 Hi everyone, this is Chih-chou. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another comic book haul video and this is gonna be a quick comic book haul. We only got two comic books in this, okay? But they're beautiful. Well, all comic books are beautiful, really. Almost all comic books are beautiful, but these two are fantastic and Let me tell you what they are. Now the first one I'm going to show you is a comic book haul that I did before the second one. We bought the second one. And since we started talking about comic books, started getting back into live-streaming comic book videos and specifically live-streaming the comic book reading videos during the discussions, during a live chat on Twitch, and also on YouTube. The topic came up where people were missing the comic book hauls, right? So what I started doing was sort of started building up my funds a little bit to start, you know, nibbling at comic book hauls through eBay mainly, actually all of it through eBay. I bought some comic books at conventions and stuff, but that stuff sort of is On the down-low right now. It's not really happening, right? So all of these and they have been for the last few years, all of them been through eBay, really, right? So I started nibbling a little bit and I got my hands on a couple of books and one of the books was this, okay, and This is a beautiful book. We ended up picking this baby up. Let me tell you what this is. This is Kit Kalt Kalt Outlaw Number 107. Okay, check this out and This was published in 1962. Let me tell you who's on this. The cover is by Jack Kirby, the pencils by Jack Kirby and the inks is by Dick Hairs, right? And From what I understand, I don't know if this is rare or not. A lot of places say it's a rare book or whatnot. I don't know how rare this is, right? Because you can't find it, but it is sought after, right? And I think it's the only monster Kit Kalt comic book out there, right? And I Really wanted to get my hands on this because it's It's a monster comic book, Western monster comic book covered by Jack Kirby, pencils by Dick Hairs. The stories in this are written by Stanley. There is There's art. There's a handful of people working on the art on the inside covers of this. There's Jack Keller did three of the stories, two or three of the stories, three of the stories, I believe. Joe Manley did one of the stories and Dick Hairs did the artwork, the pencils and the inks for one of the stories. So there's five different stories in this and the cover for this says the monster is lifting me into So Kit Kalt says the monster is lifting me into the air by some strange power. I'm completely helpless. Right? Right, beautiful, beautiful. And monster comic books, they are sought after. There are genres that There are definitely avid collectors that seek out monster comic books. I personally love monster comic books, monster issues, monster magazines. I have some of them creep and some of the other ones as well, right? But I'm not solely a monster comic book collector, but this was a beautiful cover and it's signed by Jack Kirby and Dick Hairs at the bottom here. Take a look. I don't know if you'll be able to see it. It's really, really small, really small. And the glow of the plastic. Where is it? Right there on the boulder, right? So it says Kirby and Heirs. And this thing, let me tell you what the grade on this thing. The grade on this thing is the person that was selling it, graded it good. Okay. And I ended up paying 18, 1850 Canadian for it. So that would come out to around 1450 or so US or $14 US, right? So 1850 Canadian, $14 US and Kit Kalt number 107, right? So I was sort of building up my funds a little bit and you know, I'm low balling comics still, right? I'm trying to get a good deal because my funds are limited. So I'm trying to get as much bang for my buck as possible, right? And this is a pretty good bang for your buck. Okay. So that's one of the books we ended up buying. Now, what happened after I bought this book? And I was tracking some of their comics and stuff like this. When I ended up buying this book, I got one donation coming in through PayPal, right? And the only thing that said on the donation was comics only, right? So the donation was to be used, that the funds were to be used to only buy comic books, right? And I'm like, okay, okay, we'll do, right? And that's Connor. Thank you very much for sending in the funds, right? So I started tracking the books I was tracking plus a little bit more and I was sort of trying to decide which ones I was really going to push for, right? And then while I was tracking some of these books within the week, because usually they end, I think this next book, it was a nine day period that once I started tracking it, the funds came in, it was, the timing was crazy, right? Because this series I'm about to show you is sort of golden grail for me, right? It's the number one of this series is one of my golden, I think they called golden grail or one of my most sought after books that I'm trying to get into my collection, right? And I've been trying to get my hands on this comic book for a very long time. It would have been better to buy it 30 years ago than it is now because the price is higher, but you can only buy what you can afford at the time that you can afford it, right? So while I was tracking issue number one, two and three of this series I'm about to show you from the same seller, local seller, right? These funds came in. Thank you Connor, comics only, right? So I was like, excited, excited, excited, right? So I placed my bids on one, two and three, right? And the number one of the series, it was going to be a lot more than what the funds came in, right? And then a couple of days later, we had a little bit more funds come in. Philip, thank you very much for sending in the funds. And Philip sending the funds didn't say comics only, just sending the funds, but I'm tracking comic books. It's going to go towards comic books if I can get it for a certain price, right? So I bid on all three of them and the price was kicking up. And number one, I was, I reached a point where I was like, okay, I need to go extremely frugal. I'm going to, you know, reduce my expenses on a few different things. But the the comic number one went above what I could afford to pay for it, right? And you could only buy what you can afford, right? There's one advice I can give people is when you're collecting comic books or you're collecting anything, if you're into the collectible hobby business or whatever it is, you have to realize that you can't buy everything. It's impossible. It'd be great if you could buy everything and have the space to keep everything and catalog everything and read everything and just enjoy everything, right? But you can't. And one of the pleasures of collecting comic books is the chase, right? Is managing your funds and looking for the bid and trying to get a good deal and the excitement involved in collecting comic books, right? So the number one of this issue went above what I could afford putting funds away for a few months, right? And then there was number two and number three. Number three was a lower grade and it went above what I was willing to pay for a low grade, very low grade for that, right? So it was a little bit on the expensive side for me, right? But number two was ended up being a fantastic buy and combined with the funds that came in from Conor that said comics only and Philip that sent funds afterwards, we actually have a little bit more funds left to do a couple of more or do more comic book calls, right? And by that time I'm going to try to increase the increase the budget and try to nibble at some of their auctions and I'm tracking, right? But it is a beautiful book, this thing, right? I'm very happy to have it in my collection. What we paid for it is probably, well, it is one of the more expensive comics that I have bought as auction on eBay, okay? Like much, much more expensive than 99% of the comics we've been buying on eBay, right? And let me tell you what this is. I know I'm dragging it a lot, I'm dragging it but knowing if you're a comic book collector, you'll have a phenomenal appreciation for this, okay? This comic book is from 1952, The Golden Age of Comics. It is one of the most important comic book series in the history of comic books from one of the most important companies in the history of comic books. It is issue number two of Mad Magazine or Mad Comics, right? From issue number one to number, I believe 21 or something, it was called, it was comic book size and then it went to magazine size, I believe, right? So this is issue number two of Mad, we'll call it Mad Magazine but it's Mad Comic Books and it came out in 1952 and Harvey Cursman, let me tell you who's on this thing, right? Harvey Cursman is the editor and he did a writing on this too as well, I believe, Al Feldstein, Jack Davis, John and Mary Severin, Wally Wood, okay, Harvey Cursman and Bill Elder, okay? And the cover of this is obviously, this is issue number two, well not obviously, I guess it could have worked on issue number one, but it's the first cover by Jack Davis from Mad Magazine and Jack Davis is huge, she did a lot of, I'm going to take it out of this mylar, I put it in mylar right away, right? Jack Davis is quite huge and he's done a lot of work in the film industry, posters, advertisement and did a tremendous amount of work for Mad Magazine obviously, right? But let me take this out and we ended up, let me tell you how much we ended up paying for this and I wrote down the information at the back here, right? It came out in December 1992, issue number one came out, it was a bi-monthly series Mad Magazine or Mad Comics, right? So it would have been August, September, October, November, so October would have been issue number one and issue number one, it was a low grade issue, it went for, it was a fantastic deal by the way, what issue number one went for, it went for $850, $60 or so, right? And that was above what my budget allowed to buy, $860 Canadian and it was graded at good, right? Which is still a very good price, okay? This comic book, we ended up paying, it's graded at very good, okay? So 4.0, we ended up paying $152.50 Canadian, which comes out to $112.40 US or so, okay? It's got tape on the spine and it's got three extra staples. So the person grading this grade is very good. The presentation of this is fantastic. Let me make sure you put the tapes here so they don't snag the comic and show you the comic without the glare of the mylar, the bagging there. And it's a beautiful cover and by the way, what we're going to do is we're going to read this comic. I haven't set the time yet as to when we're going to do the next reading and we're going to do do the reading of this live, right? Thank you very much Connor and Phillip for sending in the funds. I hope you enjoy the reading when we end up doing the reading, which is most likely going to be within the next two weeks, okay? So right now we're on June 22nd, I believe, 2020. Within the next two weeks, we're going to try to read this and let me show you that. I want to be careful with this, right? And this is obviously the lowest mad magazine thing that I have. It's a great cover. And I flip through this, right? Usually I don't try to, I don't flip through readings that we're going to do if we did comic book calls, but I flip through this. It's beautiful. It is beautiful. Okay. It is absolutely beautiful. The artwork inside is phenomenal. Okay. What a treasure to have, right? And what does he say here? I feel it in my bones. Someone is giving me the evil eye. Right? They're like this. Too funny. Too funny. Awesome. Awesome. It's beautiful. Okay. I'm very happy to have it. It does have the tape, this brown tape on the spine, but we'll take a closer look at it when we do the comic book reading. Okay. So good, you know, 4.0 graded for what was it? How much did we end up paying for this? $112, let's say $113 US, $153 Canadian. That's a great price. That's a great price. And a comic book like this, I am very glad that it's not slabbed because a comic book like this requires reading. And we will definitely be reading this together, gang. Possibly this week, possibly either in this set that I'm going to announce or the next set that we're going to announce, we're going to read. And we'll have, we're going to do this one first, for sure. And I'll try to go through my boxes and have maybe three or four, five other choices of comic books that we're going to read. And there's been requests for us to do a superhero comic book readings because we've been doing a lot of romance comics and science fiction comics and war comics and whatnot. And we haven't done too many superhero comic book readings lately. So we're going to do superhero comic book readings. And I haven't decided if we're going to read this one yet. Either way we might. So this is what we ended up getting. Okay. Kit cold number 107 from 1962 and mad comics number two from 1952. Okay. I thought you would get a kick out of this. Connor, Phillip, thank you very much for the funds. We wouldn't have been able to grab these without it. Right? Like 1850 for Kit cold was on the high. And I was willing to willing to willing to bid right because I was slowly building up the funds. And like anything, you should have a little bit of funds to do this little bit of funds to do this little bit of funds to do this. But stay within your budget. Enjoy life. Don't make sure you don't get pressures of needing finances to take care of life's necessities. If you're playing with certain things that includes investing as well because if you're investing, you're really playing. You're really to a certain degree gambling in a sense. But when it comes to comic books, it's not just an investment. It's a way of life. It's a way of being it's entertainment, this enjoyment, as well as it possibly being a form of investment. So if you can get things on a great deal, you get things on a great deal, right? And we got mad magazine number two from 1952. Right? At some point, we'll get mad number one, we will 100%. And once we get it, we're going to read it. We're going to read every little word in this book. So we're going to read everything in this from beginning to end. And when we get our hands on mad number one, we'll definitely do the same for mad number one as well. Okay, gang. I thought you would enjoy this little, little, just a teeny, teeny, we need a little two comic book haul, but holy grails, really. Well, holy grail for mad. The Kid Colt one is beautiful book. Jack Kirby cover dick airs, Jack Kirby pencils, dick airs, inks, monster comic book from 1962, western monster comic books. How many western monster comic books are there? I don't know. I'm not a specialist in the western monster comic books, right? But I'm pretty sure there aren't too many out there. And mad magazine, mad comics. This is one of the books mad magazine was one of the comic book or magazines that are comic book related that I avidly read when I was in elementary school and more in high school. Mad magazine as well as heavy metal. Those are the two magazines that I try to, when I could afford it, buy them and read them and, you know, get the Alfred E. Newman for presidents, stickers, play around with them and whatnot. And that was more in elementary school, right? Well, it's fantastic. Very happy to have this in the collection. And again, Connor, Philip, thank you very much for the support and the funds to get us a comic book haul. Okay. Aside from that gang, I'll see you guys in the next video, next live stream, next podcast. Okay. Bye for now.