shadroch

In this post you are saying the books are worth 50-75-almost 100% less, but then you say you think they should sell for 75% of blue. Which is it?

I wouldn't submit it because who knows what the book will be worth in a year when you get it back. It's hot right now so I'd sell it as is, unless you know a presser who does great work and has no waiting time.

From an episode of Superman. I don’t think I’ve seen it before

Not a book, but my grali has always been to own a working Gatling Gun. I had a chance to buy a movie prop but passed as I wanted a real one. In the last decade, the prices have risen so crazily I now suspect i will never own a real one.

I'll take all of them off your hands at 75% 0ff the GPA for blue labels. Say the word and we will close the deal.

MCS buys them as 0.3s, so roughly half of 0.5

I bought Bat out of Hell unheard, simply because of Meatloafs connection to Rocky Horror, although the Corben cover certainly helped. I'll never forget listening to it the first time. The sheer majesty of the introduction to the title track was incredible. I knew right away this was a keeper, and was my vote for screamer of the week. My two friends that listened with me all loved the title track but weren't so hot on the rest of the album. It was musical theatre, set to rock. Air supply on steriods.

The people in charge of dropping boxes.

In 1991, my job took me to Ft. Campbell ,Kentucky for two weeks. One night I was out getting gas at an AM/PM type place and I noticed they had a help wanted sign. I asked the cashier about it and he told me they were starting out at $3.65 but if I was legally married and had children they'd bump it up to $3.75 as I had a family to provide for. Who would not want to work at a place that values the family so.

Anything that improves a book should be noted, and an improved book should not sell for what an unimproved book in the same condition does. Pressing is an attempt to improve the book and should always be disclosed. Arguing over if it is restoration or not is just white noise intended to distract from the real question - Should a book altered to look like a 9.whatever sell for the same as an unaltered copy. CGC's inability to detect all pressing doesn't excuse them not noting it when they are aware of it.

I don't remember that book coming with a card. Usually it would have been polybagged if the card was loose.

Why would people have spent thousands on Wolverine back in the 1970s? You could pick up Hulk 181 for a song.

I've removed some tape and you would never know it was ever there. I've removed other tape and it left a miscolored scar that looked worse than the tape. Get professional advice would be my suggestion.

I just picked up the Eagle Moss two volume New Gods. It's about the size of the old Marvel Masterworks and so far I'm enjoying the printing. The art is great in spots, looks mailed in in others but the dialog is hard to read. It's a shame Stan wasn't around to flesh out Kirby's ideas.

Excelsior is an exclamation. It is a sentence on to itself. It's also the motto of NY State.

I was at the convention in NY where they made a big deal about this. It pissed me off to no end. They have this huge banner out proclaiming The Return of The King and I'm expecting Stan to announce they licensed the Lord of The Rings and instead they bring out Kirby. What a let down. I wasn't heavily into comic fandom back in 75 but Kirby's return to Marvel wasn't earth-shaking. He took over a Captain America that Frank Robbins had destroyed. Other than a few covers, he mostly did his own thing- The Eternals, Devil Dinosaur, ect. He was almost an after-thought. Among my friends, it was felt he was well past his prime. I was very into the Bicentennial so I had to pick up Kirbys Treasury celebrating Captain America's journey through American history. I might have gotten a dozen pages into it before tossing it aside. To this day, I've never read it.

I'd think the MK 1 is a $500 book. I wouldn't sell it for less. I'd put the other two up at $125 and take offers I'd take anything more than 50% of the asking price.

I have hundreds of Hot Rod and Motorcycle mags that I will give to anyone willing to pick up up the postage. You can have one or all. Please don't ask for a specific issue as they are completely unorganized.

I like his earlier work better than his late 80s work. I cant think of anything of his from the last twenty years that I've read.

Was Kirby at the height of his story-telling when he left Marvel or was he an aging gunfighter seeking one last day of glory?

It's all in the art of the deal. Buy sheep, sell deer.

Years ago, I was at a garage sale and the woman running the sale had a bunch of comics on a table. They were late SA books that weren't in big demand at the time and to make it worse, they all had a big 5C on the cover in black marker. Because of the writing on the cover, I went through the box carefully and only picked out a dozen or so books. Without the writing I'd have taken them all. I pay for the books and as I'm walking away I hear her tell someone to mark up another group of comics as the box is getting low. I go back over there and see she had a box of about 75 more comics under the table and they are marking them 5C as needed. Some quick negotiating and I end up getting the whole box of unmarked comics for a nickel each. More importantly, I saved them from the crazy lady with her magic marker. I sacrificed a few near worthless TOS trying to get the marker off the first batch I bought. They were all well read comics that I imagine would have scored in the 3.0-5.0 range. I remember the best of them was a Tarzan 114 I called a VF, but would most likely be a 5.0-6.0 the way I grade these days.

I'd wrangle with a dealer and walk away with two long boxes of common HGish .20-.25 cent Marvels, put them in my closet and wait for a few to pop.

I recently sold a bunch of coverless and remaindered SA books to MCS and did okay, as I had almost nothing into them. They may be worth more as memories than in cash.

It was pretty revolutionary to reprint stories that were only a couple of years old at the time. I'd be curious if that was Stan's decsion or did it come down from Martin. I know Goodman used to repackage stuff as much as possible.