shadroch

6.5

4.0

I found some Pepsi/Fleer Marvel cards from 1994 that are in Spanish. These particular cards are uncut, two across and two high, and are folded in half, as if they were an insert in a book or a magazine. I see regular versions of these cards on ebay, but can't find the uncut ones. As I'm near the Mexican border, I suspect they are from Mexico. Any information on them would be appreciated.

6.5

Xuxa? Who else could have mixed T&A with kiddie shows.

You have three books that will bring good money. Unless they are in really great shape, with no little spine tics, I wouldn't have them slabbed. It will cost you $200 or so and you'll wait months and months to get them back. What I'd do is list the Spidey 238, Moon Knight 1 and Punisher 1 individually. Make that four books- Thunder Cats is in demand right now. I'd list the Joes and Secret Wars in groups, and sit on the rest, hoping some character in one of them pops. Take good photos and ask strong prices after you've checked sites like mcs.com and ebay. You can show pictures in the grading section and get an idea what to call them. Best of luck.

You might want to list the book. Many polybagged comics are not worth the cost of having them slabbed. List the book and you'll get opinions from people who have submitted books and know the market.

Can someone send Adam a pizza cutter so he can resume his vital work of fixing the internet? If someone can organize a gofundme, I'll see if I can get youtube to send someone to cover it.

Let's not forget how you helped ruin comics by buying them in the 90s.

I'm surprised this joker showed up. I had him pegged for having a bit of common sense, misguided as it seems to be.

Xela

I'd think the problem with selling them in runs is how many people are looking for a full run of a book, especially in high grade. When selling any item, put yourself in the mind of the potential buyer. How many people are looking to buy a complete high grade run of the book? How many of those have the money for a full run? It's easier to list them and easier on you as a seller but you are narrowing the pool of potential buyers tremendously.

5.0

Ain't got no principles. Nor any convictions.

Depends on if I am the buyer or the seller. My former partner made a side deal with somebody for 3,000 Superman #1s. Ten cases worth and evidently promised the guy his money back if he wanted to return the books anytime in the future. Within a year he was hounding me to honor the deal even though I didn't make it. I bought a few and ended up selling one on the boards here soon after I joined. The buyer said he was going to have them graded but then decided to donate the whole case to charity. suspect there may well be hundreds of sealed cases of these.

CGC should offer an incentive for people to return their cracked labels. It would help keep the census more accurate.

The theory is that within any grade there is a range. Some 8.0s will be below average and some will be higher. QES was an outside company that tried to select the finest copy of a grade and give them a shiny sticker. It's a bridge too far for most people.

My story is that of all the boxes I sold, only one person expressed they weren't happy. I had a great time making them up and the fact that many buyers went on to buy more expensive boxes would indicate their happiness. You weren't happy, but didn't want a refund when I offered it, nor a partial refund or credit towards a future box. My mystery boxes were the best thing since sliced beer and it is tragic that this new generation will never experience the joy of opening one.

Open the book and examine the spine of the interior covers. Most simple color touch will bleed thru. If you can see it, your book is restored and may not be worth the time and effort needed to grade it.

Some people will buy the book because it sells at a discount to CGC and hope it will get a similar grade when submitted to CGC. Others buy them and deslab it and still others are clueless and just buy the pretty number.

I was doing mystery boxes for awhile and had one unhappy buyer. I had a lot of repeat buyers and I did a couple of $500 ones if I recall correctly. Actually I had two, but one was because a box had opened in the mail and only about a third of the stuff got there. Once he contacted me, we were able to come to a resolution. I'm trying to come up with a lottery variant that would be acceptable here. A sort of draft. 100 books. Ten participants. $500 a person. Each round has ten books and whomever has first pick in round one has last pick in round two. I still have some details to work out. Trying to determine what values I want to have for the minimum. Here is a twist that I like a lot. One of the books in the draft will be much better than the rest. Everyone will know it is in the draft but no one will know what round it is in until the ten books for that round are exposed. At that point, anyone in the draft can try to trade up, including offering cash. The person who is first can pick the book or sell the rights to it. It's a work in progress.

As I said, it's been years since I sold any, but WARP attempted to keep the issues in print and I don't know any way to tell if a book is a first print or a reprint, except for the cover prices. I'm not sure if there is another way or if all reprints have a different price than the original. As I recall, there are reprints of all the issues up to around 16. The last few issues were not supposed to be reprinted by Warp. BTW My first shop was called Quest End and I had shirts made that were airbrushed versions from the first portfolio. I had some photos of myself and a worker posing in them with Wendy Pini. RIchard wasn't thrilled we had made them but I assured him they were not and would never be for sale.

That is true of the original Elfquest, which was magazine sized. This was most likely the Marvel reprint or #2 of another series as it was a typical comic box. He didn't want to hear that, although I suspect he's been told it repeatedly. I have not sold an Elfquest in years, but I'd think the last few issues would be the rarest as they were the only ones never reprinted.

Did the OP say they were all the same book? He thinks they came direct from the publisher but they could just as easily be distributor boxes. There was a guy walking around the last Vegas show I attended with a sealed carton that said 100 copies of Elfquest #2. I forget what he was asking, but it was nuts and I'm sure he went home with it.

Did this joker just invade my safe space and suggest that I'm too old to understand nostalgia? Nearly fifty years in the hobby and forty years in the industry doesn't matter. Only my age? Where is my White Knight? Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest? It seems we have uncovered the real bully here.