shadroch

Jimmy Collins was born in July 1954. In the summer of 1962, he had the mumps and his birthday party was canceled. Fast forward to 2019. His God-Mother passes away, having named Jimmy to be her executor. She has no children and leaves her estate in equal parts to her six nephews. It's fairly modest, a $200,000 house and a couple small bank accounts. While cleaning out the house and going through his Aunts things, he finds a plain paper bag and inside it are eight comic books and a birthday card made out to him, dated July 1962. It's from the cancelled birthday party. Two of the cousins are there helping out and everyone gets a kick out of Jimmy finding such a blast from the past and without dissent agree it belongs to Jimmy. Jimmy takes the bag home and shows it to his family and his oldest sons eyes pop out. The first book is Journey Into Mystery 83, but the second is Amazing Fantasy 15. A quick computer search shows the books might be worth $300,000. The books were clearly bought as a gift for Jimmy ,but are they his or his Aunts. Did the two cousins who gave their consent to Jimmy taking them lose their rights to the books, if they ever had any. Do you think the final legal fight over the books will exceed the value of the books?

I'm still confused. You told him you were looking for a low grade X-Men 1 so he bought one off ebay, cracked it and sent you a scan in the hope you would take it? Possibly cleaning and pressing it along the way?

Thor could always get his daddy involved.

I'm not following this. Are you saying the person you dealt with bought this after you had the deal? How did you buy a book without seeing any scans of it?

How did that work out? It would be nice to have ebays buyer protection program to fall back on, no?

A collection of 400 top grade keys would almost certainly bring well more than 50% of guide. The key being they were in top shape, 8.5 or higher and they were key issues. Does anyone think a major dealer would decline a hot $100,000 book because the seller was asking $55,0000.? $60,000? 70,000? If you are trying to sell Avengers 1-400, you'll be lucky to get 50% of the expected sale price, but sell only #1, 4, 56, 100 and 144, and you could easily get 70% or more. If a book is HG and in demand, the dealer will most likely know a buyer for it as soon as he sees it. A 25% profit on a $100,000 book equal many Sundays of lugging around boxes of stuff to shows.

I can't find the original thread. Can somebody link it please.

What does The Joker bring to his team? While I'm sure he would make for some interesting moments, I'd lose him and go big. Validus or Mongol.

In the late 1990s, Joe Koch offered a subscription service where you'd get the entire months books starting from 1965 up. Once a month you'd get low grade copies. One month would be the 8-10 Marvels from Jan 65, the next month you got Feb, and so on. You could also buy a years worth of a title in one shot. They weren't cheap and I could never get myself to subscribe, but thought it was a great idea. I can't enjoy the B&W Essentials. While occasionally art looks better in b&w, the lack of color ruins the over-all experience. I greatly prefer the Omni's with their much larger color images.

Those books were worth a fraction of what they sell for today when he made the offer. Someone mentioned how the offer didn't even cover the slabbing costs and you didn't even try to correct him. I'm sorry your brother died but you left out quite a bit of information that would have changed peoples views.

That's very different than the story presented in your initial posts. I'm sure you didn't mean to mislead anyone but a $500 offer a decade ago on a bunch of raw books is a whole other story from what most people would assume was a current offer on slabbed books. I'm glad it worked out for you but the offer was much fairer when viewed in the original context.

I just don't see how ST 102 is essential, but the 101 isn't. Human Torch gets his own book vs. the first appearance of the Wingless Wizard?

Nice idea for a thread. I don't see Strange Tales 101 on the list. Is the 102 a typo?

I'm not following. When did you get the $500 offer for the books? This makes it sound like the offer was a decade ago, and the books were raw.

The time traveling arc was one of my favorite story lines of that era. I have not read it since it originally came out and won't because much of this era doesn't stand up to my memory. I remember really looking forward to the next issue. Unless there was a guest star I loved, MTU was a must buy but middle of the reading pile type of book.

Invincible, not invulnerable.

Every book gets it.

The only cover that anyone complained to me about was a later Green Lantern issue (213?) that featured an alien swapping spit with a human female. A mother came in to see me after finding the book at her house. I took the book home and showed it to a few people, several who thought it was offensive. Copper Age, not Bronze.

That would be my choice.

Then I suggest you find a better sort of person to deal with. A person comfortable with cheating Paypal will have little qualm cheating a person.

I've never read Spawn. I don't remember reading his Spiderman series but I imagine I read some of them. I enjoyed the Spawn cartoons but they never encouraged me to pick up an issue. I didn't like the live action movie.

Common baseball cards don't appreciate. Common coins don't appreciate. Common cars don't appreciate. Thirty year old common baseball cards are less than a dime apiece. Your average hundred year old coin is worth whatever its silver content is. Very few autos go up in value. Common runs of comics will suffer the same fate. When I got into comics, most Marvels had a hundred issues or less so completing a run was feasible. Now someone wanting a complete Spiderman has thousands of books to collect. Buying a run in the hope one or two books get hot because of a movie is not collecting. It's speculating and if you are going to speculate, buying runs is a poor way of doing it.

I hope that's not in Columbian Pesos.

Superman goes into a fight looking to give his opponent a bloody nose. Zod goes in looking to rip his opponents heart out and feed it to him. If you are going to fight, fight like you are the third monkey on line for Noahs Ark and it is starting to rain.

Sam Colt made every man equal.