Badlands

Someone once said on here (very recently) that "almost any AF 15 is worth it to send in to CGC to get graded".  My question then is, even one as poor as this, with possible resto?  There's some "good" to this book, but there's a lot of "bad" too which I will describe.  The GOOD:  The book is complete, not missing any pages, nothing clipped; the pages are actually pretty nice and supple.  The cover is mostly there.  The BAD:  The obvious corner missing, lower-left.  Tape along the binding and tape along the right-edge, FC.  Staples have been replaced on the centerfold.

1 minute ago, iXr184 said:

Courtesy press and clean, 9.0.

Wow, even with the bend along the right edge?  

The book has excellent gloss to the covers with very little wear.  There is slight stress marks at each end of the top staple, and a slight "bend" (I wouldn't call it a crease) along the upper-right edge, FC (4th pic).  The pages are white to OW.  The strange thing with this book is the blue ink on all the edges of the pages.  Printing defect maybe?  Would this detract from the grade?

Thank you, I look forward to your responses!

On 10/4/2018 at 8:57 PM, Sweet Lou 14 said:

^ I wish I could hit the "like" button twice on that room.  Simply gorgeous.  

Ha, I agree!  I like my space a lot, but this...clean, well organized, and those statues!

Just now, Columbia Comics said:

And now you’re backing out of the sale. 

 

I explained I made an error and apologized for that error.  Sometimes people make mistakes, and this was mine.  Again, my apologies.

29 minutes ago, Columbia Comics said:

I’ll take the ASM 9 for $325

I sent you a PM.

Hello,

I hate to part with these, but looking at either starting a Golden-Age Sub-Mariner collection, or save up for a low grade AF15!  Figured I will start here before resorting to eBay and their fees.  Please PM me with any questions you may have and thank you.

Avengers #2, 5.0 - $450

Avengers #3, 3.5 - $175

Avengers #5, 4.0 - $125

ASM #8, 4.5 - $450

ASM #9, 4.0 - $525

UXM #101, 7.0 - $350

UXM #135, 7.0 - $80

Great ideas on both, thanks much!

Good morning all.  I have been thinking about starting to collect Golden Age Sub-Mariner comics.  Of course there's always eBay, but curious if you all can recommend a good, reputable online shop with reasonable prices?  I would rather give my hard earned bucks to an online shop then eBay if I have a choice.  Thank you!

Wow...just WOW!  Extremely impressed by the the last two posts, very well done indeed!   Very pristine look.

Not in to toys a whole lot, but purchased an action figure collection from someone locally mainly for resale as I got a good deal.  As I search through the collection, ran across this baby;  I had no idea what i had until a guy on a Facebook group I belong to pointed it put.  Pretty cool!

5 hours ago, Turtle said:

Cool!  I really like the big Origin poster!

Thanks, me too. Coke came out with three of them: this, Amazing Spiderman and the Fantastic Four. Still looking for the FF...

On 4/30/2018 at 10:55 AM, AGGIEZ said:

Assuming you had that custom framed yourself? Nice...

Thank you.  I know someone that does custom matte cutting, he has his own shop; best of all, he did it free as a birthday present!  

And a couple more...

32 minutes ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

Congrats on the new place

That space will last for a little while

@Badlands

 

Thank you, it should. I'm not adding quantity to my collection, just quality, so I'm good to go on that front. My only worry is wall space!

This is great, thank you Marwood!

These measure 8 3/4" by 14" and are on heavy stock (kind of like a high grade construction paper). I have done numerous Google searches: William Black, Paragon Publishing, Fem Forever, combinations of the above...nothing but 1 mention on comic vine with no information. 

Any insight you may have on these would be very much appreciated. Where did they come from  (I'm thinking maybe a convention?), are there comics tied to these, etc.

23 hours ago, AJD said:

I think they have been trimmed to the border of the image, then stuck onto a white background. You can see a few glue/paste 'crinkles' in places.

Methinks you are correct sir.

Do they have any value?

2 minutes ago, bc said:

Can't add any info, just wanted to post in an all Northeast Ohio thread

(southern Medina county here)

-bc

bc, message me. Medina county also.

Thank you 1Cool, that's a great start, as I didn't even know they were originally in the comic books!