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Take: GIRL'S ROMANCES 81 3.5+ 9*

I certainly agree this pulp should not be in a top 10 list of most desirable pulps- I don’t think I actually said it should be. But that said, it certainly is a pulp in demand. As far as sales data is concerned, a copy comes up in auction on eBay a few times a year, most sellers don’t know it has any significance/demand more than the next or previous issue of the same title. That said, I have seen 2 copies (one I posted above and another I can’t recall what it went for but it was north of 300 and I remember it looked like a 2.0) sell in straight 7 day auctions on eBay in the past year or so- both sold for around $300. Back To The Future has a huge cult following, that is the primary market for this pulp. CGC still doesn’t slab pulps so it’s not as if we can pull up GPA for sales data.

“before you I hadn’t seen anyone discussing this book” Did you not click on the link I posted? That said, the bidders in this auction of a copy of this pulp, from a seller located in the UK, would also disagree with you. Even the listing description for this pulp on mycomicshop notates it was used in Back To The Future. Just because Booksry’s guide doesn’t apparently mention this as a pulp of note doesn’t mean much of anything. The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide is off on hundreds of historical comics, one could bring up comics Lichtenstein used as unattributed source material for his multi-million dollar paintings, to start with. Only 2 of them IIRC, are listed in Overstreet as Lichtenstein sources, and the source info given on both is also incomplete. https://www.ebay.com/itm/115717019662

There’s a thread on these 2008 survey variants on this board somewhere, here’s an article I found on this topic along with a picture of one of the centerfolds of one of these books. https://comicbookspeculation.com/2019/09/25/spotlight-on-2007-2008-marvel-reader-surveys-variants/ While the Nova 8 variant I have consigned with MCS isn’t a super high grade grade, 9.8 candidate, the inclusion of a glued in/stapled in envelope would certainly be a contributing factor to the 6.0 grade, methinks.

NOVA #8 MARVEL READER SURVEY VARIANT 1st Appearance Of Cosmo, The Guardians Of Knowhere , The Luminalshttps://www.mycomicshop.com/search?ItemID=58573369https://www.ebay.com/itm/364204053312Mycomicshop sales records indicate that since MCS started recording their sales of this book in 2014, ONLY FOUR copies of a Marvel Reader Insert Variant of this issue have been offered/sold on MyComicShop.com or thru their eBay mirrored listings. The fourth copy is this copy which I had held for consignment upon my purchase of tthis book. I can upload a screenshot from mycomicshop of the sales records showing this, if ya think I’m making this up 🤷🏻 Also, worthy of note is that CGC labels on slabbed copies of Nova #8 indicate it’s the first appearance of Cosmo, which most people are aware of….but I didn’t know it is also the 1st app of Knowhere & The Luminas, which CGC labels indicate.. If you are interested in buying this book at the BIN price or submitting an offer, the book will cost you considerably less if purchased directly thru the mycomicshop link, wether at the asking BIN or via a best offer, accounting for the 2.9% “buyers premium”, which is only the cost of processing credit card transactions. Buyers premiums are typically at least 10%.

Take it: Supersnipe Vol 3 No 7 Good $15

I’d say this pulp makes the list of most desirable pulps, largely due to its’ appearance in the first Back To The Future movie. https://backtothefuture.fandom.com/wiki/Fantastic_Story

Well, apparently I should have posted about sending this book to @MyComicShop auction 6 days ago, it looks like it's slipping through the cracks: BATTLEFRONT #15 CLASSIC RUSS HEATH STRANGULATION COVER: https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?q=battlefront+15&pubid=&PubRng= The ONLY OTHER COPY available I can find on the internet is a raw VG+ offered at a $500 Buy It Now on eBay, from a reputable CGC boardie/eBay dealer, with NO Best Offer option. Linked below is the listing for the raw VG+ copy: https://www.ebay.com/itm/334713754887

I have never dealt with that seller but that said, it sounds like both of you dropped the ball on that slab. The seller saw 💵 signs lit up while exchanging messages with you, I would be curious to see screenshots of the message exchanges as it sounds like you inadvertently talked the price up instead of down.

Not really my comic room, in terms of showcasing books. This is my comic office/pressing room, as of tonight, before I head to Baltimore to sub books I've put off pressing intil the last minute....hence the total disarray of boxes in the middle of the floor and stacks of raws on every flat surface in the room.....my basement is even worse.....about 8 times the size of this room hhhh 😆🤣😂

@Robot Man For the answer to your question, I'd point you to the link to the Lichtenstein source thread , which I included in my opening post in this thread.

The movie isn't released intil 2/17/23 , keys always due beat within the 30 days or so before a movie is released. One other option is to consign each book, to be offered separately, with a Instagram comic dealer / "waffler" with a HIGH follower count. IG raffles of slabbed SA keys typically get full GPA average + a 10% to 15% "bump". Raffler gets a small commission, around 10% or so. The raffler pays you via PP F & F or Zelle, which allows the funds to not be instantly reported to the gov't. Even dealers & auction house in Texas will send you a 1099 fir any funds sent to you in the amount of $500 or more. I'd look into IG rafflers now, if I had slabbed mega keys like those two with the movie approaching in a few months.

Please add me to the contest! Edit: Nevermind, I just saw the deadline for entries has passed, lol.

Nice! Just curious....were you aware that this book is a Lichtenstein swipe source book? I found out about that around a year ago, been looking since than.

@circumstances I had Google searched the title if the book (+ 1945) and only saw 1 copy previously sold. An eBay listing from Dave Reynolds from a few years ago. Just checked heritage and between 2006 thru 2019, 6 copies have been sold. 3 sold in individual auction. 1 copy mixed unto 3 separate auction lots. https://www.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=790+231&Nty=1&Ntt=adventure+is+my+career&Ntk=SI_Titles-Desc&ic10=OtherResults-ViewAll-071515 Couldn't find the comic connect auction you referenced in sold itens but than again. CC's search function is very finicky. Didn't know there is a 5.5 and an 8.0 in the census, but I'll take your word on that. That said, I would still think it's a relatively rare book....while I'm sure they're around, at less than the handful of recorded sales the two of us are aware of and the 2 slabbed copies being under 10 in total, that's fairly uncommon, imho. I've found that the 2 (or 3, can't recall offhand) Lichtenstein Young Love and Young Romance early 1960's swipe books are a dozen to find, but I'd contribute that largely to their odd numberings making searches harder. And prize books must have been lower printed than dc romances from the same approximate time period.

Just noticed I posted this in the wrong forum....hhhh. I have just copied and pasted this post to the appropriote forum on this board.. Can a CGC moderator please delete this thread? Thanks!

https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?ItemID=57508933 https://www.ebay.com/itm/314201245872 Here's a post of mine detailing the Lichtenstien swipe from this book for Mr. Bellamy with 2 links to images, which were originally posted by David Barlasou, 20 years ago...for those unfamilar with that name, Barsalou is an art historian who is widely considered to be the foremost expert on Lichtenstien swipes. https://boards.cgccomics.com/topic/499888-roy-lichtenstein-comic-list/page/5/#comment-12558529 I seem to have been one of the very few people who knew this book is a Lichtenstien swipe, prior to my addition of this book to the Lichtenstien swipe thread on this board a few days ago. This book seems to be possibly the rarest Lichtenstien swiped source book, I purchased this copy graded at 2.0 by MCS a couple weeks ago from my Mycomicshop saved search notifications and had it held for consignment with MCS. Upon pricing this book, I saw there have been NO OTHER COPIES of this book in any grade than this GD 2.0 copy, sold at Mycomicshop , per their sales history on this book. Considering the volume of comics that Mycomicshoop buys and sells, I think that is a pretty solid indicator of the relative scarcity of this book. After about a year of waiting, I did manage to luck out and get a hit from my eBay saved searches back in July, I snagged that copy via BIN/BO soon as I got the notification from eBay and it's in my PC. May have it slabbed at Baltimore this weekend but probably not as I doubt I'll find a third copy. and I collect Lichtenstien swipe books for my PC.....lightning doesn't strike three times, especially now that the cat is out of the bag and I won't be the only person I know looking to buy this book any longer.

https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?ItemID=57508933 https://www.ebay.com/itm/314201245872 Here's a post of mine detailing the Lichtenstien swipe from this book for Mr. Bellamy with 2 links to images, which were originally posted by David Barlasou, 20 years ago...for those unfamilar with that name, Barsalou is an art historian who is widely considered to be the foremost expert on Lichtenstien swipes. https://boards.cgccomics.com/topic/499888-roy-lichtenstein-comic-list/page/5/#comment-12558529 I seem to have been one of the very few people who knew this book is a Lichtenstien swipe, prior to my addition of this book to the Lichtenstien swipe thread on this board a few days ago. This book seems to be possibly the rarest Lichtenstien swiped source book, I purchased this copy graded at 2.0 by MCS a couple weeks ago from my Mycomicshop saved search notifications and had it held for consignment with MCS. Upon pricing this book, I saw there have been NO OTHER COPIES of this book in any grade than this GD 2.0 copy, sold at Mycomicshop , per their sales history on this book. Considering the volume of comics that Mycomicshoop buys and sells, I think that is a pretty solid indicator of the relative scarcity of this book. After about a year of waiting, I did manage to luck out and get a hit from my ebay saved searches back in July, I snagged that copy via BIN/BO soon as I got the notification from eBay and it's in my PC. May have it slabbed at Baltimore this weekend but probably not as I doubt I'll find a third copy. and I collect Lichtenstien swipe books for my PC.....lightning doesn't strike three times, especially now that the cat is out of the bag and I won't be the only person I know looking to buy this book any longer.

MCS has books of mine slated for consignment which I bought from them directly as far back as August, and included notes with my payments marking them as to be consigned/not shipped to me, sitting somewhere. They recently listed 2 books from 1 MCS buy from mid september, which I noted was to be held for consignment, and there's at least a dozen other books, bought before those 2 they posted, directly from MCS & held for consignment..... If books arent already scanned in, it seems like the waiting period is about 2 months. And with Mycomicshop setting up at Baltimore this weekend and accepting consignments there, one woud have to think books subbed to MCS at Baltimore, for the most part, won't be listed for a good 2 months, if not longer, on average. However, MCS did list 2 books which I bought directly and had held for consignment, within a week or so of purchase....however, theey each had FC scans in the original listings, so no scans had to be taken. TL;DR.....now is not the best time to consign w/mycomicshop, if you want your books available for buyers during the x-mas shopping season.

Spawn 1 is $200-$225 ballpark in GPA in 9.8 And good for $75 to $100,shipped in CGC 9.6. How are you getting the equivalent of full GPA on 9.6 for raw NM+ copies? Actually, if one factors in grading cost, you are making around 200% profit of what sellers of CGC 9.6's are selling at. Can you please post up your ebay ID so I can take a look at how you're doing this? I'm guessing buyers are paying up to $100 for copies you have as NM+, thinking they will pull a 9.8 on it after subbing it to CGC.

Anyone know if Garth Ennis will be staying for all 3 days? I've got a bunch of books for him for CGC SS subs, and would rather go to the show on Saturday or Sunday as that'd give me more time to press other additional books for submission for blue labels. But the last thing I want to do is get there Sunday morning and Ennis is long gone.

That happens with on-site grading cons, as they can only grade so many books before the show ends. Even than, I subbed books on a Sunday and they were accepted- just were taken back to FL for grading