Apparently nice sunny days in the middle of July don't make for great comic book shows.  We managed to prove that just this last Sunday at the American Legion Post #111 as the show did not have a very large crowd.  I would wager that many of the dealers did not sell very well unless they were offering large discounts.  There just weren't enough people there spending for anyone to have made any real money. 

I'm glad that I didn't setup a table myself, and rather went to chat with everyone and purchase some stuff for myself.  I did manage to find a fair amount of issues that I needed, and some that were just so cheap I couldn't pass them up.  Thanks to all the dealers that I did business with.  Enough about me though, here's the pics from the show.

A Look Across the Hall at the Comic Show (with no one there...)

A look at some of the tables and displays setup at the show...

Marvel Mystery Comics #59

 

No, that guy isn't for sale.  You can however visit him at All-American Comics.

Troy N's Table of Golden Goodies and Pre-Code Classics

Astonishing #30 (Atlas)

 

Ghost Rider #10 (Magazine Enterprises)

Mystery Comics #3 (Better/Nedor)



Red Mask #42 (Magazine Enterprises)



Red Mask #45 (Magazine Enterprises)



Robotmen of the Lost Planet #1 (Avon)


 


Two Copies of Strange Adventures #9 (DC)



Suspense #16 (Atlas)



Tomb of Terror #1 (Harvey)



Weird Adventures #10 (Ziff-Davis)

Weird Science #5 (EC)



Weird Terror #1  (Comic Media)



Weird Terror #3  (Comic Media)

Last, and most certainly least, here I am with some of the day's plunder: a stack of late 70's Marvel Direct Editions...

As always I had a great time at the show.  Thanks to everyone who attended, dealers and customers.  I hope to see you and everyone else at the next St. Louis Spector Club Comic Show, September 14. 

If anyone needs any information about that show or any of the other local St. Louis shows and cons, you can always find it here:

http://comicshow.stlcomics.com

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See this week's list of new comics being shipped 7/16/08 at our forum:

http://forum.stlcomics.com/viewtopic.php?p=51161#51161

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It is time again for everyone to get off their collective butts, and come to Shrewsbury for the Spector Club Comic Show this Sunday from 10:30 to 2:30.  Miss a recent new issue?  Still looking for that same back issue from 10 years ago?  Hoping to get lucky on a golden age classic?  You should be able to find those things and many more. 

Get all the information you'll need here ---> http://comicshow.stlcomics.com

See you there! 

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Good news for local comic collectors!  The Hey Kids Comic Conventions show promoter has decided to do a second show in the St. Louis metro area!  This new show will be located at an American Legion hall in Collinsville, Illinois.  It should likely be very much the same sort of show we're all used to seeing from them in Chesterfield, but hopefully with a few different retailers and dealers.

As always, that information is posted here at Stl on our Comicon page:
http://comicshow.stlcomics.com/

You can also find information about this and other Key Kids Comicons on their site:
http://epguides.com/comics/

Here's a pic from a past HKC show...

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I was just flipping through a bunch of old pictures and scans of comics, and came across some from an ebay auction that ran back in 2004.  The item was a bound volume that consisted of none other than original copies of Amazing Fantasy #15, Amazing Spider-Man #1-10 and the fairly hard to find Strange Tales Annual #2 (which contained a Jack Kirby drawn Spidey).  I was so surprised when I saw it that I had to save the pictures.  They have been sitting on my hard drive ever since, and I suppose it is about time I share them. 

So, to answeer the question I posed in the title of this post:  Was that guy nuts?  I was obviously referring to the person that had these comics bound, so the answer has to be: NO.  I'm sure that these comics were bound in the early 1960's when they weren't worth anything remotely close to what they are today.  That person was obviously just trying to preserve some periodicals that he obviously enjoyed.  In that, the person succeeded.  The comics look to be in an almost untouched condition.  If it weren't for the fact that they are bound, they would likely grade very highly.  A close look shows that like many periodicals though, when they were bound, they were also trimmed to fit.  Each book is trimmed on three sides. 

See the rest of the pics in the Stl Comics Interactive Cover Galleries...

Bound Spideys

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