The Less Blob

sorry, next time, I was focused on the extra spawns

When guys like you are dropping $700 for that book 8 months ago we know this market has warped our depth perception. Not saying it wasn't a prudent bet, but yeah, I see some books I would never buy before at fmv and I think to myself it could crack $1000. seriously, a couple of weeks ago when i decided i was interested in getting a Fantasy Quarterly 1 I was pissed a SS 9.6 had just sold that day for $799. I was seriously thinking of laying that kind of money out. I have never spent that kind of money on a book. $600 for a Timely was probably my limit. This was for a comic I had probably read 2 or 3 of in the title back in 1980 or something. But when it is fairly easy to generate $1000 a week in sales then dropping $700, $800 on a nice book doesn't seem like a big deal.

Not based on ebay slab count. As stated, it was a spec book. Many thousands extra ordered by folks here. Those would be directs.

were they really that high? are you talking in slabs? i feel like i got about $100-150 for mine, but may not have timed it perfectly and yeah, ultron always comes back. except the movie did not mage huge avengers money, so they might not be so quick to

I have a few of these in lower grade and every time i am tempted to list them I ask myself why bother? there's plenty of other stuff I can list to make $75 or whatever that doesn't have the long term potential,

sell a stack of slabbed x-men 282s and half a stack of slabbed thor 338s and you can afford the key you've been looking for. easy peezy. its the bitcoin of 2021

it's terrific if you have been hitting the 25 cent - $1 boxes for nearly the past 30 years...

my older neighbor gave me copies of ASm 300, ASM 252, and SW #8. She knew they were worth something, but also knew I collected comics. She used to have a deli and for a few years sold comics. they plucked those off the rack and kept them because, probably their kid, said they were worth something. they weren't stored that well, so they were mid-grade, but I don't look a gift horse in the mouth!

if you pay the $10 for speeding things up is that actually helping? paying the whole expedited tier does seem to speed stuff up a lot, from what i have heard

Anyway, I see no problem. 10 9.8 copies of X-Men 282 are apparently worth around $5K in this market. $5K gets you a nice mid-grade Hulk 181. Was there ever a scenario where you would not trade 10 super nice copies of X-Men 282 for a mid-grade Hulk 181? It's like tech companies buying other tech companies using stock that has a 15000 P/E ratio

must...not...make...vaseline...joke

so with $200 books becoming $700 or 1000 books in the 70 or 80 or 100 days it takes CGC to grade something (and the 100+ days to get something pressed and graded), are folks seeing CGC bumping their books into higher tiers?

I'm not from Jersey

Explain this so I can visualize how they messed up 12 books, this sounds bad

I didn't know who she was until the dinklage movie. She played the girlfriend and partner in crime of the mean blonde lady who tortured ben afleck in some movie. I can't remember her name although she won an academy or golden globe for it.

but how do you prove this to an insurer if the box did not get crushed? you can pinch a corner, in theory, while making your own protective sandwhich.

well, that's it, the book can get damaged in transit or by them and you are S.O.O.L.

339!!! I also have a lot of 338s, just not a crazy amount.

Not a copper, but I recently sold a Showcase 23, I made about a 25-30% profit in 2 years on it, so i can't complain, and I figured if the HBO show was gonna hype stuff it would have by now, but I can't help but feel like I should have held on. then again, the DC stuff rarely pops like Marvel stuff and doesn't stay popped, outside of Batman. I waited a couple of weeks to list my black superman comics and not a bid yet. I still have 4 days, but still.

sure, why not? x-men 282, which was printed in the gadjillions and kept as a collector's item right away, is $400-500+, why wouldn't a book from 10 years earlier that folks did not see coming that introduces a nifty character and was the start of a classic artistic run on the title second only maybe to byrne's run on FF in that era (Byrne's X-Men run started in a different era and I'm not sure we can say Perez had such a clear run on the Avengers as he was bouncing around with other artists). thor 337 was an instant collectible though, so that might have helped keep some copies minty.

It just makes me worried I am going to get pounded doing a 9.6 pre-screen I generally don't try to grade a book over a 9.4 anyway, I just don't have enough experience with CGC's standards to really speculate (owning a few 9.4 - 9.8 books over the years isn't enough), but on this one I felt good that it would get a 9.6. live and learn. last 9.4 was in the $600s, 9.6 might be mid/high $700s, 9.8 might be cracking $1000. I look at my Legion 23 Supergirl Hughes and see a 9.6-9.8, I might have to readjust my retirement plans...

He'll be making good money on it unless the market crashes in a week, just not as much as I had hoped he would.

nice raws that folks pretend could be 9.8s seem to be around $30-35. with that said, even in 9.6 and 9.4 it is a worthwhile slab

down to $416, albeit cracked case: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Uncanny-X-Men-282-CGC-9-8-White-Pages-1st-App-Bishop-Malcom-amp-Randall-/324543792041?hash=item4b905143a9%3Ag%3AWxUAAOSwFM5gYNQY&nma=true&si=BZbpsjZvXBDBh7scMVfgI%2BAabNw%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

procrastination on most of this stuff is a good thing. occasionally you miss the boat on something, true, and it doesn't bounce back so well. if you've got a bunch of V for Vendetta or Vampire Lestat comics in there, maybe not