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Was the Darth Vader #3 only $11, or has that gone out the window already? I haven't been hanging on every post lately, so maybe that has changed... Nope that's the one I bought for 75 dollars but I sold my star wars 1 for the exact price. The most you can pay for a slabbed 9.8 book with a GPA average of around $65...is about half of that i.e. cover price + slabbing fees. Even then, putting that $30+ into slabbing a book that is worth $100 or more is much more worthwhile. I would have paid $35 for that book, already in a CGC 9.8 slab.No more. Your logic of your friend advising you on the the 1st X-23 and 1st Alpha is just not comparable.The Vader book was a hot book about 6+ months ago. SW books are cold and will stay cold intil the next SW movie comes out. When will Alpha ever be tied into a SW movie? This Christmas or the following SW movie in 2018? If the character is used in a movie, at all. If the character is used in a movie, you'll have to wait intil this Christmas or for the 2018 SW movie, to sell the book for a dollar to make any profit whatsoever on it. Let me reinterate that X-23 will be in Wolverine 3 and Alpha...maybe never. DV 3 is a decent book to buy, but only if you can get a solid 9.8 raw at cover price. And in order to take a ridiculous gamble on paying $75 (+ shipping) for a common as Hell modern, you sold a SW 1, which will just about certainly see an increase in price as the SW movie in 2 months comes out. How sharp was the SW that you sold for $75? Odds are that putting $35 (grading/fast tracked fees) into the SW 1 that you sold for $75 would have grossed you $200.....so, theoretically, you lost about $100 from dumping your SW 1 raw at $75...and then you compounded that loss by putting about $100 (shipped) into a pretty cold/common modern that routinely sells for about $65. So you are at -$100 from the SW 1 transaction aaaaaand, tack on another -$100 for the CV 3 CGC 9.8 transaction. Last 2 comic transactions = $200 in the hole. If you insist on "trying" to be a comic dealer, this is what I'd suggest. Do not buy anymore comics for a good while. Sell some books ASAP. Take those proceeds and buy some dry cleaning supplies and a Jumbo Seal 210. Learn how to dry clean & press books, that is the best advice I can give to anyone who wants to make money selling books, who does not have a large bankroll to use as capital. Dry cleaning & pressing does require a metric ton of patience, but learning a trade like this will do you a lot of good. If you had known how to press books, you could have had pressed the SW 1 yourself (while saving $40+ on fast tracked pressing fees and cut out the 1 month pressing service lag time...slabbed the SW 1 and then you may have had a $300+ book in your hands, instead of a $75 raw copy. Instead..............you sold a raw bronze age key in order to buy, what is arguably a waste of money, a $75 ($100 shipped) CGC 9.8 run of the mill modern. Next journal title: "My Road to Success: To Make A Million Dollars Pressing" New sig line "To press and sell a million dollar comic book! To dry clean and sell a million dollar coin!"

Is anyone else seeing a change in Gabe's behavior after all his talk about getting himself under control? I'm not, and I'm content to sit back and for his future adventures without throwing any more advice down the black hole. Speaking of advice, CAK made a few good points and the followed it up with perhaps the most ludicrous advice offered in the thread so far. So to that.

At my last show I had an extra 4 feet of table top that I laid sets and GNs out on. I sold a lot more of those than I typically would, and a few had been dragged to several shows. It seems like a terrible and wasteful way to use the space, but you're likely to sell a lot to impulse buyers who can see stuff they wouldn't see in a box.

Your list is missing the Batman Adventures #14 bullet.

If it was a Wieringo SS I'd pay that.

Was the Darth Vader #3 only $11, or has that gone out the window already? I haven't been hanging on every post lately, so maybe that has changed...

Gabe, I'm not sure that getting your emotions in check is the main problem here. I like to think that I have my emotions in check, most of the time, but I would be pretty lousy at selling stocks, show ponies, or mineral rights because I don't know anything about them. How are you improving your market knowledge for comics and coins? If your main strategy is to keep coming to this thread and picking our brains that is not a good way to go about things.

Flight booked with miles. The irony is that these dates really screw up my usual trip to Chicago, but I will likely get to spend more time at the actual show (and do the Gibson's dinner) because I have to fly instead of drive.

Glad to hear you weren't impacted.

I don't think I've posted this one here yet. A presentable copy of this book has long been high on my want list, and I was happy to get this one from Black Cat Comics back in May. It was in one of the "old new" holders, so I got it reholdered and am now able to sleep at night. The new cases are very sturdy, but are difficult to get good scans of...

I always assumed so too. It had to have been literally printing when they decided to change the prices. My question is why they bothered to print a 12 cent version at all. If the overprint worked why not keep doing overprints, and if they wanted clean 12 centers why not print those? My guess is that they went back to print, but I'm just guessing. Having searched out all three 10/12 cent overprint books, this JIM is by far the most common. The Gunsmoke Western is uncommon, the Love Romances is a flat out . I'd love to see a 10 cent uncorrected version. It's be a grail piece for pre-hero collectors. But in all these years I've never heard of one. I guess all the printer employees wanted to keep their jobs...

(Mainly because I can't afford it this month, need new tires for the Bentley and the yacht needs an oil change.)

The 5th prints have come down quite a bit. I would say 1/3 to 1/2 off their highs. Raw 5th prints were going for 70-80 before the film, now they are 30-40. I thought I saw a 9.8 4th of #18 go for $100 on a recent ComicLink auction. 4ths have always been tougher than 5ths, at least I don't see them as often.

It's got four of the toughest Bullet issues, but I don't believe the issues inside the pack are DCUs. Too early. also my understanding...but only one way to find out! It lists Valor and Star Trek as books included, and to my knowledge neither title has DCUs. That is pretty good evidence that we are looking at non-variant contents. Robin #1 is a bullet, Robin #2 is also a bullet, and the DCUs start later. To me that is more evidence that these contents are too early to be DCUs.

In other words, you knew that this works but you decided to violate this principle basically every time you've bought comics to flip. So are you emotional and impulsive, which clouds your judgement, or have you just made a bunch of bad decisions with everything except maybe video games?

It's got four of the toughest Bullet issues, but I don't believe the issues inside the pack are DCUs. Too early.

I get that. Comicpalooza has been in May so it's not like they moved. They're just in a prime position to steal a lot of thunder.

I will be a dealer there again this year. Always a great 2-day show with a ton of comics there. Maybe one of these years I will get to attend.

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NFL SuperPro It's top of my list too, alongside Terror, Inc.

And his next question will be: "So what books do you think I should buy for the sizzle?"

The last 2-3 years have provided the OP with plenty of additional information. This thread has also supplied him with additional information. The only course change he appears to have made is moving into flipping games for losses.

I hate you for this one. Great pickup!