4GEMWORKS

Honestly it comes down to what the owner of the book wants to do. For me it mostly comes down to what if something happens to me and my wife or kids needs to sell my books. Much easier done if they are graded. I happen to have an arrangement with Heritage in just that case.

On 2/26/2023 at 3:00 AM, Larryw7 said:

Another Tales from the Crypt that I'll be cracking from the slab.

 

I'm not sure I'll ever understand the thought process that goes into removing a comic that is in a CGC case. They typically sell for a little more and any number of things can happen to cause damage or downgrade once removed. Is it meant to be read? If so you can buy, as anybody knows, a reprint for pennies on the dollar. Maybe you never plan to resell, but if you do you will fetch less money for it raw than graded. This topic has been rehashed at least a thousand times, but I never fail to be surprised when I see comments about "freeing" a slabbed book.

As always, I am looking for a few EC books.  I am still looking for A Moon, A Girl Romance #12 and Modern Love # 7.  I'm actually looking for a lot more  (you can look at my complete EC run in the CGC sets list to see what is missing). But this is my focus right now. If you are looking for some stuff I happen to have the following I could trade: International Comics 3 CGC 5.0, Modern Love 4 CGC 5.0, Modern Love 8 CGC 3.0.

Hi All-

I hope your year end is going well. This week Heritage is auctioning off my Santa/Frosty related issues. While overall my books have been going at a pretty good price there is always at least one issue a week that goes for less than what I paid. Last weeks the Francis issues were up for auction and given how scarce they are in high grade I'm surprised a few went as cheap as they did. Anyway, here is a link to this week's Santa/Frosty issues if you want to taje a look. These are very tough to find in high grade.

You can view  my entire consignment in auction #122250 at the following link: http://comics.ha.com/c/search.zx?saleNo=122250&collection=51&FC=0&type=friend-consignorpreview-notice

I have not found Slayor to be a very good grader on ungraded items. The price on his graded books would make most collectors blush...crazy high prices.

You are all talking about Qualitycomix.  No reason to avoid names. I recently bought a few very scarce EC books from them and turns out the prices were not too far off what I would expectant at auction. There was one book I paid about 1800 that I thought was overvalued by as much as 2-300 dollars. But at the end of the day, I realized I had been looking for a nice copy for at least 10 years and hadn't seen one come up in all that time. So, I just bought it. He offered me 5% off, but that's really peanuts. They do have some incredibly good stuff. Not sure where they get it all. I think they sell books on consignment, would be my guess.

On 10/11/2022 at 11:16 AM, Robot Man said:

I still need 11 and 12 myself. All are tough but those two just never seem to turn up. 

Census would suggest they are at least half as available as 9 and 10 but, you are right, they never seem to show up.

Trade anybody?

I have graded copy of a Moon, A Girl...Romance #10 in 5.0. I need 11 and 12. Anybody able to make a trade work? I've actually got a number of ECs I could make trades for. I will see if I can post soon.

I'm sure a few of you have seen my registry for EC books and would note I'm getting into the high branches. Anybody have a lead on an International Crime Patrol #6?

This should round up the leftovers

On 2/13/2022 at 2:00 PM, kaculler said:

Beautiful.  I bid on a VG copy last week, but didn't win it.

On 2/7/2022 at 9:47 AM, jmg3637 said:

As expected  I was shut out in 4GEMS weekly auctions.  Honestly I do not know how I even won the one that I did

 

I was high at  the close of internet bidding on all 3 books I was missing.  In most cases already well over guide ( from last year)

Each book over doubled during the live bidding.

Congrats pn another great week Glen

Guess I will have to be satisfied  with my current hoard.  At least I can enjoy the time spent organizing them

 

This next week will feature Bugs Bunny and Bozo the Clien.

There was a comment on tough parts of the run. Thie 200 level in general is also very, very tough.

Therse books in the 200's I found particularly difficult. There is a reason why the grades on these are among the lower in my collection.

On 1/24/2022 at 10:02 PM, jmg3637 said:

I sure hope that I have replaced the Zorro  by now.  That has to be one of the ugliest comics in my collection

 

This group contains a few more  of my crippen copies

Boy, so I many of the covers you just posted are so hard to get. Try finding Dr. Bobbs!!!

On 1/19/2022 at 12:14 PM, jmg3637 said:

I have probably upgraded  the Bugs as it is not on my upgrade.  OTOH  Drift has been on my upgrade list  since I first started  increasing the quality as well as quantity  of my collection.  That one  is still on the list.

 

I think  there are 3  of your current crop  that would be excellant additions  including the #2

LOL...that might make a good upgrade to any collection!

On 1/19/2022 at 11:05 AM, jmg3637 said:

Here is another bunch  of recently recovered  images  from the Bucket.  Fixed the naming on about 150  images so far.  Finding many duplicate images.  SOme of them are of the books I have upgraded  along the way, but most are just dups

Wow, that Drift Fence is one of the hardest books in the entire run to find. The Bugs is easy to find in VG, but try to find a copy in Fine or better...almost impossible.

Incredibly, both top census

On 1/18/2022 at 12:23 PM, 4GEMWORKS said:

Incidentally, you may discover that the next Lucy (#559), in particular, is elusive in high-grade. In all my years of looking I could not figure out why. I can't remember who, might have been Gene Carpenter, eventually told me that the file copies (mostly sold by Heritage) had been at the bottom of a box somewhere and suffered moisture damage and/or some other type of damage. So, the genesis, or lack thereof, foiled the ability of many or any, to get a high-grade copy. I have/had a 7.5 which is tied for top census. I'll try and upload a picture. If a high-grade copy exists it's out there in a hidden collection bought off the newsstand rack, if it exists at all.

558 (Elmer Fudd) only has two graded copies with the top copy  at 8.0 and only two graded copies total. I wonder if that was stacked next to 559 on the bottom?

On 1/17/2022 at 11:00 PM, jmg3637 said:

One of my earliest Four color trades from when I went to SDCC.  I got 47 Four Colors  including this one.  I must have traded A key book for them  As I am trying to recall  I am thinking it was my undercopy of B&B 28

Incidentally, you may discover that the next Lucy (#559), in particular, is elusive in high-grade. In all my years of looking I could not figure out why. I can't remember who, might have been Gene Carpenter, eventually told me that the file copies (mostly sold by Heritage) had been at the bottom of a box somewhere and suffered moisture damage and/or some other type of damage. So, the genesis, or lack thereof, foiled the ability of many or any, to get a high-grade copy. I have/had a 7.5 which is tied for top census. I'll try and upload a picture. If a high-grade copy exists it's out there in a hidden collection bought off the newsstand rack, if it exists at all.

On 1/15/2022 at 4:33 PM, OtherEric said:

It took me years to track down the two Mary Jane & Sniffles issues; I think the word is getting somewhat out these days that they're surprisingly hard to find for issues in the 400's.

My experience was that he is following stretch of books is amongst the hardest run to find, especially in better than a simple VG