shadroch

Its still a precious gift from your wife, and as such is priceless. I'd keep it.

Yes, there are thousands of SA covers that surfaced in the 1980s. Many dealers married them to greatly inferior books. I had a couple but used them as posters. What Dupcheck did was marry them and try to call them File Copies. I'd call the covers "proofs", more than file copies but neither is 100% correct.

I'm not sure why people are telling you to take it out of the slab. I'd value it as is in the $175-200 range. Selling it raw without disclosing the restoration would be scummy, and I'm sure you are better than that. Leave it in the slab and be thankful you have a wife willing to enage in your hobby.

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I never heard of this character until DC bought the rights and wasn't very impressed when he got his own title, but I could see it working with Cena in the lead. I recognize the title and have an issue or two, but chances of having that issue are pretty slim. Thanks for the heads up.

What is special about that book? I'm 99% sure I don't have any, but now I will drag out my box of obscure war comics to be sure.

I placed a few orders with Marc and was very happy with him until the end. I had worked as a caddy all summer in 75 and sent him a very big order for me. I remember it was for a Strange Tales 101,110, JIM 83 and an Avengers 9. I think it came to just over $100 US, and to my disappointment it was returned with a note saying he was concentrating on his store and no longer did mail order. Unlike Cresthol and Seeley, when you ordered from Marc's you usually got what you wanted, not a bunch of alternates.

Pre-internet, MJ inserts were hard to find, but these days it's not hard to put sets together. I'm surprised no direct distributor ever tied up all the PXs, it would have been a nice account.

Are most MJ inserts in newssstand books?

Until they aren't.

Just to follow thru on this. It's a few weeks later and I have sent some $50,000 worth of books out on consignment and have a box of slabs I'm sending to NY after the holidays. In a move that was surprisingly quick, we go to escrow on my building on Monday. I'd been in discussion s with a group but they were having difficulty getting financing. To my surprise, thet showed up yesterday with an open line of credit for a cash sale. The only point of dispute right now is I want 60 days to vacate and they are offering 45. That will not be a deal breaker.

If you can find a HG Mark Jewelers collector, I imagine it would bring a nice premium, but for most collectors, it's not a big deal.

I don't think I've seen that before, and there are none on ebay, so it might be fairly rare.

I've never seen that price guide. Where did you buy it?

I have to find them but I have a couple of catalogs from Max Seeley when he was working out of his apartment. It was amazing as he didn't use boxes, but had everything in stacks. He'd have a stack of Avengers and everytime someone ordered one, he'd have to go thru the stack to get it. He had run out of room and had to go vertical.

Early Gene Day. He did several catalog covers for Marc.

It's closer to forty boxes of drek, stored five boxes high in comicdrawers. While not totally organized, I can usually find what I'm looking for. The non-drek stuff is slightly more organized but not by titles.

I hope you get a kick out of this.

I love these threads. I read them over breakfast, scour my boxes for ten minutes, pull out books I'd have been happy to get a buck or two for, spend a few minutes listing them on ebay and a week later I've got a few hundred dollars in my paypal account. Batman 313, TTA #2, Marvel Spotlight 9......... Sometimes I feel like the guy in the fairy tale spinning hay into gold.

My personal opinion is that everything BCW makes and or sells is inferior to the product they compete with.

Last week, while cleaning up my backroom, I fond a box of old SDCC giveaways. Included were about a dozen copies of Discover Dark Horse 2008. I saw a bunch of ebay sales in the $40-$50 range but they all seem to be from the same seller. It is a preview book for upcoming Dark Horse projects and was released a few months before the actual books were. Can anyone tell me if these are worth sending in to get slabbed.

That's not the point, and as I consign books to them rather than sell, it is moot. I've no issue with their grading on most books but the one time I objected to a grade they assigned and we sent it out, it came back much higher than they called it. I don't know if it sold for much more as many people think an MCS 5.0 equals a CGC 6.0 or so.

Can you point out a post where you think I defended him? I've stated that there is nothing wrong with disagreeing with CGCs grades and I've said he isn't going to jail for shilling. I'm not sure how that translates into defending this guy?