shadroch

Nothing a clean and press can't cure.

I'm good with 8.5

Before I make a buy on eBay, I always check out mycomicshop.com At this moment, they have a slabbed 6.5 for $600. It's better looking than the book you bought and has been checked for restoration. They also charge around $10 for shipping. MCS is an invaluable tool once you learn the in and outs of their site, and it's free.

I started buying Schomburg WW2 covers around 2007. I couldn't afford Cap covers but found a bunch of cheap Nedors and Standards. Moved up to a few Young Allies and USA, and before you knew it I had two dozen Caps and an entire box of Schomburgs. They've all gone up a good deal but not as nuts as newer stuff. Stuff I bought ten years ago for $35-50 now brings $100-$200. Dollar wise, I'd have done better buying BA keys, but that is life.

People are just being stupid right now. Buyers are just throwing money at books. I was trying to figure out a fair asking price for a Hulk 180 CGC 6.0. I was thinking I'd see $1,000 out of it but then I see it's double that. Insane. I sold an All Select 1 today. It's a great cover but it was sitting in a box . Heavy A restoration and trimmed on three sides. I've had it awhile and was offered $1200 for it last year. I tried to get it into the current MCS auction but missed it by a few days. I decided to list in at a ridiculous price and come down 5% a week and see what happened. Today I got a $5500+ offer on it. I was surprised how quickly I was able to say YES. I honestly expected to get around $2500-$3000 for it. I'm tracking an early Atlas and am surprised to see it well over what I expected. Looked at their inventory and bought a copy for $42. The auction ended well north of $150 for a 3.0, and my copy is a 2.5. The only thing I won was an Adventure 267, second Legion. I bought a CGC book off these boards last week and thought I might have overpaid. Same grade book sold for 45% more tonite. I'm not sure if it is a great time to buy, but I'm selling into the hottest overall market I've ever seen.

Offered up are two sweet Pre-Hero books Auctions have $1 starting bids and $250 BINs Shipping is $12 book, but win both and I'll ship for free. USofA only, unless you contact me ahead of time. Paypal only. None of the usual suspects need to bother. Auction end Thursday at 10PM NYC time, Lot 1 Tales of Suspense 8 March 1960 Classic Kirby cover Art by Kirby, Bill Everett, Don Heck and Ditko I call this a 4.0 but judge for yourself. Cover and centerfold are tight.

Unless dozens of people are pooling their stimulus checks, there has to be other explanations as well.

Everybody has an opinion on this. There have to be twenty other threads asking the same thing. I would not trust anyone who says they know what will happen. It's the craziest market in decades and no one is sure where the money is coming from.

Slide another backing board into the bag, in front of the book, make a sandwich and slide it out. I'm looking at a 4.5 as is.

That was fast.

Reserved for photos.

FREE US shipping only. Paypal only. Ships within 72 hours, I don't deal with people on any lists or who have black hearts. Offered here are three flattened and empty Marvel trading card boxes. 1) 1991 Marvel Universe Series 11 Impel 2) 1992 Marvel Universe 111 Impel 3)1993 Marvel Universe 1V Skybox All are flat, but can easily be re-assembled. The Series 3 box has some glue residue that affects the visuals when flat, but not when assembled. The Skybox box has some separation of the perforated Silver Surfer outline. The Series 11 box is different from the others and may need a spot of glue or tape to assemble. These make outstanding displays, either flat or assembled. I'e got a bunch of others- Star Trek, Batman, Jurassic Park, DC, movies, ect. PM me if interested. Photos to follow

In the 1980s, a lot of comic shops were run by fans who didn't understand how to run a business. I remember a meeting of about two dozen store owners where Jim Hanley mentioned how important cycle sheets were and maybe a third of the owners didn't know what a cycle sheet was, let alone how to use them. Many didn't even have cash registers. I remember Mel Thompson pushing his POS system and over-promising it's potential to a room full of non computer users. Carol Kalish had Marvel bring in a few business consultants and I remember being asked to draw a diagram of my shop, showing where everything was and to take pictures. The consultants pointed out that X amount of revenue came from each area of my store but the lesson I learned was having too many cheap back issues resulted in lost revenue, not extra. That discounting back issues resulted in selling more cheap books at the expense of selling higher priced books. I'd been setting up at to local shows, blowing out my leftover stuff at half off. I was raising cash but not making any money as everything was at cost. I looked at it as a chance to make up some of my losses but the consultant convinced me to go in another direction. Instead of using the shows to recoup money on my mistakes, he said to bring nothing but high end stuff and use the conventions to highlight what made my store different, not just to blow out cheap books. I was pessimistic, as I'd grown used to the shows producing a certain amount of cash but I found having the higher end merchandise lead to more conversations and suddenly people who I saw every month at the shows but never in my shop became customers. Displaying my two EC boxed sets ended up bringing in a pair of parents who wanted to order several for their sons graduations. These were hundred dollar sales at a time when my average sale on non-new book days was about $3. Instead of having six or seven boxes of cheap books( I think they were 3/$1 but they may have been 4, I replaced them with two spinners of D&D stuff that brought in new customers and one weekend a month I would throw up a table with the boxes of cheap books. To my surprise, I'd sell more cheap books in one weekend than I previously had in a month and the D&D stuff sold really well for about six months before it started to taper off.

I stand corrected. My notes say 14th floor Spring 43-Fall 61 but I guess I've been going off a typo. Where the meeting supposedly happened is less important than when it happened. In one post you say it happened right after Stans friend and right hand an was killed and in another you use the fact that Marvel didn't put out any books one month as being connected.

I don't get the trilogy aspect, especially as related to the FF books.

You yourself talk about Kirby going to Marvel in 1958 and then you say it happened in 1961. Credibility?

Joe and Jack were 50-50 partners. I'm sure there are legal documents. The Kirby story is from 1958, not 1961. Marvel was in the ESB in 1958, as best I can tell. Credibility? See the above.

Neither are high grade. I'd say your best bet is sending them on consignment to mycomicshop. They are expensive books that will sell for a few thousand dollars unless they turn out to be restored or are missing the value stamps. I assume you checked for them?

Depends on the books and their grades.

It would help if you posted a regular copy to compare this to.

I've used about a half dozen storage units since I moved west( I have two 22 foot containers right now) and no employee has ever had access to my units. I have my own locks, not purchased from the places, and there is no way anyone else can access them.

Thank you. I had a lot of fun selecting them.

Safes aren't the only place a slab might develop rusty staples.

180 is his first cameo appearance 181 is his first full appearance The argument is which should be worth more.