shadroch

Some old cards have variant issues. One of the more popular is the 1969 Mickey Mantle. There is a card with his name in white and another with the name in yellow.

Why not just use Mycomicshops sell my books listings to get an inventory on your books. You can list almost any book in any shape, and you get the benefit of seeing what MCS will buy and what they will pay.

Wasnt 3D Man related to Triad, who was an Avenger for a short spell.

It far from an exact match but a year or three ago, I bought a bunch of Captain Marvel books at auction. They had the covers and main story only. Rest of books were sliced out. At auction, they sold for less than.$5 a book. Your should bring more but I've no idea how much more. Start at a high asking price. You can always go down. I just sold a Special Marvel Edition 15 Mark Jewelers issue. I'd no idea what to price it at so I started at $550 and over two months lowered it to $301 where it sold. You can always adjust downward, it's hard to go up.

Good luck. Sounds like a nice find but before spending a fortune getting them graded and slabbed, why not investigate their value. Post some here or in the grading section. Not every book is worth sending in.

It's nothing I ever read, as I'm pretty sure I'd remember it.

We understand your point. It's just that we think you are mistaken.

Twice, at NY Cons, I was sitting at the closed CGC table bsing with fellow forumites when dealers tried to drop off submissions. The first time, three of us were sitting there when a guy wanted to drop off two boxes of early new X-Men. The other, a guy wanted to drop off an early Spiderman. I wouldn't be at all surprised if this scene hasn't been repeated in other cities. CBCS misplaced my first and only order with them.I gave them my books, and wanted two pressed. They sent the whole order out to the presser and even though I handed the books directly to them, they said they weren't responsible for the books until they were returned to them by the presser. It eventually worked itself out, but I was less than impressed with the service I recieved.

While the seller is at fault, some blame has to be placed on the buyer. The seller pretty much tells him they use inferior shipping methods and you are buying at your own risk.

Whitman weren't selling product at a discount. They were selling non-returnable books at a higher margin.

Babe Ruth is dead eighty years but more people know him now than when he was alive. I'm pretty sure Jordan will be, as well.

One summer, 1969 or 1970, the man across the street had his grandson stay with him for a bit. We were flipping cards and he was left out because he had none. After lunch, he appeared with these dinky little square black and white cards that must have been his fathers. Of course, no one was willing to risk this years cards for twenty year old cards that weren't even in color. We were all way too smart for that.

In my neighborhood, Colors were where the action was. Sort of like War. You put down a card and they try to match the team color. Match it and you win the whole pile. 1969 Topps had all sorts of variant colors.which made it interesting. Some Reds were almost Orange and there were.different shades of several colors. I remember a fight breaking out when someone had a red Yankee and the other guy had the same players card but more orangey than Red. We mostly flipped. I'd flip a card and the other guy would decide if his flip matched or was the opposite.

Keep thinking that. More importantly, keep preaching it.

I won several cases of 1990-91 NBA cards. Ended up with 32 boxes for $56. I was mad because I thought it each case was twenty boxes, but one was only twelve. Sold a few 3 for $25, and more for $5-6 each. I think they retailed for about $25 a box when new.

UK Whitmans, obviously. It's amazing how many things were staring us in the face or years without anyone noticing. I ended up buying dozens of thirty five cent variants from a midwest dealer and never noticing them for years. Turns out I also had a couple of the More Fun Classics, as well. I returned an early EBay lot because it had Whitman DCs that I considered reprints.

I don't think they did, either, but it's strange they would change the price and eliminate the month but leave not only the Curtis logo but also leave the Curtis id codes.

Did Curtis handle the overseas distribution?

I seem to remember Star Reach being advertised as being available direct from the publisher. As it was a strange hybrid, with popular Jim Starlin doing a story about dropping acid and facing Death and a Howard Chaykin story about sexbots, no one knew what to call it. It wasn't an Underground, and probably should have been 18 and older. At this point, most of the few comic book shops that existed got their comics from newsstand vendors and you had to buy these directly from Star Reach. Mike Friedrich published Star Reach and then was hired by Marvel to head their new direct sales department. I have no idea if he has written about those days or been interviewed but he would be a great source.

Does anyone know the story behind 1980s Francis, Brother of the Universe? Evidently there are copies with a UPC code and copies without the UPC box. Mycomicshop shows a $1.00 cover copy but all of mine are .75 cents.

So what we seem to have had in that era was retailers and dealers that dealt with Seagate were getting a mix of Big Diamond on some issues and regular newstand copies on other books. If the purpose was to stop people from returning direct copies, that seems pretty inefficient. While I certainly concede not every Big Diamond book was a Whitman, it certainly seems they were the predominant buyer of Big Diamond books. I have no problem referring to them as Whitmans, nor does Overstreet, Mycomicshop and apparently most collectors. Evidently there was enough confusion about them that Overstreet had to explain they were not reprints. I know at least one store on Long Island who carried on a crusade against the diamond books. I forget the shops name but the owner was Perry Albert and he also ran the largest( and only) monthly convention on Long Island

Few people get rich by doing all the work themselves.

So while the economy of the world shrinks, you think the Dow is going to go up 40%.

Are there Diamond copies for every Marvel of that era? I thought there were gaps. If so, doesn't that mean that every retailer would have been receiving a mix. Unless some titles weren't offered to the direct market which doesn't make sense.

The author has literally been " tilting at windmills" since the early 1990s. He's been writing about the ills of the industry long before many of us were even aware of the problem.