#5649016 - 05/03/12 11:54 AM
Re: OO collection part 2
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snitzer
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i spy a vintage Halloween item 
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#5649057 - 05/03/12 12:06 PM
Re: OO collection part 2
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Kevin.J
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 I watch with interest.
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#5649471 - 05/03/12 02:17 PM
Re: OO collection part 2
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vaillant
I was posting here when you were in diapers.
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I’d love to see those. 
BTW, Rip, if there are still comics around, I’d love if some early National Comics would show up. I don’t recall if there were some in the first batch of comics you found.
How old did you say your friend's father (the owner) is? My father is from 1933 and although he did not use to read so much comics (and did not save the few he had, you know, post-war Italy wasn’t the best place to save "ephemera": we had to rebuild our country…) I am deeply indebted for the love for books & comics I developed.
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#5649728 - 05/03/12 03:45 PM
Re: OO collection part 2
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vaillant
I was posting here when you were in diapers.
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Hi Rip, thanks for the details. You mean they had older relatives originary from Italy or that your friend’s grandparents were actually italian?
Which kind of italian records? I’d love to know, but of course just in case…
If I recall correctly, Jack Kirby’s parents were immigrants themselves, austrian. Jack told me (but he has told it several times in interviews as well) he owed his storytelling heritage to his granparents and aunts, which used to tell him, as a child, tales from the old Europe.
This shows clearly in his work, which is very different from, say, Lou Fine or others which had different roots. Especially when the acknowledgment of the supernatural comes forth, like in Demon or in the Fourth World, but it was already there in the golden age Cap he did with Simon.
I am imagining what your friend‘s father would have been reading if he were in Italy at the time… 
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#5649771 - 05/03/12 04:00 PM
Re: OO collection part 2
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Rip
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Hi Rip, thanks for the details. You mean they had older relatives originary from Italy or that your friend’s grandparents were actually italian? Which kind of italian records? I’d love to know, but of course just in case… If I recall correctly, Jack Kirby’s parents were immigrants themselves, austrian. Jack told me (but he has told it several times in interviews as well) he owed his storytelling heritage to his granparents and aunts, which used to tell him, as a child, tales from the old Europe. This shows clearly in his work, which is very different from, say, Lou Fine or others which had different roots. Especially when the acknowledgment of the supernatural comes forth, like in Demon or in the Fourth World, but it was already there in the golden age Cap he did with Simon. I am imagining what your friend‘s father would have been reading if he were in Italy at the time…
The OO's parents I believe were immigrants from Italy.
The records date from 1913 to the 60's? It's a few boxes.
Lots of Opera. It was super heavy to lift and take up the stairs. I think the daughter is going through those now.
They also have the old record player. I'll have her send me a picture.
Scott
Edited by Rip (05/03/12 04:02 PM)
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Giant Comics Editions 12 (Any grade!!)
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#5649807 - 05/03/12 04:19 PM
Re: OO collection part 2
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vaillant
I was posting here when you were in diapers.
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That’s so fascinating… Guess how did they felt during the War.
Such a discovery, done in Italy, would be equally exciting (especially for the early 1940s) but would move lot less money. Most costly examples of collectibles are the earliest Disney story published in "standalone comic book form" (Topolino contro Wolp"), which could sell for some 10-20 thousands USD, or this early Brick Bradford album (from 1935):
Very rare, but even italian own production never reach the value of certain comic books of the same time.
Plus, sellers aren’t grading-affordable. Or better: they won’t grade, since it may be more convenient to leave that to the buyer. It‘s a situation which would benefit from a grading-scale.
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