blackrabbit wrote:Yea! Came back from lunch to find that 24 has been breeched! Hit 24.14 as a high so far! I was a kid in the eighties, and the last big bull market I
got into was comics when I was 13 and that did not turn out so well.
I am a bit wiser now, as I found out with comics, paper is pretty much worthless!
Me too BR, worthless now.....but what you learned may come in handy someday and have value....It did for me.......seems like only yesterday......:
I was in D-school 2nd year.....had a little pocket money from time to time and loved to go to auctions....you know the real LIVE type......Well it came friday night and I was at one of my favorite auction barns looking around in box lots....(waiting on the sterling to be put up on the block)....and I came across som old comics. Well I sorted through them....there was alot of crap titles and a few good ones. But one comic caught my eye (pic below)....WOW....I new exactly what was in my hands....I just couldn't believe it! True it was in poor shape at best but we are talking the 1914-D of comics here.....I had only seen photos as a boy....But I Knew....the cover art was a dead give away! I quickly looked inside the front cover to see the publishing info to look for that tell tale 1963 date.....BINGO....I though, OK Chris calm down, get ahold of yourself. It wasn't advertised.....NO ONE had a CLUE. 2 hours later and $35 bucks out of my pocket I bougfht the whole boxlot. Sold the book below on ebay and enjoyed the other comics in class that semester
Why the cover is cut: Back in the day unsold comics were trashed. For a store owner to prove that the comic was not sold and to get a "unsold credit" from the distobution center titles were often cut away and returned. To think that this didn't sell and to reclaim his 12 cents a razor was taken to this classic.....I wish I could have kept it
Poor Poor college me.
Me best deal ever....and why I still go to auctions as often as possiable.....you just never know.