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Tought it was the best place to ask... now i own a JLA #1 for 1 month and i decided to start to complete an entire JLA Run. I completed several entire moderns runs but now its the first time that im gonna make a pre crisis serie.

Firstly notice that im relatively poor comparated to some of you in this thread...  and i dont care of the grade, I just want to have some copy which look attractive to my eyes and complete, i easily find books in 3 to 4 range who satisfy me. 

So now my question is that i found someone who own an almost full run from 95 to 261 and i have an agreement with him, i could get all that stuff for 3$ each and considering my location it could be smart to get a great run like that which is not easy when we re not talk about modern books... however i still hesitate for a reason... maybe especially considering my limited budget and the current situation of the market starting to pick up the early stuff could be a better strategy? If i purchase this stuff i wouldn't make any other purchases before like 5 months... and honneslty i look the auction on ebay on i see that at contrary as what some are saying the Bronze books still seems to worth totally nothing, i mean exept if your look for MINT books all this stuff from the 70s often go for ridiculous price of 1 or 2 and i dont really think that it will change in the next 5 or 10 years... what do you think?

Look: good exemple, this book is considered as a key and sometimes go for 10 or more but still in a really low market and sometimes just nobody are interested and the book go for starting bid price...

On 4/18/2024 at 5:08 PM, shadroch said:

How did the piece fall off?  You seem to have failed as the guardian of the book.

In fact it was rather 2 small piece than 1, and the first time i just get the book out of the sleeve the small piece which had a really loosie tie fall instantly

On 4/15/2024 at 5:59 AM, Hepcat said:

Almost all Justice League covers to mid-1965 are gems. Here though are a couple that do nothing for me:

I love these 2 ones, what is your problem with them? Dont like concept of evil twins?

On 4/7/2024 at 5:06 AM, Hepcat said:

Here are scans of my twelve favourte covers from the Justice League comics that I have in my collection:

Northland copy

There are so many fabulous Justice League covers that I could easily do another ten.

#7 is so cool! 

On 7/18/2023 at 1:57 AM, John R said:

Green Lantern #59 (1st Guy Gardner) is still selling well since movie announcement.

eBay sales

Movie?

On 4/18/2024 at 6:04 PM, wardevil0 said:

Yeah, I've got a ton of miscellaneous Marvel and DC I'd love to move on.  My lists are a decade out of date, but I could give you an estimate of titles over the next couple of days.

Do you have at least an idea if you could have a great quantity of the first Justice League of America run? Because its really the serie i will focus on for a while now i think. If yes it will be really nice of your part to check in details.

On 4/18/2024 at 5:15 PM, wardevil0 said:

Alrighty. I'm over 15,000 comics, mostly bought out of some misbegotten urge to fill a run or maintain loyalty to a title that wasn't really very interesting.  Do what you want, but don't start a topic of discussion and act condescending to people who actually try to discuss it with you.  I'd be glad to sell you some of my worthless drek for $3 each, guaranteed no fake.

Well i dont wanted to be hard... its just that the disscusion was not about it at origin, i just wanted to know if peoples here tought it was a good deal or not...

Are you just saying that in the wind or you have books  for sale? Im always interested 

On 1/26/2024 at 6:06 PM, HighRadArt said:

Take a picture with the comics in one of them...

On 4/18/2024 at 4:50 PM, wardevil0 said:

It's going to be tough to get a lot of good responses, because the biggest barrier for you is shipping to Switzerland.  Very few books from that era (95 to 261) are of any particular interest, #107 maybe, and so have been seen in discount bins for ages.  With enough time and effort, you could probably get almost all of them for $2 each or less, but that doesn't help you get them to Switzerland.  Basically, I'm saying you should also consider alternative costs for these issues.  Do you think it's possible to get this many for this price or less?

I spent a long time filling runs, like post-crisis Flash, Green Lantern, Detective, Batman, and today wish I hadn't wasted the effort.  I'd rather have one $100 comic than 100 $1 comics.  

My vote would be, read the comics on a digital platform and ignore the bulk.

Read my post... "shipping include"

However here is the point more the books are old more is difficult to find continuous run is why it still probably a good option for someone with my sh*tty location.

And about digital, you have on the pic below your answer...

F*** it, this world is already so faked and now you r gonna tell me to read online?! Im now about 7/8 boxes like this and trust me it will never stop to increase! 

I want some opinions, until im in the hobby i was only collecting modern and now i decided to com0lete a whole JLA run, this mean that im gonna buy silver and bronze books for the first time... 
So i have an agreement for an almost complete run (135books) from 95 to 261 or if you prefer 1971 to 1986, the total price with shipping make an average price of 3.1$ dollars per books, however as i seen many of the early issue,like between 95 to 115 ~ are in really low grade and maybe i will need to replace some of them, if i assume to have to replace, lets says, hum... 15 books on the lot it would make an average price of 3.6$.
What do you think of that price guys? Thanks for your answers.

Used to go trough his website to find answer about all my stupid questions about DC... it was a gold mine of informations...

RIP 

On 4/18/2024 at 4:20 AM, Semicentennial said:

I find this both hilarious and sad.  This book looked like the corner was still attached in the pictures you posted on your other threads, but now it fell off.  If you were tinkering with it to make it look better, like what you did with your BA#12, then maybe you should leave that type of work to the pros.

What is BA#12?

On 4/17/2024 at 3:01 AM, adamgf01 said:

Hello my name is Adam and I have been collecting comic books for many years since I was a kid but I still consider myself new to someone who quit collecting for many years and then got back into the hobby to try and finish an X-men grail run.  So basically I am finally done with the grail run I mean I am missing some straggler books but have all the keys and many of them in high grade because I bought them 20 years ago when they weren't quite as expensive.

That said I have an X-men #1 that I just got which the cover is in reasonable shape but it is missing the splash page #1 and an advertisement page #12.  And it has some structural issues like the centerfold is detached, page #16 and page #5 are not attached (the other sides of #1 and #12) so the cover looks a lot better than the interior but there is no tape or anything like that.  So I am a stickler for not having comics with structural issues or missing pages or pieces.  I have fixed up a number of comics by using mending tissue or even getting like a missing page so the comic is complete and by taking the comic apart and putting the staples back in.  I guess since I am stickler having an incomplete book or a book with structural issues in the collection really bugs me.  I would rather have a complete structurally sound comic with a bunch of dings to the cover than a higher grade comic but the cover is detached at the bottom staple.  So I guess what I am asking is what is the best thing to do with this X-men #1?  Should I get the missing page #1 and page #12 and try to attach those to the other pages using mending tissue and then try putting together a complete comic (which would result in a married grade but still have most of the original pages)?  Or should I get a coverless copy and attach the decent condition cover to it (which would result in a married cover)?  Or should I just leave it alone and go for the standard 0.5 cgc grade if it is missing two pages?  But that is not really what I want to do because I do not like incomplete books either.  All my other X-men from #2 to #543 are all complete I believe.  I have a few with minor structural issues but not many (#46, #53, #63) all the other books are probably around 5.5 - 6.5 and higher it is a decent condition collection but another reason why I would like the books to be kind of similar too but no way can I afford an X-men #1 5.0 it is just way out of my budget.  Then again if I can get a 2.0 qualified as two pages married or cover married that would be good enough for me.

Same as you, low grade is fine but an incomplete book is just inacceptable... id prefer 100× a ripped cover but a complete book rather than the contrary.  

I have maybe another option but i have any idea of Marvel books value so... 

What about selling your book and buy a complete one with the funds? 

How much could be the additional money in the process? Because if its a reasonable ammount that s probably the best way.

Honneslty excuse me but this topic drifted for a while now so you will not be irritated if i continue in this way...

So after months of investigation i still dont get something... why would you overpaid books... just why? I mean at best you could hope to get your books for 5× the market value with MHC, so, just WHY?

On 4/17/2024 at 11:14 AM, Tec-Tac-Toe said:

If MHC, in my limited experience, FA is, on a very good day, PR/0.5 if not "0.0", and G (GD)/2.0 is FA if not PR. Granted, some board members have reported receiving accurately graded and/or, dare I say, I will, under-graded, comic books from MHC. Alas, I was never so fortunate.  

Yes we already had a disscusion on MHC in another thread and unfortunately it seems to be the common opinion about MHC...

Is that mean fair condition? So really low grade? Im right?  Im confused because i always tought the letters used  for fair was FR...

Final price, no way...

Yes it s a call for help... i want to speak to a psychologist of comics

Men... i tought to have removed my f*cking ocd but i was wrong, something i realize now is that im really more concerned by defect on moderns comparated to older books...  

God... nobody have tips to save me, its really painfull, everytime i see some defect i want to get a new copy of the book...  

Maybe we re expecting to much on modern, yeah its easy to get a book who look like mint, but i mean, it s not a reason to need it...  

I wish so much to could be easier on these things...

Huh... did i missed something? 

I mean its obviously the most valueless part of the whole batman modern run (400-700~) there is not even 1 issue over 10$, dont speak me about 497 LOL... 95% of this stuff is in the dollar bins...

I often follow the neatstuffcollectibles.com auctions, it comforts me in the fact that the seller reputation is a great factor on the price that people are ready to pay for books...

On 4/7/2024 at 11:53 PM, EastEnd1 said:

As I alluded to, in the mid/late 1990s, Marvel made the controversial move of killing many of their major long running titles, and re-starting them first with lengthy 12 issue mini-series, and then with new long-running tiles starting over from #1 (ie, the "volume 3" series).  DC had done something similar after Crisis on Infinite Earths.  The FF#1s I posted above were part of that effort.  The reasoning Marvel gave at the time was that it was difficult to attract new readers to the long running series because of the complex continuity that had been built up. Personally, I (and many others) thought it had more to do with getting some juice out of issuing new #1s.  Frankly, as a long time run collector, Marvel's plan failed miserably with me... ending those long running titles made an exceptional JUMPING OFF point, so I simply stopped buying a bunch of Marvel titles entirely!  I think a lot of other collecters felt the same because after a while, Marvel started putting the old numbering below the new numbering on their new titles! 

Anyway, here's the Captain America "volume 3" restart...

For DC it worked, it worked truely! For Marvel... no comment.

An usual announce on a Swiss website... the guy put them on auction for 65 dollars starting bid or buy it now for 90 dollars, we re talking about a lot of 6 freaking 90s flash issues... i mean i almost got the complet run including most of the keys books + a great ammount on international shipping fees and im still under 3 per books...

in US all that stuff is findable in every dollar bins...

But finally its honnest considering  that the postage is ONLY 25...

(In Switzerland the shipping cost for a package under 22lbs is 12 dollars) 

Is it a serious question? DC, lol.

On 4/10/2024 at 2:08 PM, AJD said:

I'm not a Phantom collector, but I've been dipping into the series from time to time for about 50 years. I still buy one every now and then, and usually buy the 200 page annuals. Here are some answers to your questions as I see it.

They are a mix of reprints of old stories, compilations of the still ongoing daily and weekend strips and new specially drawn for comics stories from various parts of the world.

There are many similarities between the stories, though some of the recent ones have gone into new territory, like the Sunday series last year set in an underground civilisation of 'almost humans'.

Yes, about 600 years of it, from the first Phantom on. The Phantom has aged verrrrry slowly, but he has married and had children in the time since the character first appeared.

They have been around all my life and as kids we used to get them as giveaways in bags of goodies at local fairs. The comics haven't changed much at all, other than the production quality and the layouts of the stories produced for comics.

Thanks! In fact i firstly tought to you when made this thread, your profil picture was in my mind

For a while now i got some interest for this amazing serie who run since the 40s, interested to know the option of peoples who followed the publications for years. Few question below, do not need to answer them all, its just some exemples...

Are the stories are often just some reprint of old tales? They re seems to be a lot of contents with frequently several stories in a book so im not really sure that you get often some new stuff...

Are the plots varied or you r often bored by the ressemblance of the stories?

Is there a continuity or not?

When you started into it? and are the comics changed a lot since this time? 

Thanks