Sqeggs Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 (edited) On 7/12/2019 at 9:17 AM, nines said: Hey all. I'm new to the game..can someone answer why Tracy is worth bunk? $215 for this doesn't seem right and this one was valued at $100? This guy gets less respect than Rodney. I don't get it. These books are gorgeous. I like both those covers but, as a number of other people have pointed out, Tracy is pretty dead these days. If an equivalent to the Warren Beatty movie were to come out, maybe these books would get a bump. But in 1990, when that movie was made, I think a lot of boomers were still familiar with the character and he was (I'll guess) still appearing in a newspaper strip. Chances of a Tracy movie being made now are negligible, imo. The other thing is there are a lot of high-grade Harvey "file copies" out there, which holds down prices on most of their 1950s books. For instance, 1950s romance books are hot, except for Harveys. High-grade Atlas, DC, and smaller publishers romance books from the 1950s are very tough to impossible to find, while there are a lot of high-grade copies of most of the Harvey romance books. Edited July 14, 2019 by Sqeggs Marty Mann 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Marty Mann Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 TRACY MONTHLY #1. Pat Calhoun and Sqeggs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ameri Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 They chose Tracy for the first BLB in 1933 so he's the man Sqeggs, comicdonna and Marty Mann 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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nines Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 Thanks for the replies. You guys really know your stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 Richard Tracy was also quite big in Australia. This series ran for over 100 issues, and there were other titles. Sqeggs and Marty Mann 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sqeggs Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 2 hours ago, AJD said: Richard Tracy was also quite big in Australia. This series ran for over 100 issues, and there were other titles. Since nearly all comics were published monthly, kind of funny that both in the U.S. and in Australia, the books were labeled "monthly." I'm trying to think of another comic with monthly in its title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 2 hours ago, Sqeggs said: Since nearly all comics were published monthly, kind of funny that both in the U.S. and in Australia, the books were labeled "monthly." I'm trying to think of another comic with monthly in its title. The GCD lists quite a few. Example: Blondie Comics Monthly 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lou_fine Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 (edited) On 7/12/2019 at 6:17 AM, nines said: Hey all. I'm new to the game..can someone answer why Tracy is worth bunk? $215 for this doesn't seem right and this one was valued at $100? This guy gets less respect than Rodney. I don't get it. These books are gorgeous. Well, it's rather quite obvious to me that you simply don't understand how this market works by the title of your thread here, as you are clearly using the wrong part of his name. Now, I am not sure what the name of the guy on this cover is, but the banter between the 2 women in the background sure seems to have paid off big time here: After all, you certainly can't complain too much when this copy manages to fetch $10,800 as compared to a condition guide value of only $466. Well okay, a CGC 2.5 graded copy was able to reach a piddly sum of only $1,020 as compared to a condition guide value of only $105. So, if you forget all about Tracy and just focus on getting D I C K, you'll do just fine. Edited July 15, 2019 by lou_fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 5 hours ago, Sqeggs said: Since nearly all comics were published monthly, kind of funny that both in the U.S. and in Australia, the books were labeled "monthly." I'm trying to think of another comic with monthly in its title. I think, more often than not, single character books in the golden age were less than monthly. Not always, but not even Superman & Batman were monthly in their own titles until much later. So I can understand some publishers wanting to call attention to it. And inertia is a wonderful thing, so the monthly stuck, at least until Blackthorne went weekly with the series in the late 80's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Mann Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 And then there was FEARLESS FOSDICK... OtherEric and Pat Calhoun 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BB-Gun Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 On 7/13/2019 at 12:13 PM, Marty Mann said: Besides, I have a very close affiliation with TRACY. In Detroit we had Soupy Sales with Superman cartoons, Capt. Jolly with Popoeye cartoons. Jolly was replaced by Poopdeck Paul. CKLW from Windsor was big on broadcasting old movies and cartoons. They had a show similar to today's Turner Classic Movies. Marty Mann 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Marty Mann Posted July 15, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted July 15, 2019 One of the prizes you could win were soft cover copies of "ALL IN COLOR FOR A DIME". comicdonna, ender, BB-Gun and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sqeggs Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 19 hours ago, AJD said: The GCD lists quite a few. Example: Blondie Comics Monthly Interesting. I guess maybe it's because none of the books on my radar have "monthly" in the title that underestimated how common it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 15 hours ago, OtherEric said: I think, more often than not, single character books in the golden age were less than monthly. Not always, but not even Superman & Batman were monthly in their own titles until much later. So I can understand some publishers wanting to call attention to it. And inertia is a wonderful thing, so the monthly stuck, at least until Blackthorne went weekly with the series in the late 80's. That's a good point. Some books were quarterlies and others were bi-monthly. I suppose it made sense to alert readers to look for the book each month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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