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Lee Hester, owner of Lee's Comics, has been buying and selling comics for
25 years. As you can imagine, after a quarter century in the business, he has
seen and made many deals. But no matter what a given seller has to offer, Lee
has always been positive and approached each deal with the best of intentions.
Last month, that positive approach paid off.
A man walked into one of Lee's stores and asked if they would be interested in some books he had found while cleaning out a Victorian mansion in San Francisco. An elderly Japanese couple had recently passed away (they had made it into their nineties), and the children were looking to get rid of some things. That's when some old comic books were discovered.
Lee began to look through the 500 comics the man had brought in. The covers were glossy and the paper was white. The most consistent defect was rusted staples. A few had water stains and some had writing on the covers. An offer was made and the seller accepted. It was after the deal was closed, however, that Lee received more good news. The man had about 1,000 more comics back home in his garage!
It seemed that the books had been inside a sealed crate for over 50 years, and the man had been reluctant to bring all them all in at once. Satisfied with Lee's offer for the first several books, however, he decided to trust him with the rest. He offered to return with the books later if Lee was still interested.
It was decided that it might be better to close the entire deal that day, so Lee followed the man for about 30 miles to his house. There, inside the garage, was a trunk full of comics so heavy that the two strong men struggled to haul it.
For the next three nights Lee went thought the collection. There were books of every type and genre, all before 1950. One very interesting obsevation was that many of the books are mentioned in Fredric Wertham's 1954 infamous publication Seduction of the Innocent! Hmmmm...
There were duplicates of several titles and some were even stored in triplicate, and Lee was able to grade most of the books as Above Average. After thinking it over for a while, he decided to sell the books gradually, as opposed to flooding the market. The primary reason for his decision was the scarcity of the some of the titles. Some of the highlights were a Slave Girl #1, a Captain Marvel and the Good Humor Man #1 and a Junior #16, featuring the work of Al Feldstein.
By now, the average Golden Age book on the market has been bought and sold several times, so it is nice to have a new collection of affordable titles out there for collectors. And so far, Lee has sold a few titles online and the reaction has been tremendous.
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A man walked into one of Lee's stores and asked if they would be interested in some books he had found while cleaning out a Victorian mansion in San Francisco. An elderly Japanese couple had recently passed away (they had made it into their nineties), and the children were looking to get rid of some things. That's when some old comic books were discovered.
Lee began to look through the 500 comics the man had brought in. The covers were glossy and the paper was white. The most consistent defect was rusted staples. A few had water stains and some had writing on the covers. An offer was made and the seller accepted. It was after the deal was closed, however, that Lee received more good news. The man had about 1,000 more comics back home in his garage!
It seemed that the books had been inside a sealed crate for over 50 years, and the man had been reluctant to bring all them all in at once. Satisfied with Lee's offer for the first several books, however, he decided to trust him with the rest. He offered to return with the books later if Lee was still interested.
It was decided that it might be better to close the entire deal that day, so Lee followed the man for about 30 miles to his house. There, inside the garage, was a trunk full of comics so heavy that the two strong men struggled to haul it.
For the next three nights Lee went thought the collection. There were books of every type and genre, all before 1950. One very interesting obsevation was that many of the books are mentioned in Fredric Wertham's 1954 infamous publication Seduction of the Innocent! Hmmmm...
There were duplicates of several titles and some were even stored in triplicate, and Lee was able to grade most of the books as Above Average. After thinking it over for a while, he decided to sell the books gradually, as opposed to flooding the market. The primary reason for his decision was the scarcity of the some of the titles. Some of the highlights were a Slave Girl #1, a Captain Marvel and the Good Humor Man #1 and a Junior #16, featuring the work of Al Feldstein.
By now, the average Golden Age book on the market has been bought and sold several times, so it is nice to have a new collection of affordable titles out there for collectors. And so far, Lee has sold a few titles online and the reaction has been tremendous.
