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FineCollector
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Guide says you did okay, and I agree. Low and mid-grade silver age Thors generally sell under book, but people hold on tighter to the 126.
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Light water stains on the back cover along the spine clinches it, 4.0 for sure.
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Best thing we can do is not go see it, convince others not to go see it, and let it flounder. Once it gets tagged with "disappointing opening weekend," we're one step closer to Fox telling themselves that comic book movies are on the decline, and selling the whole franchise.
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The Justice League cartoons said Raysh, but I'm told Rawz is how it was intended in the 70's
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ebay auction new mutants annual #2 sold for $42
and the TPB's sold for $127
not bad for a $6 outlay......deals are out there if you know where to look.......
Your links suck.
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This wasn't at a flea market or garage sale or anything, but I was surprised and pleased to snag a lot of 10 Cap books for $6 on eBay and have these three inside. First Crossbones! VF/NM.
Great run. Gruenwald and Lim were fantastic together, and the issues are dirt cheap. Keep going until 382, the last part of the Serpent Society storyline. (thumbs u
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In the "no one cares but me" category, Angar the Screamer's power doesn't work like that...
Have to say, as much as I didn't like this past episode, it was worse running right after a huge Flash episode. I've officially given up on this trash.
flash is Dawson's creek, with super powers zzzzzz, but to each their own.... do go on.
At least Flash has villains. Who was the chick with the razor blades on her fingers supposed to be? You could fill a whole season of SHIELD with Serpent Society members, and no one would care if you punked them, but noooo... tech weirdo and generic mafia thug, it is! Have fun with that!
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HG Wells, Harrison Wells...someone must have figured that out already.
So, if he's saying that time will find a way to replace an event, what was the purpose of his going back in time to kill Barry?
I too was wondering this - why?
And why didn't he succeed to kill the child Barry - I guess the obvious reason is Barry (Flash) of the future intercepted him and tried to stop it, but failed. We still don't know why Wells wanted to kill Barry to begin with. But it probably wouldn't be a stretch, given the fact he is the evil RF
Without Flash, there is no Reverse Flash, and Barry's mother presumably has to die for Flash to exist. Cue the huge argument about time loops...
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In the "no one cares but me" category, Angar the Screamer's power doesn't work like that...
Have to say, as much as I didn't like this past episode, it was worse running right after a huge Flash episode. I've officially given up on this trash.
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I would like to poke another question into this conversation. As you collect your runs, will any copy do or does it need to be a certain grade?
I don't collect anything particularly rare, so for me, it's one and done, I don't want to have to buy another copy. I'm fussy, the book has to be rock solid on the staples, (preferably off-center slightly to the back so there are no tears), no rust, minimal water or foxing, and have a certain eye appeal, or I''ll pass it up. Robert/Crassus buys books in exactly the same shape I want, but seemingly logs on 20 minutes before I finish work every day!
Buying a specific grade has burned me many times in the past. I've been working on a run, and the D-list key is suddenly a hot ticket. Why didn't I buy one before? I didn't find a copy I liked.
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It's a terrible compulsion, being a run collector. I bought the first Rocketeer, I finished Starslayer. I bought the first Crow, I'm working on the rest of Caliber Presents. Avengers, TOS, Cap, JIM, Thor, FF, Flash, Aquaman, Phantom Stranger, Captain Marvel Adventures... I'm actively chipping away at all of those. I may never get the mega-keys to finish the runs, but the hunt is where the fun is.
I'm trying to collect a full run of silver age top ten keys.I don't think we're talking about the same thing...
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Iron Man #304, Suicide Squad #23, Sleepwalker #1, Avengers #316 (and another 90+ books) for 33 cents each
I had to look those up, and WTF? People have too much money to burn.
The Showcase 60 for $3 is ridiculous. Congrats on hitting a gold mine.
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looks like "we [h]as a whole..." 'nother trimmed book....
AVOID
Just to address the "we as a whole" thing, I don't buy trimmed books and don't at all encourage what this guy's doing, but I'm trying to be polite and not make anyone feel like I'm pointing fingers.
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I'm down to one trimmed book in my collection these days...my ASM 1 with top and right edge trimmed (9.0). But the overall rest of the book is so nice and the color strike so awesome, I'm fine with it. And it's the only sensible way for me to own a 9.0 copy in my set that I am willing to afford.
Therein lies the problem, it's not a 9.0, never will be. I mean you no offense, and I'm glad you're happy, but this dealer is appealing to a very real and present need by collectors to pay as little as possible for a big number on the label. The fact that this seller deserves eternal punishment by having his extremities trimmed with a paper cutter is complicated by the fact that we as a whole are enabling him to profit from this.
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just picked up a stack of 50 dollar books i had asked a shop to hold for me for a while. while nothing in there jumped out as me as an expensive book erroneously filed in the dollar box, i thought a lot of them had some potential even if i did not know what they might be worth and did not feel like looking them up on my phone.
i cannot believe how off i was. every single oddball indie i thought had some potential (a lot of them were tim vigil books) turned out to be dollar books, the spidey clone books i bought turned out to be the ones nobody wants and on and on. aside from some low grade 12 cent cover price charlton hot rod comics which i know are better than $1 books, the best i probably did was getting a nice spawn 229 and 153. never have a i bought this many dollar box books with so little upside. i must be losing my magic touch or perhaps i need to learn the late copper/modern market a little better.
It happens every now and then. I took a gamble from a thrift store and bought a "mystery" longbox for $50. No Marvel, DC, or even anything recognizable in there. Not even the 1 billion printed Valiant books. Just a bunch of junk. I was just gonna burn it, but instead I donated it to Goodwill.
well, i knew exactly what is was buying, but erroneously believed more of it was better than dollar box fodder than it really was. i know it's not all about the flip but i feel better when i lay out a chunk of change and know that i could get it back if i wanted to sell 20% of the books I bought and keep the rest. here i would have troubles breaking even after fees, not to mention the time. oh well.
There's a lesson to be learned by this story, but I wouldn't count on anyone figuring out what it is...
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These DeMatteis/Muth issues are gorgeous – I never saw them before!
Thanks for posting them… are the stories good? I quite like DeMatteis, but not always.
Don't have the Muth issues, but late-run Surfers were a terrible read... they revealed that Zenn-La was long gone, and that Galactus had maintained the world as a a hologram to make Surfer happy. Then they killed Galactus. Clearly, none of that trash stuck.
I have to go with FF 72. I honestly dont see why SS4 is as popular as it is. It seems all its value is in the cover art. Im not that fond of heroes fighting heroes, though back in the silver age its more fresh and enjoyable then modern things like civil war. By no means do I think the art is bad or that it isnt an iconic image of the silver age, but I just dont think a heroes iconic cover should be a depiction of them being tricked to fight a fellow hero.You've never read a real copy of the book, have you? It's pages and pages of gorgeous John Buscema art, set in Asgard. The whole book looks that good.
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Silver Surfer 4 is my favorite cover of all time, so...
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Purdy, but we expect a story!
(That X-Men 94 with the corner crunch is speaking to me...
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Some really nice books went into the hands of people that was more interested in the profit they could make off of them than the characters and stories.
You haven't been here long, have you? It's all about the flip. You'll have your own list of "favorite" boardies before long
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My first store was Heroes Comics in the suburbs of Montreal in 1989. I was late to the party, because Montreal already had chain stores of Capitaine Quebec, and Gerry Ross' Million Comix, which I only discovered later by flipping through the yellow pages (and dad driving me there on Saturday mornings). I remember it was '89, because the first book I bought there was the Batman movie adaptation off the stands. The store was tiny, but orderly. I don't remember the wall books all that well, what caught my eye was the Marvel choose-your-own-adventure type novels (bought the Cap issue), and some pewter superhero figurines (which I never got into). They ended up moving to a bigger location on the main street for a few years before moving into a flea market around the time of the X-Men 25 holographic cover, and dropped out of sight. There's still a Heroes Comics north of town in Laval, and he does conventions too, but I'm not a fan.
Nice to see the mention of Silver Snail in Ottawa. They have lousy back issues now, but the manager Kin is a friendly guy.
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Went to a book donation center that benefits the local library today. Digging through the long boxes of moderns and 90s drek paid off. Walked away with this for 50 cents:
Cool find. Did you buy anything else? Since it was for charity, and all?
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I will share some flea market scores with you guys in the future. I got a big pile of lower grade DC 10 centers a couple of weeks ago at one of our local fleas. Part of the fun is getting them cheap like this. I won't tell what I paid because I've seen what happens to people who do over here...
Not at all, we're happy to hear about great finds. We only hassle the clown who cries poverty! (thumbs u
And TF, those are darn fine dollar bins. In the comic wastelands of Ottawa, the shops around here don't have regular back issues that good.
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condition is rough on some of the silver - all are "read" not a big deal for me (I paid a "read book" price).
Anyone else curious what a "read book" price amounts to?
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I'm not reading 35 pages. Has anyone punched this guy in the face yet?
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Silver age comics that are heating up
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Before the Affleck Daredevil movie, Wizard jacked up the prices, but I didn't see the books actually moving at a higher price. Why would it happen now?