Fait Accompli

That final sweep over with the wide broom felt good, I liked leaving the place as nice as I found it. What I’m not going to show you is the areas we’ve had to cram tight with the stuff that used to be in this space. The biggest benefit is the time I’ll gain, time I was devoting to making the warehouse look like this. I’ve promised myself ambitious and industrious use of this new found free time. Time will tell…

There were some interesting finds as I went through the “going to eBay auction” pile. The cover to Black Magic Vol 2 #6 caught my eye right away, there were a few other covers that threatened to unseat it but the Jack Kirby magic helped it survive the onslaught and survive as my pick for Cover of the Week.

Speaking of covers, does anyone remember these pocket novels from the mid to late 1970s? Marvel and DC put them out, this copy was published in 1978 and has a forward from Stan Lee, the book reprints the 1st 18 issues of Doc Strange stories from Strange Tales #110 up, if I read the forward correctly. Do these have any collecting value? We’ll soon find out because this copy is going to our eBay auction.

Our Splash Page of the Week also comes from Black Magic Vol 2 #6 (#12), and it is also a Jack Kirby piece. What intrigued me was that this was a May 1952 comic but that this splash had that Kirby Monster feel to it. Jack was cutting his teeth here, loading up the arsenal for the all out attack he would unleash a few of years later.

A while back I tested your knowledge of back covers to iconic books, I think I got a few of you but most of you seemed to know the last time it was the back ad to Amazing Spider-Man #300. Lets play again? Anybody know which book this back cover ad belongs to? I’ll post the answer at the bottom but don’t look you cheeky monkey. I’ve always like these ads selling back issues, they’re great to daydream imagining yourself buying some very valuable issues at those old prices posted. Unfortunately there’s slim pickings in this ad, maybe the Amazing Spider-Man #365 for $3.50 (or $2,95 each if you bought 3 or more).

The latest weekly icecollectible eBay auction ended last night, I was watching the close of our Marvel Premiere #15, this is a good barometer book, its a big Bronze Age Marvel Key and it traded often so I wanted to see how it did. Our copy closed at $469, which was better than the last sale in October of $445. No further slide, good sign. This book has been trading in the mid 400s to mid 500s for most of the year, our result shows its stuck at the low end of the range but it also shows some stability there.

That back cover ad belongs to Spawn #1 !!

Walter Durajlija
Walter Durajlija

Walter Durajlija is an Overstreet Advisor and Shuster Award winner. He owns Big B Comics in Hamilton Ontario.

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2 Comments

  1. That room would make a great bowling alley,for many modern graded slabbed books, that I own none of, of course, to increase the value of mine.

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