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here's my short report- a great time today meeting some boardies and seeing a ton of great books too. so nice to have this show back after 3 years. thanks to @TerrysComics and @shortboxed for putting this together again! i met @buttock @VintageComics @greggyfor the first time, and hung with @Gamma Ray Comics and several other cool fellows. as far as the show itself, there were a lot of raw books compared to slabs. a great selection of GA stuff and silver too. not that many blue chip SA grails compared to some past shows, but still quite alot to see and buy. i saw one guy pick up a sweet xmen2 9.4 white page book from A1 comics. dealers seemed to be doing good business, it was a very well attended show. i saw plenty of buying and selling happening. some dealer pricing was a bit out of date, but those who were flexible or had great stuff seemed quite active. as for trades, i did a very reasonable deal with @Bunky Brian to upgrade my asm5 from 5.5 to 7.0. so, i think what @LDarkseid1 was mentioning just depends on the individual dealer. i had a great time here and hope more shows like it return to the schedule now that the pandemic is past.

looks like gpa did do as i had hoped and break out the badly faded books mentioned above into their own separate item lines and not in the main averages. awesome to see them be so responsive! +1

my son aksed me and i didnt knows the answer- is them makings a second eternalz movie? i havent hearded nothing bout one...

here's another one ending shortly that's going to decimate GPA averages on this book. high time they broke out faded books into their own category imo. https://comics.ha.com/itm/silver-age-1956-1969-/journey-into-mystery-83-marvel-1962-cgc-vg-45-off-white-to-white-pages/a/122305-19537.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515

very excited to be there again finally after three years!

i just looked at the overall schedule of MCU phase five and wow, this is the only thing on that list that i want to see. blade also, i suppose, since Ali is such a good actor, though that's not coming for quite awhile. loki season two i will also see, but that's it. as a 50-something white male, the Marvels is very obviously not meant for me, nor is thundercats or whatever the heck it's called. i guess i'll watch guardians 3 even though i never finished number 2. captain america, no thanks. please let the new antman movie be better than the last thor and doctor strange ones, and please marvel, don't forget that middle aged male nerds are the reason you are here. teenage girls are unlikely to ever get on board in the way that men have over the last 15 years. you'll see when marvels comes out.

we all know the market is soft right now from recession and inflation fears. but when i saw this gpa result of an asm5 5.5 selling recently for a ridiculously low price of $870, about half what it ought to be, i had to click the link. now i see why. the fading is absolutely ridiculous. https://comics.ha.com/itm/silver-age-1956-1969-/superhero/the-amazing-spider-man-5-marvel-1963-cgc-fn-55-off-white-pages/a/122303-15029.s i saw another faded book like this also achieve a crazy low price this year, although i cannot recall the specific book. now, gpa will often break out sales where it says 'cgc case cracked' and other notes like that, separating them from the average sales of standard books so they do not 'contaminate' the overall results. how about a separate breakout for books with massive fading? seems like it would be a good move since i doubt that a book like this is a true reflection of the value of an asm5 5.5 grade, or any other badly faded book is either.

thats amazingly fast shipping. i have yet to receive anything from them faster than 3-4 weeks, so i hope it's improving across the board. as for their website, it blows my mind that people make this comment. compared to comicconnect, whose site uses much newer software (i'm told), comiclink loads about ten to twenty times quicker, images are better, and the organization is easy to understand. i'll take comiclink's site any day. please do not update it! just add pics of the backs of each slab-

won this one the other day from HA latest auction. i also think that the word DAREDEVIL may be the first instance of a pixellated look in comic type that i can recall seeing. i'm getting there on my 1-50 white page collection.

+1 for years now i've been keeping screen shots of auction results of books that i am interested in. it's quite annoying that they won't report to gpa like almost everyone else does. especially on books you don't see that often, when one auction result can make a big difference in current value.

you can't read them either if they're graded/ encapsulated, so by your logic the grade doesn't matter either. people want books with white or close to white page quality for the same reason they want an 8.0 more than a 2.5. because that's closer to what the book looked like when it was new, and the nearer one can get to that, the nicer it is to have as a collector and lover of the medium.

just arrived from CC today. very happy with the presentation considering the grade-

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thanks for the thoughtful and knowledgable reply, much appreciated!

https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/story-page/jack-kirby-and-chic-stone-journey-into-mystery-110-story-page-8-thor-original-art-marvel-1964-/a/7338-91013.s?type=lotlink--bidnotice-tracked-dailystatus how was the price (24k) of this gorgeous kirby thor page? is this in line with the market for this sort of page? this one below was 38k, probably because it has even more dynamic and awesome panels, but i would have loved to get either one. https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/story-page/jack-kirby-and-chic-stone-the-avengers-6-story-page-9-thor-original-art-marvel-1964-/a/7338-91012.s?ic16=ViewItem-BrowseTabs-Auction-Archive-ThisAuction-120115

very few people use them. comiclink also charges ten per cent and has far more bidders. i am not employed by comiclink, but i have given them tons of my money.

about how much are them two awesome kirby/stone thor pages going to end at? specifically talking about the avengers 6 page and the JIM110 page. some great images of the god of thunder in both of them. i doubt i'll be playing, but i'd love to know the neighborhood that i would need to be in if i did choose to play. gracias for any guidance.

for me it was when john byrne took over. the combination of his replacing the thing with she-hulk, and his insisting on inking himself instead of working with terry austin again made me completely lose interest. i know some people love the writing in his run on the book, and it may be very good, i cannot recall. but the thing was my favorite member by far. and i was more about the art than the story back then, as an aspiring artist.

still undervalued, after all these years. hm... been hearing that for many years now. personally, i'd stick with marvel SA keys.

this is an old cabinet card photo circa 1880s that i painted over and transformed into a white walker. at left is the before image.

if you ever decide to sell or upgrade this book, please reach out to me first! great looking copy for the grade and with the hard to find WP to boot!

my mailman forged my signature on the slip for a registered package several years ago and left it in my non-locking mailbox at the time. it was a 3k value package. i was on vacation and it was stolen. therefore my claim to usps was denied as they said they had my signature on the registered receipt. i was ultimately able to appeal directly to the postmaster inspector general who was able to process my claim and finally get me reimbursed, more than half a year later. i never saw that postman again either. since your case sounds much simpler, you should have a better time than i did. but if not, contact the postmaster inspector general.

imho the ff1 speculation train left the station long ago. as @piper said, along with hulk1 and af15, it's already super pricey. everyone knows a movie is in the works. stick with the keys that you can get better than a 3.0 for your money. asm1, xmen1, jim83, tos39. avengers1 is a maybe. also asm2, 3 and 14 always do really well, as do all ditko key villain 1st appearance books.

if you're holding for 5-10 yrs then get the best marvel early SA key you can get. i dont know if its jim83 in 5.0, tos39 in 5.0 or xmen1 in 5.0 but anything like that should do you well over that time frame. i'm less enthusiastic if its a book you can only get in 2.0 since those books are often hideous. but even those low grade keys do fine over time.

this auction house uses a light room to shoot their books, not a scanner. all their books are white background like this. it's heritage. not a secret.