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Or maybe it's not overhyped, first appearance of "just" a villain who became a character. That a lot of people find cool because he does things like court death in the literal sense (oddly including a buddy of mine who had no real interest in comics but then borrowed my Thanos Quest pair of thin trades). Perhaps. I remember in late 80s people calling a lot of stuff (which has endured) just 'flash'. And there's no other IM after 1 for the growing segment of 'key only' collectors except for the Moondragon.

To check, I just tried to create a new listing and *was* able to upload the 12 pics from my pc to ebay. First it told me I needed to update Adobe flash, but then I clicked 'no, use basic uploader.'

6.5 thanks to that creasing bottom right.

Bought a handful of very nice books and they arrived quickly and in good shape, thank you!

^ Spine and top edge; with a black picture-frame cover that exaggerates every little ding or stress. I'd be at FN with a nicer top edge and w/o that small obtrusive crease near bottom left corner.

At least a 9.4 probably higher but won't play up there with just pics.

Grading from the scans that looks an easy 7.0, I see what you mean.

^That's what I thought too, but then changed it to give a key bump and because in the ASM 1 thread is a less attractive book everyone (except you of course) seems to predict would get a 1.8, and this is a *lot* nicer.

Weak 2.5.

5.0. Small chance of 5.5 maybe? The format of url to picture: starts with "http", and ends with ".jpeg". Would look like this but delete the two * first. Or just look at comicquant's post (click "quote" to see the text code in his reply) for specific details.

Silver Surfer/Warlock: Resurrection #1 - 1 copies - $1 each Silver Surfer (vol 7) #2-15 set - 1 sets - $19 each Silver Surfer (vol 8) #1-4 lot - 1 sets - $9 each Spawn set - $3 Includes #16 and 176 Ok, this is it. ; )

One of each numbers 3 to 10 (eight books). Ah, skip that. Instead, make it one of the whole sets you have 2-15 or whichever (vol 7). Also I'lll check out the vol 8 set (I think it was #s 1-4?). Thanks ! Greg

^He means the ebay fee is not fair up to around the first $4 for shipping. A decade ago when sellers got clever and added, say, $20 shipping to avoid the ebay final value fees (which astoundingly back then were far less than half today's rate), it was a reasonable reaction by ebay to close that loophole by combining AUCTION HAMMER PRICE plus SHIPPING CHARGES. Unfortunately, it also had effect to unfairly punish the honest sellers.

I think so, but seems I'm in a minority of very few. Not sure where all the GD or GD- are coming from, even with press and major restructuring and cleaning. All the scratching, color losses, and those unattractive white spots on the cover alone bring it into weak GD territory, I thought. Then the rusted staples, fanning/roll, tears and chips and some tatter. IF you send to CCS first, maybe a 3.0? [just kidding]

^Thank you, I wondered what he meant by "shipping labels", had to resist suggestion that he just print the labels and use tape. Now that I nabbed "top rated" the FV fees are down to 8 per cent (from 9% for collectibles), plus the paypal. Those nums they quoted sounded a bit high.

^It's a 24/7 diner with a drive thru and two dozen employees wandering about, and even with that long list sometimes we don't have enough tech, and must send a server out to parking lot at the DT line and use an extra ipad-terminal. But I specifically mentioned that this system is too big for his needs and he should investigate the purely ipad-based (as opposed to Windows pc-based) systems. I included it so he can have idea of per-unit costs, and the peripheral stuff like printers and credit card readers he'll probably need.

One of the facilitators (dscott?) had one that had 40+ signatures on it. I could see the project becoming an obsession.

Geez, what a spoon.

^Buzz, that's pretty awesome and I'm appropriately jealous even though not a sig collector. Pretty sure the only modern variant comic I own is this Marcos one (plus the classic with the eye). It's just such an unusual montage, although I did make a couple of bids for copies of the Ditko AF15 swipe, one of the more pedestrian/commonplace.

+1 Many books to love I'm so DC that thinking of Adams on Avengers just seems outlandish to me. Like picturing DiMaggio in a Red Sox uni, that bizarre. I have to admit, though, I am intrigued. Maybe I should look for a reprint of this run. It's beautiful and an awesome story. One of the Aeams issues has a splash of Triton climbing out of the water onto a dock that is absolutely stunning. Absolutely, 100% agree. It's an epic storyline. Just wish it had ended better. It's probably old news to you veterans, but in the trade paperback collection of the Kree-Skrull war, Neal Adams explains in the foreword that the title to Avengers 93 "This Beachhead Earth" was originally conceived & suggested by him to be called "Three Cows Shot Me Down" but that was deemed too frivolous by Thomas (the joke being a reference to the original three Skrull-cows from end of FF 2). He finally got to work it into the cover he did of the TPB. Here - Together with this story and the later Defenders/Avengers "war", the two Starlin sagas were the four big bronze era equivalents (for me growing up in 70s, anyway) of the long multi-part sagas in Thor and Doc Strange's early episodes, along with the Spiderman soap of course. Not comparing on a quality basis which is subjective, but they all had that epic must-read feel. My title for neglected: stuck between Howard the Duck and The Invaders, I'll go instead with Captain Marvel. One of the very few who's stayed dead.

There's an Amaz. Spiderman 700 variant front cover that features a long list of names of Spidey creators in the shape of the silhouette of the NYC skyline that momentarily had me consider some insane, um, I mean monumental, project like the one mentioned in the OP. Here, found one:

I came to the same peevish decision a couple of times not to post positives since my buyers can't be arsed. Basically lasts for a couple of weeks after my latest round of auctions were shippped. But then I always backslide. The times I got best feedback (albeit 8 or 9 years ago) was when I worked at it with three pronged-attack to get positive feedback specifically mentioning they were pleased with my grading. Basically said three time (note w/invoice, signed note with comics, email to buyer a week after I shipped) 'contact me promptly if you are disappointed in any way with the condition'. And it worked, if you go back just a couple of pages you get to the old feedbacks and you'll see the flattering comments about my grading. But it sure was high admin burden to get it.

You seem interested in POS systems. I co-own some restaurants and at our newest store we went with a different POS system (Future POS instead of NCR/Aloha POS). Both are for restaurants and I'm probably paying for some capabilities that you would not need. Here is what we paid for 3 POS entry-terminals including one main terminal that acts as cash register, You probably wouldn't need three terminals, but if you're busy enough you might need two terminals each w/cash drawers. My one suggestion is that you can probably find much cheaper system that are iPad based platforms over the ones that are Windows computer-based (the ipads probably are not as robust as the restaurant ones, which have things like food cost analyses). But there are lots of people constantly selling and updating apps for the ipads. You also might want to use your POS for your labor reports and weekly/bi-weekly reports to your payroll company, then your EEs could punch in and out on the POS system too. Here's what we paid a couple of years ago, most is self-explanatory, and we also spent around $1200 for a Windows 7 'server' (basically our home base for all the sales data, maybe EE data, and communication with credit card companies to collect plastic payments).

Probably too early to try to psych us out with those trippy mind games, CQ.

My turn to pick was like 76 out of 93 and I still got this great "mostly modern Mystery Box," from spidermanbeyond, full of many high grade comics with lots of spiderman and several bronze age too. And my first Bone!