shadroch

I'm wondering about the supposed stacks of Spiderman pages mentioned in the story.

Did Ditko get his art back?

I'm not a lawyer, and see no reason why any of these folks are entitled to anything. It's nice that the companies do so, but they are under no obligation. Comic book artists were treated no different than millions of other Americans who worked long hours at lousy jobs while the owners of the company got rich.

Yes, I meant he had no descendants.

Ditko has no heirs. He never married and has no children. Out of curiousity, do the people who think Disney owes people something because their parents did work for a company Disney took over feel the same about reparations for people whose great grandparents built much of this country while working under even worse conditions than Kirby and Ditko were employed?

It looks really nice but as far as a grade goes, I'm at 4.0. Water stains plus a popped staple equals 4.0 or less. If you go the qualified route, maybe 6.5.

Suppose I hire someone to build a house. I offer them $100 a day and they accept it. They build it from scratch and happily accept their paycheck. The house is great and I sell it to someone who forty years later sells it to you, for many times what the house was worth when they finished it. Years go by and their grandchildren pass the beautiful house their grand dad built. Finally, one of them knocks on your door and explains since their granddaddy built this house while working for someone else, it is only right that you give them a part of your house. Does anyone think Babe Ruth's great grandchildren should be given part of the Yankees? He performed work for hire and suffered under labor rules that put Marvels to shame. Kirby and Ditko were free to work for anyone they chose. Ruth either played for the Yankees or he didn't play. As a ballplayer, he was considered to be the property of the NY Yankees.

Would it matter? Would either of them have a claim?

Someone has to explain to me why Ditko's brother is entitled to get rich off his brothers work? At least Stan's brother is suing for work he actually did. If a carpenter is paid to build a house and fifty years later the house is worth millions, does the carpenter get to sue or to claim he owns a piece of it?

If you have seven copies of a $100 book in stock and your records indicate you''ve sold one a year for the last ten years, what would you offer for an eighth copy. You are offered a book worth $100 that you can't keep in stock, and that you've sold a dozen of in the last three months. Will you pay more for the second book even though both will sell for the same amount?

Walking thru a NYC flea market and I see a bunch of early 1960s baseball cards thrown together in a box. Seller wants a nickel a pop so I'm thinking I'll buy the whole box of a couple of hundred. The seller won't budge and insists I count each card to get a total. I start counting and notice a stack of comics. Thumbing thru them I see a Flash 105 and a Brave and Bold 31. he wants $2 each so I offer him $75 for the stack of about 50 comics and the box of cards. We settle on $90. The comics included a Batman 160, Flash 105, 108 and 111 and a few other early Justice Leagues. The cards were moostly commons but I pulled a Ron Santo rookie and a few Koufaxs. A different NYC flea market a few months later, guy has a stack of X-Men 118-124. I ask how much and the guys helper yells out "how much are the comics?" Without even looking the seller calls back $3. I say $3 for the stack? and his helper says thats what he said. I ended up with multple copies of what soon became hot-the first Alpha Flights. My personal favorite story is the time I found a women selling Susan B Anthony "half dollars" for sixty cents each.

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His list has a lot of 7-8-9. It doesn't sound like he has any true HG books. For most of the books on his list, selling raw with MCS would be his best bet. If he sends them something they think is worth slabbing, they'll let him know.

Where are you looking? On ebay? I've sold plenty of raw books on mycomicshop.com at or near GPA for a graded book. It depends on the books and the grades. Plenty of books are sold here raw and the sellers do very well, considering they don't have to spend six months and sixty dollars on getting the book graded.

I'll take the rest of the Legions Adventures.

The OP said he wanted to slab them for protection. I dont think it makes sense to sell part of your collection to pay for protecting the rest, when other forms of protection are just as effective and far cheaper. Too many people think they somehow have to get their books slabbed just because. In this case, the OP seems to have thought getting his books graded would increase their value five fold.

CGC calls this Luthors second appearance but I think it’s tied for first. I bought it a few weeks ago but just getting around to filing it

I'll take the Detective Lot if you are still selling it.

The 105 is signed by Archie Goodwin

See. You've already learned your first lesson and are adapting. Best of luck.

You can fit about 140 books in mylar and backing board in a typical short box. CGC boxes are bigger and wider and hold about 25 slabs.

Before sending a book off to get slabbed, look for a slabbed copy on ebay. You might find one for less than what it will cost you to get slabbed.

Yes, you are missing something if you are under the impression a slabbed book will sell for 5X what it does in raw. The is no formula to these things. Many CGC books sell for less than the cost of having them graded. Others do sell for more but there is no formula that an outsider with little knowledge of todays market can use. If a raw book sells for $10 and a slab sells for $50, it would look like it sold for 5X more, but what about the $60 it costs to slab and ship it back? Assume it will cost you $60 per slab and look at one days comics results on ebay. How many CGC books sold for less than $60? The people who had those graded would have been better off throwing the books away instead of tying up their money for six months and talking a loss on them. Like everything in life, you need to do your due diligence and not rush into anything.

Slabs are no better than mylar for long term storage and perhaps you can explain how spending thousands of dollars to grade your books will increase their value? If today you have 100 books in your closet and spend $2,000 to have them slabbed, in six months you will have 100 slabs in your closet and you are out $2,000. In almost all cases, getting a book graded confirms it's value, it doesn't increase it.

What would be the point of selling books in order to get others graded? Are you looking to sell the books or keep them in your collection?