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| Marvel Comics Price List 1970 |
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| Notice that Amazing Spider-Man #1 has the same $20 price as the rarer and older Amazing Fantasy #15. |
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| Golden Age and EC Price List 1970 |
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| Detective Comics Price List 1970 |
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| Like most dealers Bell didn't usually individually grade comic books but he made an exception for these 1930s and 1940s Golden Age Detective Comics. |
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| Marvel Comics Price List 1971 |
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| Bell realizes that Amazing Fantasy #15 is rarer than Amazing Spider-Man #1 by pricing the former $3.00 higher. |
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| Pre-Code Horror Price List 1971 |
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| Marvel Comics Price List 1972 |
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| Letter to me awarding me some Bell Money which were coupons that could be sent in for a discount on future orders. The money had a photo of Bell or his wife or children. I don't think I ever used of any of it. I still have some. |
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| Marvelmania Posters Letter 1972 |
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| Letter to me announcing Bell's purchase of the stock of Marvel's fan club Marvelmania posters. I wish I had bought some then. They're very expensive now in 2012. |
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| Geoge Olshevsky's Marvel database |
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| Bell was an innovator and always trying new marketing gimmicks. In one package of comics he included a thick IBM computer print out of all superhero Marvel Silver Age comics published up to the early 1970s. The data had been compiled by computer programmer George Olshevsky. Olshevsky owned a complete set of Marvels back to 1939 and in the 1970s and early 1980s published an ambitious line of softcover magazine sized books called the Marvel Comics Index. I asked Bell about this print out when I interviewed him in 1996 and he didn't remember it. |
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| George Olshevsky's Marvel database |
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| One page from George Olshevsky's computer list showing the early issues of Amazing Spider-Man. |
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| Robert Bell mailing envelope 1969 |
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| A frequent and always welcome arrival to the Forro family mailbox in Savannah, Georgia: a package from Robert Bell with Lewis Forro's latest order of Silver Age Marvel comics. Bell used a heavy padded manilla envelope to protect the comics. I'm glad I saved one of these for old times sake. |
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