What's it worth?

[Hawkeye]

Saw this Tom Puss comic had sold on ebay for £30 recently, I had a feeling it was worth a fortune but I can't find any sold ones anywhere to verify. Can't do the picture thing, but its no. 324791727271 in sold items.

[Adam Eterno]

This is the issue Hawkeye saw

[Hawkeye]

Thanks Adam

[Captain underpants]

I sure there was a guy in Holland who used to advertise for Tom Puss and other titles good money paid, I could have dreamt it though,

[Richard S.]

he used to advertise in the back of Comics International for YEARS

[Hawkeye]

I found an old post on here from 2017

koollectablz » Thu Jan 12, 2017 12:05 am

In the 70s/80s I used to go to jumble sales a lot (scouring for Rupert stuff) - at one I happened to pick up a couple of nicely produced 'funny animal' comics with thick card covers. I'd never heard of them at all, but they were so well illustrated I asked the price (2p each!) and just bought them.

Took them home and put them away, never thought about them for well over a decade - then I spotted a want ad in a comic fanzine from a guy in Holland asking for these exact comics. So I rang him up and said I had them, he said he wanted them and what would the price be, I hadn't thought about that and just said the first thing in my head - £18 for the two...

He actually wired me the money that day, so I sent them off thinking I'd made out pretty well.

What were the comics?

Oh yeah.

Tom Puss Comics #1
And
Tom Puss in Rhymeland

So yeah, I'm about £10k down on that deal.

[Richard S.]

I've seen those comics (Tom Puss Comics #1 and Tom Puss in Rhymeland) at the London comic mart and they were a couple of hundred quid each

[old paw broon]

Tom Poes is one of the best and most important Dutch strips. This page explains:-
https://blogs.bl.uk/european/2019/01/to ... trick.html

Lots more here:-
http://www.thelooniverse.com/strips/tom ... mpoes.html
It is simply excellent even if you can't read Dutch. I love it.