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Man Thing #1 CGC 9.8 White Asking $900 (shipping included)

Going Steady #10 CGC 2.0 OWW (Classic Matt Baker - previously graded and offered as a raw 2.0 by me in the marketplace. 6 copies on census with 7.5 being the highest graded) Asking $750 (shipping included)

Giant Size X-men #1 CGC 7.0 White (this copy has a 'crunch' to the top left corner which resulted in several creases North West of the "68 Big Pages" banner that don't break color. If someone wants to try their hand at pressing it out for a higher grade it may grade higher. The book was pressed but a more patient hand might do the job) Asking $1000 (shipping included) SOLD!

Detective Comics #443 CGC 9.8 OWW Asking $900 (shipping included) SOLD!

Detective Comics #437 CGC 9.8 OWW Asking $800 (shipping included) SOLD!

Detective Comics #412 CGC 9.8 OWW Asking $725 (shipping included) SOLD!

Daredevil #168 CGC 9.8 White Asking $1300 (shipping included) SOLD!

Daredevil #158 CGC 9.8 White pages Asking $700 (shipping included)

Avengers #6 CGC 9.4 COW (unbelievable eye appeal - this is going to be someone's keeper) Asking $1500 (shipping included)

Amazing Spider-man #173 CGC 9.8 White Asking $1000 (shipping included)

Amazing Spider-man #119 CGC 9.8 OWW Asking $1000 (shipping included) SOLD!

If you see a light blue line (or two) down the right side of the front cover that is scanner artifact. Time for a new scanner. All of these books have strong color inks and no major distracting defects unless noted (with the exception of the Going Steady which is going to be well read as it grades a 2.0)

Shipping: Certified books, shipping is included within North America, ROW we split it. Raw books, include $10 for shipping within North America. ROW I will split with interested parties.  Who wins: Time stamp seals the deal as to who wins regardless of the form of communication (including PM, in the thread, text or phone conversation). A negotiation is not a deal until both sides have agreed on terms. If there is an unconditional posted (or communicated) it will trump all negotiations unless we have already both agreed to terms before the was posted. In that case, the will have been in vain. Except that it will give you street cred and look cool to passers by. No House Of Shame or Probationary members or any others of ill repute. Returns: I am considered a very good grader among my peers ( Here is a link to my kudos thread ) but since even CGC is inconsistent I will not guarantee a CGC grade. I will guarantee to be within one grade increment in either direction - so if I am calling the book a 9.4 it could go 9.2 or 9.6. If it falls outside of those parameters (and it does happen that they go in both directions), I will offer a refund. But I don't expect anyone to complain if I undergraded it. I will accept returns if item is otherwise not as described. Consider all books pressed. Payment: Paypal, bank wire, check or MO.

Seems like something that should be passed on to the investigating LE, if this is an identifying factor. Without getting into a long and drawn out debate (as I said I don't want to derail the thread) I'll answer JJJ's questions. Some Marvels might even have larger tolerances. Many are not cut square and are trapezoidal in shape. Some are thinner and some are thicker (width wise). For some, the covers are cut shorter than the interiors but stapled on anyway. My main point being that If someone identifies the stolen book they will most likely be comparing it to a scan and I doubt the right edge is the first thing they will be looking at. Remembering what the right edge looks like in attempting to identify the book is going to be less reliable than some of the defects the book has (for me anyway) and more importantly, comparing the artwork is going to be much less definitive than matching defects. There were a zillion copies printed in 1962. The odds are that there are others with similar art tolerances but not all books will have the same wear. That is the fingerprint that most people will be looking for. You keep repeating this as well. Silver Age Marvels can have the inner pages protruding, the can be flush with the covers and they can have covers that are too short but have been attached regardless...and yet none are trimmed. I don't think it has any bearing on identifying the book. Now if someone wants to remember that the inner pages don't protrude as a factor to help them quickly identify the book then fine. But to me the trimming talk just muddies the waters for some people, IMO.

I disagree with you. Early 60's Silver Age Marvels (especially those from 1962) come with varying sizes, varying amounts of artwork showing and varying degrees of fanning of the pages. But I don't want to beat a dead horse so I'll just agree to disagree.

Silver Age marvels, especially from the early 1960's were notorious for varying in size as well as having artwork showing / missing, miswraps, miscuts, etc. There is no way of knowing whether a book was trimmed or not just by looking at artwork or comparing one book to another.

Attaboy, Roy. What I meant was that it had some very distinctive things about it that would make it easy to identify...but I'm not going to post it in the thread in case the thief is reading it.

Got a nice batch of books coming back from CGC. Hit me up with interest, otheriwse I plan on selling them in the next day or two. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Amazing Spider-man #119 CGC 9.8 OWW Amazing Spider-man #173 CGC 9.8 White Amazing Spider-man #300 CGC 9.6 White Avengers #6 CGC 9.4 COW Daredevil #158 CGC 9.8 OWW Daredevil #168 CGC 9.8 White Detective Comics #412 CGC 9.8 OWW Detective Comics #437 CGC 9.8 OWW Detective Comics #443 CGC 9.8 OWW Detective Comics #444 CGC 9.8 OWW Giant Size X-men #1 CGC 7.0 White Going Steady #10 CGC 2.0 OWW (previously graded and offered as a raw 2.0 by me) Man Thing #1 CGC 9.8 White Marvel Premiere #15 CGC 9.6 OWW New Gods #1 CGC 9.6 OWW New Teen Titans #2 CGC 9.8 White NYX #3 CGC 9.8 White Tales To Astonish #18 CGC 8.0 OWW (previously graded and offered as a raw 8.0 by me) X-men #76 CGC 9.2 OWW

The book does have several distinct markings that would make it recognizable. I held the book in hand and took note of how it looked in hand. Suffice to say, I'll keep an eye out. This forum does a good job of keeping their eyes peeled but it might be worth posting the book on this site as well: http://stolencomic.com/

I have had countless family members who have gone to Europe to have their teeth done over the years (big work...we're not just talking a filling or two) and I have a friend who is going over this year. Countries like Serbia (where I am from) is where my family and friends are going. They have historically had a very high educational standard (they come over here and marvel at how uneducated people are) that is not recognized on these shores (my 1st ex was a laboratory technician to study blood by the time she finished high school but that degree was not recognized here so she had to redo everything - a very common story) but because their economy struggles, things are much cheaper there. My friend is getting a new mouthful of implants for a small fraction of what they cost here. They pay out of pocket but the work costs a tenth of what it costs over here.

There would have to have been 1000's, if not 10,000's. There's just no way there were simply a few hundred Merry Marvel Marching Society members with tens of millions of books being sold every year. Like I stated earlier, fandom was already communicating through comics as early as 1940 where some publishers had trading posts in their comics encouraging readers to meet via snail mail.

In the more broad discussion, the tangent started when there was a disagreement as to how large fandom was. So we're trying to determine how active fandom was by trying to ascertain how many collectors there are. But fandom is made up of many types of collectors, with readers being one of the most popular kind...because up until the CGC era, MOST collectors were almost always readers first. But more to my point, you don't even have to be a true collector to have an involvement in fandom. If you were just a reader, and chucked your books away after you read them you definitely weren't a collector but could still be a part of fandom. I find it ironic that now there are people who are stringently defining what a collector is but that you don't necessarily need to be a collector to be involved in fandom. This is another reason why I think the discussion has gotten silly.

Except that sellers generally prefer to quote highest sales (especially if it was the last sale because if the last sale is high the book is OBIVOUSLY on fire) and buyers like to quote low sales. But as a general rule, I agree with you. I tend to price using averages rather than outliers.

It's way cheaper in Europe. I have a friend who is getting ALL of his teeth redone at 1/10th of what it costs on these shores.

Sorry, you are no longer a collector so your collector card has been revoked. You must now apply for an official reader card.