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It looks like Amazing Spider-man 265 goes for more in 9.8 than New Mutants 26.

I believe I have a copy of the sketch, but unfortunately I sold nearly all my original art and sketches long before they exploded in value.

Someone mentioned Art is doing mostly covers nowadays. He is also doing some awesome commission pieces. Don't know what he charges or how long it takes him to complete one, but they sure seem to be worth it. These images are from his facebook page.

The first time I remember seeing Art Adams was at a San Diego Comic-Con I believe in 1984. He was at a table doing sketches and nobody was around him. I think he had only done a couple covers at this point. I remember noting to myself that his art was pretty good, but since I hadn't heard of him, I didn't bother to get a sketch from him. The following year i believe the 1st issue of Longshot had come out and since he was now known to me I got a sketch from him. A Longshot and Ricochet Rita. The next year 1986 I was helping my then boss at his booth at San Diego Comic-Con (I was a manager at one of his stores). On the Friday of the con I stayed and worked the store the 1st half of the day, so the other employee would have a chance to attend the con. By the time I got to the con, I found out that earlier in the day Art Adams had brought and sold the original art for Longshot 1. He apparently sold the cover for $100 and interior pages for $50 each. The dealer who bought the cover for #1 put it up for sale for $300. I tried to trade the original art for the cover of Marvel Fanfare #5 (Marshall Rogers wraparound Dr.Strange) and an interior splash by Jim Starlin from Death of Captain Marvel (the nightmare sequence where he's fighting all of the bad guys) for the Longshot cover, but while the dealer was thinking about it, someone came up and bought the Longshot cover. Oh well.

It's Justice League Unlimited #41.

You only cleared $50 on the Harley Quinn 1-26 nm/m? Shoot issue 1 is a $75-$100 book by itself.

Thanks I appreciate it. I'm curious why Mattel came out with a Batman figure with an all yellow bat symbol on his chest. Has this symbol ever appeared in any comics or cartoons?

You mention the annuals, but do you have the Giant-Size Conan #s 1-5 also? What about the Savage Sword of Conan run? Not to mention Savage Tales 1-5. Any plans to go after those now?

Hey, can anyone tell me the name of this Batman action figure? It's 6" tall and is made by Mattel dated 2015. I tried looking it up on eBay, both current and completed, but no luck. I also did a Google image search and I found one on a website in India, but it was also loose and was simply titled Batman action figure. When looking for it on eBay all the figures either had the classic bat in yellow logo or all black bat. Thanks for any help.

I used to go to Garage Sales every Saturday and even though I rarely came across any comics, every once in awhile I would find that single item or even a collection that made it worth while. As an example I was at a sale awhile back where the seller had 3 boxes full of unused Testors model paint bottles. Probably around 600-800 total (most likely old store stock. Now I normally wouldn't have looked twice at them, but I heard the seller give some cheap price quotes for a few other items and decided to ask him what he wanted for all 3 boxes. He quoted me $20 for all of them. Didn't need to think about it even though it's not normally what I deal in. I ended up making around $1000 selling the paints in smaller lots of 60-75 bottles. Unfortunately the pickings have been pretty slim of late. Either the sellers have already sold anything of value or have decided to try and get more for their stuff by selling it elsewhere. Either way, most of the stuff I see at garage sales now a days is tons of clothes, baby items, books, CDs/DVDs or other junk that in most cases should have just been thrown away. I miss the thrill of finding that hidden treasure.

It depends on how quickly you want to sell and how much time/effort you want to put in. If you're going the eBay route I would sell by title instead of all together. Get some idea what the books are selling for on eBay in the condition you have them in. You can either get a total of what they are worth and then take off a percentage (maybe 20-30%) to come up with a Buy It Now price. Or you can decide what the minimum you would take for a given title and just list them as an auction and see where they go. If you do sell on eBay, make sure you have good, clear pictures of the books, with some close-ups of a few select issues to give the buyer an idea of the shape they are in. Good Luck.

Hey congrats on the pick-up. I actually came across this ad, but not until Friday night and the sale started on Thursday, so I didn't bother. Besides it would have been about an hour and a half drive for me. That's the biggest problem about where I live, Inland Valley about 50 miles from LA, all the decent comic sales are closer to LA and very little is ever offered for sale near where I live.

Invasion came out in 1988. Coyote 11 is dated March 1985 and Infinity Inc. 14 is dated May 1985.

Nobody's mentioned Infinity Inc. either, and he had a long run on that title. Also how about Coyote #11 which contains his 1st published work?

The first comic I bought multiple copies of was DC Comics Presents #1 (4 copies). I remember wanting to buy a few copies of a comic and since this was a number 1, I went with it.

Yeah it could be possible, but it's obvious the people bidding weren't real sure either. If this was the actual original art, there's no way it goes for $200. $2000 at least if not more.

I wouldn't be sure this is the actual original art. It's more likely a print. What would Goodwill be doing with Omaha original art?

I can remember buying these back in the 1970s. I had several of the DC series, I think there were 60 in the series, so i may have had around 40. The 1975 Marvel series I can't remember if I had all of them or was missing a couple. The 1977 wrap-around series i had all 40 cups plus the 6 glasses. After being stored in a large bag and thrown in a closet for 20 years I eventually sold them. I got decent $$ for them, but seeing the pictures in this thread brings back a lot of fond memories. It would be nice to have them back, but i'm sure they would just be boxed up and stored in my closet.

Well it seems the consensus for which day to end an auction is Sunday night. I took the forum's advice and list my Goon preview to end on Sunday night and this was the result Goon Preview Now I wonder how many more are suddenly going to show up.

In case you didn't know, Jim Shooter began writing Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes in Adventure Comics back in the 1960s when he was 13 years old.

It may still have been a mail order only book.

I have a copy of this art book. Does yours say it was published by SQP? I don't have access to mine, so i can't check. I'm not positive, but I believe this may have been a mail order only item. I think i got mine around 1979-1980. I can't verify if the "only 600 exist" claim is true or not.

Keep in mind a seller who sells a book for $600 is already taking about a $60 hit on final value fees and you want them to suck up the postage fees on top of that. I tried doing several listings with free shipping and adding the postage amount to the BIN, but found that it didn't make much difference. Sometimes when I would relist an item and lower the BIN and add in the postage, that item that hadn't sold for a couple months suddenly sold. Another reason for not doing free shipping is tax time. When it's time to do taxes, it's a lot easier to add up what the items sold for and not worry about deducting the postage amount from the total.

I believe you can get around 75 comics into a medium flat rate box. So ask the seller to put the comics into 3 medium flat rate boxes. That should be about $50 postage total.