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Fred! I choose you!

Alright, I think I've FINALLY figured out what you're talking about here. Your original description was a bit confusing because you mention two separate books, but made it sound like it was all one issue. And some of the photo layouts didn't make much sense, but my notes are in the edited post below:

The last visible eBay sale for Stan/Todd was $2,799. (Michelinie's sig doesn't carry that much value as best I can tell). So if you subtract eBay's 10% fee, you're looking at something around $2,500 cash as a basis for comparison. It could be higher it could be lower. All I looked at was the last comp, not the last 10.

Not to be confused with Hed the Frenchman.

I dunno, looks like a generic henchman to me.

I'm still confused, what's the question? It appears to be a blank sketch cover with two blank sketch pages.

I'm a little behind. I just read #0 (still haven't read #37 yet), but it's remarkable to see how knowledgeable of the characters written history Al Ewing is and how he's able to weave a coherent story using elements laid out by his predecessors. I'm always astonished when a writer does such things because it shows a strong understanding of who these characters fundamentally are. And for someone like myself who has never read anything prior to the copper age, reading Mantlo's words were eye opening. It really shows how much narration there was and how, the stories then seemed so much more driven by the words than the art. Nowadays you can read a book in like 5 minutes because there's so little content outside of eye candy. But really loving what Ewing is doing with Immortal Hulk (and Guardians of the Galaxy).

I had a package delivered, they rang the doorbell and stood back 10 feet. When I opened the door, they just confirmed my name and signed off on the pad. I'm guessing if I didn't open the door, they would have taken the package back and re-delivered on another day (or so I would have hoped). Seems to be on an individual basis depending on how lazy the delivery driver is.

So at which point is a HoS discussion/vote started? Seems pretty open and shut to many of us here.

Not that it matters, but on the two or three occasions where I've sold a valuable book, I've always gone to the post office and done a single shot video with a quick look around of the item sold, then of me packing it, clearly showing the label, and then handing off the book to the post office. The book/package never leave the cameras view until the USPS takes it and drops it in whatever bin they use. At least that should cover me in case someone responds that I shipped the wrong item.

I'm more excited about CGC partnering to get sigs with Ashley Eckstein. I'm on a commission list with a creator and hopefully they can get to me and sub the book by the due date.

Let me guess...all_things_comics?

And you save 40% on the cover price.

Not sure when they'll be back in stock, but these are UV resistant. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MYOHHQ6/?coliid=I1A9USF63OKHL7&colid=3C7SDZMZSH3ZA&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Follow up, this joker left me negative feedback two weeks after the whole debacle. You know, despite me having archived the eBay correspondences between us showing he was confused when he made the purchase and was expecting a different book. Requested feedback removal from eBay, but yeah, just another reason to block this id10t.

i saw this on his store, but i didn't quite understand what it meant. What are these metal prints?

Bottom one is Vance Astro for sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vance_Astrovik

You must be one of those "newer" board members I hear about. (just kidding)

Are these repeated comments about newer board members in reference to my comment? If you're gonna post facts, by all means, keep on posting as that's actually relevant to the decision making process. Some of the responses seemed to begin to devolve into name calling which is why I posted what I did.

@Charleybrown @Mxwll Smrt I may be off the mark on the intended purpose of the eBay Blocked User thread, but I sense this is devolving into something that is better suited to PM's. You both stated your case and now it's up to the community to decide whether they want to add you to their personal blocked lists. From my perspective, neither party is looking very good right now.

Personally, I have no problem if someone retracts a bid early on in the auction while the amounts are still low. I can't see your deleted bids, but it sounds like you put in several high bids before canceling. This likely scared off other interested buyers and possibly (we'll never know) affected the other person you were in a bidding war with who may have construed you as a shill account as well. If you were so concerned about shill bids, you probably shouldn't have bid so much and so often to begin with. Certainly not 3 days into a 10 day auction.

I don't look at any listings from "all_things_comics". The subject usually leads with "near perfect grade" and the description almost always has some sort of restoration. I also could've sworn they used to not list restoration and got in trouble once and that's why they list it now.

But it's not the first appearance of Wolverine...

Didn't read through all 5 pages, but the shop I used to go to had a $0.50 bin and a $1.00 bin. $0.50 bin was not organized, nor bagged/boarded. $1.00 bin was not organized, but was at least bagged. Personally, I hated that the $0.50 bin was unorganized and that so many people pilfered through it that you were pretty much just left with reader copies. The worst was when you would recognize that there was some semblance of a run scattered throughout, but I would be too lazy to recommit myself to searching through the first 2 rows of books. I think books should at least be bagged because it does make it easier to quickly skim through the issues. I don't think one can expect the books to be neatly organized by title because they're just not worth the effort and customers can't be trusted to put books back in their proper place. Maybe it's easier to do if they're organized from the outset and the customers recognize this and maintain some order. But if it starts off a mess, then it's going to stay a mess. I think the suggestion of at least grouping by publisher is good idea.