Wall-Crawler

Warning for my "millions" of followers 

I haven't had a buyer back out in awhile but this one is interesting. I had the book packed and was going to ship this morning. Refunded. Blocked. And Moving On. For sale on the boards if anyone interested LOL.

On 12/9/2020 at 5:11 PM, Arkham said:

Nice pickup!! 

It's completely outside my focus, but I'm pretty interested in one of your Spawns when you start flipping buddy.

I only flipped mine because it was CBCS and not CGC and that made me go like this whenever I saw it in my collection: 

Sorry, thought I had replied. For sure, when I sub these to CGC and get them back, will let you know.

I definitely lucked out with the two Thor #2's...Those are going to CGC for sure...Christian Bale as God-Butcher and I have two first apps! Might have to fast track those ones LOL.

2020 keeps rolling! Picked up another small lot of books from a collector contact of mine looking for some quick holiday cash. Not huge but a fun lot!

DMZ #1 x 2 both going to CGC

DMZ lot nearly two complete sets

DMZ Show incoming or something 😂

Hulk and She-Hulk mini lot other common She Hulk not pictured.

Thor #2 x 2

Spawn #1 newsstand x 6 all high grade some going to CGC

...I have one other Star Wars focused lot at CGC now which includes two copies of Knights of the Old Republic #9.

Wheels keep on turning...Approached by customer on my Facebook Page to see if I do trades as he wanted my BA #12 CGC 9.6 - I normally don't like to  but customer wanted the book and was not a seller so in exchange for the BA #12 CGC 9.6, I got these two books...

On 10/30/2020 at 2:53 PM, Wall-Crawler said:

Batch from CGC arrived including those Clone Wars #1's I picked up a little bit ago...First Ahsoka Tano double threat!

These sold in a flash!

And slowly trying to ramp up my eBay store for the holidays...We shall see how much I can post there...

10 hours ago, Arkham said:

Love your latest haul mate... As I was saying in that other comms channel, I have no idea why Spider Gwen #0 2nd printing has gone full Hansel...  I can’t find any info on this from a couple of the sources that I have been relying on recently (keycollectorcomics.com and GoCollect.com)... what’s the goss? 

 

I wasn't really aware myself...I think Spider-Gwen has a following and that it is a super low print run (apparently) with some new content, but I don't pretend to understand ALL the intricacies of the modern collector!

Another small but mighty buy!

On 10/31/2020 at 10:57 PM, thehumantorch said:

Nice results on the Clone Wars #1s.  This little collection could be a gold mine.

 

Thanks and for sure...If I am able to sell them 😉!

I'm quite happy with the past few little deals for sure.

...Sometimes little deals are the best low bulk, decent returns!

10 hours ago, thehumantorch said:

Nice results on the Clone Wars #1s.  This little collection could be a gold mine.

 

Thanks and for sure...If I am able to sell them 😉!

I'm quite happy with the past few little deals for sure.

...Sometimes little deals are the best low bulk, decent returns!

3 hours ago, Nightwingsbutler said:

Selling either of the #9 or #31 first revan/malak?

Yep...When back from CGC!

Batch from CGC arrived including those Clone Wars #1's I picked up a little bit ago...First Ahsoka Tano double threat!

Buying Update:

Buying wise, 2020 is proving to be a very good year! To date I have:

• bought a UF #4, 1st Miles Morales Voldemort 9.8 and flipped for a VERY nice profit, 
• bought a very nice SPAWN collection and sold 1/3 of the collection so far (lots of low print run books) for a very nice profit,
• bought a small Star Wars Clone Wars lot that had two copies of 1st Ahsoka Tango (both are currently with CGC),
• bought a nice original owner Golden Age collection with lots of Canadian Editions, mostly Western, War and early Classics and Dell painted covers that I am still processing, and

I just bought a near complete set of Star Wars Legacy and Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic. A few doubles of some. A very tight short box worth of Dark Horse SW comics!  Now I need to find a nice SA haul of DC and Marvel 1st appearances...Dare to dream...

Star Wars: Legacy Vol.1 Dark Horse

0.5 x2  

1 1st print 

4

5x2

6x2

8x2

9x2

10

11x2

12x2

13x2

14x2

15x2

16

17x2

18x2

19x2

20x2

25x2

26x2

28x2

29x2

30x2

31x2

34x2

36x2

37

40x2

41x2

43x2

46x3

47

48x2

49x2

50x4

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Vol.1 Dark Horse

5

6x2 (1st Appearance of Haazen - Cameo of Rohlan Dyre) 

9x2 ( 1st Appearance of Darth Revan)

10x2

11

13x2

14x2

15x2

16x2

17x2

18x2

19x2

20x2

21x2

22x2 (1st Appearance of Mission Vao)

24x2

25x2 (1st Appearance of Celeste Morne)

30x2

31x2 (1st Appearance of Malak) 

33x2

34x2

35x2

36x2

39x2

45x2

46x2

47x2

48x2 (1st Appearance Dmagol) 

49x2

50x2 

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Handbook 

1x2

Now my task is to go through and see if there are any other modern SW keys from here that are picking up steam.  If anyone has some insight, would appreciate it. Note: The two copies of KOTOR #9 and Star Wars Legacy #1 will be going to CGC. Sample pics from collection:

Apparently my books are now done with CCS...Huzzah!

Will post scans when they arrive.

Finally got a scan of the ASM #9 and added this guy recently too, ASM #365...I had a raw 9.2 copy but wanted a nice graded copy.  Was a Canadian buy, so cheap shipping, etc. Not interested in the whole news stand thing or at least, I'm not paying more for them, but that is just me.

On 9/26/2020 at 1:55 PM, Wall-Crawler said:

I have been waiting for a recent CCS/CGC submission status to change, fast tracked and nothing so I emailed as it has been a few weeks out.  

I was told by a CSR that they will forward my information to their "loopers" to try to get my invoice out. Are they being funny? Going to travel back in time to speed things up?

 

 

Ok, Frustrated. That one CSR did nothing, apparently. 

I emailed this week and found out that, for whatever reason my CCS Fast Track sub was not placed in the Fast Track stream so had been SITTING there with CCS. Sigh. I use CCS maybe once a year...This may change that considering the TAT. Lots of different options.  Books were sitting since July 27, 2020.  Now still have to be pressed and graded and shipped.

I should have had them all back by now...

22 hours ago, thehumantorch said:

Nice, I love collections like this.

Thanks! I just realized how horrible those pics are. I have been working on bagging and boarding them and grading with notes. 

A lot of Canadian Editions and I need to say that most of these are low to mid grade and would have been lost had I not rescued them. 

I already unloaded, in bulk,  70 low grade later year/HRNS and beat up Classic Illustrated from the collection on Kijiji. I sold them less than 12 hours from posting.  I still have a bunch of assorted early Dells (painted covers) and westerns.

Once I finish bagging and boarding will try to put together better pics of the good stuff.

I have been waiting for a recent CCS/CGC submission status to change, fast tracked and nothing so I emailed as it has been a few weeks out.  

I was told by a CSR that they will forward my information to their "loopers" to try to get my invoice out. Are they being funny? Going to travel back in time to speed things up?

48 minutes ago, Arkham said:

Congrats on the auction mate. My one CBCS book was a Spawn #1 9.6... I picked it up very cheap and sold it for more than I paid... but now I kind of want to have a Spawn #1 CGC 9.8 in the collection... That and the McFarlane 230... That cover! 

I still have it...

On 6/26/2020 at 1:31 PM, thehumantorch said:

Congrats on the collection.  You can't go wrong with latter issues of Spawn.

I just wrapped up my Spawn ebay auction...I have doubles or triples of most of what I sold...45 books from the lot...I was pleasantly shocked by the results. I knew later issues of Spawn had a fan base, but yeah, wow. Shocked. I want to move the rest but don't want to flood the market 

Last year, well, nearly a year and a half ago, an acquaintance referred an older gentleman to me about some comics.

As he was from out of province, I met quickly with him one afternoon over a year ago when he was in town for a medical appointment to look at his books.  We couldn’t agree to something at that very brief meeting is because my initial offer was “not enough” and “below his expectations.”  These were books he had as a child and had hung onto all these years so there was sentimental value.

Regardless, we stayed in touch here and there and I looked at more of his books via email, gave him storage advice, etc.  He emailed me to say he was in town this week for another medical appointment and asked me if I was still interested. I said yes. So, we agreed to meet. 

With both of us wearing masks and social distancing I looked at his books in the trunk of his car in the hotel parking lot (we joked people would think we were doing a drug deal) and he had a change of heart and I upped my offer a bit and he came down a lot, so we did the deal.

This is a sample of what I think is the “better stuff” but I still have a lot of 10 cent Dell’s and early cartoon/Disney books to look at and process along with a few other comic books.  

In total, it was like two and a half banker boxes worth, books towered side by side (didn’t really do anything with my storage advice). 

He mentioned he thought he had more crime books but has not been able to find them. I told him if he did, to call me.  He seemed happy, so hopefully if he does ever find them, he will call me again.

I don’t come across these type of books too often, even though most of them are low to mid graders, I wanted them.  Plus, quite a few of them seem to be Canadian editions which I find interesting.  It will take a bit of time to process, but here are a few group shots of what I picked up.

 My buying drought is definitely over!

Question/Request: As it will likely be quite some time before I can or will actually do a local show, does anyone have any "plans" they would be willing to share about building/constructing a wall book display? Thinking now may be a good time to look into it and possibly "be ready" for whenever I do another show as I feel my wall display is the only real improvement I can make to my show set up at this point.

Pictures of peoples wall displays also appreciated!

Please keep in mind I have no construction skills 

18 hours ago, Hollywood1892 said:

Be nice to see him come back on here for a minute, but don't think he wants to listen to the abuse

Abuse? That's a bit of a stretch...People have tried to offer, genuine, sincere advice and he comes back with more wonkiness and sometimes, yes, aggressiveness, so yeah, some have lost their cool or patience with him out of sheer frustration but very few have been "abusive" I would say.

16 hours ago, tdotcbc84 said:

I wish I was as good looking as you  

21 hours ago, Iceman399 said:

He's still around playing in the pokemon pool

Stalker.