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Take @ 10% off.

RIP comic book Namor the Sub-Mariner 1939-2022. It was a great run.

No joke.

Don't slab 'em. You can't see the glorious Pepe Gonzalez artwork inside if you do.

That sea of red is a snapshot of speculators leaving the hobby. And just as fast as they cashed out/took losses, they will scurry back when the Fantastic Four trailer drops toward the end of next year.

Take. To the stack-o-comics!

Take vintage FF goodness.

Take

Take

😍 Take

Take. Thanks Mike.

This kid loved Fawcetts.

Same thing happened to me on an Okajima (non-camp) that I sent in with a dealer's certificate of provenance plus the distinctive pencil-marked code on the fc plus me clearly marking it on the submission form. Came back blue label. I had to go through the effort of packing up and sending the book back to CGC. They corrected it but no apology or explanation.

It is astonishing how quickly, during the Pandemic, Instagram live BIN sales flouished. Some IG sellers are knowledgeable, reputable sellers where you can buy with confidence on the advertised grade (Superworld and Silver Age Comics come to mind), but many others don't know how to grade or intentionally grade vaguely ("this is a nice mid-grade book, somewhere, I'd say, in the 5.5 to 7.0 range") -- not that it matters because buyers continue to throw money on the book (particularly $50 to $350 books) without a showing, ever, of the back cover or any look at the interior.

My only Okajima made it to the same newsstand (compare the size and font on our date stamps -- same) about a month before yours. No dust shadow, but a little bit of tanning on the bc. Interior PQ is still OW/W, as is yours.

Is it fair to say taht the "Sacramento Okajimas" are those from the late 1940s that bear a relatively small date-stamp on the back covers? And thank you!

Looks like another Fast and Furious film. Unimpressed.

RIP Ken Kelly.

Nice comic! GLWTS.

I love not paying state income tax and enjoy living in a less regulated state, but my favorite place in the US is So Cal hands down. My youngest daughter wants to go to UCLA.

Wow, that's awesome. Welcome aboard!

I took my kids to Pink's Hot Dogs in LA during Spring Break and I just noticed that Golden Apple Comics is around the corner on Melrose. But next time i will know and visit. Comic book collecting is too damn expensive in 2022 pretty much for anyone that doesn't earn their own income independently. I think the 21 and under crowd is few and far between, although you do see them at shows (typically with mom or dad to act as a funding source). But at shows i'm seeing a fair number of 20-somethings buying comics, mostly Copper Age to Modern. More important, and for the future of the hobby, on Instagram I'm seeing a lot of 20-somethings sucessfully dealing. As an example, Hiram Duarte (a Miami local) is in his late 20s, and on IG (and through a lot of hard work), Hiram has developed quite a name for himself since the Pandemic by regularly providing fresh material -- he specializes in Golden Age and Silver Age books -- to his sizeable-in-number IG followers on weekly live shows.

Take. I've been hunting for this one for a while in grade.

Raboy. "The eyes, Chico. They never lie."