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Goes double for me. Thanks Brian for a great run of Wolverines I needed for my run. Your making a lot of people happy dealing with you.

Send me more money Ummm...mine were underpriced too. Any chance of getting a better deal?

Yeah, thanks Joey....but I had the same problem with your undergrading as well as sending me a book I didn't order. Ya' know...you took a big chance with the number of books I've got in my collection....but that's one I didn't have. Thanks very much.

Wondering if magazines are gonna' be the next hot item in comic collecting. This could just be the tip of the iceberg we're seeing now.

BradleyX2.... for the great packaging and the nice surprise with the Sentry run .... not to mention the great price. Thanks...

Yeah....your right. Thanks Mike again...for a great lot.

I recently bought a run of the first 45 issues....but based on what I'm hearing...I will also wait for the entire run and read it at the same time. Got enough to keep me busy till then anyway.

Yes, and what you did is closer to "pro" pressing than using hundreds of pounds of pressure. Actually, you've just inspired me to experiment with an iron! I considered it once but never went through with it. I recommend practising on your expensive copies. That way, when your ready to do the moderns, you'll know what your doing.

Guess I'm guilty of "closet pressing".

Okay, I am wondering about this one. I purchased a "U" shaped Journey Into Mystery 85 on e-bay. I bought it knowing it looked horrible in the scan. Someone jammed a pile of comis in a small box that was too narrow width wise so it developed a distinctive "U" shape which was very evident in the scan. It did, however, have no creases. So, I took an iron to it one page at a time and turned it into a VF+. Is this considered "pressing"?

Sorry I didnt' read this before my previous post. maybe I should edit it?

Kudos"even" to greggy for selling me that raw House of Secrets 88. Packaged like a tank (as always) and graded bang on. (I wasn't worried - even when he PM'd me and asked me why I thought it was a VF ... he's like that)?"

Hey, thanks very much. Totally unexpected to be mentioned here. It was great dealing with you too.

You shouldn't be eating popcorn in bed.

What. Book. Tell me. What. Book. I'm loading the gun and gassing the car, so you still have time to tell me and escape before I make my way to your house. Sorry, I ain't talking!

Koo- do to greggy for a sweet DC I've been looking for for over 3 years that he didn't sell to Khaos.

That's ok. I agree with your post. History has shown the industry has on several occasions bounced back several times as a result of something unexpected. After it happens, you get many people saying "Wow, who would have thought......" Also during all these peaks and valleys you have had people predicting the "end". Nothing's changed. The only constant, is back-issues cost more the longer it takes to add them to your collection and the best time to buy them, is when most people don't. Today is a wonderful time for people who collect VF's and lower. And I truly believe that won't always be the case. If your prediction comes true, these are gonna shine once again and I'll be glad I got them when I did.

Exactly, and how does this prove your point? Do a poll and ask collectors and specs if the market is going to crash and the resounding majority would vote NO.. and they will be wrong. My point is your opinion is all it is... an opinion. Nobody knows for sure what's going to happen. To a certain degree, it's almost pointless even discussing it...because nobody knows. This downturn we are experiencing could just be one long drawn out correction. Will it keep going down forever? I doubt it. Will something happen in the future to turn the market around? Sure. But don't ask me what it will be. I have no idea.

I do remember people in the 50's/60's thinking comics would NEVER be worth anything...and they were wrong. Also, later on people felt once the hi-grade collections of the Silver Age collectors flooded the market in the late 80's/90's, Silver Age prices would drop...and they were wrong. Later on people said Bronze Age comics would never be worth much...and they were wrong. Now, we have people maintaining comic prices for the most part have peaked and won't go up much more with little investment value in moderns. Trends that have driven the market in the past like a surprising shortage of hi-grade Silver Age, CGC, e-bay, the 80's/90's boom have for the most part been unexpected. So, I believe surprises await us in the future that will keep the market thriving. We don't need to know what it will be, just that it will be something. At one time, there were many people buying comics before the 90's crash. Many of these are coming back. The dealer I buy from has seen his clientelle that he sells new comics to increase from 150 to 240 in the last year. That's pretty positive. He is also telling me the clientelle he has are buying more issues. I believe many readers will return, they are going to want to get all those Spidermans, Hulks, Captain Americas etc. that they either sold, or they are gonna want to finish off the runs they still have. As readership dwindled dramatically in the 90's, these could be the treasures. Bottom line is you don't know. Nobody knows. The only thing we can be sure of is that something will happen to keep this hobby going. And the people that hang onto their books are going to be glad they did. As replacing them late is going to cost a fortune. If you think values are high now... You ain't seen nuthin' yet! Don't let the "I never see a kid at a comic store buying comics" fool you. I for one bought comics at best sporadically as a kid and did not become a serious collector till I was 25. And I also keep reading many of the collectors seem to start serious collecting at that age. Lotsa' younguns growing up. They are going to want to read/collect comics after the quit playing video games. One final point: Overstreet does not automatically raise prices on comics. Star Trek and Turoks have both decreased in value between 2002 and 2003. It's just two that I know of and I am sure there are more.

As Per Overstreet: Death of Gwen Stacy starting the Bronze Age, ending in 1985. DC's Crisis kicks off the new Copper Age (1986-1992) Image Dubuts (1992-1999) Chrome Age Make the modern era 2000-present. (Read all about it page 866) They're just "Starting the Discussion" as no decisions have been made. Right now everyone has their opinion, and I don't know how we are going to get 1000's of collectors to agree on this one. Think we need a collective of some kind. It's the only way everyones gonna agree on this one.

Ok, I touched on this a few months back but here it is again. Been collecting for about 25 years and for all those years I have stacked my comics. As Jason mentioned, I now stack 2 comics to a bag and both covers can be seen when I flip the bag. I have absolutely no idea what the long term effect this will have on my collection, as I have only started doing this about 3 1/2 years ago. Some members have mentioned that the back covers may suffer "ink transfer" over time, and it just might. As mentioned in a previous thread the books I have stored 1 to a bag the other 22 years, have for the most part suffered no negative effects. The NM comics I put in a bag are still NM. Some of the members were quite surprised when I mentioned I re-bagged my collection for the first time about 3 years ago. The 20 year old bags, though quite yellow protected what was inside quite nicely. Although many of the bags did actually have dried mould on them, the comics inside were protected. This happened because at one time for a period of about 6 years, I had them stacked in a HUGE pile along an outside wall in the basement due to storage problems. (Didn't know any better at the time.) All the mould was along the outside edge of the bag that faced the wall. Anyway, back to the stacking. What I did was pile 20 comics with the spine to the left, and 20 more with the spine going to the right side. The bags were quite slippery so this was done to keep the piles straight. Again, no spine rolls on any of the comics and I had no problem piling them up 100 or 120 to a pile. During that 6 year stretch when I had the comics piled against the outside wall, some of the piles were well over 200 high. Spine rolls do happen quite easily over time if you do pile 'em high without bags as a pile of 100 or 150 comics with the spine all on one side creates the dreaded "spine roll" effect. I can't help feeling doing this with a bagged comic may be more difficult as the pile does tend to start to lean just a bit after a while. So, I do believe many of the spine rolls you now see in comics, MAY be comics that have been stacked high, without bags. But, that's just an opinion based on the fact I do not have a spine roll problem storing them stacked in bags. To date, none of my comics have done so piled this way in the bags. I do however look at my collection from time to time and straighten out any wayward piles. I have also been able to get some minor creasing and to a certain degree "humidity damage" reduced by simply placing a comic damaged this way at the bottom of a stack of 100 comics or so for a few months. I purchased a Journey Into Mystery 84 for a song on e-bay because of a little humidity damage on the cover and the damage is slowly disapearing. These are just my personal experiences in stacking my collection. I can't honestly give any opinions on whether or not I would recommend it over the more traditional way of "upright c/w backing boards" way. Please consider I am not an ultra high grade collector like many on the board. I am certain some of those 9.4s and up NMs I purchased and bagged all those years ago, may have come down .2 or perhaps .4 points. The only long term damage I've noticed, is just a bit of curling on the corners. And that just might be enough for many of you to decide to stick with the backers and storing them upright.

Say, was he the guy that got chased by a knife-wielding customer at a Con once? Or am I thinking of someone else? If there's a story here, I'd sure like to hear it.

That's the reason I don't invest in comics. And that's the reason why a lot of people didn't load up on Hulk 181's either. For every guy that is positive, there's an "anti-monitor" that says different. Bottom line? You just don't know.