A website devoted to bringing you the best in the world of conventions, comics and cosplay. Dubbed mads maddest artist, martins hingefooted characters and absurd sense of humor national gorilla suit day celebrated every jan. Sad sack, along with beetle bailey, is the quintessential military humor strip of postwar america and one of the flagship characters in harveys publishing enterprise. The official overstreet comic book grading guide will answer just about any question you will ever have on the grading system as it stands today. The goofy buck private and his hardnosed drill sergeant, sarge, head up a cast of armybased caricatures whose broad parody of barracks life struck a familiar chord with. Use this free resource to arrive at a value for each book and for the avengers 55 values rising comic book secrets says. We pride ourselves in our passion for comics, and related collectibles. Nobody ever had it as bad as the sack the sad sack, george bakers perpetually luckless antihero of world war ii. Top selling comic books 2014 we track all the top sales all year long and list them. The number 1 free online comic book community featuring a comic book price guide database, friends, lists, blogs, and more. Unfollow comic book price guide to stop getting updates on your ebay feed.
These are the kinds of comics you find in two for a dollar boxes in any comic book store you visit. When more than one comic is offered in a particular listing, the entire sale is disregarded. They are useful only as a starting point to valuing items in your comic book collection. Get the best deals on sad sack golden age comics 1938 1955 when you shop the largest online selection at. Have any comics or collectibles youre looking to sell.
Sad sack laugh special started as an 84page comic book, published quarterly later bimonthly, featuring harvey comics character sad sack. Here at comics price guide, we love to track different numbers. Free comic books vintage comic books vintage comics comic book covers sad comics comic book collection price guide silver age comic book characters. Sad sack laugh special is an american comic book series, published by harvey comics. We make every possible effort to only report on the price paid for individual comics. Follow the remarkable experiences of an unnamed lowly private in the united states army. We have values for any marvel, dc, image, idw, darkhorse, or dell comic book that is in your collection.
We continue to accept preorder and subscription orders, but are not currently accepting orders for new or back issue. Sad sack comic read sad sack comic online in high quality. The story of its origins is told better than i could ever tell it, starting here. What is your sad sack and the sarge comic book worth. Set in the united states army, sad sack depicted an unnamed, lowly private experiencing some of the absurdities and humiliations of military life. Get the best deals on sad sack harvey silver age comics 1956 1969 when you shop the largest online selection at. Those superheroes of yore are back on the scene in full force, thanks to the huge popularity of movies featuring spiderman, batman, the xmen and others. You can also connect with others in the comic industry to further and enhance everyones comic experience. The official web site of the classic harvey comics, cartoon, and motion picture character the sad sack. This edit will also create new pages on comic vine for. Some comic shops now sell comics already in bags, although the quality of the bag can vary.
Comic book price guide i love comic book collection. Comics price guide was the first online price guide for comic books back in 1995. Overstreet comic book price guides highly recommend you picking up a copy even if its not the current edition. Aug 04, 2019 by benjamin nobel, october 29, 2018 when collecting any given key comic book issue, it is better to have two ways to win, than just one. Price guide app a free comic book price guide that has lots of cgc graded prices. Free delivery and returns on ebay plus items for plus members. Free comic book value and price resources comic book secrets jan 19, 2008 it walks you through finding comic book values and prices and helps you decide the best method for your situation.
Our comic price guide articles help you to the value of your comic books as quickly and easily as possible. Sack drinks a potion he finds in the professors laboratory, and it temporarily changes him into a mr. The world was poised to dump on him, and baker made sure it didcreating in the process one of the most popular cartoon characters of the twentieth century. Find the value of the harvey comic sad sack comics volume 1. The sad sack is an american fictional comic strip and comic book character created by sgt. Too bad for them but the first four issues were but together in a comic album format. Search our guide to current market values of rare and collectible comic books. The term perfectly describes the humiliations and absurdities of. Comics will be sandwiched between 2 sheets of cardboard for added protection and sent in a bx14 mailer my shipping prices are 1 comic 3. Comic book price guides are just that a guide to what a comic book is worth. Set in the united states army, sad sack depicted an otherwise unnamed, lowly private experiencing some of the absurdities and humiliations of military life. He published sad sack comics no 1 in september 1949, with the hero back in the army, and george baker himself drawing the cartoon cover.
Comic book collecting is a hobby that treats comic books and related items as collectibles or. Values of sad sack and the sarge comics price guide. The title was a euphemistic shortening of the military slang sad sack of shit, common during world war ii. Sad sack was walking guard duty, and it was the grave yard shift. We are keeping a close eye on developments and hope to reopen by the end of april if not sooner, circumstances permitting.
Free shipping on many items browse your favorite brands affordable prices. Sarge brags to another sergeant about his floorpolishing equipment. Get the best deals on terminator comic book collections when you shop the largest online selection at. To assist both types of comic book collector, comic book price guides are available and provide estimates of comic book values as. A cheery shoutout to don martin, who died on this date in 2000 at the age of 68. Aug 27, 2018 comic books have been a big part of american culture since the 1930s, especially following supermans opening splash in 1938. Subzero comics buys and sells comics, action figures, statues and busts and all related collectibles. Once we know what you have, you can sell comics to us for top dollar. Collectors, dealers, financial institutions, museums, attorneys, galleries and the irs have availed themselves. I made the instant comic book values and price guide page just for this purpose. Comic book value guide how to value your comics in 3 easy steps. Sad sack net comics, the official sad sack comics web site. Sad sack is an american comic strip and comic book character created by sgt.
May 12, 2016 below are examples of the three types of back covers you will find for spawn batman, starting with the regular direct edition no bar code, then the newsstand edition regular comic book paper stock cover and yellow background bar code, and finally the book store version which is just a direct edition copy with a white bar code sticker stuck. You can tell how old a book is by the price printed on its cover. Marvel comics has announced today that their greatest martial artist is set to return to action with a brand new costume in an upcoming comic book series from gene luen yang, dike ruan, and. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search.
Set in the united states army, sad sack depicted an otherwise unnamed, lowly private experiencing some of the absurdities and humiliations of. All item images are used solely for identification purposes. Updated and added to every day, it will eventually list all significant british comics published and all marvel and dc comics that were either officially distributed or non distributed in the uk. Comic books are like oil in that they are traded in u.
Set in theunited states army, sad sack depicted an otherwise unnamed, lowly private experiencing some of the absurdities and humiliations of military life. The nam was an cool comic book when it first came out, but after the first twentyfour issues the storyline started to stray from the titles orignal theme and ideals. Get the best deals on sad sack comic book collections when you shop the. Welcome to the comic book price guide that has been 25 years in the making. Find great deals on ebay for sad sack comics and sad sack comics lot. The weakening canadian dollar got me to thinking about the effect it is having, if any, on the back issue comic book market. Historical accuracy each article includes the historical record price achieved for each book at auction, and the minimum yours is worth if youve found one. Feb 23, 2017 this video shows you how to look up the value of your comic books using ill show you how to search for your comic and get an average price of what it sells for online. The title was issued by harvey from winter 195859 to february 1977. It was written by doug murray and later by don lomax and illustrated by michael golden.
Baker then sold the rights to harvey comics, which produced a large number of commercial spinoffs. Disney, funny animal, sad sack, little lulu, not so much. Presenting a variant look into the culture we all love. If you want to combine individually priced comics to receive discount on shipping these are my terms. Each page includes current market values in ten different grades, as well as a section for real market data, actual prices fetched at auction. Comic book price guides, like overstreet, have a minimum price for comic books. All portions of the grand comics database, except where noted otherwise, are ed by the gcd and are licensed under a creative commons attributionsharealike 4.
Apr 12, 2020 the iguide comic book price guide is maintained by warren and his board of advisors. If you dont want that much detail, his comic book price guide will probably have enough grading information to help you give your collection a fair assessment. Cbcs authentic sig yellow, cbcs authentic sig yellow restored. New listing f055 sad sack 222 harvey silver age comic book. Sad sack is a metaphorical military slang for the term sad sack of shit common in wwii. Slabbed and graded comics from the gold, silver, platinum, bronze and modern ages. Obviously, we track values for comics but we also track the number of times a book is searched. From our humble beginnings, we have grown to the largest, most complete comic book price guide with well over 1,000,000 comics in our database.
No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options. Get the best deals on sad sack golden age comics 19381955. Sad sack harvey silver age comics 19561969 for sale ebay. Find the value of the harvey comic sad sack and the sarge volume 1. Braswell galleries collection of vintage sad sack story boards this auction is for vintage sad sack story boards. The success of the comic brought no fewer than 14 other titles ranging through sad sad sack world a nod to the hit movie, mad mad mad world, and a variation for feminists, sadie sack. The searchable database consists of more than 100,000 pages, each devoted to a specific comic book. In the mid to late 1970s, the comic book direct market started to evolve.
Weve been selling comics since 1961 our first sale. The sad sack a comic strip and comic book character was created by sgt. Sad sack and the sarge comic books for sale online. We are temporarily closed but will reopen monday, april 20th, and begin accepting orders again friday april 17th. This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format. Aug 31, 2016 rozanski has written extensively about comic book distribution and is cited by jim shooter as follows. The title is unpopular, or was bought in quantity during the speculation bubble of the early 1990s, and is now being dumped by collectors.
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