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On 9/27/2017 at 7:06 PM, ft88 said:

So what is the most valuable 65 cent US Marvel comic?

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

32 minutes ago, Aweandlorder said:

Great story Dave. Do you still have that sketch of Longshot & Rita?

Yes, Art does amazing commissions, I think they rate between 5k-7500

Those are certainly fine examples of some of them!

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. 

1 hour ago, followtheleader said:

Nice score. 

What is the Justice League w/ Harley?

Not one i'd seen before. 

Patrick

It's Justice League Unlimited #41.

On 5/24/2017 at 7:53 AM, tomo said:

Not necessarily Bronze Age, but I recently sold two runs of titles that were roughly similar.  Deadpool (the Casey/McGuinness run) #1-26 and Harley Quinn (the Kesel/Dodson run) #1-26.  Both were in NM/M condition, original owner copies.  I sold the Deadpools as a lot, and broke up the HQ individually.  When all was said and done, I think I cleared about $50 on the HQ's, but it was also a lot more work.  The HQ's however, did sell quicker than the DP's.

Not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison, but pretty comparable.  In hindsight, I'd probably sell the HQ's as a lot if I had to do it over again.

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

32 minutes ago, Bearcatcoach said:

Got a call about some comics for sale....came back with 3 short boxes full.

Here are some of the more copacetic ones...

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?

2 hours ago, Shadow said:

Well, it only took 37 years but I have completed my run of Conan the Barbarian from #1 to #275 plus all the Annuals. It's hard to believe the journey has been 37 years. I was 14 when I encountered the books and comics. I'm sure part of the influence was my new fascination with D&D and having read LOTR.

Today, while in Naperville, I acquired the final 3 pieces of the puzzle. (all late Annuals) Now, I have a few issues I want to upgrade but, similar to my JLA run a few years back, I have the set.

On a side note, I also filled in 2 holes of my X-Men run this week. I now have #94 to #310, even though most of the issues past the 180's were past my young collecting days with X-Men and told hold any nostalgia for me. Doubt I will ever complete #1 - #93 but I am almost 1/2 way there.

Thanks for letting me share.

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.

4 minutes ago, Robot Man said:

I used to do estate sales all the time but just got to be too big of a hassle and I was usually disapointed at the out come. This was a fluke and I was VERY LUCKY! Besides, it was about a 15 minute drive from home. If I were you, I would have passed. What got me about this one was the possibility of maybe a lot more books. But this was it. As you know the competition is just cut throat for comics out here. I buy other things other than comics. Actually the two tin turn of the century beer tip trays was really the find of the sale for me.

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.

57 minutes ago, billbrown7080 said:

I have a large collection, Due to some Health Issues with My father I'm looking to sell some comics for the first time.

I wanting to sell some of my Duplicates....I Have doubles and Triples of of a lot of The Marvel Big 7...

 

my question is, If I were to list/Sell The Incredible Hulk #100 Through 350, The Avengers #100 Through 350, Daredevil #100 Through 350, Invincible Iron Man #100 Through 350, Fantastic Four #100 Through 350, and Amazing Spider-Man #100 Through 350....what would be a good asking price....Also All Key Issues would be pulled(example I would pull Amazing Spider-Man 121,122,129,135,136,194 and so on ...) Basically you'd be buying Near complete Run Of The Big 7 starting at 100 but The Key Issues would be pulled.

I realize This probably isn't the right section to post this in, But I posted In The "Selling Comics" section not to long along and got very little activity so I'm posting here.

IMO The Average grades of These Comics From 100 to 150 are 5.0 To 6.0

From 150 to 350 the average Grades are 7.0 to 8.0+

 

thank you for anyone who replies

 

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.

12 minutes ago, Robot Man said:

Estate Sale Madness...My wife has an app on her phone for estate sales and garage sales. So, she showed me this picture and asked if they were any good? Boing! GA comics at an estate sale only a couple miles from my house? I have to say, I thought about it a minute. I'd been sick all week. Besides, the compettition at those things are fierce around here. I set my self up for the big disapointment but thought what the heck, I really should give it a shot. Sale started at 9:00 no numbers just a line up. So I dragged my sick butt up at 5:00 and took off.

I pulled up to the house and noticed there were two older ladies and an older guy. I thought, maybe, just maybe the good lord pittied me. I was soon crushed when a guy showed up and said he got there at midnight and there was a "list" I found out he was #1 and was there for the comics! I thought about leaving when I heard several other people were there for the same thing.

I do lots of stuff other than comics and it looked like maybe a promising sale. I talked up the #1 guy and soon found out he was there for the Green Hornet, Batman and Superman only. We were getting along great and he said if I wanted the rest he would pass them to me first. Hey sloppy seconds never tasted so good. And, we didn't know if there were more or not?

The door opens at 9:00 and I squeeked in with my new found buddy. The comics were right at the check out table. The guy running the sale was amazed at how much interest they had garnered. Mr. #1 had spent an hour or so bragging about his collection so I figured he was a "player" When Mr. #1 found out they were over $10. each, he handed me the whole pile and left in discust. They were priced at $15-20. each. They were fairly low grade other than a couple. What was in the picture is what there was. I threw back the Looney Tunes and pulled out my wallet. I paid the guy and then he said, "Oh, here are two more I figured wern't worth anything because of their condition. Another Superman and a Detective #118 (Joker cover). Since I bought the rest, he just threw them in! Wow, from the outhouse to the penthouse!

I then walked around. The lady was a picker who worked for these estate sale people and had TONS of mostly junk. I did manage to find a nice shape cast iron fire engine toy, an unused Mr. Potato Head toy, a couple of turn of the century beer tin tip trays and a couple other things.

I still hate the pushing, shoving, whining and very aggressive folks at these sales but might try another one one of these days.

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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.

9 minutes ago, bluehorseshoe said:

Was the Invasion stuff right after that book?

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

20 hours ago, ygogolak said:

No love for All-Star Squadron?

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.

1 minute ago, Jimmy Linguini said:

if it's a print, where are the other examples of this image being used as a print?

Sometimes people die and they don't have living relatives or the living relatives don't care about the items and there actual value.

Its sad but it happens.

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.

On 4/13/2017 at 1:57 PM, Aweandlorder said:

You guys...

I just cant believe I missed out on this

So sooooo sad now

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Omaha-the-Cat-Dancer-1-ORIGINAL-COVER-ART-Reed-Waller-1984-/272579640420?hash=item3f77033c64%3Ag%3AgmsAAOSwax5YvZYO&nma=true&si=KF5scdatlsgG8%2B3pzHJeEPCeMBs%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

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.

On 4/18/2017 at 10:19 PM, thehumantorch said:

create a new thread here asking for a merge

https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/forum/80-account-merge-requests/

I did that and have not received any response in nearly a week.

5 hours ago, jjonahjameson11 said:

I think Jim Shooter had a letter published in an early issue of ASM.  Possibly issue #23, but my memory is t what it used to be ?

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.

2 minutes ago, DeadOne said:

This one say Omnibus Publishing Company - Detroit, Michigan

It may still have been a mail order only book. 

32 minutes ago, DeadOne said:

GEORGE PEREZ - ACCENT ON THE FIRST 'E'

I bought a comic lot a few months or so back and it had a copy of this in it:

  

GEORGE PEREZ - ACCENT ON THE FIRST 'E'
(1977)

I've looked a little for information on this. Supposedly there were 600 made but the publisher had a flood and it is uncertain how many survived.
Anyone know if this story is true or perhaps have anything to add?

 

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.