shadroch

While I don't disagree with anything you wrote, the people at MCS have successfully transformed from a chain of local shops to being the largest on line comic dealer in the country. Whatever they are doing is pretty successful.

If you have two of an item, you price one at 1500% of guide and list the other one at 300%. The latter appears to be a bargain. Every week or so, you cut the price 5% and the books appear to be new in stock.

Ditto.

It should lose its status. That it doesn't is just further evidence of their inconsistency. What should happen and what does happen are two very different things.

If anyone takes it out of the case to clean it, it should lose its SS.status.

Loose lips and all that....

Wasn't that Dali? By the way, I recently attended a private auction of a veterinary clinic/ pet store. In one of the miscellaneous lots, I came across a pad of blank AKC papers. I wonder how many of these papers are fraudulently written. A $10 pound puppy becomes a $500 pedigree with the right paperwork.

I find PGX grading to be as tight or tighter on most books. The problem is their restoration check is non existent and their very shady relationship with Danny Patterson. On the honesty scale, PGX ranks just above the disgraced, disbarred chap CGC keeps allowing to advertise on this site.

This strikes me as the act of a desperate company. Charging customers twice as much to submit a raw book than one from their rivals. Collector A stuck with cgc all along and gets to pay full price on his submissions but Collector B who showed no loyalty and jumped ship is welcomed back with 50% off. The sheeple cheer and ask for another one.

Amazon has very sturdy rolling shelf racks that fit 20 short boxes for under $60. Having the unit roll is well worth the few extra dollars. I have four portable units containing 80 short boxes in a space that would only hold 40 in regular racks. You do need a bit of strength to push/ pull a fully loaded unit, and I recommend unloading the rack halfway if moving from room to room.

If the books are cool enough, you could adopt me.

Went to a warehouse to pick up the Marx reproductions and couldn't believe how sloppy the auction was. One lot was described as being approx 150 1 1/2 inch tall loose plastic knights. I'm expecting a bucket of toy soldiers and instead I find a pallet of eleven and a half inch boxed action figures. I paid less than two cents each for 150 boxes priced 14.99 to $32.99 A description said a lot was over 100 missiles launchers. Turned out they are almost 15 inches tall., with a nine inch round base. Lastly was what I thought was an Alamo chapel. Description said there were 24 in the case and the box was 12 inches by 10 1/2 inches. I'm thinking they are small items one sticks on a shelf. Turns out each of the 24 boxes are 12x10. The good news is I thought I paid $10 for one and got twenty four instead. I need to rent another storage unit now. What I thought was going to be a carload and a two hour turn around is turning into two days of work.

It's one of my favorite covers, and one of few books I was willing to accept trimming on. I'm not sure the images give an accurate portrayal, but if they do, it is far short of being a 2.0.

Are you paying to have the card graded? Suppose the comic rates a.9.8 but the card is sub par?

Sadly, many shops won't even consider an older person for employment. Shop owners seem to think customers wouldn't relate to them. Your particular area of expertise and interest doesn't line up very well with the interest of your typical customer. Why not scout out a shop and owner you like and relate to and volunteer. Tell him you are willing to intern for a few weeks and see how it goes. As most people are into superheroes, your niche experience might be something the shop could use. Volunteer to straighten up the back room or some long neglected task. Make yourself useful. I don't think it will be easy for you, but make sure you sell yourself when applying.

You are forgetting, or ignoring, that most of the later stories were printed in second tier books and widely ignored. Those stories in Captain Marvel 56 and up were not well received and Thanos was only appearing in minor stories. While much more powerful than Dr Doom, Mandarin and others, his cosmicness kept him from regularly appearing in the regular Marvel universe. Some would argue the readers were tired of Thanos and the space storylines. Unless interest has suddenly developed, everything after his first death has languished in filler boxes ever since. I hope the movie works. It's length worries me.

I'm thinking 5.0, maybe better.

I doubt Disney has the rights to either story, but they'd certainly have some say about their properties appearing. I wonder if Ditko could stop them from using him.

That's what I've bee doing. Sell a dozen books, buying one $500 book and pocket the difference.

I skipped these on the newsstand but picked up a huge box of these and Wardens about 1981. Found some great covers, but didn't really care for the stories by either company. When I was selling, Warren was much more desirable, and Skywald was almost an afterthought. I have dozens but haven't looked inside one in decades.

If it makes you feel better, I have about 80 short boxes they don't want.

Avengers Omnibus #1

I will look but my modern marvels are almost all unsorted. I recently culled post2000 Marvels from 20 plus short boxes to 15. I think most of the books you sold me stayed on Long Island. It didn't pay to ship the bulk books. I left a pallet of shrink wrapped comics behind, with a do not open until 2036 sign. I think it's five by five, but it might be four by four. It was pretty compact. Mostly mid 80s store stock.

We are having a community wide yard sale/ flea market and I was sorting some books for it. My plan was to start at 50 cents but go 3 for a dollar to most buyers. Much of these I had bought from a boardie a few years ago and.briefly looked through. I end up with four and a half boxes, with the idea to keep three full boxes on display . I'm watching the Yankee game and looking up a few books to see if mycomicshop is buying any. These are all modern Indies, many very obscure. I get a few hits where they'll pay 22 cents, but very few worth sending. I find a series I never heard of, and see there are eight issues. To my amazement , issue one is ten dollars in VF, and the eight together are almost $34 dollars. Fifteen minutes of nothing, then an $8 book. I recognize it and quickly find three more copies. Another six part series worth $45, and maybe a dozen worth $1. A tpb worth $6, and another worth almost $10. Most of these are 9.2 or better but I priced them all as 8.0. Took most of the game, but I pulled out books worth well over $100 that I'll add to my next MCS shipment. I was hoping to sell $50 worth at the sale, so this is just gravy. I also started a box of stuff they aren't currently buying but will in the next 60 days

Not sure where you'd put them, but it couldn't hurt.