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You got it, Thor #168 + Thor #169 - thanks!

SOLD Thor #169 9.4 OW/W - Origin of Galactus concludes - $850

SOLD Thor #168 8.5 OW/W - Origin of Galactus - $700

Thor #132 - 9.6 OW/W - 1st appearance / cameo Ego - $400

Good evening! I haven't sold on the boards in quite some time, but I'm here to give it a go tonight. I have some newer books available here if you're interested. Rules No HOS / probation. All slabbed book sales are final. These books are unavailable elsewhere while this post is active. The first unedited claim referencing a given item has won that item unless it was previously placed on hold. Vague claims may lead to confusion, please be specific when making a claim. PMs are welcome, but claiming in thread is king. I won't sell via proxy - if you claim in thread, then yours is the only name and address that I will ship to or accept payment from. Payment will be by check, cash, money order, or PayPal - paying via PayPal means that the only name and address that I will ship to is that associated with the paying account. Payment must be received within 5 business days of your claim being acknowledged or I reserve the right to make the book available for sale once more. Shipping is via USPS to the CONUS. Books will ship once payment clears. Slabs will be insured for their purchase price, the cost of which will be split between the seller and buyer. The base shipping cost for a package (via USPS flat rate box) will be paid in full by the buyer. All of the above holds true unless some prior arrangement is reached via direct message prior to your claim in thread. Finally... more images are available upon request - my apologies for the lack of scans and the glare evident in these images. Thanks for looking.

Hi Strange Tales people - I am not a regular poster to Silver or this thread in particular so I'm uncertain about where it may be appropriate to ask my question, but I decided to try here since the book my question is about is an issue or ST. Some things have come up in my life that has me looking to part ways with some of my graded books. I have a copy or 158 that I've held on to for a good while, but I'm having trouble determining a price point. I know the general answer is "send it to auction" but I thought I may as well ask a few experts their opinion before going that tried and true route due to the fact that time is pressing. 158 - 9.4 WP, GPA data is scant with 3 sales in this grade in the last year, a 9.2 sold last for $2203. There was some very high eBay listings that I don't take too seriously, but going by census this is a tough book in grade so I'm not sure where that leaves me. Any thoughts or opinions welcome, and if this type of discussion is discouraged here my apologies - just let me know and I'll remove the post.

They did a nice job of making sure there was something there for most price ranges.

Company owned board yesterday, company owned board today.

I get it, I get it, people are garbage, don't trust anyone, keep your cash in your mattress and don't believe a word of anything, they're all out to get us!

This hobby changed the way I view spending... and I'm a complete and utter light weight when it comes to OA spending.

Seems to be a quasi gray area for many that are constantly wheeling and dealing.

I guess more towards the original intent of the thread... I can say this thread has spurred me to get rid of the few slabs I still have, so I guess that's something.

This is kind of silly, though I get what is being said of course. Still... people build the collections they're comfortable with and it is what it is. Comparing your collection to everyone else's is such a modern social media way of thinking that is sure to make you disappointed. The vast, vast, vast majority of collections are objectively mediocre and even more will be subjectively mediocre when viewed by the BSDs of the world or by the people that rode the wave of value up. I can see why some like the one people are responding to here may just want to approach it as a bit of a lighter weight hobby.

I got my single page from Rob (simplyrob on these boards I believe) , wish I'd gotten more but funds were terrible at that time due to a move. Good luck.

Dean Ormston

Unpublished cover by Lukas Ketner.

It makes great sense. Though I now have at least one inked page in my collection where I'm uncertain if a pencils only version is floating around. Hardly a serious problem, but I'd of course prefer to have both!

Someone may be using some form of automation. If so, for dealer or rep sites, it would likely be a home rolled solution. Consider a process that can take keywords as input that simply puts things in a cart - human intervention is then required to click checkout. This would still give a large advantage during a drop for something like SSB, but for most, it likely wouldn't be necessary. If you want something more sophisticated for a full automation experience, there are no real constraints against filtering by price or literally any other data field embedded in the page source that is necessary to convey to actual human users what is being offered for sale. If that page you input keywords for (for example, you know you want issue 3, page 2 of some particular title) happens to drop at $5,000 instead of $1,000 it can be ignored or prompt for approval. It all comes down to how much effort the developer wants to put into it the solution. Retail sites typically have no incentive to prevent legitimate purchases, even fast ones. When the stakes get high enough, automation will show up.

It wouldn't be very difficult at all to write a -script to scrape a page of listed art and look for specific keywords or issue numbers to use as a deciding factor to pop something into a cart and do a checkout. It would be especially easy to build and test for an existing website with a lot of content already present, especially if the listings used consistent patterns - the barrier to entry to that sort of thing is typically low.

Couldn't say. I think a few pages here and there have been let out into the world but I believe he has held on to the art. I haven't looked hard since before the Netflix adaptation so I guess it is possible someone may come along and say something changed.

Gabriel Rodríguez Locke & Key.

Yep, I know many enjoy that type of thing. I don't kind pencil only work, it isn't anything necessarily to do with ink or the lack thereof. Something about unfinished work bugs me - maybe the loss of potential? I don't know.

I have little interest in unfinished works, but if the price is right and the work pulls me I'll still go for a finished piece. But by far I have published pages. Unless you're a commission collector (and a lot of those still see publication), I think it is just the nature of the hobby.

I have one unpublished cover. It's to a mini that never happened. I generally don't collect such, but I really enjoyed the previous entries to the series, and I like the artist and image, so I bought it and I don't regret it. In fact, I passed on one of his other published covers to pick it up - something I imagine I won't do again. It also likely isn't something many others would care about so it's stuck with me and that's fine because I like to look at it. It all comes down to individual instances. I do think the chance of such purchases really nose dives as you climb up the y-axis on acquisition cost so it is likely heavily dependent on how big of a fish you are.

Being a life long Cleveland Browns fan made me a perfect poor OA collector - disappointment is second nature. Unless you have ultra deep pockets - and even then you'll find people that won't part with certain pieces - this hobby is bound to offer a lot of disappointment and stings. But hey, it's all worth it when you flip open a portfolio and look at the art you did manage to snag.