shadroch

I'd lose the friend before he does you any more favors.

1.5

Interesting times.

No

They have an unconventional marketing strategy that can't be easily explained. As best I can tell it is more about creating hype than anything else.

I think the idea is that NOT FIRST PRINTS will always be available. A NOT FIRST PRINT printed two years from now will be identical to a NOT FIRST PRINT from day one. I think its a bad strategy but time will tell.

I hope you are joking. You mention selling a Batman book in 9.4 and now you want to buy the same book but you can only afford an 8.0. Then you mention your wife wants to sell some books to lower your credit card debt and you act like she is nuts. That is just sad. I strongly suggest you re-examine your priorities. What choice is there? Indeed.

We might be going to hell in a bucket, but at least I'm enjoying the ride. Sold two JIMs yesterday for double the last GPA . One book I paid $115 for 9/19 and sold for $428 minus commission. The other cost $78 in July 2017 and sold for $360. Enjoy the wave we are riding, there will be plenty of time to worry about the next one. Later.

3.5

I form an opinion on the book thru the bag. NM/VF/F/VG Lets call it a VF. Then I examine the front cover, inside cover, check for smell , fan the book to see if anything falls out, then do the back cover. I rarely upgrade after examining, and mostly downgrade about a grade.

How bizarre. Nice pickup.

You'd also include paypal fees, cost of insurance, cost of internet, cost of storage, cost of insuring the book, cost of driving to the post office, ect, ect.

Slabbing this, and getting it cleaned or pressed would be a waste of money.

I was manning a booth for HERO when Mr Ordway came to sign autographs as a fund raiser. Some guy came by with a graphic novel to be signed and insisted I sign it as well. I told him I'd better not find it on Bay.

When shipping long boxes, which I don't recommend , putting an extra lid on the bottom of the box will strengthen it tremendously. I use short boxes myself.

If you bought a book for $25,000 and sold it on ebay for $26,000, you did not make a $1,000 profit. You lost money on the deal.

There is an excellent thread on how to ship, and how not to ship. Shipping large lots is expensive. You can try media mail but it's wrong and if the box is open can be problematic. At some point, donating comics and getting a tax writeoff is your best move.

Unless it has some jewel hidden inside, I can't imagine it goes for much.

MY Spidey, Thor, Avengers, Daredevil run all stop at the 200 issue mark. My Cap run ends at 192, as I look at the Kirby run that starts at 193 as a bad dream. It just didn't happen. I should cut out the Frank Robbins issues as well, but those I bought off the stands. I bought the first Kirby issue and took a nearly three year hiatus. I think Cap 153 until the Robbins issues were the high point of Caps run. Someone gave me a B&W preview of Cap 200 with no dialog and while it looked better than I expected, it didn't rise to the level of interest.

2.5/ borderline 3.0

Quite a few of the slabbed books I've consigned to them have been labeled as being scuffed. I wasn't thrilled by it but it hasn't affected the prices I've gotten, which have generally exceeded my expectations.

When the herd goes one way, the smart money goes the other. That's a bit of advice Jack Penrod gave me almost forty years ago, and it generally works.

I think there was a gap of seven or eight months between issues 93 and 94 so I'd say the chances of it being accurate are nil. That summer, Marvel debuted several books as Giant Size and then put them on monthly status. The Invaders and Super-Villain Team Up had GS Issues and then #1s, but the X-men went back to the old numbers. I thought it strange at the time. Of course I bought extras of Invaders 1, but 1st issues were everything back then so no extra 94s. Within a year I had about a dozen GS 1s as I liked the book . I remember passing on a couple because they were $2 each.

Circulation Statements were filed once a year, so they are using the most current one to estimate sales. It's kind of worthless, imo. The avg. circulation the year before was 119,231