MAY1979

Sage was Groo #1 Pacific so you are covered

If you ever met him DO NOT compliment him on his 70's, 80's or 90s work as it won't end well.

Is Hake's correctly pronounced like Cake's with H instead of C, or Hack's

As this a Groo Appreciation Thread thought I'd listed my personal 5 Groo Keys in Order: 1) Groo Special #1 Eclipse - as I recall in the last 80's through late 90's it was the highest priced Groo in Overstreet. First Groo Comic I ever purchased. In my first CGC Modern submission I sent in my childhood copy. Having that exact copy in the 1st gen CGC 9.8 slab means as much to me as any comic book I won. 2) Groo #8 Pacific - Final Pacific issue but First Groo comic I ever read, a buddy's copy, and the first Groo back issue I ever purchased. it also led to my picking up Groo Special when it arrived at my LCS. 3) Groo #1 Pacific - First Groo Cover and 1st full-story. IMHO the most important Groo issue ever published.. The book that truly displayed the Character as we would know him. 4) Marvel Age #24 - My favorite Groo cover. On-sale several weeks prior to the first Marvel Groo issue. The book served notice, at least to me as Child, that Groo was coming to Marvel. 5) Groo #120 Marvel/Epic - Final Marvel issue. While I've enjoyed Groo from other publishers since this last Marvel issue to me something has been missing. Perhaps since for the most part I grew up reading Marvel/Epic Groo it was simply an end of an era. After this series concluded Groo would never again have title that would register greater 1/10th of 120 issues.

Correct and not a bad idea...

I say 29 days

about the only to change things on ebay is to flood card issuers with calls so that they complain to master or visa or paypal etc. Of course that is highly unlikely as most oddly seem to enjoy a right good fisting from multi hundred billion $ corporations

When I'm on phone I try to keep things brief. Here is the more granular info: The Sellers declined my "make offer" which was greater than 90% of the asking price, basically 50% off shipping cost for me which seems rather fair on a make offer. After declining the sellers then raised the BIN, then sent me offers that were higher than the original BIN. In both cases I was a "watcher" of the item so sending the offer was easy.

In last month Ive offered above 90% asking on best offers and both times the deeeeebaaag sellers raise the asking price upon receiving the offer. They then countered with an offer that was higher than the asking price in the first place. This was 2 different Sellers on stale items i had been looking at since Jan. One of many reasons ive such a low opinion of comic book, OA, and trading card dealers To be clear both items had best offer enabled.

I'll add lack of ethics, lack of morals and potentially questionable legality. Yet still better than HA

I have it on good authority it's Windows 2000 with no Service Packs running on a no-name PC built by the lowest bidder.

Josh is far too cheap and stingy to even have that - a bunch of banana's after all will run over a buck perhaps even $2.

Even happened to me on 1 book. Spent $200 on it at auction during the near bubble height, 16 months later picked up a second copy at auction for a mere $35.

The argument went from is the book a good investment or good ROI at $5000? at $4000? at $3000, which now can be answered with a definitive NO, to the book is only bleeding slowly not hemorrhaging like others. Still 194 is bleeding and that has not abated. Newsstands in 9.8 as I predicted would be $2500 or less this summer. Newsstands in 9.8w now selling for same or less as direct sale did late last year. Next prediction; in 6 months time under $2000 will be the 9.8 norm for newsstands and under $1600 for Direct Sale. If regular auction could see even larger surprises. I do feel bad for those who paid $1k+ for 9.4's or $1.5k+ for 9.6's ... Never buy a book when hot is almost always best advice. FOMO is seriously bad mojo

The original is square bound

Funny Among some folks I knew way back when eBay introduced Buy-It-Now it was popular for them to say never sell anything that way as all it took was 2 ID10T's

60 - How about, Showcase 60 re-intro and 1st SA Spectre #48 Add Dell Giant 48 1st app The Flintstones yeah I know both are in my current sig

My First Sub. man I was young then. The book was highest and 1/1 on the early census' as i recall, alas no longer either... I handed it to CGC at a local con - CGC was still in NJ. Was as simple and smooth as could be. Back in 2000 there were no long lines and their staff was extremely careful/gentle with books, helped me fill out the form and they even took time to talk w/folks. I recall Steve B saying can't wait a Dell Giant to grade, or somethings thereabouts... Those days are looong gone.

we really should have a cronze or bropper sub-forum

plus right now they can make a 30days of 5% or so annually on the dough. Actually with all the coin that passes through them probably much higher than 5%

As they say in trading cards; "Buy the card, not the flip" Flip means label in the slab. I've many 9.6's that present much nicer than 9.8's specifically on my self submitted stuff.

No one size fits all

I have as well but only if i feel price is less than current fmv - reason is fmv's are sinking on most of the stuff i seek.

hoping he can get back what he's lost.

typical of bubble burst after effects. Now that less and less care about chasing books due to film or tv it will get worse. Outliers and hot items of the moment will always exist but the days of nearly every book being hot will not exist again in the lifetimes of most reading this post today aug 4 2023 BTW this is good for collectors who are once again the lifeblood of the hobby rather than the carpetbagger flippers and speculators!