shadroch

I don't have a commons box. They are either in the hot box or a soon to be hot box. I'm going thru a box and find some Kanan Star Wars books. I look them up and see MCS has a few 9.8s on consignment for stupid money, but then see they are paying a whopping $2 to buy them.

I do not believe CGC recommends you switch slabs every seven years. As far as I know, they simply say the chamber paper is inert after seven years. If they were to recommend you to switch the slabs, they would ,in effect, say that you shouldn't buy a slab more than seven years old

Take some time and write ,on the backing board, some information about the book and it's worth. Another possibility is to get those round color coded stickers. Put a yellow sticker on every book worth more than $100, a green one on books worth $50, red for $25, white for under $10, or whichever colors float your boat. Make sure you write down what each color is and someone can easily thumb thru them and pick out the good stuff.

I'm pretty sure I own a copy, but I've never opened it. I bought a couple of 2001 runs in the 90s off a CBG ad and ot lucky in that there were several 35 cent variants in the lot.

Selling 250 books to buy a couple of bigger books is an outstanding idea.

Never a Kirby hater, but not a big fan. In the 70s, I'd be reading the newest FF and reprints from Marvels Greatest Comics and for the most part I liked the newer art better. There was an occasional double page spread that was spectacular but for the most part, Kirby didn't impress me. Didn't like Kamandi or Omac and did not care for his Captain America at all. I was afraid they might put him back on the Avengers or FF and was very happy when he did his own thing. I tried to read 2001 last week and didn't get five pages in before I quit.

Saving that for the book. There's really not much to it. I took a few lessons with Johnny Rodz and then some more with a local named Mark Tendler. I was working as a bouncer and had some co-workers who wrestled. When I went to PR, I tried to pursue it but PR wrestling was very different than what little I had learned. A lot more blading and blood and just plain craziness. The big stars there were Bruiser Brody and Abdullah the Butcher and the fans loved blood. In any event, I fractured my hip when I missed a move in practice and came to the realization I wasn't crazy enough to do it. About a week after I broke my hip, the booker called and asked if I was interested in a show in the Dominican in a week or so. I explained I'd broken my hip and he said okay, I'll call you back in two weeks and see if you are up for some work.

They are gone. In that case, I knew what I had and was holding it for the right moment, but these were true mystery boxes. The 300s went towards my Tesla, so I jokingly say I paid $300 for it. I try not to look back, but I wish I had either of them now.

Except Kirby didn't own his prior work so he was, in effect, stealing from his former employer. Did he write the story that he obviously copied for the FF book? Looking at MCS's data base, it looks like most of Kirby's work on Black Magic was a Kirby/Simon work. As were the three books that chuckles keeps pointing to as proof of Kirby's superiority.

For about thirty years, I have had two short boxes that were taped up and labeled " decent, unbagged show stock". I've been meaning to open them and bag the stuff up but I've always had something better to do. A little background. In the late 80s, I owned and ran a small comic shop called The Millenium Parachute. It was mildly successful but I could have made more money doing other things. In addition to the store, I did two conventions on Long Island each month and tried to fit in a third in NY or NJ. It was fairly time consuming and when my landlord told me he was going to raise my rent when my lease expired I decided to close the store and just do shows and mail order. At that point I had about sixty long boxes of back issues. I was living in a small apartment with a room mate so bringing the stock home wasn't an option. I called around to some store owners and dealers and managed to liquidate about half my stock. My Mom offered to let me put the stuff in her garage but I explained it needed a better climate so she reluctantly let me bring to her house and store it in my old bedroom. So many boxes were stacked five feet high around my room and pretty much forgotten about while I pursued other things for a few years, including a spell in Puerto Rico where I managed the only comic shop on the Island while training to be a professional wrestler. Jump forward ten years or so , and I am living in Queens and finally get the books out of my Moms house. By then, I've picked up quite a bit more boxes as stores were dropping like flies. But I digress. When I was moving to Las Vegas about five years ago, I liquidated quite a bit but there were two short boxes ,heavily taped that said "unbagged decent show stock" that I brought with me. As I never got around to bagging them, they sat sealed until I finally opened them this week. One box was Marvel, the other was half DC and half 80s Indies. My first observation was many of the pages were off. One of the first books I come across is a GI Joe 2, but its a reprint. I pull a couple of later issues of Secret Wars and then I find two Moon Knight 1s. A bunch of early Star Wars, and then a Star Wars 1, I'd call it a 4.0. A couple of Marvel Spotlight 1s, bunch of drek and then 12 more Moon Knight 1s. The Marvel box gave me 23 Moon Knight 1s, 3 She Hulk 1s, A Marvel Team-Up 1 and 141, 2 Spiderwoman #1s, about 25 early Star Wars including a VG #1, a dozen 1st print Joes, 3 Nova #1s, a half dozen Spidey 275s, some Spidey 289s, a single Spidey 298, and a couple dozen X-Men in the 140-175 range. The DC box had a dozen Crisis #1s, 8 Watchmen 1s, and 27 other Watchmens, 3 Dark Knight #2s, 5 New Teen Titans 44, 2 Flash #1s and a couple of Killing Jokes, 2 Omega Men #3 and a bunch of Super Powers from various series From the Indies, I pulled a bunch of Twisted Tales, a Usagi Yojimbo #1 that got me very excited only to find out it wasn't an original, and 10 Archie Mutant Turtles #1 from the mini-series and five from the regular series. A bunch of American Flaggs and Jon Sables, and eight copies of Miami Mice #1. With the exception of the Star Wars 1, everything is in the VF/VF+ range. Had I opened them earlier, i'd have sold the Moon Knights and Turtles for $5 each if I was lucky. And some people say procrastination is a bad thing.

So Kirby had such a great imagination that he needed to re-imagine his own work twenty years later?

A guy in Bisbee has a four door Maverick, which was pretty rare even in the 1970s. Another has a Monza, which I thought was a Vega.

I'd say the FF but I'm not aware of any Lee signatures on covers from 1975. i'd need confirmation that signature is real.

The Pinto and the Vega were huge when they fist came out. They were the first of the next generation of American cars that was going to end the growing trend of imports. One of them was heavily advertised as being $1919 nicely equipped. My parents were looking for a second car and were interested but it was a several month wait to get one, and you had little choice. You got to choose from whatever car got delivered that week. They went with a 65 Nova wagon off the used lot that lasted another six years. That was longer than the average Pinto or Vega. I liked the look of the Pinto wagon, and Ford even did a wagon conversion that looked like a custom van.

i'll take a flyer on one lot.

I sold my original collection in the fall of 1977 and used the money to buy a 72 Camaro. I really wanted a Firebird but they were about $300 more. The only book I kept was my AF 15, which I sold a year or two later for about $125. My collection was mostly copies of every comic published from mid 73 to mid 77, plus a lot of SA Marvel. DD 1, Avengers 1, I had most of the Avengers and a solid X-Men run from about 7 up. I'd traded a then uber-rare copy of Classics Comics Great Expectations for about thirty SA X-Men and the dealer thought he was getting the better of the deal. I loved those DC over-sized books, more than the Marvel Treasury books they competed with. Then Marvel am out with it's Origins, Son of Origins, ect,ect. One Christmas I got both Origins of Mar vel Comics, and a boxed set of LOTRs. What a magical time.

I've no idea what CGC would do but if it were my book I'd price it as a 4.0 and hope for the best.

Spider-Man had an album, circa 1974/75. I had it years ago, and vaguely remember that the songs were bad. It was along the lines of a Rock Opera and narrated by Stan himself. It took me years to find it and I listened to it once.

CGC used to put the sticker on the outside but the advancement of their newton ring technology now allows it to be placed on the inside. The stickers frequently would come lose and need to be reattached. I had a buyer of a Doctor Strange #1 insist on a return because he felt the top sticker had been tampered with.

It will turn off some people, and attract a small portion but unless it is ultra high grade and rare, it won't make much difference. I'm going to assume it's a DC, which I don't think had UK versions like early Marvels did. Every DC I've seen has a store stamp, not a different price printed on.

My auction results are mixed. I got burned really badly on on book and mostly just sell. I used to buy a good bit but lately most books go for more than Im willing to pay.

Their website is pretty self-explanatory. What I do is consign them at a pretty aggressive price, will consider offers over 75% and drop the prices 5% every two weeks or so.

I'd call it a 1.0 but I think CGC downgraded it for the kid signing his name in the middle.

Their prices may not be as strong as PSA but ,to me att least, this is found money. I scoffed up most of my cards at garage sales and auctions and am into them for pennies.Last year I was selling Series 1V boxes for $30.