comicginger1789

Def a 3.0! Outside shot at 3.5

Didn't make her less annoying though..

Hydro Man is actual trash. Lame villain who to my knowledge has never bad a fan base. I shudder at the people who paid $50-80 during the hype. $5-10 book in high grade max. Madame Web I always found annoying. She was like some weird mentor that I personally didn’t think fit into Spideys world. The Jugernaut story is good but again I always kind of found her connection with Spidey weird so that story has take some time for me to really like it. Also she kind of just disappears, no? I forget why and what happened. She also was prevalent in the 90s cartoon and again was an annoying old hag there too. For some reason she always just sticks around. I dunno what she has done of late that is noteworthy but calling her first app a major key is weird to me.

This has also been my feelings too, in terms of keys. "Second" Punisher (not really but whatever) never saw much love until th last 5-7 years IMO as ASM 129 climbed outta the realm of affordable for a lot of people. First Jigsaw...meh. First Ben Reilly was also not a huge seller 5-7 years ago. Nowadays, it seems like some people ask the moon for it, others are more reasonable. I don't consider it Ben Rielly's first app because it is a retcon. Someone in the future was like "hey remember way back when this happened? Let's make him alive, give him a name and start something crazy!" I just say buy em all. 100-200 is just awesome Spidey fun. It cools from 201-237 (Juggernaut two parter excepting) and then kicks back up with Hobby goodness

As for this new question, my knowledge of DD is what I have seen in Stranger Things. No more, no less so...... yeahhhh.....

Wo hoo thanks @Bkd Reader

I’m closer to 8.0-8.5

1993-1994 (age 5) - Received first comic I remember having/owning which was Amazing Spider-Man #2 Double Trouble. An anti-drug run which ran 5 issues I think. A babysitter got it for me if I recall. 1997-2000 (age 8-11)- Hard to pinpoint exactly when but my family used to take a trip to Kingston just for a weekend. There was this hotel with a cool arcade and nice indoor water slide. My dad took my brother and I to a comic shop down the street. I started with Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man and was hooked. 2003-2007 (age 14-18)- We had dialup internet. I convinced my Dad to let me shop and bought the occassional lot of comics. As I finished high school and started university, books were cheaper what with the US dollar being at par with ours so I went crazy, collecting the first 100+ issues of PPTSS and also beginning into my ASM run hardcore. During this time, I bought a lot as I also worked a lot.. 90% of my money I saved for schooling and the 10% I saved for me was comics and necessities. April 10, 2008 (age 19)- got an Ebay account in my name. More buyer, and the occasional sell of stuff I did not love. 2008-2009 (age 19-20) my first "collection" buy. Guy nearby had two longboxes of stuff. He wanted $100 for it all. That was a lot for me to drop at the time but he had like 20 copies of Wolverine #1 from his first solo series (not the Miller mini) and I know at even $10 a pop, I could make money off them plus get a bunch of comics. The score from this lot turned out to be my Marvel Spotlight 28 in 7.0-7.5 condition. I kept, along with a handful of others. Sold the Wolverines and made like $100-150. During this time I also experienced my first and only ebay loss as a guy who bought 6 copies claimed they never arrived. It sucked but I still made out okay. 2009-2012 (ages 20-23)- not a lot of buying as I was full time in school and most all of my money was needed to pay for schooling. I do recall one big-ish purchase during this time while at school. A guy had some older comics for sale and also a couple old tin license plates for bicycles. One green and one red one with Batman and Robin on them. A quick search told me they were worth something. I think I spent $60 on everything, flipped the plates and kept most of the comics. There was nothing fancy, a few VF Cap issues though from early in the run and some other stuff. It was also during this time I ponied up $60 for my copy of ASM #300, the most I had every spent on a single issue at the time. Guy had two copies, gave me the nicer. Should have bought both. 2013- (age 24)- met a local guy with over 60 000 comics (probably closer to 80 000 in reality, plus statues, figures and a bit of everything). Started a great friendship and buying/trading partnership. 2013-2017 (ages 24-28). Graduated school, got a job. Started buying lots more again on ebay and selling too. My collection really began to branch out too. Before I was 80% Spider-Man anything (ASM, PPTS, Marvel Team-Up) and 20% other Marvel stuff (mostly Bronze Age, some Silver, very little from 80s-now). I also attribute my enjoyment of the Dark Knight, which I finally got around to viewing, for starting to me into Batman and buying Neal Adams era Batman and other notably strong Batman stories (Killing Joke, the Cult, the Knightfall run). Eventually I started going for most anything and everything that interested me, usually art wise. During this time, I helped a work colleague of my wife's sell his collection. In return, I kept some books, most notably a bunch of treasuries. He had X-Men from the Claremont run, mostly mid grade and a Giant Size X-Men. I sold all that for him. 2018- probably my best year. In many ways. Had my son, and just before he was born I acquired a large collection. Again, X-Men stuff from the Claremont run. Kept a few, sold most for profit. Just after my son was born, had a huge yard sale score. Then within the same year, another person wanting to sell some stuff contacted me. Again, I sold most but kept a number of nice original owner books for myself as part of the payment for helping him sell his stuff. I also hopped onto Instagram and discovered a great community there for buying, selling and just seeing pics of peoples comics! 2019-now- Joined the forums here and after watching for a while, started posting. I still feel like a newb sometimes but I appreciate this site and what it brings knowledge wise. As of now, I am continuing to buy, mostly online because where I live is not really near any major comic book stores so hunting in the wild just doesnt happen for me unfortunately. And sell stuff because there is enough I don't love that selling can help fund the hobby. I have still yet to pay more than $500-600 for comics (and that was the X-Men collection) and my collection lacks the mega keys. But hey, I am sure I will get a Hulk 181, TOD #10, ASM #129 one of these days. Mayyybbbbbeee a Silver Age grail but that seems outta reach. However, I have learned to never say never in this hobby!

I feel like Wrightson has enough other stuff that sells regularly. Swamp Thing issues, he had other House of Secrets issues that sell well. I would say he is more talked about and people will jump on his stuff but you are right for mega keys, he has the one and maybe Swamp Thing #1 as just a regular level key. I would argue the large DC 100 Page Spectacular he drew with the black cover may be a hard one and valuable one. Only 22 copies graded 9.0 or better and no 9.8's. I would think if those came to market or sold, they would easily be $100-200 books.

But back to original query...would HOM 200 or Batman 248 be more preferred? Both are the highest ebay sales I can find for a book by him. You can get CGC 9.6 and 9.4 of issues like The Shadow 1 and others for under $100 but those two issues seem to be the only ones (recently) that have fetched over $100.

Canadian price variant, for those who care. Contemplating sending in for the Perez signing but the top edge has a flaw and a ripple on the back cover only (no pages) that might knock this one down hard. Thanks for the thoughts!

Ah definitely. I mean my copy is no 9.8 but at least there no bleed. I wanna track down those I Vampire issues!

Does he sign stuff if I mail him directly or is he someone I have to go to conventions to get stuff signed? I have a handful of stuff I would love to have him sign, truly an underappreciated and talked about artist.

Hmm you are right, they are similar. I feel very fortunate as I got all five issues this year for $2 a pop in back issue bins at a local collectibles store. What does the bleed through loom like? I checked my copy of issue 3 and it seems flawless aside from a spine tick or two.

I mean, I can see 9.8 potential. 9.4-9.6 for sure. Thing is, I dislike the diamond UPC and line through the barcode. It always draws my eye to it and I find it takes away from a great cover. Just me though.

Yeah Kaluta books are reasonable and great. Love the few Batman issues he did, and love his House of Mystery stuff. My all time favourite covers though were for Doorway To Nightmare, especially issue 3 I think.

That’s cool. A fun book too and has that nice insert.

7.0-7.5 and if pressed I think 8.0 maybe higher is possible

I don’t see anything that would prevent a 6.0-6.5. Worst case 5.5 but they would have to ding the spine super hard which I don’t think they will

How about Michael Kaluta? Love his covers and art but does he have a mega key or super valuable book? If he does it’s escaping me at the moment...

I can also see 7.5-8.0. Might be pressible to 8.5 or even 9.0

Ima venture a guess that the clean helped that back cover?

I will venture it finishes up around 9.2-9.4 That top staple and the fact that the wrap on it is off make me feel like it could hurt it from getting higher. I know the wrap is a production thing but I still feel like there are some minute tears at the staples that have me keeping it outta 9.6-9.8 territory.

6.5-7.0 from me. That crease sucks but at least it is on the back.

I think 6.0-7.0 is 100% accurate. I would also say 6.5 but would understand slightly higher (great front!) and slightly lower (boooo stain).