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The answers here are all over the place. eBay is still a solid place to sell hot post 1975 comic books. In my 15+ year experience on selling on eBay ending a book on fri and sat is a bad idea since most people are out and about. All other nights between 6-9pm I feel are best. Sunday I used to think was the absolute best night to sell, but over the last couple of years I feel the jury is still out because people have told me they get the steals of week from that day since people could still be out and about or watching the hot AMC/HBO shows at night which make sense to me. I end 99% of my auctions now Mon Tues and Wed nights, however I might try Sunday night again soon. By in large I feel if you have a solid eBay reputation, hi-res scans, and have the auctions end where the much of North American can bid after work or at night you should do fine. (Of course never have the auctions start and end on holidays or most of December). FYI, I am mainly talking about CGC graded books. Raw books still are better to sell in person or at comic book shows.

Exactly, graders notes on books 9.6 and above just slows down grading and TaT's. Burn and turn!

To be fair I am assuming you don't pay full CGC modern costs since you can sub books using other dealers websites for a 10% or 20% discount. Even before I got a dealer account I atleast got 10% off my bill from eBay or other such discount websites codes.

Jimbo all we need are the spikes right?

He is right. Now while I don't buy a ton of blu ray's anymore, I still own the major movies on disc. Watching Rogue One on netflix isn't as good as blu ray. Plus still in 2017 there is zero benefit to owning digital movies, CD, Or games. They lose the license and you lose your rights to re-downloading the media. Case in point Marvel vs Capcom 2 for PS3. I had to get a new PS3, Sony lost the rights to game, I lost $40 bucks. Owning the tangible product is still best. Just like people who didnt have the common sense to not upload pictures and other media to the iCloud. Those hot celebrities found out what happens when you assume hackers wont come in and steal your adult pictures from out of the thin air. haha

Variants are like beer prices at the ballparks, if you people keep buying them (just look at eBay) comic publishers will keep making them. It's the comic communties fault that variants exist. I don't even listen to variant covers complaints from anyone anymore. Marvel Comics seems though is on the verge of bringing back all the characters from what I gathering from that article that started this thread that we love and hold dear because the only color that means anything in our capitalistic country is GREEN! The market has spoken and Marvel Comics has failed in recent years so they have no choice but to bring this whole thing back to formula. It was a pathetic attempt from the house of stupidity to think a male dominated marketplace would want to see a female versions of their beloved characters in a laughable attempt again to bring new readership in the mix. Gee you mean it didn't work how shocking. There is obviously nothing wrong with bringing diversity into the mix, however not in this forced manner. If someone or a group wants a comic book character that represents them then thats is awesome and I don't think anyone would be opposed to that obviously. However be creative and create a new character that is representative of that diverse change instead of being lazy and having no talent what so ever.

I personally agree. Honestly for the most part I feel if you were born after 1980 (aka you read comics mainly from 1990-current) you really never got to see got see amazing comics book in general. 90's-now were and are a joke, and besides Pre-Unity Valiant, DC Vertigo (Preacher, Y:Last Man, Sandman) and Image/Skybound (WD, Saga, EastofWest etc...) titles most comics are mindless stories of talentless garbage. Invest in back issues Pre-1975 and 50% off new trades and call it a life.

Gene under no decade of comic book fandom would this garbage sell and I thought the 90's were a disgrace to comics. This is because Marvel in terms of comics is catering to loser PC snowflakes since they killed off Wolverine. Marvel has grown in the billions and that is in the movies. I could care less if Marvel cancels all their titles it will have ZERO impact on AF 15's and back issues. It actually seems back issues are selling better because collectors have to go back in time to read good stories of their favorite superheroes since the creative insufficiently_thoughtful_persons can't give their audience anything new/fresh. Marvel is a movie company now and that is just fine with me. Stan Lee from day one wanted to make movies and not comics. Well it seems Marvel Comics has realized his dream. Marvel Comics has been replaced by Marvel Studios. They just put their less talented artists/writers who can't cut in their movie division in their lower forgettable paper comic book division.

I had a 2 people show me slabs they got back with in the last 6 months at Wondercon this past weekend. Probably about 20 or so. Only one I said he should re-sub. They missed light fingerprints, rust on staples, and other hidden defects that most casual submitters miss. Now I am not saying you can't grade, but I am for sure saying the reason you aren't getting 9.8's isn't though because of 1 small/minor stress line. That has never happened to me in the history of subbing to CGC. Last week for example my grades on a big ticket FT Modern invoice was business as usual. Grades were as expected. Are you sure you aren't missing one other flaw in conjunction with that 1 stress line to bring the grade down to 9.6?

+ 1 For me DD Season 1 and 2 were just amazing, the rest IMO have been complete failures and on par with DC/Warner Bros intelligence.

What do you all think of the newest Spider-man Homecoming trailer? I am def excited for it, but it does feel like Iron Man 4.

Backed to life, back to reality. (music) The Marvel chipping was not that that bad, dude. Not if we want to debate because it was a CBCS book that is a more viable. That CBCS sale did suck though.

I did't say that second quote btw, so I am not sure how you quoted me on that. Yes, Hulk #1 doubled from my plane ride back from WW Chicago August of 2014. I literally had a Hulk #1 CGC 3.0 that was worth 5k full retail in Chicago when I took off from Chicago and landed in San Diego it was now worth 10k. Hulk #1 is always a hot book for sure but just look at chart with the out of nowhere more than doubling in less than a year. How do you explain that market premium? (2014-2015 it went nuts, before it settle back in late 2015-2016) The doubling of the Hulk 1 in August 2014:

I am glad his TMNT #1 CGC 9.6 went up though.

Not really Roy. Hulk 1 has stabilized downwards since the fraud that was 4 years ago. Most books you can't buy at full retail on 4-1-17 that stays the same grade and then sell it for 25%-40% more 10-1-17 without market manipulation or new movie news.

After seeing this weeks ComicConnect's AF 15's auctions results, maybe it is time to sell my spare copy.

But Jimbo then one can't feel like James Bond or Jason Bourne, duh.

No that would be called a market bubble. That would collapse the hobby.

So you are a beta male and apparently are proud of it, got it.

I average about 30-50 new slabs per month. Yes there was a massive Newton Ring problem when the new holder was first rolled out, but once CGC rolled out their New Case 2.0 as I call it by putting back in the old inner well combined with the new outer well I rarely see Newton Rings anymore. If I do it's the same small % as previous years. Nothing can be perfect all the time, but for me this case is the best holder the hobby has ever seen. I am not saying the OP didnt have problems, but I don't know I am just not seeing the problem anymore since they fixed the new slab 6 months or so ago. Looks great to me.

I am all for competition in the marketplace and not a sole conglomerate, but not when it comes to comic book movie rights. Disney/Marvel are the only company to ever exist to have shown they know how to make quality superhero movie. Disney/Marvel has given comic book fans and Star Wars fans what we ask for constantly. Fox and Sony rarely do. Fox has made a couple decent X-men films and let's face it while I will give them credit for Logan, they were still stupid when it came to Deadpool. That was all Ryan Reynolds effort and zero Fox. That movie should have been made years ago but again Fox was too stupid to see the big picture (yes pun intended). Fox and Sony when it comes to comic book movies are basic clowns who should all be fired and if they are lucky be working at the local movie box office ripping up entrance tickets. Fox and Sony only smart move would be keep the rights but let Marvel/Disney do all the work and they can just sit back and make a profit %.

Sony last good superhero movie was Spider-man 2. As a huge Venom fan I have zero confidence that without Marvel Studios holding their hand this will work. Unless Spider-man Homecoming's post credit scene is with Eddie Brock finding the black symbiote somehow someway then this a who cares movie. We don't need a Deadpool R-rated style Venom movie. I don't mind a stand alone Venom movie then with the goal to have Spider-man in the 2nd or 3rd movie. I have never seen a company who has the ability to make so much FREE money with owning the Spider-man franchise and then not do so. I wish Disney/Marvel would take extreme measures to illegally somehow get the rights back from Sony, and it would stand up in a court of law. This is one time I want property rights to be taken illegally by the greatest shady team of lawyers known since the OJ Simpson case.

Very nice 5.5!

That sale was perfectly solid. Just because it didn't topple the last sale really isn't a big deal. 50k+ plus for ASM #1 CGC 9.0 is very strong considering its double CGC 8.5's sales as well that copy went much higher than all previous sales CGC 9.0's sales. The only book that I felt went too low was the FF #1 CGC 9.0. Below is screenshot GPA of ASM #1 CGC 9.0