Tempus Fugit

Seriously? Hot damn. I bought a collection five years ago where the original owner had speculated on Kirby 4th World stuff. There's got to be 50 New Gods 7s in the box. Time to get diggin' Apparently. Wow. Wow, I have had an F/VF one in my for sale rack at the antique mall with a $5 price tag on it for about a year. Retrieved it today. Thanks forum! Question: long term hold or flip it at the next show?

Good strategy Blob. I do really well with Mixing ages for $1 each. With new comics at $3-4 each, you will sell a ton of readers. You will also get picker people who maybe don't know much about comics that have never seen them that cheap. Personally I would keep them at $1, but you could try them at $2 and lower to $1 (or discount bulk) if sales are slow.

Never even thought of buying a Lego set before. That has now changed. This is about the coolest thing I have ever seen. I am buying 2. One to build and one to keep.

I made 1300 something and the hundreds of dollars are after I sell the rest of my comics which I'm being conservative about in how much I make on it. I would suggest you look towards buying collections rather than a per book situation. Collections can include a wide range of books. From bulk loads of junk, runs, mild keys, $3-15 books and with luck there is always cream of the crop. Having outlets for your junk stuff is important. Sales threads, ebay and facebook to move the mid range and hopefully you got a presser to work with and a way to get better books graded. There is certainly more work involved but more profit if you buy it right and move it effectively. +1 Chris The "bread and butter" of this hobby/business (at least for me) has been buying 3-10 long box collections for a few hundred bucks and: 1) Putting a few nice keys into my collection/long term hold box 2) Selling remaining keys/semi-keys here and at shows 3) Dispersing the rest into my $1/$2/$3 show/antique mall boxes. 4) When the dollar boxes are burned out of decent books, sell them for $25 each. Generally you can pay off the buy pretty quick with step 2, step 3 gets you longer term steady money. You can always sell a few step 1 books when you need to. There is really no way to lose on this formula. Your per book price is well under $1. It's not as glamorous (or risky) as trying to flip a big (especially raw) book, but has worked for me for 40 years or so. I had been doing this for 35+ years before I dared to spend over $50 for a single book.

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I am with Oak. 5.0 Sweet book!

Dimwitted LCS owners are a legit comic collection buyers greatest ally.

Bought this a while back on these very boards. Forgot to post it.

I have one of these at my antique mall setup. I could not even begin to put value on it. I sell 100+ $3 books off it every month. I will say that the books do get trashed on it. People like to bend them. That's why we had to get to the drug store the day they came out when I was a kid. After 2 days they all had a nasty cbc at the upper staple. Square bounds really take a beating.

CONGRATS!! it goes past issue 64... I ran out of room on the floor, not to worry, I have them all.

MIssion accomplished! 40 year quest to fill out the Kirby FF run is complete with the receipt of an LG, but presentable #5 from jsilverjanet.

Not a big fan of sigs on cover, but the back cover on this one would make a great place for a huge Stan sig!

Don't leave us hanging like that. Details ---- Pics? We have all been there btw.

I purchased a Hulk #2 from Nick that I spotted at a local show and met up later to do the deal. I have kept in touch with him ever since. He will be an asset to the boards and you can have confidence in dealing with him.

I found Dan easy to work with and very communicative on the purchase of a couple of big Marvel keys. Bomb-proof packaging was the icing on the cake. TF

Just unpacked this one - grail for me

I always wondered why AF 15 slabs point out first app. uncle Ben and Aunt May when this book is obviously their first app. I am in the market for an ST 97, had to sell mine during a "going out of fun" sale a couple years back.

Likely a former SS that somebody cracked out? Either way it would never be a blue label now so it's pretty obvious why it's being sold raw. -J. Except it's not for sale. It's for display. And I asked. No. It's never been graded by CGC or anyone else. fairly obvious the right top edge and parts of the right edge have resto ...nice looking none the less I saw this one in the flesh last Friday. I took one glance and assumed it was repro cover or restored. I could be wrong of course. An untouched 1.8 in a yellow polybag, now that would have stopped me in my tracks...

Here is mine setup at the local antique mall. Was very pleased to get it for $40 at a toy show.

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VCC pickup last weekend, just need 5 and Ann 2 for the 1-100 run. If anyone is interested in my undercopy (coverless with a scan/print of this cover) PM me

Wow, He turned a VG/VG- book into a "Super High Grade" book. What's the problem? Disgusting.

Hot book and a nice copy. I think it's a foregone conclusion people believe it's only a matter of time before we get Warlock in the Infinity Gauntlet movie arc. No surprise with 67. The white hot book that doesn't get a lot of publicity. Agree this will be absolute fire when they finally make the announcement. Get them now or forever regret. Wow, lot o' money for a raw 67

FF1 is the new Hulk 1. We can only hope. Historically, this was the most valuable Marvel book. I would really like to see it regain that position, although it is probably unlikely that it will ever pass up AF15.

David made a fair offer, which I accepted, and paid immediately. Yet another great forum member!