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I am suprised that New Mutants 98 seems to be slowing down .. just researched some graded 9.6 copies on Ebay and they seem to average about 300 and change, I think when the movie came out they sold for 500-600 or more.

My Favorite Horror Anthology book was Twisted Tales and the short story Banjo Lessons is the finest short story ever written in a horror comic.

This was a great deal.  I routinely sell New Mutants 1 for 15 dollars or more alone.

A few spine ticks, overall VF. I'd grade a 7.5-8.0 with high gloss and sharp corners. 

$50 +$5 for shipping via USPS First class.

Payment by Paypal, Cheque or money order (needs to clear though).

Returns are ok if you feel I overgraded within 14 days of USPS tracking showing item arrived.

If USPS tracking shows book (s) have arrived, no refunds from me based on not receiving the book.

Big lot of 20 Silver Age Comics, a shown in the pictures attached.  I grade them to avg around Fine/Fine+ with a few in VF condition.  

I am asking $150 for all and this is flexible. 

Shipping via Media Mail.  I live in Canada but use a service that crosses into Buffalo and ships via USPS.  Media Mail shipping will be free.  Priority 5.00.

Shipping to Canada - $10 flat rate.  If you live in Toronto, you can pickup for no shipping cost. 

I will take Paypal, cheque (allow 21 days to clear though) and Money Orders.

Return shipping is allowed if you feel I misrepresented the books, within 14 days of USPS showing book has arrived.

If USPS tracking shows books have arrived, I will not accept any claim of books not arrived. You will have to file with your local post office.

I traded my X-men 100, New xmen vs old xmen! which was high grade for a beaten up copy of xmen 19 (poor) and a nm copy of the 1st jim lee xmen comic.

Xmen 100 was my prize at that time. I didn't have a lot of money for comics.

On the plus side...anyone see the recent prices of Xfactor 6, first Apocalypse..kerrrr-ash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Was the movie really that bad?

My first LCS was called "The Sports Connection and Comics Unlimited" located at Bathurst and Eglinton in Toronto. Mid 1980's.

They had a 5 year anniversary party and I remember getting lucky as a kid and winning a 20 dollar gift certificate which I promptly spent to buy a Teen Titans #1.

The store became more and more obsessed with sports cards which were HUGE in the 1980's. They began to laugh at comics. So they had a 50% off sale and cleared out all of their old back issue comics and changed their name to just "The Sports Connection".

I remeber the owner saying that the comic book market was going to crash and that sports cards were where to put all of your money. But in fairness, it was hard to foresee the sports card market crash and all those Marvel movies some 15-20 years later.

I also remember how I came in and bought $15 worth of comics, which was pretty decent money for a 14 year old in the 1980's. But I ran to about .05 short. The owner said "sorry". He wouldn't give me a break on that nickel.

Can someone smarter than me please explain why Thor 199 is a semi-hot book?

A little off topic but do you think SW annual #1 has some value?

The big score was Dr J Vs Larry Bird one on one by Colecovision. CIB. You don't see that every day. Also had Mr Do's castle, Frogger II, Tutankham, Montezuma's Revenge, Defender and a few others that I forgot.

I went to the last great flea market in the GTA. Located in Oshawa. It's gone now I think.

But I found two great things. The first is a place called Hollywood Cone. If you ever find yourself in Oshawa, you got to check this place out. it's cheap and awesome. For like 4.00 you get a huge cone with a giant topping. I mean I'm a big fatso with a big sweet tooth yet I can't finish their small cones. But I digress.

When I went there, some guy was selling older video games, Nintendo, Atari, Coleco vision. All of them CIB. 3 for $5 was his deal. 3 for 5!! I bought a dozen that I knew to be quite rare. There was one other that I never heard of. So I asked him if I could buy 1 for $2. He said no. 1 would cost the same.. $5. It was already a great deal so I took 2 other games that I thought were worthless. Turns out 1 of the extra games I grabbed sold for $250 on EBAY. Even though I'm not really into it, I ended up making about $700 in one week reselling the games I bought for $25.00.

These kind of things seldom happen anymore.

I once found some guy's wallet, he gave me the cash as a reward. Does it need to be a life saving event to deserve a reward?

Anyways, what was the best case scenario? He didn't have an Action comics #1. It wasn't life changing money. A couple thousand dollars, maybe. Who knows what the final auction prices on Ebay would have been?

 

Moral of the story: if he doesn't know anything about them and you do, you insert yourself as the expert. Agree on a book as payment before you do the work, and tell him what he should be selling for.

 

What did you want a reward for, telling him to check the prices? Like he wasn't going to do that anyway?

He wasn't. He completely trusted me to tell him what to do with those comics. How much to sell them for, etc. Why wouldn't I want a reward? If the next guy who comes into the store offers him $300, maybe he takes it and costs himself thousands in opportunity cost.

About 10 years ago, I went into a used book store that I frequented often. He never really had comics but fantasy novels, some magazines and other stuff that I enjoy. But one day he got a box of silver age comics.

He asked me " I don't know much about comics, how much should I charge?" I was really tempted to make him a lowball offer for the box. There was nothing super valuable but still a long box of silver age, Fantastic four, Avengers and Spider-man, in maybe Fine-Very fine range of grades. He told me he paid $150 for them. So it was an excellent deal for him.

I was going to offer $300 and double his profit, but these books would have gone for thousands if listed and sold properly. Back then Ebay was a way better place to sell as we all know. I got one of those cartoon moments where you see the cartoon devil and angel on your shoulders whispering the "correct" thing to do.

I decided to be honest with him, explain to him that old comics are very valuable. I told him to buy a "comic price guide", explained to him what that was all about. I told him the guide was just an estimate and he might need to sell them cheaper if he wanted to move them out fast. He thanked me, told me he would look into getting a guide and put the comics away for now.

I admit I was kind of hoping he would reward me with a book or two for my honesty.

The next week I came back to the same store and saw a huge sign in the front window "COMICS". He had quickly converted his store to a kind of impromptu comic book store based on that collection he found. I opened the door and saw a few of his comics in display cases. His eyes wide opened, like he had won the lottery or something. All his comics were priced at near mint prices. Though none were anywhere close to mint.

I explained to him what conditions meant in the guide. I told him that the creases on the comics were a big deal and that nobody was going to pay him the full near mint guide price for anything. He would reply every time with "this...this is just a scratch, It's nothing I tell you...NOTHING!". He said that over and over again and nothing would sink through. I told him that there were dirt and pen marks on a few of the covers and he literally spit into his hand and tried to rub it off the cover of the books.

He thanked me for helping him. Never gave me any money or book as a reward. I didn't come back to the store until several months later. The comics were no longer there. No idea what happened to him. A few weeks after that, the store closed down.