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2 hours ago, Insanity said:

Just to let people know

Venom #150 Clayton Crain Virgin $45 is still available since the buyer didn't want it.

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 

On 3/12/2018 at 12:15 PM, Dark_Ryu said:

New Mutants 87 CGC 9.6 White Pages - $280 $250

1st Cable

 

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

On 2/19/2018 at 4:16 PM, Insanity said:

Venom #150 Clayton Crain Virgin $45

On 2/19/2018 at 10:48 PM, Insanity said:

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN VENOM INC OMEGA #1 DELL'OTTO VIRGIN VARIANT blue $45

 

 

On 2/20/2018 at 5:04 PM, Insanity said:

VENOM #150 MATTINA MEGACON B&W MARY JANE VARIANT $15

 

On 2/23/2018 at 5:46 PM, Insanity said:

 

 

I got stuff coming down the pipeline so stay tuned to a thread near you.

 

On 2/27/2018 at 10:41 AM, Insanity said:

ASTONISHING X-MEN #3 FRANCESCO MATTINA VENOMIZED VIRGIN VARIANT $25

On 3/6/2018 at 5:38 AM, Insanity said:

Possible sale via pm on ASM venom inc omega #1

On 3/6/2018 at 11:16 AM, Insanity said:

 

 

next up is 

Spider-Gwen #1 Rupps color $35 noticeable spine wear

 

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 

1 minute ago, jjfversion1 said:

Rules:

1)  in the thread or PM by timestamp takes the book.

2) Payment is Paypal preferred. I will also do checks/MO.

3) Shipping is free to the continental US. For international members (ie Canada), please message me first before taking the book. 

4) No probation list or HOS members allowed!

5) No returns on CGC graded books. Raw books must be returned in their same condition and you must let me know within 7 days that you will be sending the book back if you are unhappy with your purchase.

 wait too soon, I gotta wait for you to post

12 minutes ago, Mercury Man said:

I'm sure it would be viable, just depends on how big they wanted to be (and how busy they wanted to get).  Also the Signature thing they do is a big piece.   I just hate seeing common books, non key Moderns or mediocre, non key Silver/Bronze Age books slabbed, just because some collector got a bug in their pants. 

Yes, and.....Go BOLTS!

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

23 minutes ago, Dark_Ryu said:

Thank you! You should have waited for me to respond to your PM first - i was just in the middle of typing it lol. Don't worry, I've accepted and will honor your offer, because I believe in comic karma

I appreciate you kind sir!

This was my very first purchase on this board, and it wont be my last.

7 hours ago, Dark_Ryu said:

New Mutants 98 CGC 9.6 White Pages - $380

1st Deadpool

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.

15 hours ago, James J Johnson said:

But oddly angled miscut or not, since they're all cut on the same machinery, by the same blades, and assembled likewise, they all typically have the same characteristic inside pages progressing out, beyond the covers to the centerfold and then reversing itself so the right edges of 1961 to 1967 Marvels typically look like this:  >  ,  rather than this:  ] .

Of course, there are exceptions to every rule, and this 52 looks like one of them except that since the interior pages cannot be seen at all, and since they don't peek out from under the covers on the long open edge, unusual on 52s, in this case a scan is useless to determine any evidence of what may be trim.

The fact that the bottom edge of this book, left to right, is just shy of 6 and 3/4" where the norm is usually 6 and 7/8's from the edge of the spine to the right edge of the centerfold, I'm sure that the CGC spent more time than usual examining those page edges for evidence of fresh cuts atypical from what the machinery produced. Of interest is that the top sizes full, left to right, about 6 and 7/8ths spine to right cover edge.

Further, size alone is never a good indicator in making the final assessment on trim! Size can serve as a red flag, drawing your attention to fine details and making you suspicious of trim, necessitating further examination. But that examination of page ends and the way they line up relevant to how they were initially produced should serve as the determining factor.

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? 

5 hours ago, crazyhips said:

That could just be how it was cut. Comic production was not as exact back then as it is today and it could have been cut at an angle during production.  

Thank you for your reply.

5 minutes ago, Bomber-Bob said:

Good example. The right edge of Daredevil #1 is usually angled, protruding out near the bottom.

I will look for this. Thank you for the info

4 hours ago, Point Five said:

Welcome to the boards!

What crazyhips said. I'd trust CGC on this one. Older comics have all kinds of odd production miscuts and miswraps, even within a single issue. You can't look at the wrap on one random copy and extrapolate to all the other copies.
 

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.

4 hours ago, joeypost said:

Legit question, or pot stirrer? 

Legit question.

3 hours ago, aardvark88 said:

Pot-stirrer although I have seen similiar miscuts on Steranko Nick Fury's from 1968.

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.