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yep, it's always been popular in grade . . . but let's see how high it spikes.

Wasn't this the days of the 1.6 exchange rate? and even crazier, aren't they generally printed in canada?

Change to CCS Screening Service Emails We're making a change to the CCS screening service emails. Prior to today, we have sent customers an email indicating which books were approved for pressing and which books weren't. This would typically include a fee breakdown for CCS. Moving forward, if books are submitted to CCS for press screening, customers will only receive an email when books are rejected for pressing. For example, if 25 books are submitted for press screening and five are rejected, an email will be sent to indicate which five books are rejected. All other books would proceed to be pressed at the rates indicated by the customer on CGC’s order form. This new change also applies to screening for restoration removal.

starting sometime in 2003 and running into 2004, i frequented a small chain bookstore in my office building and bought a bunch of newsies off a spinner rack, yes, a spinner rack. i have about a short box during that time frame and then lost interest in paying retail. here are few left from the spidey run:

suh-weet - those are nize!

hey kid, this ain't a library . . .

by retailer, i was referring to newsstands and all those on that delivery model. unless you were a big block retailer, you had neither the tracking or wherewithal of telling the distributor what you wanted.

which, of course, was the same at any retailer, and at marvel and dc as well. it's all pulp fergawdsakes . . . it never mattered to any party how much of which sold, just how many. "it was business, jacob." although, admittedly, with the application of the bar code, this information became available for anyone's use. but remember, no one ever got rich in the comic book business until movies happened.

i had two newsies copies of this ish, which CLEARLY, i sold way too early. . .

(see above for context)

perhaps, but it's been almost 6 years since slym started this thread.

turds always drop . . .

i remember buying that issue!

Sounds odd now,but most of the comic shops I went to as a young kid only sold back issues.I had to take my bike to three or four different corner stores sometimes to find the different comics I wanted,or ones that weren't already beat up bad.Comic shops were for weekend box digging. times change; except for collections i bought (back issues) and a few outliers, i bought all of my 1st tier tomato box books from 1967 to 1979, and not a single one from a "comic shop." all of them came from drug stores or "mom and pop's". i did have to go to various "head shops" in the 70's to get my underground comix (but that's a different discussion altogether . . . )

The Superboy 124 looks absolutely flawless . . .

I’m glad I got you two together on this one - great discussion

That’s somewhat ironic because when they first put barcodes on (1975?) I was similarly annoyed and truly considered not collecting anymore. It was sacrosanct to destroy the integrity of the cover art.

I didn't really care about them six years ago, so maybe it's up to 5 or 6 guys now. Are the rest of you guys the ones outbidding me? and i would guess for every one of us, that's a thousand silent collectors out there (except for RMA, that would be at least 5,000 )

those are some perty books!

you are indeed funny, j