<CLOSED> Thread with GA and BA CGC incl. Contact Comics 10 & Romantic Hearts 1; Raw books incl Batman 94, GI Combat 80, SA FF <CLOSED> 0

[Mister O]

On 8/15/2023 at 1:53 PM, elibowman said:

Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane #17, 1960, DC. This is the 2nd appearance of Brainiac...who knew? Nice copy with some spine roll and some minor staple tearing at the top staple, a bit of a dust shadow and a corner crease at the top front right. 4.5 for me. It's not quite Crime Mysteries #4 or Weird Chills #1, but transfusion cover, too.

 

$35

[elibowman]

On 8/16/2023 at 11:57 PM, Mister O said:

[elibowman]

Price cuts throughout. Thanks for looking.

[elibowman]

I am finally getting back around to finishing my stack off for this thread. I am going to restart with 5-10 raw GA books. Planning to list, and then come back around and add some pictures before I am done for the day. Feel free to "take pending picture" if you are the impatient type.

[elibowman]

Battle #68, 1960, Marvel. OK...I know this is SA, but it was a 10 center in the stack. Solid and complete with good colors. Wear is predominately around the edges, with a chip at the top of the spine. Nothing too major, but an accumulation bringing it down to the 4.0 range. Kirby cover, Heck/Severin/Ditko/Burgos/Kirby inside.

 

$35  **NOW $28**

Edited August 25, 2023 by elibowman

[elibowman]

Blackhawk #123, 1958, DC. Another SA 10 center, but I am getting to the GA books. Complete and attached. Aging apparent to the covers especially, with some larger chips missing from the back cover. No better than 3.0, but looks nicer in at first glance.

 

$10  **NOW $8**

Edited August 25, 2023 by elibowman

[elibowman]

Jungle Comics #30, 1942, Fiction House. This is a solid copy of a very difficult book to find. The limiting factor on the grade will be the piece missing from the top right corner of the front cover. Leaving that aside, the spine is tight and well attached, with just a bit of roll. There is good color, with a small amount of paper aging, but it remains supple and very readable. I think it’s a 5.0-5.5 book WITHOUT the missing piece. Technical grade suffers greatly from the missing piece. Let's go with 5.5Q or 2.0 or less on a blue label. This book presents much higher.

 

$115  **NOW $99**

Edited August 25, 2023 by elibowman

[elibowman]

Kent Blake Of The Secret Service #1, 1951, Marvel. Great looking book, but a couple big issues. First, it was manufactured without staples. Complete, but unattached…ha. There is a 2-2.5” tear in the right edge of the front cover in the red bar, there is a 1.5” split at the top, there is some paper missing on a couple pages of the interior only affecting the margin (this feels like it was production as the interior pages were not cleanly cut….maybe dull blades leading to the issue). But the blacks are deep and there isn’t a lot of surface or spine wear besides what is noted. Mylar all star. Let’s go 3.0 but looks a lot better. 

 

$45  **NOW $38**

Edited August 25, 2023 by elibowman

[elibowman]

Modern Love #1 (1949, EC). Feldstein cover. Plenty of general wear, especially surface wear to front. 0.5-0.75" spine split at the top, creasing, small piece missing right edge front, stain back cover, maybe some foxing inside (see splash pic for what I am referencing), names written in ink in several places in the second story. Complete and attached. Seems better than 2.0 to me, but not by much. Let's go with 2.5 (though I wanted to say 3.0). Happy to provide more/different pics upon request. Only 15 blue label on the census.

 

$340  **NOW $329**

Edited August 25, 2023 by elibowman

[elibowman]

Public Enemies #3, DS Publishing, 1948. Another solid and complete book, Some minor spine wear including a tiny split below the bottom staple, small ink mark under 10c and a pencil check mark on front cover, nice pages, but some minor tanning to edges of interior covers, back cover staple tears but still attached. Seems at least 4.0 to me, and maybe better.

 

$90  **NOW $80**

Edited August 25, 2023 by elibowman

[elibowman]

Underworld #6, DS Publishing, 1949. This one is lower grade with the cover still attached, but precariously. Plenty of wear, spine split at the top about 2”, some interior damage. Seems like a 2.0 to me, but I would lean lower instead of higher on this. Only a single blue label on the census.

 

$40  **NOW $33**

Edited August 25, 2023 by elibowman

[elibowman]

Unusual Tales #35, Charlton, 1962. Another SA, and not even a 10 center, but oh, well...very sharp copy with minimal wear. There is a tiny corner crease bottom front right, a couple faint stains back, a little bit of spine wear. Great color and gloss. I have it at 8.0. No copies on the census as of now.

 

$30  **NOW $27**

Edited August 25, 2023 by elibowman

[elibowman]

Picture time

 

Some of those pics look a bit washed out now that I see them on my computer screen. Happy to supply detailed pics, or different pics if needed. Thanks for looking.

Edited August 21, 2023 by elibowman

[elibowman]

Batman #277, 1976, DC. This one has some water damage to the bottom portion. More of an issue on the back. Staples still fine. Probably only 4.0.

 

FREE with any purchase after this post...must claim.

Edited August 23, 2023 by elibowman

[elibowman]

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 25, 2023 by elibowman

[elibowman]

Fantastic Four #30, 1964, Marvel. Lots of general wear, but complete and attached. Some writing in pencil on the back cover both at the top and bottom. I have it at 3.5.

 

$35  **NOW $31.50**

Edited August 25, 2023 by elibowman

[elibowman]

Fantastic Four #31, 1964, Marvel. Nice Underminer...I mean Mole Man cover. Front cover looks pretty solid but plenty of general wear including a light vertical crease that runs the whole length of the book. Also a small stain that impacts the whole book at bottom right corner (from the front). Better seen from the back. Avengers cross over. 3.0 copy.

 

$30  **NOW $27**

 

 

Edited August 25, 2023 by elibowman

[elibowman]

Fantastic Four #32, 1964, Marvel. More of the same on this book except there are two corner piece missing from the back cover. 2.0 because of that...looks more like 3.5-4.0 from the front.

 

$20  **NOW $18**

Edited August 25, 2023 by elibowman

[elibowman]

Fantastic Four #34, 1965, Marvel. This one has a stain on the "r" in Four, and some blue ink in various places of the front cover that I can't tell if they are production or not. Vertical crease on this one, too. I think the blue stuff is production, and will grade it as such. This is the best of the FF lot so far on wear. I will go 3.5 due to the ink.

 

$28  **NOW $25.20**

Edited August 25, 2023 by elibowman

[elibowman]

Fantastic Four #42, 1965, Marvel. This one has better gloss and color than the other FFs, and it is complete and attached. However, too much creasing. The vertical crease on this one is pronounced, and there is more both front and back (back corner is present but folded over). I think it is 3.0.

 

$23  **NOW $20.70**

Edited August 25, 2023 by elibowman