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It's a nice book - too bad it has that evil white stamp in the corner. I react to those the way a bull reacts to seeing red.

I haven't had any autographed books for years. (The only ones I've ever owned were a few Marvels autographed by John Byrne on the splash page. I think I bought one and won the other two in a raffle at a convention back in the 80s.) I personally would not want a book autographed on the cover because I'm not an autograph collector. I might accept one with an autograph on the splash page if it was a scarce book on my want list. Some people will probably pay more for an autographed book, but you would also lose quite a few potential buyers. In having a book signed, you'd be turning a book from a mainstream book into a niche book. You may get a few extra dollars if you find the right buyer, but it will most likely take you longer to find a buyer when you decide to sell. The location of the autograph is also important - you don't want an autograph to interfere with the cover art any more than it has to.

Way to go, Bob! Here's its former partner... Wow, they probably spent 50 years or more together in a box. It's nice to see old friends get together. Those are both ! (Bats/Tecs used to be my main focus years ago, but I never had anything that nice.)

The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards. AND The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

Catman

I'll take a shot in the dark and say it's the Allentown copy of Mystic #1.

here's another of recil's books, with same pq. a beauty that is degraded by a dime-sized tape-pull on a bc coupon. made it much more affordable, but i don't know a single collector who would hammer it as hard as cgc did for that piddling defect. It's a beautiful book regardless of what number's on the label! I admit I'm not sure how I'd grade a tape pull; the toughest books to grade, for me, are the ones that are high grade except for one significant defect (as opposed to ones that have general wear).

It's awesome to see a Recil Macon with such nice page quality!

I hear you, especially on the page quality. I think I've seen 9.6's with cream-to-off-white pages, which is ridiculous.

Those are both great covers!

Sweet!

Yeah, it sold for a crazy price for being 1 of 4 in that grade, especially since it was barely a 9.4 and really has no chance of being "upgraded" via pressing. (I sympathize with the winning bidder, though; I freely admit that I'm an addict and have happily bid way over FMV on books I felt like I HAD to have.) Oh yeah...I was the psychopath who got in a bidding war on some of Nic Cage's Weird Mysteries a while back and spent WAAAAY too mcuh There are worse things to overpay for! I've realized that as much as I scoff at buy-it-now prices, I usually end up getting a worse deal in auctions due to my lack of self control. So, the other day, I went ahead and picked up this one on CConnect at the BIN price. (It was a consignment item, so the chances of my actually getting it are probably 50/50.) It is a highest-graded copy, though.

Yeah, it sold for a crazy price for being 1 of 4 in that grade, especially since it was barely a 9.4 and really has no chance of being "upgraded" via pressing. (I sympathize with the winning bidder, though; I freely admit that I'm an addict and have happily bid way over FMV on books I felt like I HAD to have.)

Great cover! I bid on a different 9.4 (not a File Copy) on Heritage Sunday night. Where was this one listed?

I don't own a copy of this issue because I don't particularly collect Bronze Age comics, but this is my favorite cover from April 1974:

That book is a beauty! Plus, I always love to see controversial books posted. http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1348493&fpart=1

I'm 39. I collected from age 10 to age 15, got back in for a couple of years in my 20s but left for about a decade, & then just got back into it again last year.

I picked this one up a few months ago. I paid through the nose for it, but I love the cover because of the detail of the burning matches jammed under the old man's finger tips.

Cool cover!

(thumbs u

Nope. Long ago, when I was trying to come up with a username on E-Bay, I thought of that as a play on my name and the song "Boeing 707" by Roger Miller, which I had listened to not long before. Pretty random.

If this is a cross-over item - being collected by Misfits fans rather than just true comic collectors - then many buyers may just want a copy without caring too much about the grade. In other words, a VG might sell for $1,500, but a VF might not sell for much more than that, etc.

Congratulations indeed! Babies need lots of attention. I don't think you'll have any time to check E-Bay over the next few years (or Heritage, or CLink, or CConnect)...

Thanks guys! (I'm getting into pre-code more and more....)

Here's a recent acquisition. It's a little obscure, but I like it.