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What legal avenues ? There’s clearly no money left…

Thank you, it was a very stressful experience, and I’m relieved it’s over with. The fact that I’ve lost over $65,000 just has to be put behind me.

He calls it “Dry Grafting”. I don’t pretend to understand the process though.

The Batman # 1 referenced earlier in this thread was mine. It was a poor looking 5.0 with trimming (not CGC), and Mike did a decent job on it, inc removing the trimmed designation, something that I had no idea could be done. However, the problems posed my Action # 7 & # 10 have been very badly treated, and in fact made much worse now to the point where they are unsalvagable. They look as if they have been washed to within an inch of their lives. Bearing in mind he received these books in 2017, it looks like he was experimenting with techniques he was certainly not a master of. Either that or his mind was deteriorating so much that he began to do all the wrong things to these books, because they are a disgrace now.

So finish the Tec # 29, and send it out with the Actions 40 hours or so in…I can live with that.

How would you know if I was overly concerned or not ? Do you have a record of all the private messages back and forth between Mike and I ?

Mike, I just checked on dates as best I can, and you’ve had all three of my books for over six years now. I just want the books back. That’s all I care about. Am I ‘not getting it’ ?

Yes - he said it was impossible. And that he was filing for bankruptcy, and I would have the opportunity to apply for some restitution when contacted by the trustee. Not a lot I can do from this distance I would think.

Well, here are mine : Action # 7 & # 10 Detective # 29 Cost price was $53255 including $550 for a More Fun # 38 as a donor back cover for the AC# 7 I paid $12275 to Hero, and the last I heard from him was April 10th, saying that he would return the books via a trusted third party, as I’m in the UK.

How do you tell whose page someone was viewing ?

I got my Batman # 1 back last year after six years. It looked really nice , I was surprised it only got 7.0…

Action # 7, # 10, Tec # 29.

I have three books with them, two of which have been there about five years…

My old copy…congrats !

Yes a new house in a nice part of Spain seems like a good trade off, but I can’t help wishing I could have saved some of them…

No, I actually only started buying GA seriously about ten years ago. I knew I could never get all I wanted without buying restored copies, so I couldn’t afford to worry, apart from the SA books. Yes, it definitely is the best of both worlds…I’ll miss them though.

Well enough I think…will take a little time what with the time payments etc, but a decent retirement pot for this area of Spain…

That was me in the latest CC auction…almost all my GA was purple, but hey, at least I had them…

Yes, many books were restored (pretty sure the two big keys were - in fact I think I remember him telling me DC # 27 had a recreated cover, so that would have been incomplete), and just plain low grade.

There’s another one in the next CC auction, same one that sold in March… https://www.comicconnect.com/item/947406

How do you think I feel ? 😅

Yes, it is rather sad, but thIs was always the plan…property is very expensive in this part of Spain, and you can’t take it with you… I hope there may be one or two pieces in there that interest you Peter, it would be nice to think that they could go to an appreciative home…

Shame about the # 29 still not back from Hero….

That’s really interesting to hear Roy. My early experiences of comics are certainly very similar to yours, except that in my circles comics were hugely popular at school, and trades of single books, even sales of whole collections became became fairly common by the mid seventies. However, my father, like yours, held no truck with all this as a business, and he was already too far gone to recognise any kind of satisfaction or success that I eventually had. And many congratulations on being a part of such a massive transaction Roy…

Humble high grade (ish) example…