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ASM #425 Newsstand Edition VF- $7

ASM #424 Newsstand Edition FN/VF $6

aaand back to some newsstand variants ASM 418 Newsstand Edition Copy A: FN/VF $6 Copy B: GD $1

ASM v3 #1 Fried Pie Variant still polybagged NM- or better. QTY 6. $10 each or buy all 6 for $40

one dealer even had spreadsheet printouts of 90 day and 12 mo GPA along with his ASK for each of his graded books. Thought that was pretty handy so at least you didn't have to look it up and could tell where along GPA he was.

I got that from a few dealers as well. I chalked it up to them colluding at a NYCC markup for keys and wall books that they hoped to sell for higher amounts on Saturday or as was mentioned before that they prefer to a larger negotiating margin.

I'm you're Hucklberry but I'm only selling the 9.6 at the moment. Coming to a sales thread near you. I humbly present these 3 tickets to this show along with a few variants for fun. A Reader Copy, A 9.6 W and a 9.8 W Notice how much smaller the FC art needs to be in the reprints in order for the "S" and the red on Spidey's right elbow to both be visible. They also shrunk the font on the Green "Spider-Man" by Punisher's foot to fit on the Lion's Gate cover which is the closest in sizing to the original cover. Close up of the 9.6 FC And finally found a copy in 9.8 W I could be satisfied with owning:

I've looked at hundreds of copies and for a while I was actually looking for such a copy but realize it is impossible to have a copy that has the red on spidey's elbow visible on the right and also have the green S fully visible on the left due to the standard comic width. It would have to be an error in the page width cut for the book to be able to fit both. Frankly it looks like they just didn't properly size the cover art for the printed cover.

I just made a big purchase at NYCC and told the dealer something along those lines AFTER I bought the book and was thinking this exact thing as I was making the purchase and fully mean it but I never asked for any discount because of it. I feel that's just poor form. If I ask for a discount or what is the best they can do it's at the beginning of the negotiation because I understand sometimes they either do or do not have wiggle room and or might be testing the waters with the convention shoppers, but mostly it's hard to believe someone nowadays when anyone uses that and you just don't want to be that guy. Don't be THAT guy.

Hi my name is Dan and I'm a butt hurt fanboy of the original trilogy Theatrical release. Thinking back to when the Special Editions came out, I hated them immediately but it was mainly the poor CGI. I mean sure it was in the primordial ages of CGI where we were still learning the structures of computer generated morphing in our C++ class. But it was still soo bad at the studio level and unrefined of a technology that it's usage on a masterpiece like Star Wars was criminally ignorant. I liken it to if someone were to take an unfinished masterpiece painting and passed it through one of the first inkjet printers to hit the market in an attempt to fill in the missing parts or if someone used one of the first 3D printers to complete Michelangelo's David or put injection molded plastic/manequin arms on the Venus de Milo. It was just so stark that it didn't look good on so many levels. I refused to watch them again. However, fast forward about 15 years and dramatic improvements in the rendering of CGI and now I don't mind some of the CGI scenes. Still not sure about Jabba the Hutt in that added scene. He looks smaller than he does in Return of the Jedi. If I had my way I would either remove that scene OR reshoot it with a much larger animatronic Jabba. I GET that he was resized due to it originally being shot with a shorter stand-in actor so to put a larger more imposing Jabba the Hutt in that scene would require a complete reshoot with facial de-aging technology or a creative amount of digital trickery to get it all to fit that might end up looking worse. However, the scenes that irked me the most was replacing older Anakin's ghost with the younger actor's at the end of the ROTJ. I also want the original nub nub song back. As for Han shooting first, I really disagree with GL's later reasoning. Why, if he wanted Han to be more like a John Wayne type character did he ever allow him to be written as shooting first? As a 4 year old boy even I understood what the director/scene writer had in mind. Greedo already has a gun on him. Han already knows he's a wanted man dead or alive. The moment Greedo says "that's the idea" to Han's prior retort "over my dead body", Han KNEW Greedo was there to kill him. He KNEW the ONLY way he was going to get out of there alive was to get the jump on him and shoot him first. It makes no sense to me for Han to wait for the last possible moment for Greedo to shoot. You can even see it coming in that scene. He uses several gestures to distract Greedo. First, he casually uses his left hand to to pick at something on the wall to the upper left while he uses his right hand to unbutton his blaster and position it at an upward angle just in case all while keeping Greedo distracted with banter. Finally, once Greedo basically confirms he's going to kill him, Han uses one final "gun gesture" with his left hand to distract Greedo's attention just before his fires. So for me Han shooting first isn't so much a conviction of his character as a cold blooded killer as it was a revelation on how savvy and street wise he was. It completely set the stage for me as him being a smooth bad as opposed to a weasely smuggling scoundrel. For what it's worth, even John Wayne shot first in Big Jake when he knew someone was about to try and kill him. So yeah, I vote for the full 9-Episode 4k box set the latest in CGI enhancements but with optional Original Theatrical release versions included.

About frickin' time!

This fascinates me. It has an air of conflict of interest even though it made you and the buyer financially whole, it doesn't make sense to me why, if the item was stopped in the US by the GSP inspectors, that it wasn't simply returned to you and you be allowed to refund the buyer? Obviously that would cost the GSP program return shipping so the willingness to take on the burden of liquidation must mean they are able to hedge/profit more often through confiscation. If that is so, I wonder if they are able to use data mining and ebay's GSP transaction tracking to identify and specifically target items with a margin. The fact that it was resold on ebay also reeks of conflict of interest. ebay makes 2x+ the profit on the same item, paypal indirectly may end up making 2x the fees, GSP has the cost of the original item covered with a small profit for the seller. If the seller is someone who it was liquidated to at an onsite GSP facility auction and then that person used ebay to sell it I can understand. But if the seller is partnered with GSP or a liquidator under contract with GSP/ebay and uses ebay to sell the item directly and re-uses your photos, it basically incentivizes the selective confiscation of items that were "undersold" or whose market value has appreciated since the original sale. I suppose even if they don't make a profit it is still somehow cheaper for them to go through the burden of confiscation and liquidation vs just paying the return shipping back to the seller? I wonder if the ebay seller who resold it sold it to a buyer in asia and if they used the GSP for shipping or not.

I wonder how many others are and how much this is starting to impact ebay's bottom line and other ecommerce sites? I know I've only bought 1 low priced item off ebay in 2 months vs several hundred dollars a month because of this. I'm finding that there's a lot of price collusion, cooperative competition, and almost no arbitrage among the different standard ecommerce and ebay/amazon selling sites. Amazon and ebay sellers barely edge out the competition due to free shipping but even that is only a $3-5 difference in most cases. The 8-10% ebay bucks is almost like their way of covering the taxes for the purchase. It also significantly affected how much I bid and spent on the last 2 CLink auctions. I knew the hit would be there but even for the low 5 figure purchase the tax hit was still a bit of sticker shock. I may need to move to Delaware. I wonder if this will lead to a softening of some prices and a resurgence of some brick and mortar stores as the halcyon days of online shopping may be over.

ASM v5 #1 Comicbookrealm Elite Comics Parel Trade Dress NM+ or better $50 ASM v5 #1 Comicbookrealm Elite Comics Parel Virgin Variant NM+ or better $100 Or take both for $$130 Trade Dress: Virgin

ASM #300 Niagara Falls Variant NM with very pressable defects. $100

ASM #252 Niagara Falls Variant NM ish with very pressable defects. $50

And we're back to spideys: Superior Spider-man #31 Midtown Comics JS Campbell Sketch connecting cover Variant NM+ $25

Ok now for something a little different just to break up the monotony. Star Wars #38 Marco Checchetto Variant NM+/MT $13

ASM #416 Newsstand Copy A: NM- $12 Copy B: VF/NM $10

ASM #414 Newsstand Copy A: NM- $13 Copy B: VF/NM $10 Copy C: VF $8

ASM #413 Newsstand Copy A: FN/VF $ 6 Copy B: FN- $4

ASM #412 Newsstand Copy A: NM- $13 Copy B: FN/VF $7

ASM #408 Newsstand Copy A: VF/NM $10 Copy B: FN $5

ASM #407 Newsstand Edition Silver Sable App. Copy A: VF+ $8 Marvel chipping on a modern? Copy B: FN/VF $5 Copy C & D: FN- $2 ea or $3 for both!

ASM #406 Newsstand 1st Lady Dr. Octopus Copy A: VF- $9 Copy B: VG $2 The shelfware is strong with this one.