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Note that any scuff marks or other artifacts are on the scanner and not the book or the slab.

Fully insured shipping to the continental U.S. is $18. Shipping outside of U.S. is exact cost and must include insurance for full value. No returns on slabbed books. No one on any naughty list. Paypal payments can be sent to alphacat2@juno.com. Personal checks are also welcome and preferred. Package will be mailed USPS Priority Mail (double-boxed). Trades and/or trades plus cash (in either direction) considered for high-grade, bronze Marvel keys. First take it in thread trumps any PM negotiations. Last eBay sale for newsstand copy was $925. My price is $850 plus shipping.

1. Count pages and ensure no cutouts 2. Inspect front cover with naked eye in good lighting noting defects 3. Inspect back cover with naked eye in good lighting noting defects 4. Inspect front cover with magnifying glass in good lighting noting defects 5. Inspect back cover with magnifying glass in good lighting noting defects 6. Scan front and back covers 7. Inspect scans of front and back noting defects 8. Based on experience, assign what grade I think CGC would grade it at and deduct 0.5 (or 0.2 in high grades) Additionally, 9. Post in the Please Grade Me ("Hey buddy, can you spare a grade?") forum 10. Based on experience (i.e. my personal experience submitting my books that were reviewed in PGM), add 0.5 to 1.0 (or 0.2 to 0.4 in high grades) to @oakman29's assigned grade with 9.6 being highest possible (I trust and value his grading input) Steps 1-8 and steps 9-10 usually yield the same result; and 90% of my submissions grade at this grade or higher following either method. I've had at most only 5 books (out of well over 50 and probably closer to 100 submissions) come back lower (and only one PLOD with a "color dot"). Note that I collect/submit mostly high grade Bronze targeting 9.0+ so I have much less experience grading books lower than 8.0. My next submission will have a mid-grade WWBN #32 though, so we will see how I do on that one.

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1,000 seconds is about 16 minutes, but yeah, I get your point.

Yeah, I am not too worried about it as I typically trade only a handful of comics a year. And when I sell (also only a handful a year and usually adding up to less than $1000 in sales, not profit), I usually sell at break-even or about a 5-10% profit at most (often much lower than FMV as some recent sales on these boards in the WTB forum can likely attest). I do need to better figure out what and how to track my cost basis though. I think I do have all of the details on FMV for my trades as well as my actual purchase prices and such. I have learned a lot by reading this thread!

Nice book Jim! Shouldn't last long.

Thanks @grebal and @shadroch! You have both given me something to think about. I still prefer the trade path to the sell/buy path since fees are generally avoided in the trade transaction.

So I can't simply transfer my "basis" from the comic acquired for $100 to the new comic acquired in trade with FMV of $1000?

Shad, you are my tax guy!

If I trade a $1000 comic for another $1000 comic, there is no profit to tax, correct?

And this is why I prefer to trade comics rather than selling comics.

Shad wasn't serious with the "lose money on every sale but make it up with volume" line. It is recognized by most as an obvious joke.

Nice book! This one is on my list.

MOAR!

Just because someone can do something doesn't mean they will (or did) do something. So I need more convincing on this one to think that Billy knew what was happening.

Also depends on the cut. All 9.6's are not created equal. Sorry, no horribly miscut wraps for me.

+1

Anyone have any updates on GoCollect? Their FMV prices seem to be way off still.

What the heck did Iron Man have for breakfast! Those look like they hurt coming out the back end!

And he removed the date stamp! Impressive!

Wow! That must have been some bad burrito! Congrats for being the last to succumb to the goddess' vapors! I watched this movie with my wife and had been looking forward to it for quite some time. The first WW movie is still her all-time favorite movie (not just super-hero movie). She thought WW84 was really bad. I thought the first one was really good (not in my top-five super-hero movies, possibly not even top-ten, but really good nonetheless). For me, as with you, WW84 was just meh. I typically watch most (maybe 95%) of super-hero movies multiple times. This is one of the few (Ghost Rider 2 is another that comes to mind) that I will let go with just a single viewing.

You made me laugh!