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ASM #405 Newsstand NM $15

ASM #404 Newsstand Copy A: VF/NM $10 Copy B: VF- $7 Copy C: GD $0.50 Beat but complete. Who needs a Newsstand reader filler?

ASM #402 Newsstand Copy A: NM- $12 Copy B: VF/NM $10

And for some more ASM #401 Newsstand Edition Copy A: NM $15 Copy B: VF/NM $10 (2-3 light scratches, NOT creases, at TFC edge) Copy C: VG/FN $2

ASM #400 Grey Die Cut cover Newsstand Edition (Barcode on back) Copy A: NM/NM+ SOLD Copy B: NM-/NM $30 Copy C: VF/NM $25 Copy D: VF- $15 Copy E: FN $5

ASM #393 Newsstand Edition Copy A: VF+ $6 Copy B: FN $2

ASM #394 Newsstand Holofoil Variant Copy A: NM $12 Copy B: NM- $10 Copy C: NM- $10 Copy D: VF $7

ASM #390 Newsstand Variant Copy A: VF $5 Copy B: FN/VF $3

ASM #388 Newsstand Variant Copy A: VF $5 Copy B: VF/NM $10

Just selling off some of my copies I didn't realize I was hoarding. Most of these are variants. Some are hard to find. Some are newsstands from the mid 90's to 2000's issue #'s 400 - 700, some are JSC variants, some are ASM 666 variants, some are just whatever they are. I'll start off with a few and then gradually add them in. Starting with a small list but will be adding in stuff daily or weekly or whenever. Check back to see what's new and whats discounted. First unconditional in the thread or PM with time stamp trumps all ongoing PMs Payment via paypal. Shipping is free if buying 5 or more comics. Otherwise it is $4 for 1-4 comics. Returns accepted within 14 days of receiving the item. Feel free to ask any questions. Take 60% off everything listed under Page 1 Take 45% off everything listed under Page 2 Take 40% off everything listed under Page 3 Take 25% off everything listed under Page 4 Page 1: Take 60% off listed prices ASM #388 Newsstand Variant Copy A: VF $5 Copy B: VF/NM $10 ASM #390 Newsstand Variant Copy A: VF $5 Copy B: FN/VF $3 ASM #394 Newsstand Holofoil Variant Copy A: NM or better $12 Copy B: NM- $10 Copy C: NM- $10 Copy D: VF $7 ASM #400 Newsstand Copy A: NM/NM+ SOLD Copy B: NM-/NM $30 Copy C: VF/NM $25 Copy D: VF- $15 Copy E: FN $5 ASM #401 Newsstand Copy A: NM $15 Copy B: VF/NM $10 Copy C: VG/FN $2 ASM #402 Newsstand Copy A: NM- $12 Copy B: VF/NM $10 ASM #404 Newsstand Copy A: VF/NM $10 Copy B: VF- $7 Copy C: GD $0.50 ASM #405 Newsstand NM $15 ASM #406 Newsstand 1st Lady Dr. Octopus Copy A: VF- $9 Copy B: VG $2 ASM #407 Newsstand Edition Silver Sable App. Copy A: VF+ $8 Copy B: FN/VF $5 Copy C & D: FN- $2 ea or $3 for both! ASM #408 Newsstand Copy A: VF/NM $10 Copy B: FN $5 ASM #412 Newsstand Copy A: NM- $13 Copy B: FN/VF $7 ASM #413 Newsstand Copy A: FN/VF $ 6 Copy B: FN- $4 ASM #414 Newsstand Copy A: NM- $13 Copy B: VF/NM $10 Copy C: VF $8 ASM #416 Newsstand Copy A: NM- $12 Copy B: VF/NM $10 ASM #416 Newsstand Variant Copy A: VF/NM $15 Copy B: VF+ $10 Star Wars #38 Marco Checchetto Variant NM/MT $10 Page 2: Take 45% off listed prices Superior Spider-man #31 Midtown Comics JSCampbell Sketch connecting cover Variant NM+ $20 Amazing Spider-Man #252 Niagara Falls Variant NM with very pressable defects. $50 Amazing Spider-Man #300 Niagara Falls Variant NM with very pressable defects. $100 Amazing Spider-Man v5 #1 Comicbookrealm Elite Comics Parel Trade Dress NM+ or better $50 Amazing Spider-Man v5 #1 Comicbookrealm Elite Comics Parel Virgin Variant NM+ or better $100 Or take both for $130 Amazing Spider-Man v3 #1 Fried Pie Variant still polybagged NM- or better. QTY 6. $10 each or buy all 6 for $40 Amazing Spider-Man #418 Newsstand Edition Copy A: FN/VF $6 Copy B: GD $1ASM Amazing Spider-Man #424 Newsstand Edition FN/VF $6 Amazing Spider-Man #425 Newsstand Edition VF- $7 Amazing Spider-Man #427 Newsstand Variant VF $9 Amazing Spider-Man #433 Newsstand Variant NM- $19 Amazing Spider-Man #438 Newsstand Edition Copy A: NM+ $25 Copy B: NM-/NM $18 Copy C: VF $12 Amazing Spider-Man #441 Newsstand Edition - Final Issue of origial Vol 1. 1st Full App of 3rd Spider-Woman Copy A: VF- $10 Copy B: VF/NM $13 Copy C: FN $7 Old Man Hawkeye #1 Land 1:25 Variant NM/MT $20 Weapon X #11 Dell'Otto Trade Variant NM+ or better $15 Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 2 #1 (442) Newsstand Edition - First Issue of Volume 2 NM $45 Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 2 #6 (447) Newsstand Edition VG+ $2 Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 2 #9 (450) Newsstand Edition VF/NM $20 Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 2 #21 (462) Newsstand Edition Copy A: VF+ $15 Copy B: VF- $12 Amazing Spider-man Vol 2. #30 (471) Newsstand Edition JSC cover NM- $40 Amazing Spider-Man vol. 2 #31 (472) Newsstand Edition JSC Cover FN $10 Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 2 #34 (475) Newsstand Edition JSC Cover NM/NM+ $50 PAGE 3: Take 40% off Listed Prices Price variants are marked with their newsstand prices. Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 2 #40 (481) Newsstand Edition VF/NM $20 Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 2 #41 (482) Newsstand Edition Copy A: VF $15 Copy B: VF/NM $20 Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 2 #45 (486) Newsstand Edition VF- $12 Amazing Spider-Man #501 (Jan 2004) $2.99 Newsstand Edition NM $30 Amazing Spider-Man #502 (Feb 2002) $2.99 Newsstand Edition VF/NM $20 Amazing Spider-Man #504 Newsstand Edition Copy A: VF/NM $20 Copy B: NM $30 Amazing Spider-Man #505 (May 2004) $2.99 Newsstand Edition NM $30 Amazing Spider-Man #506 (Jun 2004) $2.99 Newsstand Edition NM $30 Amazing Spider-Man #507 (Jul 2004) $2.99 Newsstand Edition Copy A: VG/FN $8 Copy B: VF/NM $20 Amazing Spider-Man #508 (Jul 2004) $2.99 Newsstand Edition VF $15 Amazing Spider-Man #509 (Aug 2004) $2.99 Newsstand Edition VF/NM $20 Amazing Spider-Man #516 (Mar 2005) $2.99 Newsstand Edition VF $15 Amazing Spider-Man #519 (Jun 2005) $2.99 Newsstand Edition VF/NM $20 Amazing Spider-Man #523 (Oct 2005) $2.99 Newsstand Edition NM- $25 Amazing Spider-Man #525 (Dec 2005) $2.99 Newsstand Edition VF/NM $20 Amazing Spider-Man #527 (Feb 2006) $2.99 Newsstand Edition FN+ $12 Amazing Spider-Man #532 (Jul 2006) Newsstand Edition FN $10 Amazing Spider-Man #537 (Dec 2006) Newsstand Edition VF $15 Amazing Spider-Man #541 (Aug 2007) Newsstand Edition VF+ $18 Amazing Spider-Man #544 (Oct 2007) Newsstand Edition FN/VF $12 Page 4: Take 25% off Price variants are marked with their newsstand prices. Amazing Spider-Man #558 (Jul 2008) $3.99 Newsstand Edition VF- $14 Amazing Spider-Man #572 (Nov 2008) $3.99 Newsstand Edition VF $20 Amazing Spider-Man #584 (Mar 2009) $3.99 Newsstand Edition NM- $30

Thanks, I was going to ask: who between edgar church and John Berk would have trimmed that copy? It certainly wouldn't have been edgar and I've never heard of chuck doing that to them. Or maybe edgar was onto something early on...I mean he did press most of his books having them in neat stacks. Aspiring newspaper/magazine artist or closet restorer?

I might try to do this at Baltimore this year. I also do the hour+ drive but I also try and coordinate a Gerber pickup order at their facility in MD on the way up/back.

Absolutely! That's a poor man's Gerber/BCW CGC short box right there!

What's the lowest you can go? My responses: "20% off had you just used the BIN offer but for you it's now +10% on top of the BIN price." "about 90% more than what you're thinking" "OMG! Thank you for catching this! There's a severe pricing error in this listing. I actually have this book listed way too low already. After I finish typing and sending this I'm going to revise the listing and raise the price by 75% but if you click BIN in the next 5 minutes before I do, I'll still honor the original BIN price." "as low as you'd like but you probably wouldn't like what you get" "I can do $X (50% off)" (and when it auto-declines them and they message me back asking why) "I'm not sure why it's not letting me accept, I guess eBay considers your offer too low for them to make a profit and won't let me sell it to you at that price. Try raising it up 1 penny at a time until it lets you." "If you have to ask, you can't afford it." "I honestly don't know." "How low do you want me go?" "I can do $X (50% off) but only if you click on this link 5000 times to boost my instagram influencer profile."

So in summary Onsite Grading Pros and Cons are: Pros: Fastest TAT (2-3 day turn around), no waiting wondering where the hell your books are. Best for those hot spec books that you need to flip before the market cools. Zero effort: no stress in securely packing, costs of packing materials, time and trips to PO during normal business hours, Zero shipping risk/near zero handling risk of damage Higher onsite grading fees may be offset by no to/from shipping & insurance fees. Submission advice: Guarantee that your submissions are accurate and you can get assistance from the staff on filling out the proper forms & tiers. They are also pretty cool to talk to Grading advice: (at some cons they'll have a head grader or restoration expert on hand to provide insight on whether a book is a great candidate for a cleaning/press/resub or restoration removal) CGC staff interaction: You get to chat (but please don't hold up the line) briefly with the friendly staff, get to know them, have them get to know you, hear cool/funny stories, insights/tips on the submission process, first hand updates to any changes, direct replies to those silly Ask CGC questions that sometimes never get answered, and if you're lucky grab drinks with them afterwards. Get to see some cool books and what others are submitting. If permitted and timely you could grab an artists autograph with a CGC witness and submit for onsite grading all in 1 day. Cons: No pressing/dry cleaning prior to grading so make sure they are pre-pressed/cleaned or don't need it. No pre-screening so make sure you're either very confident with the condition or are ok with whatever grade they will might receive. Must get in line early or wait for nearly an hour or more in line sometimes between some grungy con attendees with bad BO. Sometimes at bigger cons after waiting for an hour in line it is cutoff ahead of you for onsite grading submissions that day. Or you end up spending an hour or more in line to submit missing out on snagging some early deals or get to the booths after they've already been picked clean of quality books. Way more expensive than just simply doing an express drop off. Depending on quantity, you won't get one of those neat CGC shipping boxes that you can reuse. Did I forget anything?

Frankly I'm amazed he was able to initiate a charge-back at all. Which CC company was he using? Most CC companies require documentation and proof that you've tried to resolve the matter with the merchant/seller which in this case means going through the standard ebay/paypal resolution process. Maybe I missed something but it doesn't sound like they did and almost like they just straight PM'd you back and forth before requesting a chargeback. Was an ebay case ever opened for this issue? Was a paypal case opened? From a seller's perspective, opening a case in this instance is the best thing you could have done as it forces them to try and work through the process. It wouldn't stop them from sending you back garbage in a box and requesting a refund but The key part of a USPS claim is that in order for USPS to approve the accepting the submission filing (not necessarily an approval of reimbursement) of a claim, they have to: 1. Inspect the box, packing materials, and content items (comics) 2. They have to take possession of the items (comics) during the claims process. If the claim is granted and reimbursement paid, the comics will remain in USPS possession to be liquidated for some capital recapture. If the claim is denied, they will release the items back to the buyer or arrangements could be made to have the returned to the seller. However, once the claim is approved for submission (not yet reimbursement) and the comics are in USPS possession, you are supposed to issue a refund through ebay/paypal. The problem is that the buyer probably knows that if they were to actually try and go through a claims process the USPS postal manager would either: A: see that there really is no damage to the comics/items and deny the claim, and B: have to give up possession of the comics for USPS to hold until the claim is approved. I've done 3 legitimate USPS claims successfully. 2 as a buyer and 1 as a seller. From the buyers side, he has to jump through multiple hoops to even get the claim submitted: drive to the PO with all contents during open hours and purchase receipt meet with the postal manager after waiting in line for several long minutes fill out the necessary forms, Present all contents and explain the original value and the post-damage value (note: this is the hardest part as you often have to explain why a comic has lost 90% or more of its value as a collectible after having been damaged and case cracked). Helps to have a description of grades/defects/CGC reholding/regrading requirements/ebay sales, and GPA pricing on hand. YMMV, but some postal managers will just accept your word and submit the claim without a fuss. At least 1 required an education in collectible valuation. And get a receipt/copy of the claim and items being held. If he didn't attempt any of that or open a case with ebay/paypal and work through this with you, then the CC company should never have approved a chargeback. See if you can find out who the CC company is, reach out to them and review their chargeback policies and perhaps open a fraud case with them and Paypal citing buyer's failure to comply with resolution and chargeback policies. Not sure if they will be willing to rescind it but if you can prove that they didn't follow proper merchant resolution procedures prior to chargeback and get paypal on your side, you should have a case on your side.

I was going to reply with the same thing. So many charities work hard to keep their reputation clean and go to lengths to show/prove legitimacy and list where their funds are spent. Often you can't get them to stop sending testimonials, references, financial statements, and success stories once you get them started.

PSA: Read before accepting any more promotional listings: EBAY PROMOTIONAL LISTINGS GOTCHA to watch out for. This is a bit of a new one from ebay that you need to watch for and something to help prevent auto-relists and get charged fees. As many of you already know ebay has gone to a 30-day GTC auto-relist for all BIN w/offer listings for non-store selling accounts. Many of you have countered by switching to auction listings to avoid getting whacked by the insertion fees when the relists exceed the free monthly listings. For me (and others) to continue using BIN and counter their new GTC auto relistings which don't tell you when they are actually slated to end, I have another ebay account watch all my seller account listings. That account will track when a listing is about to end and I then end the listings an hour before they expire and then wait for the next month's free listings or a promotional offer from ebay with no insertion fees to relist. Well last week ebay hit me with something new. I got an offer for 200 free BIN listings with no insertion fees for listings/relistings occuring over a 3 day period that happened to cover the days when all my listings were scheduled to end and be auto relisted. So I activated the offer and instead of manually ending and relisting I let all 150 of my listings get auto-relisted. Before doing so I carefully reviewed the fine print for the offer to ensure it included relists and BIN that occurred in the activation offer window. I never read anything about a change in the duration for the relisted items. So almost a week later today I decided to check on my other ebay account to view my watched items for my seller account and see if they all got relisted with a new 30-day end date. To my surprise, it showed that all my listings will end in 1d xhrs from now instead of at least 23 days from now. Somehow, ebay managed to pull another fast one by defaulting the relist for a max of 1week with a GTC. Had I not caught this, it would have auto-relisted all my listings tomorrow and possibly continued them for a weekly expiration hitting me with up to 3x my 150 listings for insertion fees this month. The implications of this are bad and downright criminal. 1. they've now shorted me on what should have been a 30-day free listing 2. they are conning me into a 1-week relist without informing me of that change and exposing me to being charged up to 3x a month for insertion fees I'm thinking about calling them up and asking about this and seeing if they can reset it to a 30-day listing. I don't really want to reveal how it is I'm tracking the listing's expiration for fear they'll close that loophole. This is just getting ridiculous.

This is more along the lines of what I was anticipating. The MCU movie popularity in China has to have had an effect, even if it was small by comparison to the US. However, despite the lack of interest in modern comics, I expect that there'll be quite a few high dollar collectors from China looking at comics in the GA/SA for investment and potentially driving up a lot of the sales. It may already be happening as US collectors begin to fade out of the market, Chinese investors/speculators may enter and see some of those keys as being a nice place to park some cash. Perhaps there is still a lot of growth left in keys. Unlike real-estate and man made islands in the pacific, they aren't making any more AC1, Tech 27 or AF15s...yet.

It's the natural high point in the Bell Curve for grades and submissions. There are likely several reasons for this. Some have already been said but look at any individual books (mostly SA/BA/CA) where there is a spread of grades from 05 to 9.8 you'll tend to see this. Moderns and GA may not reflect this as much for those books having a majority of the grades being on opposite ends of the grading scale. Many GA books only exist from 0.5 to 8.0 which may push the peak of the curve further down to the left at the 4.0 and 5.0s. Whereas the moderns tend to have more quantity in higher grades pushing the curve more to the right in the 7.0 and 8.0s. Why this curve is becoming more pronounced in the 6.0 grade from previous years may be due to certain factors: 1. growth/saturation of comics being subbed by newer submitters who are not quite savvy at grading where a 6.0 looks like a 9.0 to them and not using the pre-screen option. 2. Value of mid-grades becoming worthy of submission due to the rising prices of higher grades 3. Growth of resubs/newsubs due to pressing from lower grades 4. Long held collections in mid-grade being prepped for sale by owners looking to cash out 5. Lots of otherwise VF/NM books being subbed with rusty staples, detatched centerfold on 1 staple, stains, minor spine split, or other single major defects that drop an otherwise VF/NM book down to a FINE. 6. restoration removal subs dropping an 8.0 PLOD to a 6.0 Universal 7. bunch of previously autographed books prior to CGC's signature series being submitted and requesting the Universal label instead of the Qualified label. On the lighter side of things it could also be: 8. CGC hired a guy with meat hooks for hands to handle the submissions rendering otherwise 9.x books to 6.0 after a few punctures and drops 9. USPS deliveries of submissions to CGC have been frequently run over by the delivery trucks. 10. CGC is using a new automated grading machine that rips the comic out of the bag to speed up the grading processes. 11. CGC has tightened up their grading standards assigning a 6.0 to anything that isn't a 9.8 and hoping to encourage resubs.

Smooth transaction. Bought some great ASM newstands to help fill some gaps. He was great to work with and patient. Excellent communication. The books arrived well packed, safely and quickly. I would gladly do business again. Thank you!

I've gotten 9.9s and owned a couple of 10s. They look immaculate. That being said, the 9.9s do have small non-color break spine bumps that I've seen on 9.8s, they can still have OW/W pages and miswraps but usually not all 3. The difference is the 9.9s edges, corners, and centering/wraps tend to look better. Keep in mind these graders see thousands of the same copy and many of them are moderns. To grant a copy 9.9 or 10 status it must look flawlessly better than any of the other copies they've come across. Or just catch them on a good day. Has anyone tried slipping a c-note into the centerfold with a 10.0 written on it?

Yes, grading varies even among CGCs 3 grader system over the years. There are even books from a supposed weak period of overgrading that are avoided or not resubbed. I've had an ASM 38 9.4 white get knocked down to a 9.2 OW/W. It had a 1/4" color break crease on the middle FC that was judged harsher the 2nd time around. I didn't notice it until I removed the holder.

I'm too paranoid for this. For a Sarasota USPS employee in the know, this would be too tempting of a target for a "lost" package. I'd probably just call CGC once tracking shows it's delivered and remind them the it is a walk through and see if they can get it to receiving quicker.