shadroch

Comic drawers are recommended, but if stacking boxes, I'd use a sheet of wood every three levels. Certainly every fourth.

The book has perhaps a half million copies. This kit had maybe 5,000 made, with most used so perhaps 10-20% remain intact. The FOOM kits were distributed in much higher numbers but now are rare. I'd say anything that was distributed one per shop twenty five years ago fits the criteria to be considered rare. My rule of thumb is this- Can I walk into a major show and buy twenty, regardless of money. If so, a book isn't rare. If I put out a $10,000 bounty on this, will hundreds pop up? If not, it's rare. Does rarity effect price? Somewhat, but not nearly as much as demand. Something can be very rare, but not in demand. This is a good example. I doubt more than a couple hundred of these survived, but the demand probably doesn't exist.

You have to get the feel of the seller. Sometimes, it's best to be upfront and disappoint the seller. Other times, it's easier to fake taking some notes, explain you need to do a bit of research and get back to them with a proper offer. By phone, explain that after checking your inventory, you aren't interested or throw out an offer.

Cgc says it. He believes it. Nuff Said!

I'd normally make the trade but that Daredevil is ridiculously overgraded.

If some other company graded a POS a 3.5, the usual suspects would be crackling.

One wonders how many unscrupulous book sellers have bought reprints thinking they were real.

If I were still buying, I'd be all over this. Obviously a very niche book, but it's coolness factor is off the charts.

Quite the labor of love

I think this would be a great book to own. For your sake, I hope not too many people feel that way. It's more than I'm willing to pay right now.

You need an all Yellow set.

That's not necessarily true. Sometimes a dealer buys a large collection for $500. Most of it is stuff already in inventory. One can sort it and add it to your inventory where the 8th copy of New Mutants 18 might sell in two years, or he can split it into ten lots and sell each as a mystery lot for $100. Double your money and get rid of the inventory. Buy at 80% off, double your money and give the buyers good value. It might be hard to believe for some here, but most dealers aren't scum looking to hose their customers. Most are decent people looking to build long relationships with buyers. Honest people, which the overwhelming number of dealers are, don't suddenly try to rip people off because it's dark out.

I'm not certain it's a better investment, but I'm willing to bet it is. It is much easier for a $300 book to double in value than a $3,000 book.

That's not how investments work, is it? Will $10,000 worth of Hulk 180s today's increase more or less than $10,000 worth of Hulk 181s in the same period? If you ask me which book I'd take for free, obviously the 181, but as an investment, it's the 180.

I'd rather have one picture of The Black Terror than a half dozen of Ben Franklin.

I had a lot of fun putting together the mystery boxes I sold here. I did have one complaint, but that person seems to be a chronic complainer. I think I got almost $1,000 for my best one and that had a Frazzetta Snow Globe and a Schomburg Nedor CGC in it among many other things. I'm currently selling 25 comics for $15 in a bundle. Nothing great but solid reading.

The market for these books currently sucks. The good news is it can only go up from here. I wouldn't spend money stabbing them . I buy raw ones on occasion, but solely based on the covers. If it reprints a key story, that's better.

Why patronize a shop that is so shady?

That's cool cause when Netflix hints it is going to make show, I will add another zero.

As a new shop owner, I'm at a loss to explain why I have this book in a professionally graded slab and this one is just raw. If I don't trust myself to grade a $500 book, why should the customer trust my judgement on a $50 book.

It's the attitude of a lot of collectors, as well.

Yes, I am mistaken. RIP.

I really liked his Conan and thought his work on Claw the Un-conquered was even better. One of my favorites . I was at a show around d 1975 and there was a guy named Ernie Chua there. I had no idea it was my favorite and I never even went by his table. Not really sure why he used two names. Rest in peace.

Do you think there are three buyers willing to go $15 million for them? Three buyers at $5mil each? I don't know that part of the market at all.

Not yet., but I've read VCRs are becoming a good thrift shop buy as demand is slowly increasing. Never underestimate nostalgia. Every generation has it, only for different things.