The Less Blob

Right, I assume all of these mailers need carboard because comics are going to move around otherwise, but putting them inside a flat rate envelope should provide another level of protection because that envelope stiffness will blunt a lot of corner impact.

Does not leave much room for books with potential you may want to hang on to, but I do see the appeal. Easier to grab if your house is on fire, need to flee the country, etc.

Do you regularly press books that already look perfect to you? Is that what folks do nowadays?

https://www.amazon.com/Comic-Flash-Mailers-Sizes-Digests/dp/B00S53MVME/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1542141627&sr=8-1&keywords=comic%2Bbook%2Bmailers&th=1 Seems like magazines, etc. probably don't fit. In one place says can fit golden age, but elsewhere mentions modern size comics.

I'm a lawyer, when I quote a typo I fix it, except I did not properly fix it...

I bought a 100 bundle of these 15 years ago when they were having a sale, they worked pretty well and folks liked them (either the S-164 or 165): https://www.uline.com/BL_1301/Kraft-Easy-Fold-Mailers And I think they kept me within the 1st class weight limit for a couple of comics. The problem is you still need to do some sort of sandwich for the comic to stop flopping around. 70 cents adds a bit to things though. I wonder how many folks get turned off by $6 shipping vs. $5? Blech, shipping on 500 of them is almost $100...

"pro comic book ma[Ie]r" Well that sort of assumes a lot and is very specific.

someone already posted this most likely, but wow, big money for a second print: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rags-1-Antarctic-Press-MATURE-Issue-Comic-Book-First-Print-SOLD-OUT-RARE-NEW/302957038482?epid=19023838007&hash=item4689a58b92:g:ur4AAOSw29Jb6xdi The original self-published one goes for more and is harder to find, but I am surprised this one is hitting these levels.

I suppose for better stuff, but for the average collector they are trying to budget for cons too and there may be less money for ebay. plus they sell stuff to raise $, and all that hitting the market may depress prices. I sell stuff to pay for summer vacations too. funny though, in my neck of the woods it is not Con season. our two biggest shows at October and December, although there is one in the Spring too usually. But I guess you are right in a sense, a few years ago I was selling a lot here, keys, minor keys, hot books, right around when Guardians of the Galaxy was coming out and all that stuff was hot, and I did a bunch of big group sales to dealers on here stocking up on inventory for upcoming summer shows.

During the summer? I figured that would be deader with folks budgeting for vacations and a lot of comic shows. But I guess with "summer blockbusters" there is movie hype pushing stuff too.

My cap is the roughly 350-400 square feet I have upstairs to hold these things.

I also describe my shipping process and say when I use a box because I do often box. With that said, I do find that sort of e-mail irritating, particularly on a cheap book. What do you charge for shipping?

Don"t be ticked about a $2.25 sale if you start auctions at 99 cents. That is the risk you take. Start your auction at a price that won't you off. And then this sort of inquiry won't tick you off. With that said I have probably shipped 700-800 comics/lots in envelopes using 4 sturdy pieces of cardboard on eBay and never had a problem. I did have one here where I somehow (3 am packing) forgot to use box tape and the scotch tape came undone. That was not a problem with method, but rather, execution.

I guess nyx 3 in 9.8 is a five digit book. Cap marvel 14 is in the $500s. Nyc 3, another one I fished multiples out of the dollar box and quickly sold them. At least I forgot to sell 1 of them.

Even a key, is there anything? I guess this is a key now, $880 makes it one! Walking dead had 1/3 or so the print run a well, were it a DC book it would be like the D list.

Well, that was a year ago... I guess the answer is "yes"? Walking dead tops it, but it was not an a-list big 2 book (or even a-list for image, yet)

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Carnage 6 and dark reign files

1 of each please

Is this possibly a record for a non variant marvel/DC of an a-list character/title? It's not like there was a warehouse fire and 3/4 of the books were destroyed, this book is common enough that I fished 2 nice copies out of the dollar box at the same LCS.

I have a low budget addiction to ash wood. Love finding the doom 2099 books in the cheap boxes. Alas when I perused his table at nycc a few years back smallish paintings were like $2k, so that ended that inquiry.

The r&c movie may have lowered prices on the mini. They dropped after it was a bust, but have bounced back. Go figure. And I don't get the $50+ sales on the tpbs just because they are out of print, but I suspect video game fans may prefer to read as a tpb. My kid does not like reading floppy comics, he much prefers them in tpb format.