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Boner, shoot me a email at fairwarning@gmail. My friend's son died and he had a lot of comics from the late 60's to the mid 2000's. It will take a while to get a complete list together to see what's there, unless there is a site like Beckett for comics.
 
The plastic could be a good sign. If the rest of the books are of the same era even at mid-grade 100 books could bring you $1000 and the skys the limit if they are mint.

FW, I'm not a collector. I'm just a dealer. If you friend is looking to unload them at wholesale i'd be interested but he will do much better ($$ and emotionally) finding a good home for the books with collectors.
 
Boner_18
The plastic could be a good sign. If the rest of the books are of the same era even at mid-grade 100 books could bring you $1000 and the skys the limit if they are mint.

FW, I'm not a collector. I'm just a dealer. If you friend is looking to unload them at wholesale i'd be interested but he will do much better ($$ and emotionally) finding a good home for the books with collectors.
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I have no idea what she wants to do with them, but you always want to have a ballpark idea what something is worth going into it. The comics market is probably similar to the cards market right now. I am very familiar with that as i started in 1971.
 
reno cool
looking forward to hearing Krokodil humor.
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Just to follow up on this, I looked through many pages of this and did not see anything that inspired me to scan and post it. It seems pretty weak to me.

I don't know how to describe it. There is stuff about people living in poor conditions - but there is also stuff about the odd customs of people who have a lot of stuff. There is stuff about kids/music today (1980's) being loud and out of control. There is stuff about lazy/incompetent workers. Relationships/politics/bureaucracy/alcoholism. Some of it is pretty random.

It's just not particularly funny. Some of it is mildly thoughtful - that's the most I can say.

That's about it. I will mail it to you if you think you would find it meaningful.
 
Don't remember how I got it. Must have picked it up on a whim at some point. It has $2.99 price tag stuck on the front, although the cover price is $12.95 USD/$18.95 cdn. (Oh how things have changed with exchange rates).

The cartoons that have words are in Russian with English translations.

There is a picture of a stylized Crocodile on the front. He's opening a curtain with a trident and there are comics behind it. That's it for him. I guess he's the mascot/logo of the Krokodil publication which, I can only further guess, is something along the lines of the New Yorker ?? and these are comics from it.

It's all very socially/politically aware - it's just not very funny. It's like, meh. I could blame the translations but a lot of them have no words.
 
Matty
I have binders full of mid-1970's Topps and O-Pee-Chee hockey cards, all in rough condition though.

Those mustaches and hairdos are amazing.

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Mint 70's OPC cards are big $$$ because of the cutting.
 
Boner_18
Bah. Typcial collector.

Google doesn't show you active sales. If I list my '86 Honda Civic on autotrader for 1,000,000 does that mean an '86 Civic is worth up to 1mil?

Look at completed listings on ebay (advanced search settings) that's an actual working market.
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I know, just giving ya shit.
all the sites I checked claiming value all had links to card listed for those prices.
so... common sense that most of the sites are just advertising fronts for over priced listings

did see 1 that if it was graded perfect then could be $2000+

only worth what someone willing to pay like everything else regardless of value placed on it

dont know condition of it.
its been plastic sleeve since I stole/acquired it back around 1994
havent pulled it out in 5+ yrs to look at it though. kept with all my other
future mult-thousand dollar 401K plan cards such as dozens of Shaq's rookies, and every rookie card from that era

in other words:

:lol:
 
Matty
Yeah. Guy who gave them to me never stored them in anything.

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Bryan who?!?
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Actually the player doesn't always matter when it comes to condition. The cards who were positioned on the corners and edges of the sheets were prone to much more damage than the ones in the middle. A mint Guy LaFluer from that set may ne far easier compared to a Bryan Lefley. Veteran collectors will pay big money for those in mint.
 
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