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Magnus Valiant

Magnus returned in 1991. The new Magnus began where the Gold Key series ended. This collection includes the #0 origins issue available only with a coupon from Valiant by mail. Click here to read more...



Top 5% Collecting Site Links

By Dr. Dan Power

CollectingResources.COM strives to be a premier knowledge repository about collecting hobbies, collecting investments and collectibles business operations on the World Wide Web. Nevertheless, many other sites are also useful. We always accept nominations for Top 5% Collecting Web Sites. Please feel free to nominate a web site. This page is still a work in progress. Suggestions, requests are appreciated. Send nominations to power@DSSResources.COM.

  1. America's Pastime -- Baseball Cards and Sports Autographs
  2. American Philatelic Society (APS) -- With 44,000+ members in more than 110 countries, the APS is the largest, nonprofit society in the world for stamp collectors.
  3. AskPhil -- AskPhil (short for "Philately," or stamp collecting) is provided as a service to offer general answers to questions about stamp collecting. The Collectors Club of Chicago is the sponsor of this site.
  4. Autograph Collecting Terms -- The helpful "shorthand" terms useed when discussing autographs and collecting them.
  5. BallCardz -- Bargain Baseball Cards
  6. Baseball Card Links -- Links to more than 50 sports card sites on the Internet.
  7. Baseball Cards for Trade -- A site for collectors to trade sports cards with each other.
  8. Baseball Cards Shop -- Baseball cards and other sports cards such as football cards, basketball cards, and hockey cards plus supplies.
  9. Baseball-Cards.com -- A Baseball Card Store and Auction Web site. Operated by Joe Juhasz, Dave Lehmkuhl, Chuck Roethel, & Randy Whittaker. Contact Joe Juhasz at Joe at Baseball-Cards.com.
  10. Book Collecting Terms -- Book collecting terms defined and illustrated. My Wings Books occasionally has selected used and out-of-print books for sale.
  11. Comic Book Conventions -- Convention News, Calendar Updates
  12. eCoinPrices.com -- eCoinPrices is a guide to assist the coin buying public in determining values for all significant United States rare coins. This is a dealer site.
  13. FootballCardShop.com -- Football cards including rookies, graded cards and team sets.
  14. Glossary of Record Collecting Terms -- This site is under construction, but it includes terms and details on grading records/CDs.
  15. Heritage Auction Galleries -- Collectibles are the business of Heritage Auction Galleries, the world's largest collectibles auctioneer, including an on-line inventory and multiple on-line auctions that include US coins, US currency, comic books, movie posters, illustration art, and antiques.
  16. International Federation of Stamp Dealers associations -- Objectives of IFSDA include promoting and maintaining a high standard of professional integrity among Philatelic dealers throughout the world.
  17. Language of Doll Collecting -- A "gathering place" to find information on vintage collectible dolls. Kaylee has a glossary with a few terms that are unique to doll collecting. She calls it DOLLESE.
  18. Lynn's Coin Collecting Terms -- This on-line dictionary contains popular coin collector phrases and terminology. You will also find some abbreviations and acronyms used in the numismatic hobby.
  19. Marty's PSA Graded Cards -- Specializes in pre-1974 Baseball and Footbal cards with some oddball cards for advanced collectors.
  20. National Stamp Dealers Association (NSDA) -- The USA's only dealer organization in the IFSDA.
  21. Prizesports.net -- Vintage Sportscards
  22. Scott Tipton's Comics 101 -- Columns, links ads for comic lovers of all ages.
  23. Society of Israel Philatelists -- SIP is devoted to the philately of the Holy Land, Israel and Judaica.
  24. Teamsets4u -- Team checklists for over 1,000 sets.
  25. Tou Collecting Terms -- The most common terms used in toy grading and collecting from ToyRocket.com.
  26. TradinStuff -- A comprehensive directory of Sports Collectibles and Memorabilia sources.
  27. Upcoming Card Shows -- Upcomingcardshows.com provides a central point of contact for card show attendees with detailed information.

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