donald Duck #278 – Forget Me Not – 3 pgs Donald Duck Advs. #21, 23, and 29 – COVERS ONLY Uncle Scrooge Advs. #20 – On a Silver Platter – 10 pgs (reprinted in WDCS #611 – 1997) WDC & Stories #547 – Well Educated Duck – 10 pgs (reprinted in WDCS #618 – 1997) Uncle Scrooge #241 – How Green Was My Lettuce – 2 re-created panels Uncle Scrooge #242 – Leaky Luck – 1 page Uncle Scrooge Advs. #21 – Pied Piper of Duckburg – 8 pgs (reprinted in WDCS #621 – 1998 and Free Comic Book Day 2008 comic) Disney Comics (1990 – 1993) Duck Tales Magazine #2 – Back in Time for a Dime – 4 pages (reprinted in Uncle Scrooge #369 - 2007) Donald Duck Adventures #1 – The Money Pit – 12 pages (reprinted in WDCS #623 – 1998) Uncle Scrooge #261 and 262 – Return to Xanadu – 31 pgs (reprinted in Uncle Scrooge #357 – 2006) Uncle Scrooge #263 – Treasure Under Glass – 20 pgs (reprinted in Uncle Scrooge #365 – 2007 and Donald & Scrooge #3 – 1992) Donald Duck Advs. #22 – The Master Landscapist – 10 pgs (reprinted in Donald & Scrooge #3 – 1992) Donald Duck Advs. #24 – On Stolen Time – 13 pgs (reprinted in Donald & Scrooge #1 – 1992) Uncle Scrooge #268 – Incident at McDuck Tower – 10 pgs Uncle Scrooge #275 – 2 page centerfold spread Uncle Scrooge #276 – Island at the Edge of Time – 14 pgs (reprinted in Uncle Scrooge #380 – 2008) Donald Duck Advs. #34 – Super Snooper Strikes Again – 10 pgs (reprinted in Walt Disney Giant #3 – 1996) Donald Duck Advs. #37 – The Duck Who Fell to Earth – 12 pgs Gladstone Series II (1993 – 1999) Donald Duck #283 – From Duckburg to Lillehammer – 12 pgs Uncle Scrooge #285 – The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Chapter 1 – 15 pgs Uncle Scrooge #286 - The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Chapter 2 – 28 pgs Uncle Scrooge Advs. #27 – Guardians of the Lost Library – 28 pgs Uncle Scrooge #287 - The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Chapter 3 – 15 pgs Donald Duck #286 – The Duck Who Never Was – 18 pgs Uncle Scrooge #288 - The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Chapter 4 – 15 pgs Uncle Scrooge #289 - The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Chapter 5 – 15 pgs Uncle Scrooge #290 - The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Chapter 6 – 12 pgs Uncle Scrooge #291 - The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Chapter 7 – 15 pgs Uncle Scrooge #292 - The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Chapter 8 – 24 pgs Uncle Scrooge #293 - The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Chapter 9 – 15 pgs Walt Disney Giant #1 – Hearts of the Yukon – 24 pgs Uncle Scrooge #294 - The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Chapter 10 – 15 pgs Uncle Scrooge #295 - The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Chapter 11 – 24 pgs WDC & Stories #600 – “Donald Duck Family Tree” centerspread feature – 2 pgs Uncle Scrooge #296 - The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Chapter 12 – 19 pgs WDC & Stories #601, 602 & 603 – The Treasury of Croesus – 24 pgs Uncle Scrooge #297 - The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Chapter 0 – 15 pgs WDC & Stories #604, 605 & 606 – The Universal Solvent – 24 pgs Uncle Scrooge #300 – “Anything but Those” centerspread feature – 2 pgs WDC & Stories #607, 608 & 609 – The Once and Future Duck – 24 pgs WDC & Stories #610 – A Matter of Some Gravity – 16 pgs Donald Duck Advs. #43 – The Lost Charts of Columbus – 24 pgs WDC & Stories #612 & 613 – The Incredible Shrinking Tightwad – 22 pgs WDC & Stories #614, 615 & 616 – Attack of the Hideous Space Varmints – 24 pgs Uncle Scrooge #306 - The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Chapter 6 ½ - 24 pgs Uncle Scrooge Advs. #51 – The Treasure of the Ten Avatars – 28 pgs Adventurous Uncle Scrooge McDuck #2 – A Little Something Special – 28 pgs WDC & Stories #622 – An Eye for Detail – 10 pgs Uncle Scrooge #309 – W.H.A.D.A.L.O.T.T.A.J.A.R.G.O.N. – 16 pgs Uncle Scrooge #310 – The Sign of the Triple Distelfink – 14 pgs Uncle Scrooge #311 – The Last Lord of Eldorado – 30 pgs Uncle Scrooge #314 – The Black Knight – 24 pgs Uncle Scrooge #318 – The Cowboy Captain of the Cutty Sark – 24 pgs Uncle Scrooge & Donald Duck #2 – COVER ONLY WDC & Stories #633 – The War of the Wendigo – 27 pgs Gemstone Series (2003 – present) Uncle Scrooge #319 – The Dutchman’s Secret – 24 pgs Uncle Scrooge #321 – Attaaack! – 12 pgs Uncle Scrooge #323 – The Coin – 12 pgs Uncle Scrooge #324 – Gyro’s First Invention – 20 pgs Uncle Scrooge #325 – The Beagle Boys vs the Money Bin – 17 pgs Walt Disney’s Comics & Stories #635, 636, & 637 – The Three Caballeros Ride Again – 28 pgs Uncle Scrooge #328 – Forget It! – 13 pgs Uncle Scrooge #329 – The Dream of a Lifetime – 25 pgs Uncle Scrooge #332 – The Sharpie of the Culebra Cut – 26 pgs Uncle Scrooge #334 – Quest for Kalevala – 33 pgs Uncle Scrooge #337 – Trash or Treasure – 13 pgs Uncle Scrooge #339 – The Crown of the Crusader Kings – 28 pgs Uncle Scrooge #342 – The Old Castle’s Other Secret or A Letter From Home – 34 pgs WDC & Stories #663, 664 & 665 – The Magnificent Seven (Minus 4) Caballeros – 32 pgs Uncle Scrooge #347 – Escape from Forbidden Valley – 24 pgs Uncle Scrooge #354 – The Black Knight Glorps Again! – 26 pgs Life & Times of Scrooge McDuck Softcover 2 (2006) – The Prisoner of White Agony Creek – 33 pgs Uncle Scrooge #372 – “Early versions of Scrooge McDuck” – back cover art celebrating Scrooge’s 60th Anniversary Uncle Scrooge #373 – “Scrooge McDuck and his Number One Dime” - back cover art celebrating Scrooge’s 60th Anniversary Uncle Scrooge #374 – “Strange Beings” - back cover art celebrating Scrooge’s 60th Anniversary Uncle Scrooge #375 – “Scrooge McDuck’s Early Life” - back cover art celebrating Scrooge’s 60th Anniversary Uncle Scrooge #376 – “Scrooge McDuck’s Money Bin” - back cover art celebrating Scrooge’s 60th Anniversary Uncle Scrooge #377 – “Scrooge McDuck’s Greatest Treasures” - back cover art celebrating Scrooge’s 60th Anniversary Uncle Scrooge #378 – “Scrooge McDuck and the Beagle Boys” - back cover art celebrating Scrooge’s 60th Anniversary Uncle Scrooge #379 – “Monsters” - back cover art celebrating Scrooge’s 60th Anniversary Uncle Scrooge #380 – “Scrooge McDuck’s Lost Realms” - back cover art celebrating Scrooge’s 60th Anniversary Uncle Scrooge #381 – “Flintheart Glomgold” - back cover art celebrating Scrooge’s 60th Anniversary Uncle Scrooge #382 – “Magica de Spell” - back cover art celebrating Scrooge’s 60th Anniversary Uncle Scrooge #383 – “Sixty-One Christmases with Uncle Scrooge” - back cover art celebrating Scrooge’s 60th Anniversary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciorac Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 I won a WDC&S from him a couple of days ago. It should be here sometime this week. Hi - did you get your item yet from him yet? I paid over a week ago and haven't heard from him. As a matter of fact I haven't. I won the auction on 12/23. Hopefully it will be in this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonds25 Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Could you email him thru Ebay, and I'll do the same thing. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciorac Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Could you email him thru Ebay, and I'll do the same thing. Thanks! Yep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 I am starting to doubt whether even the books that I always heard were "impossible" in high grade really are rare enough to justify prices of 10-30 x guide for 9.4 up. I had never seen any issue of WDCS 1-22 for sale in strict NM until 6 months ago, but since then there have been 5. Totally agree with you. I don't think we'll see the number of multiple ultra-HG copies that we've seen from the Harvey files or Gaines files, but my guess is that more copies exist than previously thought. Maybe with the strengthening of the USD and the increase of supply, the multiples might moderate a bit, because they've been really whacky for the past couple of years. As long as CGC doesn't care about page quality (lots of those Dells are VERY brown) when it gives a numerical grade, there will be MANY high grades. Maybe prices will collapse? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 I think this one might have been omitted from the Don Rosa index: Title: Back in Time for a Dime! Year: 1990 Book: DuckTales Magazine, Spring 1990 Publisher: Disney This was reprinted in a relatively recent Uncle Scrooge. Don't go to too much effort to find it. It's a horrible 4 page story that was scripted by Rosa and drawn by someone else (Cosme Cortieri from Diaz studios). Apologies if this was already noted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 I blame all of you guys for this purchase - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciorac Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 I blame all of you guys for this purchase - We are happy to take the blame Nice score Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tth2 Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 Congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 I blame all of you guys for this purchase - Guilty, but not ashamed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciorac Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 I blame all of you guys for this purchase - Guilty, but not ashamed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiverbones Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 one of my faves, and the art is fabulous, even by Barks standards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tb Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Likewise. This story has a very clever and timeless poke at lawyers - you can just tell how Barks must have been venting frustration over his divorce right at this time. Besides, this was the first US comic I ever bought as a collector. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Thanks everyone. I feel the love. (thumbs u The Golden Helmet has one of my most favoritest Barks panel, admittedly inspired by a Foster Prince Valiant panel that ran in the newspaper on Oct. 7, 1951. Golden Helmet is dated July-August 1952. Here are the 2 panels next to each other. Blowing up the Barks panel, I think this is the first time I really notice the puffins!! P.S.: The coloring in the original is much better than the Gladstone DDA reprints Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
