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This was actually my first ever "attic find" as they were literally found in the attic of a gentleman who passed away and they were clearing out the house for sale.
He was born in 1940 and the majority are 1946-1952, mostly 1946-1948.  I was actually impressed with the amount of key books given the overall collection type.
Lots of old magazines too and lots of condition issues, but unbelieveably, no water or moisture issues.  I simply can' t believe that - stains, foxing, rusty staples are not an issue.
Silver fish on the otherhand - well.... some got hit worse than others.  And general storage wear on 75 year old books. 
So 6 pretty nice keys, a couple dozen good books - I have another stack of nice cartoon or fiction house type books - no real keys. Then 150 cartoon, western and coverless books. 
Super stoked as I've never owned a number of these.  And I've never bought a Timely in the wild, let alone a classic Schomberg or Nedor or Blue Beetle 54!
 
 

These collections are still out there.
 

This was actually my first ever "attic find" as they were literally found in the attic of a gentleman who passed away and they were clearing out the house for sale.
He was born in 1940 and the majority are 1946-1952, mostly 1946-1948.  I was actually impressed with the amount of key books given the overall collection type.
Lots of old magazines too and lots of condition issues, but unbelieveably, no water or moisture issues.  I simply can' t believe that - stains, foxing, rusty staples are not an issue.
Silver fish on the otherhand - well.... some got hit worse than others.  And general storage wear on 75 year old books. 
So 6 pretty nice keys, a couple dozen good books - I have another stack of nice cartoon or fiction house type books - no real keys. Then 150 cartoon, western and coverless books. 
Super stoked as I've never owned a number of these.  And I've never bought a Timely in the wild, let alone a classic Schomberg or Nedor or Blue Beetle 54!
 
 

These collections are still out there.
 

These collections are still out there.
 

This was actually my first ever "attic find" as they were literally found in the attic of a gentleman who passed away and they were clearing out the house for sale.
He was born in 1940 and the majority are 1946-1952, mostly 1946-1948.  I was actually impressed with the amount of key books given the overall collection type.
Lots of old magazines too and lots of condition issues, but unbelieveably, no water or moisture issues.  I simply can' t believe that - stains, foxing, rusty staples are not an issue.
Silver fish on the otherhand - well.... some got hit worse than others.  And general storage wear on 75 year old books. 
So 6 pretty nice keys, a couple dozen good books - I have another stack of nice cartoon or fiction house type books - no real keys. Then 150 cartoon, western and coverless books. 
Super stoked as I've never owned a number of these.  And I've never bought a Timely in the wild, let alone a classic Schomberg or Nedor or Blue Beetle 54!
 
 

These collections are still out there.
 

This was actually my first ever "attic find" as they were literally found in the attic of a gentleman who passed away and they were clearing out the house for sale.
He was born in 1940 and the majority are 1946-1952, mostly 1946-1948.  I was actually impressed with the amount of key books given the overall collection type.
Lots of old magazines too and lots of condition issues, but unbelieveably, no water or moisture issues.  I simply can' t believe that - stains, foxing, rusty staples are not an issue.
Silver fish on the otherhand - well.... some got hit worse than others.  And general storage wear on 75 year old books. 
So 6 pretty nice keys, a couple dozen good books - I have another stack of nice cartoon or fiction house type books - no real keys. Then 150 cartoon, western and coverless books. 
Super stoked as I've never owned a number of these.  And I've never bought a Timely in the wild, let alone a classic Schomberg or Nedor or Blue Beetle 54!
 
 

These collections are still out there.
 

These collections are still out there.
 

These collections are still out there.
 

My last order I got 100 12x9x3 boxes and 25 12x9x6 boxes as well as 200 flats for $50.  So probably 5 cents each.
Look up a local corrugated company and buy from them, so much easier - you'll never look back. 

The better keys. 

I definitely had him keep my number, his ASM collection was 2 on up and while I didn't see it, I imagine the 15-25 cent on up books were stunning.

Prepping - these are all 20 centers.

The better keys. 

The better keys. 

Bought a wonderful original owner collection. He bought Marvel only starting in 1972 and then stayed with Spider-Man until present day. 
 
he kept all the Amazings but sold me all else, about 1000 Spider-Man’s of Web, PPSS, Reprints etc. 
But then there was a full long box of super nice books nearly all 1972. A great year for keys. 
 
fun to bag and board. 
 

Prepping - these are all 20 centers.

The better keys. 

The better keys. 

The better keys. 

I finally got off my butt and developed a real website - paying for ads and all the rest.  
Check it out and feel free to bruise my sensitive ego with constructive criticism.  
xcollectibles.com
Here's my thoughts and experiences with this project. 
I basically know nothing about HTML or other web design language.  I know you can DIY these days but I simply don't have the time or patience to futz around with constructing and maintaining a website.  Just like I don't have time or inclination to do comic shows on weekends.  If you have the skills all the better.  So I budgeted about $5k for design, word ad management and google ad costs for 3 months.  Ongoing will be about $500 a month, I can increase or decrease depending on how much to budget for Google Ads. 
I did attempt to create and run a marketplace website (most similar to discogs but without the community)  but could not put the time into it to make it happen.  But I did keep the website and the hosting alive - I think that was $100 for 5 years or something.  And as that renewal came up, it triggered me to get going on this. 
I did not go through GoDaddy or any other large hosting as I wanted it completely outsourced and to have a person I could talk to as they did it.  If interested send me a PM and I can give you her contact info.  
No SEO or anything as it will be a long way away from organic searches.  Again, I don't really want to post a blog or get into that, at least for now.  Simply pay for Google Ads.  
So far I have two collections that I bought.  About 100 low grade Late 60s early 70s which did have an Irom Man 55 and Thor 168 169.and a few non key Spiderman.  
Then I did get a 35 Long box collection of Late 1970s to 1990s that I'm posting now.  It's kind of a grind but, some success selling and haven't hit ebay yet.  Nor have I put up any of the key books and they are pretty much all there.  NM 87 98, Harbinger 1, Crow 1-4, Predator 1, X-men 266, to name a few.  No Amazing Spiderman keys like 361 or 300.  OO just wasn't a Spiderman fan, he kind of outright didn't like him, thought he was whiny - which is sort of true.  
Not counting the work involved (which is a lot) that should pay for the 3 months.  It's not a slam dunk but fun anyway.  I'm holding out for the nice early 60s colleciton.  

I finally got off my butt and developed a real website - paying for ads and all the rest.  
Check it out and feel free to bruise my sensitive ego with constructive criticism.  
xcollectibles.com
Here's my thoughts and experiences with this project. 
I basically know nothing about HTML or other web design language.  I know you can DIY these days but I simply don't have the time or patience to futz around with constructing and maintaining a website.  Just like I don't have time or inclination to do comic shows on weekends.  If you have the skills all the better.  So I budgeted about $5k for design, word ad management and google ad costs for 3 months.  Ongoing will be about $500 a month, I can increase or decrease depending on how much to budget for Google Ads. 
I did attempt to create and run a marketplace website (most similar to discogs but without the community)  but could not put the time into it to make it happen.  But I did keep the website and the hosting alive - I think that was $100 for 5 years or something.  And as that renewal came up, it triggered me to get going on this. 
I did not go through GoDaddy or any other large hosting as I wanted it completely outsourced and to have a person I could talk to as they did it.  If interested send me a PM and I can give you her contact info.  
No SEO or anything as it will be a long way away from organic searches.  Again, I don't really want to post a blog or get into that, at least for now.  Simply pay for Google Ads.  
So far I have two collections that I bought.  About 100 low grade Late 60s early 70s which did have an Irom Man 55 and Thor 168 169.and a few non key Spiderman.  
Then I did get a 35 Long box collection of Late 1970s to 1990s that I'm posting now.  It's kind of a grind but, some success selling and haven't hit ebay yet.  Nor have I put up any of the key books and they are pretty much all there.  NM 87 98, Harbinger 1, Crow 1-4, Predator 1, X-men 266, to name a few.  No Amazing Spiderman keys like 361 or 300.  OO just wasn't a Spiderman fan, he kind of outright didn't like him, thought he was whiny - which is sort of true.  
Not counting the work involved (which is a lot) that should pay for the 3 months.  It's not a slam dunk but fun anyway.  I'm holding out for the nice early 60s colleciton.