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Weird Fantasy to Weird Tales

The .2 thing bothers me because it somehow only exists north of 9.0. I want a book that is labeled 6.4...or 7.8.... Actually, what I really want is the quintessential VG book, labeled "pi" with that squiggly little symbol where the number goes. That would be cool.

Wings of the death patrol to wings and the ghost patrol

I still trade quite a bit, and I do agree in person is easier. I find I am able to trade with certain business guys at retail for retail as long as I have taken the time to learn their particular local market. For example, I trade with a couple local LCs's that are as much or more gaming stores, and much of their comics markets are the cyclically hot movie keys. But GA sits for them; they trade it happily. It took me some time and trial and error, but I have built a network of shops and flippers each with slightly different ideas of "sweet spot" books that they can move. It's enjoyable when you can figure win/wins.

You're right, but if it's the character I'm thinking of/been messaging with, it's a big lot of off-titles, he's in no man's land, and he wants a pretty penny. I've been watching various iterations/subsets of the same collection offered for a while, and he seems to be throwing the spaghetti at the wall and hoping something sticks. If we're talking about the same guy.

If it's a CL listing, it's common in this general region -- people will list in multiple neighboring categories such as Albany, Western Mass, Hudson Valley, etc. Matt, I could probably take a look somewhere in the next week if you have no takers yet. It may well be someone I have been in touch with already and dismissed based on messaging, but even so if I'm only looking because you sent me, I'm happy to honor your request if it works out. Feel free to PM me.

Gold fish to silver streak

Green claws to Yellow Claw

Blue Atom to Green Turtle

Congrats Mike! An all-time Grail and a bonus classic cover with a cult following! Well played! Kinda stinks that minor glue on GA isn't treated like tape. Feels more like that, from the sound of things, than what I think of as "resto."

Anybody got a centerfold for a Cap 17?

Back to diamond

Health nut!

What he said.

Nah...I'm here too...stopping by to thread carp (kinda koi, right? )

Swordfish to walrus

Well, you certainly answered the door!

Holy cannoli! There must be a backstory, no? Awesome haul!

This stuff BEGS to be multi-posted, Gino! Congrats and please post away Hexk, I beg for it to be multi-posted...

Wonder to blunder

Crossed my mind too...similar pattern with Flash and All-Flash too.

It's individual as to which point of demarcation you want to select, but I have found that in discussing runs with people, when I say that I have complete original runs of Avengers, Iron Man, and Defenders, people understand I mean 1-402, 1-332, 1-152. If anything, I have to clarify that with IM I just mean the self-titled series not TOS. I think the early Marvel reboots are a no man's land for many (though in fairness the Perez/Busiek effort was better than much of Avengers original run north of say 202. Past that only a couple isolated storylines stand out much.) I include the annuals and giant-sizes in my definition; no one asks if they are there. It's a process to define what's meaningful to oneself as a run to collect. As to selling, I don't think it's an impairment to to break them up. I think for larger ones they might be hard to find a buyer for. I mean, who the heck likes the Avengers enough to buy that whole run from me without already having many of the books?? Defenders, I'm guessing, is about as large a self-contained set as I could sell in one shot. I suppose someone who has none might be inclined to buy and read it. I have been on a kick of paring down the size of my collection and using proceeds/trades to acquire books I have always wanted that I never got. This has involved hunting down odd issues of many small runs to finish them off, then reading them end to end before releasing them. (Champions, Secret Society of Super Villains, Super Villain Team-up, West Coast Avengers, Freedom Fighters, etc) I will read the three larger runs end to end before making any decisions, but I have already traded a long box of Avengers-related books post-402 and haven't looked back. I reread a few beforehand is all. I can easily see myself cutting Avengers off north of 202 (basically 200, except those next 2 are a great little Ultron arc; the comic book version of an Avengers novelette from a Marvel Superheroes paperback from the late 70's) after seeing what it's like to read the serial epic as a serial epic. Then there's full sets that came within collections I acquired! These really stump me....I have the Spirit Warren and Kitchen Sink stuff and Jonah Hex from All-Star Western 10 thru Hex 1-18, plus a few later books. I'm reading, and I plan to release, but I still need a plan for those. Both are right at that size point (about a full magazine box) where someone might want them intact, but I'm not sure how to do it yet. I will probably walk them into the post office one day to figure out whether offering online is even an option (in terms of shipping).

Bucky gets it to Bucky (and Toro) about to get it

Soooo... You scored Deadman's first appearance, eh?

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