Dick Pontoon

I'd like to hear what @Kevin76 thinks.

So I've never read any of these issues. The non-rocky Thing person is Ms. Marvel? Huh-wha?

I can leap in and out of the race:

Put me in the downsize camp. 14,000 is a *lot* of funnybooks, and I'm guessing a good chunk of them are of recent vintage as opposed to high value and/or rare SA and GA. If you've got a bunch of cheap Copper and Moderns, just dump them and replace them after you've moved. You might find you don't miss them so much and they might be cheaper to replace than move all that way.

There's no such thing as white ink. Four color printing involves cyan, magenta, yellow and black, colors are produced by a mix of those four. Areas of white are areas where no ink was applied, what you see is the white of the paper. The circle doesn't look production related to me. I don't see this spot on other covers I found online, and in the closeup it appears to be raised off the surface, like a spot of a foreign substance that was dropped onto the cover.

That is patently bizarre. It must be some sort of label error or GPA goof. I've never seen any of the '60s Lancer paperbacks slabbed, nor the '70s Pocket Books/Kangaroo books or the DC series either. It doesn't make any sense, CGC doesn't slab paperbacks.

Slabbed? That's news to me. I can't find any on ebay, do you have a link to an example?

Sub-Mariner is in the "Marvel Comics King-Size Annual" Group, so I'm assuming it's Sub-Mariner Annual #1. The Thing is in the same group and dates 1976, so I assume it's Marvel Two-In-One Annual #1.

I'm not pointing fingers, just pointing out what I saw. Shad glossed over some details. Probably doesn't matter anyway as this is most likely one of those ghost posters who pop up for a question and is never heard from again.

The OP has listed Giant Size Fantastic Four #2, not Fantastic Four #2, Daredevil Annual #1, not Daredevil #1 and Sub-Mariner Annual #1 not Sub-Mariner #1. The New Teen Titans is an '80s series, and I would guess based on all the other books listed that the Silver Surfer books are either the '80s series or the late '70s Fantasy Masterpieces reprints. I'm not seeing anything of note on that list.

To piggyback on this a little and thinking about the Promise Collection resale losses, I would imagine that the majority of folks who are buying $20K comic books have a *lot* of discretionary income as opposed to some fellow who has just $20,500 in the bank, and that buying a book at $20K and selling it months later for $15K doesn't feel to be as big a haircut as it would for the average collector.

I believe these *are* beaters. This is a group of low-grade, low-value Tom and Jerry comics IIRC from the OPs other threads and the photos in this one. $1-$3 bin books.

Never owned or seen that cover either! And something tells me I didn't miss much...

Bro, you own a restaurant. Would you confuse fettuccine with rigatoni?

Never owned or seen that cover!

It's still up for me.

It's interesting that it was a Half Price Books find. Were there a lot? I wonder if a someone passed and their collection wound up there.

Those are books from a collection Jim Payette sold. IIRC they were the original owner's inventory system.

The art on several boxes was modified between '71 and '72 so that buyers wouldn't think a kit contained more figures than they actually did, such as the Allosaurus on the Neanderthal Man and Cave boxes or the Saber-Tooth Tiger on the Allosaurus box. Box sizes changed as well. I don't know why but would assume it had to do with uniformity and production costs. For the Saber-Tooth Tiger it may have been necessary as a second base part was included. The Allosaurus also received a base that was not included on the initial release, but I don't know if the box dimensions changed on that one.

That's a great one to have!

Okay, Chief!

Sorry, missed #312 day.