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As I explained to Nic8612, I was the second chance buyer, not the seller. I didn't realize how muddied the listing responses were getting until just now, I'm going to close this thread and list it anew in a few days.

If the seller cancelled your order, they are then able to make second chance offers. You would need to ask the seller why they did that.

I sent a screenshot of the offer to the OP, who I will note offered no proof that I was the seller on ebay before making the accusation. Most people who have dealt with me know my ebay and board handle are the same.

I was the second chance buyer, not the seller. You'd have to ask them why they cancelled on you. @Nic8612

My second Raymond Chandler pulp, and the last time he did a story directly for the pulps ( September 1941), unless you count the posthumous publication of "Wrong Pigeon" in the Feb 1960 issue of Manhunt, which was a digest. Elements of the story "No Crime in the Mountains" was later incorporated into the novel "The Lady in the Lake".

in thread rules. Check, m.o. or Zelle ecouraged, paypal accepted. 7 day return, but shipping costs will be deducted from refund. No HOSers or probies. Free shipping in U.S. International sales only to boardies I've sold to before, we can work out the shipping details. Time payments are fine (10% down), up to 120 days for the balance. Need a week or so to get payment together, no problem, I'll hold the book for you. Purchases shipped to California address must pay sales tax. WEIRD TALES of the FUTURE #3 CGC 3.5 (Slight C-1) Resto. ow-w pages. Color touch appears to be at top staple, and a couple of small ticks above, and a spot near the D at the edge of the cover. Rusty staples with some bleed. Classic Wolverton cover. $1700

Don't forget the prices. MORE!

Hold ups at the International Distribution Center may not be the fault of USPS, those are the facilities where mail has to go through customs, and possession is transferred to CBP before it is released back to USPS for distribution.

I only send and receive around three or four dozen packages a month. For the most part stuff has gotten both too and from me in reasonable time (I had one in state package sent First Class that arrived less then 24 hours after I'd mailed it, and I recently received a media mail package sent from the opposite coast that only took two days to arrive). My biggest issues have involved Canadian shipments, one I sent to Canada using ebay international shipping, that was held at a DHL distribution center for nearly two weeks (even though all tracking was USPS) and took about a month to get to the recipient, and the other is a package sent to me from Canada 5 weeks ago that still hasn't arrived.

Here is an extreme example where the right edge has clearly had pieces broken off rather than torn off. I would argue that Marvel chipping is due to brittleness. Some Marvels may be more subject to it due to small tears caused in the cutting process, and in some cases the "chipping" may be due to those tears continuing resulting in pieces coming off, but in most cases the edges of books with chipping have pieces broken off. The term "chipping" implies a breaking off rather than tearing off of a piece. You can't just break pieces off paper that is supple. I don't recall ever seeing Marvel chipping back in the 70s, the books had to age long enough that the cover stock lost pliability, and the edge was able to chip off. Loss of pliability is what brittleness is, one can argue about where in the process of paper aging loss of suppleness becomes brittleness, but generally if you risk breaking a piece off a page or cover by handling it, it would classify as brittle by just about anyone's definition. If it tears easily, it would have to at least slightly brittle.

It often means localized brittleness, I've had SB books that have page corners with tears or chips, but the pages are otherwise off-white and supple but for the corner. Conversely I've seen other books that appear to have issues with corner chips on tanning pages that get labeled cream pages. CGC also doesn't seem to note brittle covers, just pages. We've all seen books with chips out of the cover that are clearly due to brittle stock and not tears or separation along a fold.

While the time frame might be a little annoying, if someone wants to return something it's just good business to take it back as long as it is in condition sold. I have a 14 day from delivery no questions asked ebay return policy as long as the buyer pays return shipping. I've had three items out of more than a thousand sales returned. Once because a buyer belatedly realized they already had the comics, and another time the reason listed was just "decided I didn't want it."

A little anecdote about behind the counter magazines. Back in the 70s the local suburban drug store near me kept magazines like Playboy and Penthouse on a rack behind the counter, with a plastic screen hiding everything but the titles from sensitive eyes. That didn't stop them from selling them to fourteen year olds though.

With the right writers anything can work as a series. Put Tom Tykwer, writer and director of Babylon Berlin in charge, and I'd be hyped about a Shadow series.

A Shadow sci-fi young adult novel by a writer known more for quantity than quality is not something I'll be reading. Sure, Gibson cranked them out, and I admit, even as a teenager the repetition had me bailing on the Pyramid reprint series before they stopped, but updating the Shadow is a tricky proposition, as the character's iconic appearance is so tied to the original era. The only people that have worn fedoras in the last fifty years are nerds, and the Shadow with no cloak and fedora is just a name stuck on a mysterious crime fighter. The 1994 movie was a disappointment, but it least it kept the character in the 1930s. Max Alan Collins, who is pretty prolific himself, would have been a more obvious choice to write a Shadow book, but I guess he lacks the built in audience Patterson has (even if turns out all he's doing is slapping his name on the book with a co-author), and Hachette appears to want to tap into a younger market.

Bought a book from Joe, tightly graded, fast shipping. A + experience.

The updated version of the Tec 222 dialogue would be: "Judson, you've proved yourself worthy of becoming a Batman, and for two million in bitcoin you can own the NFT for the digital representation of this Batmobile model."

All prices lowered.

I've heard it was in a galaxy far away as well. It's too bad time and distance have always been an impediment to cross-overs in fictional universes.

I wouldn't be so sure, it's not like you see Mickey and Donald running around in the Star Wars universe. Yet.

I wasn't aware there was a Shadow with a Hitler cover, which issue is it?

Cool Hitler cover. There don't seem to be a lot of these on pulps.

Even though the price was strong for the copy in this auction, The Spider #1 still seems like a relative bargain. The character isn't as well known outside the pulp world and the issue is far more common, so I get why, but it it does have a way cooler cover than the first Shadow.

A sweet copy though, and I guess the book is tough to find in any grade. What do the big dogs think, has Shadow #1 surpassed the first Tarzan All-Story as the most valuable pulp? Or is there another book I'm overlooking?

Prices were strong for the entire pulp auction. I threw down leading bids on over 130 items over the weekend, was still ahead on around 48 yesterday, down to 24 when live bidding started, won zero.