shadroch

My friends and I didn't watch much television growing up. I'd watch the MMMS cartoons when it was my turn to pick a show after dinner but the only afternoon show we watched was Gigantor, and later 8th Man. I rarely watched Saturday cartoons/ monster movies unless it was raining. My friends older brother had a walkin closet that had thousands of comics, unbagged, in piles on the floor, on the shelves, just everywhere, with piles having been knocked over and having been stepped on. It was a half finished attic so in the summer it was an oven and in winter you'd need a sweater. For some reason, his parents won't let us take the comics out of the closet so we'd occasionally spend an afternoon in it reading them. One big problem was they were completely disorganized so you'd read a book and you might spend hours looking for the next issue. The brother didn't live in the house, and I never met him but one day his parents offered to sell me eveything for $2500. I didn't have $25 dollars at the time.

Did he have a Dead Head sticker on his Cadillac?

See what happens when you are looking back.

Don't look back. You should never look back.

Bat-Mania in 1966. There has not been anything like it since then.

Ned Leeds being killed was kept top secret until it was released.

Marvel publized the mess out of it, changing the company logo and stationary in advance. Store owners had to know about it months in advance so they could order properly. Even then, almost everyone under-ordered.

252 is the first black suit. MSW8 is about the fortieth. #252 starts a months long mystery as to how and where the suit came about. MSW8 answers those questions in the stupidest way possible.

True, but there have been times I bought another book or two just because I didn't want to pay to ship a single book.

I'll take the HTD #3

I had my second highest priced book in limbo for over a month when someone hit the BIN but didn't pay. Several weeks later I got an email they were relisting it as it was unpaid. Bought again the same day but again no follow thru. It seemed like someone was reserving the book in case it popped, or was shopping the book around and would only pay if he could flip it. It was annoying and I thought about mentioning it but then the book sold and got paid for. I'm not sure what the answer is. I like being able to combine several auctions for shipping and wouldn't mind paying weekly and shipping every few auctions but I imagine it would be a logistical nightmare. The system has paid books going directly to shipping. Having paid books sitting around changes the entire process.

It looks like there is some demand for it and the cheapest I've seen it listed for was around $50.

Shame on CGC for grading these fakes. If anything, I'd put them in a different colored slab that screams fake and certainly not give them a high grade. They should get a big F for fake, rather than a grade. Once upon a time, card slabbing companies would not return fake cards.

I was very impressed by some of the prices achieved. Perhaps Conan can post some of the highlights.

Angels.

I usually try to sell the books for a few weeks before I put it in an auction. As a rule, BIN gets better results than the auctions, imo.

I was trying to put together a complete run of Marvel 12 cent books. I had less than fifty to go at one point. I was at a show and a dealer from Florida had a huge run of mid grade Marvel SA. An hour or so of digging had produced about twenty of the books I was missing and I was negotiating a price with him when it dawned on me I was about to spend a weeks salary on a bunch of books I didn't really want, just so I could accomplish something no one else would care about and would mean nothing. Would I be a better man for having 100% of the books instead of having 98% of them? Would it advance my goal of world peace? I returned most of the books in my hand and grabbed a handful of SME 15s he was selling for $10 each. That was the day I became a type collector.

Once upon a time, I spent about four years putting together a run of Avengers 1-350. I would have been much better off concentrating on a few issues.

48 hour warning

I had 11 books in the auction and hoped they would do about $2000. Two sold for a good bit more than I hoped for and three sold for substantially less. In the end, they came to $1945. On the buying side, things were tight. I got blown away on most books and ended up overpaying for two. I did get five books at less than I was willing to go so not bad week. Some crazy prices.

Buy the book, not the forum.

But, Mama, that's where the fun is!

So your plan is to have your sister sell your stuff on ebay? What did she do to you?

Overe the years, I've bought maybe a dozen PGX books because they were so cheap. I've broken all but two out and didn't discover anything foul inside and was happy with the grades. I sold some of them them raw and got more than if they were still in the PGX slabs.