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So you have a diamond account then Nope dcbs was going to say that. No one should be paying retail for books. dcbs.com preorder your books, get 30-50% off. the downside is you dont get to pick thru a stack of new #1s to find the most perfect condition one. but I've been very happy with dcbs as my preorder provider for about 10 years (at least until I moved to Europe)

Beautiful book for sure. Love the neat marking inside the "N" in planet. Agreed, he's offering it at a fair price with at most a 10% premium over non-Ped versions, and considering the "hotness" of Planet comics these days, I'd argue his price might just be in line with Market for ANY Planet #64 in 9.2, much less an Okajima. Can only imagine what a Panet comic from the Camp era would go for!

So it looks like Squad will end up doing $1.9m this weekend. Compare that to other Supermovies in their 9th weekend: BvS: $310k GotG: $3.77m DPool: $2.09m DKR: $2.18m AoU: $1.69m Cap:CW: $770k pretty strong showing for a weak IP. (and yes I know it says a little something about this seasons competition too)

Im 4 episodes in. Enjoying it. Mike Coulter is great as Luke, Better than Charie Cox's Daredevil, but not quite Ritter's Jessica Jones. Frankie Faison is absolutely great as Pops. Loved him on Banshee over the last few years. And Ron Jones too... wish he had a bigger role. Some of the younger character actors could have learned from those two. Theo Rossi made some weird acting choices as Shades and is pretty distracting when he's on screen. It's not a super hero show so far to me. The action is far to street level, just people shooting at Luke and so on. Know that's not a bad thing. I like it. Daredevil is a super hero show. Jessica Jone is a detective/noir show. Luke Cage is a neighborhood show. At least so far. And that music... so good. Listening to Jidenna right now.

with Stan's penmanship and marker handling these days it would just look like a big silver splotch.

Seems like there were a few GA collectors who were all filling their war chests for big purchases in upcoming auctions

So here's an alternative. If you're set on getting something signed and SSed then never mind this suggestion, but... if auto fees are different for CGC SS vs not CGC SS, but if they are I'd say go the non-CGC SS route and get something else signed by him (you still get the experience, and get something cool signed, maybe something that displays well like a poster or litho) Then you can get a CGC SS Stan Lee book all over the market, and in many many cases you can get it for less than the cost of the book+signing fee+CGC SS fees. I went this route. Met Stan, got something signed and then watched the auctions and got this baby for $130, way less than what it would have cost...

Front back scans, reasonable shipping, return policy. Go that extra mile shipping method by not skimping on packing materials. They'll love you long time back scans arent always necessary... Selling a batch of modern 9.4-9.8s... no one is going to ask about back cover scans. Selling four figure mid grade GA books? yeah back cover scans...

I think the point is that someone has allegedly falsely claimed that they are selling something for 'what they have into it'. Not the relative appropriateness of the price. Ahh ok. Just wondering if perhaps, maybe, in some instances someone has been fairly stupid and gone in too far and just wants their money back. As unrealistic as it can be. point is... you buy a book for $200, then when you try to sell it the next moth you list it for $350, and then drop the price to $300 and say "that's as low as I can go cause that's what I have in it" is bs... unless you paid crazy shipping and you calculated holding costs, and rented it it's own storage locker to have by itself. Just price it at what you want to get.. you dont have to make up.

love when someone sets the price on their book and says "that's what I have in it", but you see the sale in GPA (from less than a month ago) for $100 less... and there's no way shipping was $100...

Yes I was being a bit extreme in my language/position to make my point.... I wasnt actually worried about the transaction as much as I was thinking "come on guys we're better than this!" but I get the fact that laborious grading can be overkill too... especially when the point is to sell a lot fast at a good price. it's all good

I get it Swick, but it's a slippery slope, and not every buyer knows which sellers to be ok with and who not... My first thought was, he jumped the gun and should have just waited until he could give grades. My second thought was there's an element of risk since it's a friend of a friend deal.... even if the lister is a known quanitity, we dont know the friend who he is selling on behalf... To me it's a craigslist type listing, which dont usually fly here, the only difference is that the person listing the lot was a known member, rather than someone with 1 post to date and a day old account. but I hear you, there are more egregious battles to fight...

If you're willing to buy from someone who isn't playing by the rules you're part of the problem. Seems like more and more of these "craigslist style"listings pop up. Why you shouldnt deal with this stuff... Photo of a pile of books, some showing, some covered, some only partially showing. No actual list of the books being sold (and some aren't visible in the picture) No grades provided, but a promise of grades. Selling for a friend No return policy (on raw books being sold with no grades listed!) but a promise of "Im sure my friend will work something out") .... what could go wrong ? But even as Im typing asking the guy to follow the rules, someone else is popping the Im assuming cause it's a "great deal"... at least the seller is taking payment via paypal so the buyer has some protection when he gets a pile of books in worse shape than expected, and is missing books that he thought was in the lot... If you buy from someone blatantly breaking the marketplace rules you're just encouraging the behavior to keep reoccurring...

Danny wuerfel, Emmitt smith & Eric Rhett, Carlos Alvarez , Ike Hilliard , Ricky natiel Ike stops on a dime and makes two 'noles grab nothing but smoke.

If ya gotta ask, it's over your head. I would guess one milllllion dollars... :gossip:I think he was kidding

It's been holding better than it's predacessors. SSquad has been losing 200-300 theaters a week. BvS was losing like 500-800 a week in the same time frame (weeks 1-5). After 6 weeks it still is in over 3k theaters... After 6 weeks BvS was already down to 2300 theaters after starting in 4200+ It's almost holding in line with GotG, but I think this week we'll see the dip and it'll start to drop off at a faster rate than GoTG did... but I could be wrong.

Is this the weekend that SSquad finally takes a bit hit in the theater count?

Kid from the 80s. Marvel Super Hero Secret Wars was huge for me. Heroes vs Galactus Doom vs Beyonder Doom (with Beyonder powers) vs everyone which did not turn out well for the heroes...

Discussion of comic quality has no place here!

OMG I never realized that, nice call! So funny!

They lost credibility when they mentioned captain boomerang, most forgettable character since private Ryan in saving private ryan +1 I agree something under the Suicide Squad moniker makes sense for brand purposes, and I think a Deadshot/Harley tag-team adventure would be great. You can have it be a Squad assignment from Waller who is in the movie as "handler" but keep it on just those two and have a nice tight movie, not the sprawl...

Agreed. a 7.5 of the book sold for what $2600? So a 6.5 would probably be a $1800+ book, so it basically went for ($3800) a little more than twice GPA... remember when that Boy comic went for 6x? Seems like cheaper books go for a higher multiplier (so basicly there's a "floor" for camp Okajimas) I pad about 4x GPA for my Master Comics, but higher price books seem to only get a 2x multipler or so... (based on very very sparse data)

Nice Book Robotman, the books from '43 are super interesting in their markings... Startling Comics #24 "Okajima" (no code) Captain Marvel Adventures #28 "Okajima" Captain Midnight #13 "Okajmia" (no code) Captain Marvel #31 ("1-26-43") "1H", "Okajima" Catman #21 "Okajima" Catman #22 "Okajima 1D" Human Torch #14 (1-1-?) "1F" or "1J" or "1Y" (most likely) I've only found 7 books from '43 (compared to 47 from '44), and the Red Dragon #7 makes the eighth book...

I've never once hesitated to buy in a thread that stated they reserved the right to not deal with anyone... Of course I'm also not a jerk.

It's not a heart. It's the letter M in the 2M code. Here you can see the M for the 3M coded book