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In 1980-81 timeframe, I "traded" them about $100 worth of New Teen Titans #1 and other early issues, shortly after they came out, while it was still "the next X-Men #94." I got one book and a trade credit memo for $90-something dollars. Memo states it expires in six months. The dance went on; I ordered other stuff. Not in stock either. Etc. I still have about $90 in TCM.

In my experience it is a common enough title to find and not many collectors care about. I think there is some good stuff in the series but nothing really major happens in any of the issues which is why the title has faded. Also, the paper quality is too high. Fails to degrade. Therefore plentiful in high grade.

No stretch....I've been saying for a while that Deadpool is basically Daffy Duck in the Marvel Universe. He breaks the fourth wall, gets killed and bounces back, and hops around being a smart aleck. Just missing black feathers.

And I'm glad he does hold onto his warehouse...if he and Dolgoff and Koch and a few others all unloaded at once, the market might be more flooded than we expect, I sometimes think ... But I sure would like to have Chuck's "A" mailing list of his regular, repeat buyers!

+1 I also think Batman 300 doesn't get enough love. I won't argue with any of the lists presented; most are a book or two off from one another, but I will second this sentiment and add that I think the cover with the black biker gang is waaaay underrated! 226, I think? I never seem to come across a nice copy, but I would assume a glossy, high grade one must look sweet.

I am trying very hard currently to join this club via OO collection. I have been in discussion with a gentleman who still has the small remainder of his childhood collection that escaped his mom's purging efforts back in the day. It's about 70 books, all off-the-racks SA Marvel, and the DD#1 is by far the biggest book of the batch. But he said he's only selling them in one shot, so I bid on the whole enchilada. So please fire up any Professor X/Martian Manhunter-level telepathic support you can beam my way!

Picked this up on a business trip once. I had just purchased an OO collection of BA romance, about 120 Marvel/DC/Charlton, and headed to my hotel. On the way, I saw the LCS and spotted this from the window. I went back to the car, thumbed through the collection, pulled out a Night Nurse #1, and walked the rest in and negotiated a trade. I got a couple much lesser books thrown in too, but this is what I went I for.

Make that red circle to Red Rube!

From streak to zip

Did he have another copy? I'm missing that and the 3.

That's ridiculous. I haven't had a return for grading in at least 5 years and the one return I took the buyer agreed it was NM he just didn't like it. It does happen, but only if you don't do your homework. Grade the book well and scan the book well the rest will take care of itself. Sure there are cons on ebay, but the % goes way up when you are selling slabs I think. If you look in the ebay threads a larger % is involving a slab for all types of reasons. It is impossible to grade a book well when at any time someone can disagree with your grade. Your grade could be spot on but they still disagree with it. I know one LCS that when you sell them books, they are a 3.0, when they go to sell em, they're 6.5's. Just ONE?!?!?! When those types of LCS are firm with me on their selling price and say, "That's what it's selling for on eBay!" I reply, "Yeah, but this ain't eBay. This is I'm standing here with cash bay!" Which is better because I'm looking right at it as I make my offer, so that there is no return/you can't grade/my mailman's dog ate it issue. LCS's need to value that, because eBay can be a Wild West for a seller. Easier to control who you buy from than it is to control who buys from you.

Winter wonderland to wonder how he got in there???

Mysterious Adventures to mysterious behavior

Heat on the beachhead to pining for the beach

I cycle through a lot but that's part of the enjoyment for me, at least currently .... Buying collections because I want some pieces, and selling or trading the rest to get books I want. I figure if a collection is a good deal, my drek is somebody's grail and vice versa. The rest is just networking, which is fun.

Arm-twisting to flogging

Fawcett to Fawcett

Not being an artist myself, I could see the Adams wannabe thing (heck, isn't Starlin basically a somewhat better Adams wannabe?) but seeing the struggle is waaaay beyond my knowledge of artistry, so to me it was just serviceable comic art. I reasoned a lotta guys wanted to be Adams and this guy was among those who could imitate adequately enough to get work. I understand how you can see it differently given your technical knowledge.

Robbins! Thank you! I had suppressed him. Liefeld Of course.... You really dislike Grell that much? Same camp as these guys?

Very insightful and informative, thank you! You are right, many of those shown would not even come close to appearing on a poster today! The sizing of Frankenstein and Doc Savage probably had more to do with their ambitions for the two properties than the actual reality at the moment. It was a marketing piece at heart.