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Come on, listen to that little guy going

So as you can see, we're talking about a 9.0 Detective Comics #110, with the very elusive white pages designation that eludes so many early DC books. Published in April 1946, this 72 year old beauty is one of four 9.0 copies currently in the census. Asking $1200 shipped. The best comp I can find is this 9.2 ow/w from ComicLink that is pending at $1400 -- comiclink.com/itemdetail.asp?back=%2Fsearch%2Easp%3Fwhere%3Dsell%26title%3Ddetective%2B110%26ItemType%3DCB&id=1290473 Offers by PM always welcome, first trumps everything. Thanks for looking!

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Good evening all and Happy New Year! I find myself in one of those ever tricky "man I need some more space...and maybe some more down payment money for this here house hunt my wife has us on" situations. Before we get to the book, the basics: Payment: PayPal only, due within 5 days. Shipping: USPS insured priority, cost is included in the book's price. That said, I'll probably be listing some more throughout this week, so...buy two books and I'll subtract $5 from the overall total, buy three and I'll subtract $10. More books than that? I'll figure out the discount based on total books, I ship a max of three books in a medium flat rate box. Returns: No returns on CGC graded books unless I make an error in the listing or fail to disclose a problem. If by chance the USPS goes above and beyond to defeat my packaging and the slab is damaged in transit, prior to doing ANYTHING ELSE, save all the packing material and contact me. USPS regulations have been beefed up to require the packing material being available for inspection (pictures suffice based on experience) in order to file a proper insurance claim. On the HoS? Nope. Probation list? Message me first and we'll talk about your situation, but don't be overly optimistic. Can provide board references if needed (no name dropping here), 1600+ eBay feedback for me as well -- https://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=792mn Onward to the book!

Package it responsibly. Buy something you've actually looked into thoroughly, not another "MINT!" book that other people are bidding on.

I agree you should return the book, but don’t make this out to be some kind of crusade. You also had enough available information to judge that this wasn’t in “MINT!” condition as advertised. Take it as a lesson in how to better shop on fleatrapBay in the future.

Was going to say a 6.0 Mint myself.

I bet its being re-worked with Samuel L. Jackson in the role of Gambit. I base this solely upon Samuel L. Jackson appearing in every movie, ever.

I'd bet a shiny quarter that he just wanted to read the book, then return it.

That seems awfully shortsighted, and I would guess that opinion is in the minority of fans. It's akin to a Star Trek fan saying "we only care about Kirk, Spock, and McCoy."

My worry is that JJ will get too derivative again. As much as I love The Force Awakens, they could have easily called it "A Renewed Hope" instead. Will Episode 9 end up being "The Jedi Have Returned"? With a blatantly ripped off scene, only in reverse, a la Into Darkness (wow, do I hate that movie)? And while we're playing the re-name game -- Episode VIII: I Told You we Shoulda Put More than 5 Bucks Worth In!

The overall solution is clear - all books from hereon will be #1 foil variant one-shot reboot store exclusive 1:1000 5000:1 J Scott Campbell lenticular covers. Gimmicks for all! The industry survived the 1990s, and hopefully it will persevere through this current absurdity.

This is like Ditka vs the Giants. Avengers $247 billion, Episode 9 $14.

Wizard has hit it's $0.05 low again today during intraday trading (its since rebounded to $0.12). Could the slow, painful march to Bankruptcy Court finally be nearing its conclusion?

That was cold Chuck does have a point though, seems like kids these days need to knock over a liquor store just to be able to afford the new releases from month to month. $3, $4, $5 a book? Youch. And as someone who completely quit the new material at the height of Axel Alonso's reign of terror, I'd also wonder if the material has subsequently gotten any better to even remotely justify such a price point.

Whatever that site used to be, it now seems to just be taking up space on the internet.

That guy is probably an Executive VP at Wizard World now.

Not at all, ComicCoin was a total scam from the get go, and everyone knew it. @Hudson is talking about a product akin to a physical asset backed fund that would be properly registered. Terms like "secure location", "insured", and "someone I could trust" were all foreign to the ComicCoin people.

For an arrangement like this to function effectively, it would basically have to be set-up like an ETF such as GLD, wherein the share issuer has possession of the physical asset in trust. Shareholders wanting to sell would have to put their shares on the open market to look for a buyer. Bottom line, I don't foresee anyone rushing to register a comic backed ETF with the SEC anytime soon.

Makes you wonder how people like that function in real life. Imagine dude goes into a Chipotle, places his order, pays, and then 5 minutes later comes back to the counter and says "Hey, yeah, I've uh changed my mind. I'd like my money back, here's your burrito in return."

Agreed...a pink sheet stock quadruples in price mere days after setting a brand new low at $0.05. Sounds like a real sound investment, let's all sell our Bitcoin and go into WIZD! Nothing but upside from here!

I found the PGX guys...

FANTEX does something similar with professional sports contracts -- basically the players sells part of their future earnings for an immediate payout, investors can buy "shares" in the player, the player's stock price can go up/down, and there's usually an annual dividend payout. Interesting concept, but it hasn't caught on to any sort of mass appeal. I think they've had the same 6 NFL players signed on since inception, and it looks like the few MLB players that signed on are no longer being "traded" (Andrew Heaney is the only one I remember, and his share have closed). And let's face it, when we're talking about multiple owners buying "shares" in a comic, didn't The Simpsons already teach us how that will work out when Bart, Milhouse, and Martin all went in on that copy of Radioactive Man #1?

If the CGC graders checked it out, then it wouldn't be a PGX book anymore.