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One last price drop.. $5,500. Otherwise I'll hang on to it for a little longer.

Makes sense for sure. The outer (double) cover would've typically been stapled-on, but since the covers were glued-on for the thick books, rather than attached by staples, just the inside cover would've been hit with any glue. The two covers would've been inadvertently stuck together during the assembly process and just the inner cover would've ever touched the glue. Now if you saw a "double cover" with the outer cover glued-on to the inner cover.. I'd be suspicious that it was a "manufactured" double cover!

Thanks guys.. going to bump this one time and I'll lower the price down to $6k before trying to sell it elsewhere.

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It certainly has all the telltale signs off being a scam (old account, almost all feedback more than a year old and not as a seller, zero comic buying or selling history). Scans look legit, but this same copy has sold three times in the 2013-2014 period, so I'd say there is a better than 50/50 chance that they were lifted from an old sale. It would be a great score if it's legit, but I would say it's most likely a scam.

Not sure which one of the eBay threads is meant for complaining.. but this was the first one I saw! Ran into a very odd situation that has never come up for me before. Buyer wins auction Sunday night, a few hours later emails me saying that her identity had been stolen, her neighbor hacked her email and internet and was bidding on stuff on her eBay account and that she would not be honoring the transaction. I don't buy it, but what can I do other than send a 'request to cancel transaction' through eBay with the reason of "buyer changed mind or no longer needs item"... wait a few hours after that and the buyer declined my request! So I emailed them again saying what's the deal, YOU asked me to cancel it. And she responded saying she didn't actually deny my request, someone else did, and to send it again. And that's when I learned that apparently you can NOT send a cancelation request (or even open an unpaid item case) after your first request has been denied. Long story short, there is a huge loophole here for getting out of a transaction without getting an unpaid item strike against your account. You win something and decide you no longer want it, just contact the seller and politely ask them to cancel the sale.. then just deny their request, and the seller can no longer file an unpaid item dispute against you. I got eBay to get me my fees back, but it required a phone call and it was a hassle.. so I would definitely add this to the list of dumb eBay policies that screw over the seller.

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I like that Picklepuss page! It almost looks like a Terry Toons page with Sourpuss, but it's not. I tried searching online and couldn't find Picklepuss anywhere, but I wonder if it could be from a mid-1940's issue of Ha Ha Comics or a similar title like Barnyard Comics. That would be my guess. The comics don't have a ton of value. The most expensive one would be the Land of the Lost since it's an EC; then probably the Funny Stuff #18 (1st Dodo and Frog appearance). The rest are probably $10-30 type books, but cool stuff!

Best proof that it's not a sun fade is the back cover. The "Beautiful Desk" and other red text is flat out missing. Not sure if anyone else said this earlier in the thread, but it's more obvious when you see the two side by side.

My scans usually come out dark like that too.. and (on a Macbook) I open them in Preview and just click Tools -> Adjust Color -> Auto Levels.. and that gets them bright like in person.

WOW! Congrats! Looks like a beautiful coverless copy, and signed too!

I'm not exactly sure how PayPal is defining a "payment card", but I would be shocked if there was a way to turn off this ability (assuming "payment card" means credit/debit card). I always pay with a credit card (might as well take advantage of the free cash back perks), and not once have I not been allowed to do this. If you're selling on eBay and getting paid through PayPal, I'm certain that this can't be turned off -- if you are accepting PayPal through your own site or board sales, it might be possible but I would be pretty surprised.

I had a really nice copy of #128 that I sold last year, and I regretted selling it immediately after it was gone. The colors looked so cool with that black background and the bright lettering. I never realized that it was such a tough issue, until after I sold it and tried to find another one. You'd think that there should be some Crowley File Copies out there, but I can't say that I've ever seen one.

I have sold stuff on eBay to people who live within a mile or two of the post office where I drop off my eBay items for shipment. I've been tempted a few times to hand-deliver the books myself (or put the package in their mailbox myself), but I ended up just shipping them anyway just so that I'd have the tracking/proof of shipment and delivery from the post office. Never an actual neighbor though, that's crazy!

The short flathead screwdriver definitely helps -- I just tried it out this morning, and it was the first new slab I've been able to split cleanly down the side. Thanks for that suggestion (and the video) -- definitely much better than how I was doing it originally (it was not a pretty sight!).

I like that show, even though it seems like 99% of the cases on there are some form of a Ponzi scheme. Of course my stupid DVR didn't tape last night's episode, ugh! I'll have to find it on demand.

I thought to myself the other day.. "I wouldn't be surprised if it went for $10k." Guess I was off by a dollar! I wonder if the winner needed the centerfold, and we'll see the rest of the book (with the full WW story) up for sale again soon.

I'd guess it will get more of a 1.5 to 1.8 from CGC. The Modern double cover mentioned above was probably high grade other than the missing chunk, so if your Flash book is in the 5.0 range aside from the missing chunk, I'd say 1.5 to 1.8 most likely.

Take it Wow, that is awesome!

Wow, never would've guessed that one!

Hot Miss Grundy, what in the world?

Sweet. I've been waiting for one of these so I can buy some new bags/boards.

I would say almost certainly NOT trimmed. It might have a slight miscut to it (based on the pics on eBay) along the top edge, but that's no big deal and not uncommon on Golden Age books. Cool book!

That would be a cool idea, although on the other end of the spectrum, you'd basically have to start destroying books to hit the .5, 1.0, 1.5 grades on Modern issues. I would imagine that there are guys out there with rainbows across many grades on Batman Adventures 12 or Walking Dead 1 -- but there aren't any 10.0 copies on either of those.

Very cool! Is there any way they'd have Black Adam in some non-Shazam movie before 2019? Seems like (unless Shazam is happening sooner than 2019), this worlds colliding movie would have to be into the 2020's.. so they must be pretty confident that it will happen/be very good!