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you would think the official policy is written somewhere that they could provide a link to rather than depending on whatever rep one gets a hold of says.

Not that ebay has a lot of seller protection but do you lose whatever they offer if you don't ship to the official address?

The scanners we have at my work are large enough to handle a slab. I just went in early on the occassions I needed to use it. Possible scanners at a close by office store (Staples etc) If you have a sunny day bring it outside - 30 seconds in the sunlight to take a quick picture isn't going to damage it. Then you just angle it to avoid shadows

Back in the latter half of the 70's, I remember my father walking down the basement and tossing me a Flash comic (which prob turned it from a 9.4 into a 8.5!). I don't remember the details but I must have mentioned it to a friend at school was was currently collecting. He got me to meet him at a local pharmacy where we headed to the spinner rack at the back of the store. He was a DC collector so I started with mostly DC's. I was prob using allowance money back then. From there we took occasional trips on the bus/train into center city Philly to visit the comic book store and compared our stashes on the trip home. Eventually a shop opened up in my area which I rode my bike to and poured my paper route dollars into. Prob collected about a dozen years

wow - George Perez basically defined my collecting of new comics back in the day

repost it in the Buddy Can You spare a grade forum, take close ups of that front cover upper half and try to eliminate the shadows

Condolences on your loss. If u paid with PayPal you may have up to 6 months to back charge a credit card - not sure. As far as the comic, I have a very good looking Hulk King sized annual 1 with a gouge on the front. It didn't have the spine tics yours does however. Mine came back a 7.0 so if a press helps a lot then maybe you can get that

you can post your story on the Ebay Blocked user thread so other people become aware of this seller BTW why do you say an Ebay return is not an option? Whether the seller says he allows returns or not, you can still get Ebay to accept the return.

if you pack them tight enough then maybe you can get a poor man's press effect!

I had mine in long boxes and stored alternating front & backs and never had spine roll issues.

one my my Bryne FF favs - hopefully we get to see it recreated in the MCU one of these years. While you can say the characters are small (except for G) and therefore not greatly detailed to be examples of stuning artwork, it'a cover that couldn't make me wait to get home to open it up. *edit* hmm maybe we could open this up to the last 40 years.....

George Perez had some excellent New Teen Titans covers which helped sell the story inside. While they may not be considered great covers of all time, They're examples of wondefully drawn covers pertaining to the inside stories

Good ol' Robert Bell. I also bought those bags that yellowed over time. Got all my Treasury editions thru him (Sup vs Spiderman/ Muhammad Ali etc) Wish I had stored the catalogs with my comics

Was a collector from the late 70's to 1990 or so. Haven't "fallen prey to the siren song of profit" but rather realized I don't want to do to my kids what my father will do to me (namely leave me with a house full of stuff I'll be stuck getting rid of). So I'm trying to convince the wife to begin the long process of getting rid of our accumulated things which we no longer really need. That includes the comics. So when some type of MCU tie-in or other event suddenly increases the value of a formerly inexpensive comic, I'm happy to move it to a new home. it's mainly been the low priced stuff since I have no shortage of them. The expensive slabs may get willed to the kids, plus they're nice to pull out and loving at look at from time to time.

as a kid in the early 80's I was always hunting down Spectre issues from the back issue bins. I ended up getting his old Murphy Anderson & Neal Adams series, the Adventure comics issues, guest appearance in Brave & The Bold & others and of, course,

Sorry. I'm in the camp that it's pretty near impossible to tell the diff between a 9.6 and 9.8 from pictures. Tiny defects and subtle manufacturing errors, which 9.8s can have, are hard to see on pics unless poss ur a pro photographer that can eliminate shadows and reflections etc

Went looking up a couple of books after logging into my free account and they no longer give you access to their FMV values for every grade.

No it does not

Never heard of that book. Hard to see it exploding in value in 3 years. You'd basically be gambling on getting a 9.8 Also you may want to look at how many sales the book gets, ie what kind of market there is for the book

not in the hard case slabs but I believe Voldemort (AKA CBCS) has some type of program where they encase them in "tamper evident" bags. I don't know anything more about it that that. You can search Ebay for examples

I believe World War Hulk did just that- not in a blink though

I thought they charge a higher price which covers the eBay fees