Cyborg-Sinister

When I was four or so in the very early 70's I would be taken to a Discount Store in Gurnee Illinois and allowed to have a couple of packs of coverless Marvel Comics that were obviously unsold returned comics with the covers torn off that were then repackaged for the secondary market. I think there were three comics per pack with no idea what a pack cost but it couldn't have been much. I seem to remember they were mid 60's titles such as Tales Of Suspense and Tales To Astonish. I would love to be able to remember exactly what issues I had and what the packages looked like, I'm thinking they were in clear plastic sealed bags but I could be mistaken on that.

I've had it since the early to mid 90's, it caught my eye when I saw it in a back issue bin.

I do have another complete Atlas/Marvel 10 center, albeit a western. I have a few other Marver humor/romance 10 centers but they are literally disintegrating and I don't even try to take them out of their comic bags. I have a Homer The Happy Ghost 10 center somewhere.I have a handful of DC, Archie, Charlton, and Harvey 10 centers I will have to dig out.

On 7/2/2022 at 6:24 PM, davebo357 said:

I guess I'm still relatively of new to grading, but what's the incentive to crack open the XMen94?  Is it the negative association of anything with the Restored color tag despite the high rating, or a general preference for unslabbed comics?  I mean once it's restored it can never be re-graded as not restored, but it'd still have more value with the grading than being unslabbed unless you just didn't disclose the restoration when selling it, right?

I'm not into slabbed comics so I am definitely not the norm, I wanted a nice X-Men 94 but didn't want to pay the going rate for a straight 9.0 so I purposely bought the 9.0 Restored (color touch up) with the intention of busting it out. If it was a straight 9.0 I would not have ever busted it out , the same with the Giant Size X-Men 1 if it was a higher grade I would have never busted it out either. The X-Men 94 is very nice and deserved the 9.0 but a previous owner took a black magic marker along the top edge of the front cover and of course it bled through.I have other CGC slabbed books that I don't dare bust out, ASM 16 6.5, Iron Fist 14 9.5 Restored (slight color touch up), Linda Carter Student Nurse 1 5.5, Our Love Story 2 9.0, My Love 31 9.2, Strange Tales 111 4.5, ETA, I did have a X-Men 94 CGC 4.0 with a horrific stain on the back cover that I couldn't stand to look at, I sold the intact slabbed 4.0 on eBay to facilitate buying the nicer x-Men 94.

I don't know what that stain is on the back cover, it was there when I bought it as a back issue in the 90's. It also has a light crease on the back cover bottom corner but is otherwise very nice.

Busted out of a CGC 6.0 Restored (color touch up) case, a previous owner used a black magic marker on the color breaks on the front cover and it bled through to the inside cover.

I forgot this is a 10 center, it might be the only Marvel 10 cent complete comic I have. I thought I had another one with a Journey Into Mystery 77 but that is actually a very early 12 center.

The long box my Tomb Of Dracula run was in was slightly crushed but not enough to cause spine ink breaks. I know it could use a good pressing.

Slight water/moisture damage but not overly bad.

On 7/1/2022 at 4:06 PM, gadzukes said:

Like I said....... Fun inheritance.  Are you a comic guy?  If so, that's probably why they were left to you.

They were my younger brothers, my mother thought they were junk so she gave them to me to get rid of them. My mother and my sisters cannot comprehend what they are actually worth. I've been a comic guy off and on since the early 70's as a five year old boy, although all of the comics I actually bought in the early to mid 70's got ragged out and eventually tossed. Just memories on those now.

I bought it in the very early 80's for $4 or so, it has developed some foxing in the last couple of years.

I didn't go through all 120 pages in the Bronze Age Comic Books section to see if this one has already been mentioned, but would this be considered a variant or just a print error? Hulk 190 can be found with a complete black line above the MARVEL COMICS GROUP banner at the top, with half of the black line completely missing, and with the black line very thin and partially missing. The third version is the least common. I noticed for the first time the variant on the Star on Captain America 103 a few months ago but I googled it and saw that it was already discussed on this site.

On 7/1/2022 at 7:31 AM, gadzukes said:

That's a fun inheritance

That was just the tip of the iceberg, I also got ASM 16 (CGC 6.5) 50, 129, FF 21, 52, ST 111 (CGC 4.5), Hulk 181 (CGC 3.5), Hero For Hire 1, Iron Fist 14 (CGC 9.4 Restored), Linda Carter Student Nurse 1 (CGC 5.5), a run of Daredevil 1- 300?, a near complete run of MOKF 15-125, GS X-Men 1, X-Men 94 (CGC 4.0), 95, every known issue with a Punisher appearance, TTA 44, TOS 50, 52, 57, Marvel Premiere 15, a Sgt. Fury 1-20 run, and a bunch of modern Marvel keys that I know nothing about. I had to sell a few of those and most of the modern keys but I still have most of the vintage keys. 

I inherited this one a couple of months ago.

98% of my collection is vintage Marvel but nearly all of my 10 centers are non Marvel.

I bought it in the summer of 1985 for $100, I'm sure I overpaid at the time.