Zacreth

Hey Everyone! Typical  No Probies & HOS peeps.

Shipping: Raws: First Class for the first 2 books, switched to priority over 2.

Raws:
First Class: $5 per box
Priority: $7.50 for the first 5 Raw books, after that each additional raw is $1

CGC:
Priority: $10 for the first slab, each additional is $2

International:
Based off weight

Payment:
Paypal Only please unless you're local to me

Returns:
Raws, not accepted
CGC, only if damaged from shipping

There's a lot of books so I'll try to post as soon as I can, if you have requests just pm me. Email me if you have my email address.

Summary of what's available:

"COMING SOON"

Well I just got our invoice for next week. Our order was altered from the quantity we requested but we are getting 1 copy though...

Sorry for the delay. I ended up going through several more boxes to pull copies out to get them all pressed and graded. We'll see what CGC's opinion is on the overspray on this book. 

Thanks everyone!

I'm surprised the grades quoted. The top right front corner would benefit from a press but if you can look pass the blue marking the book is very remarkably in great condition. There's a bit by the top staple but nothing else.

PGM ASM #129

So I bought a collection last week with tons of books. Mostly from the 80-late 90's with lots of keys and a full run of ASM. Here is a book that I'm curious about. I know of a topic I read a long time ago about how grocery stores would mark usually one side of the book that they sold with a marker. Apparently they must have done this to entire stack of ASM 129's! 

Anyways, what grade do you place on this? I'm thinking of sending it in for a press but will end up grading it but I am curious on your thoughts...

Front Cover:

Back Cover:

Back Cover Angle:

Inside Front Cover:

Inside Back Cover:

The book lays flat overall but there's a slight bend on the top right that would benefit from a press. What's your 

Sorry Bird for the hijack but thanks to both 01TheDude and F For Fake. I thought it would be a good to raise funds from selling them but it's hard to find an avenue to sell it and not be associated with it at the same time. I was thinking here on the forums but I'll see what I do with eBay in regards. 

to Bird, are you selling most of the books at a convention then or selling most of them on eBay?

Man that was so scary... I was reading your post a week ago about selling books to raise funds to buy a collection at the same time I was looking at a collection.  Then I realize you were in NJ but could you be looking at the same collection? Found out it wasn't the same set since I'm here in AZ and just bought 80 long boxes with a partner. We pulled all the same books as you were showing and I was like ?!?! that can't be my partner..??? and it wasn't. 

Congrats on the purchase btw. We processed 80 long boxes in one night from 5:30pm to 6:45am. Separated all the books in 3 piles, under $5 (dollar books), mid grade $6-$30 and keys. We ended up with 54 boxes of $1 books, 15 boxes of mid grade, 1 long box of just keys, 2 boxes of magazines, 2 boxes of sealed wizard magazines and 3 long boxes of......adult material.......lol.

Not sure where to offload the adult stuff but there was some mighty interesting titles..haha.

Almost the same keys minus a couple different pics from what you've shown.

It wasn't hard to order, but they go quick. They have been doing this for a while now. All the batman/TMNT eastman variants, all american superman variants were sold out instantly. Speaking of, does anyone want to buy one...lol?

Just wanted to bring this to light. Natali's value is going to go up...lol

So what if the setup is that they get married, Batman changes from the dark character he is known to be, and god forbid DC kills Catwoman by anyone and Batman goes all rage? But what about the Dark Days storyline... is that completely separate from this story since we're going into the joker/riddler story arc?

Just now, ygogolak said:

I blame the new boards!

both agree on that!

Haha... okay, yea if you scroll down I was just commenting on the follow up to Midtown's Iron Fist #1...lol. We're all good.

Just now, ygogolak said:

It's Iron Fist #1.

Are we talking about the same book?

Just now, ygogolak said:

This is neither a Defenders title nor a Midtown exclusive.

True in one part, It's not Midtown but actually 7ate9comics.com exclusive. It is a Defenders title exclusive though...

Sorry to hear that Medic. There's no tool currently that I know of that will transition your data into their unless they have a generic text file upload. There were tons of different programs people are using that told me over the weekend during PhoenixCon but lots of people I know was using ComicBase.

I'm trying to find a reasonable multi channel inventory manager for a decent price and haven't found one yet.

I know people were using apps like Collectorz though and there's a few others out there.

28 minutes ago, SquareChaos said:

Oops. In my defense, I don't think most people here read comics 

LOL... true, true

But thinking in the long run. The last page asks the question. (Square chaos let the spoiler out...ahem) But issue 25 goes straight into the joker/riddler storyline so there's no answer. Then you get an answer to the question after revealing of some "secret". So let's say there's a short story arc about being happy and all and it all comes to end and he hates the world and setup for the watchmen tie-in to the DC universe.

But does it stick and will it happen? who knows?

Redneck #1

Alias #1

On 6/4/2017 at 11:04 PM, freecharlie said:

I think these two Dell'Ottos will be winners. Keeping those low ultimate editions are attractive to me, as 250 available is nothing compared to all the art fans in the comic world. Their Mattina Daredevil cover for venomverse is also jaw dropping, and it was priced to sell. 

I like the cover and I think it's great to see Dell'Otto but the Defenders title kept me away from the book. I love the art but the follow up with Midtown is tough to say.

So I just complained about this over the weekend. After trying several times I gave up and filled out the pdf fillable forms. Apparently it's because the system doesn't recognize the book since it's too new so you don't get the Modern Tier.... don't ask me, it makes no sense but whatever. Now it's $8 per fillable form and I had 3 invoices with some new books so yea this is fun... 

I just remember when he showed up last year at Philly Con and I think it was either $350 for him or $500 with him and Huddleston (sp?)

10 hours ago, ygogolak said:

Free market, people can charge what they want.

completely agree. Just with higher dollar sets makes me choose hard what to collect.

2 hours ago, rjrjr said:

 

So, a store receives 6,000 comics and it cost them $12 - 15K which is $2 to $2.5 per book.  At $75 a set, they break even by selling only 200 sets which is 600 books or 1/10th of the product they purchased.

I'm not disputing some stores have a hard time selling out of these books depending on the artist.  I just don't understand how a store that is selling these for $75 or more is having a hard time "breaking even" at the ripoff price of $75 a set or $25 a book.

There are stores that make a profit at $10 a book for 3,000 copies.  Stores are not charities and not all of them are in this to just advertise.  For $12 - 15K there are much better ways to advertise.

Maybe one of you can show me using math how selling sets of 3 at $75 is barely break even.  Because I don't see it.

 

Well I can tell you that when they sell for over $75 they are just raping customers in a way since that is high for a set. Look at the ComicXposure Mattina 4 cover set... they want $129 for a set of 4 books. I think that's pricing a lot of customer's out to buy those but they only need to sell even less to make up their money and hope that the cover stays hot to make larger profits.

There should be retailers that a) needs to make a profit b) keep prices reasonable c) have a good artist/artwork. Then you have a winner I think. I love Mattina/Dell'Otto/Sanders/Granov and look forward to more from them. I recently found some other artists that I'm starting to like but if the retailers charge a fortune for the covers, forget it.

2 hours ago, rjrjr said:

ComicXposure has put up for sale on their online website their Darth Vader #1 exclusive:

http://shop.comicxposure.com/STAR-WARS-DARTH-VADER-1-FRANCESCO-MATTINA-EXCLUSIVE-DVFM1.htm

 

It has a very cool cover by Francesco Mattina.

Actually that's not their exclusive cover. It's Doug at ComicSketchArt exclusive cover but KRS and ComicXposure are authorized partners to sell them.