The Less Blob

So $8.25 before any potential shjpping discount? Yuck. Only a couple of years ago I think it was $4-4.25? Media mail looks like it is worth the risk on a less expensive item.

So how much does a gemini mailer at 13 ounces cost to mail from 10023 (NYC) to 90210 (LA) nowadays?

This might be worth more than BL 1 just because it is pretty uncommon. I had one and it sold for a nice price if I remember correctly.

While I know plenty of segments of the market were popping and receding before and CGC books were there I own thing, I really feel like the run we were on until not that long ago started in late 2011 when all these image books were getting hot (thank you walking dead, mostly, for getting that started). It was the first time ever that I would go to a shop and buy books off the rack and with some frequency turn them into $10-20+ sales or more. While I had been doing ebay as a side hustle since 1999 or so, a lot of that was simply selling stuff bought years earlier for a profit, this was buying and flipping in short order and the first time in a while it was pretty easy to do that with a big swath of new books. This probably brought in a new wave of "junior dealers" and baby investors doing the same and with the movie/TV hype it just kept on going for a decade. 2020/2021 stimi checks no doubt helped percolate things even more, but we had been on a nice run before that. A 10 year run is a nice run, like interest rates were super low for so long, I guess it is back to reality for a bit. I don't know if the people who came in are out after they saw compound huge returns were not automatic, I dunno. I hope it comes back, but the ridiculosity of 2020/2021 was probably unhealthy enough we shouldn't go back there. 2017-2019 was good.

Hulk 181 $3.50...Conan 1 $75...X-Men 94 $50..ASM 129 $2.50 FF 48 $25... GS X-Men...I can't quite read it, $34.99?

OK, hold on though, i realize i was very young then so really have no idea (and we had a number of comic shops in NYC in the early 70s), but it is not like there are not tons of certain books that we pre-comic shop spec buys, usually #1 issues like Shazam and a host of others and less than a year after GS X-Men 1 you had spec books like Eternals 1, heck, even the 1968 Marvel #1s

It is harder to find in high grade, but if you were buying a "NM" book in 1982, chances are it might only be a 6.0 now

I don't think they were around long enough for the publication numbers to show up in the comics. Were they intended to sit on the rack for 3 months until the next one? I just don't think they were "miniscule" given that there are 12K GS X-Men 1 in the census, although X-Men might have been one of the lower print runs out of the Giant Size books.

Well, if the mob was claiming they weren't selling only to stash them in chuck's future warehouse.... I have plenty of the Giant Size books in my collection, I don't think they sold that badly. There are 12K+ GS X-Men 1 in the census.

That's nuts. I bought my bike for $400 and it was free shipping.

Shhhh. A lot of folks here were funding childrens' college and their retirement with that.

Well there are not vastly more GS X-Men 1 in the CGC census. There are mor, 9K+ to 12K+e. X-Men 94's cover shows more boo boos for sure. I vaguely remember GS #1 was in the Mile High 2 hoard in quantity, but that would not explain why X-Men 94 was the more expensive book in 1982 or whatever as well as MH 2 was a couple of years later. And being a #1 was probably ordered more than #94 of a comic that had been in reprints for years. But absolutely, when I was a kid 1980-82 X-Men 94 had the edge.

I thought early on there was a perception that there were a lot more GS X-men 1 than #94s?

I am rarely allowed to sneak off like that.

n***** eazy peezy. And run your dialogue by 3-27 african american friends. Have them sign something (notarized) saying they thought the dialogue was ok and non-offensive/non culturally appropriating

Well, some guys did not like She Hulk, so they were clearly misogynists.

Those books are impacted by how well off the very well off are doing, interest rates, the stock market, etc. Folks with cash who are flush with cash jack up those prices. Oddly enough, lower valued comics can sometimes be less impacted by that. 1991-1993 were great years for comics, the economy not so much, for example.

Yeah, more relevant to most of us here, and the $10-100 books too while we're at it.

Ooh fancy

Getting excited about a book getting up to $8-10 feels so 2001.

I wonder where mine went. Mom probably threw it out. I still have a box of 5 1/4 discs with so many video games on them downloaded on 300 and 1200 baud modems.

Alas, I don't look like this anymore, but she does More recent:

Yeah, my money went straight to shutting my wife up helping to pay for vacations, babysitters, etc. Nothing useful.

Just in time for the market crash. I mean market nap.

I hope this version of MJ is getting her annual mole patrol. Maybe 2X a year.