vaillant

I was mostly thinking about collectors of slabbed modern books, Hulk44 comes to mind… It seems there is a difference between 9.8 modern slabs collectors and rich people craving for minty Silver Age, at least in cultural terms.

I'm sure most collectors don't own a single slab. Well, there are a good number who apparently like to collect high grade slabbed, but surely most see the professional grading as a warranty in case you have to sell the book(s).

I see… it’s just that I would never slab a book, unless I have to sell it. If you have other sweet books with the Mark Jewelers inserts you decide to sell, I’d love to see them. (thumbs u

Welcome Ignacio, from a fellow FF enthusiast! (thumbs u Kav is indeed a big deal, and not just around here…

I have a similar book with an Alka Seltzer insert in addition to the Mark Jeweler. Surely I love them, also because they "protect" the book more. How would you grade your #122? – personally I would not slab these…

Although, every single book I have ever sold, now sells for more. I know almost nothing about DC and what they did with the Fawcett characters afterwards, but Black Adam must be super-cool as it’s part of the original Captain Marvel, most of which is awesome! (thumbs u

Sinnott played his huge part in this as well… It’s not just that he followed Kirby’s pencils, if you look at his own work. Of course, also Chic Stone, Giacoia, Royer and others did, but in some way Sinnott "blended" with Kirby’s sensibility and enhanced it.

Pay It Forward, as NamesJay conceived it, had a different aim – it turned into what is now, but it was not meant to offer "valuable" things in the first place, just things you did not need. They serve two different purposes, problem is PIF has become similar to the Giving Thread, but should not be, as it should just go with its initial intent, and if it stalls, it stalls, until someone offers something he does not need and restarts it. It was not about value, while here value (by whatever means) is taken into account. They both have reasons for staying, but the section placement is debatable, although we should have the moderators' opinion, maybe?

Cerebus is somewhat "rare" for a Bronze book, Hulk #181 isn’t but they are of interest to different audiences and I just think they should not be compared directly. Collectors compare the much rarer Showcase 4 to AF 15. I'm of the opinion that while we may not agree on the conclusions, we can learn things about collecting by comparing these books. (thumbs u I look at books in term of content. I know each and every book can be compared in terms of collecting market, but I look at the content, and thus I don’t think it’s only hype to determine the true importance of a book. Cerebus remains also an important book in terms of "independent" comics history, even if, as a Wolverine or Hulk reader, I might prefer to buy a #181. Both important, in different ways, for content. That’s what I meant.

Cerebus is somewhat "rare" for a Bronze book, Hulk #181 isn’t but they are of interest to different audiences and I just think they should not be compared directly.

We know Wall-Crawler offer and the last offer were not taken, and not because they weren’t good offers: it just did not happen the right taker was around. So, as much as I appreciate Shadow Images observation, I really don’t think the main problem in the thread stalling this time was generosity. :shrug: Said this, one can try to keep it going, but things like those are always bound to happen, and the thread will eventually need to be re-started each time it happens, with a 100% free offer.

Tech!

BTW, I mean that in some cases your degree of interest is key, and in some moments there might simply be not enough degree of interest on a specific offer to make the Tree work… hmmmmmmm

I’m not sure it’s entirely to attribute to "junk donkeys" anyway… the last two offers which were not picked were good offers… I just guess there’s not a 100% safe way to ensure an offer will be taken, even if it is a very good offer. I’d have grabbed the war books, but it takes a specific interest in certain offers (same goes for an all Spider-Man offer for what matters). Maybe the PIF rule of reverting to the previous offer could be adapted here, and in some way provide balance to the problem of good offers which nonetheless – for whatever reason – are not taken. :shrug:

You have to make acrobatics to fit as much as possible while protecting the books, but – yes – it’s still decent… unless they increase the rates in 2015…

Thanks everyone for the response – I’ll wait for 0.5 offer to be taken and then might find something to gift away. By Priority, roughly: – $13 up to 0.77lbs (about two normal comic books); – $20 up to 2.2lbs; – $35 up to 4.4lbs. Registered (with tracking #) is a bit more.

I have a question (both for Harvey and the participants): I have a quantity of stuff that I’d love to offer for free, but shipping from here is quite expensive, and it would cost me a lot for each shipment. Would it be OK to offer stuff and ask for a contribution on the shipping costs?

It's a very easy place to stop because of the renumbering, I haven't bought anything past #441 for my collection either. I know some people out there will think I am crazy for saying this, but for me there is no point in collecting anything beyond McFarlane's run on ASM. It depends on the titles. The first titles to be ruined by Marvel were the mutant ones, Spider-Man in fact is among the less quickly ravaged, but surely they messed it up with J.M. Straczynski and afterwards, not to mention "One more day" where it does not only become offensive (as "Sins Past" was) but totally nonsensical, giving Mephisto almost "godlike" powers. The "1990s style" clone stories were also pushed beyond limits of decency, but always less offending than the following. Here and there you could still read acceptable Spidey stories, until a few years ago – not so with the mutants and other titles.

Point Five…

Great offer! Love the Battlefronts…

What time is it in Ohio? And in New York City? Here it’s 21.51…

Is that a night suit? I should wear one, here it will be the appropriate hour, I guess…

Ahh – that’s really a rag, you can do better! My #59 is a deslabbed 8.5, when I will arrive at that!

I fear it will be too late here…