david20009

With Blazingbob just agreeing to sell me an AMS #3 I am down to needing 4 issues to complere my run of #1 - 50 in CGC 8.0 or better. Unfortunately #1 is one of the remaining 4 issues

The other three issues are 5 (worst issue in the first 50 that I have a hard time turning over $$$'s for), 43 and 48.

Besides the first 50 I have about half the issues to 100 and then a complete run in NM or better from 122 to 500 something.

I would put it in the Clink fixed price section at 3X guide and see what kind of offers it attracts....you may be surprised. At the least, the results would be interesting and free. GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

Thanks for everyone's advice. As I really don't know what I should ask for maybe I'll take jimbo's advice and put it up on ComicLink. I don't need to sell the book just GL is fairly popular right now and I'm not much of a Silver Age DC guy so someone else could enjoy the book and I could funnel the cash into another book. (I'd also have no problem trading it). Selling books is a bit of a strange concept to me as out of my 8,000 plus books I have only had 4 ever leave my collection and the last time was over a decade ago. (Much to my wife's chagrin I am a packrat).

I'll keep it slabbed if I sell it. While I am known to a few people in the comic community as a buyer I am obviously unknown as a seller and thus I don't expect people to automatically accept either my level of competance in grading or detecting restoration. Having it slabbed eliminates those problems. Also I would never sell a book without full disclosure as I expect that as a buyer.

My biggest concern is I'll sell the book and

1) someone will resubmit it and it will get a grade of 9/9.2 as CGC is inconsistant in their grading of page quality (IMHO) and even if they don't change the PQ there seems to be have been a change in standards as some LT-OW books get 9.0 or 9.2 now

2) A pressing wizard will acquire the book and it will be optomized and flipped for a lot more than I sold it for.

While books continually go into my collection rarely do books ever go out. I am not much of a DC collector but do have a couple DC slabs I have picked up over the years. One is a Green Lantern #1. With all the interest lately in Green Lantern I am debating whether I should sell it to someone who would enjoy it more than me.

While it is graded 8.5 it has dreaded LT-OW pages. This was graded back in the days, when according to Steve, CGC didn't give books with LT-OW pages grades better than 8.5 (there are posts refering to this - use the search function). although I have seen the occassional more recently graded LT-OW books with 9.0 or 9.2. Other than the page quality the book looks steller. If I was to part with the book what do you think I could get for it?

I've only dealt with him once, and aside from him being a rather difficult negotiator I never had any problems and thought the transaction went very smooth.

I bought two slabs, one for about $900 and another for about $100, a Strange Tales 101 CGC8.0 and another issue in the 110's. Not much over Overstreet for either. Paid by credit card and they were shipped out to me the next day and arrived only a few days later in Hong Kong. I'd deal with him again buying slabs.