The Less Blob

It's true, with so few conventions chuck must miss wandering around shows vacuuming up long boxes of dollar books and putting them up at $50 on his website (I kid, I kid, I've actually chatted with chuck and he seems like a nice fellow. He didn't offer me mushrooms or anything though, but I was with my wife and kids...)

I guess that's fair, they price the lower/mid grade filler books within the realm of reason. Not necessarily blow out prices, but if you want a solidly graded VG/Fine copy of some book and are willing to pay $3-6 rather than hunting it down cheaper, then they're the most viable option. And as they are not really willing to pay anything for those books, people aren't selling them to them so much.

To be fair, he always has a coupon, so take 40-60% off... I am surprised by how many books MCS does not have in stock (and Mile High). I know they have a huge inventory, but I like to research various price points when setting my prices (or buying), so after looking at ebay i look at their (MCS, not Mile High..) website (and also to confirm printings, etc.) and am often amazed by how often what i consider common books that i have multiples of are out of stock.

Yes, he has gotten better about jacking up every price so that even the 40% off doesn't matter much, but believe it or not, a few years ago I was actually able to put together a few orders big enough for free shipping of what he had that was decently priced after 40% off. I bought a stack of nice Black Lightening 1s for about $6 after the discount and took a gamble on a bunch of Fugitoid 1s in nice shape that I think wound up under $5 each. Fugitoid 1 still has not popped (I still think my $5 has turned a profit), which is nuts given that it is the 5th or 6th TNMNT appearance, but i guess they printed a lot of them, I have no idea why. And a big stack of Deadpool TPBs, which after 40% off were priced well, which my oldest son enjoyed a lot for christmas. And a couple of other things. Finding $60 worth of deals right now is pretty difficult.

1st appearance of Human Centipede?

seriously, the dude is billionairre and he drinks that ?

Just checking out the mile high website and there are some awesome prices on certain books, especially with the 40% off coupon. If they had the books in stock. I suspect some of the prices have not been updated for years as they haven't had the book in stock. Goon 1 from Avatar in NM for $63 or so after the 40% discount? https://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action-list&title=36881308736&snumber=1 (Speaking of Goon, how the heck did Powell mess that up?)

Never a shortage of them, true. There's a first print newsstand and direct. And then I see a 2d print listed. And then I see a different one from the multipacks listed as a second print that has a different UPC box and a different back cover. And then I see something listed as a Mervyn's 4th print, that looks identical on the outside to the regular 2d print. Was there a second print newsstand? Any other prints of this issue? I apologize if this was the topic of a thread already. Clearly it was popular when it came out with all these extra prints! So I went to Mile High because they are good about listing all the prints and they have the direct edition 1st print at $48 in NM and 2d print at $45 in VF! hah!!! higher than a slabbed 9.6 goes for.

OK, I agree, we may have wandered a little outside of iconic/classic on a few of these (my Charltons didn't help, though the Ditko one is close as he is an icon, it is creative, etc.) ... but yeah, this one is up there as the iconic "Conan image" like the Captain Marvel 29 just posted is the iconic pic of C.M. and Superman 233/Action 419 are [albeit already recognized as] iconic superman images.... hard to pick which Wrightson Swampie is the most iconic... But "should be" classic has some subjectivity... I won't be posting copies of Thor 339 in my copper age version of this thread no matter how many copies I have.....

I am perplexed by why that one does not garner more interest $-wise as it is the standout Batman cover for that little period. I look it up every couple of years to see if the market has finally appreciated it and then I see a bunch of $3 sales. If the shrunken head had a nice rack or something then maybe the market would care.

15? I kind of pretty much let my 15 year old do whatever. I did whatever at 15. I agree, I probably should not let my 9 year old, but I prefer it to watching him play first person shooter games.

A BWS cover set you back what, tree fiddy?

Is this THE cover art or a recreation/similar thing?

I'm not using my own scans necessarily. Mike Zeck might be half of these covers,

No love for copper?

Cardy should have an entry here for sure. Underappreciated in that era.

This book has bounced around. It was worth something in the early 90s, and I have been able to sell it for a little bit of a premium over the years in nice shape ($7-$10), but I see a bunch of low price sales recently, so I guess folks don't care anymore. I love this cover and buy it when I see it. I may have 10 copies.

OK, same idea as the last thread. Dunno what the CA equivalent of Bats 227 or 251 are. Maybe Batman 423? Jayman posted this one in Bronze and it is definitely up there as a desireable book because of the cover long after anyone cared about this sort of cross-over, which sed to be a big deal:

Definitely for the copper version of this thread!

Yeah, love that one, the perspective and all that

Haunted Love is full of great covers:

I always liked this one from a creative standpoint:

It's kind of interesting. At least excluding magazines, DC probably had more really grabbing comic covers (probably because they employed adams, wrightson, kaluta, and few other artists more often). But while not always as great artistically, Marvel's covers were often much more dynamic and made you think the story inside was going to be jam packed fun and well worth you pocket change. Or at least that's what it felt like as a kid. That changed a bit when Perez started doing those NTT covers. He brought the marvel feel to them, that the book inside was going to be a fun ride. I guess it is all subjective. I had no interest in reading any DC books (unless they were in a treasury teamed up with a Marvel character!) until Perez's NTT.

Kaluta (along with issue #1) are definite candidates ... I like the composition of Peter Parker 7 a lot, just wish it was better executed

yeah, a lot of the Wrightson covers definitely are in classic cover territory