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    Consigning a batch of books through Heritage tomorrow

    in Comics Market - Sales Advertising (Ebay, Dealers, etc)

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    How do you think I will do?

     

    Most of these I purchased off ebay in the early days.

    The CGC ones are in old labels and purchased graded.  The PGX ones I had graded in 2005 while I just had the CBCS ones  graded last year

     

    I think this is the raw 247.  I kept the 8.0  for myself

     

    ACE COMICS 1 3   PGX
    ADVENTURE 247 3   CBCS
    ALL-FLASH QUARTERLY 2 5   PGX
    ALL-FLASH QUARTERLY 3 3   CBCS
    COMIC CAVALCADE 1 6   CGC
    COMIC CAVALCADE 4 2.5   CBCS
    GREEN LANTERN 14 7   PGX
    GREEN MASK 1 6.5   CBCS
    HOUSE OF SECRETS 1 2.5   CBCS
    MORE FUN 19 5   CBCS
    SAMSON 1 4   CBCS
    SHOWCASE 8 6 M/E PRO CBCS
    WORLD'S FINEST 13 7   CGC

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    Tell me you’re middle-aged, without telling me your middle-aged…

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    On 8/9/2022 at 3:38 PM, fifties said:

    When I was a tot I would sit in front of the console radio and listen to music and programs like Gunsmoke, Fibber Magee and Molly,  and Inner Sanctum.  When we got a 7" B&W TV in the late '40's I could watch Time For Beany on the one channel operating in Los Angeles at the time.  They also showed Flash Gordon Serial segments from the '30's.  Always thought those rocket ships were really cool.

    Hate to tell you fifties,  but if you were born in the mid 40's  you are no longer middle aged

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    Post Your FOUR COLOR Comic Covers Here

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    As I got to over one thousand issues I started being more picky in grades.

    Unless the book is in the first 200 issues I try ot to add it if the book is less than F-

     

    Books that are very first 25 either series   I am happy to have most any copy of, but  now upgradingable includes anything below VG

    I started making two want lists  one for actual missing  and the other for  Upgrade.

    Now the lists are built into my master spreadsheet and I can sort for books under any grade for adjusting the upgrade list

    I could easily fill half of my missing books from the online inventory of MCS, but most of those would just jump from want to upgrade

    Here are two of the recent books from MCS.  one was from an auction and the other was in inventory

     

    A pair of 18's  must be good luck

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    Post Your FOUR COLOR Comic Covers Here

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    On 8/3/2022 at 9:19 AM, kaculler said:

    The mail arrived with one more issue that I'd been waiting on.  

    Four Color #134.

    There are obvious issues with the top of the front cover, but the rest of the issue is pretty solid and it was well below guide.  Maybe I'll find a better copy someday, but this will do for now.

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    Place holders  and waiting for potential upgrades  

    Or holding out for an accpetable  copy in the first place

    After  getting a shot in my eye for my diabetic retinopathy I took the rest of the day off and stopped at what is likely the nicest shop in the SFV  Galaxy Comics.

    An employee there is a pretty good grader and I think we both had fun looking through the pages  of these dups.

    I am keeping  the Bedrock copy  from an earlier post  as well as  these two

    I will post the undercopies for comparison later.  I think brings up my box to over 50 issues that I have upgraded  since i sent a box along with another dozen long boxes to MCS  for a trade  several years ago

     

     

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    Early days of eBay

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    I bought so much stuff on eBay in the early days

    I remember the COmics chatboard from there was fun  until they closed it down  and many migrated here

    I was mostly a SA collector then and there were discussions of finding mislabeled gems like a "Justice League 28-30 "or a "Green Lantern 22-24 "  at incredible bargains. 

    After completing most of my SA holes  I started on GA

    I got this one (restored)  from TheBigLou  AKA  the Dentist

     

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    Our Recent Experience Selling Comics Through Mycomicshop

    in Comics General

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    I think I was one of the customers  who helped bring about  the change in the shipping policy

     

    I would occasionally win an auction and we would have numerous back and forth emails  about me wanting them to hold the book until they put  some of the books I had on my want list on their 5% off sale.  I always try to spread out the shipping costs  over a bigger lot of books.

     

    Glad we do not have to have that issue anymore.

     

     

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    Post Your FOUR COLOR Comic Covers Here

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    On 7/8/2022 at 9:10 PM, PopKulture said:

    I could make a case either way. Initially, I was going to go with your copy based on the spine and that ding on the top of Bedrock’s. However, the BR copy appears brighter with a better wrap. As already suggested, I’d probably let page quality be the deciding attribute.

    And I go through this all the time with doubles and upgrades, and I usually keep both. I’d be happy with either copy above in my collection.  :nyah:

    I used to buy collections and pull what I wanted and organized the rest for the occasional shows I did.  This was back in  the 90s.  When time and opportunity presented i would go through upgrade my main collections.  I rarely kept multiples intentionally  but still have a ton of stuff that I have not sold or especially traded off since 2000.  Only thing  I ever kept both of were some marvel where i  had both newsstand as well as direct  boxes.

     

    Anyway  here are a bunch more of my Pandemic additions  to my Four Color Collection I have been focusing on getting First series as well as below 100

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    Someone is trying to register a book that I own

    in CGC Registry

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    I received an email from CGC about the situation.

     

    From what I understand  I have to log into registry  to decline the transfer within three days, or it just will happen.

     

    i attempted to do so, but the website says that is ONLY A FEATURE FOR PAID MEMBERS.

     

    So anyone can steal ownership of a book for registry, and other purposes  if I am not a paid member?

     

    WTF?

     

    So i can no longer post a full scan of any book  to avoid giving info about the exact number  matching up to a book?

    Post Your FOUR COLOR Comic Covers Here

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    Whenever I won an auction  from MCS I would try to expand the withsome of the missing Four colors  including those recently posted.

     

    Working on my 4th comic closet.  just moved all my four colors together and easily accessible.  

    6 Old Bill Cole Gray acid free boxes .  I am still using them 30 years later. Each hold about 75 golden age books

    4 long drawer boxes, each holds about 200 books 

    1 Magazine drawer box holding only Slabbed  Four Colors.

    I have another Magazine box, full of the additions I am now processing.  half of the space with more CGCs and the other 1/2 with nice raw books.

     

    Last time I organized to make space and easier access I starting pulling books  that I knew I want to upgrade.  I only got 1/2 way through the series and had already filled a  short box with upgrade candidates.

     

    For some reason every scan I try to upload is now failing  

    The post failed.  Then I reload I was able to add images

     

    These were all upgrades  from Kermits  pad

     

     

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