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I'll take per pm.

I'll take Batman #15, All-American #35, Superman #16, and Whiz Comics #15 as per pm.

I'll take per dm.

I'll take per dm.

I own an All Story pulp (first Tarzan) which was signed by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It belonged to Forrest Ackerman. There is an article online that mentions Burroughs having signed two October 1912 All Storys and one other pulp: “Edgar Rice Burroughs literally signed hundreds of books during his lifetime, but apparently only signed three pulp magazines that are known. For Forrest Ackerman he signed a copy of the October 1912 issue of All-Story with ‘Tarzan of the Apes.’ That magazine was auctioned off for something in the 40-50K range. For Vernell Coriell he also signed another October 1912 issue of All-Story — but also signed the February 1916 issue of All Around Magazine which contained his ‘Beyond Thirty.’ That All Around issue is easily the rarest pulp to ever include a Burroughs story. “In the collected edition of the first twelve issues of The Burroughs Bulletin — in an article titled ‘A Visit to Tarzana’ — Vern Coriell writes: ‘. . . I had brought along some choice items from my collection which included the Oct. 1912 All Story magazine and Feb. 1916 All Around magazine. . . . I asked him if he would mind signing my copies of All-Story and All Around. . . . he said “Mr. Coriell, these are my last signatures, I shall never sign another.” “First of course, we only have Vern Coriell’s statement that ERB said it would be his last autograph, but ERB’s family — including his two sons — were present at the signing, and no one challenged Coriell’s statement which first saw print in 1956."

I'll take the 22, 27, 28, 30, 32, 35, 60, 63, 87, and 89 as per pm.

Not sure if this one is helpful at all to the mystery, but I thought this was a cool one worth sharing that I just came across. Signed on the front like usual, and also signed (larger) on the back cover too.

Do you have a picture of the Action 242? That's a monster grade for that book.

I'll take all of the western groups, per pm.

As others said, this definitely isn't universal. I mainly deal with auctions (both buying and selling) and I have yet to see this for me (either as a bidder or as as seller), but I've seen others mention it. I've heard that it's something that a seller can turn off in their settings and it appears to only be on BIN/Make Offer stuff right now.

USPS Express Mail, can insure for $5k. Or do Registered Mail, can insure for up to $25k, but it's notoriously slow and the tracking will often go days without updating - so you'll drive yourself a bit crazy for up to a week or two while it's in transit.

Hi, I have done business with many people on these boards in the past, and I sell on eBay under the name "blissard". This Sunday night, I have over 250 comic book auctions ending, including over 150 CGC graded books. There are quite a few very hard to find Golden Age superhero issues, pre-code horror, Silver Age Marvel keys, and more. Definitely worth taking a look if you get a chance. I'm happy to accept time payments on any sales, if you reach out prior to bidding. Thanks! Adam https://www.ebay.com/str/adamsrarecomics

In many cases, I feel like the market (currently) doesn't value the two types too differently.. but for certain books/titles (Four Color, for example), there are definitely collectors who only want the non-ad back covers, as it's the difference between an extra one-page story(!) and a boring ad. I think it's one of those things where a lot of people are simply unaware or don't notice the difference (maybe similar to how newsstand copies are now valued higher for Bronze Age books.. but in the past, a lot of people didn't even notice or care about the difference).

Looking back at those page 1 pics from this thread.. the interior pages do look off (knowing what we know now). The cover completely fooled me, I thought that was real (only thing that seemed off was the white line along the top cover edge, which no other Cap 1 seems to have). The interior pages look not wide enough and somewhat glossy/pixelated, looking back at them now.. but I thought that was just from being trimmed and maybe an effect from the book being badly water damaged in the past.

It's not nearly as bad as the card returns were during the big run up in prices.. but I've been forced to take multiple $2500+ CGC graded returns from eBay sales, literally on day 30 of the 30 day return policy in the past few months. You basically 'have' to offer 30 day returns in order to get better placement and get the (small) discount on final value fees, and for 99% of orders, it works out just fine. But the concept of someone buying an expensive slab, having it in hand for 30 days (which of course means you are able to try selling it, take it to shows, post online for sale) and then return it at absolutely zero cost to you/at the expense of the original seller, is obviously not fair.

Try this. Go to your My eBay. Find "performance" at the top, then click on "sales". Enter a custom date for Jan 1 - Jan 31 of last year. See how that matches up against the 1099. I just did that with mine, and like yours, there is a small discrepancy. My guess is that it's some factor of a buyer buying on 12/31 and paying on 1/1 or buying on 1/31 and paying in February. The page I mentioned will show different totals for you, which might help you match things up better.. it shows a total that includes all sales 'plus' eBay collected sales tax, and it shows the total eBay fees and anything paid on shipping labels if you scroll down. I'm pretty sure that the 1099 should show exactly what money was paid by the buyer to you EXCEPT the sales tax (which eBay collects and the seller never touches).

This is 'slightly' longer than I've seen on registered package delays, but (if it wasn't for the part about USPS saying it was lost/to file a claim) it's close to what I have experienced myself on registered shipments. The last several registered packages that I've received, they sat in the big post office facility about 30 miles away from me for up to a full week with zero movement, only to randomly show as out for delivery at some point. Supposedly registered stuff has to be handled with a literal lock & key, with the last employee to touch it having to sign it in and out of a locker, so it's supposed to be 100% secure. Again, if it wasn't for them saying it's lost, I'd say to give it a little more time and that it might still show up this week.

I have 250+ no reserve auctions ending on my eBay account this coming Sunday night. Highlights include: a new to market Okajima pedigree Timely issue, an original owner CGC 9.4 Giant-Size X-Men #1, two single pages from Batman #1 (including the first ever Joker page), a couple of classic Amazing Fantasy #15 pages, a raw Showcase #4, as well as hundreds of raw Golden Age superhero, pre-code horror, early Four Colors, and more! If you'd like to check out my listings, please search for me on eBay (my username is "blissard"), or find me on Instagram (@blissardcomics). I have dealt with many people on the boards over the years and would be happy to offer time payments to anyone who reaches out prior to the auctions ending on Sunday. Thanks! Adam

Do you know what the dimensions are on this book? It looks to be really small and not shaped like a U.S. book would likely be.

I was bidding against you on this one! I had never seen it before either, but it's in the Price Guide under the promo section (there are a few different Comic Cavalcade giveaways listed there).

It's weird, but it's possible there could be an explanation for this. One idea that comes to mind is maybe the buyer who won the auction wanted to split up their payment, so instead of a $13k buy in one shot, the seller let them do this $9500 offer and then the remainder will be sent later/separately. (I wasn't the buyer or the seller, but just a possible explanation where something like this could happen).

It's a scam. This is a common thing that has happened a few times recently on eBay.. someone 'hijacks' an old eBay account with good feedback (so that it looks legitimate), then they just mass-list thousands of 'very' high quality items at auction. The way you can tell it's a scam (besides just the basic 'too good to be true' test), is by searching some of the graded sports cards and you can see a lot of them have "probstein123" watermarks on the pictures at the bottom of many of the images (they were too lazy to even crop out the original seller's name when they were posting these).