2/4/2016
Topic:
Requesting a Title Change
pmadreenter
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The titles used in the price guide are always the titles as shown in the copyright information. Back of the title page, for TPBs. If you look at that, you'll probably see that the title given here is correct. If not, there's an easy way to contact the PG data compilers to make changes when necessary; look around a bit and you'll find it. |
2/25/2025
Topic:
P-Mad's Crypt Of Stuff
pmadreenter
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Hi, all --
I was a member of the ould forum for quite awhile, fond memories; but then one day about 12 years ago I realized I wasn't really interested in comics the way I had been; I stopped buying, stopped thinking about them... and I shamelessly ghosted the forums. My apologies. Around the turn of the year, the bug bit me again and I've started thinking about purchasing the odd thing here and there, so I thought I'd look in here and see what was what.
Things have changed a lot; I see people asking and answering questions and that's about it, not much feeling of tthe warmth and pursuing friendships that used to be the order of the day. Thatjerk and Defiant1 (two names I remember from the old days) seem to be keeping that spirit alive, and I guess I'll throw my hat in the ring and try to contribute to rebuilding that sense of community.
So... here I am. What's my collecting profile like? Heavily into Golden age and Silver age, superheroes and esoterica (do people still use that word?) -- not really interested in anything after 1975 or '80. That'll change at some point, I want to catch up on Marvel Universe history, but I don't want to amass thousands and thousands of comics like I did last time around, and sooner or later I have to start thinking about pruning away some of the dead wood... dead wood-pulp... that no longer holds much interest for me.
Here's a copy of my collecting goals for 2025. Yeah, it's practically March already, but I'm just getting started, so it's meaningful to me at least.
1) Continue beefing up my Silver-age/Bronze age Marvel runs, do as much as possible.
2) Atlas horror! Pre-code, post-code and monster books. As many as I can get my hands on.
3) Atlas westerns, ditto. Hey, I *like* westerns. And, really, I just like anything Atlas..
4) Pre-code horror. If I can knock down four or five good examples during the year, I'll be happy. A long-standing interest, since I was a teenager, but they're kinda priced out of my league at this point. (Oh, the good old days, when you could buy a ratty G/VG issue of The Unseen for three bucks...)
4) Jingle Jangle Comics, working on that run is a big priority. George Carlson might be my favorite comic artist of all time.
5) At least one (each) GA superhero book from Timely, DC, Fawcett, and Quality. I might dabble in other publishers, but discovering an interest in something new seems like the last thing I should do. It gives me a sad when I realize I still don't have any Timely superhero books in my crypt, so I guess that's the number one priority.
6) Work on these (mostly) GA runs, in descending order of importance: Venus, Air Fighters/Airboy, Big Shot, Sparky Watts, Real Clue Crime Comics, Sugar And Spike, Supersnipe, Scribbly, Real Screen/Fox And Crow, Dell Four Color, Daredevil, Boy, 4Most, Blue Bolt.
7) Do what I can to start runs on some titles I don't yet have: Prize Comics, Frankenstein Comics and Pedro (a humor title from Fox that lasted about four issues. Just found out about it and I WANT!)
8) My grail book for the year: Mad 11. I've decided that cover is absolutely one of the great works of art of the 20th century. There are a couple of other books that hold grail status for me, but I'll be happy with one for now. Won't fuss none if either of the other two turn up, though.
9) Any and all miscellaneous books by favorite artists. It's a long list, but Wolverton and Kinstler are the two guys at the top.
10) Stay within budget and work scrupulously to follow the buying strategy that allows me to play without having lots of money. (Which mostly means flipping about 2/3 of the books I buy, so I can keep the ones I really want for free.)
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That's my introduction, now you know all about me. Heh. Once the welcomes and introductions are out of the way, maybe I'll post a list of the top 25 books in my collection, or maybe I'll just wait until the first purchases I've gone and pulled the trigger on start rolling in.
edited by pmadreenter on 2/25/2025 |
2/28/2025
Topic:
P-Mad's Crypt Of Stuff
pmadreenter
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Ronbatman wrote:
expensive
ron
Yeah, Ron, that's a real struggle, having no money and wanting the moon. I get outbid a lot. On the other hand, the thrill of the chase is a big factor, and it makes it that much more rewarding when I knock down an expensive book for a fraction of its value (like the GA Blackhawk I'll be posting soon). Realistically, I may not *get* any of those Venuses or Frankensteins that I want, but ya never know. If nothing else, casting my net widely gives me more opportunities to luck out.
Good work on those updated scans. |
2/28/2025
Topic:
P-Mad's Crypt Of Stuff
pmadreenter
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glorkar wrote:
Something Is Killing The Children
They hype around that book for sure has caught my attention; it's neat when indie books come out of nowhere like that and gain a big audience. (Back when I was last active in the scene, that was Morning Glories and... I don't know, Thief Of Thieves maybe, but those books seem to have fizzled.) And the idea of Dr Strange running a school is something I want to look into. Of course, you can't go wrong with The Bat or The Spider...
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2/28/2025
Topic:
P-Mad's Crypt Of Stuff
pmadreenter
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As long as I'm here, let me go ahead and post that Top 25 I teased in my first post, show just how far I am from being one of those guys on youtube that sits in front of a wall of 10,000 dollar books. (Chip on my shoulder? Who, me?) Using Overstreet values, it looks like this, starting with #25.
Airboy V7#3 8.5
Plastic Man 8 vg/f
Durango Kid 2 f/vf
Amazing Spider-man 51 f
Strange Tales 33 vg-
Jungle Tales 2 f/vf
Strange Tales 23 vg-
Pat Boone 2 vf-
Congo Bill 4 vg-
Four Color 189 (Pogo) vg
Animated Comics 1 vg+
Amazing Spider-Man 29 f/vf
Batman 39 g+
Powerhouse Pepper 5 vg-
Journey into Unknown Worlds 6 f
Extra 1 vf
Fantastic Four Annual 6 vg/f
Showcase 79 vf
Strange Tales 115 vg
Silver Surfer 3 vg/f
Flash Comics 11 g+
Batman Adventures 12 vf-
Venus 10 f
Fantastic Four 3 f/g
Ultimate Fallout 4 nm
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3/4/2025
Topic:
P-Mad's Crypt Of Stuff
pmadreenter
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Package arrived in the mail yesterday. Got this; no-one particularly cares about westerns, but I've always liked whoever it is that handled the colors on Hillman Company books. That airbrushy quality to the color gradations really appeals to me. And there's a story by Bernie Krigstein inside, but he's not doing the fancy layout/storyboard/design work that you see in his EC classics. Actually, I didn't even recognize his work, had to look it up at comics.org to see which of the six stories was his'n.
And then... Blackhawk down! The big-boy book of the week. Having it in hand, there's some tanning to the white parts of the cover that you don't see in the seller's photo... but the spine and the corners are just immaculate, so crisp! I'm very happy with it, even if it isn't quite the 8.0-8.5-9.0 I expected.
Plus two other lesser packages that go straight into the "flip me!" box.
edited by pmadreenter on 3/4/2025
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3/5/2025
Topic:
Has anybody here consigned to Heritage?
pmadreenter
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It's something I'm thinking about doing, but nowhere on their website do I see any info about what fees they charge -- I assume it's a percentage of the closing price? Anybody that's sold through them can answer this, I'm sure... |
3/6/2025
Topic:
P-Mad's Crypt Of Stuff
pmadreenter
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glorkar wrote:
He's hardly in them at all.
edited by glorkar on 2/28/2025
Oh, so it's like X-Men, then... Professor Xavi's around there someplace, but he's rarely abig part of the story. |
3/6/2025
Topic:
Has anybody here consigned to Heritage?
pmadreenter
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collectibleshop wrote:
AUCTION fees
Thanks for your reply. Yeah, it's auction activity I was thinking about; I didn't know the other option existed and it doesn't meet my needs anyway. I tried e-mailing them, but I'm old and tech-ignorant and I couldn't figure out a way to link my e-mail address to the Outlook box that popped up when I clicked the link. I found a back-door way to contact them, but using that route, I'm told to expect a delay of up to two weeks before they answer me.
edited by pmadreenter on 3/6/2025 |
3/7/2025
Topic:
Has anybody here consigned to Heritage?
pmadreenter
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Thanks, C-shop; with the info you gave me in your last post I think I can get everything sorted. (Duh. Phone. It never occurred to me that calling them was an option. Full-on old-folk tech-weirdness.) |
3/8/2025
Topic:
1st Reprint?
pmadreenter
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Actually, my guess is that they're treating "TMNT #1 Reprint" as a separate title. If it sold out, I'd expect to see something that said "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 Reprint: Second Printing" to hit the shops. |
3/8/2025
Topic:
Defiant1's Stuff
pmadreenter
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Defiant1 wrote:
Canadian reprint
YOu posted about these Canadian printings of EC titles four titles, and your last post was in 2022, so I don't know if this is still a thing for you or if you're here to see my message, but there are about twn of those Canadian "EC"s on ebay right now, most of them hovering around 20.00 bids. |
3/11/2025
Topic:
P-Mad's Crypt Of Stuff
pmadreenter
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Grr... a ding-dang package gone astray in the tracking system. What would life be without hassles? (A lot more pleasant, that's what.) At least it was only one book, and a fairly middling one that I didn't care a lot about.
Meanwhile, some minor Marvels.
Next week's deliveries look a lot more exciting.
edited by pmadreenter on 3/11/2025 |
3/19/2025
Topic:
P-Mad's Crypt Of Stuff
pmadreenter
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This right here, that's what I'm talkin' about. Right here. This. Are you ready to party? Let's rock!
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3/19/2025
Topic:
P-Mad's Crypt Of Stuff
pmadreenter
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Icing on the cake is that I brought all those home to the crypt for 30% of Overstreet value. And that was with a big mistake , a copy of Four Color 147, Donald Duck in Volcano Value, (not pictured) that was nowhere near the condition I imagined; I'm-a-hafta flip that one.
edited by pmadreenter on 3/19/2025 |
4/9/2025
Topic:
Found my old comics. What to do with them?
pmadreenter
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I'm not super into bronze-copper era, but Iron Man 128 is a nice book.
Looks like you've figured out what you want to do with them. Looks like you're gearing up toward selling... |
4/9/2025
Topic:
Aw, shucks, I...
pmadreenter
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... just got a second-printing Zap 1 in the mail, Donahue printing! Came here to see if I could slide in at the big-boy table and all the Plymell Bros have disappeared. Oh well. I'll brag some more and post pics in my back-issues thread, tomorrow probably. Busy busy...
edited by pmadreenter on 4/10/2025 |
4/10/2025
Topic:
Aw, shucks, I...
pmadreenter
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glorkar wrote:
just couldn't say no!
It's a 300 dollar book in this condition; I saw it listed for a dollar, from a dealer who didn't seem to know what it was, and I had to jump in. Got it for... um... 60 bucks; I wasn't *quite* the only person who noticed it. I'll post pics and talk more about it in my other thread when I have time. Looks like it might not be till tomorrow. |
4/11/2025
Topic:
P-Mad's Crypt Of Stuff
pmadreenter
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New stuff!
I'm getting down toward the end of my budget, only 400 dollars left to play with; the nice man at the LCS is going to help me with that problem next weekend, but meanwhile I can show a few things. I'll hold back for now on the ones I'm not sure I'll be able to keep...
Let's see, let's see, whadda we got?
I never really understood why Carl Barks was considered such a great worldclass great great comics artist -- I'm more of a Walt Kelly guy myself -- but I recently figured out that his rep. was based on the book-length adventure stories he put the ducks in and not so much the 8-page sitcoms in WDC&S. So I'm gonna try a couple of those and maybe I'll see the light. I have this one to read someday soon and another one on the way...
And then... what else is new and exciting? (I also have a new category that I'll be debuting at the end of the message, called "Dumb stuff that nobody's really interested in looking at.") Oh, yeah... New! Exciting! A big-boy book! I got one of the rare early pressings of Zap Comix #1, from Back when Robert Crumb's thing was still a cottage industry and he was walking around Haight-Ashbury with a baby-carriage full of comics, selling them on the street. An authentic, gosh-be-walla "Don Donahue" 2nd printing.
See down there on the lower left, where it says... While I was on that dealer's page, I went ahead and knocked down Zap 2, 4, 5 and 6, not pictured... #2 and #4 seem to be early printings that hold some value, so that's nice... and I also bought a copy of... um... how strict are the family-friendly guidelines here? Do I have to call it Big Butt Comics #2? (Not pictured.)
And then there's these, which are just such inexpensive books that I wouldn't benefit much from flipping them...
But wait there's more! Another Big Shot, and my Quality superhero book for the year (until I find that I can do better).
(Heritage Auctions has a copy of this in their archives, and the auction description began"OH NO! Not the pepper!")
And now it's time for the DSTNRIILA books, two of em:
Looks like a whole bunch of nothing, even to me, but the first story is about Jackie Robinson, drawn by man Everett Raymond Kinstler exclamation point, so I look forward to reading it... and
Yeah, bite me. I think Mutt And Jeff are funny, I'm a fan of 1920s newspaper comics. And it's an early issue. Can't hardly scoff at a 1943 DC...
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5/1/2025
Topic:
P-Mad's Crypt Of Stuff
pmadreenter
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After scoring that exciting! rare! Zap #1, I was on an underground-comics kick for a week or so; I got this:
Along with a couple of others (Projunior looks interesting, I haven't read it yet...), and I also got this:
It wasn't the pricey first-printing (I wasn't paying careful attention) but I'm not too disappointed, because
I think that's the only signed comic in my collection at this point. No, there's one other, but I have no idea what it is.
Oh yeah, here's the other Carl Barks book I was waiting on:
Aaaand I got a SUPER-clean copy of Mutt And Jeff 21, really proud of this book. Check it out, not bad for 1946, eh? Too bad it's a DSTNRIILA ...
edited by pmadreenter on 5/1/2025
edited by pmadreenter on 5/1/2025
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