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October 02, 2008 08:59

As a Dutch person I am naturally interested in the trade :-) I am therefore curious whether the list of expensive comics on the main section page of Comics is correct (for comics in “good condition”). Doris Dobbel (Marc Sleen) is now at the top because I know that it was auctioned for that amount (incl. Auction costs). So please here for information about expensive comics.

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October 21, 2008 16:32

The hardcover version of "Long live the sport!" (Jean Graton, Lombard Collection) also scores high in the most expensive comics category. I think in the Top-5. Only a few of them are known and are said to be trial examples. Does anyone know anything about a recent sale price or asking price for this album? And maybe someone has this album or a scan?

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I think you should be very careful with this kind of (almost?) Phantom comics. To this day, Belgian libraries are in the habit of cartonboarding their comic strips THEMSELVES (or having it done by a bookbinder) to increase sustainability. It is not the case that these are copies made available by the publisher. In my opinion they are completely worthless as a collector's item from that moment on. I remember that Matla was so looking for a hardcopy first edition of 'Het Spaans Spook'. Has he ever found it?

In addition, you also have the works of handy tinkerers who get to work with some French publications (endpapers and the like). In our age of color copying also a lot easier.

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January 28, 2012 08:36

Recently added by us to the catalog.

Blake and Mortimer

The Secret of the Swordfish 1c 1950

This is a Dummy, Salesmen/Representatives Copy

Only a few made with grey-blue spine and hand-bound.

In his latest edition 1998 Matla also speaks of a Dummy 1.1a p. 73

But what is he worth?

I suspect it is rarer than the numbered version? because 150-500 of them were made.

Here just a few.

Most likely I will have the copy I have in (very) good condition auctioned at Catawiki.

I am not attaching a selling price to it, sorry.

catalog number: 2439349

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January 28, 2012 09:53

But for what it's worth (sic!), There is already a value attached to it. :-)

(edit) By the way, still stand in duplicate whether you should consider this as a variant or not, and whether it is in the right series. My gut tells me that this actually belongs in a series of "Lombard dummies".

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January 28, 2012 09:59

I entered the minimum.

The auction will reveal what the collector is willing to do.

Although that is also a snapshot.

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I don't think this is a regular edition, but it is a special edition; a kind of proof or provisional proof copy. Then belongs in a separate box: something Pegag suggests: Lombard Dummies / Lombard Dummies, or something like that.

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January 28, 2012 20:33

A dummy is something that is not 'real', a surrogate as it were. If the pages are blank inside I would call it a dummy, otherwise it is just a copy with a different spine. There are more.

What is it worth? The auction will teach us.

In any case, it is interesting to know that some of those weird Matla items (see also Long live the sport) do appear to exist.

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With a dummy I also expect more of a book with a blank interior.
Personally, I would rather call this a proof. (especially if it is actually printed on different types of paper)

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January 28, 2012 22:30

maybe also nice to find out the most expensive album per square centimeter! Lanceval 1, 6 pages of 7 x 9.5 cm for 150 euros!

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January 29, 2012 01:59

@ Arwin,

I think you have a good point there, but it is known as dummy, will definitely include the term proof in the description.

@ Scam

The auction will tell you its worth very soon.

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January 29, 2012 08:11

I think you have a good point there, but it is known as dummy, will definitely include the term proof in the description.

As long as it is clear that the inside is printed.

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January 29, 2012 08:22

Hi Arwin,

pictures speak volumes right?

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January 29, 2012 08:48

If they are there, yes.
I react purely to how it is now in the catalog.

I have no doubt that it will soon be clearly listed in the auction.

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January 29, 2012 09:04

Better like this? photo 3 + 64 pages /

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January 29, 2012 09:57

Yes, much clearer.

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February 06, 2012 20:42

The Sample of the Swordfish yielded 1111 euros ;-)

in good condition.

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