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It's worth noting that if anything happens to the book (damage or loss) the book will be assumed to be valued at whatever you place on your submission form as well.

Going to move the ASM #300 CGC 9.6 to another venue. You know where to reach me if you're interested in discussing it.

ASM #129 CGC 9.6 has now SOLD! I'm going to move the American's Best Comics #4 CGC 8.0 to eBay (and edit that book as not available). I'm talking to several people about the Hulk #181 CGC 9.8 and so that book is still available at this time.

I'll start a Go Fund Me if you promise to donate.

My post was directed at comparing sales of keys pre movie era to keys post movie era (after the movie boom started) Before movie investing was a thing, FF #48 was a decent moving key for me. After the movie era started, if a book didn't fly off the shelves and multiply in price every week it was considered 'slow'. Just trying to add some levity to the discussion.

I wouldn't say it was a slow to middling book. It was a 'normal' selling key for me for years meaning it did pretty well. Every copy I ever had sold (and I've sold copies from VG to CGC 9.8 (at least 3 or 4 copies). I remember the last sale of my CGC 9.8 before the book started to dry up in grade. It was about 7 or so years ago and the buyer was terrified he was over paying as the book was softening. I think he paid low teens for the book. Compared to how quickly movie books go now, yes it was 'slow' but back then EVERYTHING was 'slower'. But that 'slow' was normal back then. Now we have a new normal.

A few of us tried to do this when GAtor put up a run of Tec #27-38 (iirc) up for sale on the chat forums over a decade ago. Really tough to hammer out a partnership like this but it is possible. We ended up not doing it.

...and it might be worth hearing the opinions and stories from some older collectors who rarely venture out of the GA forum. Any of you OG / old school collectors want to chime in?

You just have to look at the letter pages to the editors to see how dedicated fans were. There were literally 1000's of letters printed during that period and these were loyal fans that followed story lines closely who took the time to write. Many didn't bother writing. The seeds of collecting were planted early. Magazines and comics had incentives planted in the 1940's for readers to come back next issue. Whether it was a trading post for readers to connect in (I know Whiz Comics had those) to story continuity and crossovers to the advent of letter pages for readers to connect in. When were the 1st letter pages, BTW? That would be a great study in and of itself. I posted a link to this discussion the GA forum. Would be cool to hear from some old timers.

If I had to guess, maybe $300-400 US? So maybe $500 CAN?

Didn't see your edit. Proof? By 1975 or 1976 I was collecting comics (as a 5 year old kid) and I wasn't influenced by conventions, fanzines or other collectors. I didn't know what those were. I just wanted copies for myself. I know it was that time period because I remember running to my friend's house to trade comics and by 1977 we had moved out of that neighnorhood. I have no problems believing there were 1000's of collectors in 1970 and not just 1000. Maybe even 10,000's. I'm sure there are dozens if not more collectors on this very chat forum that were collecting in 1970 and before that.

Take 10% off the CGC 9.6 copy left.

We can set up a wrestling match in Baltimore. Arex might be there.

Box office is over $400 million against a sub-$200 million budget. It will probably make $100 million in profit when it's all said and done. I think any studio would take that type of failure any day of the week. It wasn't too long ago that if a movie grossed $200-300MIL it was a big deal. Are we really at the point now that if a movie doesn't hit $1BIL it sucked? A movie about a clear C tier character tops $500MIL and people are saying it's a flop? Wow.

I don't - flying cross country from San Francisco. Sorry to de-rail the thread from WW, but if someone wants to organize a basketball game during Baltimore, start a new thread and count us (2 people) in! No worries on derailing. If anyone reading this is from B-more and had any suggestions, message me and we'll try to make it work.

Do you know the area well? Is there a court that you know that we can play at (preferably in door)? Like a local gym that is available? The hard part is finding a suitable place. In Rosemont we have the fitness center. We've also played in San Diego outside behind the convention center on SD Bay.

We can have Good Bob and Bad Bob as commentator. Alice in Chains.

Greg, was going to start a thread about it yesterday and forgot. Thanks for doing it. I'll be there @G.A.tor

Really? I wouldn't put the Surfer below a B tier. He might even be a B+ character. He's always been popular and present in Marvel books. He did manage to carry his own series for years (something many B series characters can't do) and appears in and out of story arcs all the time. And the only reason FF #48 was relatively inexpensive was because it was plentiful in grade.

I've been to both stores (on the same day no less) and I disagree with what you say about All About Books and Comics. They're not spot on with their grades (very few sellers are) but their stuff is not out to lunch either. I bought several books from them which tells me that they are not so bad. At Fantastic Worlds I found that the better books were ALSO priced at market (and I've known the owner for over a decade). I didn't buy anything from FW (which means nothing other than I didn't find anything of interest). So your post is very subjective and calling one dealer a cut throat penny squeezer is over the line IMO.

Batman #227 CGC 9.8 has SOLD! Take 5% off remaining books.

Take 5% off.

Yeah, I don't rate the cover to FF #49 higher than 48 either. Always loved #48.

But Plant had blonde hair ? Are we really discussing this? Plant was dirty blonde when he was young and it's brown and silver now. I just Googled him. We have nearly exactly the same color hair. Back to FF #48's!