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shadroch

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  1. I'm going to guess that that page was folded over and missed being trimmed. The original buyer noticed it was folded and unfolded it. It got bagged, sold, maybe resold several times and nobody opened the bag.
  2. Sure. It's not like the money your books brought in did anything for you.
  3. Stay in school, pay yourself first, and dance whenever you can.
  4. I finally managed to get thru Volume 1, and am in no rush to read Volume 2.
  5. How could it when the story is from WW2? I'm pretty sure #13 came out after Avengers 4. You could say ST 114 was a try-out issue
  6. When would you say was Nick Fury's first SA appearance? Obviously it can't be in a story set in WW2, if I follow your reasoning. I think this is rather silly. I go by when a book was published, not what era the story was set in.
  7. You could say Marvel Special Market Editions or you can say Marvel Whitmans. Is it correct? Who cares . The people that correct you will also tell you the US doesn't have a penny coin.
  8. I've never seen a double cover that got a green label for being a DC. I have four DC s in green labels but most are missing an ad page or a pinup.
  9. Taking inspiration from a person who has constantly changed business models and has outlasted almost all of their competitors
  10. Just raise your prices and allow people to re-spin until they get the valuable 50% off strip.
  11. When Seagate went bellyup, they had pallets of Pacific and Quality books. I saw at least a dozen unopened cases of Judge Dredd, the Early Cases.
  12. I own a lot of books with a complimenty stamp on them and I've never noticed one that was stamped before it was printed. Now I want one. I'll check on the ones I have but this seems pretty unique and has my attention. I hope someone comes up with an explanation.
  13. Don't let the basterds get you down!
  14. I've learned a simple solution to bad mornings. I sleep until noon and eliminate any possibility of someone ruining the start of the day. Is there a way you could indicate which books are in your possesion and which need come from a third party. I just think there is so much that can go wrong with selling books not in your own possesion.
  15. Paypal, Zelle, check only if I know you. No problem children, scoundrels or trolls. Shipping in US is included. $25 to ship elsewhere. 2nd Loki and a classic cover as Thor and Loki battle on the Rainbow Bridge No returns on this CGC book. 4.0 Blue label "From the collection of Jon Berk" As an added bonus, this book comes with an authentic Comic Connect sticker. Newer slab, no newton nonsense, cracks or issues. $900 shipped.
  16. I leave stickers in place and discount the book slightly. I figure if writing and date stamps are okay, stickers are too. People tend to overlook defects if you price the book right.
  17. That is a rare photo of Harley, unless you cut off the chicken in his left hand.
  18. No, they were all low grade books. From a few notes I saw, I believe Grand Comics was buying up stores and collections and pruning out all the low end stuff. The strange thing was Grand had a lease on a different unit in the building and the room the comics were in wasn't in the lease at all. It was supposed to be empty. Grand went out of business and everyone forgot about this room for 15 years. CGCKing bought the building, paid a company to haul away all the trash and was lucky the crew called him instead of just removing them like they were hired to. I tried to do some business with him as he lived fairly close to me but he thought he had diamonds.
  19. It shouldn't. Warehouse finds tend to lower the value of a book so you should be aware which books are easier to find in HG than others. If Frogman 132 is a known warehouse find and 133 is not, the 132 should sell for less in HG and an informed buyer will know this.
  20. I supose it depends on what your definition of a warehouse find is. If a book was being stored in quantity for years in a warehouse, I would call it a warehouse find. As every book in the MH2 collection was stored under those circumstances, are they warehouse finds? I'll leave that to you. Longtime members might remember an ebay seller who called himself cgcking and a dozen similar names. He sold beatup SA books and would put things like CGC It or possible CGC 9.8 in a title. He was a real estate investor who bought an abandoned warehouse in Brooklyn. It was huge, with at least forty different rooms in it and in one of them he found 200,000 comics. I believe they were the books Grand Comics bought but weren't good enough to make their grades. I got a look at much of his stock and few books reached the mark where I'd call them 4.0s. Most were in the 1.8-2.5 range but there were tens of thousands of them. Even though they were found in a warehouse, I would not say they were a warehouse find. Comic collectors use terms oddly.
  21. Someone was telling me Copper starts with Jim Shooters "Little Bang" theory. When I asked for a date, he was lost. I use the price increases, as do many people. Even that isn't unified as some use 40 cents as the cutoff, other use .50 and some use .60. I say it's a personal choice. I've recently started segregating my twenty and twentyfive cent books so I'm splitting my Bronze Age in two.