whomerjay

On 7/7/2023 at 7:42 PM, Comical Situations said:

thank you sir.

Batman #143 4.5 everything tight $55 SOLD jinhopkins82

Batman #145 CGC 4.5 SOLD JDS321

 Black Cat Comics #8 CGC 8.5  SOLD Comical Situations

 Chamber of Chills #22 (1954)  SOLD JDS321

 Confessions of Romance #9 CGC 4.0 $400

Batman #143 4.5 everything tight $55 SOLD jimhopkins82

 Hit Comics #33 7.5 SOLD Comical Situations

Forbidden Love #2 CGC 6.0 (Q)  Canadian edition, centerfold missing. $70

Shadow Comics vol 6 no. 11 CGC (R) 1.5 $50

 Thunda #3 CGC 6.0 $250

 Thunda #4 CGC 7.0 $400

 Web of Mystery #9 CGC 4.0 $200

 Weird Horrors #9 CGC 6.0 $240 SOLD to keever

scans to follow

Will start off with some GA slabs.

If things go well, will likely post some raw GA and SA this weekend. 

Rules:

All books are returnable within 2 weeks of purchase for any reason. I try to give decent enough scans and pics to enable judgement of grade or detection of resto. Paypal, CK, or MO accepted. International buyers welcome if you can pay for shipping that includes tracking. If you are well known on the boards and international, your books will ship in a timely manner upon any form of payment. If you are international and unknown to me, you’ll either have to pay by CK or MO, or have a long-time ever-present boardie vouch for you directly to me.

Shipping costs are exact costs. USPS Priority envelope or box (always box for slabs), well protected, is the default method, but other methods are possible. If shipping ends up being more than what you’re charged, I’ll refund the difference.

No bidders of ill-repute, yadda yadda yadda.

Almost time to pick up some Promises.
 

General Disarray...no wait, wrong forum.

On 6/17/2023 at 9:44 AM, whomerjay said:

Given the frequency with which GGA, Sci-Fi, great artists, and cool covers exist in Romance, War, Crime, and even Western genres I find plenty of books of interest to pursue in these.  For example Crime Does Not Pay- so much to like about this title and I expect it will continue to attract more interest. Thirty years ago seemed like you couldn’t give this title away.

Except for #24 of course.

On 6/16/2023 at 4:17 PM, mjoeyoung said:

Western, Romance, War, Crime, Funny Animal, Comic Strip characters.  Long term prognosis?  They’re dead, Jim.

Given the frequency with which GGA, Sci-Fi, great artists, and cool covers exist in Romance, War, Crime, and even Western genres I find plenty of books of interest to pursue in these.  For example Crime Does Not Pay- so much to like about this title and I expect it will continue to attract more interest. Thirty years ago seemed like you couldn’t give this title away.

On 6/8/2023 at 10:42 PM, RedGiant said:

Zip Comics #25 CGC 0.5 OW pages (6/42) - label note reads: 'centerfold missing'

8 universal copies on census

cool moon/grave robber cover - dirt cheap

$185

Take

'm curious how much change longtime collectors have seen between desirability and pricing of higher grades.  Personally, I see books that are VG that I would have no problem collecting.  
 

I’d say the population of all comic collectors are like you. As are several on these boards. But high grade collectors, willing to pay more, and preferably in slabbed books, are greatly over represented on these boards (it is after all the CGC boards).

As a "born again" collector I don't see the need to pay the premium price afforded CGC 9.0 and up, and I'm just wondering if the gap from VG to NM was as big before CGC and the internet as it is today because my assumption is not.

The gap was much smaller as were the number of commonly discussed graded (G VG F VF NM)

Did you as a collector try for NM whenever you could or were you satisfied with collecting lower grades,

very much depends on book; most here will go highest grade “whenever they could” with “could” open to interpretation.

and how did you know if the prices you ran across at a convention or a LCS were fair? 

Purely a function of how much time you invest in pricing resources, and if you know how to grade.

Did you have thousands of prices memorized in your head

In a way but eBay and GPAnalysis are but a click away

or did you just go on intuition

dangerous

or maybe just collect items you were familiar with?

yes

Anyways, just curious how dramatically or not times have changed as regards prices and grading.

they’ve changed a lot and sometimes very quickly 
 

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On 6/5/2023 at 7:35 AM, MAR1979 said:

Hyperbole much ;) Yeah the wrap is a little off but not egregious. Not only is the book 9.8 but it's a very strong copy from a technical perspective. I purchased it raw and self submitted, so thanks for the personal attack even if it was not your intention. I do challenge you to find a nicer copy of the issue.

Great if you have the life expectancy and money to only purchase DC Silver Age books that are perfect to your eyes. As I realize I won't live forever nor have vast wealth;  I learned a long time ago that when collecting Silver Age DC's one can not be picky due non-Bat books being almost non-existent in high-grade, unlike with Marvel books that usually have vast quantities.

P.S. this post does apply to 1968-1969 Silver Age - please ignore my signature this time.

Hyperbole yes wrt this particular book because the wrap is annoying but not egregious and everything else looks great consistent with the pedigree.

But I agree with the overall point and I do feel o/c and other QP issues deserve deductions. I realize CGC does not deduct so I impose my own penalty in terms of what I’ll pay. Not even considering 9.8 or 9.6 SA or newer with bad wraps as sellers want close to GPA for those grades. 

GA, it depends on the book. All things equal a bad wrap in GA still has to sell for less. At times I’ll accept lesser page quality (even a rare LTOWP) before a bad wrap.

I would also agree that the decisions made regarding what flaws dictate how much a deduction appear to be influenced by profit motives, the history of grading standards be damned. 

I bought Thomas's donated GA books in the djpinkpather thread; they look great!

On 5/6/2023 at 10:30 AM, 143ksk said:

Frankie #10 CGC 3.5 CrOW. Ken Bald SS $200

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On 5/5/2023 at 3:57 PM, L'Angelo Misterioso said:

My deepest condolences to the Drew family. I also have a father who is no longer with us; he was deeply invested in the world of comics, as I'm sure Thomas was to the fullest. I'm donating a few comics. It's not much; I'm a young collector, but I want to chip in four books for now.

Lot of 2: 1973-1974 fanzine reprints of Golden Age classics. $30 shipped.

 

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On 5/4/2023 at 10:21 PM, SkOw said:

Pre-midight special for someone who likes Gold through Bronze - All 4 books for 300 shipped, all to the family 

Take

On 4/22/2023 at 5:54 AM, jimbo_7071 said:

I don't think anyone thinks about prices quite as much as you do, Dean. After all, these are comic books, not stock futures.

Treating comics like stock futures is a big reason why I buy so much of the stuff I like.  If the books were cheaper it'd be a different story.