shadroch

Take a phone video of your most expensive books. Have CNN on n the background so you can prove the date. You are seriously overthinking this. There are plenty of companies you can use without jumping thru hoops. CIA( or CIS ,as some call it) only needs documentation on books worth $5,000 or more.

Where in Arizona are you? There are plenty of shops in Phoenix and Tucson that can do it for you, but there is no reason to appraise 1200 books. Forget anything under $20, and you might want to only insure the books that are over $100 or even more. Any CGC book you can appraise yourself by using GPA. Check out any policy very carefully. The more popular ones like CIA cover your books when shipping them and don't need an exact listing of your collection. Insurance companies are great at collecting premiums but not so great at paying out. It might be better to pay a competitor $50 to explain what is missing from your policy then to ust accept your agents word on it.

More than a few, less than a bunch.

I'm the opposite. I set my max bid early and rarely go over it if i'm outbid. After each session, I add up the difference between what I won an item for, and my max bids and might use that money on a new bid or three. I try not to get caught up in a bidding craze.

Those are 11X14 prints. The OP says his is poster sized which is usually 24X36. The 11X14s were common.

When I check into my account, it gives the total sales and bids. I don't believe they are set up to notify a seller after every bid. It does notify me whenever I get an offer on a book so when I open it to respond to offers, I see how the auction is doing.

I certainly do. I assigned a few books to MCS's Prime auction this week and expected I'd clear at least $3,000 from them. I watched as they slowly rose, from $600 to 1200 to 2100 and then they flattened out. As i'd committed to buying something with the proceeds from these books, I started to worry a little. I knew it was foolish and it would work out but I still got anxious. The biggest book in the sale had bogged down and it looked like I'd take a bath on it, but two bidders waited for the last minute to start bidding and it rose quite a bit in the last half hour and ended up surpassing my expectations. With one book to go, I've blown past my $3,000 goal and all my anxiety was wasted. I knew it would be but after all these years, I can't help it.

Is that a 10X14 or is it poster sized? I've never seen a poster size version. The print was common back in the 80s.

This happened to me last week. Member thanked me for my offer but didn't want to go that low. A couple days later he cut it to $10 under my offer.

Place I used to frequent had something similar. You could get an 8 ounce Prime Rib, salad, potato and a slice of pie for $7.99. You could upgrade to a 16 ounce Prime Rib for an additional $8. Or you could buy another $7.99 dinner and get a second salad, potato and piece of pie.

In top grade, that is a very expensive book. Is there a reason why you don't want it graded? You have a potential thousand dollar plus book there so take your time and research it.

Maybe we all need to. I'm still trying to figure out how a footall franchise depreciates.

I've never read anything that gave me the impression that England was going to join the war on the Southern side. Nothing. Nada. It was a pipe dream of southerners that Europeans would somehow join them but no civilized nation would have anything to do with one that kept slaves. The Englsh navy stopped the African slave trade. Only a dreamer would think they would then fight in favor of it.

DC offered some movie advertising when the first Batman movie came out, but it was very cut and paste. This looks like it was done just for the one shop. Ive never seen that before. I'd guess it was from 1985ish. Thanks for sharing.

He did a cover for the Marvel Indexes back in the early 80s.

Martin Luther King was nailed to the doors of church and made to eat a diet of worms.

I feel like I stumbled into a taping of Drunken History. The 16th Amendment was passed by Congress in 1909 and ratified by the states in 1913. It might be that anyone who thinks it was passed to fund the Civil War is just a bit off on their facts.

Kudos to the Assman.

Buy a sports franchise. Even the smallest one gives you writeoffs you won't think possible.

What income taxes does a buyer pay? If you pay $20,000 for a car and sell it for $5,000 ,you owe no federal taxes. If you bought it for $500 and sell it for $3,000, you owe income tax on the profit. I think you are talking about sales tax or a registration fee.

I see it the opposite way. Removing the stamp lessens the books value by 80%, showing just how valuable the stamp is. In it's original, unaltered state, the Shanna stamp is worth thousands. Think what Amazing Spider-Man 129 would sell for had it been a few months later and had an MVS in it. Back in the 80s, I had a similar situation. I bought a collection that had many books with the stamps cut out, but they were kept in a loose envelope. I put the stamps in a baseball card protector and matched them with the books. As I recall,the only money books were Hulk 181 and Doctor Strange #1. I remember asking $50 for the Hulk and eventually selling it for $35. The guy I sold it to scotch taped the stamp in and was asking $100 but I don't know if it ever sold.

Some obsessives, as well.

Do people bring their slabs to the park? Or leave them on their dashboards? I live in Arizona, the sunniest state in the nation, and have plenty of wall space with no direct sunlight.

Ask a comic dealer how many of the 130,000 people at Comic Con collect comics or buy slabed comics. There is a reason why there are fewer comic dealers each year. You seemed to think there are 80,000 slabs on display. Lets say its double that, maybe. Which means 95% or more slabs have no need for it, but everyone is going to pay more for it. That doesn't seem like a a great plan. It might be a big enough niche for an after-market product but unless the production costs somehow drop, it doesn't make sense. I'd rather spend $100 on aftermarket UV protection for a book or two than $5 on every slab. I must admit I have zero desire to display a comic. Slabbed or framed. My walls have framed Schombug and Alex Ross prints and framed Captain America convention sketches from the 80s. When I had more space, I had more paintings and statues on display but not comics.

CGC has slabbed over seven million books. If the other guys have a million, this makes a market of eight million. If you are so passionate about it and believe there is demand, why not develop a product yourself and take it to market. License it to the highest bidder.