PBA galleries auctioneers new collection 40000+ Every DC 9 9

[Ian_Levine]

On 7/26/2023 at 3:06 PM, archivist said:

 

Yeah, I do have this listing but the promotional books listed are about 10% of what exists regarding DC. I was told that the listing of the promos is just being created.

 

Thank you for your answers !

I once offered Overstreet to list them all, but they weren't remotely interested

[Dr. Love]

previous attempts by others to share data with Overstreet about promos could not even get a response

[archivist]

Getting information about promos is a difficult task, I can confirm that.

But it's also very interesting to find out what exists and more important why it exists.

I do not collect those books, because I live too far away from any shop or convention to be able to find these books (and space is limited - but you know that already). But I started to collect any information I can find about the books which relate to DC. In 2010 I stopped because I realized just how many books there are, but in 2015 I got hooked again and since then I meticulously file every bit of information I can find about these books.

Unfortunately there are not many comic book collectors who are interested in exchanging information. I regret the most that I didn't contact Earl Davis when he still was active on the boards and I wasn't able to find anybody who is in conctact with him.

At least I was able to merge other listings with mine, but even in 2023 with so much knowledge available there are so many books left where you can't find any information anywhere. So the quest continues.

[Ian_Levine]

On 7/13/2023 at 11:35 AM, Ian_Levine said:

Was it really so terrible to post on the world's greatest comic forum to try to find the last twelve comics that I needed to complete the entire DC Collection ?? You're treating that as an abuse of the forum back in 2003 and 2004

When I was seven years old, my interest in comics first began way way back in 1960, several years before I properly started my DC collection. My very first initial interest in comics was a British children’s comic called “Buster”, which came out weekly. It was a black and white newspaper style comic, and it contained a weekly comic strip inside, all about “Maxwell Hawke Ghost Hunter”, which utterly fascinated me at the impressionable age of just seven years. It was fascinating and dark and gothic, with this rugged heroic man, teamed up with his beautiful assistant Jill Adair, who would fight all of the supernatural ghosts, demons and surreal creatures, from out of the dark shadows of the most creative imagination, and they would always find a solution and a logical explanation for the hauntings, by the end of the serial, and expose the fraud that had been so cunningly perpetrated. But this was truly dark and atmospheric and chilling, full of creepy old gothic haunted mansions, riddled with cobwebs and secret passages leading to danger. I can remember a bed, which flipped over to plunge its occupant onto deadly long sharp spikes, and a secret chamber of giant eyes behind a rotting old curtain. I used to collect this comic strip each and every week, and I used to purchase the comic, cut it up into bits, and stick down all the panels into an old school exercise book, with glue, so that I could keep and treasure my own personal collection of them, never stopping to realise that by doing this, I was irrevocably damaging the value of the original comics. In the 1970s, longing to see them again, I went to the British Newspaper Library in Collingwood, where I paid to photocopy them. You weren't allowed to photocopy more than ten pages, so I made at least twenty trips back and forth, then bound them into one huge volume which I still have. Looking at the artwork brings on waves of nostalgia.

[buttock]

On 7/28/2023 at 10:54 AM, Ian_Levine said:

When I was seven years old, my interest in comics first began way way back in 1960, several years before I properly started my DC collection. My very first initial interest in comics was a British children’s comic called “Buster”, which came out weekly. It was a black and white newspaper style comic, and it contained a weekly comic strip inside, all about “Maxwell Hawke Ghost Hunter”, which utterly fascinated me at the impressionable age of just seven years. It was fascinating and dark and gothic, with this rugged heroic man, teamed up with his beautiful assistant Jill Adair, who would fight all of the supernatural ghosts, demons and surreal creatures, from out of the dark shadows of the most creative imagination, and they would always find a solution and a logical explanation for the hauntings, by the end of the serial, and expose the fraud that had been so cunningly perpetrated. But this was truly dark and atmospheric and chilling, full of creepy old gothic haunted mansions, riddled with cobwebs and secret passages leading to danger. I can remember a bed, which flipped over to plunge its occupant onto deadly long sharp spikes, and a secret chamber of giant eyes behind a rotting old curtain. I used to collect this comic strip each and every week, and I used to purchase the comic, cut it up into bits, and stick down all the panels into an old school exercise book, with glue, so that I could keep and treasure my own personal collection of them, never stopping to realise that by doing this, I was irrevocably damaging the value of the original comics. In the 1970s, longing to see them again, I went to the British Newspaper Library in Collingwood, where I paid to photocopy them. You weren't allowed to photocopy more than ten pages, so I made at least twenty trips back and forth, then bound them into one huge volume which I still have. Looking at the artwork brings on waves of nostalgia.

All it needs is a talking dog and a stoner hippie!

[MrBedrock]

On 7/28/2023 at 12:19 PM, buttock said:

All it needs is a talking dog and a stoner hippie!

Ruh-roh!

[Ian_Levine]

Did Ivan display the slabbed keys at San Diego ??

 

[calicomic]

Any update on this auction?

[sfcityduck]

I believe the first auction is slotted for 2024.

[IngelsFan]

The first round of books is set for November of this year

[calicomic]

Has anyone bid with PBA before? Would love to know the experience and auction style they have. 

[aardvark88]

On 9/5/2023 at 4:10 PM, calicomic said:

Any update on this auction?

 

[Yorick]

I'm not really a fan of how they're going to put the books out.  They appear to be releasing this horde by character.  First up: Batman.

I wonder if they considered doing it by publishing date?  Maybe buyers would just ignore much of the later material....

[sfcityduck]

On 9/8/2023 at 12:32 PM, calicomic said:

Has anyone bid with PBA before? Would love to know the experience and auction style they have. 

They use Liveauctioneers.  My experience was good.

[sfcityduck]

On 10/5/2023 at 8:28 AM, aardvark88 said:

 

The latest news from Kai (Asst. Dir. of Comics) is:

"`Our next sale is the debut of the DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION, happening on November 9th! This sale will feature a selection of the best Batman comics from the collection. Keep an eye out for our online catalog going live in late October."

 

[Mmehdy]

still no catalog......I wonder if Ian will purchase the real hidden gems of this collection?

[Microchip]

On 10/6/2023 at 6:50 AM, Mmehdy said:

still no catalog......I wonder if Ian will purchase the real hidden gems of this collection?

What criteria for a hidden gem's are you thinking of?

[Mmehdy]

On 10/12/2023 at 3:14 PM, Microchip said:

What criteria for a hidden gem's are you thinking of?

some ultra rare DC books which he knows are very very rare based upon his vast experience bring together the collection

[Microchip]

On 10/17/2023 at 4:02 PM, Mmehdy said:

some ultra rare DC books which he knows are very very rare based upon his vast experience bring together the collection

I remember Ian talking about books that were delaying completion, weird odds and sods, like Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Annual #2.   I think all the usual suspects will be sucked up.  The real gems are in Ian's experiences putting the collection together 

[Mmehdy]

On 8/20/2023 at 11:28 AM, Ian_Levine said:

Did Ivan display the slabbed keys at San Diego ??

 

I did not see it, but I have question for you. Are you going to bid on any of the books at PBA...if not could you give board members here a heads up on in your opinion the rarest and best you would buy in the auction coming up....for example had hard was to get the Phanton Stranger complete set, I know issue is tough to get!