Waylander

Sheesh - I am getting there A week or two and it will be ready . . .

Moving 20,000 comics hurts so poor back - but I cannot complain else the wife wins The black lights are in the frame Teaser

Now painted, waiting for the carpet to go down. Yes, and need to change the blind to blackout blinds.

Greetings All, This might be a bit left field and apologise if this is in the wrong place to post this. Does anyone here facilitate signings with William Tucci? I have one of the 6 foot Shi posters that I would like, if possible, to have William sign and remark before I frame it. If anyone can help, please send me a message. Please note I am based in the UK so will require international shipping. Cheers, Brian

I have been gone a while, but still here and my wife has finally allowed my world domination (mu ha ha ha - evil laugh). Well get a bigger room. In progress pictures - more coming soon.

Sounds like fun - mixed books I would suggest. Although I will be bottom of the pile but that does mean having the highest number

Yes, it can

Nice to see a predominantly raw collection

Fantastic set up

Wow - evidently, I need to watch more films

On a side note / question are there any actors apart from Michael Keaton who have played a major comic book hero and a major comic book villain?

Jimmers

Well spotted

2 - 10 Is there a No 1 hiding somewhere in your collection?

Also a Brit, I luckily completed my early X-men years ago, but never got them graded. Now I am regretting not getting them graded when I bought them as not only is the postage high, but most of the books now fall into the 'Walkthrough' fee scale so the costs are high. At the moment, I would rather waste the money on comics than grading, but at some stage I will need to consider getting books graded, but then the question is which ones!?!?!?!?

Just curious, did you clean the fingerprints?

I would say 3. My only issue being this side of the old pond is the postage (shipping) costs.

You are more than likely correct and if so, I live to learn. The ship ballast was a theory that had been banded about ever since I started reading comics a long time ago, but after the silver age. I have never researched the subject in detail, although looking at the size of cargo ships, it would have taken a lot of comics to have been deemed ballast, so l will have to concede it is more than likely incorrect It is more likely the treatment of the books once they reached the UK being the reason for many being lower grades. I remember trading comics in schools, bundles at a time, reading comics in dentist and doctors waiting rooms, which were just thrown about like magazines are today.

So many cool items - congrats on having a wonderful space. One item did jump out - who signed the Star Trek book - looks like multiple signatures?

Kev, To add, a lot of the paper material exported to the UK from the USA was deemed ship ballast, so was not treated at all well. So getting silver age pence books in grades higher than VF is difficult. As you said the market is seeing a shift in the value of pence copies, and luckily for us (in the UK) a lot of UK collectors still turn their noses up at them - so more for us true connoisseurs.

Awesome room. So many questions, but I will leave it with one, the hanging comics on the Whitman Spinner still in their original bags?

EVERYTHING Please

Garry, Not been on here as long as some of you Oldies, but

For those who have sent in high value books, if you have paid for a WalkThrough and valued your book based on a Raw NM (for arguments sake let's say its an ASM 129), but it grades say a 9.6, would you be asked to pay the difference?

Quality