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So far I have hit higher prices than expected on the first two of my four consignments. Hopefully this holds for next week as well.

Come on Sony,

I have seen books with white out on the spine before, but not to that degree. The reglossing on this TTA 27 was bad - it is uneven and you could see brush bristle marks in some spots.

There is a fairly large difference in Canadian price variant vs. US direct and newsstand editions at the top end. The last US CGC 9.8 sold for $350 while the last CDN CGC 9.8 sold for $911 (both this month). From a 9.6 perspective, it is only 50-60% premium, it is in the 20-30% range for 9.2 and 9.4, and there is no premium below that. What that November sale tells me is I sold my CGC 9.8 Canadian price variants over the past few years for way too little.

Here is a frankenbook copy I picked up in August. It was raw, and I was shocked at how much amateurish restoration work had been done to the book. A lot of it seemed unnecessary, and I have never seen a book with so much noticeable resto in my time as a collector. At least it is signed by Stan Lee, I guess.

Here are some recent additions to my PC from a collection in August. I was going to pick up a higher grade copy this fall regardless, but the collection had three so that is covered off now. X-Men #1 is a book I have viewed as being undervalued for a while now. Unfortunately, since it was not really moving price-wise, I decided to chase different books instead.

My frankenHulk 1 should be back from CGC today. It is a C-1 0.5 due to missing centrefold, slight color touch, and replaced staples, which is what I was expecting. The book came from a collection I picked up in August, and it had some old color photocopied pages in place of the missing centrefold that stuck together. I had to remove them in order to get the book graded.

Congrats! I had this come back a couple of weeks ago and have decided to keep it......................for now at least.

Hopefully there are a lot of 9.4+ copies in the mix, especially on the Canadian Newsstand books. If there are any Canadian 9.8s then

No. I could not make it last year either, but Dave and Karl did it. Right now is too busy with kids sports.

And now we have the rarest CDN price variant identified to date? Congrats on the find, Rcheli!

+1 A lot of dealers try to squeeze out every last nickel on books at shows and they end up having the best stuff picked out while the drek sits in their $0.50 or $1 bins for years. I am at the point now where I would rather blow out $5 - $10 common slow sellers in $1 or $2 bins just to turnover dead stock and use the funds to buy better stuff. The past couple of years I have had other dealers just buy out my $1 and $2 boxes during the show. It is fun at the Edmonton Expo - I put out a few longs the first day, and sell them in bulk at $100 CDN per box to one of the Eastern dealers. I go home, load up a few more boxes for the next morning, and sell those in a bulk deal. Do that for three days and you can move 10 - 20 boxes for $1K - $2K of books. The other dealers can move them in their home markets, and I have funds to chase more keys with. It works well.

My view is that this is likely a misprint that they just slapped the 75 cent stickers on for the bases. That would have been the cheapest way to solve the problem - there is no way that Marvel would have reprinted that portion of the print run. It makes me wonder if this happened with any other books in the same month?

Based on the other copy with a 75C sticker, maybe that month there were some misprints where the CDN newsstand cover received the MJ inserts that were to be distributed to the military? If that is the case, there may be other issues that have them. Or, if it was just this specific issue, you now have an extremely rare double variant that collectors will chase.

If you can find an ASM #238 MJ CDN variant then

Fixed that for you. Very cool find nonetheless. CDN editions with the MJ would be extremely rare.

It is a first appearance of something. That is all that matters.

Good luck with the show. It was fun the past two years.

The first SA books I can remember buying were X-Men #23, 24 and 28 from the first LCS visit I made as an 11 year old at the end of 1986. It was shortly after I bought my first comic book, UXM #211. The Mutant Massacre arc brought me into comics and I was an X-Men fan from the start. I bought the three lowest number issues that the store had at the time.

It is definitely a popular run. I know a lot of Marvel collectors that have the BA Adams Batman, Tec and GL runs. His artwork transcends the company divide (and it helps he did some nice work for Avengers and X-Men as well).

It's raining books in Edmonton right now.

The only books you need from the B&B run are really #79 (1st Adams issue), #85 (1st new Green Arrow - pricey in high grade) and maybe #93 (classic HOS cover - this is one of my personal favorites so I am biased a bit).

Thanks for starting this thread. I decided to check the prices on GPA and was just able to snag a Tec #405 CGC 9.4 OW/W for a discount online.

Tec #400 = 1st Manbat. The more expensive books in the runs from a high grade perspective are: Batman #217 (HTF in high grade), 222 (Beatles swipe), 227 (classic Tec 31 swipe), 232 (1st Ras Al Ghul), 234 (1st BA Two-Face), 243 (black cover), 244 (classic nipples & bat-undies cover), 251 (classic Joker cover) Tec #395 (1st Adams interiors), 400 (1st Manbat), 402 (green Manbat cover is tough in high grade), 405 (1st league of assassins), 411 (1st Talia) From a story perspective, the Tec #411/Batman #232,235,240,243-44 Ras Al Ghul story line is the best read IMHO.