MatterEaterLad

Would love some opinions on this one. Thanks for your time.

Same with my FF1. He was going to use dry grafting to remove the trimmed designation. I was passing through Oregon and had planned to drop off the book, but thankfully I forgot it at home. (FYI - this was a book that CGC said was trimmed on the top. I had it regraded and now it's trimmed on the bottom instead. )

I wish there was. The ones off the top of my head: Harlan Ellison Collection Nicholas Cage Collection Graham Nash Collection (Whatever the name is of Stan Lee's tailor) Collection

Maybe we should do something like a football pool of where this thing ends up at.

I have some books coming back from CGC that are like the one above. Just got absolutely hammered. Raw books that I bought years ago from a well-respected dealer. He graded them VF/NM to NM-, which I thought was spot on. All came back 7.5 or less. With identical graders notes.

DK2 was the beginning of the end for me. I love most of what came before, even Ronin. I think he tried to be more expressive and kind of break the rules like Bill Sienkiewicz. The problem is that Miller's work was already highly stylized. Adding a new twist was like replacing pineapple on a pizza with watermelon. It was already something that wasn't for everyone and now it's something for no one.

It was changed to HIDE ROY to save people time.

LAST CALL -- take 15% off the posted price!!

I doubt the Lebanon PD will do a thing either, as evidenced by the people who have called and nothing has happened.

I don't think reporting this to the police will do anything. Last year my son's band had their van stolen in Portland and the police did nothing. I mean literally NOTHING. The van had an Airtag, so he could follow where it was going. They called the police numerous times and reported it stolen, with its current location, but never got a call back from an officer. After a few hours of calling, someone from the police let them know that they couldn't do anything, that it wasn't an emergency, and that he should consider the van gone and report it to his insurance. I suspect that's the answer the Portland police will give you, if they ever actually respond to the complaint. In the end, my son's band and another group on tour with them grabbed baseball bats, tracked the van down and stole it back from some meth heads. If Mike had any of my books and refused to return them I'd hire a "Private Investigator" to go retrieve them.

Price drop - Take 10% OFF

I saw it in a CGC forum on FB. And yeah, they did a terrible job on that fake cover.

Has this been posted? I doubt it's the same scammer, which begs the question, "How many people are out there doing this?" This was on social media. Evidently last July a guy used this book as collateral for a $500 loan at a pawn shop and never returned. When the slab was opened...

It's definitely a clunky comparison since there aren't movies, action figures, video games, and cosplayers related to stamps (that I know of ). I love that kids in high school can appreciate comic stuff, especially since when I was in high school it was fairly uncool. I remember buying a Conan #1 in the 9th grade from a classmate and the transaction took place in the school bathroom (like a drug deal!) since the seller didn't want to be seen as comic nerd. I visit a lot of high schools as part of my job, and the vibe I always get is that geek culture is a everywhere and accepted, with kids relating to the movies far more than the source material.

Yikes. It's been my fear/paranoia that we're going to reach an inflection point where older collectors begin liquidating their collections, the marketplace becomes flooded, and the population of collectors shrinks (specifically collectors of Silver and Bronze Age). The worry is that in that ecosystem, only high grade books increase in value--some skyrocketing--while mid to low grade plummet and never recover because there aren't enough buyers vs. supply. Right now there are 93 graded copies of X-Men #1 on eBay. About 240 graded copies of FF48. I wish I'd counted the number of copies ten years ago, but that seems like a lot. (In related news this is a sobering article about The Long Slow Death of Stamp Collecting) I know, the argument is that our population is growing in the US, so there will always be an increasing number of collectors, and there are more collectors outside of the US than ever. Not sure it's that simple. But hey, if you're forever bullish on the comic market, now is the time to buy!

Sold per DM.

X-Men #71 - 7.5 - FMV $57. BOARD PRICE: $35 shipped SOLD at 15% off

TOS #66 - 3.5 - FMV $27. BOARD PRICE: $20 shipped SOLD at 15% off