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I know, but these are impossible to price and the guide is useless. The only answer is to CGC it and put it up on ebay. Alos, I know the feeling of just wishing you could not have to worry about getting outbid on the bay even if you are willing to pay FMV. Plus I don't want to ask $200 for a $20 book, nor do I want to sell a $200 book for $20. Add to that, the minute anything sells, I have instant sellers remorse..... Ed

Black cover 50 in pretty good shape.

And a 30 cent variant. I'm really not sure which of these are rare and which aren't but I kind of like them and they represent Baltimore well, especially with so many of them. Plus they show the later 70's conditions well without being an average uninteresting book.

Iron Man 7

Definitely no Sgt Fury's. I doubt there are Weird Wonder tales or T of Darness but I could have missed those runs as I went through the boxes pretty quick and took out keys to scan more than anything else.

For now those two are in one of the bottom boxes. But here's one I missed on the initial run through. Highest graded copy is a 9.0, if not for the 1/4 inch tear on the back cover it could have had a shot.

Howard the Duck 30 center.

By alphabetical order Adams hasn't come up yet, plus he was more DC than Marvel. I had a few Blue Ribbon Digest up for sale that had his work, but since you asked twice (and I have it photbucketed) here's a sweet Giant. Besides Avengers, X-men and Spotlight 2 coming up, I can't remember what else has he done for Marvel.

30 centers for Hulk

Hulk 106 and 116

Ghost Rider 2: late Silver but very neat in high grade.

Two 30 cent variants on GR

A very nice Ghost Rider 1.

GI Joe #1 multiple issues

Frankenstein 1 and 18. 18 cover pencils shared by Wrightson.

Fintstones 1

Before going to the comics, here are the Mead book covers I've never seen before. The FOOM, Marvelmania type items from the 60's and 70's are always awesome and seeing these as part of the collection instead of "only" comics makes it pretty cool. I'm not sure Powerman belongs in baby blue though.

Thats an old school phone, not even cordless. Nostalgia takes all forms.

Gary, Actually I thought the right edge of the Spidey may be trimmed but the top looked normal to me with a hair of overhang. What gave me pause was that the top is a different slightly different length than the bottom, (production issue I hope?). And there were no Marvel chips. It is at CGC so we'll see. Spotty X-men, missing the reprints and GS1, and for a collector who was an Adams fan he didn't look for perfection on the X-men run. I think the 94+ issues were actually read, so these may be VFNM while Omega and Machine Man are NM/MT. In a way thats pretty cool. Thanks for the kind words Gary. Ed

Yes there were. In no particular order FOOM, Marvelmania 1966 set of Donruss cards high grade 2 sticker strips of head shots set of Marx figures - burnt orange and silver. 1970's Calendars 1970s pinbacks 1970s Hulk candy box 2 mini comics 1979 felt iron ons (baseball card size) 2 Mead Folders - Hulk and Cap i think. 3 sets of Hulk ASM and Cap America MEAD book protectors (I'd never seen these before) One or two Foom Magazines and other Fanzine type Mags Set of Flicker ring images but no ring Bronze Spidey medallion Hollogram medallion () There are few more items I can't remember Some Treasury's but not ultra high grade. Firesides are limited but there's an Origins of and one or two others. There were also the Original 70's Marvel Indexes. I think X-men was number 9 - I had never seen those before.

It takes plenty of advertising and a willingness to drive an hour to look at "a 1000 really old comics" only to find 5 boxes or Archies and Tarzans from the late 70's with water damage or loose covers etc. For me, I usually travel since I don't have a store where folks come to you. The idea that there is an old man who doesn't know what they're worth and has 200 Timely's has never happened to me. Always, the novice seller focuses on the NM price and won't sell except for full price. The best collections I've bought were from collectors who collected in the late 70's and will take half value as long as you take everything. Then, the boxes take over the room in a hurry. Not a bad complaint I admit though my back will never be the same. This picture looks like Neat Stuff dropped off a load.

Perfect

But thats what makes the search so fun

Enough with words. More scans.