joe_collector

That was my point - they have the 35-cent variant (unknowingly) listed in their article.

Wow, I wonder what he has in the "low end" part of the store. And $1500? Talk about blatant insurance fraud.

Could also be that horrible Captain America Night People or that equally horrid Arnim Zola stuff.

Yeah, I can see how it helped this book:

Nah, he looks like a normal guy with blue or purple eye shadow, or maybe a patch, in waves. I don't know if you can see what I see in that clip I posted.

Does anyone know who that bug-eyed/eye-shadow character is on the second page, middle panel? He's familiar and think he's Kirby DC, but I just can't place him....

Funny how I was pushing for this when the whole Avengers 181 madness was upon us before the Antman movie debuted... My reasons were pretty clear, a) Avengers sold a LOT more than Marvel Premiere at the time and were collected in far greater numbers so NM/M copies of MP 47 would be much rarer comparatively speaking, b) CGC has created a "cover generation" and having Antman on the cover is going to push it ahead of Avengers 181, and c) I always prefer the *actual* first appearance of the superhero over his or her non-powered counterpart.

Yeah, this would definitely be a book to speculate on:

Looks like 70's Kirby, maybe New Gods and I can't place that "guy with the eye shadow" on the middle of the second page - was he from Kamandi, Mr Miracle? I'm no DC expert, but maybe someone else can place him. I just noticed the 1978 reference, so maybe Eternals?

Nice books lamers!

Defenders 4, definitely. Barbara Norris = Valkyrie

It depends on which one it is, and I prefer Defenders 4 to the others, as that was the first appearance of the character that ran through the BA and CA.

Wow, how much did the MTA 6 run you? That's a nice book and very HTF in NM or higher.

reply from good old Randall via PM: Suck It! *spoon* yourself, individual_without_enough_empathy.

Then you need a quick course in understanding the concepts of time and space. But you still seem a bit too dumb for it to take, as even after being told that it's a SA series, you proceed to post several more.

finished http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=4185801&fpart=1 Thanks, but man, what was Adam Hughes thinking with that Hela "boob shot"? Oh, I know what he was thinking, but it was still pretty lame for a retro 70's project. At least show her face, then give her big knockers.

It's funny because it's the same discussion that Bronze was having in the early years of this board. For raw, not by anyone with a brain, and those were likely the usual suspects from the GA forums, looking to have some fun. CGC 9.8+ is a different animal, and many "low census" BA books have come down in price, some precipitously so. Since I've been collecting comics in the early-80's, the year 1977 has been a firm delineation between "collectible" and "over-speculated" and over the longer-term, I still hold to that.

I hope not, as I still have crates of this stuff to get rid of, not to mention the heart-attack-inducing prices that drek like Ms Marvel, Nova, Star Wars, etc. are getting right now.

Does anyone know the progress of that "Original Art MVS Book" project?

I highly doubt that last book gets paid for - looks more like a set of punishment bids.

Because at that time, Bronze was HOT and Copper was DEAD. So OS dealers decided that renaming previously-denoted "Early Copper Age" books as "Late-Bronze" would make those comics more attractive and easier to sell to newbie speculators. And they were right, but it's very sad that OS would stoop so low just to make a buck. At an earlier point, there was also a movement to classify 1970-72 books as "late-Silver" (again, to artificially increase demand) but thankfully that never gained much steam.

See, that's where you and I are different. You seem to think that anyone dumber or less-experienced than you is a worthy mark that it is totally fine to take money from ("it's their own fault they don't have the intelligence or experience"), while I believe society has a duty to protect those less-intellectually-blessed from being taken advantage of by the bottom-dwellers. Your Motto:

If it doesn't matter, then why do greedy OS advisers keep changing it? Prior to the "let's get rid of our 1982-84 overstock" scam, whereby OS artificially extended the BA to 1984, there were NO real arguments about the End of the BA (Death of Phoenix/Days of Future Past and the Start of the CA (1981/82 - a massive number of reasons), and it was money-hungry dealers that caused the current problems. They should have left well enough alone, rather than only thinking about $$$$.

I do. I have this troublesome thing called E-M-P-A-T-H-Y that makes me feel bad when some people simply aren't quick enough to avoid the ne'er do wells of society. These people don't wake up one day wanting to own swamp land in Florida any more than they wake up wanting to buy the first appearance of some 3rd-rate knob. Someone, be it a land broker or comic dealer, has manipulated them into buying a "hot deal". left holding the bag = got scammed

Yeah, it was those crazy, short-sighted OS advisors who didn't want to wait for the Copper books to explode and artificially forward-dated the BA in order to sell off the crates full of 1982-84 books they had languishing in the warehouse. It's sad really.