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babington wrote:Those TV21s were all in about fine condition. The prices weren't too horrendous. Here are some recent eBay sales: the early and Doctor Who issues being the hot ones at present...
TV Century 21 #1 G/VG £237.24 (with Identicode gift) (OCT 12)
TV Century 21 #1 VG- £193 (no gift, nice but tear on spine) (FEB 13)
TV Century 21 #2 VF £485 (no gift) (DEC 12)
TV Century 21 #2 VG £142 (no gift) (JAN 13)
TV Century 21 #2 VG £182.07 (no gift) (FEB 13)
TV Century 21 #3 VF £1280 (with free gift) (DEC 12)
TV Century 21 #3 VG £103 (no gift) (FEB 13)
TV Century 21 #4 F £255 (DEC 12)
TV Century 21 #5 VG £21.03 (JAN 13)
TV Century 21 #6 VF £32.24 (JAN 13)
TV Century 21 #7 VF £29.11 (JAN 13)
TV Century 21 #8 F £42 (JAN 13)
TV Century 21 #9 VG £64.07 (JAN 13)
TV Century 21 #23 F £62 (Daleks cover) (FEB 13)
TV Century 21 #28 VG/F £127.55 (Dalek Issue) (NOV 12)
TV Century 21 #36 VG- £56 (Daleks cover) (FEB 13)
TV Century 21 #87 VG £35 (Daleks cover) (FEB 13)
Blimey (again), I didn't realize their value had shot up. For a long time TV21s were around £7 each. Mine are mostly VF/NM so I don't know what they'd go for. Holding on to them though as they're some of my favourite comics.
I was at the London mart on Sunday as well and I got lots of really cheap American comics - like this obscure first issue from 1955 which has to have one of the oddest titles ever:
As far as those TV21s go I suspect that the dealer in question doesn't really want to let them go anyway. If somebody offered to buy the lot he'd probably be quite mortified!
Coming home from an extended weekend away, the following were waiting for me:
2000AD 1831 Spaceship Away 29 Commando 4599-4602
Nice reads them all.
Reading comics since 1970. My Current Regulars are: 2000 AD (1977-), Judge Dredd Megazine (1990-), Spaceship Away (2003-), Commando (2013-), Deadpool and Wolverine (2023-), Quantum (2023-), Fantastic Four (2025-).
Today I bought Spellbound issue 1. Spellbound is usually out of my price range, so finding a copy of the first issue I could buy and still afford the rent was a delight.
The Tammy Project: Documenting the classic British girls' comic, one serial at a time.
Marionette wrote:Today I bought Spellbound issue 1. Spellbound is usually out of my price range, so finding a copy of the first issue I could buy and still afford the rent was a delight.
Ooooh! Is that the Thomson one, the Atlas one, the Marvel one the Miller one or the Thorpe & Porter one?
TV21, as far as I can see, is the most valuable British title now after Beano, Dandy, and Commando No.1 - and everything with Dr Who in it is rocketing up at the moment because the TV series is doing well and about to have its fiftieth anniversary in November. Given that the BBC are pushing Dr Who in the USA at the moment I expect the prices will keep going up in the future. And, of course, TV21 is a fantastic comic! The various TV21 holiday specials are the really valuable ones - some have been going for £100 to £300 each on eBay recently. 1960s TV Comic issues with Dr Who are also going up quite a bit - around £25 for a fine copy.
On the plus side I have all my TV21s which I bought when they were published. On the minus side a few have bits cut out of them by me to pin up inside the lid of my school desk. Luckily a few years back i picked up quite a few quite cheaply - my collection was in storage for about fifteen years and I was eager to enjoy them so bought second copies. I sold some of the doubles on ebay last month but they are a bugger to parcel because of their size. I still can't believe I took a pair of scissors to TV Century 21 issues. My mate Steve bought a complete run for about £900 about five years back. He has taken early retirement and finishes at the end of this month. I have told him to get a pc and become a comics uk forum member.
On the plus side, you did help to increase the value for other collectors. Like the bloke who bought 25,000 identical stamps, kept one and burned the rest.
Anyway, today I got 4 year's worth of Cymru'R Plant, or "The Children's Wales", a long-running Welsh story paper. It contains a mix of stories for young children, adventure stories and illustrated articles. There's even a few very basic comic strips! All the issues I have are from the 50's, but there's more on the way, from between 1898 and 1930
A few more assorted volumes of Cymru'R Plant, these ones from 1898 to 1930, including a consecutive run from 1912 - 1915. None of them have 'proper' covers, presumably the ones it did have were just covered with adverts and discarded before binding.
