southern cross

When it comes to bronze I'd be careful how much you spend, there's a lot out there and a lot that is now seeing the light of day in fifty years. I help out at a comic book store and these are on consignment from a gentleman who had a arrangement with a lady who worked at a distribution company. He was able to buy as much as he wanted when they came out for half cover price. He bought them and unread were put into a box and stored away until now. I cherry picked a Demon 1 for myself The books he bought were random, and in numbers. Here is some others.

So I picked up minor keys and high grade unread books. Unread books The Doc Savage unread copies were dirt cheap, $15 each so I gave two copies away to board members on here for free. I cherry picked this book unread from a collection of copies. I picked up another Lois for $30 And I picked this book up, just love the cover. Some wonder women's and Night Nurse And another ped for my TTA run Other books but these are the ones I remember.

If you're having trouble. The name is Donald Olsen. Of course Donald had a subscription of Donald Duck in the 40s 🤘

I have this, nothing big cash. but look at the subscription stamp.

I'm at 9.2

I've been targeting bronze age lately in really nice raw grade. $15, I bought a few of these doc savage and gave away two copies to forum members on here. They were just to cheap and nice not to give a couple away. $20 each. Unread copies Then this key $175 Then I couldn't help myself as they look so nice Generally my sweet spot is $30 I'm always looking for a bargain even a key from my lcs. During the 2022 crazy prices $400 $125 $30 $10 $5 And $500 $125 I try and buy well. And the prices I'm paying I'm sure I could possibly find at least one collector to pay me what I actually paid. I generally buy the cheaper books under $30 or less unless something comes along and the price I feel is right and I'd like to own the book.

Today's pick ups at grit city comic Con Cheap Lois Lanes with 2nd appearance of Brainiac.

AAA One of the best horror covers art, homage many times. AA One of the best electric chair covers created artistically. A Classic standard WW2 cover BBB Classic cover so striking (pun intended) BB Best Donald cover artistically done that shows his character.

last two books I don't think should of been graded that high.

Scored a lucky 7 🙄

Any you old timers like myself remember the counterfeit copy used to be listed at $50 in Overstreet. Then the Overstreet started listing it as 'No value' because it doesn't have a value. If anyone wants to throw good money for fakes, to each their own.

Once the book is out of the slab any major flaws missed like missing pages would be hard to prove against a grading company. Whose to say that it's the same book.

No one. The book is graded and they give their opinion of the book with a numerical assigned grade and page quality. Once cracked out of the slab it's no longer a graded book by the third party grading company. It's grade now is the opinion of whoever is looking at it. So for the third party grading company is all about trust, professionalism and acceptance with other parties willing to buy it. Probably why the bulk of the books being graded in the United States are sent into only two companies though there are more operating.

Not sure but many years ago I bought a TTA 96 in 9.6 Boston pedigree. At the time there were only 6, 9.6 copies on the census for CGC, one other was the White mountain pedigree copy. A few years later I saw the White mountain pedigree copy CGC a 9.4, so obviously the book had been cracked out and resub and it came back lower. Not sure if the book was damaged in a crack slab or the book had been cracked out, read then slabbed again for resale?

Sign me up.

Amateur restoration the price has to go down. I won't pay anymore of 50% of fair market value for restored books. Some collectors pay more and that's up to them.

6.5,

I'm at 6.0

I'm at a 6.5

Why I have 4 copies