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I'll take the 2 Sin City books and the Bone set

Nick Cardy was doing some great stuff for the Teen Titans in the late 60s/early 1970s

On 8/7/2022 at 4:53 PM, CheeseFrog said:

Iron Man 100, VF/NM $15

On 8/7/2022 at 4:58 PM, CheeseFrog said:

Iron Man 118, VF+ $15

On 7/12/2022 at 3:32 PM, KryptoMayor said:

Fantastic Four 208 FN- $3.00

On 7/12/2022 at 3:33 PM, KryptoMayor said:

Fantastic Four 209 VF+ $3.00

On 7/12/2022 at 3:30 PM, KryptoMayor said:

Fantastic Four 184 FN+ $3.00

On 7/12/2022 at 3:31 PM, KryptoMayor said:

Fantastic Four 206 FN/VF $3.00

On 7/12/2022 at 3:17 PM, KryptoMayor said:

80 Page giant 6 VG+ $3.00

On 7/10/2022 at 8:08 PM, KryptoMayor said:

Justice Machine Annual 1 VF+ first Elementals $6.00

On 7/9/2022 at 7:21 PM, KryptoMayor said:

Rocketeer 2 VF $2.00

On 7/9/2022 at 7:21 PM, KryptoMayor said:

Pacific Presents Rocketeer 1 VF $3.00

On 7/9/2022 at 7:22 PM, KryptoMayor said:

Howard the Duck 13 VG $4.00

Marvel Feature 12 FN $4.00
Tomb of Dracula 52 FN $2.00
 Tomb of Dracula 55 FN $2.00
Tomb of Dracula 56 FN/VF $3.00
Tomb of Dracula 57 FN $2.00

On 7/3/2022 at 5:35 PM, mrc said:

the first book I remember buying with my own pocket money........

That picture frame era of Iron Man was my favorite period for his book .

Your Tomb of Dracula #10 and Spider-Man 129 are your big dollar books. You have a handful of other Spider-Man books that will do well, along with a bunch of filler stuff that will definitely sell.

On 6/28/2022 at 8:30 PM, Dr Zen said:

My favorite Wonder Man stories are when he is with Beast. And he has to have the safari jacket.

Always loved Perez work, so I'm really hoping that safari outfit was the idea of somebody else. It seems to have appeared around the Shooter era, hoping it was him who designed that costume and told Perez to go with it.

Is that some type of whiteout or paint on the bottom right corner photo? That could be a real problem.

Would it even have been close if they had stuck with Kubert as the artist?

On 5/6/2022 at 7:56 AM, shadroch said:

No film caught the sheer fun Spiderman gets from web-swinging like the 2002 movie. I'd always thought swinging from building to building kind of sucked when compared to leaping them in  a single bound but Toby made me realize what I was missing.

Yep. Seeing Spider-Man swinging around the city, and the sequence where he was learning how, there was a realization that special effects had finally caught up to the comics. It just felt like the time had arrived finally.

On 6/15/2022 at 8:41 PM, Robot Man said:

Are you sure the number he gave you wasn’t a buddy trying to talk you into it? Maybe a set up.

I used to work for a company who used a printing plant in Juarez. One trip there and I refused to go back…

It's always possible, but the other buyer seemed legit. He mentioned he was picking up for himself and a group of collectors to split it up. Didn't really oversell it much, just said it was legit and to get there in the morning so you can get out before things started getting shady. Even the seller seemed ok, he was pretty upfront that the rent had been defaulted and he just needed the books cleared out. I have no doubt that he wanted the stuff gone, more than he wanted to make a killing on the comics.

On 6/15/2022 at 12:56 PM, Robot Man said:

I don’t know where you guys live, but there are certainly places and situations I would pass on going into for comics. If my “Spidey sense” tingles, I listen to it.

There were many times when I was younger, that I wouldn’t give a second thought to score a good collection. But we live in dangerous and crazy times now especially when money comes into play…

I talked to a guy from El Paso, TX and he needed a small warehouse cleared of comics in the late 1990s. Wanted $800 for it all to be cleared. I planned on taking a trailer down from San Antonio and he told me I needed a ladder, a dolly and a truck, a 26ft U-Haul. He had a 20x20 building filled, stacked 8 foot high with boxes, everything you could imagine from the late 80s-early 90s, still in distributor boxes. The more I started thinking about it  just couldn't get the thought of cases of Magnus 25, 26, 27 etc. out of my mind. I was backing out and he said for an extra $50 he would have a guy there to help me load. I still was backing out and he gave me a guys number that had just loaded up a trailer and left for Colorado. I called the guy and he was very happy with what he had loaded, Marvels, Valiants, Image, DC in unopened cases. I was concerned that he had picked the good stuff clean but he said that it wasn't really possible because of the way it was stacked, it was just too much work to sort and search.

So he starts telling me I should get there as early as possible and to get out before it gets dark. He said he was still loading at night and that it wasn't a very nice area. His thought were that the books may have been bought through money laundering. I relayed the info to my friend who was going to go with me and he mentioned you don't want to be that close to Juarez after dark and he backed out.

That was my one that got away.

On 5/30/2022 at 1:18 AM, jbud73 said:

Adventure 462

8.0

$18