MK Ultra

Bringing facts to an argument is like bringing a knife to a gun fight.

What does it matter if the cut affects the story or not? It's slabbed.

Tree Fiddy

Surprised not more Florida in the house. I grew up in Miami and went to Sunshine Comics owned by Joel Fisher. It was a family affair, sister and mother worked there too and he had bought a heat sealer and was sealing the bags. Libby, their dog, was dubbed Libby the heat sealing dog or some such nonsense. I started going before Secret Wars came out. He had a costume contest one year and I won second with a spidey outfit my grandmother made me. I think it was $25 store credit? I still have the costume. I had the New Muties graphic novel and there were finger prints on it, I asked if windex would help. A couple blocks away was A&M comics. I didn't like them as much. Joel was the guy that wrote, "The Marvel guide to collecting comics". It was an insert in their books one month if memory serves. He had a long box full if not more. Since dad lived in Boca Raton Joel asked if I wanted to help him at a con in West Palm Beach and I jumped at the chance. It was the weekend that ASM 252 came out and he sold a ton. I bought 50 off him for $0.45 each and sold them later for $2.50 each. I was RICH!!! Joel called me one day b/c he had gotten in a run of Miller Daredevil. I got a bunch of mom's S&H green stamps, pasted them in books and pedaled to the store to exchange them for cash. I think they paid $2/book or so? I then went and bought all I could. When I moved in with Dad I went to Tropic Comics. John was crazy fun, and Rob was pretty cool too. I worked there a little bit. Phil's comic shop and the Comic Exchange were local stops too. I know it was only supposed to be the first, but it was such fun.

Other than the movie in production? LOBO is a go for real! It must have been the latest Stan Lee news. Stan Lee loves Lobo The latest Stan Lee news? Stan's been saying that for around 20 years! But to Stan it was the first time he remembered saying it.

Nice haul. I've picked up some of the penthouse comix here and there. Was that the only one they had? Are they getting more mainstream?

Grabbed five Marvel calendars today, 1975 - 1979. Great stuff.

I was out this morning and picked up a box lot, several TPB and some random issues of Spidey and x-men. Nothing big, ASM 328 and a reprint of ASM 129. After I made an offer less than asking price and the seller accepted a guy that often sets up at the flea market comments, "Was that with the 129, first punisher?". I couldn't believe it. The money had changed hands, I was holding the box, IMHO the only thing that would have been accomplished is making the seller feel like doo doo the rest of the day. I commented that it was a reprint and walked away. It's better, the seller had taped onto the cover directly, a small piece of paper with his price on it. I would never, ever say anything. Is that the wrong approach? At the same flea market several months ago a different seller had some bronze marvels for $0.50 each. I was late and some guy was pulling out 30 or 40 books, I only saw a handful, the early Warlocks. I looked through the other boxes, but it wasn't stuff I wanted. Sure I was jealous, but I didn't tell the seller ( a guy in his 30's?), wow, you're selling $20 to $40 books for $0.50?!

I think it drew a lot of people, though he was already popular so that should be taken into account so its hard to say how many people who saw the movie were familiar with him to begin with. I look at it more as to who were on the edge already, and decided to take to plunge into comics after seeing the movie, even then though the that number would still be even smaller since not as many people could financially/ mentally spend almost 1k on a comicbook collectible. Even more so for the later reason if they had never collected to begin with. Lets also not forget that even though a lot of people say that they're fan of Deadpool or a comic fan usually translates to mean that they're a pop culture fan which encompasses a lot of things not just comics which we focus on. It did probably draw a segment of the people who say the movie to buy some of the latest issues, and even some trades, but not all of them probably stuck to it, and even less of that group I think would buy a NM98 unless they seriously considered themselves collectors going in, and just a a latest fancy in the hero movie trend. +1

I read link and it was Groot and the GOG in the Avengers Infinity war movie. I didn't see anything about a villain.

I collect super hero vs super hero covers and it's always been priced higher.

I got pretty lucky today, a complete 1984 fleer update, a 1978/79 Hockey set (knew nothing about hockey but it was a set), and then some loose; UD Griffey, the Jordan SP1 baseball, the 87 donruss rated rookie set, and 7 black bat Batman cards from 66. But it was only three different cards.

umm, what? Pay attention, dork umm, what? It's obvious, dork Dork is a noun and a verb

Or even a 4.0

You sure...? Sometimes you sure seem like one... I liked it better when you just posted graemlins. No, not really. At least I can get better

I thought anyone paid becomes professional, and anyone doing something not paid is amateur. NCAA comes to mind.

The bigger crime is selling X:O #1 for $5. I didn't think that book ever sold that low....send the rest you have my way, . I picked up an X-O #1 priced $5 and a few other cheap key Valiants last year at NY Special Edition. And then the seller discounted the lot on top of that. I really don't see the point of selling key books that cheap...maybe if you 100 at $1 a piece, but even still. I used to sell baseball cards. It was early 1990s, Barry Bonds was smoking hot. His 1987 Fleer card was worth a ton (at least to a 20 year old). A year or two prior, I had broken up a factory set into team sets to sell. When I had done that, the Pirates weren't that good and Barry wasn't that popular so I put a $5, or maybe less, price sticker on it. It sat, and sat, and sat, until one show where some guy and his buddy happened upon it and squealed like I used to at x-mas. If I had put it out for $20, like everyone else, I'd probably still own that 1987 Fleer Barry Bonds card. Instead I got a great story, and learned perspective. If I had put X-0 1, or solar 3 out there for $20 or whatever, I'd still have them b/c everyone sells them for that. Plus the couple more copies I got at home. They were priced at that level Winter 2013, where they've sat and sat and sat. Do I want the $5 now, and a customer for life who is going to seek me out first at shows, or do I want to babysit comics and sell much less volume. Maybe the movie or tv show they're doing with Valiant properties is going to be a turd? Then where am I? Stuck with dollar books that nobody wants. Maybe the show/movie is amazing. I still have several copies, and lest anyone think I'm going to price them at $5 too, please don't misunderstand me. I'll price it close to market, but with the aggressiveness to sell it, and not sit on it. BTW, I've already gotten a PM asking me for stuff to sell. I politely declined. It's way too much effort to pack and ship and hassle around with the USPS with a stranger. Maybe if it was my only source of income. But I work 12 hour days, I don't want to spend time after that doing the comics by mail bit. Doing a show every three or four months is hassle enough for my prima donna rear.

You're prices seem very aggressive, meaning low. I always look at it as do you want to sell books or just ask eBay prices and let them sit there? I would rather sell, which is what you did. Paying attention to eBay, whether you like it or not, will give you a better pulse on up-to-date prices. Also, did you state it correctly that you sold a New Mutants 9.8 for $600 and then 3 raw's for $800? each or $800 total? Total. I had bought a collection that had 10 of them, and had picked up five in the wild along the way. I paid $1 each if you consider the collection was $2K and had about 2K books. I know the 9.8 sells on ebarf for $800 or so, take out their fees, take out paypal fees, take out time to pack, and ship, and take out the problems of theft. I'll gladly give up 25% when it's pure profit to rest easy. Besides, next time that guy sees me set up, he's coming to me first and hopefully emptying his wallet. If I did shows more often, or for a living I may sing a different tune, but like playing at the casino, if you don't pick up chips, you're not winning. I do, and did price low to sell. I'm not there to babysit books. I buy them cheap and sell them. I'm not sure if I'd get more from a dealer or not, I've never taken them to one, but I'd rather make less and move more. I'm not going to sell on ebarf. I'll be in Clifton in September if you want to stop by.

Do you recall the grades on these? Especially those Solars.... They were all raw, I don't recall exactly, but they would have been 9.2 to 9.6 for the most part I guess. I had dug most/all of them out of Tem/Dees dollar boxes years ago, had priced them Nov/Dec 2013 and they didn't sell in Philly. Again in Jan 2014, they didn't sell. I looked some books for repricing, but missed a few obviously. I don't mind as much b/c the guy did me a solid on some stuff so it was somewhat a payback, but the X-O went at the end of the show, so nobody saw them. I still have a few of each left, but will be pricing them higher.

I realize the topic is "on e-barf", but I don't do that, but I did do a show a couple weeks back and here are some of the results: X-Factor 6, sold three, perhaps the only three I took? $50, $25 and $20. I try to price to grade, but not sure they were scrutinized. The $50 was 9.2 or 9.4 raw? The other two were not as nice. The guy worked for another dealer and said XF6 sells, XF5 does not. Sold lots of pre-unity Valiants; Magnus 12 for $20 and 5 for $5, Rai 0 for $10, X-O 1 to 5 for $5 each (yes, I know). Solar 3 two copies for $5 each. Cry for Dawn 1 3rd print for $25 San Diego Comic Con 2 for $40. NM 98 9.8 for $600, three raw for $800. Swampie 37 for $30 X-Men 266 for $50 Bats 359 for $20 and 358 for $5 Watchmen 1-12 in VF/NM for $40 Don't recall much of what was asked for. There were lots of people, but I think since I was new most customers didn't feel comfortable buying from me as I sold mostly to dealers.

2nd City

"1st Solo Power Girl Comic." is probably where the hype is coming from. I wonder if the other one that's been on Ebay for a month or so will get snapped up now. I actually bid on this copy because it's a better presenting example than the other one, but it just seems that early Power Girl is hot. All-Star 58 is not showing up very often in high grade and when it does people are setting new records it seems. Come on comic world, AS 59 is the one to get, that's where her character REALLY starts developing! (Why is it that my collection includes so many mini-hoards of second appearances?) Are you from Chicago?

Quit trying to control the conversation. Attitude aside, he has a point I agree, and hoped my f/u illustrated my attempt at humor. It arose b/c a couple months ago the topic seemed more intent on clarifying what the definition of 1st appearance should be. I posted that the discussion wasn't really topical. Someone pointed out, correctly, that my post was, and I'm paraphrasing, unnecessary, non topical, unconstructive, controlling, and most posts should be welcome. Or something to that extent.

I think that's really good. Comic Values Monthly didn't seem to last. I don't remember when the Overstreet quarterly (?) was in publication, but Wizard seemed to be the lasting image.