manetteska

What is the deal with taking pictures of raw comics on top of a USPS Priority box? I've seen this with several board members as well as a lot on eBay.

Can you point me in the direction of Saga 1 9.8's for $130, please? http://www.ebay.com/itm/SAGA-1-1ST-PRINT-2012-IMAGE-PGX-NM-MT-9-8-BRIAN-VAUGHAN-FIONA-STAPLES-NR-/310808508682?pt=US_Comic_Books&hash=item485da1790a&nma=true&si=D7qDNwO1%252FITUKd4WGyBMRB6wE80%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 Before believing anything (especially on the internet), consider its source. And Saga has not been losing steam for a while. There was a huge bump from a news article that put copies in the stratosphere. Since that peak it has come down to its "normal" price, and has been hanging around $175 for some time.

Can you point me in the direction of Saga 1 9.8's for $130, please?

Where are CA 359/360 selling well? There was a 9.8 that set a new high, but raws are still low. Has Crossbones been shown in a trailer yet -- or named? Cap 359/360 are seeing adjustments as well. My term meaning they are increasing pricewise in sales. Said nothing about selling well. Although recents sales do indicated an increase in price via BINs. For the record I dont count auctions. (Why? Because they are stupid sellers if they are doing auctions.) Even just looking at BINs on 360, you see $5 here, $8 there. I guess it's not bad for a comic that was a $1, but nothing mind-blowing. I'm sitting on a couple copies, and would love to see the price jump, but I don't see it.

Where are CA 359/360 selling well? There was a 9.8 that set a new high, but raws are still low. Has Crossbones been shown in a trailer yet -- or named?

I've been checking out later printings on Doomsday stuff for a little while. Happened on both of these today, which I didn't know existed:

As much as it hurts my wallet to say it, now people are buying the subsequent prints (sometimes at a higher rate than the 1st prints), copies will be showing up everywhere. Not to take away from your recent find at all; I still want to find one of those. I went looking for later printings at my LCS of anything to do with Doomsday and came away with a lot more than I expected.

You got me there, and I guess it would be more accurate to say "If I had known this stuff was going to explode (Ms. Marvel? Really?) I could have had a pile more sitting in my collection". Even though it's only a pile, it's a better pile than mine.

Anything post-81 is not even worth talking about, and I'm just speaking in relative terms of BA scarcity. All those 1976-77 #1's were mass speculated - I had collector friends who 20+ issues of any new character #1, like Nova, Ms Marvel, Champions, and of course, new titles like PPSSM. That was also about when newspaper articles started coming out about old comic book sales, like a record amount for Action 1, which fed speculator fever even in the general public. Back in the early days, I used to see lots on eBay like this from people who had no clue and had no other comics for sale. "My dad just bought a pile of #1's" was a standard reply. If I had known this stuff was going to explode (Ms. Marvel? Really?) I could have made a bundle buying these issues. In order to make a bundle, you need to not only buy, but then sell. You tend to do one but not the other.

Good haul. Tell that to my girlfriend. Need to find an easy way to get these out, now. Also, a lot of Superboy the Comic? And Catwoman. And the usual surplus of 90's Image.

Made it through the whole bag; I have a few questions for those more up to speed on Batman than me. Any interesting issues in the following runs: Legends of the Dark Knight 1 - 70 Shadow of the Bat 1 - 40 Batman 400 - 600 Detective 600 - 700 And one last one: Anything of note from Impact! comics?

Nice!! Have to love craigslist. This time, yes, I do love CL! Totally hit or miss.Like others have said, don't expect the comics to come to you; have to do some legwork (sometimes a little, sometimes a lot). With this pick-up, I may seriously consider getting a small booth at Mighty Con to move it.

Does CraigsList count in this topic? If so, just got home with a carload of comics for . I went in expecting 4 stacks -- about 200 comics as per the pictures -- but the owner kept throwing in more comics until he didn't have any left. I haven't had time to go through 1/4 of it, but from the small picture on the CL ad, my hunch on a stack of Batman Adventures paid off. Essentially the whole run, including #12. $$ While packing it up, I also saw a Batman Knightfall and Knightquest run, Shadow of the Bat, Hush, some Legend of the Dark Knight, basically anything 90s to present. He was packing up the Marvels, so that should be a treat. Not too shabby, but I'm supposed to be down-sizing, not loading up. Expect a giant sale soon, though I'm not looking forward to bagging everything.

No need. With the eBay info available, it's easy to determine your ID.

I think that's the seller of the book, not the buyer...and not the person who sold the book here. "Harold" has many addresses. I believe that Sharon is correct. The timeline has Kindle buying the book in December then posting in the AF 15 club thread shortly thereafter. He also referenced he was going to upgrade his 2.0 when he offered the book to Joe and me. Ahh, got confused with everything. I'll modify my posts accordingly.

Original seller is from IL.

got ahead of myself

You should out them!

PM comix4fun or Sharon. I deleted it from my PMs Sent.

I don't have any better pics atm but all in all it is just sour grapes from being spoiled on the forums with books. It has some really bad tears at the staples with additional imprints from pressing and some SCS on the upper over hang. I'll send it off for a reholder and chalk this up to remembering to wait and find something on boards. I'm definitely no expert, but one of the "advantages" of an old label book is that it usually pre-dates the pressing explosion. What makes you so sure it was pressed? And what is SCS?

Don't rush the plot! I think I've seen this movie before! Wasn't Tom Cruise in it? Knight & Day?

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Do you have any better pics showing areas of concern?

Let's assume that GIJoe's dad actually did monitor his emails/PMs (instead of just saying he did to get other parents off his back), and let's assume that "monitor" means reading through every single one of them. If this is true, from strictly an email/PM perspective, he would see his son buying comics, then later coming back and saying they are not the grade stated. Not sure if one can make the jump (without hearing conversations b/n the two) from that to knowing his son was not telling the truth about stated grades. *** Note: I did not read through every post here, nor track through every FB message, so if there is definitive evidence about the grade negging, I will eat crow.

His dads Facebook says he is home schooled I also thought a FB post said something about GIJoe helping out his science teacher or similar.