GeeksAreMyPeeps

1. Go to my spice cabinet and collect all of the bottles. 2. Travel back 500 years, trade for gold. 3. Travel forward to buy comics.

There may be no *certified* graders, but insofar as someone is paying CGC's graders to grade, that's their profession. Splitting hairs, I know. And in any profession, sometimes people get it wrong.

I've thought about this problem, and figured that the solution would be to gather up the oldest bills you can currently find that aren't worth any more than the newest bills, go back in time to when they were new, exchange them for the oldest bills you can find that aren't worth any more than contemporary bills, and repeat the process until you have valid money from the time period you're buying from.

I guess CGC witnessed someone doing the restoration? What I wonder here is if the restoration was only on the outer of the double covers, shouldn't it technically still be a blue label, since the inner cover would still be in its original form. (Granted that the label doesn't indicate which cover was touched up.)

People probably saw it, and then started hunting for a copy for themselves.

Gotcha. I had never heard of those before; just noticed that in the images you posted.

Since the previous issue has that "Shan-Lon" giveaway edition with the Spidey head, maybe something similar was planned for this issue?

Note this was a panel giveaway, not an exclusive you could purchase. That, and some other panel giveaways (Avengers 6 Blood Hunt cover, G.O.D.S. Design Variant, Bad Idea's Inebrio Horsefeathers and Tankers, DC's Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong connecting covers, and Skybound/Energon's Duke #1). I was a little too far back in the line to get into Marvel's Gang War panel, so I don't know what that giveaway was (assuming there was one).

The Spawn Universe Sampler already sold for $500 (Canadian). https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=spawn+sampler+todd+mcfarlane+&_sacat=0&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1

I bought a bunch of these. Works well for the thicker slabs. https://www.bcwsupplies.com/resealable-bag-for-graded-comics-9-x-14

I've seen an ungraded copy of 40 go for over $100 by itself, so I think that's a pretty good deal. I still need that 43 in 9.8 (only have a lowly 9.6 right now).

Magenta and yellow tend to be more susceptible to fading than cyan and black.

Nice! What did this cost you?

It doesn't hurt that there are a lot of Newsstand issues there as well. It might help to break out each group (i.e. sell all Essentials together, all of Volume 1 together, etc.). It's a little bit more work, and might result in a higher total overall, because not everyone is willing to spend on each category.

Thor 279 is not a huge key, but sells well because of the bondage cover.

I don't think so; I think that's sun fade. You can see a hint of yellow if you compare Ghost Rider's head to the front wheel (or, in the corner box, compare the flames on the head to the skull).

Take that thought to the next step. Considering that a certain amount of money has been spent on slabbing books that probably do not warrant it (if being slabbed for resale, anyway; I'm slabbing a bunch of books for my PC that wouldn't be worth slabbing if I was selling them), that activity was probably a signal to CGC that the industry is growing at a certain rate, and the usual expectations when you have one company buy out another one (as was the case here) that is growing at a certain rate, is that it will continue to grow at that rate, or at least show consistent growth. Now that the bubble has deflated or burst, I doubt they're seeing any growth, and more likely seeing some contraction. I have to wonder what that is going to mean for the company and for customers. Will they have layoffs? Will we see even more jumps in prices as they try to maintain the same income on lower volumes of submissions (which would only cause a further dropoff in submissions, as the bar for a book being worth slabbing is raised).

Probably a good idea, because the first Turok would be pricey too.

Do you have a list of books you're hunting for? Are you just looking for comics from properties that were video games first? Because that makes Shadowman a little less of a necessity. (And that's not Shadowman's first appearance, anyway.)

I'm also in NYC. I know multiple people that regularly get inquiries about the sale of their home, whether they're selling it or not. I think there are just a lot of people with money looking to buy real estate to rent out.

That makes sense if you're doing that kind of volume, but my sales are significantly less than that.

I generally think it's a good idea on eBay to take returns, with the cost of return shipping being the responsibility of the buyer. Offering returns I think gets you a slight decrease in fees (or some other benefit that I'm not remembering at the moment). Any buyer can claim the item isn't as described and return it anyway, and that's counted as a defect on the seller. It's not is it's an accepted return. I wouldn't offer *free* returns though. I think there are too many consumers (not talking about comics, but merch in general) that will absolutely buy more than what they plan on keeping, and return what they decide not to keep, because it's no hassle to *them*, but seriously cuts into the profit of who they're buying from, if the seller isn't selling expensive items.

I think you need to clarify what you mean regarding "long-term collectability"; I think a lot of people would have different thoughts on what that means, and there are probably many different contributing factors influencing "collectability." Clarifying what you want to track makes it easier to determine whether there is data to track that.

*put up with Jim Croce sang it many years ago (not verbatim, but same sentiment)

They both look like Ben Affleck, so…