FS or Trade - low to mid-grade mostly Bronze Age lot

[alecholland]

OK, I'm bored and I've been doing a little summer house cleaning. This is a really mixed bag (or box) of books. I've scanned a few of the books so you can decide whether you agree with my grading. The page quality of the books ranges from off-white/cream to cream/tan and will be noted with the grade. Many of the mid-grade books (6.5 & up) have nice looking, glossy covers but paper quality and an accumulation of defects (minor tears, light soiling) bring the grade down. I will be happy to scan a few more books if anyone is seriously interested in the lot. If there is no interest in trading for or buying the whole lot, I will consider breaking everything up into smaller lots by title. If there is no interest at all, that's cool too.

 

PM me with offers if you are interested in individual books , and no one wants the lot. Although on individual book sales, shipping will not be included.

 

Here's what I would like:

 

Ideally, I would like to trade with someone to help fill in small runs and/or upgrade some books. Any combination of books that has an approximate value close to my selling price ($75 - $90) is what I would like to get. I am looking for the following Bronze Age books in VF range:

 

Incredible Hulk 173-173, 197, 198, 203-206 (needed to complete run 174, 176, 203, 206)

Thor 201-224 (needed to complete run 202, 221)

Fantastic Four 126-131 (needed to complete run 126, 129)

Avengers 77-85, 91, 92

Phantom Stranger 6, 7

Swamp Thing 2

 

The price on the whole lot is $90 shipped anywhere in the U.S. Overstreet value is over $350 for the lot. Comics are bagged and boarded, and will be boxed in groups of 10 books, then put into a larger box for shipping. I can ship UPS ground or USPS parcel post, your choice. If I sell individual books, they will be shipped via USPS bound printed matter. The UPS store is a bit of a drive and wouldn't be worth the gas for multiple trips.

 

Here's what I've got:

 

The list is in no particular order. Issue number, grade, paper quality, notes (if there are any major creases and/or tears, I will note that), and a few scans:

 

X-Men

141 7.5 C (looks VF, but not sure how much paper quality brings down grade) X-Men 141 front X-Men 141 back

127 4.5 C Dirt BC, small dog-ear LRFC

130 4.0 C Small stains BC

146 3.0/3.5 C Dirt FC & BC, wrinkling, small tears BC

 

Our Love Story

5 6.0/6.5 OW/C Dirt/Rubbed spot FC, Surface impressions (from writing - looks like 3 numbers) FC on man's face, impact top FC at "KISS" OLS 5 front OLS 5 back

 

Weird War Tales

8 6.0/6.5 (sold to me as a VF) OW/C Slight rust lower staple, dog-ear LRFC, Slight soiling BC

 

Weird Worlds

9 6.5 C/T Dirt BC

10 5.5 C/T Slight miswrap, dirt BC

 

Adventure Comics

427 6.5/7.0ish C Impact top center FC

474 7.5 C Slight miswrap

 

Conan

Giant Size 1 6.5 OW/C Small tear top center FC, slight dirt BC GS 1 front GS 1 back

Giant Size 2 5.5/6.0 C Looks better, but bend parallel with spine from first 16 pages miscut which resulted in only being stapled at the top.

King Size 1 6.5 C Small accumulation of minor defects

 

Secret Origins

2 4.0 (Glossy, looks nicer) C/T Two 1/2" to 3/4" tears FC, slight spine roll

3 5.0 C/T Slight dirt/soiling FC & BC

4 6.5 OW/C Dirt BC SO 4 front SO 4 back

7 6.5/7.0 C/T Double Cover - has accumulation of minor defects

 

Phantom Stranger

10 2.0 OW/C Heavy wrinkling, water damage

11 2.0 C Heavy wrinkling, rusted staples, water damage

25 5.0 C Two dime size spots (probably water) on BC, overspray

27 5.5 C Dirt/soiling BC

36 3.5 T Sub crease

 

Tomb of Dracula

35 7.0 T Looks really nice, but some spine stress BC and paper color bring it down TOD 35 front TOD 35 back

51 5.5 C Low gloss, overspray top and bottom FC

 

Doctor Solar Man of the Atom

6 2.5/3.0 C Several large creases FC & BC DS 6 front DS 6 back

 

Strange Adventures

242 3.0 OW Cover pulled away from top staple, staple rust, NCBC upper left FC

 

Fantasy Masterpieces

4 6.5 (looks nicer, especially FC) C Spine stress back cover and soiling tracks FM 4 front FM 4 back

 

Marvel Tales

3 6.5/7.0ish C Edgewear FC, small rubbed spot at Marvel Comics Group on FC (not sure?) MT 3 front MT 3 back

 

Kull

1 4.5 C Accumulation of small defects including foxing on FC & BC Kull 1 front Kull 1 back

3 6.5 OW/C Spine stress FC, miswrap

6 6.0 C Spine stress FC, printers crease BC

7 6.5 C Dog-ear BC

 

The Shadow

7 6.5 T Light soiling BC

8 6.0 T Looks better, but non color breaking crease length of book on BC 1/2" parallel with spine

 

Man-Thing (1979)

1 7.0 C Spine stress, corner bend BC

 

Chili

14 4.0 Color lift BC (looks like price sticker was there), accumulation of other defects

 

Doc Savage

7 4.0 C Small digs/gouges FC

 

Marvel Feature

10 4.0 OW/C Looks much better but cover pulled away from bottom staple

 

Marvel Team-up

72 5.5 OW/C Dirt BC

 

Captain America

179 5.5 C Printers crease on FC & BC

191 5.0 C Small corner bend LRFC, other minor defects

200 5.0 T Small tear and bend top BC, other minor defects CA 200 front CA 200 back

219 5.0 C Loss of gloss, dirt back cover

239 4.5 Very light NCBC down middle of comic, other minor defects

 

From Beyond the Unknown

24 7.5/8.0 C No significant defects BU 24 front BU 24 back

25 8.0 C Printers crease BC

 

Superboy

205 C 6.5 Looks nicer 1/16" tear middle open side FC, slight soiling BC SB 205 front SB 205 back

219 7.5 OW/C

221 4.0 OW/C Overspray FC, edgewear, and strange yellow discoloration (must have been in a non comic plastic bag)

223 4.0 C Would be nicer except for color lift lower middle FC by Superboy's hand

229 5.0 OW/C Moderate gloss, dirt BC & slight rust lower staple

252 4.0 C Odd stains top of BC that look a little like foxing

 

Marvel 2 in 1

51 4.5 C Dirt FC & BC

52 3.5/4.0 C/T Missing small piece 1/8" URFC and small piece 1/16" middle open edge BC

 

Chamber of Chills

14 3.5 C/T Water damage BC

 

House of Mystery

174 3.0 C/T Significant spine stress, staple rust, dirt BC HOM 174 front HOM 174 back

 

Superman

330 4.5 T Accumulation of small defects, loss of gloss

 

The Super Cops (one shot...thankfully)

1 5.0/5.5 C Accumulation of small defects, loss of gloss

 

Swamp Thing

10 5.5 C Looks nicer but has NCBC in the upper right corner of book that goes through the M in Swamp and the G in Thing ST 10 front ST 10 back

 

Lancelot Link

6 4.5 C Tear at bottom staple, loss of gloss, warping