shadroch

ST 114 is the first real appearance of Captain America. Avengers 4 is the first appearance of the real Captain America. No collection is complete without both.

They are supposed to, but unless they really abuse it, I don't believe there are any penalties. It's not an exclusive so the seller can simply say it was sold elsewhere.

I have both, and there is no reason why every serious collector doesn't,as well. I would add Sgt Fury 13 is also a must have.

The less popular a title is, the better to sell it by runs. For example, no one in their right mind would pay more than $1 for Skunk-Man #21 but you might find a new collector to pay $30 for Skunk- Man 1 thru 27. However Skunk-Man 16 has the first appearance of Hal Morrison, who is rumored to be the new Skunk-Man and might be in the new Defenders of the Multi-verse movie. Pimping ain't easy.

First world problems.

I recently ordered ten Paisano pizzas off of Goldbelly. It's a small chain in the Albany area that traces it's roots back to Brooklyn ,where two of the brothers worked in different pizza parlors before going to school in Albany. It's been several years sice I've been able to get real pizza so it was a little slice of heaven. They actually reminded me of the Ellos of my childhood, when they made round pizza before they convertedt to aquare pizza and got bought by some soul less corporation.

Does Joey do express pressing so that anyone can simply drive their on their vacation and get their books pressed?

I'm trying to decide between one of three copies of Marvel Mystery 35, and have my eye out for NM 87 and 98, yellow costume Daredevils and a couple items I will keep to myself for now. I'm looking for bargain books I can sit on for a year and then churn.

I'm in the same boat. After the sale of my building, I put aside $10,000 to buy a couple of books. so far, I've brought two for about $800 and am actively hunting for bargains.

I have a 9.8 copy of a book that has 27 of that grade in the Signature Series census. My copy was signed by Stan Lee, Joe Simon and Steve Epliting, all on different dates so it's not like they all signed together. Is there a way to find out if there are other SS copies of this book signed by Joe and Stan. It's Marvel Project 1, from around 2008. I've always loved the Cap, Namor, Human Torch cover. Thanks, this is one area of the forum I never visit, as signatures aren't my thing but couldn't resist this book.

I just want to make sure you are aware there is a whole industry based on finding such books and cracking them. Your competition will have years of expertise. By the way, what would you expect would happen if you send it a slabbed CGC 6.0 and ask them to regrade it?

Looks like a kid was reading it while on the toilet. I recently bought a small collection of BA Fantastic Fours that the seller was insisting were his unread over copies. They were generally in the 8.5-9.2 range with nice paper, but then I noticed his copy of Giant size Superstars #1 had a bit of a bump in it. When I went thru the pages, I found a bad grease stain and what appeared to be a forty year old slice of pepperoni.I'm not sure how to grade that.

I'd like to think there are more than 127 deep pocketed collectors out there. I wouldn't worry about census numbers until there are 500 or more 9.8s.

I was talking to my friend in NY this weekend. He turns 55 in May and is retiring. He and his wife own an $800,000 house free and clear, and a condo in Florida with a $25,000 mortgage. His pension will be in the high 80s, and if his wife retired now, hers would be worth about $45. She insists that she needs to work six more years so she can retire at 62 with a $70,000 pension. She insists they don't have the money for them to retire. They currently own four cars in NY plus one they keep in Florida, all paid off. They could easily get $3500 a month if they rented out the LI house and they would have to get by on $175K a year for a few years until SS would kick in. They have over a half million in the bank, and $20,000 in stocks because stocks are so risky.

I'm sitting on my patio, staring at the snow capped peak of San Jose mountain, just over the border in Mexico. The house next door is on the market at $109,000 and has four bedrooms, a Florida room, two baths and like mine, it borders a large church property so no neighbors. Only thing missing is a walmart.

A good guestimate is 250 bagged and boarded per box, a bit more if raw. Moderns tend to be thinner than BA books, many of which were more than 36 pages

i store thousands of cheap books in my storage lockers. I don't want books that are under-achievers hob -knobbing with the elite. They are insured and I want my house to be a home, not a place where I store mess. Eventually, I will buy my own forty foot storage container but until then, they are where they are. I couldn't imagine asking a friend to store either my valuable comics or my future paper-mache .

If you bought bitcoin for $100, sold it for $30,000 and invested the profits into comics, does it matter if the comics go down 30%? If you spent $2,000 free money from the gubermint on comics, aren't you still ahead of the game if the book drops 50%? The world, and our little slice of it is changing.

Nevermind.

Do you want to sell them now, or six months from now? Do you feel like laying out $1200 now and hoping you get more than that back?

I think of what the Fourth World would have been if it had been a Kirby/Lee production, and what heights Kirby could have soared to instead of stuff like Demon or Kamandi, neither of which I think are worthy of his legacy. Lee= Eisenhower, Kirby= Patton.

Aquaman would telepathically summon giant electric eels to stun Namor and Giant Blue Whales to rip him asunder. Daredevil 7 will explode if Subby ever takes off.

It was commissioned for the 600th anniversary of the battle and only 15 large versions were made. The crown, which isn't in the photo, is gold, and the sword is gold,with diamond bits. One was presented to the Royal family, one to the British museum and Royal Daulton sold the rest for between 25,000 and 35,000. The six inch version is a couple hundred dollars Their large pieces usually sell for $15,000 or more, just because they are so limited. They might do a dozen large ones and 10,000 small versions for everything they do, Most Royal Daulton collectors will never see a piece like this in the wild.

Not comic related but our British cousins would call him a hero, This originally sold in excess of $30,000