Artboy99

the secret to JSComics: Has plenty of lots always, so you buy one, then hunt for another to combine shipping. *Doesn't have an overwhelming number of lots to choose from ( it is actually important ) Have reasonably solid grading.

Looking forward to seeing a gorgeous girl with red hair and pale white skin wrapped in ivy. But yes, it is likely that all the characters will be different ethnicities and they will all be wearing black leather jackets and have on sunglasses.

I am hoping for a fantastic film, but honestly the trailers are not captivating me. I am hopeful, but going into it with low expectations. I liked the Tobey Macguire first and second films, but absolutely hated the third. The Andrew Garfield films were lousy to me, especially the second one: what an awful movie.

$200.00-$250.00 for rarity of book.

I have purchased 2 spinner racks and 1 stand-up rack and all 3 were purchased here in the province of Alberta. I have found spinners I have wanted to buy but the shipping is so expensive I have passed on the purchase. The 2 spinners I did buy were both purchased out of Calgary, and both were from comic shops. The one I kept was the older of the 2 but it doesn't spin as well as the newer one did. I sold the newer one to a fellow boardie here in Edmonton. I waited for a long time for both spinners to arrive. 1 was picked up at the Calgary comic store by a friend and I waited until he brought it with him to Edmonton and we met to transfer to my vehicle. It was months. The other, the local comic shop owner brought it to Edmonton when he was attending an event here, but I waited months for that one as well. Shipping from Calgary to Edmonton ( a 3 hour drive ) was astronomical ( 100's of dollars! ) and it is easily double from the United States. It is the oddball shape and size.

what a gorgeous copy. Incredible red.

Mine holds golden age books, and in some pockets it even holds slabs. I wonder if there is a way to determine the age of the spinner?

Mine has 5 sides x 10 pockets per side, it is the "Best in Comics / Hey Kids!" version from the 70's.

Look at that blue! Very nice.

Even so, I have a hard time calling it a "fine". Good luck to any that might be trying to win it.

Tell him he is lowballing you and show him the CGC 9.6 on Comiclink http://www.comiclink.com/itemdetail.asp?id=1102274&showprice=1&next=%2FComicTrack%2FAdmin%2FCL%2Fmatches.asp%3FTITLE%3Dx-men%26ISSUENUMBER%3D1%26Artist1%3D%26Artist2%3D%26PRICEFROM%3D%26ORDERNUMBER%3D%26DATEFROM%3D%26DATETO%3D%26SELLER%3D%26SELLERID%3D%26BUYER%3D%26BUYERID%3D%26BUYERSTATE%3D--%26PEDIGREE%3D%26CGCCOMMENT%3D%26SELLERCOMMENT%3D%26TYPE%3D0%26FILTER%3D%26Payment%3D%26Verified%3D%26Shipped%3D%26SPBP%3D%26SPBP2%3D%26SearchConditionFrom%3D09.6%26SearchConditionTo%3D09.6

some of the high grade "collectors comics" from that collection:

Very similar! Ranged from golden age and silver and bronze books he called his "collectors comics" which was one shortbox, the rest was 1985-1993ish books all bagged and boarded and never read in 37 long boxes. Many books that came out of that collection were 9.8's.

The same happened to me. Seller had 37 longs, made our offer and we left. A few days later he contacted me and we bought it. Still the best collection we have bought.

Especially if you are paying tax on it.

Even more annoying are the non committal types. Another collection local to me, is a couple dozen long boxes and it does have some great books in it. We finally get a chance to look at the collection, we get to the guys house at 10:30 AM on Sunday and after viewing about 10 boxes he tells us we have to leave as he has to be at a breakfast at 11 AM. Head scratcher there. Anyways we make an offer, he says kind of low, we ask what he was expecting and he quotes us a figure so we raise our offer to in between the 2 numbers. No negotiation from the owner, he just declines. Over time we contact him again and we offer him the price he was asking. Even then he hummed and hawed, said he needed to ask his wife and we never heard from him again. Actually offered him his asking price and still didn't get the collection, the ultimate in a negotiation that went nowhere.

I have had several dealings like this one. You can spend a lot of time on it if you really want the collection, but the thing is time is money! You made your offer, I recommend moving on. I have a guy local to me that I met at a local comic con, he and I went to university together. He looked at my booth/ display, and asked me to come see his collection and make him an offer. Over time he kept contacting me, asking me to look at the books again, and I kept making my offers. He would send me an email asking questions, and in attempt to gather his trust I would tell him honest answers and show him auction site information like Ebay and Heritage. Then his price kept going up as he was gathering more information, such as seeing an auction result for a CGC 9.8 Wolverine #10. He has 10 of them, and they are "like brand new". Except due to storage and the fact the books were never bagged and boarded they are VF to 9.0 at best. Over time I also noticed he only contacted me when there was a local comic show coming up, and he would ask for a ticket/ vendor pass saying he would help me out. I give him a pass and then he would leave the show before closing time and he did nothing but hang out in the booth learning / gathering information. Now it is 3 years later, I never did acquire the collection, and he has stopped contacting me now that he doesn't get any free passes to shows out of me. I learned my lesson. Now I make my offer and move on. My time is valuable to me.

If it makes a difference: I only bought one item, and I paid for it the day after the auction closed ( so on day 2 ). I paid for FedEx priority. They shipped it the day after the auction closed. My item was from the day 1, and typically Comicconnect ships the items in the order of the auction.

latest piece: a sketch cover of the Taskmaster.

Hi all, I recently completed a sketch cover on a blank for someone and I am going to be sending it in to CGC for signature series and grading. I have a form sent to me by the person who asked for the sketch and I am wondering if any board members have used this form before? My question is: the section for CAW, I believe pertains to a witness. If I send this in without anything in the CAW section, I think it won't get Signature Series. Am I correct?

it would look great either way. If I was to do this page I would thicken the lines a little. Yeah it would look great in color.

strongly disagree. Some of the best silver age reading comes from the FF: 25-26 48-50 is extremely good for story.

I would do the Superman 14. Especially if you are doing it in black and white, the image has lots of black which will give it a lot of viewing "punch"

therein is the problem. They don't need to reimagine anything just simply do the great silver age stories from the comics and do a well done translation and it will be successful.