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1. Amazing Fantasy #15 CGC 3.5 OW/W PRICE: $20,500 $19,750 now I bought this book recently from the original owner’s son. Attached are a few raw pics of the book from before I bought it (you can see how nice the page quality is from the couple of interior shots). I was honestly expecting this one to grade slightly higher, but CGC was tough on the Marvel chipping. I sold a CGC 4.0 ow/w copy of this book in the last big Comic Link auction for $31,250 – that one didn’t have Marvel chipping but had more general wear to it (with just a slightly higher grade). I’m pricing this one to sell. Price: $20,500. $19,750 now (A note about GPA on this book/grade. There appears to be a huge gap between the 3.5/4.0 prices, but nearly no gap between 3.0/3.5 (see GPA). I believe this is due to the fact that the last three 3.5 sales haven’t been the strongest copies: one was very badly faded, one had color touch scraped off along the spine, and one was cr/ow with chipping. I think the true value of the typical 3.5 copy would be somewhere closer to the middle between the 3.0 & 4.0 prices (rather than closer to 3.0, like GPA shows right now). Grader Notes: light, multiple water stain cover marvel chipping 1/2 edge full right of front cover multiple crease front cover breaks color

Listing a few Marvels from a recent original owner purchase I made earlier this summer. The Amazing Fantasy #15 is one that I listed on here before/sold and had a done deal, only to have the deal later fall apart. There were a few people who were close to buying it before, so if you are still interested, please do reach out again. Terms: I’d prefer to stick with U.S. customers only, but on (the non-AF 15 books), if you are in Canada and are interested, just pm me and I will try to work with you. Payment via cashier's check or bank wire. USPS Priority Mail Express (overnight shipping) with insurance and signature confirmation is included. Time payments are available, but I'd like some sort of payment upfront. If you are interested, just send me a PM -- I'm easy to work with. Usual rules. No returns on CGC graded books. First “I’ll take it” in the thread gets it. Any questions, please let me know. Kudos thread is posted on the boards, and I sell on eBay under the name "blissard" (100% positive, with over 25,000 feedback). Thanks! -Adam

Oh dear god, this thread is still going. I can't help but read it, but oh man

Lowering the prices one time before closing this one out. New prices: ASM #1: $10,500 TTA #13: $2,000 United #21: $5,000 Batman #1 wrap: $2,250 Closing down the thread, ASM#1 is sold. TTA & Bat 1 are going to eBay. Keeping the United #21 for now. Thanks!

Avengers #1 sold via PM.

Thanks! Congrats to the buyer too; it is a great copy!

AF 15 sold via PM! Feel free to reach out with an offer on any of the others; I have a little wiggle room on some of them.

Going to bump this up one time. I've got interest in a couple of books, but everything is still available right now.

Very true, I don't disagree. The hoops used to be more worth jumping through back when they'd give 20% off the fees -- now it's just 10%, so it's less attractive for sure.

I forget if it's a requirement to have free return shipping or not, in order to get the top rated seller discount on fees -- but returns are so few & far between, that my thinking is I'd rather pay the $5 return shipping than have the buyer skimp on packing & send it back in an envelope with no protection to try and save themselves a few bucks on return shipping/damage my book in the process.

AF #15 is available again. Potential buyer is waiting to hear back on another deal before he can commit to this one. I'd do $21,000 if anyone else is interested in the book.

Unfortunately nothing you can do to avoid this really. Extremely annoying as a seller, but there's really no way to avoid this. You could add an exemption for buyer's remorse, not returning it once shipped, etc. but the buyer could just bite their tongue & wait for it to arrive and then say "oh I didn't like the condition" (rather than state the real reason), and you'd have to take the return. I had one recently where the guy waited a month to pay, paid & then messaged me after I shipped saying that he might be getting fired soon and needs to return the book (it hadn't even arrived yet). So instead of saying this prior to paying/making me ship, or at least opening the package, he made me pay for return shipping and take the return, without ever even opening the package. Beyond frustrating.

The AF #15 is on hold right now; just working out the details with the buyer. So that one is off the boards for right now.

Awesome, thanks for the bids!! I'll have some more posted next week (some early Jughead, Betty & Veronica, and other misc. titles)!

Thanks! Time payments are always cool with me if you or anyone else is interested in anything!

Ok, that's all for now! I need to add the AF15 raw pics, so those should be up shortly.

6. Batman #1 First Wrap Only CGC PG OW PRICE: $2,500 Very cool first & last page to Batman #1. First page represents the two-page Batman origin story; last page has the end of the Joker story and then an ad for Detective #40 (which happens to be Joker’s first ever cover appearance). I’ve had several “page 1’s” to this book over the years and have sold them for as much as $2,000. Several individual Joker story pages have sold on eBay for just under $1,200 at auction this year, so as two individual pages, this wrap would easily bring more than my asking price. PRICE: $2,500.

5. United Comics #21 (1st App. Peanuts) CGC 6.0 OWW PRICE: $5,500 Trails just one 7.0 & one 6.5 at the top of the CGC census. Tied for first appearance of the Peanuts in comics. The 7.0 copy sold for $7,768 two years ago and a trimmed 6.0 sold for $2,629 last year. I think the 7.0 would likely sell for more if auctioned off today, and a friend owns the 6.5/won’t sell it, so this is likely the best copy you’ll find for some time. PRICE: $5,500. Grader Notes: light, multiple staple rusted small tear right center of front cover small, multiple crease front cover breaks color wear spine breaks color

4. Tales to Astonish #13 CGC 4.5 OW PRICE: $2,250 Came from the same original owner collection as Spidey/Avengers. PRICE: $2,250. Grader Notes: moderate tanning interior cover multiple crease front cover breaks color wear full top of front cover breaks color wear spine breaks color

3. Avengers #1 CGC 5.0 CR/OW PRICE: $3,500 Came from the same original owner collection as Spidey. Hake’s sold a slightly higher (5.5) copy last night for $4,662. PRICE: $3,500. Grader Notes: very light, multiple crease left top of back cover very small piece out top of spine wear all edges front cover breaks color wear spine breaks color

2. Amazing Spider-Man #1 CGC 5.0 OW PRICE: $11,250 I purchased this book last month from the original owner (different person than the Amazing Fantasy #15 above); he flew to me and sold me his Spidey 1, Avengers 1, Tales to Astonish 13, and a few other books. This is another one that I was expecting to grade (quite a bit) higher, but CGC was tough on the Marvel chipping. Hake’s sold a different 5.0 copy last night for $12,331; so like the AF #15, I’m pricing this one to sell. PRICE: $11,250. Grader Notes: crease left top of back cover light stain right bottom of front cover light stain top of back cover

1. Amazing Fantasy #15 CGC 3.5 OW/W PRICE: $22,500 (on hold right now, just working out the details with the buyer) (no longer on hold, book is available again) I bought this book recently from the original owner’s son. Attached are a few raw pics of the book from before I bought it (you can see how nice the page quality is from the couple of interior shots). I was honestly expecting this one to grade slightly higher, but CGC was tough on the Marvel chipping. I sold a CGC 4.0 ow/w copy of this book in the last Comic Link auction for $31,250 – that one didn’t have Marvel chipping but had more general wear to it (with just a slightly higher grade). I’m pricing this one to sell. Price: $22,500. (on hold right now, just working out the details with the buyer) (no longer on hold, book is available again) (A note about GPA on this book/grade. There appears to be a huge gap between the 3.5/4.0 prices, but nearly no gap between 3.0/3.5 (see GPA). I believe this is due to the fact that the last three 3.5 sales haven’t been the strongest copies: one was very badly faded, one had color touch scraped off along the spine, and one was cr/ow with chipping. I think the true value of the typical 3.5 copy would be somewhere closer to the middle between the 3.0 & 4.0 prices (rather than closer to 3.0, like GPA shows right now). Grader Notes: light, multiple water stain cover marvel chipping 1/2 edge full right of front cover multiple crease front cover breaks color

Listing a handful of cool books today that I think are pretty easy to price; trying to price them below what I think they’d bring at auction, to pass along the savings to the buyer. I’d prefer to stick with U.S. customers only, but on a few of the less pricey books, if you are in Canada and are interested, just pm me and I will try to work with you. Payment via cashier's check or bank wire. USPS Priority Mail Express (overnight shipping) with insurance and signature confirmation is included. Time payments are available, but I'd like some sort of payment upfront. If you are interested, just send me a PM -- I'm easy to work with. Usual rules. No returns on CGC graded books. First “I’ll take it” in the thread gets it. Any questions, please let me know. Kudos thread is posted on the boards, and I sell on eBay under the name "blissard" (100% positive, with over 25,000 feedback). Thanks! -Adam

Sorry, I should've been more clear. The limits will of course vary depending on how big your policy is; in general though, they are changing it (for dealers) to just being _____ amount for non-signature & _____ amount for signature (i.e., there is no differentiation anymore going forward between the various carriers or what type of service you use, just whether it's signature or not -- before it was way more complex with something like ten different levels of coverage depending if it was Ground, Priority, Express, etc.).

I use CIS too, and the nice thing for the dealer policy (I have a personal policy as well, which is different) is that they just changed the limits on coverage for shipping books. Before, you had to use Registered or Express Mail to have coverage over I believe $2,000 per package -- now, you can have even more coverage than that, for any package with "signature required". So you can send a $10k package via Priority Mail, and as long as it has signature required, you're covered. If you're shipping a lot of books, or even just shipping a box or two to CGC/auction houses each month, the dealer policy is well worth it and will pay for itself in savings not paying USPS to insure your packages. The peace of mind is of course very nice as well.