vheflin

so the rancid fingerprints on the back of Untamed were case smudges?

nine point  SIX!!

sheeesh

The hobby will die anyway, all comics will be brown and brittle in a relatively short time.  Good quality reprints will be the only option.

The entire GA and SA (maybe even BA) should be reprinted.  Not now, but in the future. 

Tell him you are the #1 comic collector in Nigeria and also a prince and the royal family has held up your $5 billion inheritance until you can come up with $10k in administrative fees to free up the money.

that sure got graded fast! 

I got the emote

is that bad?

Seems to be an ineffective strategy because you must always be the high offer.  Why not flip it - have the friend place the higher offer then cancel/return and have a frustrated seller turn to you and your significantly lower offer.

$1100 offer for $1300 is not lowball.

How about a touch screen display as a label.  HD video, audio, and wifi! Think of all the possibilities!

donate it all to berkbridge foundation!  100% of the proceeds goes to charity

1 hour ago, intlnews said:

fireproof safes

FYI if they actually are in a safe and you aren't aware, safes and probably also safe deposit boxes seem to have storage issues...

How about an R-rated Howard the Duck?  Two hours of drinking, profanity, womanizing, cigar smoking and general bad behavior.  Like Bad Santa but with a CGI duck.

I would get in line to see that.

She's trying to get more money.  Probably blew her entire inheritance already.  Or her son did.

8 minutes ago, october said:

Many of the CoC Harvey File copies were water damaged. That's not to say there aren't a disproportionate amount of VF or better copies out there than other horror books, but it's not Thing 16 territory. 

Here's a lot of 18 low grade FCs that Heritage sold. Prescient buyer at $400 and change, considering the pile is worth well north of $10,000 at this point. 

https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/chamber-of-chills-19-multiple-file-copy-group-harvey-1953-condition-average-gd-vg-total-18-comic-books-/a/19062-12153.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515

Wonder if the watery ripples could be pressed out though...$$$

5 minutes ago, lou_fine said:

You mean besides the 82 Universal graded copies already slabbed, with a large proportion of these in relatively nice condition, there is still a whole slew of these in Raw condition that has yet to be held in the hands of a grader?  

Definitely makes one wonder why this particular book, as based upon the supply side of the equation, would already be trading into strong and seemingly continuously rising 4-figures territory.  

BTW:  Big congrats there on your super nice copy though and holding it for so long, especially relative to the price you had paid for the book.   

 

wasn't there a Harvey warehouse find yet for some reason CGC calls them file copies?  There's probably loads out there...like The Thing #16

lots of Misfits fans with money to burn I suppose

20 minutes ago, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

Why Heritage felt the need to limit extended bidding to those who previously bid during the normal auction, I cannot fathom.

Given that more bids = higher prices and that higher prices = more money, we can conclude:

more bids = more money

50 minutes ago, Comics-n-ERB said:

And for some stupid reason I didn't get the suitcase from him!  Or at least got a picture of the books in the suitcase!

fresh from CGC, I present the newest and coolest pedigree...drumroll please...suitcase!

A slabbed book (or any used item) that is frequently traded could easily end up generating more in sales tax than it's worth.

So much for the promise of peer-to-peer internet, freedom and all that

ok, time to get some dinner

Even if you buy something from overseas, say UK, you still pay the  sales tax.

The suitcase pedigree.

I have come here to chew bubble gum and grade comic books!

Only other comics history book I've read is 10-Cent Plague, this book is just as engrossing and informative.

Man oh man, publishing ain't easy!

1 hour ago, Readcomix said:

I saw it on the stand and got confused. What exactly is it the 1000th issue of? 

The 1000th time Marvel ripped off DC!

Use a tiny, tiny, tiny amount of nail polish remover on a cotton swab.  As gently as you can, rub it on the white out, maybe it will come off.

Or it might eat through the cover straight to page 5...