AndyFish

It's in the 6.0-7.0 in my opinion-- that right side is sharp-- the left side has a little bit more wear. Miswraps are funny-- some people care and some don't. That great Nick Fury #2 with the robot cover is a favorite of mine-- I've come across three different copies-- all beauties but all miswrapped so that the 1 of the 12c is on the back. I bought one (not the one shown below) because it was so nice, but all my eye kept going to was that cover price. Ugh!

7.0

Nice looking book-- little ding at the top and some tiny wear at the staples-- from the photos I'd call it in the 7.5-8.0 range.

5.5 or a 6.0 -- Gold is tough-- I had a BATMAN #3 which I was sure was a 1.5 and it came back a 3.5 This one-- piece missing out of cover? Affects interior pages? At least its a small hole.

I'll second or third the suggestion that you just put some time in here and then take to selling. There are tons of interesting threads for someone who is interested in the medium, and tons of nonsense but that's part of the fun. If you don't want to invest in the time to become a member of the boards then you should look to sell elsewhere-- carpetbaggers get called out here often. You could try selling some less high ticket books here and then build your Kudos rating which will get you better results. It's a nice book, GP for a 7.0 was $1000 in February 2017 so you might be priced a little high, might also explain the other 7.0 copy on eBay sitting unsold as a BIN for a little less than your asking price. Regardless, welcome to the boards, and good luck with the sale.

eBay is going to have the tracking info showing that the book was delivered so it might be harder for the buyer to get a refund. It's also hard to argue it's not as described since the photos (even looking at them on a phone) show the black bar at the top and the NOT FOR RESALE pretty obviously. I'm not sure they didn't get what was offered. If the seller started it at $10, and provided there is no shilling going on, then the chips fall where they may and its the fault of the buyer to not look into what they're buying, especially if they bid multiple times on it (or am I confusing this thread with another uninformed buyer?). I've been out with the wifey many times, sitting in a coffee shop waiting while she shops and I'll jump on eBay via my iPhone and do some time killing, but I would never jump on a high dollar auction without getting a better look at the pics on my desktop. I think what we have here is a buyer who got greedy thinking they had somehow spotted a deal no one else was on to.

Anybody can (and do) sue anyone for anything, whether or not they would prevail in court is another thing. What would your ground be? Discrimination? How were you wronged and for what amount of monetary damage? It would seem like it would be more expensive to file the paperwork than to simply sell them elsewhere. I've long given up on eBay doing anything logical. It's gotten worse and worse over the years. It used to be as a seller you had recourse for bad buyers, and as a buyer you had protection from bad sellers, but now it's more and more difficult to resolve anything with them. I've mostly moved on.

Agree-- solid mid grades-- I think the Moby is around a 4.5-5.0 while the Arabian is a 5.0-5.5 Paper on these is very pulp like-- had a few of these, hard to find in even "nice" condition.

5.5-6.0

Yup-- right here on the boards in the Comics for Sale section. Check the Kudos thread of the seller if you don't know them, CHECK THE PICTURES and ASK QUESTIONS. I've bought a lot here and have never had a problem, BUT-- and this is a big but-- you're not going to get a $5 refund like you did on eBay here. This is a place where you better know what you're doing and understand grading terms and that condition is subjective. A lot of newbies get so stuck on price guides and grading. Try and find a Werewolf By Night #32 at guide prices-- not going to happen by a long shot. Get comfortable with your own grading and then pay what you're willing to pay. I went way over guide for a Batman #11 a few years ago because it was a live in house auction and it was between me and one other bidder and I decided this other guy wasn't going to have it. I didn't sit and lick my wounds for overpaying-- it was fun and years later I sold it at a big profit because Joker covers got hot. There are sellers on here whose grading I'm 100% on with-- same goes for online sellers-- and there are sellers I don't agree with but I can still work with them. If they call a book an 8.0 I might consider it a 7.0 and I buy it knowing that. In other cases for some of them what I call an 8.0 I would call a 9.0-- it's all subjective. For online sellers there's SuperworldComics.com , FourColorComics.com , DaleRobertsComics.com , MetropolisComics.com and a few others I'm sure I'm missing. But for these guys I know their grading and use it subjectively against my own.

If they paid with Paypal they should file a claim there. $800 is a lot of money to throw away. I love the NOT FOR RESALE printed right on the cover. Might be able to argue this was an illegal auction to begin with, although stupidity is not a crime.

Echoing the sentiments here: 1. You'd be throwing money away getting either of these slabbed. 2. Use the Please Grade My Book thread to get opinions like this so the board doesn't get cluttered up with multiple threads of the same topic, plus you'll get experienced graders on there. It's a fun thread. 3. I'd give the FF a 3.0 maybe-- pics are terrible, and the Spidey a 1.5-2.0

You didn't get ripped off and honestly the seller shouldn't have offered to refund you, but as I said, I would bet dollars to donuts that seller has blocked you. If you keep up this behavior you will severely limit the folks willing to do business with you. Chalk this up to inexperience, give the seller BACK his $5 and apologize for not looking at the pics and LOOK at the books you're bidding on before you bid. The fact that you couldn't see tape on the spine says you either need a better phone or glasses. Not being mean, just stating facts. That would be my advice. Now having said all that-- we all made really dumb mistakes when we were first starting out-- just learn from them. I echo the sentiment that there is no need for name calling but understanding the hobby you're getting into is really 101.

You must have bought this looking at it on your phone because those pictures clearly show a lot of defects. Still, you were expecting a "nice" copy at $17? Nice is subjective but even at the low end of what I might call nice GP shows a 4.0 going for about $50, while a 6-7.0 goes for around $100. I don't think you got a deal by any means but this isn't the seller's fault. You can take the $5 and call it a day but don't be shocked if the seller blocks you because you got what you paid for. If it were me, I'd forget the whole thing and just chalk it up to not using a phone to look at pics on possible purchases. I don't expect a seller to make up for my own mistakes, but that's me.

Take it @$35

What a great idea this is! Count me in for next year! And that Captain Marvel serial is one of the best! Along with Batman (1943) and The Phantom (ditto) it's one of my favorites!

Actually what I think he was asking was when this guy STARTED reading comics which he says when he adopted his first foster son. So likely 40-50 years old-- interesting that he would start then and amazing he stuck around since that was the drek of the industry (Death of Superman I'm looking at you).

This is a good price folks, you get a deal and you help a vet on veterans day. If I needed this one I'd grab it.

I think this looks like the biggest piece of garbage yet-- I can't get past the horrible bloated costumes that make it look like Superman and Batman shopped in the same store (same six pack design) and Wonder Woman's red matches Flash's red matches Superman's red. It just looks like a colossal piece of trash. Now I find out this is PART ONE??? I hope this is a huge bomb but it won't be. Batman V Superman was one of the stupidest things I ever regretfully put down money for and it made boatloads of cash. Put a superhero on the screen and the fanboys will blindly line up-- no need for story!

Great book- I'm in the 9.2-9.4 range opinion wise.

I can appreciate Cal's frustration here-- it seems like eBay is getting more and more inane bidders-- to the point that we now look to other online sources to sell items. We still use eBay, but our annual sales are about 1/10th what they used to be (by our choice). I do handle it a bit differently; someone wants to cancel a bid, I cancel it and block them as a buyer and move on. End of story. No one gets back on the buy list once blocked. I recently got a message from a guy who said I missed out on a bigger sale because when he went to bid he discovered he was blocked. I told him it was no loss because we only block non-payers or people who don't honor their bids so the hassle of dealing with an insufficiently_thoughtful_person wasn't worth the extra sale money no matter how much it was. NO MATTER HOW MUCH IT WAS. << I'm not kidding here. I will also block buyers that retract a bid-- we absolutely don't shill our auctions, in fact we start every auction (even a Hulk #2) at $10 or under with NO RESERVE and we let the market decide the value of the item. If we take a loss so be it. But when someone bids and retracts it makes us look like we're doing some shilling and that hurts our reputation. As for buying... I use a proxy bid service which means sometimes I throw a bid on something 7 or 10 days out and forget about it-- then I get the notice that I won and I'm like "oh, right...." and I've either lost interest or just changed my mind. Not once have I not honored the bid. I'm a grown up, don't live in my mom's basement and I can not only touch my toes I can see them. So I pay for the item and move on. I don't care what your excuse is for not wanting to buy something you've agreed to buy-- and we all get that "a bid is a binding promise to buy" note when we put that bid in. If you bid for it and win you should pay for it.

I'd have to see them-- I always go for the one that has color that pops.

Great stuff! I love Halloween themed comics!