CLOSED — Readcomix’ Herd Cull and Undercopy Release; PCH, Xela, Baker, Joe Sinnott file copies, more 6 6

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5 Simple Rules (Please, please read)

1st  wins; tie/indeterminate goes to the thread.

Payment is Check or Money Order (yeah, yeah I know I'm a dinosaur, troglodyte, luddite, mennonite, hermaphrodite etc. - I just don't have or want e-payments.)

Shipping: Via USPS Priority is $10 for a Flat Rate Legal Envelope with a flip n ship mailer inside, or $17 for a Medium Flat Rate box, depending upon size needed.

Don't be listy  including the little one in my head.

Returns: Sure, just notify me within three days of receipt and get it back to me in the same shape on your dime, except no returns on graded books.

(Kudos thread linked under my avatar.)

Edited July 24, 2023 by Readcomix

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Not sure how long this will take, or how many books it will run for. I have at least seven picked out, and I’m committed to combing my boxes for items to let go of here (and also for a trade discussion that is ongoing.) I have added a lot of stuff lately and it’s time to revisit my focus as well as part with some undercopies. Three books tonight to start…

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Approved Comics #6 going GVG here for the back cover sliver missing upper left, and the upper left corner of the last page. Otherwise a VG range looker from the front. Matt Baker cover. (WAS $50) NOW $30

Edited July 16, 2023 by Readcomix

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 SOLD! Archie Comics #62 VGFN. Top staple looks separated with front cover open but it is attached at the back. A slabbed 5.0 recently went $150 on eBay; this spine looks cleaner. Let’s go (WAS $100) NOW $75 here.

Edited July 16, 2023 by Readcomix

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This next one’s a bear for comps; 31 on census.

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Brave and the Bold #11 in FN/FN-. A cgc 4.5 sold in June for $396 on HA, and they sold a raw that they graded FN/VF in April 2022 for $900. From the scans, that book is marginally nicer though this one has a better wrap. Go look; it’s close. If you chase this title, you know how tough the first 24 are in grade. 

For the boards, let’s do (WAS $600) NOW $500 

Edited July 12, 2023 by Readcomix

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 SOLD via PM! Love Diary #20 (Charlton 1962) conservative VF+ or better. Slightest whiff of stack roll, which would press out, and light dust shadow on back cover edge. As nice or nicer than best copies offered on eBay, and priced lower.

I know I said three books tonight, but I had these photos ready as it’s a rerun from my last Mixed thread, now priced lower. — (WAS $40) NOW $30

Edited July 15, 2023 by Readcomix

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More tomorrow, including an entry-level FF #6 due to an upgrade. (Sorry, no advance PM sales as it’s now committed to coming to the thread UPDATE - It was here and I pulled it for trade locally.). There’s also a classic GA Archie cover and even a Charlton 100-pager in the stack so far.

Edited July 16, 2023 by Readcomix

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Well, I have been delayed, but the good news is there’s already at least a dozen more in the stack of books to shoot, and I have just begun combing. I have four shot so far that I planned to post last night before being foiled. Let’s get one or two up now….

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Archie #68 in GD/GD+ range on overall general wear. (WAS $60) NOW $40

Edited July 16, 2023 by Readcomix

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 SOLD via PM! Fightin’ Air Force #12 VG range. 1958 Charlton 100-pager with an awesome Nick Alascia cover. Love those lighting effects he captures. (WAS $25) NOW $20

Edited July 15, 2023 by Readcomix
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I’ve still got to shoot more and comb more boxes, but here come the other two that I have shot already….

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 SOLD! This one’s odd….a complete beater Fight Comics #29, Mis-ordered via amateur resto — pages 3,4 (a single leaf) has been glued back into the book but as the very last page, out of order. The detached centerfold and detached single leaf from the center are inserted in the correct order but not reattached. Still, a complete WWII Fiction House that is loaded with their stock in trade GGA. (WAS $50) NOW $40

Edited July 15, 2023 by Readcomix

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Lots more to come

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Just shot 12 or 15 more for later 

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Ok, three before bed

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Boy Comics #27 VG- cover detached. Bullet to the head cover. (WAS $60) NOW $50

Edited July 12, 2023 by Readcomix

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Boy Comics #19 (Dec 1944) in VG/VG- range. Single staple still attached at cover though tearing makes it tenuous. Presents much better than the Fair/Good copy that just sold for $217 on eBay. Called out in Overstreet as “One of the greatest all-time stories.” 21 on census; not everyone gets a chance to read about the double amputee on the cover.

(WAS $200) NOW $180

Edited July 12, 2023 by Readcomix

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Fighting Yank #26 in VG/VG+ Not airbrushed, but Schommy still signed it “Xela.”  $200

Edited July 13, 2023 by Readcomix

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Some of you may recall a few years back I bought a 16-longbox collection that was 85% Classics Comics/Classics Illustrated. The guy was trying to amass every HRN of all 169 issues, and as many foreign variants as he could 

It was a labor of love, and a great education into an arcane corner of comics collecting, C.I., and I kept a small handful including 1st HRNs of #1, Matt Baker’s Lorna Doone (more pages than every other HRN; Baker fans don’t get the full content in subsequent HRNs) and assorted others, mostly focused on the early horror covers that were later dumbed down for the later HRNs.

I will next release three more books from what’s left of that collection in my PC. (And lots more to come after that, as well.)

Edited July 10, 2023 by Readcomix