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I wasn't aware of the price increases, but the wait times alone will keep me away for a while. I only submitted a half dozen books once every year or two anyway, so I doubt they will miss me.

That will be it for this thread. If you missed my offer on another thread , a pdf of my self-published pulp crime novel is available for free for the asking, just send me a PM.

SPICY DETECTIVE STORIES Feb 1936 G/VG cream-ow pages Nice spine. $250 Now $225

SPICY MYSTERY STORIES July 1935 G+ cream pages Spine is somewhat faded. Back cover is nearly detached, holding on only at top 3" Classic bondage cover There is currently a copy on ebay in lower grade listed for $900, this one is only $450 Now $385 with free shipping

STARTLING STORIES Jan 1950 VG- cream pages 1" spine split bottom of front cover, top overhang chipped off. Classic robot cover. This book is the Startling #49 of sci-fi pulps, a copy in similar condition recently sold for $525 on ebay. $450 Now $400 with free shipping

TEEN-AGE ROMANCES #78 5.0 ow-w pages Classic "I Loved a Teen-Age Beatnik" cover/story. The girl realizes her mistake when her beatnik boyfriend can't be bothered to try and rescue her injured father from a burning room. "Relax chick, it's probably too late anyway". $100 Now $80

GEORGIE #24 4.5 ow pages 1" split at top of spine, 3/4" at bottom. $120 Now $100

DAREDEVIL COMICS #11 COVERLESS ow-w pages Complete other than missing the cover. Alas, no Classic cover, though the story is still pretty cool. Piece out of margin of first wrap. $300 Now $250

ZIP COMICS #46 1.5 ow pages Rough spine with splits and tape, about 50% intact. piece out of back cover. Last MLJ war cover. $225 Now $200

SUPER-MYSTERY COMICS V.2 #5 3.0 white pages Spine roll that could be pressed out. Taped tear at right edge over cover, tape inside and outside. Centerfold is detached. $500 Now $450 with free shipping.

CUENTOS DE BRUJAS Numero Extraordinario #1 3.5 ow pages Squarebound 2 interior pages nearly detached , 2" tear in one. Stain on F.C., more evident in scan than in hand. Full color Ajax/Farrell stories in Spanish $300 Now $250

HORRIFIC #2 3.5 cream pages 1/4" spine split at top, dime size stain on inside front cover at top right. Great color and gloss. $750 Now $675

in thread rules. Returnable in 14 days for any reason. $7 shipping in US. At cost elsewhere. Free shipping on orders over $500. No HOSers or probies. Paypal, zelle, check or M.O. Need a couple weeks to pay? - no problem, I'll hold the books for you. Unfortunately I must collect sales tax from buyers in California. I will invoice when I have zip code. I will discount tax against shipping costs. No sales tax on sales outside California. First up the only CGC book on this thread JUNGLE COMICS # 99 CGC 7.5. ow-w pages $780 Now $700

Black Terror #23 $125 NOW $100 I'll take this.

How many spine ticks are allowed on a CGC 9.8 is up to the discretion of CGC. However if you grade a raw book as a 9.8 and it has more than one or two minimal spine ticks expect someone to argue that it's not a 9.8.

take it.

I decided to self-publish a crime novel I wrote a few years ago in the pulp tradition of 1950s paperback originals (though with more graphic language at times). It's available on Amazon, and can be read for free with kindle unlimited. If you don't have kindle unlimited, send me a PM and I will send fellow boardies a pdf for free if interested. You can read the first four chapters by using Amazon's look inside feature to decide if you are interested. I guarantee you will enjoy it it if you are a fan of the genre. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B094X6DX6K?pf_rd_r=6BT7PBMGW8HFFZYA0PNR&pf_rd_p=5ae2c7f8-e0c6-4f35-9071-dc3240e894a8&pd_rd_r=1aed7a99-b772-4b5c-8768-ecdc76982821&pd_rd_w=37C7O&pd_rd_wg=saz0I&ref_=pd_gw_unk

They've always been a bit overzealous in policing listings outside their adult category anyway (which was pretty much a graveyard as nothing in it would come up on searches). I've had Tijuana bibles and underground comix delisted when there was nothing graphic in the title on on the cover image. The same with vintage girlie mags that were no more revealing than Playboys of the era, but from lesser known publishers.

Take it.

Many of you are aware of the La Prensa Spanish language full color reprints of precode horror (and later post-code fantasy) in Cuentos de Brujas, Cumbres de Tortura and Misterios del Gato Negro, which went from showcasing Harvey books to Ajax Farrell to Atlas. What I had never seen before was one of the squarebound Cuentos de Brujas Numeros Extaordinario - a six issue run from 1954. This is the first issue, which has an unusual woodgrain pattern for the background (both front and back) of a recycled Ajax cover. The cover stock is of the thicker type sometimes found on squarebounds. I don't know how rare these actually are, but I'm guessing they are less common than than the regular sized issues. The stain on the front cover is not as milky looking in hand.

It worked for me briefly yesterday, but is no longer working if you don't put something specific in the search field. If you click on an era it asks you to pick a further subcategory, and the to shop by grade before ending up on a page of paid advertising links. And if you want to search by subject, eras are now a checkbox field, so you now have to recheck the era every time you make a new search. All other collectible categories are functioning properly, but not comics. As of half an hour ago, I could still not blanket search by category.

So any other category I can blanket search by category or sub category without entering anything in the search bar, but not comics. WTF ebay?

The interface is acting very hinky. I was briefly able to leave the search bar blank, hit search under comics and then pick Golden Age and ended up with Golden Age listings, but tried it again and I just get a page explaining what GA comics are with further options to narrow a general search by genre which if you click on them just ask you narrow further never getting to a page of listings.

Apparently ebay has done something like this with all their listing categories, not just comics. It seems impossible to scroll through listings by era. You have to use keywords now. This will definitely impact sales, as most people just want to scroll through categories instead of having to plug in endless titles and characters and then sort by era. I guess I will have to start putting the era in all my listings, much like I've always put "pulp" in the listings for pulps.

I'll never understand paying 3 or 4 times as much for CGC graded 9.8 than what one would expect to pay for a CGC 9.6 in the first place, so when such buyers seem unconcerned about the actual relative flaws of such books, I'm not really surprised. Even if there was a reliable concrete difference between the grades, the willingness to pay such a premium indicates a greater interest in the label than the actual condition of the book. This is true even when justified as an investment decision or some OCD desire for uniformity of CGC grade in a collection. If it makes a buyer happy, then fine, there are all sorts of reasons why collectors prefer one book over another, even if condition is comparable; pedigree, page quality, presentation, color vibrancy, type of distribution, lack or addition of date stamps, even whether or not they include advertising inserts unrelated to the content, but be honest with oneself, if you are willing to pay that much of a premium for a CGC 9.8 over a CGC 9.6, but wouldn't pay a premium if the book was raw, then the small flaws that arguably constitute the difference in grade aren't what matters to you.