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"We must never remind them that giants walk the Earth."

Lots of 90s Batman, Superman, and Next Men currently at DisoRays shop in Guelph, Ontario for 50 cents each. I only took the ones I was interested so there is about a small box worth still there. Half are bagged and boarded, and the other half not. WHO does that with their comics?? This one I bag and board, this one will have to fend for itself.

No I don't have GPA. When I am ready to sell, I will happily take you up on your offer to buy my 2,000 comics at Overstreet prices. I'm going to let them age about ten more years and then sell them when I retire.

I entered each book manually, inputting my estimate of a CGC grade (or actual CGC grade for the few graded books I have), and the current Overstreet price. Title Issue Number Grade Value Amazing Adventures 1 8.0 $52.00 Amazing Adventures 2 8.0 $21.00 Amazing Adventures 3 8.0 $21.00 Amazing Adventures 4 8.0 $21.00 Amazing Adventures 5 8.0 $30.00 Amazing Adventures 6 8.0 $30.00 Amazing Adventures 7 8.0 $30.00 Amazing Adventures 8 8.0 $30.00 Amazing Adventures 9 8.0 $27.00 Amazing Adventures 10 8.0 $27.00 Amazing Adventures 11 8.5 CGC $206.00 Amazing Adventures 12 8.0 $48.00

The Green Goblin's civilian identity? Shown in shadows about a dozen times before we ever saw his face.

Did you ride uphill, both ways? I recently finished cataloguing my "Good Stuff" in Excel. 2,000 books. Just spend about an hour a day working on it, and you'll be done in a month.

"Once I get these issues I can die happy...." But it never ends for completionists! As soon as I finish the runs that I posted above, then it is on to the next title! I only need 12 more issues of Avengers! Yeah, those 12 include the first nine issues which are hardly ever on the market in 8.0-9.0, and when they are for sale, some of them cost about the same as a car, but...I gotta finish that run!! Then the first 40 issues of Fantastic Four.... Then the first 200 issues of Detective....

I am a completionist for 8.0-9.0 bronze and silver age titles. Not all CGC. I don't even really think about the runs I have completed because they seem so short, like Captain Marvel 1-33, Marvel Team Up 1-20, Iron Man 1-70, Captain America 100-172, Kamandi, Mister Miracle, Submariner 1-69, Silver Surfer 1-18 Some of the longer runs I have mostly filled, with the remaining number of issues left to be found: Green Lantern 1-89 (2) Daredevil 1-110 (6) Hulk 102-175 (1) Star Trek 1-20 (3)

Action Comics #1. *drops mic*

From JLA #3 during the the 1990s, all of the JLA have been captured by aliens called the Hyperclan, except Batman who was presumed killed when they shot down his plane. But then the Hyperclan loses contact with one of their own troops inside their lair:

I am surprised we have gotten this far without hearing of Gail Simone. A great writer, whose work I loved on her run with artist John Byrne on Action, and various artists on Secret Six.

Jeanette Khan took over DC at a point around 1980 when things were so bad DC was considering switching to all reprints, or licensing their characters to Marvel. She made the hard decisions to get rid of the deadwood that was still writing and drawing as if it was the 1950s. Soon, Byrne was on Superman, Perez was on Wonder Woman, and Miller's Dark Knight changed the medium forever. And she hired Karen Berger who guided the DC subgroup Vertigo. Berger brought along titles like Sandman, Alan Moore's Swamp Thing, Grant Morrison's Animal Man, etc. Vertigo is no more, and now Berger is editing more great books at smaller publishers. Check out The Girl Who Could Fly for more Vertigo-ish greatness.

Scored a few obscure back issues for half off at Silver Snail in Toronto on Monday.

1990s Kevin Costner as Hal Jordan.

I hope everybody that stopped to talk to Mark Buckingham asked him when the @#$%!!!!! we're going to see new Miracleman.

I was about to hit "Buy It Now" for all the books in this thread, but then I saw on page 1 that he won't ship outside the US.

1. Would you think any better of a buyer if their intention instead was to buy a book and quickly flip it? 2. No collection is permanent. We all have an expiry date.

I enjoy the message boards here, and have bought some CGC slabbed books. But I have never seriously considered submitting any of my raw books for grading, and the 6 month wait time is the biggest factor.

JLA:New World Order any Swamp Thing TPBs by Alan Moore

And I first met Quicksilver in Avengers 103, which is the second part of this story arc (Avengers 102-104)! Highly recommended.

I respectfully disagree, The slabbed version is still only worth $5 to me.

I see some discussion on here concerning "Raw price" versus "Slabbed price". Please explain, because it doesn't make sense to me. Say Overstreet says my 8.0 copy of Iron Man #1 is worth $500. Are you trying to say it is worth more than $500 if I send it to CGC and they slab it as an 8.0? All grading is subjective opinions. To my point of view, CGC is trying to be the most consistent systematic grader, and that helps with selling a book over the internet. But if I am at a comic convention, and there is a raw and GCG slabbed version of exactly the same comic, then I would expect them to be about the same price.

Most comic shop owners I have spoken to seem to have a distain for CGC, based on examples they have seen where they totally disagreed with the grading. Some shop owners pride themselves on being strict or tough graders, when the goal should actually be consistency from every grader. Also, while grading silver age books from 50 years ago that are worth over $100 each makes sense, some comic shop owners (and others) really question why people are getting last month's issue of Batman graded and slabbed. "Oooww, it's a slabbed 9.6 from 2019....yeah, we have 4 more just like it in the back issue bin for $5 each."