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12 hours ago, Aweandlorder said:

I’m just gonna leave this right here

 

NOPE! You cannot just leave those right there! I need details! You found all of this in one spot?!?

Hunters hunt, my brother! 

Everyone is entitled to rant now and then. I'd be frustrated if I were in his position I guess. On the one hand, you get a rush of people into your store for that hot book. Maybe they buy some more while they're there, maybe not. On the other, a regular who is not necessarily looking for that issue until it becomes some viral McGuffin all of the sudden wants you to hold one back for him way after the deadline to order one... well...

I understand wanting to cater to the regular, but if it's not on his pull list and he comes to you during that rush with his hand out... Were it me running the place, I'd follow suit with what a lot of you are thinking: accommodate if you can, but make the buck when you can make the buck. 

I also don't think less of my LCS for charging more than cover on those books because capitalism is a thing.

That's awesome. The closest I have to a $1 bin is Half Priced Books and Game Exchange. And Entertainmart! I guess I'm not so oppressed after all.

I like how someone went to the trouble of counting how many pieces of tape there were and writing it on the book itself! Gee thanks, mister!

What does a detached centerfold do to the grade of a comic? If the outside is looking like a 3.5 to 4.5?

Is it just me or is Kazar disproportionately represented on this poster? I get Daredevil, Luke Cage, Captain America, Spider-Man and Electra even, but while Kazar did have a series around the time of this first print, he sure is taking up a lot of real estate!

When you say dollar box... surely this isn't in someone's $ bin at an LCS? Just so everyone knows, if I say dollar bin, I'm talking any comic I get for $1 anywhere. My LCS doesn't discount comics. 

Just for crazies, would it be better to cut the glued piece out and get a lower-graded blue label, or have it as is with a purple label? I'm talking price/value-wise. I know some people avoid purple label books, so their price is lower for the same grade score between blue and purple labels. 

On 2/19/2020 at 1:31 PM, ComixGrl said:

Lol what’s funny is a real collector would not be lazy and turn their head. I know a collector that will move the earth if there’s something they want. You being a baby about turning your head is what’s funny to me. Not a collector at all. 

Those last two lines are hilarious if read with Thor's voice from Infinity War and Endgame whenever he talks to Star Lord. 

Veronica 28 will get you $50, depending on condition, of course. 

Completely combed through an entire antique store town today. I didn't want to take pics and look disrespectful, but these people are crazy. Batcrap crazy. I'm really tempted to go back and take pics to prove what I'maboit to say. 

Whenever I go to a flea market, yard sale, or antique store I always ask if they have comics. Sometimes they'll pull them out from the back, or if I'm lucky, they'll lead me past a secret door and up some stairs into a collection you can only see if you know to ask. Story for another time. 

First shop had six beat up Harvey comics. I asked the guy and he said he had some on his desk that he hadn't priced yet. I talked him into letting me see them. He pulled out two Hot Stuff comics somewhere in the 100's. Both were already tagged with $99.99! That's alot of nines for comics I regularly sell for the condition they were in for $1. I asked if he was using old bags, but he said "No, that's what these are going for now." I just whistled and walked. 

The last store I hit had the 1974 Action Comics #1 over-sized replica issue for $25. The tag said, "Exact replica with ads and everything. Autographs inside!" I had to see this. I had the cashier open it. It was bagged and boarded with homemade materials, so he had to pry it out. The inside cover was detached and on the outside. Took me a while to figure out what was going on with that.

The autographs were one name written in several styles all over the inside cover page. I don't know who Toney Murry is, but he thought highly of himself. He signed it at least 20 times using print, cursive, initials, extra flourishes... I looked at the guy behind the register and asked who he thought Toney Murry was. Then I saw one that wasn't a signature. It said "Hey WHS!" So I guess this person took this book to his high school and maybe everyone signed his name instead of theirs??? 

At least I can cross this town off my list.  

This imprint started out so strong. The Fly and Jaguar were two of my favorites. I'll admit that I completely missed Black Hood (Impact's Deadpool) when the imprint was in print, but that character is now one of my faves as well. I'm still filling holes as my goal was to have the complete collection, but the deeper into the runs I got, the worse the stories were. Very similar to New Universe from Marvel. Pretty strong first issues, but gradually less and less inspiring content as it went. 

On 2/8/2020 at 6:13 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

Post of the day!

 

Hats off to that find, but... Gah! Thread killer! Nobody is going to follow that one. We need a palate cleanser. Here are some $1 pick-ups from the past month or so that I happen to have on my work computer. 

20 minutes ago, Mercury Man said:

Isn't this where we make you feel guilty, and say you should have given him more?  (I jest, as I am of the camp that the seller, should educate themselves as close to the buyer as possible, otherwise, no complaining). 

I thought about that after the fact, but he told me that he'd just read it, so he had to know the centerfold was detached and did not bother to disclose it. My line of thinking is that at this flea market you've got people asking $100 for antiques/junk/hand-made etc. that might fetch $20 elsewhere. A lot of these people spend the month leading up raiding yard sales for inventory. You can bet they are buying cheap and selling high whenever possible.  

What do you guys think? The bottom right dog ear is cover-only, the inside pages are not folded. I see water damage on the inside cover/front page very top. The centerfold is detached (ugh). On the back cover there is a small chip missing near upper right corner and some discoloration in the top right corner (I checked- it's not a carry over from the water damage on the front inside).

Edit- the pics are a little darker than reality and way out of order, sorry. 

On 1/14/2020 at 11:31 AM, skypinkblu said:

Love the Bugs Bunny books:) I wish I had known about subscriptions when I was a kid...I'm sure they were described in the comic book ads, but I doubt I ever read those, or had the nerve to ask for so much money from my parents;)

I did have one for a short time to Superman after I got married, but I was afraid people would think I was getting something weird in the brown wrappers.

My brother and I shared a G.I.Joe subscription when we were little. 

On 1/14/2020 at 7:28 PM, Sweet Lou 14 said:

I love the way these books look arranged in a row like that, where their titles look like one continuous ribbon of film.

Me too. I wonder if they did that on purpose? 

On 1/14/2020 at 11:13 AM, VintageComics said:

What neck of the woods is this collection from?

North East Texas. I went through a middleman, so I don't know exactly other than the original owner lived in the Tyler, TX area. 

21 hours ago, Ken Aldred said:

It was published by Marvel for a while.

Right, but not in universe. 

I would think Bendis and Oeming's Powers title would be fun in Marvel. A cop drama with Marvel's character in the background? They'd have to PG it a little (or a lot), but the stories could still be compelling. Former-hero-turned-cop battling street level super crimes. 

Maybe overrated and over-saturated are being mixed up.

Wolverine was everywhere and in every Marvel title in the early 90's. He went from my favorite to "meh" because he was everywhere. Not everyone knew what to do with him, so he was anywhere from his 80's awesomeness to a caricature. I didn't like Gambit and he was big when he showed up. To me, he was Deadpool before Deadpool was Deadpool. I don't mean they share similarities, but more like "here's a full-of-himself character I care nothing about being shoved down our throats as the next big thing." Is see the Deadpool appeal, though. I'm not a fan, but I do like the comedy he injects into titles. Especially while working with the Avengers. 

I think HQ has been over-saturated for a while now. I hesitate to say overrated, because I think she's had a positive impact on just about everything I've read that she's been in. 

I think a lot of this is cyclical. Characters sometimes change from over to under and back. 

Punisher was overrated for a long time, but I kinda like his role in the Savage Avengers story line. 

Ghost Rider has been hit or miss, but I really dig the "Ghost Riders through history" approach we've seen in the Avengers most recent volume. 

Maybe you're overrated if you're undeservedly over-saturated? Joker falls under this category for me. He's good in doses and can be done right, but sometimes he's just a stock character who says what he's expected to say and do. 

Okay, other than the tearing on the back cover, would you rather have the multiple color-breaking creases in the top right front cover, or the "Marvel chipping" from the graded book above? I'd rather have the creases. And even at a possible 4.0, I'd still slab it.