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It's even more annoying when a book is missing pages, but the seller puts a grade in the listing title and description with no mention of qualifications, and then mentions the missing pages in a block of text after describing less important condition details first. I hastily pulled the trigger on a book like this not that long ago, somehow not noticing the "missing a page" note. I returned the book, informing the seller that even GD condition implies completeness and they might want to consider highlighting such a flaw. They went ahead and relisted without changes.

My wife sells a lot of $20-$40 jewelry on ebay, and she's gotten versions of this. So you can't afford $32 for a pair of earings, but at $20 you now have money to spare?

The best offer is a default option if you aren't using a previous listing as a template. I think some sellers don't always realize when a book has it. I once offered $20 for $25 book with a best offer option, and it was auto-rejected, so for the hell of it I offered $24 to see what would happen, that was rejected too.

If you really want to be annoyed try scrolling through the Platinum Age category. Almost no one who lists books there, including full time dealers, seems to understand what sort of books belong there. I can forgive early Golden Age, or somewhat related non-comic items from the same era, but really it should just be titled Random Comic Books from All Eras. However, sellers who actually put "Platinum Age" in their listing title, generally are selling Platinum Age Comics.

Seems like a candidate for a resub. I seem to recall a thread about a JIM 83 that went from blue to purple (trimmed) and back to blue on subsequent resubs. I also remember a thread about some undergrounds from the early 70s that were tagged for "color touch", though the submitter had bought them new. It turned out that the printer (I forget which one), had actually touched up some of the print run before it shipped out.

My biggest disappointment is not a grade I received, but one I saw on a resubmission (after it had passed through a couple of different hands). It was a GA book with distinctive distributor marks, so I knew it was the same copy. It had originally been graded an 8.5, which I was happy with, I'd purchased it raw as a VF years earlier. A nice looking book, but with a 1&1/2" NCB crease in the front cover, almost invisible on the outside, but with the sort of fiber damage along the crease that can't usually be pressed out visible on the inside. Maybe some genius figured out a way to "iron out" the crease completely, or maybe CGC just missed it on the resub, but I later saw the book in a 9.4 holder. I'm not sure if I was disappointed that I hadn't figured out how to turn it into a 9.4, or that CGC had given it the grade when I doubted it was worthy.

This thread inspired me to search my own garage for forgotten treasure, but the only mystery box I found was full of old binders and notebooks my kids had used in grade school. I'm not sure if there's enough there for a sales thread.

3.0/3.5.

$275

A copy with the top of the cover missing would be expected sell for less than one missing the centerfold.

Like many books, Caps have seen a big jump in the last year, with many selling for around double what they would have in early 2020. This has even effected the normally slower selling immediate postwar issues, as just getting any complete unrestored War cover Cap in 2.0 or better for under $1000 is pretty much impossible anymore, so paying $500-$600 for a low grade postwar issue with Schomburg cover doesn't seem so bad. Still $600 for an incomplete issue seems a little steep, but it would present reasonably well as a married copy, and coverless Caps aren't that uncommon. In general it's not all that unusual for incomplete books that would be around a Qualified 4.0 to sell for close to blue label 2.0 price, even more if the cover is the main attraction, though perhaps less if a key story is effected.

Complaining about Overstreet's error in this regard and the repetition of that error by CGC and auction houses is a rite of passage for GA collectors. The next step is realizing that Action #29 is not actually the first Lois Lane cover for the title.

I sent a check as well, so I expect after three weeks from it being cashed I will have to send an email asking when the book might be shipped, followed by an email an hour or two later telling me it's just been processed for shipping with a Fedex tracking number.

Heck, you could regret just the not buying in December, and flipping for double by March.

Yeah, but is it really worth the same as ASM #42 the first real MJW appearance, because that seems where it's headed? I just checked on ebay and ST #159 is selling for almost as much as #135. So the first appearance of a pretty minor character is running close to the same as the first appearance of SHIELD and Nick Fury as a colonel in the then contemporary Marvel universe? Does that make any sense other than frothy speculation based on a TV appearance?

6.0

That one just occurred to me and was about to add it. GMTA

7.0 seems a tad generous, but not unreasonable. I'd have thought 6.0-6.5, but it's all just an estimate.

That's a lot of monkey punching.

I can't count the number of times I've been riding top bid with a lowball until the final minutes of an auction.

What a dork, a whole rack full of PCH, and the kid is considering an issue of Daredevil from way way past it's prime. The grandkids were all excited when they heard Grandpa was leaving them his childhood comic collection, until they discovered it was all issues of Daredevil, Boy Comics and Dell westerns from the early 1950s.

It has always amused me that third stringers like Johnny Quick, Green Arrow and Aquaman managed to outlast Flash and Green Lantern. Imagine how different the SA would have been if DC had booted them in favor of Flash and GL as backups in Adventure.

The one superhero title I'd given a bit of thought to as to when does its Golden Age end is Batman. The last 44 page issue is 87, the last pre-code issue is 89, and 92 with the first appearance of Bat Hound, feels like the start of the oddball supporting cast batman would gain in the late 1950s, along with Batwoman, Batgirl and Bat-mite. This is a case where one could arbitrarily pick the last non-code issue as the end of the GA and not be far off, though 99 is the last Penguin appearance for a number of years, who along with Catwoman and Two-Face disappears from Batman's universe for the rest of the 10¢ era, and even the Joker only has one or two non-cover appearances until the 1960s. From a collecting perspective, I suppose you could just wrap up a GA Batman collection with #100 to keep it simple. With Detective you have the last Catwoman in 211 (definitely GA in my book), the code arriving with issue 217, and Martian Man-hunter showing up in 225, who is definitely a SA character, even though he predates Showcase #4. Here again you could just go with the last non-code issue as being the end of an era. The art and writing doesn't show a dramatic shift in 1955 for Batman related comics (that wouldn't come until 1964), but there is definitely a difference between early 50s content and late 50s content when you step back and look at the whole decade, and that shift seem to come with the shelving of Batman's more famous foes, and the introduction of new characters, and eventually more emphasis on sci-fi related stories.

I'd generally agree with that, and its probably the main reason dealers traditionally listed Dells in their own section in their catalogs, outside the groupings of Gold and Silver. I do think the collecting community has gravitated to using these terms for chronological eras, regardless of genre, and it's not unreasonable to think of pre-code crime and horror as being part of the "Golden Age" for an example. It does get trickier with genres that saw little impact from the code though, especially funny animal books. I suppose in many respects, the Golden Age ends in 1949, when Timely stops publishing Superhero books, and DC folds or changes the genre of all their superhero books other than the Batman/Superman/WW related titles and All-Star, as that truly seemed like the end of an era to earliest generation of comic book collectors. This (or even earlier) tended to be the general opinion when the term was coined, as it did apply specifically to superhero eras, but I think the collecting interests of comic fandom in books rom the the 40s and 50s has diversified a lot since those days, and it's legitimate to think of other genres having been part of the Golden Age.