shadroch

Defenders 10

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?

You can't judge a book by its cover, and you can't grade a comic without looking at the interior.

I tried to buy books that were in Fine, but these days they'd be more VG. However, I bought a lot of low grade 12 cent books because I was more concerned with completing a run than having a few better looking books. My friend and convention companion was the polar opposite. We'd come home from a convention and I'd have two shopping bags worth of books and he'd have a half dozen books, even though we both spent around the same amount.

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When I started, bags were still pretty uncommon. I used to buy food storage bags at the local grocery store. As an aside, I once was approached by two female cashiers from my supermarket at a party. They were somehow convinced I sold pot. It finally came out that they'd observed me buying all those storage bags and couldn't think of any other reason why I'd be buying them. Richie had lots of raggedy Golden Age books, but I didn't collect them so I never looked at them. I doubt he had anything great at the flea market.

I bought a fair amount from them via mail order but never went to their store. In the early 1980s, they ran a CBG ad for a run of Batbooks- Batman 201- 350 and Detective 301-450 for fifty cents each. I couldn't believe it was stll available when I saw it. Some people paid a small fortune for Fed Ex to deliver the paper before everyone else got it.

I'd have to see the pages but a slight margin being cut out is different from the head of a character being cut out. I used to be more leniant on coupons or MVS's that didn't effect the story, or even missing pinups if the actual story was intact, but CGC came along and peoples perceptions changed. For example, I had a DD 7 without the pinup. If the pinup was there, I'd have called it NM, instead I sold it as a VG and had no problem moving it. I don't see how a clipped coupon could get more of a hit than a missing head. Other may disagree.

Yes, he did and he was just as friendly and talkative back then. He and his competitor( who ended up starting Crown Comics, a short lived distributor in the 1980s) didn't spring for permanent spots so every week they were someplace else. Edit- I don't know why they didn't have permanent spots. It could have been any number of reasons, not simply because they were cheap.

That is true today, but it wasn't in the 1970s when I was chasing down books. Taking two buses to the only comic shop in Queens, hoping they had gotten in a new collecton or two, haunting antigue stores, goodwill ect, flea markets. I remember walking for hours at Aqueduct flea market ,simply because the two vendors that sold comics didn't have permanent spots and could be anywhere among the 1500 plus vendors.

The internet killed the thrill of the hunt for me. Back in the day, it took me over a year to find a copy of Avengers 3 that was priced right. Today there are dozens of copies on the web. There was something special about saving up for the semi-annual convention and hoping one of the dealers would have what were then obscure Marvels. It took me forever to find a FF 2 without marvel chipping, which wasn't so accepted in the mid 1970s.

A missing head renders the book incomplete. I don't see how it could be treated any differently than a missing MVS, most of which don't affect the story itself. It should be a 0.5 or in a green label.

What choice do they have? If last months mag came out August 15th and had a cover date of December, this months mag can't be October, can it? A better question would be why comics have any month on the cover.