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Bought a Uncanny X-Men 266 CGC 9.8 White Pages from Jim. He was easy to work with, and had great communication. Shipping was very fast , and the packaging was secure. I would describe Jim's service as friendly, and professional. ML.

Ordered three copies this morning, I'll keep you posted. ML. Hastings made good on my order. Books shipped (loose) in a box arrived unscathed. ML.

Ordered three copies this morning, I'll keep you posted. ML.

Thanks!

Really ? http://www.ebay.com/itm/THE-NEW-TEEN-TITANS-2-NM-comic-The-H-I-V-E-Make-a-Duplicate-of-the-Terminator/131248664962?_trksid=p2046732.c100040.m2060&_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140107095009%26meid%3D8506419254454237090%26pid%3D100040%26prg%3D20140107095009%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D131248664962

It's available online at Midtown, 5 copy limit.

Rat Queens #1A $15.30 at Midtown Comics online.

Did you see the quarteback juke for "the head" as it winged past ? Only a million times.

Just completed a transaction with Fastballspecial. Shipping was fast, books were well packed, and accurately graded. Fastballspecial was courteous and professional through out the transaction. ML.

"I have to return some videotapes"

What's up Awax. It's Friday. All day. Did somebody say FRIDAY ? Gotta get down on FRIDAY This place is cool.

Here http://www.loc.gov/search/?q=Preservation+Directorate+Specification+Number+300-300+%E2%80%93+09

On the Marvel side, for sure. DC was running those ads in the 70s showing all the titles (including JLA) for Superman and Batman. I'm not quite following the five titles for Spider-Man math. Counting Marvel Tales and Spidey Super Stories is kind of weak. Remember, Web of Spider-Man is the replacement for MTU, in the same way that Batman and the Outsiders was the replacement for Brave and the Bold. I'm wondering if Wolverine's popularity while not having his own book is the exception that proves the rule. Read something interesting in The Secret History of Marvel Comics over the weekend. In 1979 the direct market was 6% of Marvel's unit sales. Completely tiny, but of course showing hyper growth vs declining newsstand sales. The world was very different by 1983. I also find it interesting that two of the four (?) books that Marvel used to debut its trade paperback line were the prime Wolverine material, the miniseries and the Dark Phoenix Saga. For me, retailing comics in a little store-within-a-store inside my parents' store starting in Fall, 1983 just as I started high school, Wolverine was a big deal and it was because of the miniseries, which was all we could get. You could buy them from a Joe Koch ad in CBG at 75 cents and retail price was basically $1.50. All I had to do was loan out a copy of this and it was "instant Wolverine fan." I can understand that X-Men 132/133 created a lot of new fans, but one panel in 132 and a few pages in 133 is pretty thin gruel compared to the majesty of the miniseries. I would almost never get any Byrne issues to sell but thanks to all the speculation copies around (people were even buying 5-10 copies off the newsstand), I could get issues usually starting around 148 and up pretty easily. I'd also buy extras of each month's issue from the distributor, but not in numbers like I would for Web #1 or Batman #404 or Miracleman #1. This is anecdotal, but 25% of my convention sales in 1985-1987 were from selling X-Men (almost entirely made up of issues 144-213 plus various minis). Those are my actual figures, not a guess. Btw, I remember being at a show in Ypsilanti, MI (a pretty big show), fall 1985, and thinking to myself, why the hell did I buy one of each X-Men button when I should've just bought all Wolverine? The Wolverine one sold right away and the rest just sat for months, Another bit of anecdotally-tinged speculation here, but I would argue that at the time, I and most of the people I know really liked X-Men 144-164. Yeah, I think we thought that Smith was noticeably better and loved 165-175, but we had a lot more love for the Cockrum second run than people will admit to today. I personally loved issue 150 and reread it multiple times, loved Hellfire Club II, loved Rogue, especially loved 159 and 160, loved Annuals 5 and 6. My speculation is that as we have time to reread books and perhaps sentimentalize our favorites, we give short change to the Cockrum issues. I'd also suggest that the fact that these are not money books (tons easier to come by thanks to each year or so of the booming direct market having a lot more books tucked away than the year before) we on this collector's board subconsciously put down issues that aren't worth "dealing in." I know I do. Btw, the only massive speculation of Byrne issues I ever heard about was Beerbohm's claim that he was picking up 10,000 copies of each (starting in the late 120s I think) and flipping a lot of them to Rozanski months later for prime golden age. (Not counting issues 143, which seems to be everywhere... I have a lifetime supply of them.) Ypsilanti, MI Ann Arbor's toilet.

having spent almost a month in england last summer, my brit radar goes off with "other the odds" as being some kind of English expression I know what you are saying, but some of the idioms just make me laugh. "Bits and bobs" for instance threw me the first time I heard it used, with a strong accent, said quite quickly. "F**k all" is my favorite. e.g." I know f**k all about flipping comic books."

Or Shelley Winters swimming underwater.

Incredible results. Congrats.

I agree.

The 8.5 is a beauty, defect and all.

That's insane... -slym I 2nd that motion of insanity.... http://www.ebay.com/itm/WARRIOR-1-COMIC-BOOK-NEAR-MINT-ULTIMATE-WARRIOR-WWF-WWE-HOT-/201070717551?pt=US_Comic_Books&hash=item2ed0bfaa6f

Nice!

I'm pumped

Beaters are comics too.