Wall-Crawler

stain, smudge...potato, poTATo?

Pretty nice book. A few spine ticks and slight non-colour breaking creases. Lays flat. White interior pages, nothing missing, etc. More so looking for opinions how the smudge/stain by LEGO on the back cover would impact overall grade. Can't tell there is a stain/smudge on the exterior back cover from the interior back cover (hope that makes sense). Thanks!

Yeah, that I don't know. I have "heard" (take this with a grain of salt) that he really is not a "comic guy" (I mean, look at how he handled some of the books going through the boxes ) so maybe that is a bit of a factor there. It could be he knows comics are "worth something" and figured on bulk alone, he'd make $$$ for what he paid. Who knows really though right? While he may not "know" comics, he may not be as much of a "comic bumpkin" as is portrayed.

Why "mock" the guys over his YouTube videos? They seem to have pretty decent production values. Yeah, they have a "reality TV' vibe, but he's promoting his business and clearly getting the word out...? Awesome sig line though by the way !!!

Fair enough if he wants to even grade/slab them. The guy doesnt have to sell even close to all of them at "FMV" to make a decent profit. If he sold that little box of OSPGs for $2K, he only has $8K to go to break even from ALL of that. That Roy Rogers book I mentioned goes for a decent penny. And that's like less than 1% of what we know is in there. He could pick out the gems and then even if he liquidated what's left he's likely laughing all the way to the bank. Plus he has a store and can keep product there too most likely in storage and/or placed out for sale. I think where he could lose money is if he doesn't get help grading and also someone to help him to say which books are worth slabbing to begin with.

I owned the highest graded copy of the Roy Rogers Giant featured in the video. Mine was a CGC 8.0. It was not a "worthless" book. I sold it at Clink auction. I had offers on it for for less than the final hammer price so glad I sent it to auction. Not all of those books will fly off the shelves so to speak, but there is a market for these books and who knows what other special books and/or items are in there. I mean, there were those OSPGs too. As for the final sale price, we do not know the circumstances of the sale (why the price was what it was), but it was for sure a bargain at $10k or so for the buyer, no disputing that. At the end of the day, he is the one who actually bothered to answer the call, take the time to check it out and had money in hand. I have no horse in this race (forgive the pun) but this guy clearly is not a comic expert, which likely factored into his offer as well. I bet now there are locals who did not bother to answer the call who are kicking themselves and I also bet the buyer has a lot of attention now as well.

I still have it...

Or, apparently, those who also read keys while sitting on the toilet...

No horse in this race but very interesting...And interesting how a CGC label can "define" something that may not be as definite as believed to be?

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

As someone who hopes to one day own an AF #15, this is just infuriating...This doofus doesn't deserve what daddy has handed off to him.

I bet he's worrying now... Oh and 4,000 post!

I just checked out this guys YouTube, website and IG Pages, his other posts notwithstanding...How the #$%# was he made the "youngest ever advisor to OSPG" In that honoured group, how did he make the cut? Seriously, would like to know... Also, if he is trying to "game the system", it seems like he is NOT following the advice he reportedly has received from other more experienced dealers in his own "market report": "find something else" "don't be greedy" I think, this guy is in it for himself, to be "cool", to have some sort of "platform" where otherwise he would not. ...This snake oil salesman has zero credibility. Tell us the full story Dylan. Show us the pictures. Man up.

8 - 9 Hours to go! Combined shipping!!

Not a flea market find but wanted to share beyond my journal...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, in typical fashion, was “not enough” and “below his expectations.” These were books he had as a child and had hung onto all these years. 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. Not really any super hero books. Mostly war and westerns. 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.

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!

Title says it all...45 hard to find, low print run SPAWN books..$0.99 auction start! Also a few BIN's or Best Offers on my page too! I do combine shipping. Any questions, just ask! Thanks for looking! eBay user id: more_fun_comics Auction link: https://www.ebay.com/sch/more_fun_comics/m.html?item=373164291574&hash=item56e25335f6%3Ag%3Aw~wAAOSwbXhfHtEC&rt=nc&LH_Auction=1

Canadian and list/sell on ebay.com I subbed information for managed payments but was told that as I want to receive funds in different currencies, that I won't be put on managed payments at this time as they explore options/solutions for sellers who want different currencies or something to that effect.

Thanks for this...I did look but I am HORRIBLE with the search function...Should have figured this was covered already...

Sorry, I meant for selling at shows, but hey, why not both?

Good day everyone! I asked this question in my journal but did not have much response so will try here in CG Given that I will likely not be doing ANY local shows anytime soon, it looks like I may have some free time to finally upgrade my wall book display. Maybe . I'm just wondering if anyone would like to share pics and/or plans of their wall display set up to "borrow" and share ideas - And while I have had a couple shared, with con season basically not happening this year, who wouldn't want to see some sweet wall displays and books too???

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

#1 is Romita Sr. for me, all day, followed by Ditko. Probably would place McFarlane at #3 for his influence when I was just getting into comics. After that, in no particular order it is Frenz, Kane, old JRJR art (not the new blocky garbage), Bagley, Andru, Pollard...While he was not a "prolific" Spidey artist, Micheal Zeck makes my list. ...I know for 1000% Ramos would NEVER make my list...I almost wanted to stop collecting my run with his art...Not my style...

I am not a big signature series guy, but I have a few books I would LOVE to compliment some of my ASM Stan Lee sigs, so my #1 wish for an in-house private signing would be John Romita Sr.