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SS MST submitted at NYCC received 1/19/16!!!!!!

The printer accidentally released them a week early and Marvel decided to allocate this week and fill to order next week. My LCS had the best thing ever with this mess up. I got the Vader 15 issue yesterday (he received two copies). He also received just the Deadpool variant of Spider Gwen #4, and not the regular issue. So he had one copy of the book in the store. I now own it.

One of my absolute favorite FH covers. Great choice for a first GA book! I wanted a cool cover, higher grade, and would not break the bank. I found this so I grabbed it. Things that are difficult in GA stuff to get as one package. The more I learn about GA stuff, the more I am amazed at the quality of the art, and how much coolness they could wring out of the printing tech of the period. I always felt that GA stuff everyone knows looks somewhat static, or lower quality work (to me some of the very famous books fit into this category). So thanks to the boards for introducing me to the bigger GA world, which proves otherwise.

Yeah!!! I subbed many books at NYCC. Glad to see they are hitting grading status. I e-mailed them about 3 weeks ago and they replayed expect early February for return. This is more hopeful than that.

OK, it has been mentioned in other threads, but it seems to fit best here. My first official GA purchase!!!!!!!

I got the Justice league color variant (not my first choice, I have been liking the inked ones). Two weeks in a row the book is a 9.6 with a 9.8 chance. I lucked out. This one was very easy to feel however, the polybag was very very tightly sealed around the comic. Sorry other have not been so lucky, but I have elected not to buy several after feeling the spine through the bag.

YEAH!! The JLA inked copy I got is actually clean!!!!

Belongs to a boardie. The story on that one was a cover stain in the CGC notes that made it a 7.5. Cracked open and guess what, no stains on either sides of the front and back cover. Pages were OW on the outer parts but whiter towards the inner= ow/w. It was originally purchased from a drug store in Pleasant Lake, IN. Stuck in a box, dragged through college, and someone told the OO that bought it off the rack that it may be worth something. He contacted Rob at CC and he told him how to get it graded. That was the 7.5 sale about a year ago. It's an 8.0. It's a solid book with no chipping and NO STAINS. That's the only book I ever had resubbed because it was that obvious it was undergraded. . But why the resub with CBCS as opposed to CGC? If the book was obviously mis-graded take a chance and get it re-slabbed. I do not understand why not go with CGC again however. If CBCS generally realizes lower prices the CGC 8.0 is going to be worth more $$$. So when you sell it as a CBCS 8.0 and get the same price as a CGC 7.5 was the second grading worth it.

The same trick can also be done in high-heeled boots. Nice, but not the same difficulty level. Boots are much better at staying on feet, have a chance at better traction, plus her costume is moderately form fitting, and does not have a few yards of extra material. Difficulty level 6/10, while the first was a 9/10.

Problem with this is that dealers on this thread have said they are having difficulties meeting pre-orders when they promised books in NM or higher condition. There are just not enough clean copies around. So I am not sure how much I would trust anyone selling these as near mint on eBay. I expect the definition of near mint is going to be closer to VF/NM- rather than the NM/NM+ they can usually find.

Scarcity of print run is not going to affect the value of these books, but messing up 80% of the print run sure may.

Mine is fairly good this week. Got the pencil sketch version. Staples are both good, has one good spine crease half way down. Otherwise it looks clean. One of the better copies I have seen from this event.

I like both also, but I was thinking that that break from the all American traditional to the brunette version is kinda ground breaking for the time period.

Plus the bike ad really destroys the cover. It has always bothered me about the cover to X-Men 137 also. While the cover to 137 is solid, the ad makes me cry a little.

I have always seen floating head covers of any size as lazy bad art.

I may be able to win that key that looks crappy contest

Thread for key issues, that we would all love to own, but think the cover is awful. Post the picture if you got them.

To the dealers out there. How are the polybagged issues looking this week? (I know this is an early post)

That's the beauty of these Golden Age fighting females. As far as I'm concerned, the more glamorous and impractical the attire, the better! Granted the men were always in suites and ties, and usually had a hat. The hat would then defy all logic and always stay on.

On the subject of long gowns and high heels, here are some scans from one of my favorite Betty Bates stories which appeared in Hit Comics #44. There is no shortage of glamour and whoop-@ss So she manages to get herself to the ceiling and hold herself there, while wearing heels (the soles of those shoes would have virtually no traction to do that). At the same time having the strength to do it. And to top it off, manages to control the material of the dress so it is not draping down on top of the two men's heads, instantly giving her away. Oh!!!!! Her hair stays absolutely perfect while doing all this!!! It all works, I love it.

Good stuff. I was thinking along the same lines when I wrote this: Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son. B) With comics, if you take a bath on a book, you can't write it off, but in the same breath if you gain, you don't have to pay taxes on that, so long as it's hobby income and not scaled to a level where it's considered a business, then it's just like stocks to a degree, just a lot more paperwork to keep track of each transaction's acquisition cost and sales revenue. Is this true? If you make a profit on a book you don't have to pay taxes on it? can anyone explain this? You are suppose to report all income to the IRS: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/11658852/ns/business-answer_desk/t/do-i-have-pay-tax-stuff-i-sell-ebay/#.VmtwMCCrRhE In practice, however, few people do with regards to private sales. Supposedly, if you report it and it truly is a hobby, that is accounted for in the tax code. But, you cannot make a profit on the sale in order for it to be a hobby. Technically collectible profits are taxable at a 28% rate in the USA. You are allowed to deduct initial purchase price as well as an work done to the item from that profit. For example, you buy a comic for $1000, spend $500 to restore it, and $60 to grade and slab it. You then sell the comic for $3000. You are allowed to report $1440 (profit after subtracting purchase, grading, and restoration) in profit, which is then taxed at 28%.

Print run is WAY HIGH BRO. Long enough to see this on Midtown's shelf when I travel there, once every 2 years. Very few Midtown variants have risen in value. Uncanny X-Force #1 Campbell sells for $5.00 over original price. But at the same time, the exact same cover without the Midtown stamp sells for closer to $50. (or at least was a few months ago... haven't checked in a while) I don't know if there's a significant difference in print run, as the non-Midtown version was a ratio variant, but either way... exact same cover, one that's got the Midtown stamp & one without it and with the Marvel box moved to a different corner sells for substantially different prices. I have a friend who purchased the right to have an official Marvel store variant printed. Marvel makes you buy a significant number of books to do a run. I feel it is a safe bet most ratio variants have lower numbers than store variants.

I love how 80 and 90's comic art the girls costumes were impractical with skimpy outfits and spiked heels. They have nothing on the GA girls doing it is full length gowns and spike heels.

Print run is WAY HIGH BRO. Long enough to see this on Midtown's shelf when I travel there, once every 2 years. Very few Midtown variants have risen in value. I do think regional releases, those LCS variants are generally a bit more niche. Sure, they're priced higher than the normal comics, but as far as general hobby respect, they seem to be a bit less sought after. They feel like reprints and manufactured collectibles that a store commissions an artist to do, and places an order with Marvel to make all in the name of creating a demand for a limited edition, where traditionally there's more of a chase for variants or the old school way where a comic is printed, goes out of print, later becomes popular, then sought after. And this has been proven over time to be the comics which hold value and even increase. NYX 3 is the perfect modern example. Low print run, no variants, and character popularity grow slowly over time was not forced. Will maintain value in my estimation.

Basically for each polybagged variant there is one cover. That cover will come in one of three flavors: color, inked, or sketch variety. For each polybag you have a small chance of getting an original art on a blank cover variant that is an exclusive variant. That blank cover was basically only printed once for that sketch which will "prove" its authenticity.