shadroch

If everything on MCS is over-priced, that seems to be the place to sell your books. Take the cash and buy wherever you find the books you want for the price you want.

They are nice, but those pages are not from the 1950s.

3.0 Tape pulls suck. A single one would knock it down to a 4.0 but this book was subjected to a multi-pronged attack. Somebody, somewhere had it out for this book.

Buy all eight and burn seven of them.

Look at his feedback.

None of the books you listed are worth slabbing, but on the bright side you have $600 to spend. Slabbed comics take up a lot of room, and are heavy so the boxes to store them are even bigger.

Some people do, but I don't understand the point of buying a slab to crack open when raw books are usually cheaper.

I'm having trouble with my chromebook but I go to my history, scroll to Tuesday, click on a CGC thread and I'm in. Hit refresh and I'm back in the present.

Is it imported from Europe?

I prefer to look at it as him refining his work until he got it right.

You should have mentioned the book was coming from Europe. Evidently that changes everything. I don't really care if a seller overgrades his books. If a book is fairly priced, the seller can call it a 9.9 if he wants. I'm not really sure what the point of this thread is. You bought a book you thought was overgraded and spent fifty dollars or so to prove yourself right. Is there a reason you wouldn't just sell the book raw if you disagreed with the assigned grade. I'm a bit surprised an experianced buyer/seller such as yourself isn't aware of shaken comic syndrome, btw.

Why would you buy a book that you thought was overgraded? Paying for a 9.0 in order to pay to have it downgraded so you can sell it as an 8.0 doesn't seem particularly efficent. Ever think about buying 8.0s that look like 8.0s?

3.0

I've had success simply leaving the books open for a week or two. One book I left open in a small box with some charcoal in the box. It supposedly absorbs some of the odor but I didn't notice a difference. I think there is a spray you can buy but I don't know its name. I generally avoid these sorts of books.

Jim Starlin.

Blasphemy.

8.5ish.

Knowing nothing of color theory and as someone the US Government keeps insisting is partially color blind, I'm wondering if color schemes appeal to different ages? Does what works on a Broadway poster geared to middle age adults also work on something targeting adolescent boys? Don't cars targeted to young men generally come in colors that Buick and Cadillac don't use?

I missed out on getting early access to the Bell stuff. I bought some via the Koch Brothers mail order but by the time I started buying seriously it had been well picked through. Koch-Dolgorf-Koch had gone their different ways and Joe was in a dump by the old Brooklyn Navy Yard. He had only been there a few months, I believe, and there were racks upon racks of loosely organized boxes of books. I think he had some rooms that were completely unsorted.

This is the first Conan I ever bought. I'd read a few early Barry Smith issues, #2 and an Elric issue but didn't care for the art and wasn't big on the sword and sorcery genre. I liked this cover and the art inside was much better. Only later did I realize the art was by Neal Adams.

When I opened my first shop in the early 80s, I was pretty clueless as far as running a business goes and for a long time lived day to day , often working this week to pay last weeks bills. It seemed every time I'd get just a bit ahead, a collection would walk in the door or something would break. My original distributor had gone belly up after the owners death so I was using a new outfit that had extended me credit but suddenly wanted cash up front until I was caught up. It's a Friday afternoon and I'm driving to Brooklyn to pick up my books( this was before the distributor wars got my books delivered) and stop in at Joe Kochs warehouse. I was a very good customer as I stocked a lot of my back issues from him so he sometimes held some goodies back from the regular buyers. He shows me a stack, maybe two feet high of Fantastic Four 48s, and offers me sets of 48-50 for $20 a set. I think he had 250 sets. I buy two or three because thats all the money I had. I pick up my books and after paying I have $40 left but not the time to drive across Brooklyn to get them. All weekend I think about them and decide I'm going to call Monday and reserve a few more sets. I do a back issue sale that raises a few bucks and on Monday I go in and buy nine more sets. I sold three sets for $60 and two FF 48s for $35 each and put the rest away. Through thick and thin, I held these books as a leg of my retirement plan. I started selling them last year and yesterday I sold the last of them. My numbers might be slightly off, but I remember I got about 75% of my initial investment back right away and sold a set to an old forumite for $1,000 when I was fairly new here. The last two 48s sold for $5,000. I'd always thought I'd hold a 48 until the very end but I never dreamed mid grades would sell for this. I'd hoped to use the money on a restored Batman #3 but the price got away from me. Selling these books really closes a chapter in my life.

I'd say a press will improve the book but that grade seems high to begin with. Don't press, take a few dollars that you'll save and buy some lottery tickets. Maybe you'll get lucky again. You could press it, resubmit it and end up with a 9.0. Too much risk for little reward. Enjoy your book.

Triple the insured value, and a return of all fees, would go aways towards satisfying me. I hope it works out for the OP.

Because one gay hero is more than enough right?

1) Why is a certain cultural background needed for the job? It sounds like he did it pretty well. I imagine his employers also thought so as they promoted him even after learning of his sick, twisted crimes against humanity. 2) Show me what he did that was illegal? Just because you keep saying it doesn't make it true. 3) If you don't see a difference between this and the stolen valor act, it is far too late for me to help you.