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I don't think the gold version of the zero issue has even seen any movement, which only had a print run of 5000. Now might be a good time to buy then. Maybe, but A&A golds were never cheap to begin with.

How can I tell? There's nothing on the cover or indicia indicating a later printing. Copyright dates? Peace, Chip Lots of info on most "popular" comix I used to sell comix in the past but you'd find that even the rare stuff is hard to flip on eBay.. So couple that with the tedious work of identifying which print is which and I ended up just not dealing with them. Just me I haven`t seen a website like that since 1999.

I just visited a guy locally that had a huge collection of those freak/underground comics...I had never thought they were worth anything (he inherited the comics from his dad, so couldn't tell me much about anything).

Very poor lighting in my office/sunroom as the overhead light isn't strong and there was a big storm outside, so no outside illumination. They're not faded, but lower grade. No white #400, sadly. I didn't take pics of the 15+ copies each of Deathmate Blue & Yellow. Nice run of Freak Brothers, though...#2-12 with double #8s. Also 3-4 copies of Venom Lethal Protector #1 as well as lots more 90's glut books. Peace, Chip Deathmate...gross.

Awesome! That's a good amount of work involved in all that, but the feeling you get from finding big books is incredible!

make sure it's a 1st print How do you check printing on trades, the barcode?

Batman Arkham Asylum is probably your best book pictured if that's the hardcover. Okay, thanks.

I have had this opinion for a while. Playing devils advocate though, there is no revenue for eBay if there is nobody buying. I don't feel the buyers on eBay will ever dry up as it has market dominance. Even other comic book sales sites have basically the same fee structure but obviously have less web traffic. Agreed 100%. You can make the argument the sellers are equally important, but they're not. Take away the buyers and the sellers just have a bunch of stuff, and the buyers just spend money in the 1 million other facets of life. You need incentives to encourage people to buy, especially when personal debt levels are the highest they've ever been. I rarely sell on ebay since they changed to the DSR system and I felt like years of building a reputation was flushed at the whim of ...who knows ? I think ebay wants the little guy gone and is trying to become more like Amazon. It's their business and they know what works best for them. I wouldn't want someone telling me how to run mine. I don't see how a small seller under say, 500 to 1000 items per month in the bronze, copper, and modern age will be able to handle the new policy on returns. Let's use a book like Manifest Destiny. Say a person sold 5 #1s in CGC 9.8 at $160 which I believe was the high price on these books. Then 3 weeks later they drop to $140, which they did. Under the old rules, if the case had a scratch, the buyer could return the book and the buyer paid for return shipping. Now the seller is responsible for shipping both ways. There is no deterrent for the cheaters. I could see a case getting miraculously scratched upon arrival. I realize the good people outnumber the bad but the bad exists and more so every time ebay changes the rules. I think it's even a bigger problem with inexpensive raws. I ship using priority mail boxes because I want the books well protected. I certainly wouldn't want to pay shipping costs both ways if someone viewed my $25 Nm book as Nm- after they found 1 maybe 3 weeks later for for $15. Making an ebay account seems to be a fairly easy endeavor. I've had 1 buyer who has used 3 different ebay IDs to purchase books over the years. I know that these are worse case scenarios but I also know there is plenty of potential for them under the new rules. I think the only safe bet is to sell using scans and not advertising condition and hope that people look at feedback. What do you guys think ? That seems like an extreme example. I don't think the majority of people would be willing to put that much time/effort into trying to get a book bought for $20 a week or two later. Also, who's to say they can buy that book, maybe it will fluctuate higher later? I have a difficult time believing these buyers will be monitoring future sales like a hawk.

As I get home and look through the box, I find a ton of ASM! Many of which (issues in the 280s and 400s) I need for my collection...

Here's the trades...I've seen the Batman Guantlet book has sold for good change on ebay? I might keep that one in my collection, also 6 of those books are hardcovers in beautiful shape!

Sunday Morning...having gotten home at 3 a.m. from a long poker session, I decide to venture to a garage sale that had comics advertised (which I never do). I get there probably 30 minutes before the close and see a long box that has some Trades and floppies. I flip through the box and notice these books.... I'm close to selling big runs of both Web and Spectacular locally, and after seeing about 40 issues of the later that I needed (and a bunch of webs), I was interested when the guy's gf came over and said he just wanted to get rid of them. As I flipped through a few more trades (easy quick seller at the garage sale), he's like $25 for the box. I had only went through a third of the box, but figured I couldn't go wrong. Plus I was having a good comic-picking weekend...I made a crack about getting that hernia I always wanted, and loaded the box into my car.

Flash forward to Saturday I had been emailing these guys about a bunch of comics listed. They had an Uncanny 100, which I was really only interested in... I pull up the X-men, and was like, WTF is this 10 p? These guys were a couple dudes that were really nice, and it quickly dawned on me this was a UK variant. I know very little on value of foreign books, and my interest dropped a lot at this point, so the guy who's comics they were was like, 'how about $50 for everything?' I needed a few of the ASM for my collection, and there was also another 30 or so misc. comics I can sell at my next garage sale easily (simpsons, spiderman, first five issues of Alpha Flight, etc.). So I'm like sure, what the hell.... I just noticed X-Factor 5 is a price variant?

I had been emailing a guy for a few days about some low grade keys he has, I finally met up with him and grabbed these three for $85. This guy was solid; he's a musician and we he had a lot in common...talked hockey, dying in yoga, comics, a few other things. I'm still very interested in some other books he has, so I'll probably be in touch.

I have had this opinion for a while. Playing devils advocate though, there is no revenue for eBay if there is nobody buying. I don't feel the buyers on eBay will ever dry up as it has market dominance. Even other comic book sales sites have basically the same fee structure but obviously have less web traffic. Agreed 100%. You can make the argument the sellers are equally important, but they're not. Take away the buyers and the sellers just have a bunch of stuff, and the buyers just spend money in the 1 million other facets of life. You need incentives to encourage people to buy, especially when personal debt levels are the highest they've ever been.

Some are tougher than others; there's 4 TPBS: "Mario's Special Powers" is one of them, that are the rarest ones out there. The no price variant of this is a pretty tough book too. Almost impossible to find in NM True, but you can make that argument for all those books. Anyways, the TPB books come up the least often on ebay, and I try to grab as many of them cheap whenever I can.

Some are tougher than others; there's 4 TPBS: "Mario's Special Powers" is one of them, that are the rarest ones out there.

Nice haul.

Two Guns did nicely for a small time, but there were never more than a handful of listings on ebay at any given time. The movie wasn't terrible either but the comics were largely ignored. I don't have my Two Guns books anymore but I thought they were well written and I really liked the show. I'm surprised by the lack of demand for something that was pretty successful. Low supply, low demand. I tried listing my set of those books around the time it was hot and it went unsold.

It doesn't matter. Did you screw an old lady out of grocery money? Did you screw her survivors out of inheritance? Did you screw her grandchildren out of tuition? Oh, but you did it because you wanted a neat comic for your collection. That makes it okay. I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, so don't jump down my throat, but it's possible that old lady could be better off than you think. Also, if she was going to throw it out anyway then she isn't being screwed out of something she never would have received.

I know - I couldn't believe it either!! Unelievable....especially at an antique shop! Care to divulge what you paid for those babies? I'm assuming it was a great deal. If he didn't pay 90% of their FMV I'm sure the sharks here in CG will be out for blood saying he ripped off a little old lady and karma's going to swallow him whole. There's plenty of room between paying 90% FMV for something and buying a million dollar Action #1 for a dollar. This was somewhere in between. No little old lady. Anonymous dealer who had several short boxes marked "Collectors Comics" in a glass case. Never even met him. He wasn't giving them away. But he is not a comic guy per say so they were not priced according to the current market conditions. I don't have a problem with getting a "deal" at an antique store. The antique store is in the business of selling collectibles. It is the antique store owner's duty to know the market for all forms of antiques and price appropriately. If I go into an antique store and if the owner of the store offers to sell me the comics for a certain price, even if it is a low price, I would not feel that I am ripping him off. Again, it is the antique store owner's job to know what he is selling. On the other hand, if you go to some old lady's house and buy her deceased husband's Action Comics 1 for $100, then you are ripping her off. The old lady is not in business and cannot be expected to know the FMV of what she is selling. Exactly. How many times have people bragged about finding gems at a LCS that were mispriced? It would be hilarious if we start ripping on people for finding great deals at Walmart.

I would hold onto that Batman book for sure, and maybe the Cap. Sell the rest...

I have to list a few more on ebay, I have easily 10-15 copies of this book.

I was having trouble telling reprints of #1 from the first print. Not sure where they stuck the second printing label. Look at the bar code if you're unsure, the last digit is the print run.

And they may or may not when it comes time to sell. But if you think paying $800 for that wolverine book is smart, then by all means. No one said it was smart, but money takes a back seat to some people. They're not thinking of ever needing to sell - why would they do that? When you have gobs, you have gobs. You need to broaden your perspective a tad. I understand people with money a lot more than you think; my firm deals exclusively with HNW clients. Three nights ago I was playing 1-2 no limit at the casino, I was up a few hundred dollars playing against a table that was not very good overall, when an Asian guy sat down beside me. This guy was beyond reckless; he would call three bets with junk hands, raise blind with air, and call down to the river only to muck his cards heads-up when on him to check (at least four times!). It was ridiculous. I don't know what his background was, but clearly his motive was to 'blow' money. Yes there's people that money isn't an issue, but to say someone will never sell an item is a huge fallacy. Collecting habits change, and almost everyone will sell at some point - they have to. You're looking at the position from a seller, you have a clear bias to promote high grade sales to maximize your ebay auctions, I'm not.

Who invited you to this challenge? Alright Greg, fair enough. But want if we eliminate the low dollar sales, where $8 is a relatively insignificant amount of money. What about $100+? Is a 1977 US quarter for $266 good enough? http://www.ebay.com/itm/231276840048 Assuming it's at least possible to get handed one of these in your change... that's over 1000x. Maybe, but it's not like I'm going to be given a Wolvie #41 second print as a function of currency in my day-to-day life.