shadroch

Stamps, coins and cards take up a lot less room than comics, are easier to secure and easier to transport. My ever growing vintage card collection easily would fit into one long comic box.

I have some Roberto Clemente stamps that are in a sealed holder and were graded by something call GAI.

Give it time.

Great work. That is a fantastic list.

Have you seen one where the inner cover is lower? How about one where the book is graded lower than either cover?

Halfback and Fullbacks are terms for boards sold by one company, not a generic term for boards coated on one side.

Buy them from me. I regularly sell postage stamps for about .60 cents on the dollar if you use them to ship.

I was reading that some of these books have binding issues. Supposedly if you lay the book flat, the glue unbinds. Has anyone experianced any issues with their binding?

No, you just lived at the end of the boom. In the 1940s/50s, many more kids collected stamps than collected comics. Comics were read and discarded, stamps were saved and treasured. Almost every school had a coin and stamp collectors club, sometimes one of each. Even into the mid to late 1970s, department stores often had a coin/stamp department and every town had a coin/stamp store. It's too bad the stamp dealers didn't read the tea leaves and begin transforming their stores as the market shifted. When I got seriously into comics in 76, Long Island had three monthly coin and stamp shows. By the time I opened my shop in 1983, they were gone and L.I. had one annual comic show. By 1988, there were three monthly comics shows, plus the two annual ones, plus gawd only knows how many baseball card shows. There were many Sundays where there were competing shows.

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.

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Sure. It's not like the money your books brought in did anything for you.

Stay in school, pay yourself first, and dance whenever you can.

I finally managed to get thru Volume 1, and am in no rush to read Volume 2.

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

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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.

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.

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.

Taking inspiration from a person who has constantly changed business models and has outlasted almost all of their competitors

Just raise your prices and allow people to re-spin until they get the valuable 50% off strip.

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.

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.

Don't let the basterds get you down!

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.