Get Marwood & I

I really like that. They don't suck at all.

Always great to see a nicely rendered Spragg!

What a great, heartfelt post. Brought a tear to the eye. Sorry to hear you lost your brother and your old comic buddy.

https://comicbookinvest.com/2015/06/22/batman-16-panini-deutschland-german-edition/ Dell Otto according to the above. Looks like a unique cover for the foreign reprints. I checked the German and french copies and both reprint different titles. None of the titles they reprint have this cover.

Hello @Philflound, I mentioned earlier that I attempted to put a run of ASM newsstands together, 1-700, before giving up collecting. Your graph is quite telling, and indicates simply why I experienced what I did. My experience was that early newsstands are ample, later newsstands are not. The later the date, the smaller the newsstand volumes (in comparison to their direct edition counterparts), the harder the issue is to find. I had little trouble getting ASM newsstands up to 441. The old volume 2 run of 58 issues was tough, but I managed to get them all. 500 up was really hard work. In the end, I was paying many multiples of the direct edition price to secure them (at the time, I had quite a bit of eBay competition from other completists). I can't tell you how diligently I looked, and I had US collectors on the hunt for me too. When I stopped collecting I still had about 20 missing. ASM #694 is an impossible book to find and I've seen $500 bounties for a copy. The direct goes for $5 if you're lucky. Some chap flooded eBay with a ton of newsstands a few years back - I can't recall the story now but he had a huge store of them and that helped me fill a load of gaps. But now, it's really hard to complete a run. ASM is clearly a popular book, so I can only imagine how hard it would be to collect a run of a lesser title. Here's a good example. Pop onto eBay, and every other website you know, and find me one copy of each of these: The direct is a $5 book. If the newsstand is so outrageously low in numbers by comparison, to the point of non-existent, it makes absolute sense that it will be valued higher than $5. Chuck at Mile High worked on the crude assumption that if a late newsstand is, say, 100 times scarcer than the direct version, then the right variant collector / completist will pay an equivalent multiple, as they do with the 35 cent variants. I cursed him for this, as it meant the books I was quietly picking up for direct equivalent prices suddenly sky rocketed once people started to see the logic of his premise (super scarce = super price). There may be no right or wrong here - one guy spots an opportunity, sets a price level (however ridiculous some may feel) and it either takes hold or doesn't. If I saw an ASM #694 for $100 as a BIN I would buy it in an instant. So, that's my contribution to the debate, which I've crafted in a way to open the door to a counter attack (the inclusion of Chuck often has that effect!). As long as it's done sensibly and without bitterness or rancour, I'll debate with the rest of them More pretty (HTF) newsstands:

Bababooey drop chop suey.

What are these stains on the chair? Egg fried rice?

There's an explanation here: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/marvelmasterworksfansite/something-i-discovered-about-amazing-fantasy-15-t27311.html Both UK and US versions have identical interiors / indicia dates. Just the cover price and blank date box that differ. I talk about that a bit in my pence thread here (page 5):

Indeed it is Ben. Life's too short to waste time fighting the toxic avengers. And we do indeed share a love of AUS price variants buddy. Your ASM issue list on the site came from me! Well done getting the NM98 recognised. Steve

Great, thanks for posting that @mysterio So we know three fifths of a page is acceptable. I wonder how they authenticated it as an original, given that it must have been submitted as it stands? Maybe that lab does exist!

Hi Ben, When Rock first contacted you regarding your website content, did he comes across something like this: "Hi Ben, great blog! You're clearly passionate about this stuff and have put a huge amount of work into it. Well done. There's a few areas I can help you out with if you're interested, where your assumptions don't match my own. Let me know, cheers, Rock" ...or this: "Ben, please stop peddling lies on your error strewn blog. You are a fraud and lower than an ants belly if you think people will fall for this stuff"

Hello @Pete Marino I saw your post saying that you couldn't find your old thread. If you go to your profile page like so.... ....top right you will see "See their activity" (although it will say "See my activity" if you're logged in). Select that and you will see "All activity" over to the left like so: Select "Topics" under Forums and you will see all your threads there like so: I think I can see the threads you are referring to there, so hope this helps as a searching tip for the future. You can do the same with your posts etc. Good luck finding what you're looking for - if nothing else, my intervention gives your thread a bump! Cheers

Ditko that!!

Yes. Awesomely bad

I quite enjoyed the early discussion yesterday about what we should call things and sharing information and our views. I don't mind friendly banter or even seeing the odd ego poked once in a while, mine included, but this thread has turned very sour now. So many threads seem to go this way lately.

Well done Rock. You clearly know your stuff here. Now, if you want a real challenge, tell me why these exist will you?

Phew!

Oh dear. The seller didn't tell you to pop off and make love to yourself did he? What are the chances....

On the flip side I once was strongly berated by an eBay buyer for packing a valuable book I sold him too well. He said it took too long to open. I seem to recall finding it very hard to resist the urge to tell him to pop off and make love to himself.

Ignore previous post!

I'm in the presence of comic royalty! You never answered my question though, so no like

I've just realised that's not the post offices fault, which is the point of the thread. Just shows you how these things are difficult to get over though doesn't it.

My worst was a CGC ASM #179 9.6 with Pizzazz insert. I already had the 176, 177 and 178 Pizzazz copies in 9.4/9.6. So I was happy when this arrived to complete the set. Happy that is until I removed it from it's single skin bubble mailer to find it smashed to pieces. When I messaged the seller asking if sending a CGC from the US to the UK in a thin bubble mailer was wise, he said he always sent CGC's that way, it had "never happened to him before" and that I was being unreasonable.