Topnotchman

Absolutely he’s probably 65-75 range, not sure if he had an actual birthday in the series.

Issue 98 is one of the few I don’t have a copy. In 1969 they had two spin off #1’s. Mr. Wilson the middle age neighbor man who gets annoyed by Dennis’s drama and pranks. Margaret is the older red haired neighborhood girl who has a crush on him but he primarily ignores her.

#99 is Fiesta time

100th issue, this book is a paper doll cut out on the front and back covers. 1953-1969 to get to issue 100.

101 Dennis on a skiing cover.

Processing comic collections is a job and you can factor in labor of love to create margins. Historically I’ve done better by staying away from the top 20 silver bronze modern stuff unless they fell to me. Thousands of other sellable books out there from Gold to Modern just sitting in dealer and comic store boxes. Example I’ll go after ASM 301 all day including Sundays before ever thinking about paying up for the 300’s.

I’d like to do a countdown of the Dennis run starting with the last 12 cent issue 102. Feel free to discuss the comics, post your copy and talk all about Dennis. I’m only missing a few issues with most of my 12 centers being pretty high grade with the 10 centers more mixed.

The ground advantage I’m sure is done by the post office themselves . But large amounts of express and priority have been done by Fed Ex for decades. Ups just got the new contract starting in September. Maybe it’s fed ex who is prioritizing with their own clients now that their long term PO deal is ending.

When they fill containers full of packages. They scan the container and that triggers a tracking update. When you see ping pong of tracking going back and forth. It’s possible your tracking is still attached to the container yet it’s not in the container any longer. They also have been consolidating sorting centers here in fly over country, moving more mail to bigger facilities that are already short staffed. Shoving more mail into buildings that are stuffed to the rafters to the point of it’s stored outside in mail truck trailers.

If it were a high grade copy it would probably get a trimmed label, a low grade copy it will probably be factored into the grade as damage. Although I have never submitted a book with this flaw, I would just factor the damage into the grade.

Recent pick up

Looks like the beginning stage of foxing, light foxing with mild tanning.

If one were to quick press a cover and not the pages of the entire book. A crunch could still be present as a defect upon inspection by opening the book.