DarthRawn

my bad, i was confused on what out of that list was available and what wasn't. you got pm

SO very very happy to finally get my hands on The New Mutants #98 The transaction was perfect, great price, and the shipping was phenomenal. A tank could have ran over the package and it would have been unharmed. Got my vote

AMAZING Shipping job my friend, thank you!! Got it today and it rocks!!

What of these are available? Can you Pm me a combined price if these are available? Thank you.

1.0 -1.5 if you're lucky would be my guess

Crossing my fingers for some goodies

wait too soon, I gotta wait for you to post

Yes, and.....Go BOLTS!

I noticed that not all of the pages were opened, that might be a sticky grading situation for them

I appreciate you kind sir! This was my very first purchase on this board, and it wont be my last.

Where did it ship from? South East US?

yes it is a bummer, but you do have a nice presenting ASM #36 so there is that

I know exactly what you mean regarding the onslaught of variant covers. So, i have no clue on what makes one more collectible than another. I typically purchase the main cover and if I purchase a variant it is because I like the cover. I view it as any other art, buy what you like. Art like these comics are only worth what one would pay for them, obviously supply and demand plays into this as well. I think I am possibly going to consider yard sales or estate sales from time to time to see if I can find any treasures. I am now aware of newsstand editions having less print numbers than issues that are direct edition so there is a perceived increased value with this. This is something I haven't known until this past year from reading different articles. You are right about the grading "industry". I understand the value to this to a point; protecting a very valuable comic and having a non-biased evaluation of the comics condition. I am not particularly fond of the price that is charged to grade high value comics however. I perhaps don't understand the reason for this but I don't feel right about paying upward of 100 dollars to get a few comics slabbed especially if I am not planning on selling them. I am considering getting some slabs and protecting them on my own, but I am open to others advice on this issue. I am with you on the FF48, it is on my list to obtain someday!

Hey there my apparent doppelganger, greetings and salutations. I like you collected in the 90's when I was a teen, and today finally finishing grad school I am able to pick back up the hobby. YES! how these comics have inflated in price, but being in a similar situation I will tell you what I have found, just my opinion. Comic cons are comics being sold by people who are aware of the value and demand so you will pay a high price. Comic shops are a hit or miss, they are willing to bargain with you at times, I suppose it is all about what kind of business they have been doing. I have found e-bay to offer reasonable opportunities for raw comics at certain times but you have to be really really careful as they're are plenty of scammers and scalpers running hustles on there. The most common scams I have been seeing it people trying to pass of restored comics with trimming, color touch, pressing, as if they have never been touched by the hand of man which is sometimes obviously laughable. I have found the most perfect example while hunting for a FF52. One week an issue was sold for about 250 and I remember it specifically had a hand writing on the sun. 2 weeks later i found the exact same writing, same location, on another book but it they had attempted to clean off the writing, there was obvious color touch over areas that color was broken on the original, and there was clearly trimming. After all this harm befell upon this comic, he still ended up selling it for almost triple the price. I feel bad for that buyer. There is a really good example of a FF48 being possibly passed off as not having piece missing from the cover by coloring the page in with a marker possibly, This was a post here I read today. SO be careful!

Your suspicions seem to be valid, I would be bummed a bit too. A lot of ebay comic scammers out there if that's where you picked it up at.

That was very detailed, thank you for the lesson. So it seems as if there is no way to tell about trimmed comics on ebay then, minus finding the same comic with very specific marks show up 2 weeks later... So graded comics are the safest approach to buying on ebay?

Thank you for your reply. I will look for this. Thank you for the info

Thank you for your reply. I just have seen so many people on ebay trying to sell off restored copies of FF52. Some of them had specific markings or pen written on it that you can see was altered but still present in the exact same locations. I am in the market for another copy and trying to improve my grade on the one i purchase. It just made me worried that these altered copies could slip past inspection. Legit question. Wrong. I didn't know miscuts were such a common phenomenon.

Hey everyone! I have a question about something I am seeing quite frequently... If you look along the right side there is a clear increasing angle of space on the descension, I wonder how something like this doesn't get a purple label? This just seems glaringly obvious that there has been a trimming attempt, along with the cut just searing Thing's elbow where untrimmed comics have a space between his elbow and the edge.