mackenzie999

If I had a spare 2K lying around I'd scoop this up and have the ct removed if possible. 

GLWTS

2 hours ago, Quicksilver Signs said:

He also had a yellow shirt. 

Yellow does seem an appropriate color for a character called The Whizzer.

I’m pretty good at calling mid-grade CGC and I doubt you’d have done better than 4.0 with them

4 hours ago, Shawnismaximus said:

Yup.

Yikes, I didn't think it'd be that bad. And I had to fight to get that six hundy back. This was in '08 I think, possibly '07.

My biggest regret of the last 10 years is what brought me to the boards. Bought an AF15 on eBay for $600, and someone here reached out to me to tell me it very likely had a repro cover. It did. Took awhile but I eventually got my $600 back. Wish I'd hung onto it as now I'm pretty sure even a coverless version goes for quite a bit more than that right now.

1 hour ago, SkOw said:

I had so much fun looking at the books in this thread this morning!

Thanks for starting my day off right!! 

When Filter throws down it’s always epic.

On 3/1/2018 at 2:59 PM, Bunky Brian said:

If this one page is worth 3/4 of a million dollars, did anyone ever estimate the value of the entire AF15 Spidey story at the LOC? $10,000,000?

If you end up buying IH181 raw, don't forget to check for the value stamp.

I bet it's a rare New Mutants 98 PGX 11.0 Very Mint.

I hear his backing boards are made from recycled AF15s...

You really need to be the squeakiest wheel ever on this, the whole situation is completely ridiculous.

Make them desperate to get you off their backs.

1 hour ago, F For Fake said:

I've tried it, but I keep bursting into flames. 

It's all the dogs barking when I enter that keeps me away

Lots of great affordable stuff in this thread. GLWTS!

22 hours ago, Gaard said:

Restoration is treatment intended to return a comic book to a known or assumed state by adding non-original material.

Restoration is restoring a book towards an ideal pristine state. Whether parts were added, subtracted or manipulated, those are all restorative efforts.

In my opinion there are two legitimate issues with pressing:

1. The potential for unforeseen consequences to the act of pressing (I think none but only time will tell, and I'm not taking into account bad press jobs)

2. A sort of loss of virginity in terms of a comic existing in its natural, unmanipulated state

9 hours ago, comics4all said:

i bought this just for the nose & the kirby krackle!

It's really the only time IM looked good with a nose

IM 80 or really anything by Wrightson, Adams or Campbell

3 hours ago, Michelangelo said:

I'm not opposed to you offering the buyer $15 as a goodwill-type gesture.

Granted, that won't cover all of his costs to get the book reholdered, but let's be real, he isn't getting the book reholdered. He's trying to squeeze a few bucks out of you and I think that's pretty crumby. I don't like doing business with people like that... 

I'd never give the guy $50; I'd much rather cancel the sale and sell it to someone else (after disclosing in the new listing that there's a scuff on the case) - 95% of buyers won't care about some tiny scuff like that.

Collectors are a fickle bunch, but getting hung up on that is nuts.

My thoughts exactly

1 hour ago, DR.X said:

I got robbed this afternoon. I paid $11.95 for a pot roast sandwich. What should I do?

I bought a panini that had undisclosed pressing.

6.0 as a guess, not sure how hard they hammer tanning along the edges these days. Nice corners, hopefully not too nice.

I regret selling off my entire collection back in the early 80s, near complete set of Marvel heroes and horror as well as hundreds of hg DC hero books from early 60s

20 hours ago, justafan said:

it does say "all offers will be considered."

Actually it says "all offers will be consider"

Iron Man and Sub Mariner

6 minutes ago, lizards2 said:

 I also give any book that is supposed to have a Marvel Value Stamp even closer scrutiny

This suggest a great app: a listing of books with likely candidates for cut-outs, like MVS, pinups, maybe splash centerfolds. Coupons are ubiquitous so they probably wouldn't work out.