Show me something I've never seen!

[Scheradon]

You know, I just got to thinking about it, and they might be willing to grade them. After all, they grade those small Cheerios premiums and ashcans don't they?

[Davenport]

You know, I just got to thinking about it, and they might be willing to grade them. After all, they grade those small Cheerios premiums and ashcans don't they?

They probably would, but they'd go in a full size slab. Overkill.

 

CGC should get with a novelty company and have some mini-slabs with real miniature comics inside produced for advertisement. Maybe some mini Golden Age or key issue covers. Trading card sized Convention freebies, cool swag.

 

[micmack]

that would be a nice keychain

 

replicas in mini slabs I mean

[Davenport]

that would be a nice keychain

 

replicas in mini slabs I mean

Yeah! Oh wait...wouldn't they suffer from mini-SCS swinging on the end of a chain like that?

[micmack]

that would be a nice keychain

 

replicas in mini slabs I mean

Yeah! Oh wait...wouldn't they suffer from mini-SCS swinging on the end of a chain like that?

 

But they were probably already trimmed in blue lables to begin with....

[moloch]

 

Now that brings back memories... I used to work for the POS that is Chris Silvers of Silverwolf Comics. He did do Grips though which I think is Tim Vigil's first comic book work.

[Stromm]

something I got in a collection

and from some comic show

[Karma23]

If you know Undergrounds, then you've seen this before....

 

 

 

Good Lord that looks awesome!

[Susanville]

I work in HR and I was interviewing a woman who was a candidate for a Director of Marketing position. She works at a Financial company so I asked her how she communicated to perspective clients about their services and out she pulls 3 comic books. Here is one.

 

 

Thought it was pretty interesting. I actually told her about CGC and said she should get one of each graded for the company and posterity.

[sckao]

This is pretty cool. This is a Fanzine helmed by Bob Layton and Roger Stern with much of the art by a certain John Byrne (before he made it into comics.) Sorry for stretching the page... but the Neal Adams/John Byrne Deadman sketch is pretty cool too.

 

Also found throughout this fanzine, John Byrne's Batgirl, Punisher, and Sub-Mariner from 1973 plus various Rog-2000 drawings.

 

This is CPL Issue #8 from April-June 1974. 40 pages. Circulation: 1200 (I also have Issue #12. Both of these came from a friend who purchased them when they came out.)

 

 

 

 

[comicwiz]

Shin, I've hoarded that Air Pirates book (and number 2)-- also, there is a big little book where the cover AP 1 was originally swiped. Those two books are among my favourite UG's -- thanks for posting!

 

Here are some UG rarities/oddities (thanks to Allan for the Georgia Straight tabs):

 

Adventures of Jesus, first print (distinguishable by watermark). This is the Book of Genesis when it comes to Underground Comix. Only 42 of these were published back in 1962, mimeographed at the U of Texas law dept, and were passed out to friends and students on campus. I've got all the printings leading up to the printing in Gilbert Shelton's The Austin Iconoclastic Newsletter.

 

 

Georgia Straights tab (Aug/Sept 1970) featuring a full-page cover spread of Shelton's Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers:

 

[RaccoonRaccoon]

I just have to say this again... this thread is AWESOME!!! Such cool and odd stuff!!!!

[Jayman]

Well comicseekers has seen this since he sold it to me but here you go.

 

[Point Five]

This isn't a comic, but still kinda cool. We see lots of vintage anti-communist stuff, but here's a pro-communist booklet from the former USSR circa 1984, meant to be distributed to tourists or sent abroad. It's full of propaganda explaining Soviet views on the cold war. "The New Threat to Europe: Who Is To Blame?"...luckily, the cover image answers that question for us, juxtaposing a US missile with a mountain of skulls! 40 pages of anti-US sentiment. I'd guess almost all remaining copies were destroyed after the USSR dissolved.

 

[buttock]

This isn't a comic, but still kinda cool. We see lots of vintage anti-communist stuff, but here's a pro-communist booklet from the former USSR circa 1984, meant to be distributed to tourists or sent abroad. It's full of propaganda explaining Soviet views on the cold war. "The New Threat to Europe: Who Is To Blame?"...luckily, the cover image answers that question for us, juxtaposing a US missile with a mountain of skulls! 40 pages of anti-US sentiment. I'd guess almost all remaining copies were destroyed after the USSR dissolved.

 

 

Very cool. Any gems from inside?

[Black Hawk]

Here's a comic from Buick. This book features the 1955 Buick as shown on the cover. I purchased this book not for the comic value but because I have a 55 Buick that is the exact duplicate of the one shown on the cover.

[Susanville]

When I went to see Shadow of the Vampire, they gave me this book... wonder how many made it out of the theater to most folks garbage (hopefully at least a recycling bin). Great movie by the way.

 

[aardvark88]

3 DC implosion missing link covers from 1978:

 

[Red Hook]

[jimjum12]

That datestamp really is consistant.I bet you'd LOVE to own the actual date stamper.GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)