The Less Blob

No. I've seen it selling $15-20+

hah. I had a short box of image books from like 1992-1996 I inherited from my brother. I had flipped through some over the years. I wound up giving most of them to goodwill to take a tax deduction. Kept the spawns and a couple of others.

is that why? people were eagerly awaiting the next installment of .... good lord, what? didn't he start a bunch of titles and then hand them off to other artists? I think supreme might be the only one I read a chunk of, maybe badrock too, i feel like he was sort of fun.

I think i need to pull back on the buying. i need to put my 2021 comic sales bonanza into cleaning up debt, fixing my roof, etc,

reptileking, alth0ugh his looks to be a few months of buys, still a lot

of course, the TTA characters are not the characters in the movies, well at least not the current versions (they are michael douglas and michelle pfeiffer), so that doesn't help long term prospects. i'd sell the TTAs to get a yellow claw 1 if you really want an early marvel character, Jimmy Woo! I would try to figure out a way to keep 27 and 44 regardless. of course, selling the other 3 doesn't make a dent in your JIM 83...

The # of books in some of these threads and values, are you guys emptying out your retirement accounts to buy comics?

because people buy stuff off their phones and don't look at scans of cgc books. lazy.

Wasn't it mostly Liefield as, by 1996, nobody was willing to look at his Image stuff? Image was cranking out lots of books in 1996-1998, with some months image having 3-4 of the top 10 books (yes, their second tier titles were not so hot), then around 1999 things started dropping off

my old shop once had like 30 spawn 2s in the dollar box. I bought #1s, #9, and issues over 75 or so, but decided these overprinted books could never be worth anything and left them alone. genius!

was wizard using the modern/copper terminology? i don't have an OPG from 1991. i feel like my guide from maybe 1994 or so was using it. i don't know where it is though.

wizard started publishing in july 1991. what were they calling these books?

yeah, but it has never been official as such with the start date being somewhere in the 1991-1993 range. 99 or so, whenever sales really hit the krapper, probabky makes sense from some perspective.

yes, $65-75-85 for a nice raw copy, occasionally more if people think it is a 9.8, real money for a 9.6 or 9.8 slabbed. this happened recently.

Possibly pretty hard to find in high grade. 10-20 years of being a 25 cent book? A ton of #1s were printed, possibly fewer 5s. I have no idea though, you're right, the book is probabably worth slabbing even in 8.5. My copies were all mid grade, but they were fished out of 25 cent boxes.

I hope the CGC price increases generate some better CCC worker wages to buy stronger coffee or get invested in an espresso machine at CGC HQ to help keep folks alert

ok, maybe 2 or 3 slip through before someone has their second cup of coffee, but it sounds like there were a bunch

Don't humans work at CGC? Isn't this something a human should have immediately spotted and stopped. As in the first one of these that came out?

And still no mention of what is really relevant

that is a monumental loophole/screw up. People look at stuff on their phones, see blue, see the grade. how on earth could cgc have allowed that to happen for so many books? Yes, you need to put in your effort as a buyer, but this is wrong.

He wants a place where the buyers aren't all fellow flippers who expect to pay 25% of FMV

do the insta people actually provide a picture of the comic you can examine rather than a group shot of 100 books from 80 feet away with the description "I think there are all 9.8s, please examine the picture, grading is subjective, no returns allowed, shipping will be $14 for media mail" like most FB sellers?

Last I looked 23 was more $

I probably cast too broad a net. I am not looking up books while I got through as I don't want the seller to think they messed up and start looking stuff up. And I also buy stuff that seems interesting. I figure push comes to shove it can probably get my $1 back and maybe more even with the misses. I also tend to buy ASM when I see them, but can't do all the big two batman books. Too many usually. I hit a place with a ton of books the other day, but I just don't know all the oddball moderns that might be $10+ books. I picked a few winners and I think the best 10 out of the 40 25 cent books and 54 dollar books I bought yesterday pay for it all.

Has to be better than facebook, totally not suited for this kind of selling