Harry Lime

Nope, everybody loves a beaver!

You're not a monster, Steve. You just sometimes wear deely boppers on the wrong planet. Personally, I've never heard of King comics but I admire your dedication for the more esoteric funny books.

To buy a book from the Dale Roberts' Comic Holiday Sales Thread.

This arrived today. I don't normally buy pre-hero stuff but what the hell. It's actually my oldest book now and structurally is in great shape. It displays the normal Marvel indicia inside with just a line underneath saying it's distributed by Thorpe & Porter, in case you're wondering, Steve.

$1,052.34

After a fairly torturous afternoon and many messaging and explaining the seller agreed to a hefty refund. Anyone who knows me on the boards will realise I don't mind low-grade books at all but if I'm going to bid on something I want to know, even roughly what the grade is going to be. The guy was a nice chap actually but his computer skills (he'd never had to process a return before) and especially his grading suck the big one. Strange for someone with such an impressive collection. Here's the FF52. Weird thing about this is it's definitely missing a wrap but the story is unaffected and there's no obvious sign of what's gone. I'm thinking there must have been a double page advert at the centrefold? If there's anyone with a complete raw 52 could enlighten me? And the #12. The tape at both staples is the only thing keeping the cover together. Also it's signed by 'Stan Lee'.

It's normally not that bad and I don't think the seller deliberately set out to deceive, I just don't think he had a clue about grading. I'm currently educating him in that respect and also the difference in value between grades on such high value items. He also had a FF4 and FF48, 49 etc up for sale. The FF4 went for almost $1700! I hope that one was complete.

Well that was a bust. The FF 52 was incomplete and the FF12 (which I also won) had a completely split spine, nowhere near the 3.5 advertised (although I bid based on my 2.5 estimate). Back to ebay-Uk they go.

Ok, I'm here! Did I miss anything?

Must be a politician.

Probably around a 7.0 with that stain, it's a lovely looking book though.

I am 99% certain they would grade out as a 0.5. Looking at the FMV for a 0.5 FF #5 it seems to be in the $500 region which I find staggering. So I either bite the bullet and go for it (with no guarantee of winning, lol) or just resign myself to the fact I'll never own a copy. On the upside I did win a FF#52 which I never thought I'd own, I'll post pics when it arrives.

If I could ask a question of the more knowledgable & experienced boardies here. Is it worthwhile buying, essentially coverless copies of early FF's (#2, 3, & 5) although they have nice repo covers attached correctly, are they are still only 0.5 or even a NG?

I thought it was for sale here yesterday, guess the mods must have pulled it because of the concurrent ebay listing.

Garbo?

I'll take it at 20% off.

That's what I've always called it as well.

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Is that what the announcer meant by "The Voice of Venus" ? Kudos to Charlton for inventing the most alien method of communication ever, it beats Arrival into a cocked hat!

"Oh no!", must be the single most underwhelming response to a first contact situation I've ever seen. I wouldn't be surprised if the Venusian twirled his fancy cape in disgust and headed off to Mars or Jupiter. You know some place where other intelligent beings would appreciate his rendition of Fly Me to the Moon. And I wouldn't be surprised if the Doctor didn't mutter after the wife's "Oh no!", "What! Is that skinny, fishbowl wearing dandy back on the planet?"

I bought a whole stack of Dr Strange from Kaspar and, as always, I'm thoroughly delighted with my purchase from him. Ultra-tight grading, superb packaging, shipping costs kept to a bare minimum, really nice guy to work with. What more could you ask for?

Talk about weighty dialogue. Jo-Jo is actually resting his chin upon it.