The Less Blob

But yeah, I tell you it is not a book I have ever really gotten a "deal" on. And now I remember, I guess Miller did some DD on Spectacular SPiderman before this. He was the perfet artist for this character.

There are plenty of copies just because as everyone else noted, it was a C list marvel book and those sold better than A list DC books, for the most part. Its circulation was tiny compared to the same month's ASM though. Miller made DD a hot book pretty quickly (I don't think folks really knew who he was before then, but the stories took off, DD went from a kind of lame character who fought lame bad guys to something pretty cool with the ninjas, elektra and kingpin getting scarey)..frankly, i have no idea, the stories got cool, was it because with his art a lot of us thought we had a chance at being comic artists vs. byrne or perez or starlin who reminded us we didn't have a shot? I dunno.

So it was packed well, they just abused it? I'd probably cut masonite for a $1500 book along with bubble wrap, etc.

I see $25 and under. Some variants doing better, a newsstand, signed book, etc. doing better than that. I have always liked the covers to 12 and 13. Ok, I like pretty much any turner cover.

Need to get my copy slabbed. Possibly my best dollar box find ever. Possibly 15 for $10.

Except I have never heard of a gemini mailer with 1st class psotage getting ripped open for inspection or any 1st class package for that matter because there is likely no reason to. Media mail is ripped open (never one that I have sent, but I've seen pictures here) to see if it contains verbotten materials

Except, apparently, the Disney ducks books, someone kept most of those

Thor 385 has sold well for a long time. I don't know why, it has an ugly cover, but these Hulk classic battle covers seem to do well.

I can only assume he means "paying a big premium"

Early CA books are roughly the same age as mid-40s GA books were when I was collecting in the early CA

More about hype fading a bit due to fanboys being less interested. NM 98 is still somewhere because for some folks it is their grail. MM 1 and SH 1 aren't gonna be anyone's grail.

Are the sellers trying to save $ or are they trying to sell their items at an overall attractive price? A $5 comic with $8 shipping doesn't make much sense.

The post office treats all packages like dog sh*t. I've had priority mail boxes brutally assaulted. They don't treat media mail worse unless they are ripping it open to inspect. It is just in the system longer so more chances to get banged around. I have had long boxes of comics shipped to me via medial mail that were delivered perfectly. I have no idea how that happened.

If they are not ripping the package open then MM is pretty safe and the only financially sane way to ship a pile of cheaper books.

Pensions automatically increasing with the CPI is something that can be pretty easily eliminated with the flick of a legislative pen, maybe even in Canada. I know my pension is protected by law, including my state's constitution, but I am pretty sure they can mess with any subsequent annual increases. P.S., I wasn't complaining. I paid 2% for 10 years and got vested, never had to contribute again. My wife is in a later tier and she will be paying 6% forever.

Yeah, I guess the theory is that ebay is in every state, and while they are not the "seller," they are sufficiently enough involved in the process. Does Amazon do the same? Etsy?

I am fine with 2018-2019, much more sustainable.

There was a huge number of folks entering the hobby from 2012 - 2020 following the Walking Dead phenomenon and a tremendous amount of speculation on any and all TV/movie spinoffs and what not, folks here were in constant amazement at what drek book would now be a $10-25 or what former SA or BA $10-50 book was now $100-500. The notion that this all happened during Covid is nonsense. Covid just helped jack the prices up a bit more at the end as a lot of people had an extra $500-1000 a month disposable income. Let's not forget that we also had a pretty long sustained good stock market, low interest rates, and a strong housing market during that period as the recovery from the 2008-2011 recession/housing crash sustained itself for a long time.

Dude does not have $20-25K.

I was trying to talk someone out of spending $3300 for an 8.5. Showed him they are about $2700 right now. But he was hell bent on getting it and wanted time payments, so he was willing to pay 20% extra.

Well, I do like to sell to be able to justify the purchases of stuff I have a longer term outlook on. The wife wants me to keep my comic money relatively self contained.

I want better than reader copies, they don't appeal to me with a bunch of creases. It is nice to get them in nice shape on the cheap. I guess I can deal with some wear on older gold keys, mid-60s 12 centers and tolerate the condition issues on Dr. Solar, Magnus, and Turok because 12 cent cover price copies are hard to find for $2

Is this 2011-2021 thinking or is there still action like this in the market? I went back on these boards a couple of weeks ago, but have not dipped back into buying or selling online for a while

I collect all of these painted cover gold keys. I won't pay more than $2 for one though. I am buying them because I like the covers. This at least has the potential for a re-boot and cross-overs unlike the anthology type books (Ripleys, etc.)

I wonder how much of the pop in prices for better stuff (over $1000) was crypto winnings vs. easy money (low interest rates), a bloated stock market, money saved staying at home, and stimis. Seems like the kind of guys who would blow $5K on a comic overlap a bit with the guys playing with crypto