From: Barry.Chern@p19.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Barry Chern)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.marketplace
Subject: Starving Artist Sale #1
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 05:47:46 EST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:226/20.19 - cmhGate UF Gateway, Columbus OH


Personal collection, one of each. Yes, I know you could buy these comics
elsewhere, but get them from me and you'll be helping support the arts. No,
I'm not an up-and-coming young comic artist, but a forty-something fine artist
who has had to take a life-long vow of poverty for the privilege of breaking
his back hand-printing original lithographs.

Like the shrewd investor I am, I've held onto my comics until the bottom
totally fell out of the market and nobody wants them any more. SOMEBODY out
there, though, could get a lot of really nice comics out of the deal. Read 100
issues of the Avengers at one sitting, and you too could turn into the Flaming
Carrot!

All comics average VF-NM. They were hand-picked to be as perfect as possible,
read once, and put in a box. There may be slight discoloration from age, but
that's about it. The prices are based on a percentage of Overstreet.
Individual books are higher than the bulk, of course, 'cause I'd rather sell
runs. Any subset of the bulk that includes at least 15 comics more or less in
a run can take another 10% off the individual prices.

Postage & Handling: $2.50 plus .50 for every 10 comics. 

So, where to start? "let's start at the very beginning..." first box of Marvel


Alpha Flight - (Byrne art through 28)
     1...........3.25 - cover slightly indented by being first comic in box
     2...........1.75
     3-10........1.40 each
    12...........1.75 (death of Guardian)
    13...........5.60 (Wolverine appears)
    14-16........1.05 each
    17...........3.50 (X-men x-over)
    18-22........1.05 each
    24-28........1.05 each
    29........... .90

all the above Alpha Flight comics for $31.00
(boy, does that sound cheap. maybe I shouldn't waste my time with this...)

Avengers 
     142-144..........2.10 each(144-1st appearance Hellcat)
     147..............1.50 (slight water damage to cover)
     148-152..........2.10 each (Kirby starts w/150.)
     154-156..........2.10 each
     160-162..........2.10 each
     165-166..........3.15 each (Byrne)
     167-172..........1.75 each
     175-180..........1.75 each
     181-182..........1.75 each (Byrne) 
     183-191..........1.75 each (Byrne) 
     192-202..........1.40 each (Perez)
          
          all the above Avengers for $71

     203-205.......... .85 each
     208-220.......... .85 each
     222-262.......... .85 each
     263..............2.80 (first appearance X-Factor)   
     264-267.......... .85 each
     270-271.......... .85 each
  Annuals
      6...............2.40 vf (Perez)
      9...............1.75
     10...............3.50 (Golden)
     11-15............1.75 each (13 - Ditko & Byrne
                                 15 - Ditko & Janson. strange combos. gotta
                                   love it.)

          second half of Avengers list - $55

ALL of the comics in this ad for only $135. Can that be right?!? (only if you
get to 'em before anyone else buys any, of course.)

barry.chern@cmhGate.fidonet.org

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