I hope everyone is enjoying their summer, Southern Ontario has been rainy but hot, I myself like the heat but I can do with about half the rain. I have a strong team of bees working the lavender patch just off my front porch, They’re a great group of pollinators to spend some time with and share a beer with at the end of a long day, I’m not sure if they appreciate my company but I sure do appreciate theirs.
We’ve started our work towards the next icecollectibles Canadiana eBay auction, firm dates will be announced soon but we do expect it to take place the second half of October, so just two short months away. To get things going I thought we’d snag a Cover of the Week from that Canadiana auction pile, Canadian artist Jon Stables does some fine work with this Brok Windsor cover, from Better Comics Volume 3, #5, September 1944.
Our splash page of the week is actually a pin up page, from Fantastic Four #2. You can tell that Kirby had no clue as to what he was doing with the Fantastic four, I’d say the future greatness wasn’t even contemplated at this point. This page looks more like it cam out of one of his Monster stories of 1959 or 1960. I’, wondering if we can pinpoint the Fantastic Four issue that marked the end of the beginning and the beginning of the End Game? Can we pinpoint an issue?
Our ad of the week comes from Captain Midnight #36 from January 1946. What caught my attention about this ad was the slang, the flavor is “mighty swell”, when did swell go away? When did we stop saying “say, what’s the big idea?”, what came after swell? Hip? Fly” Gosh, I’m not sure.
From the same issue of Captain Midnight I found this little two page story. Basically they threw in an all text story to add to the content of the comic, I think its neat that kids would take the time to read these stories, those kids back then were the bee’s knees.
Last night another of our weekly icecollectibles eBay auction ended, our closer was Tales from the Crypt #30 at CGC 8.5. Our copy earned $1925, I was happy with the result, a CGC 9.0 had sold for $2,400 a year and a half ago but that was a better grade and those were better times. Again, a solid market result.
FF4 with Submariner in love with SS was great and FF5, the intro of DD in hate with RR was equally good. It was all downhill after FF102. It’s like the book slid backwards into the Atomic/Television era.
Hey Tim, #4 and 5 were great empire building books, adding key pieces to the stable. I still think Kirby’s art looked like his monster stuff at that time, he transitioned his approach a few years later…
I went to Fan Expo after I returned from Nova Scotia and bought nothing there.
It was a ghost town for the kind of GA Books I want, unslabbed and not in plastic coffins just to gouge collectors who are grade collectors not collectors that want access to the actual book.
Those aren’t the Droids I’m looking for.
I should have rented a car and spent more time looking for comics there.
Jim, I was feeling guilty for not going to Fan Expo but now you’ve made me feel better about it. Harley must have had some ok stuff?
Walter, Loved the cover of FF 1. But, who exactly tied up the rubber man? And how would these challengers of the unknown, flame boy, invisy girl and rubber man, ever stand a chance against the big monster without their own monster? Did Stan and Jack even talk together about this cover beforehand?
Regarding the text stories in Golden Age comics – my understanding is that it had something to do with getting cheaper rates of distribution or postal delivery because it had written stories. Does anyone know more about this?
Hi Davidpop11, yes, I got an email from someone that told me the same thing, text sections allowed for a different tier for shipping based on the book now being reading material.