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Happy birthday to one of a kind!

Thanks, all. We're excited to have Mike join us! He knows comics and is a person of good character and integrity. We think he'll be a great part of our team.

Same list but slabs only. Top 100 issues by most slabbed sales on MCS in past 12 months: Spider-Man (1990 Marvel) 1SILVER Spider-Man 2099 (1992 1st Series) 1D Venom Lethal Protector (1993) 1A.D Moon Knight (1980 1st Series) 1D Masters of the Universe Special Preview Insert (1982 DC) NN Wolverine (1982 Limited Series) 1D Spawn (1992 Image) 1A.D Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars (1984) 8D Spider-Man (1990 Marvel) 1BU Star Wars (1977 Marvel) 1 New Mutants (1983 1st Series) 98D Wolverine (1988 1st Series) 1D Nova (1976 1st Series) 1 Marvel Comics Presents (1988) 72D Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) 221D Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) Annual 14 Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) 266D X-Men (1991 1st Series) 4D Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 361A.D Alpha Flight (1983 1st Series) 1D Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 365D Avengers (1963 1st Series) Annual 10D Spider-Man (1990 Marvel) 1AU Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) 244D Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 300D Superman (1987 2nd Series) 75D Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) 282D Black Panther (1977 Marvel 1st Series) 1 Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 363D Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars (1984) 1D Voltron (1985 Modern) 1D Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 252N Batman The Killing Joke (1988) 1-1ST Eternals (1976 1st Series) 1 Incredible Hulk (1962 Marvel 1st Series) 181 Spectacular Spider-Man (1976 1st Series) 1 Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 362A.D Web of Spider-Man (1985 1st Series) 1D ROM (1979 Marvel) 1D Masters of the Universe (1982 DC) 1D Omega Men (1983 1st Series) 3 Ultimate Fallout (2011 Marvel) 4A.D Batman (1940) 497D Daredevil (1964 1st Series) 181D Paper Girls (2015 Image) 1 Wolverine (1988 1st Series) 8D X-Men (1991 1st Series) 1D.D Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 375D Godzilla (1977 Marvel) 1 Punisher (1987 2nd Series) 1D X-Men (1991 1st Series) 1C Wolverine (1988 1st Series) 10D Wolverine (1988 1st Series) 88A.D Giant Size X-Men (1975) 1 Incredible Hulk (1962 Marvel 1st Series) 340D New Mutants (1983 1st Series) 87D Infinity Inc. (1984 DC 1st Series) 14 Red Sonja (1977 1st Marvel Series) 1 X-Factor (1986 1st Series) 6D X-Force (1991 1st Series) 2D Amazing Spider-Man Facsimile Edition (2019) 1 Spider-Gwen (2015 1st Series) 1A Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 129 Savage She-Hulk (1980) 1D Spider-Woman (1978 Marvel 1st Series) 1 Venom (2018 Marvel) 3A X-Factor (1986 1st Series) 1D Dazzler (1981) 1A Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 121 Spider-Man (1990 Marvel) 1GOLD Spider-Man (2022 Marvel) 7E Star Wars (1977 Marvel) 2 Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) 141D Infinity Gauntlet (1991) 1D MASK (1985) Special Preview 1 Ms. Marvel (1977 1st Series) 1 Simpsons Comics and Stories (1993) 1D.U Harley Quinn 30th Anniversary Special (2022 DC) 1DINI.C Human Fly (1977 Marvel) 1 Micronauts (1979 1st Series) 1 Spawn (1992 Image) 9D Spider-Man (1990 Marvel) 13D Spider-Man Unlimited (1993 1st Series) 1D Thor (1962 Marvel 1st Series Journey Into Mystery) 337N Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) 211D Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 252D Battlestar Galactica (1979 Marvel) 1 Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985) 7D Darkhawk (1991 Marvel) 1D Incredible Hulk (1962 Marvel 1st Series) 180 Silver Surfer (1968 1st Series) 1 Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) 222D X-Men (1991 1st Series) 1E Batman The Dark Knight Returns (1986) 1-1ST X-Men (1991 1st Series) 1B Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 298D Ultimate Spider-Man (2024 Marvel) 1A Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) 96 Wolverine (1982 Limited Series) 2D X-Force (1991 1st Series) 11D

All, slabbed and raw

Excluding stuff published in the past 5 years, here's a top 100 based on quantity sold on MyComicShop in the past 12 months Spider-Man (1990 Marvel) 1SILVER Spawn (1992 Image) 1A.D Spectacular Spider-Man (1976 1st Series) 1 Venom Lethal Protector (1993) 1A.D X-Men (1991 1st Series) 4D Moon Knight (1980 1st Series) 1D Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) 251 Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) Annual 14 Wolverine (1988 1st Series) 1D Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars (1984) 8D Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) 221D X-Men (1991 1st Series) 1D.D Punisher (1987 2nd Series) 1D Wolverine (1982 Limited Series) 1D Nova (1976 1st Series) 1 Spider-Man 2099 (1992 1st Series) 1D Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) 200 Dazzler (1981) 1A Spider-Man (1990 Marvel) 1AU Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) 282D Avengers (1963 1st Series) Annual 10D Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 361A.D Black Panther (1977 Marvel 1st Series) 1 New Mutants (1983 1st Series) 98D X-Men (1991 1st Series) 1C X-Men (1991 1st Series) 1A.D Heroes Inc. Presents Cannon (1969) 1 Alpha Flight (1983 1st Series) 1D Marvel Comics Presents (1988) 72D Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars (1984) 1D Spider-Woman (1978 Marvel 1st Series) 1 Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 328D X-Men (1991 1st Series) 1E Eternals (1976 1st Series) 1 Web of Spider-Man (1985 1st Series) 1D Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 375D Godzilla (1977 Marvel) 1 X-Men (1991 1st Series) 25A.D Star Wars (1977 Marvel) 1 Venom Lethal Protector (1993) 4D Ms. Marvel (1977 1st Series) 1 Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 365D X-Men (1991 1st Series) 1B Batman (1940) 497D Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) 244D Spawn (1992 Image) 9D X-Factor (1986 1st Series) 6D Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) 266D Omega Men (1983 1st Series) 3 Masters of the Universe Special Preview Insert (1982 DC) NN X-Men (1991 1st Series) 24 Batman The Killing Joke (1988) 1-1ST Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) 213D Spider-Man (1990 Marvel) 1BU Wolverine (1988 1st Series) 8D X-Men (1991 1st Series) 11A Daredevil (1964 1st Series) 181D Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) 304 Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 363D Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 362A.D Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 300D Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 252N Wolverine (1988 1st Series) 75D Wolverine (1988 1st Series) 10D Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985) 7D Sheena 3-D Special (1985) 1 Sandman (1974 DC) 1A Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) 268D Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 265A.D Thor (1962 Marvel 1st Series Journey Into Mystery) 337N Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) 201 Red Sonja (1977 1st Marvel Series) 1 Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 268 Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) 211D Marvel and DC Present the Uncanny X-Men and the New Teen Titans (1982) 1 X-Force (1991 1st Series) 11D Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) 205D Spider-Man (1990 Marvel) 13D Sensational She-Hulk (1989) 1 Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars (1984) 10D ROM (1979 Marvel) 1D Amazing Spider-Man Dallas Times Herald Giveaway (1981) 1 Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) 222D Daredevil (1964 1st Series) 184D Spectacular Spider-Man (1976 1st Series) 200D Infinity Gauntlet (1991) 1D Venom Lethal Protector (1993) 5D X-Men Adventures (1992 Marvel) Season I 1 Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) 256 Superman (1987 2nd Series) 75D Wolverine (1982 Limited Series) 2D Wolverine (1982 Limited Series) 3D Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) 212D Batman (1940) 404 All New Wolverine (2016) 1A X-Factor (1986 1st Series) 5D Uncanny X-Men (1963 1st Series) 197 New Mutants (1983 1st Series) 87D Wolverine (1982 Limited Series) 4D Amazing Spider-Man (1963 1st Series) 101

Hi--the NM is used for lower value comics (typically $15 and under). The numeric scale grades are used for higher value comics over $15 as well as most items before 1980. This is discussed in more detail on our grading page: https://www.mycomicshop.com/help/grading

For what it's worth--when we feel the market is declining, and we're making offers to buy collections, we'll calculate an estimated market value for the material, which is based mainly on backward-looking info (previous sales), and then apply a manual adjustment to take into account the fact that we think the market has declined some in the time since those previous sales took place, and account for the risk that the market continues to drop some in the months ahead. Eg maybe a reduction of 10-20% vs the number we'd use if we thought the market was completely flat and stable. That was relevant second half of 2022 and into 2023. Currently, I'm not doing any reduction like that, and it's been a good number of months since that was a concern for us.

We confirmed Copy801's book matches one we've been holding since June potentially implicated in this. It's going to the detective handling all this.

I'm in touch with Copy801 about his All Star 3.

Awesome! Our first time at a Chicago-area show. We intend to keep it on our schedule going forward.

The 3% buyer's premium only applies if you pay by credit card or paypal; no buyer's premium if you pay by check, Zelle, wire, or trade. Purchases over $5000 we don't accept credit card anyway, so the buyer's premium is effectively always 0% for expensive books over $5000.

Any consigned books previously identified as involved in the Hero Restoration situation have been pulled and shipped to the detective who is handling the case. A new one was reported today, and we confirmed it matches pictures and details provided by the original owner, so it is being shipped to the detective as well. We have provided contact info for the detective to the owners that have contacted us.

If you put anything over $1000 in your cart and start through checkout you'll see time payments offered on the page where you select the payment method, but yeah we should publicize that info more. Standard time payment terms: Available on orders $1000+ Book does not ship until fully paid off. I would think that would be obvious but it's surprising how many people expect it to work otherwise 25% down payment required at start, due within 10 days of submitting an order remainder paid off in 6 monthly payments, always welcome to pay off faster 10% finance fee required if the item is a consignment or auction item. However, the 10% fee can be waived if the consignor is willing to wait to get paid until the item is paid off (ask us). If so, then no fee. The fee allows us to pay the consignors immediately instead of making them wait until time payments complete. All money paid toward a time payment order is non refundable. The 25% deposit, and the non refundable payments, are meant to give buyers a very strong incentive to follow through on their purchase obligation if they agree to time payments. If you're interested in an especially expensive book and need longer than 6 months, contact us to inquire.

There would be no buyers premium on something in that range. The 3% BP only applies if paying by credit card or Paypal, and all orders in the $5Kish+ range are going to be paid by check, Zelle, or bank transfer.

If you PM me the details, we can get artist name added to the issue listing info for variants.

We've heard from three different people regarding books reported to be part of this Hero Restoration situation, all of which came to us via the same consignor. The consignor also asked us to take down a few books that are implicated from the same source. All these books we have taken down our listings and will just be holding on to them for now pending further investigations/police/court actions. The person who consigned these books to us, selling under the name humble cow, is a long time consignor with us with zero problems or concerns. I believe he's a person of integrity and is another victim here. I do not think he is part of any effort to launder the books or anything like that. Also, it sounds like the purchase prices, and interactions had with the seller, were within the range of normal for books like these rather than a "too good to be true" alarm bells should be going off situation. Any books consigned to us that were originally raw, and were recently submitted to CGC, are ones that we submitted at the consignor's request or on our own recommendation because we thought it made sense to get the book slabbed. Our consignor purchased these books from the person associated with the geekbay_since_2003 account that's been discussed already in this thread. It appears very likely that the person our consignor purchased from is Mike/Hero Restoration rather than another layer of unwitting buyer.

We send emails when: you get an offer, titled "You have a new offer: [item name]" we issue a payment, titled "Consignment Payment Issued" you have items ready for you to set prices on or put in auction, titled "Consignments ready for price or auction assignment" We don't send emails for sales of individual books, just when the weekly payments are generated, which may list multiple books you sold in that period. Sometimes when people say they're not getting emails from us, when we check their email address we see that at some point they had clicked our emails as spam. If you do that, on purpose or accidentally, our emails will stop reaching you.

He said "mycomicshop" in the thread title, but those aren't our stickers. Maybe Mile High's or some other retailer.

Mostly depends on what you have and where you're located, but to give you a general idea this is a reasonable rough approximation: Buy in the $50K-100K or more range--we'll travel anywhere in the US as needed Buy in the $20K-50K range--lots of these can be conducted remotely (meaning you provide a list/summary, pictures, and ship the books to us if we have a deal), but depending on where you are and what the books are we might travel ourselves or send a buying partner who is in your area. Our buying partners are knowledgeable collectors who do a lot of business with us that we trust to represent us well, report to us what they see, and can help facilitate getting books shipped to us if we buy the collection. Buy in the $5K-20K range--increasingly likely it can be conducted remotely, or we can come to you or send a buying partner depending on location and what the collection is (eg $20K of high value slabs handled very differently from $20K of raw comics) Buy under $5K--most of these are conducted remotely, but sometimes buying partners might be called on to help the seller avoid having to mess with shipping Our Seller Services buyers traveled to CA last week for a collection, and in two weeks they're traveling to NYC area for two big collection pickups, and then have scheduled a number of other stops (either potential buys, or consignment pickups) along our route back through the NYC, NJ, PA, OH corridor before angling down toward Texas. Other times of the year we make similar trips back from Baltimore Comic Con and Heroes in Charlotte, and we may add another convention or two to our calendar in the next year or two. We can also travel to pick up major consignment collections if the value justifies the travel. Eg we don't want to incur $2000 of travel expenses to pick up $20K of consignments where we'll earn in the ballpark of $2000 as commission. But if the value justifies the travel expense, or the seller is willing to contribute to pick-up costs because it's cheaper/safer/easier than trying to ship everything commercially, we are happy to pick up consignments too.

Our want list buying department manager's feedback on shadroch's transaction was that first, he's always welcome to raise concerns like that directly with us, and we'd be happy to review and provide additional info or correct any errors we find. As to the books, he reviewed them and is in agreement with the grades that were assigned, but said that our grader should have provided grade notes on some of the larger downgrades and failed to do so. He's discussed that with the grader as well as reminding the rest of the department. Here are some of the relevant grading notes on books I asked about that had larger grade reductions. These notes were not included in the feedback shadroch originally received on his transaction, but our grader should have provided some of these notes while grading: Gizmo 6 - color breaking spine stress, edge damage, minor crease, denting, and fingerprints Grendel 36 - color breaking spine stress, scuffing, denting, accumulation of minor creases, foxing, and water spot Torg 2- scuffing, soiling, heavy denting, spine roll, and abrasions on back cover Wave Warriors 1- cover length creases, foxing, denting, and 1" spine split Our largest downgrade was on the Wave Warriors, from VF down to GD. I'm sure there are sellers that would grade this higher than GD, but I also know we'd have unhappy buyers if they received this book from us as a VF. I don't deny that we're tight graders and grade many books lower than other sellers might, and lower than CGC might. We do our best to grade consistently to our own grading standard and we're not trying to grade exactly the same as CGC. We buy 50-60K comics a month via this want list system, so it may not work for everybody but a lot of sellers make heavy use of it. For anybody that prefers to sell comics in larger quantities or through channels other than our online want list, our Seller Services department buys collections of any shape or size, based on whatever info you provide. Since that system doesn't involve individually reporting specific grades on each issue as part of the purchase process, there's never any friction or disagreement about grade. The seller gives us whatever info is appropriate: list, pictures, sometimes we travel for an in-person examination--and then we make an offer for the group. As long as our offer beats anybody else's the seller will likely choose to sell to us, and it doesn't matter how we'll eventually grade the comics.

This is 100% not the case and has never been the case, and I give the same response any time this accusation is made. Shadroch is referring to selling to us via our online want list system, which involves full transparency on price and grade: we show up front the prices we pay in various grades, and once we receive your books we report to you what grades we have given them. Any that we graded lower than the seller did, the seller has the option of having the books returned to them. Every book bought under this system in which we bought the book from the seller at a specified grade will be listed for sale at that same grade. The only exceptions would be the occasional much higher value book we decide to send to get slabbed, and if we somehow encountered a flaw later after purchase that we didn't see while buying the book, then of course we'd grade it down accordingly. Depending on how common the book is, it's easy to monitor our behavior on this yourself. You can watch our new listings page to see when we eventually post your book for sale (although that page isn't targeted at showing sub $5-10 books because there are too many of them and they're less interesting than the higher value ones). Or, just look at the issue listing itself, and wait til you see new inventory get added. Nobody has ever posted a "gotcha" of us relisting their purchased books at a higher grade because this is something we never do. If we did do that, people would have reported a lot of examples by now across the literally millions of comics we've bought over the years via this system. This system does not guarantee that a book you bought from us months or years ago will receive the same grade when you sell it back to us. We don't have perfect consistency just like CGC and other graders aren't going to produce perfectly consistent repeatable grades across multiple gradings, and our graders just grade the book in front of them. If we do grade a book at a lower grade than you bought it from us some time ago, it's not because anybody has their thumb on the scale. It's just because whoever graded your book this time selected the lower grade. I've relayed shadroch's feedback about his transaction to the head of our want list buying department, and he's going to take a look at the books and report back to me.

We don't have nearly the volume of higher end art sales that HA and ComicLink do but we do sell plenty of it, and have sold 5 figure pieces via both auction and BIN for very respectable prices. When Steve Borock was with us one of his efforts was expanding our support for art and volume of art inventory. Part of that effort was significantly improving the data model and categories that we use to record our art listings, so it's easier to browse by category instead of them being in a single big list with low value prints mixed in with good OA pages. Our art section As with our comic listings, all art that's consigned with us for BIN sale is also cross-posted to eBay, so you're getting that exposure in addition to the MCS site. I would love to grow our art selection and do more with it, but can't devote much attention to it right now, and since Steve left we don't currently have anybody specifically spearheading that area.

Our terms say that after 12-24 months we may require either periodic price reductions, moving the item to auction, or else will begin charging storage fees. However, we haven't actually begun charging anyone storage fees and are working toward a different model that would still accomplish our goal of not allowing indefinite storage of overpriced consignments.

Excellent--thank you for bringing this to my attention and glad we could help!

Here's the full size image that is linked to from the listing on our website: https://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net/n_ii/originalimage/7421948.jpg And here's the close up of the price box from that image: I see just a little bit of reddish/brownish tint to the left of the "25c" in the price box. A manager in our imaging department checked the book and says that image is an accurate reflection of what the book looks like in hand. I agree that HA has fantastic images. They have very talented, very experienced in-house photography capability and it shows. We capture many more comic images than HA does, and at a lower average price point, so the context isn't identical, but we are working on moving our process closer to HA's. It ends up being a fine line between making the book look as good as possible without going so far that a buyer feels the book is misrepresented.