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Ya I think it's 145....but it would be great if I could find a site that has some interior photos to check...

Any clue? Last page (back cover interior)

Two pics from the same comic...bizzaro story...

All DC with some other stuff like Charlton...so I've got rex the wonder dog 32 that looks complete just missing the cover. As I go through them I'm going to check-off the ones I'm pretty sure are complete. List: Action Comics 264 - missing cover, most of the story is there Wonder Woman 137 - missing cover and pages 13-14. Wonder Woman 130 - missing cover I believe all pages are there Batman 145 - missing cover, most of the book is there (full story of 'Joker's Son is there) Blackhawk 167 - missing cover, think all pages are there Blackhawk 168 - missing cover, I believe all pages are there Blackhawk 133 - missing cover, I believe all pages are there - the entire story of Lady Blackhawk is complete Showcase 17 - looks like it's missing a few pages in the middle, the Adam Strange story is complete and the story at the beginning is also complete (no cover). Showcase 37 - missing cover, I believe all pages are there - key appearance first Metal Men 80 Page Giant #14 - no cover, missing a few pages near the beginning. Mystery in Space 49 - no cover Rex the Wonder Dog 32 - missing cover, I believe all pages are there Superboy 85 - missing cover and some pages Superboy 82 - front and back cover only Superman Annual 5 - cover only Superman Annual 3 - missing front cover, looks like whole story is complete Superman's girlfriend Lois Lane 10 - missing cover, missing first few pages and some last pages as well Forbidden World's 85 - missing cover and some pages Adventure Comics 296 - missing cover, I believe all pages are intact Adventure Comics 249 - missing cover and some pages Will Rogers - no clue on number Tell it to the Marines 10 - no cover, missing pages? G.I in battle 3? - not 100% sure of this one, there's three stories, one is titled "the traitor that wasn't" Strange adventures 70 - missing cover I think most of the pages are there Submarine attack 21 (chartlon) - missing cover, missing some pages My greatest adventure 19 - missing cover, missing pages 1-2 - I think the rest are there Strange adventures 61 - many pages and cover missing - very rough shape

Also, I'm not sure whether I should post these as a cheap lot on ebay, try and sell them here or dump them in the recycling bin...

Hey if I had all the first pages that would be too easy, lol....

Alright, that might take awhile! I think I have one that's Batman 145...there's a few panels of the Joker with 'son'.

Hi guys, I have a stack (maybe 40-50) comics that are missing their covers and in some cases missing a large number of pages. Any suggestions for how I can help find out what these comics are?

See it really depends on your area; the buyers, the shows, etc. etc. Some of that stuff would move pretty well at $1 a piece where I am, some of it probably wouldn't move at 50 cents a piece.

I actually don't have a dollar box, I have a $2 box and 50 cent boxes...the rest are priced individually although I may have runs or sets that average around $1/book, but they're packaged together to make sure no one can cherry-pick one book. When you setup at shows, even if you only have 3-4 longs of $1 you get pretty tired of moving them around if the turnover is very small. I know some guys that have absolute garbage in their $1 boxes....that's the stuff that I dump at $20-$50 a long (whatever the market would bear).

Open it up and thoroughly inspect every page. I have a copy of this book that's missing four pages of the story (where Spidey and the Punisher first meet).

There only needs to have one illegitimate bidder to compromise the auction, regardless if the high bidder is legitimate that bidder was inversely affected by at least one shill thus compromising the integrity of the auction.

There's a one-feedback bidder that was putting in multiple single bids, followed-up with the same pattern later by a three-feedback bidder.

Nice grab. These books must be new to their $1 bin, I have a tough time seeing those last more than a few days (couple weeks tops for real deserted locations)... p.s. just saw the Canadian 'skating on thin ice' giveaway. I've got a pile of those freebies, if you want em for $1+ shipping you can have me all.

Just looked at the bid history, looks awful shilly....

Wow I have an actual 129 that I would sell for less than that...

You think no one cares about rowing?

Found another key, DC Showcase 5. I'm pretty happy with this lot; I've priced out a bunch of books for the show tomorrow. We'll see if I'm way offside on the market.

About 150 low grade DC: GL, WW, Superman, Superboy, Jimmy Olson, Batman/Tec, Adventure, Flash. Mostly 12 centers, earlier 10 cent issues as well. There's a bunch of other one-offs, but the BB28 is the reason I bought the lot. There's a bunch of coverless stuff too I have to see if they're any key issues, and then about another 100 of the non Marvel/DC stuff (really not much Marvel, seeing the ASM was a nice bonus). I'm happy that I'll be adding about 15 Batman/Tec golden/silver books to my runs - even if they are beaters.

Just picked-up another small lot; third consisting of under 300 comics in about a month. All old stuff, a bulk deal, that was only 'take-it-or-leave-it'. Original owner, all readers that have been kept in the family for decades. WC, you're a Classics Illustrated guy, I got a pile of them. Shoot me a message Not sure if there's any demand at all for these, might try and price em out cheap like I do with some other books at the show. The coup de grace was the book below...the ASM wasn't even listed in his pile of books, it's bad he didn't have more.

Just grabbed this hand-cart from HD yesterday; it will be used next weekend on what is supposed to be the worst show of the year. It converts to a platform dolly and can easily handle 8 longs. That elusive hernia won't catch me yet.

Awesome keep us posted! If you get the collection you might be able to get the cards as a throw-in. I've only had one interaction with a older collector that was using 'stale' guide pricing. A little while back a friend of mine and I had visited a collection of someone that we had been in mutual contact with. He was an older guy that still had a bunch of golden and silver age comics; it's too bad we missed out on him selling most of his collection before because I think he sold a ton of SA/GA superhero books to one of the shops in town - cough, 3 cents a comic, cough. Anyways, he had a basket of 10 cent sups with some silver age DC books as well, about 50 in total I think (pretty much all low grade, no keys that I remember save one book). The first time we went over there he told me the books would be no more than $10/each in bulk; "okay I'll think about it". There really wasn't much, but he had the first bizarro in pretty decent condition that looked like it was worth about $250-300....my friend was interested in a ton of old stuff in really sharp VF+ condition - Joe Palookas, Tracy, etc. A few days later I called the seller back and he gave me a price that was around $550-600, I can't remember the exact number but I knew it was higher than $10/book and when I mentioned that to him he was clearly confused, apparently he didn't remember saying that. In hindsight I should have negotiated a sale for the 10 centers so that I landed the only book I cared about - rookie mistake at the time. My friend on the other hand had made a second visit before I let the deal on the superhero books walk-away. Whatever price the seller had negotiated with my friend on the Joe Palookas/ Tracy weren't the same price he mentioned to us before. He had some crazy pie-in-the-sky value of $100 each on all these high grade rare 10 centers - based on some 'guide' value he had from the 1980s. Not only that, because the price was stale they had to be worth at least that and much more so no way was he budging. When it comes to comics my friend clearly didn't have my discipline because he bought the whole stack of what he was after at $100 each - worked out to several grand. Sure the books were nice, but c'mon, Joe Palooka? Who cares. If he were to dump that amount of money on a dealer at a minimum the dealer would give some kind of price break....anyways my experience with people using old guide values are books are either way over-priced (easy walk-away), or under-priced.

Thanks. I have a pile of cardboard still, but I may look to these as an alternative. I don't know if these would be cheaper than what I'm currently doing, but it's a nice option.

Great summary and it's nice that you have goals for next year. I have some time over the holidays to go through my stuff, price what I want to price locally, and then really expand my lacking ebay activity. I need to get better selling templates as well, and I might pickup a better laptop as I'm in new of a new machine. What are 'flash mailers'? Have you considered buying cardboard in bulk? I grabbed a lot from Uline, having pre-cut cardboard is one of the best decisions regarding shipping that I've made.