The Less Blob

I am confused. What you are describing fits into a magazine box that you could keep in a closet or in a corner under a desk. I used to fit about 5,000-6,000 comics in a closet in my manhattan apartment and still had room for clothing (I had 11 foot ceilings, which helped).

There are a lot of great covers there. Underappreciated stuff, especially by this fickle market that discriminates against magazines because they have an odd size. It is absurd that this sold for less than the cost of slabbing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/RAMPAGING-HULK-1-CGC-9-2-W-PAGES-V-1-ORIGIN-OF-HULK-RETOLD-LOOKS-BETTER/284049109996?hash=item4222a573ec:g:qyEAAOSwYk9fiqC1 and this one too: https://www.ebay.com/itm/HULK-10-CGC-9-4-WP-NM-MT-Marvel-Comics-1978-formerly-the-Rampaging-Hulk-/203137705712?hash=item2f4bf366f0%3Ag%3ArBoAAOSwMalfhG~G&nma=true&si=BZbpsjZvXBDBh7scMVfgI%2BAabNw%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

still worth it to send my legion 23 in? i think its a good 9.6-9.8

I think some rich dude or his kid would buy it as a vanity project. DC would never sell any of the non-comic rights for this stuff. And they'd probably want some control over the properties and be able to get back in. I'm not sure they'd want to sell to another comic publisher like dark horse...which probably doesn't have cash anyway. selling to marvel would be dubious.

In the early 2000s I bought a 75 comic bronze age grab bag for $50 from a seller who seemed reputable. No scans or pics. I had bought something from him before. He may have listed a couple of titles, bit not issues, and said they were all in Fine. I gave it a shot. The books were all 9.2 - 9.6, many mark jewelers, the Jungle Action Black Panther run, Black panther other than #1, nice marvel horror runs, marvel feature, red sonja. at the time none of these were that expensive, I doubt any were more than $5 each, but it was a good deal, mainly because he was wayyyy under on the average grade. Today the group is full of $10-$25 books because of the MJ and the condition. I think that was the only bona fide ebay grab bag I have ever bought. the rest just present themselves as too scammy.

I've told the story before. Around 2013 I sold ebay grab bags. Nearly all the higher priced ones had a Marvel Special Edition 15 in 9.0-9.4 condition. Thank goodness I unloaded that garbage book.

Some entity would buy the publishing rights and publish under DC's name. It would be a more modest operation, no doubt.

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606 is a double whammy!

And what makes this one $50+ Rather than this one?: ok, i know the difference...

Tex 880 is a strikingly different cover, creative, artsy, classic (at this point), etc. I get it. Not sure why that makes it a $200-250 book raw, but the market has decided. Jock can be hit or miss. With that said, what pushes some cover into this sort of territiry, or even $50 territory, is a wonder to me. There are some killer classic covers out there. This was supposed to be one, but it never seemed to get past the initial hump it his off selling for a few bucks more than issues around it:

Alas, I only have one. I wish I had sent my wife back into the store to buy another one (they had a 1 per customer limit).

nice 9.6-9.8, looking for $40 total, shipped in the USA in a Gemini mailer, with extra goodies. Paypal

The valley of the dinos is a double cover!

Here is my treasure fro comicparadox

Sorry it took so long. I will confess there are a couple of re-gifts in there of things I already had, so you got the shrink wrapped ones.

Just arrived. I had never bought from DTA before as their prices are usually way high for my liking, but this was priced reasonably, and priced better after a little negotiation, came to me in the grade advertised. I really like this cover. I assume the baby doesn't have lazer eyes that can cut you in half like in The Boys, but it's nice to think this inspired that scene...

I get it, the Dark Horse stuff was better done mostly, but the Marvel stuff isn't worthless for whatever reason.

I don't know about the Dark Horse stuff, but the 70s/80s Marvel stuff all seems to sell for $3+ if not beat up. Not that I really want to put the effort into selling $3 books on ebay. More realistically most would probably selling $4.99 starting bid auctions as well.

Agreed. I have run out of room and I want to use parts of my comic caverns for other stuff, like a home office, an art studio, and my kids want room for a 6 foot table to do legos on.

Boba's 4th (maybe 5th) appearance, yikes: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Marvel-Star-Wars-1977-Comic-Book-68-BOBA-FETT-APPEARANCE-Newsstand-Mando-Rare-/363239456034?hash=item5492c23d22%3Ag%3AcEgAAOSwCwFf6~fW&nma=true&si=BZbpsjZvXBDBh7scMVfgI%2BAabNw%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Hmmmm, there's a lot of $3-6 filler books in the marvel run, I wonder if selling this as a near complete set of 1 - 107 might do well? results are all over the place. I don't have the 2 Bobba issues, but i do have the Marvel Special that is his real first app, or does selling that way leave too much on the table as people are basically just bidding on the keys and getting the filler for free? on the other hand, this might be the way to de-clutter my comic zone, selling dupes in big title run lots.

funny how one of these posters is desperately trying to argue larry's is the equivalent to the real #1 and even rarer (he presumably owns 100 of them...): https://forum.cbcscomics.com/topic/3119/page/1/invincible-1-larrys-variant-clarity-/

It will be interesting to see if there is an Invincible show whether the whole run pops like Walking Dead did for all the pre #100 issues, when every issue under $100 was selling for double digits raw. WD and Deadpool are the only titles I can think of where every issue in the run popped (any others? Later preacher issues never really popped) Right now the early issues are not far off from where WD was a few months into the madness (I am not sure exactly when things really started to go nuts, I remember people being surprised when WD #1 hit $100 for a pristine raw copy and that, i am pretty sure, was well before they announced the show, but i also remember buying pristine copies of 9, 10, and 11 at Midtown for about $2 each (they had $3.50 stickers on them) at a 40% off sale when the book was in issues 30s or 40s ... I stupidly did not buy every back issue they had as I figured only the earliest ones would be worth anything ... and then proceeded to sell them here for like $4 a few months later when they market had not taken off... genius! seriously, i have so much krap I could have sold for a couple of bucks here, but i picked those? really?

right. I am befuddled by modern collectors (not saying littledom is saying this) who seem to view these reprints put out months later (this was at the end of 2003, #1 came out in january) as somehow being relevant to what a first appearance should be worth. With that said, as something at least put out in the same year as #1, a relatively limited print run (although i have seen numbers from 1,000 - 3,000 quoted as the printrun)... in hindsight picking them up for $5 a pop was a no brainer as raws are now over $50 (of course, there are plenty of $5 investments in 2003 that could be $50 now, but hindsight, blah blah...) .. roughly in line with Invincible #7, which came out around when Larry's variant did. I have to say Larry's initial clarification of all of this was very un-Larry like...calm, cool, not hyping anything, realistic about his product, etc.... :