Philflound

I love the small press books from the 1980s. There are many worth absolutely nothing that probably had print runs of a couple thousand down to several hundred. I'm working on my collection atm and been putting together the Elf Lords. I definitely have a decent amount of the Aircels, but no early Nightwynd. Once I'm organized, which should take another few months, I'll be working on getting all those strange, unknown titles.

Just now, lizards2 said:

I'm perfectly fine grading myself.  I just got to say wow, since most resto is instantly recognized.

Not always, especially on certain comics like ASM 300, where most of the ct is on the back. If the book is in a bag/board, you can't see the back cover at all. Your average Joe can't spot resto too often.

20 hours ago, lizards2 said:

Wow - I don't have time or interest to read all this BS, but CT is definitely something that just pops to me - I see it before other flaws, so I must say WTF?

The point was that they don't do resto check. So if you pay $10, you're not getting much for it. Go ahead and send your books to them.

Only read the 1st page, don't have time to get to the others, but the raw grade does not include any resto check. You can have a nice 9.8 with color touch and not know it.

There are always collectors for everything. If you want premiums, maybe sell them to Mile High as they charge premiums for inserts, whitmans, and newsstand variations.

The tape will make it worse. Depends on how much tape. Is the complete spine taped?

RIP Bernie. You will be missed. You had many great works!

Those are action figure variants and they are part of the book to imitate stickers. Slight cracks in the spine would probably keep books at 9.8, most likely no higher. Entire spine looking like that would probably go a bit lower, but should bring NM.

I don't believe there is any plan on CGC using those numbers.

Not sure if things like this are not allowed. People make reproduction labels for video games and reproduction weapons for Star Wars action figures. It may be allowed.

31 minutes ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

Looks like a nice copy  

I posted in the other thread that I would grade this at 9.2

Posted 3 pics in WWBN32 thread, but here is one that shows the insert.

Here are pics, 1st is a little blurry.

1 hour ago, lou_fine said:

Well, if that's the case, then can you explain why Jimmy O 134 goes for so much more than Forever People 1? 

I guess maybe it also depends on the individual character(s) in question. 

 

My guess is JO print run was dropping and Forever People #1 was probably mass produced due to being #1 & Kirbyverse.

X-Men 282 / 283. 282 is 1st brief app. though you can argue he's on the cover. The brief appearance is worth much more.

1 hour ago, lou_fine said:

Probably more on an individual book by book basis, especially when it comes to the different eras and the grading teams being used. 

For example, does this look like a CGC 3.5 graded book from your point of view:

http://www.comicconnect.com/bookDetail.php?id=697754

Of course, you can't accurately grade from just a scan.  But just from a visual eye appeal point of view, this book certainly looks a lot nicer than your typical 3.5 book and it was graded back on December 9th of 2016. 

You don't know if there are stains or spine splits that could be lowering the grade

7 hours ago, Jordysnordy said:

How about a scan of it?

I thought about taking some pics, but now I think I don't want to risk doing any damage.

I always love looking at the late 80s / early 90s ads for East Coast or American Comics and see what was hot at the time. I've finally gotten my collection down to Florida and am going through all those awesome indies I used to collect. Eternity, Aircel, Comico, Pacific, Silver Wolf, Adventure, Innovation, Caliber, First, London Night, etc. I'm finally putting together the list of missing issues I need. Funny thing is that I can buy most of this stuff cheaper now than I could 25-30 years ago. So now I'm going to work on filling in those holes. 

I saw the Adventurers in the initial post. About 1 1/2 years ago, I found the limited edition #1 in either a 50 cent or dollar box and grabbed it. I already had a copy from way back when, but couldn't pass it up at that price. I think some of this stuff will be sought after in the future. Maybe not for tons of money, but more for nostalgia. I loved the indies and collected many obscure titles. When I owned my store in the mid-1990s, I used to support many of the little guys as much as I could. I still have a decent inventory of weird stuff, though maybe not more than a copy or two.

I got on the Turtles bandwagon a year late. I did luck out at a flea market about 4 years ago picking up a 2nd print #2 and 1st print 3-5 for $5 each. I have a 5th print #1. Other than that I own pretty much everything else except the Raphael I think. Still going through everything.

I loved Tim Vigil. In fact for some reason I seem to keep coming across duplicate copies of Grips issues. Eventually I'll pick up some of the other Vigil items I never came across.

There were some great reads back then. And yes, I agree with Blob that you won't see much activity with this stuff because they aren't 1st appearances of popular characters who will show up in tv and movies. I'm glad there are still people like us out there that appreciate these fine works.

I loved DH when it came out. I remember going to Poughkeepsie, NY at a store called Iron Vics. I was working at IBM. I went to the counter with 10 copies. A kid about 10 years old walked up to the counter with a copy of DH #1 and asked the owner behind the counter if the book was good. He actually told the kid it was sh*t. I showed the kid my stack of 10 and told him I'm buying these and he should pick it up. The kid is probably 35 now and he did buy it. I wonder if he still has it. I have to dig though my stock, but I'm figuring I have 50-60 copies of #1.

Question: was there any news or word or rumor about DH being in a show or movie? I'm just wondering why this book is heating up.

On 3/11/2017 at 3:02 AM, quicksilver said:

I have actually, it is rather disappointing.

You should pop round and you can read it yourself.

http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=29030

Seems like I can't find any evidence of anyone else having the WWBN 32 with the MJ insert. I posted under the WWBN 32 thread too and someone there said they never heard of one having it. Was wondering what others thought. I'm thinking of taking photos tomorrow and posting them.

Book has a star stamp on the front cover. I was wondering if Mark Jewelers books have star stamps designated they were sent to the military areas.

Since I haven't really bought comics recently and the box I found this in was sitting in a room for the past probably 12 years, I definitely know this wasn't tampered with. I also doubt I'm the only person who has a MJ insert in this book.

I thought I did not have this issue and was the only WWBN I was missing. While going through one of my boxes in my collection, it was sitting there. I had a triple positive experience with this. 

1. I finally know I have the entire run of WWBN and no longer have to dread paying a fortune for it.

2. I'm grading it a 9.2, so I'm happy it's high grade.

3. It has the Mark Jewlers insert. So I'm extra happy.

Anyone have an idea on what this would sell for graded 9.2 with the insert? $2.5k? More?

Was going through my collection and found a Werewolf by Night 32 with the MJ insert.

I guess if you don't want someone using your cert number, you can always black it out when selling it on Ebay.