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Since it's you I have to ask: is this a sex thing?

More importantly, why'd they have articles in Playboy?

60

$60

Me too.

Thanks, bud. It was an anchor keeping me sorta locked in and reloading, you liberated me and I'm grateful. Cool books.

You pulled the phantom lady?

8.0, mainly because the rough top edge.

@NoMan not sure what Dk Knight grades/issues you're on about.

Sadly, imo. this. Though I hear good things about consignment via My Comics Shop @mycomicshop, an approach that might reduce some of the effort (e.g. fewer packages, smallest 'haircut' on pricing). I love the books you listed and you have some beautiful copies, to echo what Randall Dowling already said. Personally I love to see great comics in high grade so I'm happy if you just keep pounding away here even if you only sell like 25% of what you list, that's no sweat to me; but the slog is real. And it's a slog.

I think of them as the "stridex" reprints but I think most call them the JC Pennys reprints. Pretty sure were sold in '94 JC Penney Christmas catalog. The ads were modern (from 1994) except IIRC the golden age, Young Men (forget what #) w/original ads. FF #66 & 67 Amazing fantasy#13 Spider-Man annual #5 Avengers #88 Captain America #109 Hulk #140 Sgt. Fury #13 Submariner #8 Thor annual #2 Tomb of Dracula #25 X-men #28,62,63 Fifteen comics in the 'set' - and again IIRC, a few were reprints of reprints (not sourced from the original issue) - the FF 66, the Cap cover Sgt Fury, and the early X-Men.

Make that OMFG. I filled a short box of ASM dupes by 2008 (building my ASM collection), was 'out' of comics for around 8 years, and from 2016 to around 2019, these comics [mid grade ASM run filler stock, in range of 4.5 to 7.0] were not very different than the prices as I'd paid in '06-'07. As with most superhero books, high grades, and keys in all grades, of course, went up a lot. But past few years even the mid-grade filler ASM silver and bronze have gone up a fair amount.

I heard he is an a-hole...., Your point?

At least the seller I criticized is handsome with a great sense of humor. And the going rate for gratuitous opinions is 4 cents, w/inflation.

Outrageous ! IBTL

Bought a high grade book from Gene, am very happy with it. Very securely shipped, super fast, and sent me some nice stuff too. Thanks buddy.

That was my 'best practice' in past. I've since added a photo at slight angle to show cover texture/gloss. Always use spoiler for all images after first scan, to reduce clutter & load time. Since we're venting our 'don't likes,' my 5 cents (inflation) is I'm not a big fan of sales without back scan, though I have bought without seeing back, especially on a low $$ book.

TOD 43 - 8.0 OW $12 awesome, take please !

At this point in '84, was Overstreet still reporting GOOD / FINE / N.MINT at 1:2:3 ratio ? And you said "SASE." Heh, is there anyone under 30 who knows that abbrev.? (Or what age?)

Krakoa ? IIRC it was a living island that fought (new) X-Men before the run you're reading.

I thought the current attitude was not to trade with authoritarian regimes. : D jk

There's this website with comic fans, and one industrious reader put the whole story out there -click link below - although of course the last part of that last story was famously never completed because Epic mag. was canceled early.

Take Awesome reds on that copy of MSHSW 8.

Here's a back cover of this one:

Yeah, it's pretty clear the man is down. Let's all pray he's not out.