shadroch

I'm not. They are simply that good. A similar comparison is comparing a cheap plastic bag to a Mylar. One other advantage they have is the combined thickness gives much greater protection. When I had my flood, the outer shells were ruined on the bottom level. The outside of the boxes got wet, but for the most part the books were okay. A regular magazine box on the floor had all its contents ruined. I ended up losing a couple hundred books, but had they been housed in regular boxes, it would have been much worse.

That is, simply, not true. Either you are confusing them with a competitor, or they aren't secured with Biloxi, or you have an agenda. In my old set up, they were stacked six high, and eight wide, using booked for stability. The bottom draw opened fine, and you could pull the box out well over three quarters of the way. Are they 100 percent perfect in every way? No. They are simply heads and shoulders above any competition and far and away the best comic box solution I've come across in thirty five plus years of storing comics.

When you are ready, you can fit 20 short BCW boxes in a standard five drawer lateral file cabinet. BCW boxes are about 1/4 inch shorter than many competitors. I like their competitors boxes better as they are better made. They simply don't fit in those cabinets. I bought a bunch of cabinets at a bankruptcy sale. They are great. Was able to condense four five shelf plastic cases into three lateral cabinets. Ended up selling the plastic shelves for more than I paid for the file cabinets and reduced the storage footprint significantly. I'm waiting on the keys so eventually they will lock.

No, Drawer boxes do not bow. The cheap BCW knockoffs do. I've had both. The BCW ones needed replacing after only a couple of years. Still have the drawers I bought many years ago.

The X-Men Avengers Fantastic Four Thunderbolts Guardians of The Galaxy. Defenders Choose two groups to defend you. The others will be coming for you, and they are out for blood.

Best Buy-Buying an AF 15 off these boards for $9500. Biggest regret-Selling it a year later for $14,500 minus commission. Only bright side was I used some of the money for a TTA 27 I flipped for a 120% profit, and some for an Avengers 4 that I had signed by both Stan and Joe Simon.

I've had a couple hundred transactions with them. A few problems but every single one was resolved to my satisfaction. After winning a 2.0 Avengers 1 at one of their auctions, I had it sent to CGC where it was graded a 4.0. MCS had dinged it heavily because of writing on the cover. CGC notated something like" Tommy and Bob " written on cover. One book I disagreed with their grade when I consigned it and I asked them to send it to CGC. It was an early Panther appearance( maybe FF 53). I thought it would get a 7.5-8.0. They called it a 4.0. CGC called it a 6.5.

Comic Drawers are fantastic. Many of mine are well over ten years old and survived a trip from NY to Vegas. I've switched to the shorter boxes as that allows me to line both sides of my walk in closet and still have room in the middle for me. The box lox are a great added feature. The comic rails( which are optional and cost extra) have a number of built in spacers. I think its 8, so you can add any number of dividers to the box up to that.

When sorting boxes, I almost always pull a few books out to sell. It's stuff I either don't collect or stuff I have in abundance. I put together a short box and sell it, giving myself a well earned reward for the time I invested in sorting.

Can't get the highs without the lows. I can deal with getting bitten by a spider, or getting caught in a gamma bomb explosion, or having an alien select me as his successor. Watching my parents shot down is beyond what I'd be willing to put up with.

Nothing would be worth seeing your parents shot down in front of you.

Starlin era Captain Marvel. Who wouldn't want to be Protector of the Universe. Close runner up is The Sentry. There's something special about tossing your headaches into the sun.

If I get a book that's in a bag, I keep it but I have plenty in no bags. I've sold dozens that didn't have a bag and only one person ever commented adversely.

Once upon a time, newsstand copies were the market. Period. When direct editions came out and were 5% of the market, they were scarce. Today, 99% of comics are Direct so the Newstand are scarce. Neither variety brings much of a premium from the early 80s thru the mid to late 90s, with a few exceptions.

I'd say 32 has more upside, but also more downside. If looking for a solid investment, go #1. If you are taking a flyer , #32.

Short boxes are so much easier. They even work better for shows as two of them fit in the space one long box would fill.

Phase 1- Three piles- Marvel, DC, other. Phase 2- Marvel only. SA,BA, CA, Other piles. Phase 3- BA books split. 25 cents and under, 30-50cent books. Put aside Spidey, Xen and anything over $20-$25. Phase 4- Other Marvels- I divide them by year, pre-2000,post 2000. Put all mutant titles in a pile. Phase 5- 8 Repeat with DC books. Go from there.

The bill of sale will say from the estate sale of..., and a photo of the item on the website should be sufficient provenance, I think.

I used to be in that camp, especially in the 70s/80s but as time went by I moved to the start of the 20 cent era before settling on the 25 cent squarebound experiment.

This auction has a ton of Star Wars and other stuff from her career, as well as stuff of her mothers. Not my auction, just posted for the Star Wars fans among us. https://mcmanusauctions.hibid.com/catalog/123153/2-11-18-celebrity-estate-carrie-fisher-debbi-reynolds/

Collecting is like owning a time machine. Some books bring you back to a pleasant moment in the past, and after what seems like twenty minutes ends up being four hours in real time. Planning on sticking around for awhile, Jim? The place could use you.

I saw this in a Naval hospital theatre. Crowd was mostly enlisted guys, many recovering from wounds in SE Asia. For some reason, people applauded the first time Newman, McQueen and a few others appeared. Place went nuts when OJ first popped up.

I think that was a problem with this movie, and others from the period. So many stars, all needing screen time. You end up with too many plot digressions that do nothing for the story. The real attraction was the fire, which was well beyond state of the art.

DC SA has hundreds of issues. Are you saying the Atlas pre-hero books aren't Silver?

When was this? I'd heard the kid from the last Conan movie and Disney's "Kicking It" was pushing for a tv show with Conan as an 18-19 year old. Is this it ,perchance?