mr_highgrade

On 8/16/2022 at 11:38 AM, fantastic_four said:

Agreed.  I rarely ever saw high-grade copies for sale during my prime FF collecting years between 2000 and 2011.  Finding a 9.2 was rare, and I don't recall if I ever saw one above that grade aside from maybe when Doug Schmell sold his collection.

Were you able to complete your HG run? 

On 8/16/2022 at 6:51 AM, Rick2you2 said:

To be honest, you should not have made an offer like that. It virtually guaranteed a problem, unless he was a saint. The guy just needed beer money. You probably should have said that you would pay $200 for whatever he could do then and there. Since no one else was around, he was under no pressure by them. If he couldn’t do it, walk away.

 He told me that he didn't want to do a rush job, that's why he offered to take it home to do it. Like I said, this was my first and last time that I ever requested a sketch. 

Back around 2009 I was shooting the breeze with a couple of boardies at the NY Comic Con. It was Friday night towards the end of the show, when I noticed that Andy Kubert was all by himself at his booth. I decided to approach him and make small talk with him regarding his work on X-men. I noticed that he was selling some sketches of mostly Marvel Super Heroes for $500 bucks. I then asked him how much for a sketch of Wolverine on The Marvel Projects sketch blank. He told he would do it for $500 bucks, but, that he would have to do it at home because he had already committed to do too many sketches for that weekend. I told that I only had $200 bucks and that was all I was really willing to pay for a sketch. He said he would do it for $200 bucks since it was Friday night and he needed beer money. I gladly paid him and gave him my home address and my business card. He told me he would have done in a couple of weeks and then ship it to my house.

BTW, this was my first and only time I ever requested a sketch from a comic book artist in my 44 years of collecting comics. 

Does anyone care to guess how this ended? 

Anything Silver heating up? 

On 8/2/2022 at 4:14 PM, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

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On these lists the Orange/ Blue are ones I have . The Yellow are ones that are already on there way to me. 

Sweet list, are these mostly raws or are there a few graded copies?

On 8/1/2022 at 8:09 PM, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

Thank you. I appreciate it. I have several sets I have been trying to focus on as the other ones I have been looking for just are not coming up so picked something that would be a little easier and that I knew there would be more of them to find. Still need to update these from the last week or so, but here are just a couple of those lists. ( the yellow are the only ones I have so far.  I also need to update the Superman list to pick back up after the Adventures numbering at 649  and mark off the Maxx and Sandman issues I already have.

The list for Wolverine is also as long as it has one for both Direct and Newsstand.  

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Where's the Wolvie list? 

On 7/22/2022 at 12:43 AM, George Brent said:

I'd say NM- to NM/VF.  Plenty of NM's,  a good amount of VF+'s, a few F's here and there, but, overall, not bad at all   --must have been a store not too heavily frequented.   

Not too shabby. 

On 7/21/2022 at 9:55 PM, George Brent said:

Major rearranging time for my collection and a good chance for pics of newsstands:    back in 2012-2013 I was lucky to have access to unsold issues from a news-stand at 2x their cost (so, 50c per issue for me) and I was getting every copy they wouldn't sell  --I wish Marvel hadn't stopped their newsstands in Dec of 2013, I would have loaded up on everything. 

What's the the average grade on those bad boys? 

On 7/17/2022 at 9:24 PM, Beastfeast said:

The new honey hole delivered some decent stuff.

But then! 

 

 

Grades? 

Saw it last night with the kids, wasn't really expecting much based on the reviews here on the boards, and...I wasn't let down. 

I wonder if Strange Tales #138 is gonna start to heat up after this weekend? 

On 7/6/2022 at 9:24 PM, MattrixAlien said:

The Bronze age of comics is 1970 – 1985, so this Uncanny X-men 173 published in 1983 is on topic. I was thinking copper before I looked at the year.

Picked this up while on holidays. Very cool Wolverine X-men cover. Paul Smith is a really underrated Bronze age X-men artist. I read somewhere this is the first cover to feature Wolverine in his iconic prowler pose. It's a stance Art Adams later made famous in a lot of his work and others have copied.

This is definitely Copper.

Here's a note that she signed to an apparent "friend" that she met at rehab in the UK.

I was just reading my Marvel Special Edition Treasury "Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back" when I saw this!  

On 6/23/2022 at 3:57 PM, MattTheDuck said:

Here are two different copies of FF #247.  One has what I think of as the more "traditional" price/issue number and one has this information in an "M."  I assume the "M means something, but don't know what.  As none of my copies of #246 have this, it must denote some change, but what?

 

This is the direct edition and the "M" stands for Marvel.

CGC never changed the label on Star Wars #42 (first fett in comics) so, I highly doubt that they would change the label on Spidey #410. 

I was born in Manhattan 59 years ago and I've never seen it this bad. Ever. Even during the 70's. Unfortunately for me, my job dictates that I sometimes have to go to the worst neighborhoods in the five boroughs. 

On 6/9/2022 at 8:23 PM, bronze_rules said:

The older guy chasing the brat is quit true to reality, if you've ever dealt with brats in public. Having his level of patience is certainly trying. 

The main part I had contention with was Vader letting Obi get away in the fire. Surely, he could have extinguished it, as he did a few moments ago. Unless, perhaps, he didn't want him dead for whatever reason.

I think that Vader is playing with Obi, like a cat plays with a mouse. I also think that when Obi and Qui-Gon finally hook up, his old master will straighten him out. 

I have to admit this show is a head scratcher, and this is coming from a die hard Star Wars fan. I just hope the last two remaining episodes make up for a lackluster show so far. 

Depending on the book, (never had any Spawns) I usually start at $499.00. Although, I've had some 9.8 newsies sell for as much as 1K.

I am in! 

A DD #168 CGC 9.8 newsie just sold on C-link for $13,916. 

closed

Shipping is $20.00 via Priority mail anywhere in the USA. Insurance is included. International boardies pay exact shipping. PayPal, Venmo & Zelle accepted. First snaps it up. No probies please.  No returns, unless books arrives damaged.

The Zombies #3 used to be a CGC 9.6 from 2007 that I cracked open for a Hugh Jackman signature that never materialized.

Take both books for $500.00.