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Yeah, $10 for a Creepy 1 is a smokin' deal

I had a minute. I think I got one!

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This was the only Warren I had for ages-

Wouldn’t Vampirella 1 be a better cover if she had giant guns and a bunch of pouches?

This makes me want to get a Vampirella commission from Liefeld to compare.

Hey, given what is inside a lot of those covers, the empty sexy pose cover is a highlight 🙂

I remember my buddy selling his run of New Mutants to our LCS at some point in the mid to late 80s. They reluctantly paid him some small amount of money, mostly to get him to leave I think, since the books really weren’t worth anything at that time. He then proceeded to remove all of the bags because “he sold them the books, not the bags”. The guy at the LCS was really unhappy because now he had a chore in addition to the mostly worthless books. My buddy walked out with his stack of used bags that he did reuse on his other books, because bags were expensive compared to the books in those days. The only books that had boards that I remember were wall books in mylars.

The flu has something like a 0.1% mortality rate, not a 1% rate.

I feel like I did pretty well here. None of them are better than Fine, but they are all attached and complete. I’d call them mostly VG+. The 6 is probably more like VG- with a rough corner and some denting on the front cover, but for $7 each I sure can’t complain-

I feel like I did pretty well here. None of them are better than Fine, but they are all attached and complete. I’d call them mostly VG+. The 6 is probably more like VG- with a rough corner and some denting on the front cover, but for $7 each I sure can’t complain-

That is one beautiful copy. I do occasionally sprinkle in a high grade copy or two. Generally when Steve or Randall Dowling has a sales thread 🙂 I just got my first copy myself. It was a slightly disappointing eBay VG. Looked a little better in the picture, but wasn’t.

I’m playing the “buying on eBay from the non-comic seller” lottery. Six Creepy’s, three with Frazetta covers, for $43. The listing says Good to Very Good, pictures look a little better but aren’t detailed enough to really tell. I figure as long as everything is attached and complete I’m doing okay, since five of them are issues I don’t have and the other is one I don’t mind having a duplicate of.

Well, a lot of it is just being cheap, too. 🙂 I have a tough time justifying paying $200 for a 9.6 when I can get a FN+ for $15-20. Plus, being willing to buy lower grade books means there are a lot more books available to purchase when I’m out hunting. I’m not going to find much to buy at the local conventions I go to if I’m looking for 9.2+ books. There are tons of VG+ copies there though. 🙂

My recent acquisitions-

comics4less is selling a bunch of magazines this week on eBay. A lot of nice books. Something for pretty much any magazine collector.

Their grading is strange. I've found that a 6.0 can be a 6.0 to a 7.5 or so. Their books aren't all under graded. Some of them are right on, but some of them are extremely under graded. You really have to look at the scans carefully to figure them out. The 2.0 grade is strange too. I see 2.0s that are just standard 2.0s, and some that anyone else would call 4.0s. I also think that they are even stricter than normal on the high grades of magazines.

Yup. While you guys are putting all your money into a single high-grade copy, I'm going to buy all the 4.0-6.0 copies I can find at a fraction of the price. I'll see how many magazine boxes I can fill with Frazetta covers before the rest of the comic-collecting world figures out that they sell magazine-sized bags, boards, and boxes. Seems like a better place to put my money right now than the stock market, TBH. And as long as I'm looking through the boxes, I suppose I'll buy at least a single copy of the non-Frazetta issues so that I can put together runs of Vampirella, Creepy, and Eerie.

I’m going to have to buy the Vampirella 31 and Eerie 35 at 20% off.

Do you understand that sometimes if a person overpaid for a book it is still the correct decision to slab it so they lose less money than selling it raw? Say you have a book that you mistakenly paid $175 for thinking it would be a lock 9.8, but you notice an issue with it that will make it grade out as a lock 9.4 instead. If the book will sell for $75 dollars raw or $150 graded as a 9.4, and grading costs $25, isn’t it still right to get it graded, even though you will still lose money? Isn’t getting it graded to net $50 more from the sale the right financial decision to make whether you paid $1, $100, or $1000 for the book? I’d rather get it graded and lose only $50 ( 200 - 150 ) rather than sell it raw and lose $100 ( 175 - 75 ). Wouldn’t you?

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Sure, but in your example it is pretty clearly worth getting graded either way, isn’t it? A person might choose to take the quick money if they didn’t feel like doing the work and taking the time of getting it graded, but wouldn’t you tell someone who is asking whether it is worth getting graded that it is worth it, since they are going to make an extra $50 regardless of what they paid for the book? The ROI for the $47 spent on grading is over 100%, which is a deal almost every investor is going to want to take, unless they just don’t want to deal with the work of getting it graded.