Post Your Old Comic Book Catalogs To Make Us Say "I Want A Time Machine" 0

[BlowUpTheMoon]

[lizards2]

On 1/26/2022 at 8:49 PM, batmiesta said:

Love this kind of stuff. 

until it hurts?  Asking for a friend.

[namisgr]

If your time machine can only transport back to 1999, this may be of interest.  The marketing of the Pacific Coast pedigree by Pacific Comic Exchange began in late Spring and Summer of that year.  And yes, the grading was generally accurate, and the collection has become considered arguably the finest Silver Age pedigree ever found.  Almost every issue from the list below starting with FF #8 was later graded by CGC from 9.4 to 9.8.

I have a bunch of printouts from the PCEI website, and can scan and post more of the Marvel title listings if there's any interest.  Here is the page that's already been scanned, the listing of the Fantastic Four run up to ish 55.  'OO' stands for original owner collection.  The numbers to the right of the structural grades are the structural grade number and the page quality designation:

Edited January 27, 2022 by namisgr

[rumrunner71]

These are great to see.

Of course, with some titles, I'd settle for a time machine that would take me back to the early posts in the FS forum on the boards. Those are fun to go back through now.

[Randall Ries]

On 1/27/2022 at 12:02 AM, BlowUpTheMoon said:

"Yes, I'd like to place an order? Uh-huh. Yes. The whole page. That's correct. I said the whole page. What? Well, you just never MIND what that blue flash was a second ago."

An IH #4 for $1.50. One dollar and fifty cents. Same with FF #2. Spider-Man's #5-7 @.75 ea.

[SeniorSurfer]

I remember Rogofsky and Robert Bell but don't have their catalogs still left around.  I do remember (and have written before) ordering several times from Bell, having to write the top "want" on the front of his lined order form and the "second choices" on the back.  I couldn't put enough together at one time to get the FF #1 I really wanted (it went from $24.00 to $35.00 by the time I stopped ordering) so I kept trying for an Avengers #1 ($15.00) and a DD #1 ($12.00), both of which I eventually got after a slew of second choices were shipped.  No checking account as a kid so each time I would be mailing him $12 or $15 in cash for my lottery try at those elusive first issues and never had a problem.

I do have some invoices from almost 30 years ago (must have had some disposable income) that I would be happy to time-machine my way to getting even now.  Still have those books (the addresses are old so nobody get excited about rolling me on the way home) and when CGC came into existence I remember the GA Caps graded 7.0/7.5, #100 was 9.0 and SS #1 (which was the sharpest copy I had ever seen) racked up a paltry 8.0.  Still though, if I ever get one of those 1099s, I'll have some whopping (Hah!) discounts that would offset when I sell.

[batmiesta]

On 1/27/2022 at 6:06 AM, lizards2 said:

until it hurts?  Asking for a friend.

Tell them yes.

[lizards2]

On 1/27/2022 at 9:08 AM, batmiesta said:

On 1/26/2022 at 10:06 PM, lizards2 said:

until it hurts?  Asking for a friend.

Tell them yes.

[KirbyJack]

I may have something for this thread at home, but I’ve got these in my phone. For the OA crowd.

[Robot Man]

On 1/27/2022 at 7:21 AM, Randall Ries said:

"Yes, I'd like to place an order? Uh-huh. Yes. The whole page. That's correct. I said the whole page. What? Well, you just never MIND what that blue flash was a second ago."

An IH #4 for $1.50. One dollar and fifty cents. Same with FF #2. Spider-Man's #5-7 @.75 ea.

How about X-Men #1 for $1.00?

Funny, Gary is still around and a board member. Maybe he could comment about the good old days…

@Moondog

[Sigur Ros]

On 1/26/2022 at 5:04 PM, iggy said:

 

 

 

 

$1 to ship 12 books.

Nowadays these goofs online are wanting $12 to ship 1 book.

[Azkaban]

here's a few of mine

[Turnando]

On 1/27/2022 at 6:29 PM, Sigur Ros said:

Nowadays these goofs online are wanting $12 to ship 1 book.

That's probably not much of a profit.  They might be making a dollar for the hour they spent dealing with shipping.

 I looked at the postage on a 4X6 padded envelope that came in the mail today:  about $4.50 and all it had in it was a few N95 masks that weighed a fraction of an ounce.

By the time a seller packages a book and drops it off at a shipper they are not ripping anyone off at $12.

[thehumantorch]

On 1/26/2022 at 4:23 PM, Robot Man said:

I grew up in big city suburbia. Not much open land in my neighborhood. I think a got a dollar for push mowing a lawn and edging. Hard work in the summer but I sometimes got two or three jobs on a good Saturday.

I don't ever remember getting walloped much but my parents believed in taking away the things that we loved. A couple weeks with no skateboard or my Sting Ray hurt much more than a whacking. Those things represented freedom. A freedom taken away when they were gone.  

They didn't take away your internet?  

[SeniorSurfer]

Here's a page from Fandom Marketplace #3.  That Buddy Saunders... I wonder if he ever made it big? 

 

 

[Robot Man]

On 1/28/2022 at 8:42 AM, SeniorSurfer said:

Here's a page from Fandom Marketplace #3.  That Buddy Saunders... I wonder if he ever made it big? 

 

 

And you could get his catalog for a stamp!

[aardvark88]

Mark Wilson's 'World's Finest Collectibles' summer 1996 oversized mail order catalog when he had at least 100 copies of each of these SA Marvel keys in stock, and no 1 wanted to buy them so he had to discount them 40% off in a subsequent mail order catalog.

[iggy]

On 1/28/2022 at 10:42 AM, SeniorSurfer said:

Here's a page from Fandom Marketplace #3.  That Buddy Saunders... I wonder if he ever made it big? 

 

 

Hope so, ‘cause I got his autograph!