shadroch

I recently bought 165 copies of a Silver Surfer issue, maybe 114, for $7. The owner had paid $15 for 200 and gave them out for Halloween.

If the box was stored properly, there will be a number of 9.8s, and quite a few 9.6s. I'd leave it be. I sold a member an unopended case of Superman #1 a few years ago. Originally he was going to send in the best 50 for slabbing but then decided to donate them all to some charity.

I cornered the East Coast market on Miami Mice. Originally ordered 1000, but upped it to 2500 at the last minute. Before they were delivered, I was pre-selling them for $3 and sold many bricks of 20 for $100, and some individual copies for as much as $20. For about six weeks, it was the hottest book on the planet. I still think MM#4 is a great sleeper hit. Early Turtles drawn b Eastman and Laird and several other artists participate in a jam.

While there is a market for unopened cases, Superman 500 was printed at a level that far exceeds current demand. How many are in the case? 200? Is Superman 500 printed on the side of the box?

Make him an offer. I doubt you will be the first.

Take a few snapshots of the Spiderman 129, list it on ebay and this time next week you'll be a few hundred dollars richer.

I came across this while cleaning. I'm not sure what they go for, or what I have into it. The Buyers Guide to Comic Fandom #1 is almost forty years old and it is thought that about 3500 were printed. A fantastic snapshot of the hobby-someone was offering to pay $22 for Fantastic Four #1 on page 2. These rarely come up and I imagine demand far exceeds supply. I don't know how they grade newspapers but it's in nice shape for a paper that old. I will entertain trade talks for SA or BA Marvel, or some other oddity.

Non-mylar bags break down over time. It doesn't matter if the book inside is a Silver Age Marvel or last weeks Spider-Man.

I've always considered Superman as first among his peers but not the first one to appear.

You can also ask Mycomicshop if any are worth slabbing. They will take care of that for you and you pay when the book sells.

5.0,maybe a 5.5.

That method works until it's time to sell them, but I doubt thats anything you are worried about. I had a friend who laminated them on to his wall. He loved them but when he went to sell the house, it wasn't helpful.

Are those posters thumbtacked to the wall?

From my own observations, and others may disagree, there were two guys running around buying any and every double cover and dealers knew they had a sale. That made it hard on everyone else. One of them liquidated his collection which brought a lot of books back on the market. Now that is drying up and it seems like premiums are increasing on asking prices. I'll buy any if the price is right, but a D..C. 90s Superman for $30 showed me what my limits are.

A common VG Marvel SA cover will sell for a nice premium over a standard copy. A beat up Shazam 10 is dollar box fodder but if its a beatup double cover, I'd pay $10 for it. My most recent D.C. pickups were Amazing Adventures 1 and 6. They were around fine and AA#6 in fine is $3 box material. I paid $15. 5X premium. AA #1 is a $20-$30 book in Fine on a good day and I paid $50, about a 3X premium. There really is no marketprice for these books. Half the fun of tracking them down is the negotiations. Most sellers have no idea how to price these. I, have no idea what to pay for them. I have about 15 Avengers D.Cs , from #16 to #150. I joke about completing the run but never will.

I remember the first time I saw a ToysRus. It was someplace in Brooklyn and you could see it from the parkway. A whole store devoted to toys. Sadly, I was at the age when toys took a backseat to other pursuits by then.

Growing up on Army bases, toy shopping was pretty limited most of the year. Most bases had a shop called The Four Seasons. As the name indicates, it was a seasonal shop. In the summer you could buy sporting goods and such, then as school came along, school supplies were added but in December, it transformed itself into Toyland. After weeks of dreaming about the toys from the Sears Wish book, here they were all laid out. Trains running along the biggest setup imaginable, Marx playsets set up , bikes. As close to heaven as any six year old wants to get. One year, they had a special preview for the kids from my school and Santa himself was there.

There was a bullpen in the 50s, but by 1961 Stan was working at a desk in a room with about sixty desks. Flo Stienberg joined him in 1963ish and Sol Brodsky a few months later. It wasn't until Magazine Management moved around 1965 that Marvel got its own office and when they moved after Cadence bought them, they got a suite of offices. Freelancers worked from home. I've never read Herb Trimpe's story.

In the 1960s, Stan, Jack, Romita, and John Buscema lived in middle class towns. Jack and Joe Simon lived in my home town of Mineola in the 50s and then moved about two blocks to East Williston., which was considered a better neignborhood. Jack stayed there until he moved to California. Joe kept moving every few years, to progressively better houses before winding up in a very exclusive neighborhood . Stan lived in slightly above average Woodmere before moving to the very upscale Hewlett Harbor sometime in the 70s. John Romita lived in a nice house two towns over and still owns it, as far as I know. He also did some sidework, and bought a new car every two or three years. Frazetta lived afew towns over, in a pretty modest house but he also had a second house in Pennsylvania. Buscema lived way out on Long Island, near Stony Brook. The house that sits o his old property was built in the 90s and goes for more than a million but I don't know what his house looked like. Kirbys old house was on the market for about $440,000 a few years back, but had no takers. I'd imagine the salaries Marvel paid were enough for them them to be considered lower middle class in the 60s, but upper middle class by the 70s, with Stan making more. I believe I read that Stan offered Jack a promotion to art director that paid an extra $3,000 a year but it would have involved going into the office more.

Ditko started in comics in 1953, working alongside Kirby and Joe Simon. He'd been in comics almost a decade when Spider-man came along. Anyone who thinks that Stan was taking advantage of a young artist desperate to fit in is wrong. I can't say it any plainer. Just the latest in a long line of misfires from Chuck. Maybe he'll change his name again and try to stir the pot once more.

Selling the entire lot as a whole will get you the least amount ogf money. Since you say you are in the NY area, try local dealersif you want to go that route. I'd also try Gary Dolgorf. He buys large collections. The vast majority of comics from 1988 on are not worth much of anything and you have 25,000 of those. Myomicshops consignment service is usually a good option for older books, but because of the virus it is only taking in a fraction of the books they usually accept. Selling them here would be a headache. People want individual scans and you'd have to price every book, not to mention having to ship them out.

Raw, I'd grade it a bit higher but I'm not as harsh on stains as CGC. It is certainly not a Very Good( 4.0) and is better than a Good( 2.0). I'd have given it a 3.0, but can't say the 2.5 is outrageous.

Doing better than I deserve. Moved to Las Vegas in 2016 and then to Bisbee this year. Bought a commercial building and will be opening a collectible shop. Bisbee is an old mining town by the Mexican border and is 19 miles from Tombstone so they attract the same class of tourists. I got very lucky and am renting an RV on some 250 acres of land about ten minutes from the shop. Each week seems to unleash a new adventure. This week, the monsoon has brought thousands of tarantulas above ground. Last week was frogs. The Monarch butterflies migrate right thru the park. Thats incredible for about three days. I had what turned out to be a minor stroke in 2017 but have had a miraculous recovery.

When I go the site, it looks ike it hasn't been updated since 08. How is retirement?

Nobody buys a million dollar comic because they want to read it. Or sit in their room and stare at it. They buy it because they think and hope it will become a two million dollar comic.