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On the otherhand (hypothetically speaking) if I was a teen collecting in the 80's i'm certain I would have probably snatched up a lot of those bronze/silver back issues everyone spends a grip of cash on now. Hell, even during the 90's as a kid I was a pretty tenacious at finding some of those cheaper bronze backissues. Here's the problem. There is a $40.00 comic out there right now that will sell for $1000.00 in about 20 years. I don't know which one it will be. If I did (know for sure) I'd get in line for my 10 or 20 copies. And sure, you can say it'll never happen and it will sound very much like all those 80's collectors that said Bronze Age will never be worth anything. You're in the same environment now as we were back then. It's not too late. Go for it.

I just mine for about $230.00. It's was about my 6th or 7th attempt over the last few years. Seller called it a VF- and it was. It's high I know, but that's what they go for now.

I have heard Eerie 17 is a reprint of stories. Although it is a reprint, it's pricey. Worth much more than overstreet says. The story is although the eeries printed in and around that time had thousands of copies warehoused (making these issues relatively inexpensive considering their age) this particular issue was never warehoused and available as a back-issue. If you wanted one, you would have had to have purchased it on the stands new. Anybody out there know any more on this?

9.4 will be a $19,000.00 book in 19 years, 6 months.

Bye Dan. Welcome to the land of the ice and snow...

Ho Ho? Gee, I wonder what my powers are. Could it be the power of fainting at the first hint of a bad guy about to do damage? Don't think so 'cause then we would all have the same power. I bet if we knew what our powers were, weda' got 'im. Actually, considering how lame we were Joanna, maybe when we see him again could you give us a fighting chance and let us run away in the opposite direction? Maybe that's our power. The power of flight? It's either that or the fainting thing. As the writer, it's up to you. (Thanks for the mention.)

Had about 12 of these all assembled and back in '70 - me and my buddy spent an afternoon shooting them all to pieces with a BB gun. Glued 'em back together again and the following week-end we blew em' up again. There wasn't much left to glue together.

Sent you a PM and thank you for your interest.

Re: nice [!@#%^&^] on smurfette? You are one sick puppy. I would buy what I need in my collection. Probably a few early FF's in Fine or better in the 2 - 20 range. Thinking that the 5 grand would run out pretty quick.

Had a feeling there were some dangers involved in using an iron, thanks for pointing them out. Guess I just got lucky with the comic I did.

I asked my wife what was the usual setting on her iron, and she said "cotton".I hope this helps. It's really quite hot, so don't leave the iron sitting there. Just a quick few swipes otta do it.

I purchased a Journey Into Mystery comic on e-bay that had a definite "C" shape to it. This Silver Age comic apparently was jammed into a box barely wide enough for a Modern Book. A lot of bidders stayed away from the book because based on the scan, it didn't look much better than a Good/Very Good. Needless to say, I got it for song. What I did to the comic was place an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of white paper on top of the cover and on the inside of the front cover and proceeded to carefully "iron" out the bends with an iron. After the cover was done, I proceeded to do it page by page until the comic transformed into something resembling a VF-. The iron should never touch the pages.Be careful not to get too close to the spine, as it wouldn't take much to create a few stress cracks if the iron gets too close. This will not take out any creasing, just bending as you described. Let me know if your not clear. If this has any long-term damage to the book, I'm not aware of it. A year later, the comic still looks might VF.

I believe you can get a professional to press out the wave. I'm not sure, but I don't think this is considered restoration. It's my understanding they somehow make the cover wet, and then "press out" the wave. Restores it as good as new. Lots of pro's listed in overstreet.

How about a Hulk/Wolverine movie based on 181. How about that? Awesome.

I'd like to see a Justice League movie, but I don't think that'll happen until they have made more Batman and Superman movies. I also think it would be kinda cool having a "World's Finest" type movie with only Batman and Superman in it. Also, there will come a time when Smallville will end, and a movie about Clark donning the Superman costume for the first time would be kinda cool. Could lead into a whole string of Superman movies, just like Star Trek.

I started collecting in 1977. The comic shop I was buying my new comics from had back issues in bags with no backer board displayed upright. I remember selling him my near mint Batman comics around the time the first movie came out and he immediately placed them in his bins without backer boards. I remember finding this very odd at the time. I suspect that most of the collectors at the time couldn't care less about a couple spine stress marks on the spine and did not realize how important that would be in today's market. As for myself, I stored everything flat with a comic bag (no backers) Today, I am continuing to store them flat. What I do is put 2 comics in a bag back to back. This gives the bag more stability when handling and when in a pile. When I used to put only one comic in a bag, the pile eventually kinda leaned a bit because the side with the spine, always was higher than the right side. On comics that I hoarded, no bag was used and it shows in the condition they are in now. Still pretty decent, as my storage conditions were pretty ideal, but there is more noticable tanning compared to ones that were bagged. Most of the comics that I bought off the shelf since 1977 are still NM. A few may have come down to VF+ but that's about it.