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This will certainly change the hobby for better or for worse. I spent $2500, $1500, and $1100 cash on 3 small collections this month. How do I account for that expense ? The last guy I bought from didn't even have access to the the internet at home. Found him through a friend. Said he didn't have a bank account. I prefer to pay with paypal but none of these guys had it. All were older. So what's the best way to cover yourself in this instance ?

Delivered a 150 plus books on 2/25/21...Still not received.

My sentiments exactly. 👍🏻

Thanks 😊 They’re probably 2 of the 3 best bulk buys I’ve found in the last month. Last time time I found stuff like this was 2004.

My letter made it into this one. I also got my one and only “No Prize” from Marvel...I’m still waiting for it to arrive 😊

...and the rest...

Picked up about 500 Silver Age books including a run of FF 44-100. Nothing spectacular grade wise but lots of 5.0 through 8.0 stuff. Here are some of the better ones.

Live and learn. 😊

It’s hard not to be excited about all of those shows. WandaVision is the first show, in a long time, that I look forward to seeing and will drop everything ( short of the wife 😊 ) to watch. Its the best thing I’ve seen from Marvel for quite some time. Next on my wishlist are The Authority/Stormwatch and Planetary...yes the odds are long but so much they could do with those stories. In the meantime, I’m thrilled with what we’re getting right now. ✌️

Graded 41 of the 49. There were 3 that were absolutely destroyed and 5 that I think are between 8.0 to 8.5. I’ll let you know how it turns out but it’s going to be a while. I didn’t fast track anything.

Threw an ad up on Facebook and a guy says he has Avengers Annual #10 for sale. Sends a pic showing just the top book with a string wrapped around it. The comic was obviously bent at the edges and I was getting ready to thank him and tell him I wasn’t interested when as he sent the side view picture of all of them. His dad owned a comic shop/video store. He sold everything except this one box which he simply forgot about it. It had these, a Power Pack stack, and a Web of Spidey Annual #2 stack. He said his dad didn’t save this particular book on purpose, he just missed the box when he closed down. I believe that better than 75% of them are at least 9.4 with maybe 12-15 in the 9.6 range. With a lot of luck, maybe I’ll get a gift 9.8 but I doubt it. That’s the story.😊

Thanks Chuck 😊 I hope you and yours have been well. All’s well here except the amount of time available outside of work. I keep getting surprised every day by the crazy amount of action going on in the comics world. Then again, cars, houses, and stocks are in the same pattern. Such is life hahahaha

Threw these pics up in Comics General but just in case there are some Bronze Age only people, here is a recent find. Happen to be a big fan of Rogue so it worked out very well. 😊

Hello there buddy 👋 Glad to see that you’re still here 😊 Super happy to hear about this one. I still think issue #3 is one of the most mind bending comics ever. I’d rate it up there with some of the Miracleman and The Authority books. Love the series and can’t wait for the show. Wandavision has been a blast but I’m more of a “The Boys” type of guy. Ennis, Millar, Morrison, Moore, and especially Ellis are right up my alley.

Thanks 😊

More of new in my collection this month but it’s been a while since I posted so I thought what the heck. I bought 2 collections using Facebook and this was the first. 49 copies of The Avengers Annual #10. Out of those, 3 were mangled, 5 were okay, and the rest are at CGC as of yesterday. Wish me luck...and hello to everybody 😊

It’s all relative. People I’m talking about have netted $1150 a week for 3 months. That’s $14,950 plus $1200 stimulus. The cost of living is super inexpensive here. You can rent a nice house or townhouse for $700 a month or so. Then consider that the majority of these people around here have 2 income households. It ain’t rich but it’s a lot for staying home. 😊

The extra money has been both boom and bust for us. I work in auto sales. Pre-owned, rentals, and lease turn in full size trucks that we were buying for $22-22,500 in February and March are now in the $31-32,000 from Nashville to Alabama to Florida to Michigan to Pennsylvania to...well, you get the idea. We typically carry a 75 to 90 supply of inventory. We are under a 30 day supply today and are hard pressed to be able to get over 30 days supply. We’re hoping this is temporary but that is doubtful. The rental companies are a large part of our supply chain. They bought considerably fewer new Vehicles in July and almost none in May and June. Vacation travel is down. Been doing this over 30 years and have never seen anything remotely close to it in the US. We have employees ( roughly 20% of our staff ) in a certain income range who are refusing to come back to work. They are making more staying home. It’s a short term windfall for certain. I’m no economist so no idea what the future holds. It seems than in our business, we’re stuck with short used car supply but the new inventory is cranking back up. We had no intention of selling comics this year but the stuff is just crazy high across the board. Easiest and most profitable transactions I’ve ever seen. Best year...in just 3 months. Good luck to everybody. 😊

One of my faves too. Nice pick 😊

Still happy that I hung onto some UF#4. Sad that I sold a lot more than I kept in the old collection. Down to 8 copies. Wouldn’t blame anyone for selling right now. Big profits to be had at the moment. Won’t be selling any of my bunch. Had this as my top pick in my spec thread last year and @Aweandlorder and I have been on this title a Loooooong time. I remember buying these in polybags 10 for $17.99 maybe 7-8 years ago. Wish we could go back in time. Watching people react to this book makes me think it’ll be even bigger than originally expected. Is he this generation’s Spidey ? Maybe. If he is, he’ll be bigger than Venom, or Harley, or, or....Spider-man is a BIG deal. If you don’t have a ton of these, holding seems the better option. If you have 15-50 of them or you need the money, by all means, sell, sell, sell. Keep an eye on Vengeance #1 too. It’s been steadily solid but the potential of every aspect of this character could make America Chavez the NBT

Hello everybody 😊 I have been named “essential” and have been working way more than I’d like the last 9 or 10 months. I’m going to bring myself back up to speed as to where I left off on this thread. I have a couple of weeks off this summer and I’ll get this thing rolling again in June or sometime around then. Not going anywhere this year. Mainly just wanted to say hello to everyone. Missed you guys and hope you’re all well. I’ll be reading even if I don’t have time to post 👋😊

Young Avengers #1 is on the move again. It goes up and sells lots of copies and it goes down and sells lots of copies. After the Kate Bishop/Hawkeye show was announced, its back up around $250. Someone dumped a bunch of these in 9.8 in the last month or two. It stunted the growth of the book temporarily. Does anyone here think any character who appeared in this book, other than Hawkeye, has potential for growth or are they never gonna be’s ? Will the Young Avengers appear in the MCU ?

Been checking for it all day 😎

I like heroes, especially superheroes, but occasionally something way off the wall will just make go WOW ! Next up is the 1st appearance of Spider (not-man) Jerusalem. Transmetropolitan #1 is 6 syllables of way ahead of its time. Warren Ellis, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis, and Mark Miller were all the rage for a good 10 to 15 years from the early to mid 90s on. My favorite Ellis Stuff is The Authority, hence the moniker, and then Planetary. I have friends who prefer this book over all of his writing to date. So I’m basing the rating of this one more on the fact that there are a great number of people who aren’t just like me. 😝 The book ran for 60 issues. That’s a nice run by any modern book standard in my opinion. I have 1 Vf/NM copy. ratings raw NM = 7 out of 10 CGC 9.8 = 7 out of 10