Rezin1234

Think they were a little hard on grading but love they came back blue. First Alfred makes me happy

For your consideration, here are 3 of my fav books just back from cgc

Here they are

At work now but I will take some pictures when I get home.

For sale is batman issue 2 from the golden age. Comic is the second appearance of both joker and catwoman. Comic is coverless. Splash page is brittle and barely hanging on. Rest of the book is solid and page quality significantly better. Comic is complete minus the missing cover. Perfect for someone looking to put together issue 2 and finds just the cover. Asking $600 plus shipping obo. Returns accepted in 2 weeks after delivered minus any shipping costs.

I only wish, Nothing that amazing, but really cool really old books.

Books have arrived. Need to pick up from post office. So I am very happy mainly cuz they were Blue labeled. Grades of 0.5, 0.5 and 1.0 Question is what books were they

Any Georgie fans?

Wow. That's really interesting. Thanks for the background. Really insightful. Kind of antsy to see how my books did. Oh well I'll just have to wait a few more days

Thanks for the information. You wouldn't happen to know the problems it led to would you?

So I submitted my first batch of comics awhile back and the listing now shows as graded, yet everything still says NA. Is there a reason why they wait until the item has been shipped to show the grades the books got?

Got this recently. Not sure whether I'll slab or not.

It ain't the prettiest but I'm in .

Sorry for the late reply. I know 2 people that had booths at the con. 1 owns his own comic shop and the other is a dealer that goes to Tons of cons. Both were very happy with the turnout and sales. Store owner said he made a weeks worth of sales in the weekend and the dealer made 10x the booth cost and bought a couple collections at a great discount. Next year likely to be even bigger

Final bump. Headed for feebay tonight. Doesnt hurt to make an offer

Bump. Offers welcome. Book is super rare only 400 print run back in 2012. Only 34 cgc 9.8s on census. Would easily be the crown jewel of any spawn collection. If no interest off to feebay

Hi. For sale or trade at $2200 shipped is spawn 222 kudranski variant graded 9.8. Payment to be via PayPal goods and services. No returns unless issue with the item. Trade wise looking for 1-3 books of similar value from golden or silver age of the superhero variety. Please let me know if you have any questions

Your statements are more rambling than the quote I put. You throw out numbers that have no relevance. If 1 business makes 1 million and another makes 1 million they generally have the same tax cost. Therefore tax is irrelevant. Cost of making profit. No one cares about taxes because it's a given that when you make money you owe taxes. Not like the $100 million they made on doc strange would have resulted in less taxes if they made $100 million in something else. The IRR which I still don't think you understand is basically a model to gauge the successfulness of an investment. It's not a cost it's not anything. If doctor strange was wildly successful, you don't subtract IRR cuz it's already wildly successful. No test required. All your other comments have no basis in fact. If you want to say I don't think marvel will continue to stay this hot, good for you and you are entitled to your opinion. Ant man 2 with the same budget doesn't need to do twice the business to be a solid endevour. Look at pirates of the Caribbean it continues to make less than the 2nd installment but it's still profitable enough to be green lit for another installment. $700 million to break even. Show any link to back up this preposterous claim, you are throwing random numbers. That would mean almost every xmen movie has bombed . Keep throwing out numbers with zero factual basis. I'm done. Mic drop

You do know internal rate is the amount of profit a company sets as the bar of profitability. It isn't a cost. Basically if I spend $100M I want 12% ROR which means I need $112M to hit my goal. The $12M isn't a cost but my hoped profit. Here is the calculation from deadline on Dr Strange "Kevin Feige’s Marvel just doesn’t miss when it launches franchises, even the ones that focus on secondary characters. This was a big swing at a $165 million budget, which was $30 million more than Ant-Man. It crushed the competition early last November with an $85 million domestic opening weekend that was fueled by strong reviews. Doctor Strange grossed $232 million domestic and $335 million foreign, with another $109 from China for a total of $677 million. Factor in about $38 million in Participations and Off-the-Tops, and that leaves Marvel’s parent company Disney with a net profit line of $122 million, and a Cash on Cash Return of 1.3. A nice welcome to the Marvel family for Doctor Strange, with a sequel and appearances in the upcoming sequels to The Avengers already in the offing." This is before all other income from selling rights to netlfix and tv channels (which is more than chump change) and is all pure additional profit. End of the day total profit was through the roof for one of the lesser known Marvel titles. And taxes? why is this even relevant, all income is subject to tax. This is why analysts look at EBITDA. This is how the business world works and Marvel products have been the closest thing to guaranteed profits this side of Harry Potter.

Astronomical can be easily determined by how the marve properties are littering the all time revenue charts. Not sure if even 1 marvel movie didn't make a huge sum of profit. You are stating the movie division is tiny at 15%. Look at the revenues of the movies, marvel is the serious player, disneys other movies can be hit or miss but I don't think anyone can say marvel movies haven't all delivered to some degree. I didn't state anywhere that there will continue to be growth like I wouldn't say hulk 181 is likely to continue to grow so I'm not sure where that argument came from or is even going. Also, maybe there too end movies cost 300-400 but Thor dark world was not $300M to make. Go to box office mojo and find other movies that cost the same as the marvel movies based on your logic almost none are profitable (here's a hint, most are). $700 to break even? Where are these numbers even coming from? You're telling me doctor strange needed $700m to make a dime, I don't think any movie studio would green light anything with a similar budget

I am not sure how you think 15% is a little piece of pie. That's a huge segment of their revenues. Disney's stock would take a huge hit if they are off top line by even 2%. The returns on Marvel products have been astronomical as has been Star Wars. While the first SW movie was an absolute beast and really made a difference, the Marvel features have been huge and much more frequent. Look at Fox, they have lost a fortune on Fantastic Four but have continually rebooted it just to keep the rights that's how valuable it is. The movies are just 1 piece, but look at all the ancillary sales they get off the movies, from video games to costumes to toys. If you think Marvel is just another drop in the bucket you are missing the picture big time. Any top 50 company would absolutely love finding an acquisition that adds even 5% to the bottom line at a cheap cost.

I live in a very populated part of the country and boomers don't seem to be putting their stuff up very often. Far more people chasing those collections than the number coming up for sale. That being said I did just buy a 3K book collection that had some really rare Golden age and early silver age DC books. Books I never thought I would find in the wild. Def don't see a quick cash out though.

I just bought a collection that had some of seriously amazing golden age books from a certain DC character. I will post them once graded by CGC

Thanks. I can't believe it came back as a 9.8.

Not sure how to answer that. I paid 2800 for a collection. Sold a ton of stuff got my money back and kept a ton of books. This was randomly in the box with 3 copies of the regular 222 copy