shadroch

So the OP inherited a book Metro sold eight years ago?

Lose money on every sale, so there are no taxes. Make it up on volume.

So the consensus seems to be ship rolled, not flat. Correct? How about the triangular priority boxes from USPS?

Marvel was notorious for missed deadlines/ reprints in that era. The revolving door at Editor couldn't have helped. In about a year, the Avengers printed a reprint from Amazing Adventures, a two part fill in story and then missed the much hyped Avengers 150, which was supposed to introduce the new team. Instead we got a couple new pages and a condensed reprint of #16. Heck, Jungle Action #5 announces the start of a new Black Panther series and instead has a bunch of reprints in it. It happened often enough that I learned to flip thru a book before buying, although I mostly bought them anyway. I can just imagine asking the old lady that ran the candy store I frequented for a refund because the book was a reprint.

Show us the return address on the box. That doesn't look like any MCS package I've ever gotten.

Make a sandwich, two comics and one board per bag. Five or so comics in a single bag also provides more protection than one comic per bag.

It's better to think about them then to read them. Most pre-Shooter Adventure stories are lame. I loved them as a boy. I was nine when Ferro Lad died but even Jim's work doesn't read very well.

Well, have they?

When you squeeze a lemon, it loses some juice and eventually runs dry. An AF 15 can change hands 100 times without losing its "juice".

How did Not a Clone become the sole source of information about this " inheritance"?

Lateral file cabinets are four boxes wide and a five drawer one holds twenty short boxes. New they run a grand but at auction they go for under $100.

Chroma features his art but only part is comic covers. A good part pictures his pulp and painting.

Around 1964, I was looking at a Legion comic when my Dad scooted up on the floor next to me. His first reaction was what's up with all the boys wearing pink and purple? I was going into first grade and don't have an awful lot of memories of my Father from that time as he was away most of the time.

No argument there, but for a newcomer to start getting involved with pressing and grading is going to cost hundreds and take months. Putting it on eBay, you will hopefully attract bottom feeders looking for the cheapest copy out there. Sell the books potential.

Why slab the book? I think taking a few photos and listing it without a grade on eBay will result in the best net profit.

When I visited Heroes World Headquarters, they had a pallet of these things. Ivan gave me a bundle of them, which were distributed to my customers.

Loose lips sink ships.

Quite possible.

I used to have a bunch of sealed cases but pretty much sold them all off. I have a case of Invasion 1s and another of the first color Grendal. As far as key books go, I have at least 20 stabbed TTA 57s and an equal amount of FF 25s.

The important thing is they found an owner who appreciates them.

It is cool but it's also comic abuse. I don't understand why some people think that keeping the original bundle intact is better than bagging and boarding the individual books. If you slabbed the best ten copies, wouldn't they sell for more than the bundle as is?

I've called CBCS twice. Both times Steve picked up the phone.

25 is a better story but is much more common. I think 12 is undervalued. I have a small hoard of 25s, and find dealers often have multiple copies and are flexible with the price.

If newbie questions bother you, perhaps you might spend less time in the newbie forum.

I often pay as much as $5 for books that I'd pass on for fifty cents but that's because the slab and paper inserts have value to me. Aside from that, a graded book is much easier to sell than a raw one, so a premium is warranted. I do see some books MCS offers go in the opposite direction. Their raw books sometimes sell for more than a similar slabbed book at auction.