Lucky Dip Trio - Was I lucky?

So I was alternately browsing EBay whilst watching videos of people's awesome comic collections on YouTube and I was getting all antsy for new comics. I saw a sale which was effectively a lucky dip, for £13.99 I think you'd get sent 3 books mainly $1 value books but with some nice silver age ones thrown into the mix so there would be a chance of getting something good. So I thought I'd take a gamble and buy one. Here's what I got, I'm not sure how good or bad a deal I got. What do you think?

Blackhawk #146 (March 1st, 1960)

"Menace of the Scorpion"

Dick Dillin - Cover, Penciler

Sheldon Moldoff - Inker

Jack Schiff - Editor

I've never owned any books that were older than I am. In fact I'd only just hit on the idea of buying/collecting my 'Birthday Books', comics that are cover dated for September 1969, that 1st saw the light of day at the same time as I did, so to speak. So this book from 1960 is a very pleasant surprise for me and I am pretty happy with this lot already. The quality is not fantastic, I don't know grades really but I am fairly happy. Looking at Mycomicshop.com a 2.5 of this book is going for $9 so that's not bad at all I think. I am wondering if the code at the top looks like it could be $18 maybe?

Giant-Size Spider-Man and Doc Savage #3 (Jan 1975)

Gerry Conway - Writer

Gil Kane - Cover, Penciler

Mike Esposito - Inker

Lester Dent - Other (??)

Ross Andru - Artist, Penciler

I am starting to learn about 'key' books, important, normally 1st appearances of characters, if this book had been #4 it would have been quite valuble as Punisher's 3rd appearance apparently! This one looks in pretty good exterior condition but looking inside I think the staples are rather suspect, I think this comic may have been stapled and then reglued to the cover! Have a look at the video and see what you think!! Maybe the 'bro' written on the plastic sleeve stands for broken! It's a shame but the book story looks pretty cool, with a bit of a time-warping tale from the 70's to the 30's, I can't wait to have a read of it. I have contacted the seller to enquire as books were all meant to be at least GD condition and I'm not sure that this counts. This book's never had a reprint as Marvel no longer have the rights to the Doc Savage franchise!

Heroes Reborn: Rebel #1 (January 2000)

Joe Kelly - Writer

Matt Haley - Penciler/Cover

Mark Bernardo - Penciler

Mark Bagley - Penciler

Scott Koblish - Penciler

I know nothing about this character at all, this book is from a period long after I stopped collecting Marvel. I read online that this had the death of Crossbones in it but it's some alternate world version, apparently Franklin Reed created a whole new dimension world to save the Fantastic Four at one point. This seems to be signed by Joe Kelly, a writer who's name didn't register with me but he's worked for Marvel & DC with succesful runs on Deadpool, Daredevil, X-men, Superman & JLA. He's also part of a team that created the Ben 10 cartoon character! That's pretty cool, I am happy with that, I don't know if it's a genuine signature, (is faking them much of a thing even?), but I'm going to trust that it is and that makes this my 1st ever signed book so I am happy with that 😁. 

So overall I am quite happy with this lot, a nice old comic, a poorly fixed but cool looking comic and my 1st signed book! I doubt they'll be worth anything but I think I maybe got my money's worth. It was a bit of fun anyway.

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