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Old Shady made full payment within an hour of purchasing a comic from me. I appreciate the business and the prompt attention given to payment. Trustworthy buyer! (thumbs u

Spawn was king of the 90s. Ubiquity. I think the book suffered for two reasons: 1. The movie was pretty terrible and ruined perceptions. 2. Todd was too distracted by the business-side of Spawn to write a quality book overtime. He was too proud to hand over writing responsibilities to a quality author...and by the time he did hand it over, the boat had already sailed. Todd took back over with issue 185 and has been trying to rescue the title, but I don't think his writing chops are up to the task. I wouldn't say it's totally horrible - it's certainly no worse than most of its popular competition at the time, but I wish Todd would hand things over to some real talent with a solid vision for the character. While I think Szymon Kudranski is the right artist for the job, I am getting pretty sick and tired of all the digital copying and pasting going on lately. But anyway, back to this king of the 90s thing...Spawn by far. The title dominated the charts for a very significant amount of time in the 90s. I will say that people who gave up on Spawn really missed out on some awesome covers....if nothing else, Spawn had the most wicked rad covers around (just check out issue 153, for example). Spawn #1 is a more significant key by far - it was a game changer and the biggest selling independent comic of all time. It's just viewed as "trash" by speculators because there are a bazillion of them floating around.

Surfer...just put your slabs in frames with UV-protected glass. That way you can constantly admire them and protect them at the same time. There are several such frames for sale on eBay.

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That book is INSANE!

Moon Knight is RAD

Bumping this thread with a list of books provided throughout this thread. I couldn't read all of the issue numbers, however. (Uncanny) X-Men 14 (Uncanny) X-Men 57 Action Comics 36 Adventures into the Unknown 58 Alien Worlds 7 All Star Comics 26 All Star Comics 52 Amazing Mystery Funnies Vol. 2 #11 Avengers 67 Brick Bradford 6 CyberRad 5 Doomsday +1 #2 Exciting Comics 3 Exciting Comics 45 Famous Funnies 82 Fantastic Comics 3 Human Torch 23 Journey Into Mystery 51 Journey Into Mystery 53 Journey Into Unknown Worlds 49 Judge Dredd: The Early Cases 1 Justice League of America 146 Katie Keene 62 Leading Comics 13 Machine Man 1 Magnus Robot Fighter 2 Mystery Comics 3 Out of this World 1 Pep Comics 1 Planet Comics 64 Plastic Man 54 Prize Comics 4 Science Fiction Space Adventures 10 Sensation Comics 103 Smash Comics 14 Startling Comics 49 Strange Adventures 136 Strange Adventures 50 Strange Tales 34 Strange Tales 72 Strange Worlds 8 Tales of Suspense 13 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 Tomb of Terror 15 Web of Spider-man Annual 1 Weird Science 14 Weird War Tales 101 World of Fantasy 17 World of Fantasy 17 X-Factor 14

Is it just me or has the value of this series suffered a step decline? I've seen prices really drop. I don't know much about this title, but I'm curious. Is this a simple case of over-hype? What's the future outlook for this book?

Hmmm...why do I want one of these?

There is a 9.9 of this comic on eBay right now for 25K if you're thinking about an upgrade.

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Recently purchased two trade paperbacks from Brian and they arrived in the advertised condition. One book was actually in much better condition than expected. Great communication along with fast shipping at reasonable rates. Also got a great deal on both books. Hope we can do business again!

Time for me to submit my application for the Spawn #1 club.

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Landed my grail right before the awards. Figured I'd share. Super tough to find in grade.

As far as the plastic boxes go, I use the corrugated plastic boxes from Bags Unlimited for my CGC books. I got tired of the cardboard boxes falling apart due to the heavy weight of the slabbed books. I've had NO problems with the plastic boxes from BU and recommend them highly. +1 I exclusively use the corrugated plastic boxes from Bags Unlimited. I've been very happy with them.

Scheduled for grading: 5/23/13 Graded: 5/24/13 Grading/Quality Control: 5/29 Shipped/safe: 5/31

Amazing collection. Amazing! Let me know if you ever want to sell any of that stuff.

Scheduled for grading: 5/23/13 Graded: 5/24/13 Grading/Quality Control: 5/29

Scheduled for grading: 5/23/13 Graded: 5/24/13

Scheduled for grading: 5/23/13

Since at least one of you has "cheated" by posting "non-comic" covers I'll throw in my pulp entry. From my personal collection.... cover by Frank Kelly Freas.

What are some of the best "Robot" comic book covers of all time? Not asking about pulps...but newstand comic books from any age. I think it might be a neat focus for a collection.