Buzzetta

They are running behind and have not seen all of those threads yet

I would rather wait than pay a premium for the service I am paying for to not be as late as it normally would be.

Completed a quick and easy transaction. Ed was very easy to communicate with, paid quickly as promised and was an all around good guy to do business with. If the opportunity presented itself, I would not hesitate to business with him again.

Just completed a sale with Ronnie for a couple of raw Amazing Spider-man books. Communication, expedience in payment and all around ease of the transaction made it a smooth experience. I would definitely work with him again... Thanks

I recently sold a few purple label books. Interesting to see if those pop up again unslabbed.

I decided to submit a few books that I picked up at NYCC and at Big Apple... How did they fare? Let us see how we did. I guess my eyes are going or something. ASM 21 - Advertised 6.0 - Received 5.5Q Last Page Missing ASM 23 - Advertised 9.0 - Received 7.5 ASM 24 - Advertised F+ - Received 5.0 ASM 43 - Advertised 8.0 - Received 8.0 Color Touch ASM 53 - Advertised 8.0 - Received 7.5 ASM 101 - Advertised VF - Received 7.0 ASM 119 - Advertised F - Received 9.0 (Ok.. win!) Very disappointed. None of the books were from eBay. One book is from a major dealer, one book from a regular dealer. The rest picked up by a few guys I do not recall offhand but will recognize once I see them at NYCC and will avoid their tables. The 21, 24, 43 and 53 will eventually be thrown up immediately on eBay. I will keep the 101 and the 119. I am torn between getting rid of the 23. I already own a 9.0 copy of 23 with a small amount of color touch that is simply gorgeous. Yes, I know the 7.5 is "supposedly" better but as of now I would rather keep the 9.0 Restored. Guess I am no good at buying raw books. Hopefully the Batman 47 and the Amazing Spider-man 3 I submitted last month restore my faith. Thoughts? 9.0 With Small Amount of Color Touch or Universal 7.5? To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.

If it was a mock up or a work in progress used for a figure at Toy Fair or Comic Con then it may not have all the printed logos that would have been on the comic in the final production run. I tried looking for Toy Fair and Comic Con pics from that time period but could not come up with anything. If anyone can find old toy fair photos from Toy Biz marvel legends, specifically for the mock up packages then that would help.

There is the possibility that it is a Marvel Legends reprint for an unproduced Marvel Legends toy. If that is the case than a few issues of the impending comic may have been produced on the sample figures or as a mock up. Here is one of many sites that showcase unproduced Marvel Legends figures that Toy Biz showed off at Toy Fair but never produced due to various reasons. You will note that there are several X-Men figures that could have been included with this book. http://www.figurerealm.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=28446 The problem with this reprint 302 is that nothing really seems to be important enough to warrant a reprint unless it were to be packaged in with something. I think it was an intended pack in with a Toy Biz Marvel Legend figure that never made it to the shelf.

Thanks - I picked it up in a CLink auction in May of 2011 if I remember correctly.

I never put this here but... here you go - It is in a new label now and as far as I know, never pressed. Perhaps one day I will have it pressed and resubmitted - to see if it can get a "5.0"

There is something inherently wrong if you need more than one eBay account.

<------ feverishly searching for a copy of more fun 51 so I can complete my spiderman black costume run

Amazing Spider-man 252 always gets the nods from the collectors even if it is tied with Marvel Team Up 141

I always wanted a piece from GI Joe. I assume that this was drawn in some sweatshop animation studio somewhere in the Pacific Rim. However this is mine. Last month in the comic connect auctions, I picked up what I envisioned as a perfect pose of Snake Eyes from the GI Joe Resolute movie. I figured I would show it here.

I am supposed to be interning but they have nothing for me to do. So I'm reading old Supreme Court Cases and their decisions.

I would have no problem buying a book from him but would never allow him to handle my estate or my family's.

I am actually excited by this. Recently when the rumors started I picked up an X-Men 141 in a 9.6 for no other reason than I liked the iconic cover and the storyline and wanted a nice HG sample of the book. This movie has the ability to really amaze.

The Strange Tales Annual 2 is a team up and not a reprint. I have a raw copy to reference.

Thank you... I like to doodle these days. I wish I found the time to learn how to do it right.

What happens when you are waiting for a meeting to take place and notice that there is a clean white board and green and black dry erase markers... Boss just looks at me and shakes her head... Thankfully she likes me.

Yeah, but I can see a couple of reasons to buy this. Two of them actually.

Yes, I am holding out on buying a legal size scanner... Amazing Spider-man Annual 6 - 9.0 Amazing Spider-man Annual 1 - 6.0 G.I. Joe 21 - The Silent Issue and arguably the best cover - 9.6 (I was eyeing a 9.6-9.8 Joe 21 for awhile.)

It was something that I toyed with at NYC Comic Con in October of 2010. It was a goal that was realized in July of 2012. I got tired of looking around at all the "junk" that I had amassed over the years. I decided to sell everything that I felt I no longer needed or would not miss in lieu of having a nicer copy of Amazing Fantasy 15. I had that raw copy but I wanted a nicer copy. I sold off so much that I settled the education loans and bought my comic. Then I found this place. I always had a full set of Amazing Spider-man. I still do. A lot of the copies though were reader copies or lower to mid grade copies. I felt that I could do better. I started to upgrade some of my books but at that point I still did not think of going for a slabbed run. After I upgraded some of my books I saw that I had a decent percentage of the books already slabbed. With that I figured what the heck. Let's complete a set. In October of 2011 I opened up the set and started registering books. In less than a year that set is at 100% Thanks to submitting some of my own books to CGC, Comic Link, Metropolis / Comic Connect, Heritage, these boards and eBay the books and packages started showing up. I did my homework and assembled, what I believe a nice set of books. 71 books are 8.0 or higher. I mostly looked at a lot of 8.5's. There are quite a few books that present very nicely and some gems thrown in the collection. I love the ASM 12 in a 8.0 and a the 65 in a 9.6 as those covers are personal favorites of mine. While not in the set I was pleased at receiving my copies of 121 and 122 back from CGC in a 9.4 and a 9.2. I know that I will never take top spot. That is not what this was about. I do not have the resources to even think about making a run at doing so. The future plans for the set are to upgrade a book here and there. Right now it is well known that I am looking to upgrade my Amazing Fantasy 15. I am waiting on a couple of things back from CGC and some of those may be upgrades. Or perhaps... I may want to focus some more on the Golden Age. In the meantime I will start photographing the fronts and backs and continue to add descriptions to the books. To everyone that helped with this set, I thank you. Buzzetta- Link to the Set http://comics.www.collectors-society.com/registry/comics/PeopleSetDetail.aspx?PeopleSetID=49630 To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.

sincerely! Nice So nice that I thought they were reprints... then I realized they weren't and now I am all...

Arrived today... woo hoo.. I upgraded my 7.0 to a 9.0 Perhaps there will be a couple of more upgrades before the end of the summer.