Paul_Maul

Don Rosa Copy:

My copy of the classic cover 419...

This is the first issue of Action I remember owning as a kid. I would say it is the raw equivalent of a 9.6....

Here are my latest pickups from NYCC:

Just catching up on this thread. I'm a huge fan of the bronze Supes titles. I enjoyed them as a kid and still do. I've been working on high grade runs of Action, Supes and WF for almost twenty years. Though most of my books are raw, they are of equal quality to 9.6/9.8s. Some are CGC crack outs.

I'll try to post scans of some of my books soon. Great to know others enjoy these book as much as I do!

Received beautiful 9.6 copy of ASM 103 from Don. It was packed impeccably, and Don was kind enough to ship it on a specific day so that it wouldn't arrive while I was on the road. First class seller and fine fellow!

Thanks for a fine transaction (FF 207 CGC 9.6)!

Thanks for a perfect transaction (ASM 271 CGC 9.6)...and thanks for the free modern FF!

This is one of the first comics I owned as a kid. I remember the impact cool covers like this had on me at the time. Nothing like the feeling of picking up a nice copy of a book you remember fondly from the past....

Two Words:

Thanks to Oldguy for a slammin' copy of X-Men 103!

Want to give a great big KUDOS to Paul_Maul for a very nice Thor 148 that is a stunner at a fair price. Tight grading and bullet proof shipping.

Thanks, glad you're pleased! And thanks to Rocketeer for two nice ebay wins. Happily, he

thwarted the USPS's attempt to induce SCS on my two gems, as inside the heavily dented

box the books and slabs were unharmed!

You`d be surprised at how far down he goes! Trust me, check your books out very carefully.

I was hosed by Ross in 1992 when I had just gotten back into collecting. Bought "high grade"

Captain America #50 and 57 from him at a local con in Albany, NY. These were the first Golden

Age books I ever owned, and I was completely green about resto.

When I sold them to Jason Ewert in 1998 along with all my other

Golden Age books, I found that those two had extensive restoration (paper added, etc.)

Looking at the books in 1998 I couldn't believe I hadn't noticed the obvious resto, I

probably just wasn't looking for it in 1992. Happily I turned a profit on most of the other books

(including the "D" copies of All-Winners 13 and Marvel Mystery 70 which I tripled my

money on) so it softened the blow somewhat.

I had probably about 20 letters printed in different Marvel books during the

early 80's. I'd hate to point out the issues since the letters were so

uniformly a$$-kissing and fatuous. Marvel ate those right up. I have to

admire DC for refusing to print such drek.

Thought some of you lads might be interested in this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3981&item=2262185857

Same store has a bunch of Whitman Boris Karloff Mystery digests too....

Ready....set....go!

You just summarized the paradox of low guide prices vs. high. When books are ridiculously

undervalued (mid 1990s 100 page SS's 4 and 6 in NM at $5 apiece) you can't take advantage of it

because it isn't worth anyone's while to bring them out. I'm still searching for NM copies of the first

5 World's Finest Dollar issues. They're just too cheap for people to bother with.

Once things shoot up in price, they're all over the place at nosebleed prices

One of the few books that I bought from Showcase New England back in the day that may actually be the advertised NM+!

Was that from that batch of Bronze Age books Showcase had in CBG back around 1997 or 1998

that were almost all graded NM 96-98 (using the outdated nomenclature)? I got some beautiful

books from that bunch too: Batman 262, Superman 253, a few others. Shockingly good deals

by today's standards, though at the time I felt raped by the prices.