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RAREST book?

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Elijya

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I've heard for years that Action Comics #1 has around 75 copies still known to exist. Are there any books that are rarer, and how many existing copies are there3 of them about?

 

are there any books we historicly know existed, but no copies have ever been found?

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TomG

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Here is a list of rare comics with several including known examples.

 

 

The Comical Adventures of Beau Ogleby c1843

The Veritable History of Mr. Bachelor Butterfly 1845

The Strange Adventures of Mr. Bachelor Butterfly 1846

Journey To The Gold Diggins BY Jeremiah Saddlebags 1849

The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck 1842

Wild Oats #1 1870

The Naughty Adventures of Vivacious Mr. Jack 1906 -2 known

Alphonse and Gaston and Their Friend Leon 1903

The Yellow Kid in McFadden Flat’s 1897

Dreams of The Rarebit Fiend 1905 -5 known

Taylor’s Christmas Tabloid 1930s -1 known

Detective Dan, Secret Op. 48 1933

Bob Scully, The Two-Fisted Hick Detective 1933

Adventures of Detective Ace King 1933

Toy World Funnies 1933 -1 known

Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1 1939

Green Giant Comics 1940

Freihofer’s Comic Book 1940s

What Do You Know About This Comics Seal of Approval 1955

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Rocketeer

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are there any books we historicly know existed, but no copies have ever been found?

 

Wolverine Mini Series # 1...

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...New Teen Titans #2 in 9.8,... yes_prv.gif

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Even rarer, are the collectors of the below books . . . insane.gif

 

 

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Here is a list of rare comics with several including known examples.

 

 

The Comical Adventures of Beau Ogleby c1843

The Veritable History of Mr. Bachelor Butterfly 1845

The Strange Adventures of Mr. Bachelor Butterfly 1846

Journey To The Gold Diggins BY Jeremiah Saddlebags 1849

The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck 1842

Wild Oats #1 1870

The Naughty Adventures of Vivacious Mr. Jack 1906 -2 known

Alphonse and Gaston and Their Friend Leon 1903

The Yellow Kid in McFadden Flat’s 1897

Dreams of The Rarebit Fiend 1905 -5 known

Taylor’s Christmas Tabloid 1930s -1 known

Detective Dan, Secret Op. 48 1933

Bob Scully, The Two-Fisted Hick Detective 1933

Adventures of Detective Ace King 1933

Toy World Funnies 1933 -1 known

Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1 1939

Green Giant Comics 1940

Freihofer’s Comic Book 1940s

What Do You Know About This Comics Seal of Approval 1955

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Even rarer, are the collectors of the below books . . . insane.gif

 

 

hi.gif

 

 

Here is a list of rare comics with several including known examples.

 

 

The Comical Adventures of Beau Ogleby c1843

The Veritable History of Mr. Bachelor Butterfly 1845

The Strange Adventures of Mr. Bachelor Butterfly 1846

Journey To The Gold Diggins BY Jeremiah Saddlebags 1849

The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck 1842

Wild Oats #1 1870

The Naughty Adventures of Vivacious Mr. Jack 1906 -2 known

Alphonse and Gaston and Their Friend Leon 1903

The Yellow Kid in McFadden Flat’s 1897

Dreams of The Rarebit Fiend 1905 -5 known

Taylor’s Christmas Tabloid 1930s -1 known

Detective Dan, Secret Op. 48 1933

Bob Scully, The Two-Fisted Hick Detective 1933

Adventures of Detective Ace King 1933

Toy World Funnies 1933 -1 known

Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1 1939

Green Giant Comics 1940

Freihofer’s Comic Book 1940s

What Do You Know About This Comics Seal of Approval 1955

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The rarest comicbook I know of is Famous Funnies Series 1 with 4 known copies.

It is the first modern comicbook ever sold.So its a key book too!

It is a Gerber 10.

I believe it is the only KEY book to be a 10 in the Gerber guide.

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Even rarer, are the collectors of the below books . . . insane.gif

 

 

hi.gif

 

 

Here is a list of rare comics with several including known examples.

 

 

The Comical Adventures of Beau Ogleby c1843

The Veritable History of Mr. Bachelor Butterfly 1845

The Strange Adventures of Mr. Bachelor Butterfly 1846

Journey To The Gold Diggins BY Jeremiah Saddlebags 1849

The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck 1842

Wild Oats #1 1870

The Naughty Adventures of Vivacious Mr. Jack 1906 -2 known

Alphonse and Gaston and Their Friend Leon 1903

The Yellow Kid in McFadden Flat’s 1897

Dreams of The Rarebit Fiend 1905 -5 known

Taylor’s Christmas Tabloid 1930s -1 known

Detective Dan, Secret Op. 48 1933

Bob Scully, The Two-Fisted Hick Detective 1933

Adventures of Detective Ace King 1933

Toy World Funnies 1933 -1 known

Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1 1939

Green Giant Comics 1940

Freihofer’s Comic Book 1940s

What Do You Know About This Comics Seal of Approval 1955

 

893applaud-thumb.gif What's Freihofer’s Comic Book or Toy World Funnies?

 

Maybe someday a Platinum Age / Victorian Age Photo Journal will be made.

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Taylor’s Christmas Tabloid is one of the earliest pro works of Siegel and Shuster which features a pre-Superman look.

 

Toy World Funnies 1933 a rare variation of Funnies on Parade/Century of Comics contents.

 

Tom Land Funnies 1934 a rare variation of Funnies on Parade. Same contents with different verison of the cover

 

Freihofer’s Comic Book is a 1940s promotional comic book which features interior pages reprinted from All American Comics pre-Green Lantern.

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Taylor’s Christmas Tabloid is one of the earliest pro works of Siegel and Shuster which features a pre-Superman look.

 

Toy World Funnies 1933 a rare variation of Funnies on Parade/Century of Comics contents.

 

Tom Land Funnies 1934 a rare variation of Funnies on Parade. Same contents with different verison of the cover

 

Freihofer’s Comic Book is a 1940s promotional comic book which features interior pages reprinted from All American Comics pre-Green Lantern.

 

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This spawns a couple of intersting questions.

 

Not including the Platinum Age "book" stuff sold at bookstores... I'm talking comic magazines sold from newsstands... so no obscure promo books like EC's Desert Dawn, etc., only honest to goodness comics that were sold to the public from newsstands (so no Ash Cans either!):

 

What are the top 10 rarest newsstand comic books?

 

What is the rarest newsstand comic book from each publisher?

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Mister_Comics

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I have in the past brought unknown comics to Overstreet's attention before they are listed in the guide. Mostly I did this during the early years of the guide. Even now and then I still come across ones that are not listed. Some of these books I may never see again owned by someone else. But does that mean they are rare? I don't know? A lot has to do with demand. The way I see it is the more people want the book, makes it rarer. So what if there's one copy of a comic that no one is interested in. Or no more copies around. Should they even bother to note them in a guide? Maybe have a "known to exist" or "no longer in existance" mentioned by the book when in the OS. Or maybe not even mention the book unless its something in demand. Because there sure are a lot of rare comics out there. 893scratchchin-thumb.gif

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List by demand eh? I don't go for that at all because you get to the point were demand gets centred only on the books that "always" have demand. Sometimes just listing a book even if it is only known to have been published is enough for some people to set out on a venture to track it down.

 

If you went by demand a whole lot of books would be excluded from the guide. With no one technically tracking the value of the books it makes it hard for collectors to determine prices they want to pay. Besides there are alot of book that are truly rare in the guide that don't appear to have any "demand" simply because the people who own them are not interested in selling them or the books are so rare that sales may come once in a very long long time.

 

Even though I don't partake in th erae comic market I do like reading about it and keeping track as much as I can what happens. I have a great appreciation for trying to bring to the attention these rare itmes so in hopes that someone else hears about it and, perhaps, saves one of these from being (further) destroyed.

 

As for the rarest regular comics:

 

I would render a guess that from DC New Fun #2 and one of those early annuals would top their list. I don't think DC even had archive copies of their first books.

 

Centaur .... probably the first issue (#6 or is it five) of Amazing Man would be near the top of the list

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