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Post by earl on Sept 22, 2020 20:07:10 GMT -5
Wow, that is a real one. Even as a kid in the 80s those EC comics were expensive.
Those are a bit tricky to collect even in reprints. I haven't opened up that tomb, I got enough going on in the collection as is.
I'm going the other way, I sold off 7 long boxes last week... URRRMM I did get 'some' stuff out of the swap around, but trade reprints. I got the recently released Iron Man Epic Collection #4, a collection of the Iron Fist stories from the b&w magazines and the recent reprint of the Wolverine omnibus.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 22, 2020 21:46:01 GMT -5
Wow, that is a real one. Even as a kid in the 80s those EC comics were expensive. Those are a bit tricky to collect even in reprints. I haven't opened up that tomb, I got enough going on in the collection as is. Are EC reprints hard to come by now? The Gemstone reprints used to be cheap and plentiful, but it was probably 15 years ago I was buying them. My younger boys read the issues of Two-Fisted Tales to death. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2020 23:03:36 GMT -5
Wow, that is a real one. Even as a kid in the 80s those EC comics were expensive. Those are a bit tricky to collect even in reprints. I haven't opened up that tomb, I got enough going on in the collection as is. Are EC reprints hard to come by now? The Gemstone reprints used to be cheap and plentiful, but it was probably 15 years ago I was buying them. My younger boys read the issues of Two-Fisted Tales to death. Most of the Gemstone reprints can go for $3-5 if/when you find them, though sometimes cheaper. Except for Crime Suspenstories 22 which can go for anywhere from $50 to $120 depending on grade as it is the only time the cover has been reprinted. A copy was up for sale in the Lonestar auction earlier this summer and went for over $100. -M |
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Post by tartanphantom on Sept 23, 2020 0:25:58 GMT -5
Are EC reprints hard to come by now? The Gemstone reprints used to be cheap and plentiful, but it was probably 15 years ago I was buying them. My younger boys read the issues of Two-Fisted Tales to death. Most of the Gemstone reprints can go for $3-5 if/when you find them, though sometimes cheaper. Except for Crime Suspenstories 22 which can go for anywhere from $50 to $120 depending on grade as it is the only time the cover has been reprinted. A copy was up for sale in the Lonestar auction earlier this summer and went for over $100. -M Which is completely silly, because I bought my #22 directly from Lonestar/MCS about 3 years ago for $6. However, It was almost impossible to find. I had a wishlist alert set for it, and woke up early one morning with an email telling me they had it in stock. I had been searching for one for about 7 years, so I jumped on it immediately. Prices have gone crazy on that book. It's like Tank Girl #1. Bought a very nice overstock copy in the 50-cent bin back in the mid-90's, and now it's one of those cult books... small but rabid following, and people will pay stupid prices for it.
At any rate, the Gemstone EC reprints are great. If you want to amass the whole collection, it's 297 books. I took my EC reprint collection one step further, and sought out the Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad reprints, which are actually magazine-sized, but collect and reprint the first 23 issues of Mad, when it was in comic book form. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2020 0:40:17 GMT -5
Most of the Gemstone reprints can go for $3-5 if/when you find them, though sometimes cheaper. Except for Crime Suspenstories 22 which can go for anywhere from $50 to $120 depending on grade as it is the only time the cover has been reprinted. A copy was up for sale in the Lonestar auction earlier this summer and went for over $100. -M Which is completely silly, because I bought my #22 directly from Lonestar/MCS about 3 years ago for $6. However, It was almost impossible to find. I had a wishlist alert set for it, and woke up early one morning with an email telling me they had it in stock. I had been searching for one for about 7 years, so I jumped on it immediately. Prices have gone crazy on that book. It's like Tank Girl #1. Bought a very nice overstock copy in the 50-cent bin back in the mid-90's, and now it's one of those cult books... small but rabid following, and people will pay stupid prices for it. Auctions sometimes result in silly prices, especially when it becomes about winning rather than the item itself. Last night's Lonestar auction had some results that had me shaking my head...$47 for a Tomb of Dracula 10 Facsimile Editon CGC'd at 9.8  and the big one, which extended the auction for nearly an hour as folks kept upping the bid at the last second which extends the auction for 60 seconds on Lonestar, a 9.9 CGC foil variant for Tiggomverse #1 (a parody featuring Tigger getting a Venom-like symbiote, yes you read that right)...  ended up going for $525 (a metal variant in 9.8 also went for $225, a crystal variant 9.8 for $98 and the regular version of that variant in 9.8 only got $82). And then there was the coverless copy of Amazing Spider-Man #50 going for $63  so someone bidding over $100 for a reprint of CSS #22 doesn't surprise. Befuddles me, but doesn't surprise me. -M Edit to add: of course the upside of all this for me is that if folks are dropping all that cash on these kinds of books, they're not dropping it on the books I am interested in so I have a better shot at getting those! |
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Post by berkley on Sept 23, 2020 0:56:19 GMT -5
There are a few odds and ends I wouldn't mind having - ToD #10 being one of them - but it isn't a big enough thing with me to ay big bucks for it. I wouldn't shell out $50 for a copy of the original, let alone that facsimile edition with the colours and paper I dislike. The only reason I'd like to have it is that it's the one issue I'm missing from the entire ToD run, it's just my bad luck that it also happens to be the first appearance of Blade.
There's an issue of the Starlin Captain Marvel run that I'm missing, that's another one; two or three issues of the Claremont/Byrne X-Men; and a bunch of things that escape me at the moment.
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Post by dbutler69 on Sept 23, 2020 6:41:22 GMT -5
That's insane, @mrp. Are you making that up? (Just kidding)
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 23, 2020 8:20:52 GMT -5
Most of the Gemstone reprints can go for $3-5 if/when you find them, though sometimes cheaper. Except for Crime Suspenstories 22 which can go for anywhere from $50 to $120 depending on grade as it is the only time the cover has been reprinted. A copy was up for sale in the Lonestar auction earlier this summer and went for over $100. -M Which is completely silly, because I bought my #22 directly from Lonestar/MCS about 3 years ago for $6. However, It was almost impossible to find. I had a wishlist alert set for it, and woke up early one morning with an email telling me they had it in stock. I had been searching for one for about 7 years, so I jumped on it immediately. Prices have gone crazy on that book. It's like Tank Girl #1. Bought a very nice overstock copy in the 50-cent bin back in the mid-90's, and now it's one of those cult books... small but rabid following, and people will pay stupid prices for it.
At any rate, the Gemstone EC reprints are great. If you want to amass the whole collection, it's 297 books. I took my EC reprint collection one step further, and sought out the Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad reprints, which are actually magazine-sized, but collect and reprint the first 23 issues of Mad, when it was in comic book form. I bought those issues of “Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad” as they were coming out. My boys also read them to death. I have two of the few kids under 25 who can say they grew up on EC comics. |
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Post by dbutler69 on Sept 23, 2020 14:36:29 GMT -5
Congrats on achieving another milestone. What's next on your bucket list?
I think that's it. The books that I want are on the less expensive side and I only want to pay 1 buck or less. I can't do that on eBay because the shipping always drives the price up. I'm waiting for shows to return, if they ever do.  Yeah, my LCS only allows you to order electronically or via phone, then curbside pickup. I'd love to be able to get in there and go through a dollar bin! |
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Post by earl on Sept 23, 2020 16:17:42 GMT -5
I was thinking the EC single issue reprints there was quite a few that were really hard to find. I remember one guy at a con had a pretty nice layout of them for like 2 bucks each, but I had other to fish to fry. My problem is that I know if I start on those, I would want them ALL. I know me.
On the other hand, I did not know of these EC annual reprints, those seem to be somewhat available and not as expensive.
I had a couple of the original, I want to say black and white hard covers when I was a teenager in the 80s. I had a Two-Fisted Tales and the classic Tales of the Crypt one.
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Post by MDG on Sept 24, 2020 8:23:21 GMT -5
I was thinking the EC single issue reprints there was quite a few that were really hard to find. I remember one guy at a con had a pretty nice layout of them for like 2 bucks each, but I had other to fish to fry. My problem is that I know if I start on those, I would want them ALL. I know me. I was selling at a show once and had about 20 gemstones for sale at a buck each. Guy comes up "You only want a dollar each for there?" Yep. "Wow! Are you sure?" That's what the sign says. "I can't believe it!"
He pulls them all out and spends the next 15 minutes scrutinizing each one. "I never see these for just a dollar!"
Ends up buying two of them.
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Post by tartanphantom on Sept 24, 2020 8:43:12 GMT -5
I was thinking the EC single issue reprints there was quite a few that were really hard to find. I remember one guy at a con had a pretty nice layout of them for like 2 bucks each, but I had other to fish to fry. My problem is that I know if I start on those, I would want them ALL. I know me. I was selling at a show once and had about 20 gemstones for sale at a buck each. Guy comes up "You only want a dollar each for there?" Yep. "Wow! Are you sure?" That's what the sign says. "I can't believe it!"
He pulls them all out and spends the next 15 minutes scrutinizing each one. "I never see these for just a dollar!"
Ends up buying two of them.
It's simply amazing how that very same annoying buyer seems to attend every single comics show in the world at once...  grrrrrr.... |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 24, 2020 14:43:05 GMT -5
Which is completely silly, because I bought my #22 directly from Lonestar/MCS about 3 years ago for $6. However, It was almost impossible to find. I had a wishlist alert set for it, and woke up early one morning with an email telling me they had it in stock. I had been searching for one for about 7 years, so I jumped on it immediately. Prices have gone crazy on that book. It's like Tank Girl #1. Bought a very nice overstock copy in the 50-cent bin back in the mid-90's, and now it's one of those cult books... small but rabid following, and people will pay stupid prices for it. Auctions sometimes result in silly prices, especially when it becomes about winning rather than the item itself. Last night's Lonestar auction had some results that had me shaking my head...$47 for a Tomb of Dracula 10 Facsimile Editon CGC'd at 9.8 I got this today in a comic shop in Queens for 3.99. Does that mean I can now get 47 dollars for it ?   |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 24, 2020 14:44:21 GMT -5
Got this also today.  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2020 21:54:53 GMT -5
Auctions sometimes result in silly prices, especially when it becomes about winning rather than the item itself. Last night's Lonestar auction had some results that had me shaking my head...$47 for a Tomb of Dracula 10 Facsimile Editon CGC'd at 9.8 I got this today in a comic shop in Queens for 3.99. Does that mean I can now get 47 dollars for it ? Well, you would have to get it CGC'd and hope it gets a 9.8 (9.6 will sell for less), which will cost you and pay postage to send it to them, so it will cost you, and then list it on an auction site to sell it, which will cost you, so you might get $47, but you may have to spend at least that much to do so, assuming you find someone to buy it. My guess is whomever had it slabbed has an account with CGC and has lots of books graded at once so aren't paying the premium jut to have a facsimile edition graded. But if you get it graded and get the 9.8 and find the buyer in the right situation, sure, you might make something off of it. -M |
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grrrrrr.... 
