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On 9/9/2022 at 10:27 AM, kimik said:

eBay has been interesting. It was fairly cold for me in August up until the last week. Since then both sportscards and comics are selling well. It looks like the old buying patterns may be coming back.

Agreed - more traffic definitely. It was a Mark Twain August. 

On 9/6/2022 at 4:46 PM, KCode98 said:

I got a bundle of 1-4 off eBay but now I'm stuck with a cliff hanger. Any good place to get Marvel back issues of recent books?

Welcome to the boards!

Has the market changed at all in my absence??? 

On 9/2/2022 at 12:25 PM, Lazyboy said:

He sounds like yet another moronic clown who bought the hype.

Yes, another "moronic clown" that collects comic books . . . 

On 8/4/2022 at 4:54 PM, Lightning55 said:

If it's the pose you are referring to, didn't they have  hasn't Jim Lee drawn EVERY character in that pose at one time or another over the years?

FTFY 

All art gets recycled. 

I don't collect these, but couldn't resist picking them up . . . especially because of the B/W interiors:

On 8/2/2022 at 1:14 PM, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

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On these lists the Orange/ Blue are ones I have . The Yellow are ones that are already on there way to me. 

Kinda old school, no? 

On 7/10/2022 at 7:47 PM, fastballspecial said:

Does anyone have a Bar Coded Sandman they have a picture of?
All scan mine tomorrow and show you. I am just curious if anyone else has one.
Mine is Sandman 7.

 

Could ALBEDO #2 become the next TMNT #1?

Vuz already! 

On 7/28/2022 at 1:24 AM, lou_fine said:

Not a link, but probably just as good since it's a picture of the front cover of the book itself:  

Hope he didn't miss anything from this scrawled shopping list or he just might find himself sleeping outside in the doghouse tonight.  

That's a freakin' travesty.

On 7/30/2022 at 8:37 PM, twoseezy said:

I was just thinking it would interesting to discuss this since it is the first of its kind "newsstand 9.8" only auction!

Ok, my apologies, but you have to admit it seems a bit shilly. 

On 5/31/2022 at 8:35 AM, revat said:

SuperPro and Darkhawk are the only options

My bet's on SuperPro!!! 

On 7/21/2022 at 1:58 PM, littledoom said:

Advanced D&D 1 1988 DC selling today after the trailer.. it's been undervalued for too long

tree-fitty! 

 Might as well, might as well! 

On 7/29/2022 at 9:47 AM, Peter Loves Gwen said:

I believe that there is a new huge group of collectors who want the SS books far more than any non signature books. It has been a perfect storm for comics over the last 2-3 years, the Covid 19 world wide lock downs forcing people to stay home and find something new to do, the death of Stan Lee, plus the huge economic supply issues. A lot more people have begun collecting things in a serious way, all over the world.

Fairly self-serving opinion if I've ever . . . 

Nope, never ate there . . . 

Maybe it's "toosleazy" and they just spelled it wrong . . .

On 7/29/2022 at 8:35 AM, 1Cool said:

On 7/29/2022 at 7:29 AM, gradejunky said:

Ice cold doesn't even begin to describe my sales.

I have 2 sales in the last 5 weeks.  My store has almost 400 listings.  I plan on listing a copy of Spider-Verse 6, and a copy of Catwoman 44 1:25 Sozomaika tonight maybe.  The Catwoman book is a 9.8 so I am hesitating because I sell so many raw books that are grading worthy.  I just haven't sent books to CGC myself in many years.  I need to start as I have tons of gradeable inventory.  I'm getting tired of packing up $4-8 books one at a time.  I'm putting together sets to alleviate that as I process boxes and consolidate like runs/mini series together.

I've got about 850 items up right now and I got use to shipping out 30 - 50 books a week and it's dropped to about 10 - 15 books a week.  I've not been posting up a ton of new books which does have an impact but with 850 books you would think there would be plenty of books in there.  I still get a handful of ultra low ball offers a day so there are people looking but all of them want nice books for dirt cheap.  I'm just going to sit back and see how things go this fall and adjust from there.  With all the stagnant inventory I'd think we will see more and more $5 blow out auctions in the near future.

I'm going on vacation for August - no listings at all after this week. 

It appears they are few and far between.  

On 7/25/2022 at 4:17 PM, fastballspecial said:

If you read the Sandman Copper Thread you would know.

Perhaps, but you posted the question here. 

Is this a Heritage shill thread?

On 7/24/2022 at 6:36 PM, GeeksAreMyPeeps said:

Not when they ran the sale, but I did manage to get one in-store for about $25

$25 for a comic book?!? My father would have a stroke! (if he were still alive, that is.)

Y'all do realize that once collecting modern newsstands became "a thing," that it's no longer a thing, right? 

On 7/24/2022 at 11:31 PM, Lightning55 said:

If you buy a CGC graded book and crack it out of the slab, it becomes a raw book.  The label is in their database, and you are supposed to return labels of cracked slabs, but CGC has no way of tracking a comic that has been graded and later cracked out.

They're not putting RFID tags inside the comics.

They have scans, which are often enough, and memories to boot.