DavidTheDavid

SOLD! Swamp Thing #9 - 9.4 - $50.00 Swamp Thing #10 - 9.4 - $50.00

SOLD! Swamp Thing #5 - 9.2 - $45 Swamp Thing #6 - 8.5 - $35 Swamp Thing #8 - 9.4 - $50.00

Thanks, fixed! Yes, these are priced quite attractively imo, cheaper than what I paid. The Swamp Things won't be that low, but they won't be slab prices either.

Next up will be some high grade, raw Wrightson Swamp Things. I'm going to take a break, get some grub, do some work, and scan those later.

Super-Villain Team-Up #16 - 9.2 - $10.00 Super-Villain Team-Up #17 - 9.4 - $10.00

Super-Villain Team-Up #12 - 9.2 - $10 Super-Villain Team-Up #13 - 9.4 - $15 Super-Villain Team-Up #15 - 9.6 - $20

Super-Villain Team-Up #8 - 9.2 - $10 Super-Villain Team-Up #9 - 9.4 - $15 Super-Villain Team-Up #10 - 9.0, Bolland Brothers copy - $8

I bought these from wwcomics, highgrade comics, and a couple from GhostTown. That said, the grades are my own, and I consider them tightly but fairly graded. Super-Villain Team-Up #3 - 9.2 - $10 Super-Villain Team-Up #6 - 9.2 - $10 Super-Villain Team-Up #7 - 9.4 - $15

What's Left 10% off the prices below. Thor #161 - 8.0 - $50Thor #169 - 9.0/9.2 - $90 Ghosts #2 - 7.5 - $15 - Cardy cover, looks much nicer, but there's a front and back corner bend, at the bottom, outer corner.Ghosts #3 - 8.0 - $20 - Cardy coverGhosts #4 - 9.4 - $50 - Cardy cover, exceptional copy Navy Action 1 - 3.5 - $60 - Russ Heath cover, rippling from moisture visible in the scans, good pressing candidate, but looks like a 4.0 even if pressed to me

How I accept payment PayPal preferred. I'll accept checks or money orders in most cases. Payment is expected within 7 calendar days. If you need longer than that, you shouldn't be buying these relatively low-cost items--this is not an inventory that begs for time payments. My referrals Please see my forum kudos or ebay ID. How I handle returns I accept returns if you're dissatisfied for whatever reason. If the comics arrive damaged, I pay return shipping. If you just don't like them or have buyer's remorse, you pay return shipping. How I package and ship I take care to package your comics in the same manner that I want to receive them: well and with care. Typically, I use gemini mailers and a cardboard sandwich inside. Otherwise, I'll move up to USPS Priority boxes. One or two comics, I can ship First Class and save you some money. More than that, we need to use Priority Mail. I won't use Media Mail; please don't request it. Shipping is at cost: you provide an address, I weigh the package, you pay that price. Who can buy Boardies not in the Hall of Shame or Probation List can buy. There are a small number of people outside those lists who I wouldn't sell to, but they won't show up. They know who they are. What's being listed Whatever I feel like selling, I guess. I'm starting with some high grade Marvel Super-Villain Team-Up and Swamp Thing comics. After that, we'll see.

I both buy and sell. I want my overall feedback high. It's also a matter of reciprocity. Mainly, it just irks me.

My current complaint is with sellers not leaving feedback, even after I've done so.

Take per pm, thanks!

Yeck. I've never had it take more than a month, and I've always had prompt replies. I'm curious how this resolves. It'd make me rethink using them.

I sold a lot of mine before we moved states. Oh man, I miss those books. My back doesn't miss them, but the rest of me does.

Reading what some of you paid years ago makes me wonder why I buy anything these days....

I like the hosts, but's because of the DC horror comics I was pulling from my cousin's closet and the shows I was seeing on television back then.

I loved those reruns as a kid. And yeah, any minority got carpped on at that time in entertainment.

imho so many of these have just god awful cover and interior art.

Those are lovely! I have just one midgrade LR but want to add more.

This collection originated not far from where I live. I'm keen to get a comic or two from this pedigree. If anyone has something to sell, maybe a Fawcett, hit me up!

I'm not an audiophile, but I do look at my Google Play music library as a collection. Likewise, I view my iTunes movies and tv shows library as a collection. Those stores do purposefully appeal to the collecting impulse as you'll see language like "Grow your collection!" when running specials.Digital collectible card games like Hearthstone leverage collectors' impulses, and completists of digital sets of cards are real (and valuable to those companies). All that said, any terms of service for any of those service providers makes it clear that you don't actually own the stuff and can lose access at their discretion. But there are plenty of digital collectors out there. Heck, there are even living digital card games now (limited "print runs" of digital cards) and games built on blockchains. There are even meme markets built on blockchain. Too crazy for me.

While I've participated in the grousing in this thread, I try to stay out of it now. People's motivations and methods really aren't my business. Yes, it's a community forum and one where the community itself does most of the policing of sales threads. If someone is abiding by the community's rules, why nose in past that? Sometimes, it's like we're all sitting in our rocking chairs, shaking our fists at the kids on the grass. "Kids these days, why they've got no respect!"

With all due respect, I wonder how some of the naysayers here are reaching their conclusions? Just what is the reasoning? Using one's own experience as a used bookseller doesn't tell us anything more than that person's experience as a used bookseller. Maybe it's indicative of a regional or local trend. Maybe it's your selection of books. Maybe your book buyers still exist but are shopping elsewhere. I'm a grandson to a librarian, a child of an English teacher, a former ELA educator, and I have two degrees in literature. My own experience as a reader is that I buy my books online. Since I now work at home, it's even more convenient to have what I want shipped directly here. (Any of you lit types out there should pick up Black Leopard, Red Wolf. I just got it and am really excited from the reviews. It should appeal nicely to comic fans.) And that's the big trend. People are buying books online. That said, the number of indie booksellers has increased the last few years. And note that in 2017 the number of print books sold went up. And check out sites like GoodReads.com or all the fan fiction sites. There's no shortage of people interested in reading or writing. My view as a former educator is that kids are reading quite a bit. How many become lifelong readers? I doubt that's changed much over time--I'd be curious to see some data on it. There are a great many graphic novels that are produced and marketed directly to kids. Those writers and artists are bypassing traditional selling venues. If you can get Scholastic to print your graphic novel and stick it on library tables across the nation during book fairs, you're doing just fine. And kids eat those up. I've recommended graphic novels to different school librarians as most school libraries that I've seen now have sections dedicated to graphic novels and trade paperbacks, as does my local library. I was a kid who read a lot. I'm an adult who reads a lot. I was also a kid who was into comics. I went to a university elementary school, was stuck in a gifted program, and sat dutifully through my AP courses in high school, went to an honors program in college, and how many other comic readers do you think I met among all those smart kids who were running around with books in their hands? I remember Dow. He was cool. His dad was a media professor. And Seth. Seth wasn't a reader though. And that's about it. Is there a correlation between readers and comic readers? Maybe. Maybe not. But it's a shaky equivalence at best. My experience is a current comic reader is that I do see kids in my two LCS's. I see bewildered moms who don't know where to look while their sons look for goodies. I see dads looking for new books on the shelves and helping their kids pick out things. I see college kids digging for back issues. And I see middle aged men like me filling up long boxes during their long box sales. One LCS is revamping its image as the son of the owner has taken over operations, opened up to social media, finding collections, and making a concerted effort to invigorate the store. And it seems to be working. They're sitting on an Amazing Fantasy 15, just sold a 9.0 Daredevil #1, have an active online community and are doing better. The other LCS across town is just a few years old. It's niche is comics and Pops. They sell a ton of those Pops. I see kids and parents there, too. Young adults, middle aged adults. So at least here, my experience doesn't jibe with the doomsayers whose stores are bereft of kids. Maybe your stores are just doing a poor job building an audience? Maybe their location is poor? Maybe their shop smells like old cat and tobacco? None of what I've written changes the decline in sales in comics nor the closing of numerous shops across the country. I'm not in a position to do more than comment on the different news articles I read on the topic (stick "comics" in your Google news preference and you'll get some decent articles fed your way). That disclaimer aside, I agree that squeezing people for variant covers isn't healthy. I do buy some variant covers. Often, I don't care for them. For reprints, variant covers make sense. Most of my Immortal Hulk comics are reprints. The Ross covers are great, but I'm not paying extra for a back issue of those. I am buying the upcoming Ross variant for Detective 1000 because it's gorgeous. And I have two variants from Action 1000 because one is a great WWII homage and another is an Allred cover. I have almost every Adventure Time comic variant printed because that's my biggest nerd indulgence in comic collecting. But obviously, there are people pursuing those variants. I see guys buying stacks of comics at my LCS each week...blows me away. I don't have time to read all those and would rather save my money for vintage stuff. And for people who think there's not good work being done right now, man, you're missing out. Check out Immortal Hulk. Or get the trade for the Mister Miracle series that just ended--what a beautiful story. The new Marvel Comics Presents is a cool take on an old format. Marvel's new Conan series feels like classic Conan storytelling with some sweet art. And there are too many fine indie series to list. Even though I call myself a cover slut, I refrain from buying all the great covers I see each week--the quality of art is just so high. I can't afford all there is to buy. But I do pursue certain artists like Francavilla or Allred. A thought about bringing in new readers, I found four young reader graphic novels from DC at my store last week and bought three that my kid wanted. As the shop manager said, DC is making those affordable and Marvel would have charged double for them. They were just $4.95, so I snapped them up. DC is looking for ways to tap new readers, maybe more so than Marvel. As for digital media, a field in which I now work, video games get a bad rep. You don't have to go far to find successful, beautifully done games that immerse the player in a story. That is hard competition. I remember Zork from way back when...as a kid who read voraciously, dropping into a text adventure where I could engage with the story directly was powerful. And now the gameplay is light years beyond what I encountered in the 80s. Simply taking a comic, digitizing it, and animating a page flip isn't a good translation of a static, analog medium to a digital one. I don't have any answers about fixing the issues *cough* with comics, but I think nostalgic complaints about spinner racks, drugstores, and the serendipity of kids finding comics in pre-direct distribution locales aren't useful. I think complaints from people who admittedly haven't picked up a new comic in years aren't worth much attention.

What about the Mister Miracle 1 in 9.4 for $875? That was surprising. @lizards2 about average, it's a nice looking copy for the grade, unless the back cover is atrocious.