Mark's books20891

Originally Posted by Nearmint67
@DWeeB1967 Keep the 9.8, sell the 9.2....
You can make more money next week... lol..

Originally Posted by southerncross
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Originally Posted by GAC
What is going on here with Mark's books? How are all these multiple, super high grade books appearing in this one location? Is all this from his personal collection originally purchased in their time? This is an anomaly to have all this sweet, sweet raw goodness in one place.

Mark was in his early 20s and he was friends with a woman who worked in a distribution business for news stands and he was allowed to buy whatever comics he wanted at 40% off cover. So he would buy the books and put them inside one of the empty comic book boxes the books were delivered in.
Why some boxes are Charlton boxes.





Which he taped up and took home and stored under the sub-floor of his home.
There were a lot of boxes like this.

I even found a receipt in one of the boxes when I was unpacking,




I kept the receipt and tucked it in with my Daredevil 131 I believe.

He wasn't a comic book collector, he just speculated and never read a comic book.
He saw a friend buying comics and asked him why and that's what he was doing. Mark just went hardcore doing that.

With run books of existing titles like Superman, Batman and hulk, he seemed to only buy one copy, while earlier titles like Demon etc he bought multiples of issues, not just issue 1 but up to issue 12. There wasn't really much of a pattern as there were only 4 copies I believe of New Gods 1 yet 100 copies of demon 1 and the shadow 1.

Starting around 1971 up to 1976.
Though there was a run of Ironman 1-up and Sub-mariner 1- up. And there were half a dozen timely golden age books around vg-fn in this collection. Unfortunately I didn't see them.

The collection is from Washington State and is being sold around the country.

And there are collectors from out of state and country coming in and walking out with loads of books.

There was no hulk 181, house of secrets 92.
But there was other bronze age keys in the collection.
Sometimes just a single copy, other times a handful to a bakers dozen.

I think it's one of the best bronze age collections ever. But that's my opinion.

Originally Posted by Rbolton
They should put a marks book collection notation n the slabs

Originally Posted by southerncross
As for the most favorite book.




Even though only four copies these are ridiculous condition wise. A Treasury size black cover with white pages and sharp corners is amazing. Especially when bought straight off the distributor and never made it to the news stands to be damaged.

As soon as one was priced I bought a copy, then a week later I bought another copy. $55 each plus tax.
Another regular bought the third copy.
A couple months later a copy was still there with the manufacturing error of the folded center page and I bought that copy too.




Here's the pic of the first two.
Just 50 year time capsule stuff going on there.

Originally Posted by DWeeB1967
@southerncross Just curious... have you noticed whether any of the high-end books that Alan had graded came back as bananas?