shadroch

Comic drawers are much sturdier and durable that the BCW knockoffs. Some of mine are approaching fifteen years old and not buckling. If one looks around, you can find lateral file cabinets for pennies on the dollar. I have four of them and each holds twenty short boxes. Check out bankruptcy and going out of business sales.

Good luck with that.

Thanks for sharing.

Dark Horse published books no one else would touch. Either they had a way of making money on small print runs that no one else figured out, or they were just in it for the love of comics.

Not like the paranoia of the fifties., or going through duck and cover drills for the inevitable nuclear exchanges. I could be mistaken about the popularity today, but I'd say it's definitely down from when I got into comics.

A book like this doesn't need grading. It's in demand so just price it aggressively, provide a lot of photos and let the potential buyers call it. I don't think it is better than a 2.0 structurally, but would price it much higher.

Cracking the slab will save you what? Six or seven dollars?

Every city but Boulder is a gambling city in Nevada. Nevada law allows corporations protections other states don't. Nothing dubious about it.

There aren't that many Wayne Berryhills in the country. It should be easy to narrow down by age whose books they once were. Might be a fun quest.

It's pretty simple. Scorsese is a genius. If the Marvel Universe was brilliant art, he'd have come up with it. He didn't so it isn't. Just ask him.

In over forty years, I've never had a single person inquire about a Treasure Chest. Collect them if you are interested, but the market for them is pretty small. I don't think anti- communism comics are as appealing to today's collectors as they were to kids who grew up in the 50s/60s.

Every Classics will have a house ad for other Classic books. If yours is a first edition, nothing with a higher issue number is listed. Say your comic is Great Expectations and is #43, then the highest reorder number would list #42. If the list has books in the 50s or even higher, it's a reprint. In many cases, reprints have a different cover price than the originals but not in every case. If you have issue 12 and the ad has books in the twenties, it's a reprint. When dealers offer them for sale, they usually will list it as #43, with an HRN of 85. That means it's a reprint of #43 and was reprinted around the time issue 85 was first printed. It's complicated but once you crack the code, it's not difficult.

I received my gift last week but am waiting to open it. My present went out priority mail last Thursday so it should be there by now. A very special shout out to the selfless forumites who organize this each year.

I started reading comics regularly in 1972/73. Had I had the ability to sit at my computer and read whatever back issue I wanted, I certainly wouldn't have spent my time and money hunting down every used bookshop/ rummage sale, antique store in miles and I would have put my meager spending money to much better use. In 1974, I got $7 a week allowance and often bought two dozen books a week, as well as trying to put something aside for the next convention.

In the early 80s, long before that book broke out, you could get low grade copies for a buck or two. A guy on Long Island was buying them up and removing the posters, then varnishing them onto wood and selling them for $10-15. I don't think he got rich, but he made some coin.

Because one blonde haired blue eyed Thunder God is enough.

It would be nice if the grading companies used a 100 point scale. Right now a book with a 85 score gets a 8.5, as does a book with an 87. How about a book that rates an 89. It doesn't deserve a 9.0 but is certainly worth more than a book that gets an 85, yet both are given an 8.5 label. I'd have thought Steve's company would have exploited this inefficiency, but now Metro is.

I thought it was a bad idea but a segment of the market is willing to pay extra for the CVA sticker. Rather than start a rival company, some enterprising individual should simply bootleg CVAs stickers.

Does anyone here think every CGC 8.5 is the same? Of course some will be superior to others. What the market really needs is a service that can accurately predict what a clean and press will do to a book.

Are the CVA books getting premiums because of the sticker or because they are superior to others in the same grade?

I first read it in 1974/5. I imagine I first heard of it in the then bi-weekly Buyers Guide. As a 14 year old, it was strange reading what a supposed authority figure had to say about something I loved. It certainly got me searching for Good Girl art and that led me to Bill Ward so there is that. I re-read about fifteen years later and had a very different read on it. It's an interesting piece of history, so if that's your thing, I'd go for it. I have a beat up copy I will lend any forum member with a years presence or an established trading record. I know the spine is missing, not sure about the pictures.

Not to thread krap, but has any of the original art from these posters ever hit the open market?

What mother, after winning something valued at $12-14,000, doesn't immediately hand it over to their 12 year old for safekeeping. Mine would have insisted on keeping it herself and getting a rider on the home insurance policy.

You had a box? We made due with a picture of a box.

I have an unsorted accumulation consisting of 65 short boxes, 25 long boxes and approximately 1000 trade paperbacks/ hardcover. I'm expecting to find low to midgrade SA, midgrade or better BA and VF or better copper and moderns. Reasonably expect to find a few modern gems, as they are unpacked. All are bagged and boarded with most BA and earlier in mylite 2s I have a nice sorting area, about 200 square feet , two tables, a dozen or so cubes. Looking for different methods of sorting. I'd prefer to do it quickly, in a week or two.