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1.5, and I suspect the cost to get it into the 2.5 range would be about the cost of buying a 2.5.

There is no simple answer. 9.6s tend to be more common than 9.8s, and are usually much cheaper. For many modern books, the cost to buy a 9.6 is about the same as slabbing one yourself. Is more common and cheaper better? I'd suggest the more common book will rise in value slower than the more rare copies so are you looking at the investment part?

Isn't there a section in Overstreet that gives the prices for all the editions?

Some of those UPC codes can be soooo sexy.

Just remember 25 or so slabs takes up more space than a short box of comics and even then are a pain in the to move or bring to shows.

I just checked my 1st Series She-Hulks, it's about a quarter of a short box so maybe 40 copies. All are news-stand. I do segregate what I call Whitmans but they are not organized so I'd have to go thru all the boxes.

As a patriotic American, I refuse to allow my countries treasures to be sent to a bunch of foreigners. Not to mention it's a real pain to fill out those silly forms. MCFM "Merican comics for "Mericans."

When I had my shop in the 80s, both Marvel and DC offered co-op money for advertising and they would offer us prepared ad slicks where you'd insert your stores information. some advertising was more successful than others. I took an eight week campaign in the local Pennysaver with an eigth of a page each issue that rotated three or four ads. I think Marvel picked up about 70% of the cost and it brought it a few lookers but little real business. I ran ads in three local colleges that Marvel paid 100% for and I ended up with a few regulars out of it. Marvel used to pay half the cost of yellowbook advertising so one year DC upped their offer to 75%, which saved me money but didn't really ring in business. ECBRA, the earliest form of our Retailers Association spent months trying to negotiate a full page ad in one of the NY papers Sunday comics section but it was just too expensive. I forget the numbers but my share of the ad would have been around what I paid for a months rent and it wold not have listed my shop, just a generic- shop at your local comic shop. One or two owners balked at paying, figuring they would get the publicity if they paid or didn't, and the whole idea never took off. One owner was pushing us to rent a bill board at a very havy trsffic spot, which by coincidence was about a mile from his shop. Advertising isn't cheap and the old motto- advertising doesn't cost, it pays, may no longer be true. The market is so fractured and unit sales are so low that I don't see any company devoting much to actual advertising. Marvel used to give each new account a copy of Guerilla Marketing, and I got great use out of it but what worked for me in the 1980s may not work in the 2020s.

She-Hulk 1 came out when the direct market was in it's infancy, so the vast majority of copies would be news-stand. Thor 337 was very under-ordered by store owners, as was ASM 300. I can't speak about other areas, but on Long Island, many,if not most copies of the news-stand 337s never made it to the news-stand as they were scoffed up at the distributors by store owners and speculators willing to pay full cover for them. In any event, three or four books out of the thousands of issues published seems to re-enforce my point, not negate it.

Until the 1990s, there is very little difference between direct and news stand copies, value wise. It is really only after 1994 or so that there is a premium attached to most news stand issues.

Thats what happens in a rising market.

I had stopped reading X-Men around issue 200 so when a friend asked me this question, i had no idea. He says that when Bishop first appeared, he was warning that one of the current X-Men would betray the team and it would have major repercussions. He thought it was going to be either Cable, Gambit, Rogue or the ninja girl. did this story ever play out, who was the traitor and was it a big deal? Thanks.

As popularity declines, and prices go down, I'd imagine some long time collectors would prop up the prices for awhile. Who here wouldn't buy a AF 15 or GS XMen #1 at 40% off? In the early 90s, there was a show every weekend on Long Island and dealers had to choose which ones to attend. By 1995, shows were all but extinct. There were dozens of shops that carried both baseball cards and comics and many of them literally disappeared overnight. I was on a bit of a hiatus from the hobby as my job kept me extremely busy on weekends so I can't really speak to what happened, but in 1990 my friend opened a secondary distributorship and in six months had 400 accounts. For a while it was as if he was printing money, but by 1995 he went bankrupt owing close to a half million dollars.

I've never seen one.

The two valuable books you mention are a decade older than the ones listed. How'd that happen?

What he said.

Somebody put the book in plastic case so I can't read it. Kool cover, though.

Although I've never seen one, Tom Defalco once casually mentioned adding someone to Marvels Christmas Card list. That image would make a kool card. For people not familiar with the Imperial Guard, it was a blatant " homage" to the Legion of Super-Heroes.

Looking at that picture, you could clear $200 or more if you sold them as a lot on ebay with a bunch of clear pictures. you'd get more if you sold them individually but it would be much more work. I'm thinking a few dealers might offer you a hundred for the the lot, but for most of them these would just be extra copies of books they already have. The simplest, cheapest route would be to auction them off here. Maybe split them into two or three groups, start the auction at a dollar and let the market decide. It's a lot less work and you will get more than most dealers will pay with little work.

So I give you $5,000 and you give me a piece of paper saying I own part of the Disney parks and the Marvel movies. Do I get a discount at the park for being an " owner" ? Do I get free admission to see " my movies" What a ripoff. Why would anyone invest in a company that makes electric cars that no one wants, and few can afford ? A company who wants to sell computers for people to use in their homes? Please.

I doubt many dealers would want to go thru the hoops of registering their stock as securities.. If you were offered 1/1000th of an AF 15 for $1 in 2000, would you have dropped $10 on it?

Is Superboy 47 the first time they meet? If not, can anyone list the times before? Thanks.

These days I do almost all my sales through Mycomicshop.

I'll take the Ultron.

With both of them being in NY and Rally not being a retailer, they might have had to pay sales tax. The offerings are roughly a ten percent mark-up.