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I'm really liking Remender's Deadly Class series. I didn't pick this up last week, will probably buy this one digitally on Comixology to read.

Given it’s Donny Cates, I’ll definitely give it a shot. He basically was dropped from Thanos (after a great but short run, odd they cut this title short especially with huge success of the Avengers movie) to take this on.

Agreed, to me this is 100% on the boardie. When you “buy for a friend”, the favor you’re doing isn’t just that you’re using your board account to facilitate the transaction, you’re essentially buying the books for him (using your own board reputation) and then “on-selling” the books to the friend. Once the deal has been agreed, the boardie should be taking the risk. The fact that books were already delivered doubly so. Sucks for the boardie, but that’s on him for agreeing to do this for a (imo) crappy friend. No way this should be on you to take books back - even if they’ll refund you all shipping costs, there’s risk books could be damaged, etc.

From a buyer's perspective, definitely agree about the value of having your boxes be alphabetical. While there will always be the dedicated bin-divers who are ok with going through 10+ longs in random order, there's a big chunk of potential buyers (myself included) who won't if random, but definitely will go through certain sections if done alphabetically. I get that it's a hassle for dealers to do sometimes (eg. if they bought a big collection that was random itself), but I do think it goes a long way to having more eyeballs checking out your stuff!

Are you sure it blacks out on the first page too? I seem to recall it doing that only on the subsequent pages, because those are basically the additional copies of the original invoice (p1) that goes to packing/shipping dept, etc. Like how when you fill out the actual hand-filled form (with multiple colored triplicate pages), first page you write CC info into (the billing dept copy) shows #, but all the copies behind have it blacked out... That's what I thought it was doing anyways

Good article yesterday on BC re:how Nick Spencer is preparing for his run on ASM. He's taking over after 801 when Slott's run ends! https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/04/19/to-prepare-for-amazing-spider-man-run-nick-spencer-read-every-spider-man-comic/

Ditto - I'm just buying 2 copies off the shelf (have either gotten B cover, or one of the non-incentive variant covers) to hold just in case Red Goblin sticks around and becomes something bigger. I think I saw on Twitter though that Nick Spencer (taking over ASM after Slott's run) had said he wants to put his own spin / take on ASM and may be wiping the slate clean - doesn't mean Red Goblin wouldn't stick around, but who knows. Bottom line, I agree minimizing how much I have into the books. Would not want to be dropping $100+ on some of the store variants though

I have no idea what those are... the original Red background was the Bulletproof Comics covers (without flaming swords). The NYCC convention cover had blue background with the flaming swords.

Almost always, there's a huge drop-off on LCS orders from a #1 to a #2, especially with Image titles where new #1's come out fairly frequently. Obviously varies by book and by store, but in terms of order of magnitude, if a store orders 30 copies of #1, I bet they cut down to ~10 for #2. Based on the census, looks like #1 shows 1st appearance of Nathan Cole, Bridget & Duncan. https://www.cgccomics.com/census/grades_standard.asp?title=Oblivion+Song&publisher=Image%2FSkybound&issue=1&year=2018&issuedate=3%2F18 The Advance Edition TPB just notes "Collects Oblivion Song #1-6" https://www.cgccomics.com/census/grades_standard.asp?title=Oblivion+Song%3A+Advance+Edition&publisher=Image%2FSkybound&issue=nn&year=2017&issuedate=10%2F17

Just bought a book in the fundraiser thread (amazing to see the generous donations of books for sale in that thread!), and added a bit extra to the donation. Get well soon Brittany!

If you don't want to use Credit Card, if you PayPal me the funds, I don't mind making the combined donation for both of us. PM me and we can all discuss further?

I'll take the other one!

Nice, that's helpful, good to see that CGC is now taking a view. Based on the Census, looks like no update to the Dark Nights Metal 2 as "1st appearance (Cameo)". Interesting that in Dark Days The Casting, it now says "1st App of the Dark Knights in Cameo"

Nice book and outcome, and agree the WP is always nice on these older books!

If the “fair” price on a book is $3750, then I think a 10-15% markup to “sticker price” at a con is very reasonable. That leaves some wiggle room for negotiation for a sale to a “knowledgeable” buyer, while also leaving some potential additional profit from a buyer who really wants it / willing to pay more. Even more so if it’s a nicer specimen of grade (page quality, nice wrap, etc.) But being 2x+ “fair”value is in my view, net negative, unless the seller really doesn’t want to sell the book that much unless to an overpaying buyer, and it’s for other reasons as mentioned by others (eg. wall candy to bring people to buy other books)

Haha - when there are 7.5's sitting on the Bay with $2,400 BINs untouched, I don't understand what kind of customer they're hoping to attract with THAT level of overpricing... Who would buy a book of this level without looking at comps / GPA?

Wow, what a sweet book! I dreamed about a 9.6 WP in this, but after looking at prices, had to "settle" for a 9.2 WP. Prices really start going exponential from 9.2 -> 9.4 -> 9.6 -> 9.8, but boy that's a keeper!

Great story, and agree that the "human touch" aspect is helpful (and a good thing to have generally!) in this hobby. With an increasing portion of comic sales online these days, I do enjoy the experience of getting out to shows and talking/interacting with dealers and other collectors. While I'm not in same position as you buying up other's collections, I can appreciate the similar experience you had here. Kudos on the purchase!

I saw Todd McFarlane posted on his Facebook page yesterday a really nice summary of an hour-long meet he had with Stan at Stan's home in late March. Stan seemed to be alright, though Todd did mention Stan definitely looked like a "95-year old"... hopefully Stan's feeling better.

Wow, what a story! Happy it worked out. Would've sucked if it really was seller trying to scam you, but agree that in this case, would be a good thing that Ebay would've sided with the buyer. Also, quite the mistake for the seller to "misplace" the check and send an envelope with just cardboard? How does that happen? I mean maybe if you're a power seller and shippings tons of things out every day, but still, that's bad...

Given what's been going on with his health / all the news surrounding the people close to him, is he really going to be there? Would've thought it would be unlikely, but if he makes it, that would be awesome to see him out again!

I'm a huge Jim Lee fan - I grew up reading his X-Men V2 run, and got a chance to meet him last year at Fan Expo and got the "Ultimate Jim Lee Experience" package ($150) to get 3 books signed and graded. He's a great guy in person, I've sat in on his panels (where he's funny and personable), and follow him on social media. That being said, he understands his "fame" in the comic book community, and isn't shy about charging a fulsome price. He will almost always have a free public signing as well (and he often does free signings at various comic store events), with the expected long lines required. Bottom line - great guy, but also a great businessman who's capitalizing on his hard work and long career making some coin while he can.

Agree, I think above a certain value, having signature required is pretty common. Protects the seller in case buyer tries anything funny like claiming they never received it (even if tracking shows Delivered) and Ebay siding with Buyer... I'm fortunate that I live in a doorman building that accept/sign packages for me, but empathize with buyers who don't have that in place. Unfortunately, some bad apples (on both seller and buyer side) that have tried to game the system have made things harder for everyone...

While I get your underlying point that there's no inherently theoretical "fair" price for a collectible (like there is, for example in a stock or bond investment (eg. present value of future cash flows)), I do think for books that transact fairly frequently, the best alternative is past sale prices. Otherwise, you're basically arguing that GPA is irrelevant, and again while I agree that an argument can be made there (and agree it is different than a stock market), given a large % of people buying/selling slabs use GPA as a baseline for FMV, I think many people would use that as a starting point for "fair and reasonable". That being said, every seller has the right to price however they wish, and as I mentioned, I never begrudge a seller if they don't want to sell at "GPA-like" prices - if they're ok with waiting around until a buyer hits their asking price, good on them.

Yah, definitely JJJ seems more likely given the story line thus far. Did read some speculation it could be a head-fake and Slott goes out with a bang, haha. I agree MJ is unlikely...