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You asked for it..... Here is some garbage porn for you. Lucky for me it's trash day and I won't have to look at these boxes again.

Found these in a comic bag by themselves. Are they anything of value???? I'm guessing no.

Just pulled these two out and transferred them to clean new bags. They seem to be fine. I don't detect cat pee smell.

There were 11 total boxes. Probably 5 looked like that box. A couple looked worse. And luckily 4 boxes were unaffected (the cats couldn't reach them?)

Phase 1) Get rid of ALL the trashed out long boxes and get all of the comics into new clean fresh boxes. I have completed Phase 1. WooHoo Phase 2) Remove comics from bags and throw away EVERY old bag & board. I have made it through 3 of the 11 boxes but need to take a break (This is tiring work) So far..... as disgusting as the boxes and comic bags are, there has not been any mold or damage to the interior comics. Note to self: Wash hands frequently and don't touch my face

I call all comic bags mylars (I guess that's a mistake). These were comic bags

Most of my Facebook friends know I am a big comic book guy. This lady was a friend of a friend and contacted me. I knew she was a hoarder & cat lady so I asked her in advance to bring the boxes out to the front yard, which was what she wanted to do anyway cuz she was embarrassed about the inside of her house (I can only imagine). When I showed up and saw the condition of the boxes...... ugh.

It's a 1st print.

I wish. There's no Silver at all. There's a few bronze. 90% is garbage I'm sure, but...... just found a nice Swampthing 37. Seriously...... it's shutting my nose down, keeping my gag reflex in check, and just getting the comics out of these disgusting mylars and moving them into a pristine mylar with a new board. All the while I go to my happy place in my brain.

I'm sure other board members have lots of war stories to tell about collections they've bought, but.... wow I just went to see (and ended up buying) such a disgusting presenting collection. Ugh!!! 11 long boxes. It's sitting in the back of my (covered) pick up right now. I don't even want to bring it into my garage (my wife will divorce me if she sees it). The woman who had them was a hoarder, a cat person, a bird person..... she wouldn't let me into her house (cuz she was embarassed). When I arrived she had 4 of the long boxes in her front yard and she was trying to clean the cat vomit and bird poop off of them. She later told me that her cats have eaten on top of the boxes for years. Ugh!!!! Yes, I know... you want to run away right now. But what if there's a major key issue????? From talking to her I knew it was a Copper/Modern collection which is a time period I don't know a lot about (except that there's a ton of drek in the 90s) But..... there's always a chance of Some Batman Adventures, or New Mutants 98, or Walking Dead so I stopped breathing thru my nose and plunged in. The first box I grabbed had early Teen Titans including #2. My big test was to open the disgusting mylar and see if the comic inside was actually nice. Ugh! To my delight it was actually fairly high grade. I found many more keys from the era. Probably the biggest comic I found was The Crow 1 in pretty nice shape. I also found Xmen 266 in nice shape. There's a bunch of Turtles comics which I don't know a lot about (and didn't feel like figuring out at the time because of how disgusting everything was) I made a fairly low ball offer because of how disgusting everything was.... she took it.... and now.... my goal is to remove every comic and dispose of the awfulness of the bags boards and boxes as soon as possible. But... with 11 long boxes, that's a lot of work!!!! Here's a pic of the Crow 1 comic. Front cover presents like a 9.0, but there's some small flaws on the back cover. By itself it will probably pay for the entire collection. 2nd pic is of one some of the boxes I was dealing with. As bad as I've ever seen! I think her cats used the boxes as a scratching post. Luckily EVERY comic I checked out was good in the mylar, but the mylars are disgusting too. It's really bad. Have any of you had to deal with a disgusting "presenting" collection like this? I will say this.... It sure makes negotiating easy.

And these are 1st prints too. They all look pretty good. The #1 probably will pay for the entire collection I bought.

I guess it's a first. That's a good thing right?

I just bought a collection and it has a Crow 1. Where does it say which printing it is?

So with buyers premium does that mean this sold for $67,850? If so, that quite a bit more than the $33,000 it sold for in December.

1.5 sounds good to me. I just want to avoid a 1.0

How low would you grade this one? It presents around 4.0 - 4.5 from the front. Cover and CF are snug at the staples. Interior pages are excellent. But..... it has a chunk out of the back cover.

House of Mystery 114 & Blackhawk 164 have the exact same outer back cover and the same inner back cover except for the "halftone" grey on the left side of the page. I DID find a matching back cover though......... Action comics 280 has the EXACT same back. cover inside and out.

No trim. Since it's detached, the spine isn't pressed up tight against the interior spine.

Hammer price $35,000. New record for a 3.0 Consider.... on November 1st, just 5 months ago, this grade sold for $14,700.

While I respect your opinion, I've owned enough of these thru the years that I don't detect any of that. But... what you've said makes me want, even more to send it to CCS for an opinion. If it turns out what you've said is true.... you get the champions trophy.

There's no resto, but you're probably right. I have a feeling I'll go this route.

Cream to OW PQ & pretty severe MC..... I would have been shocked if that had gone thru.

Where did that image come from?

Low grade but it presents well. 2" Spine split at top. Small piece missing at lower staple on back cover. Cover is detached. The CF looks to have been married (extra staple holes... drat, but it's otherwise a surprisingly good page match with paper color and exact size). Question: Would you leave it alone or have it conserved, to at least reattach the cover? The word "Appreciate" has been written twice in the "M". They were trying spell the word, and ended up crossing out the correct spelling . But to whoever wrote the word there....... Yes, AF15 has "appreciated".... IN VALUE