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5 minutes into the 1st episode and it seems like Robot Chicken writers contributed to the -script - and that's a good thing

Godzilla/Kong & Synder Cut JLA caused me to sign up for a month so I was also able to get thru season 1. I thought they did a very good job.   i enjoyed not only all the characters they were able to fill, but how well of a job they did fleshing each one put and making them interesting. Plus I appreciate the quick intro montage which gets you right back into the story.    Currently l have enough streaming services so I wasn't going to keep HBO beyond that month but if they come out with a cheaper plan (which I thought I heard they may be doing soon) I'm certainly interested in Season 2

I would read the sticky in the Brother Can You Spare a Grade forum and posts good  pics/scans of each.  You will hopefully get some good grade estimates. You may even get some opinions on whether pressable defects are seen.    Then you can go to goCollect or used Ebay sold listings to get an idea of current value

7 hours ago, mgcrazy said:

Sorry

it's not the end of the world, but if you're going to stick around (and the hope is  all comic lovers do!) a lot of the forums have topics stickied at the top that new members can go thru.

if you click on the 3 dots, you should be able to edit your posts and maybe delete one set of the pics.  Then just post that one in a separate thread.  You'll hopefully get more replies then.   Welcome, good luck, yadda yadda yadda.. (and I agree with 4.5 for each)

29 minutes ago, oxholm said:

Thanks.  That makes sense.  How do you go about shipping runs that are in the 100s of books?  That Fables run is 149 issues of Fables, plus I was thinking of including Jack of Fables and some of the other associated mini-series.  All told it's a little over 200 books, which seems difficult shipping wise.

here's a few  threads which talked about shipping large lots

3 minutes ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

to be honest there is water flowing into the sprinklers? then that pipe can burst..... better be prepared for the worst  

 

I tell my wife - if there's ever a fire at the house, open the family room window, toss out those cardboard boxes marked "A" and "B" and climb out!

When I had my raws in the basement, I had the long boxes sitting on 2x4's in case water ever got on the floor. That actually worked when either the laundry tub overflowed or water seeped in from outside.   Of course moving them upstairs was an ever better solution.

I'd go along with Thoth and also say get a good tarp at Home Depot 

BTW a friend at work just had her 3 story apartment complex burn down. The fire started in the 2nd floor unit above her. The fire department aimed the hoses directly into her apartment. So if you're worried about water damage from a fire while you're not there, there's only so much you can protect against. 

13 hours ago, jick said:

 

DKR#1 should be "THE" modern grail from the copper era, not ASM 300. It changed comics entirely and the effects are still around to this day!  I'd say even at $4k for 9.8, it is still undervalued compared to ASM 300 ---or maybe it's just 300 that is over-valued now?

 

Well it seems all Marvel book are $$$ > DC books

1 hour ago, lostboys said:

I usually use comicsgocollect to check the FMV of a book before I buy a copy.

This particular book keeps yo yo-ing up and down drastically and I don't understand why.

The sold prices on Ebay are pretty consistent week to week for 9.8, 9.6 and 9.4 so why the up and down on a weekly basis for the FMV?

For example

4 weeks ago the FMV of a 9.6 was $350

2 weeks ago it jumped to $675

Today it's back down to $360

 

well Watchcount sold listings for Ebay  shows 9.6 selling at 500-$1000 over the last 60+ days so goCollect must have a mistake.   I can't picture a few lowball sales on some other auction site dragging their FMV down given how many Ebay sales there have been.

Nowadays with the way prices have been rising I always look at either Ebay sold sales or recently finished auction sales rather than goCollect

2 hours ago, darkness7 said:

Thanks. Looks like on return shipping, USPS provides more insurance I think. The others only $100

You can also use 3rd party insurers so you'd be covered no matter who you use.   I've never used any of them myself but many boardies have

7 minutes ago, darkness7 said:

Reholder service - which shipping service should I use? Fed Ex or USPS Is one more reliable than the other? Thanks!

There's no answer to that.  You'll find people everywhere who swear by and swear at USPS/ups/fed ex

yeah there's another thread here about that story

Seems the article you quoted is a bit wrong or misleading.  Apparently the victim was jumped by 4 people and pulled his gun  to protect himself according to the stories I read.

6 minutes ago, horrorfan70 said:

I was looking to start a lower grade (3.0-5.0) Golden Age collection and was interested in what defects you would look for and avoid in this grade range of books. 

brittle pages are usually avoided.

You may want to post this on the Golden Age forum for chances of more replies

2 hours ago, silveragestash said:

Appreciate that resource.  Off hand do you happen to know how they update their prices?  Using Avengers 6 as an example again, there seems to be a fairly significant difference between the graded copies of the two sites.

Yep, they do have that option.  At some point they do start charging a storage fee if it doesn't sell and you don't want to reduce the price. 

From what I gather (and please correct me if I'm wrong) grading skews towards the "cover appeal" of the comic.  I'm hoping if I can find a local who can press, it may be worth it to get a better grade even if I do wind up submitting it raw.  Likely wouldn't be cost effective if I had to have them mailed back and forth though. 

I wouldn't use comicspriceguide.com for slab prices.     No that I've done any kind of exhaustive research but most of the times I compare their slab prices to goCollect or eBay sales or even gpaAnalysis for the 3 issues they supply free data for, it doesn't seem to be in sync with them

I also agree with shadroch that you should slab those 1k book you're thinking of consigning as raws

you could try this site that offers raw prices

comicspriceguide.com

As far as MCS,I never used them but I believe you have an option to set your own price regardless of the grade they give

Watched the 1st episode last night.  While reading the 1st issue of the comic -  If I tried to imagine in my head what it would be like as live action - this wasn't it.

The only exception was the Chloe character.

3 hours ago, fantastic_four said:

Is that speculation or have you heard something specific?

I had never heard this before.  Seems like it would be a very common issue, so I'm surprised if it's a loophole in tax code.  I know my dad has a bunch of baseball cards he bought as a kid in the 1950s including several of the greats from that era, so it's something I may have to learn the specifics of when I eventually get those.

I also wonder if it is a loophole is it only one for collectibles or is it a loophole for anything of value?  I can't imagine they overlooked this for stocks.

I thought the proposed law had a $1 or 2 million exemption for step up basis

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/stepped-up-basis-biden-tax-plan/

7 hours ago, the blob said:

so they took our taxex away? they really are monsters.

try

https://130point.com/sales/

On another thread I mentioned about taxex no longer working and someone responded about that site. It tried it and it does give back sales prices

10 minutes ago, Domo Arigato said:

I just tried it on one and couldn't find it either.

I wonder if eBay got word of people searching for it and, for some reason, didn't want people to see it.

 

I even searched for "$" symbols thinking maybe they just used a diff keyword but no such luck

On 4/30/2021 at 6:20 PM, Domo Arigato said:

Just a heads up on using the taxex method to see what a book actually sold for.

George with GPAnalysis mentioned here that using this method isn't always accurate.

I don't know why it's not always accurate and didn't ask for clarification, but wanted to put that information out there.

 

 

I can't seem to find "taxex" anymore in the page source.   Noticed a reddit thread also with the poster making the same observation.

I did click on 'show original listing"

Tried multiple completed sales with a best off accepted note & unable to find "taxex" on any of them

8 hours ago, 1950's war comics said:

also..i had some bird droppings land on my shoulder recently ...... maybe  maybe i can fly

hmm, maybe it means you're poor at ducking....may wanna stay inside next meteor shower

Why does it have to 'pop'?   Many valuable assets don't pop, they just settle down in a trading range above the level before they stated their last climb

I'd think 'keys' would do this.  Random spec books solely due to MCU may be a different story

20 hours ago, George Ramiro said:

How much value is added to an issue if it signed by a celebrity?

you should prob post this in "The Signature Room"  rather than in the pools forum

I'm not a sig collector, only having 1 signed book, but generally from the posts I read value usually comes from books that have the celebs actually on the cover.