The Less Blob

"Blowout" pricing sounds like a dollar or $2 box, particularly back in 98-2001 when you still had 25 and 50 cent boxes at shows! (Criminey, Vinnie Zarzulo (pre Metropolis) had a 10 cent table at one show. A real dealer wouldn't have had a 340 up, maybe in a 9.8 slab, but amateurs doing the occasional show who had ho hum books might. Don't be so F-ing defensive. I know being a lawyer gives one thin skin, but with all that red fur...

Why on earth would Heritage allow sales of PGX books when they own CGC?

Good lord, you're right. He has #1 at $54 in NM. And it must be a hot seller at that price because he has none in stock! For some reason I have a weird affinity for SW #1. In 1978 (or was it 77?) a copy was the consolation price from my father who did not want to spend the money on an actual shogun warriors toy, which, if I remember correctly, were pretty hot right then.

I think you are overstating this by a lot. If it had been easy dollar box fodder during this period (along with ASM 299-301, NM 87) I would have 50 copies of these as I was scrounging through those boxes big time during this period. It was more like a $5 book. Not to say it never showed up in the cheap boxes, lots of things slip through the cracks. As for NM 98...I never saw one in a dollar box. $2 box, sure, but I thought that was WAY too much! (And I know they were out there, and are still out there) I bought the other Liefield issues (other than 87) out of 50 cent boxes. I feel like my copies of NM 87 I got out of $2 or 3 for $10 boxes. I have a few. I doubt I paid more than $5 though. Anyway, 98 - 2000/2001 were weird times. A lot of stuff got thrown in dollar boxes and other cheap boxes because guys were going under. They didn't blow out their good GA and SA like that so much, but the other stuff..

Some other older guy who does a lot of shows then.

There were multiple sales of 423 in 9.8 in the last month in the mid $400s, where are we at $500-700? Hulk 340 in 9.8 seems to be going for a little less. Of course, there are plenty of nice looking VFish copies of 423 up there selling for $25 or so. copies of 340 in that sort of shape tend to be more like $40-50+. So, 423 is a book that outperforms 340 in 9.8, but not so far a nice, but not slab-worthy, raw copy.

One of my goals is to hit a genuine find at a flea or yard sale before the end of the year. I will probably pump way too much time into this goal. Should be going to the gym.

Hasn't 340 been a wall book (at least at the bottom corner, if it's not a good wall) since the 90s?

They are in the 20 pack. The one I see on ebay is $189: https://www.ebay.com/itm/20-DC-Comic-Pack-1994-Zero-Month/253933082250?hash=item3b1f97568a:g:TRgAAOSwCExbaV-Y:rk:1:pf:0 This price is out of thin air, sure, but I see no other sales or listings. Not in the 8 pack. Like I said, if you look on ebay you see many fewer of these than the regular version, particularly for secondary titles not in the 8 pack but found in the 20 pack. Like looking for Direct Market marvels from 1977 or whenever they started, less numerous, but not impossible or anything.

I had a thread asking how rare they are and was told not terribly, but if you look for them on ebay, they are definitely vastly less numerous than the regular box, 10-20X rarer? And a secondary title like Legionnaires seems to be harder to find with the Zero hour logo than a first tier one like superman or batman.

Those pre-fab metal storage sheds are pretty cheap. Not sure how well paper products hold up in the cold (or heat) inside of them though.

Wow, all those toys one day and 150 boxes of comics the prior day! You are hoarding for a winter's worth of listings on ebay. I guess the weather will put a crimp on outdoor selling and buying.

Cool. The Kirby one starts at $365 on ebay and goes up.

That is impressive. I take it you sell a lot of toys? I have the nightmare (not really) scenario of finding someone who wants to unload 100 long boxes right then and there. We have a chevy traverse that can hold a lot of stuff, but it's my wife's car and only has 6500 miles on it, so it would probably need to be a palette of Action 1s for her to be willing to let me use it for that purpose.

It is a 9.9 candidate and first app of demons on the moon, soon to be a Netflix series. With that said, is it really any different than how many high end dealers price high grade BA books like this? I am sure they are very negotiable when it comes to unloading them if you ask, but I flip through the boxes and see plenty of books priced like they are pre cleared with CGC to get 9.8s and all you need to do is spend another $20 to slab them.

Is he the one who does wacky prices like having a $4.72 box? If so I am surprised you found nothing. But if they were all priced like the shotgun warriors... It is hard to look at that much stuff and find nothing worth the price. I did this once, at silver age comics in queens. I spent 45 minutes finding the place and finding parking and they had nothing that was not 2x what I would pay.

Those are awesome, but how much did they cost? I have tried to go to one tag sale. The making you wait outside part drives me nuts. Did you go to that thing in bohemia I've been getting FB pops on? Pushing comics, so I figured overpriced or cherry picked, but who knows?

Posting words is easy, photos and multiple uploads on my phone is a pita. I know you are used to getting to work in 50 below temps and 7 feet of snow, so you laugh at such adversity , but we city slickers are soft. Anyway, if I had a genuine haul I would have pics. One day...

Phone pics, photobucket, too much hassle to show one good book and 2 semi goods.

Yez, it is not at its height but still seems to get $20-25 plus. Anyway, you can't find this stuff without looking.

Sometimes they jump out and look. Sometimes stay in car. After 10 stops they were whining to go home. If I had seen something awesome for them I might buy. I found the comics on the first stop. I wasted an hour on the next 19. This all took place in a 7 block radius. If I had a clue about collectible records I might have made a killing today.

Ok, I know, I should have pics, but... With just the kids I was able to stop where I wanted today and hit 20 yard sales (there is a neighborhood one going on in an adjacent hood). one seller had comics. By 1ish only half a long box remained. 4 for $1... Spent $3.. Of that I netted (1) a nice peter panzerfaust 1 1st print, a (2) hard rock comics 5 (kiss) newsstand edition (I see none for sale or sold on ebay, mime high or cms, so perhaps not easy to find), (3) slapstick 1 (90s series). Some other stuff I'd be cool paying $1 for like morning glories ton vol 1, 2099 a.d. 1, etc. Soooooo.. Now I wonder what was in the already sold half of the long box? But if they were ebay pickers they would have grabbed the PP 1, right?

He might scrape the bottom with his dingaling, but Ron Jeremy is like 5 feet tall.

There was a neighborhood yard sale by me I assumed did not set up due to rain, but then again, by 10 it had stopped rAining. Supposed to be 2 days, so I will check it out tomorrow I guess.

There are a few comic/coffee shops around the country. Selling coffee and pastries is pretty easy and probably doesn't involve a lot of hassle from local licensing and heath folks.