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Called a 4.5 in title. So suggesting it might be a 5.0.

This thread should be closed for discussing politics since obviously it advocates a big government solution vs a soft-touch libertarian approach to regulation of commerce. I'm feeling triggered. That's a thing, right? Thinly veiled attempts to promote bigger government must be resisted at any cost, vive la liberté !

How about a scan of the comic outside the bag? Or at least the back cover while still in bag/board?

Congrats, that's a big book ! I'm with namisgr, send a check. Used check myself the few times I bought on c-link auctions to keep more money for buying books.

Isn't it a shorter list to ask 'who doesn't?'

I kinda thing you're right That would be too awesome and the universe just doesn't work that way - and you know, physics, like those cars crushed into cubes that haven't disintegrated yet. How cool it would be though.

Back atcha, already been mentally constructing a clause in my will that would give you the most interesting ones at some ridiculously low price if you wanted them, since most of my peeps just don't seem particularly interested in them. Of course, everyone likes the money part of them, but as long at they're still in comic book form and I'm dead, what will I care then about the more mercenary aspects? Seriously looking forward to hearing more about this jaunt off to Northern Iraq. Whoa.

good to see you post ! nice LP collection !!

Yeah bud, I think that's a perennial truth in comics' collecting supply and demand, the demand side is the more significant driver. Thank you!

Here's a couple of good links for a quick (superficial) sense of what's up (I kid you not). https://www.ebay.com/csc/Silver-Age-1956-69/73/i.html?LH_Auction=1&_dmd=1&_dcat=73&Publisher=Marvel|!&_ipg=200&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&LH_PrefLoc=2&_sop=16 https://www.ebay.com/b/Bronze-Age-Comics-1970-1983/12590/bn_2311531?rt=nc&LH_Auction=1&LH_Complete=1&LH_PrefLoc=2&LH_Sold=1&_sop=16 https://www.lyriacomicexchange.com/index.php?age=63&view=market&graded=0&variant=0&popular=0&lot=0 Getting a fuller picture of the current market info will take a fair bit of time. Heck, my latest break was just a few months since August, and I already feel out of date on the current picture (are PCH still through-the-roof? movie-related keys-driven Marvel & DC silver and bronze still fueled by speculation?, probably yes to both, judging from the first response to your OP).

I've found from personal experience getting more money requires more time. Accepting less money requires less time. Pretty much a direct relation between the two. As many have already said in some sense, the two extremes are sell them here or feebay one at a time with good scans and description you will yield near full-retail; sell them in bulk and yield wholesale revenues; sell them in batches and might gain medium returns. Sending them off to 'my comics shop' (or maybe it was comic-link?) might be a good bang for buck tradeoff, a lot of collectors here say they like that, not too much work, pretty good returns.

I never did clarify that time that my 'comic room' had since been taken from me for other purposes, and that cabinet sits in the garage housing some boxes of knick-knacks or something. Funny thing - I have a buddy who didn't return a couple of voice-mails I left around Thanksgiving and resorted to the same method of doing a quick "is he alive" check. Anyway, here's what I'm relegated to now for most of my collection- a closet with a couple of shelves and lots of boxes on the floor, although most of the 'grails' are appropriately buried in boxes. As you might have heard, ; ) there are many people with greater value in a single book in their collection than the sum total of my entire stash (which includes runs like ASM 2-700, FF 2-200, Hulk 1-6). Psst: btw, those two big keys are GRRs.

Probably if you waited for today to start your OP you'd have seemed less ghoulish to a lot of Stan's biggest fans. Plus the occasionally abrasive personality thing, though OTOH sometimes having no edge means you just end up talking to yourself. I'm not a big sig fan, though they are out there. Used to be preferred to have the splash page signed, but somewhere along the Search For More Money the comic world looked at the sports world (or something else like improving Con attendance/revenues or artist & creator revenues) and the industry of SS and other kinds grew rapidly during many years. Your question really gets down to 'how do you predict the trend of % of all collectors that want sig books (and are will pay a premium for it).' In sports memorabilia sigs are a big thing. If all the future comic collectors started out as sports memorabilia collectors probably that % would be high. But I have no idea how it will play out since I don't really care about sigs much, except that I regard it as defacement on the cover and therefore think it reduces value in most cases. Well placed cover sigs by creator - which I think is a pretty small subset of the world of cover-signed books - probably deserve their own set of rules regarding market and predictions. The rest of them, the 94% (my a$$-pull guess) of sig books that don't have that I'd predict will have no value difference (to slight minus) to comparable un-defaced copy. Again, based on nothing more than wild speculation with some hunch, no more than 10% of all comic collectors are also sig collectors, but it could easily be 2 or 3 times that.

I'm with Noman in attaching more value to a unpressed book, partly emotional, party money (may be able to bump up future value if pressable defects). For a while I noticed more sellers would more frequently grade a book theoretically - "if pressed would probably grade a __" kind of thing and maybe price it accordingly or grade it higher than it deserves subconsciously. A bit like grading from a scan instead of a picture that show some cover texture, etc. As to de-valuation from cracking a book, of course it's at least a little less valuable. Otherwise slabbing would have no value. Until we can transplant brains into robots, we're only renting these things. When it comes time to sell, you can get easier sale and/or higher price with slabbed copy. And advertising the old CGC grade and including the label doesn't always provide the same perception of value in all buyers, but it sure helps with many. Then also there is some measure of better protection from damage in the case, too, although that's mostly a question of care.

Isn't this good, insofar as it reduces the supply of collectibles? Now all we need for our un-faded collections to grow in value is thousands of other fluorescent abusers like this collectible-cards seller.

I haven't bought or sold comics since July. Been "out" since then, but just the buying and selling. Still been reading them though. Had several years where I was "out" where I wasn't reading them, just busy with RL stuff. Since I got "in" around 1975, there have been a couple of 5-year + stretches where I wasn't actively collecting, and no new/back issue books came in or out and the only comics I read were old favorites. But those days are past. Mostly now though all the "new" stuff I read is just old or really old stuff I'd never read, haven't found much in the new product that inspires the fan in me.

@flashlites Prize #12 was taken. Use the most recent list posted - this one above is pretty accurate list, only a couple of prizes might have been taken in past few minutes.

I'll go with the lot of 22 heavy metal mags, been decades since I've read any of them, should be a blast. thanks @batcollector ! Prize #81: Lot of 22 Heavy Metal magazines. Free shipping in the US. International shipping at cost less $10 - donated by batcollector 

so much paperwork (to list 81 items in order of choice) it might discourage participation in the last round. ; )

yes, it's you, black adam picked above.

Pm me your addy, very glad to provide this cool book.

So you're telling me I should've told dude that by pm? ; ) I'm still out 75 plus shipping on that SA, though, where the MCIC, thanks to Sharon/skypinkblu, I was able to snag for just 35. Was gonna ask dude to pony up half the priority box shipping (i.e. $7) so it's wrong to view me overly generous. ; ) ; )

Yessir. And the SA110 cost me $75 when I bought it from Dale Roberts so I feel like I 'saved' money. Heh.

Don't you mean #33 (the SA 110)? If you really meant #34 and like the MCIC slab, since I like you, I'll send you the book since winner took the cash-prize and slab is still available (including raw copy too, dude).

No, the #34 was good for $50 cash too. : D