shadroch

I hope you did your due diligence. There are reprints of those issues with .35 cent prices. They are almost worthless in 4.0.

It's funny but I have few memories of actually opening my first store. everything was a blur and a rush and I still opened sooner than I should have. One memory I do have is getting a UPS box from Bud Plant, with 20 X-Men 176, the current copy. Cover price was sixty cents and with shipping, I paid 82 cents each. Learned quickly that comics are heavy and its the shipped,all in price that matters. Nothing else.

Mcs and mile high buy surplus new stock. Don't consider them mistakes as much as learning experiences. How long from the time you get the keys until you open?

Having comics delivered before you open isn't good business. If you get the keys on the 3rd, what date do you think you'll be open? A disappointing beginning. You have to be more careful. Rookie mistakes will kill you.

I think mycomicshop prices their books pretty fair. Look at their website and you'll see what books go for in various grades. A word of warning- some of their listings are consignments and some consigners are, shall we say, extremely optimistic about what they can get.

Pretty sure the IF- Sabertooth one has an MVS. It's been awhile since I handled a raw one.

Some of those books have pinups, which are often missing. Count the pages if everything else checks out. I'd be shocked if he were the original owner so h may not be aware they might be missing.

Where did you come up with this theory?

I found a coverless copy at a NY show about ten years ago. Was going to get Fedora Man to do one of his excellent cover reproductions but never did.

I think the CGC guidelines are written by the same guy who wrote the WWE record book.

Sounds like it's coming together nicely. You might want to think about having a soft opening with a Grand Opening party a week or so later. Consider the first two weeks a preview or shakedown cruise. One time saver and inventory helper is to price cheaper books using a sticker system. Purple stickers are $1, orange are $2, red are $3, etc,etc. Every two months or so,change the shape or size of the label. If you start with quarter inch round stickers, then switch to square stickers, you'll be able to easily identify stale inventory. Best of luck.

Great old gal. Rest in Peace.

How many staples on the Avengers #3 two sets or four?

I hate to say it but in my shop, I culled out Whitmans when people bought in collections. I kindly and gently explained that they were reprints and had no collector value. As late as 2005, I returned a bunch of Batbooks I bought on ebay as several were not first prints and two were Whitmans.

Joe must be 90 by now. I went to school with one of his nephews who wasn't the least bit impressed with his Uncles profession. I picked him up one day after Spring Break and we passed" Uncle Joes" house getting back to the highway but he wouldn't stop. He lived about a block away from the house he grew up in, in a pretty small town about an hour from NYC.

If you don't want to throw them out, but don't care about the money, just sit in front of the local store and give them out. You could try handing them out in front of a high school, but not if you aren't squeaky clean.

I do sell some stuff on it. Last week I sold a hood ornament off a 50s Nash. Asked $100, settled for $70. I don't think I'd have gotten that off of ebay, plus I now have a local guy to call when I find vintage auto parts.

Evidently, i'm doin it wrong. Guess that why I'm not a wholesale bizillionaire yet.

Thought they were from Sparta? I know Marvel used Ronalds for the Baxter paper and then the utterly horrible mando experiments.

Who'd have thunk the US makes it so hard to repatriate our national treasures?

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/stan-lee-imprints-hands-feet-205019123.html

I read the Surfers solo stuff long before I read the great FF stories and never understood the attraction. Even in the Defenders, he came off as self pitying. It wasn't until several years later when I finally read FF41-75 that I saw the spark.

I have never heard or seen such a thing. I imagine it's an aftermarket married cover, not a manufacturer error. If CGC confirmed it as real, you might get a nice bit of cash, but I wouldn't spend it just yet.

The Defenders were great for a few years, but sometime in the mid-30s they lost their edge. They went from being a top of my pile book to mid and then low in the pile. They aren't Silver Age, though.

I loved Super- Villain Team Up, especially the whole shroud storyline. Re-read it about twenty years later and was very disappointed. Strangely, I hated Skull the first time around and really enjoyed it much later. I didn't care for bloodstone, and have never re-read it.