Dick Pontoon

If you are new to collecting and want slabbed books, I'd focus on just buying books already slabbed for a while first. Simultaneously learning how to grade comics while purchasing them to send to CGC sounds like a formula to lose some money.

I'd never want to go back to a single sales forum. It would be complete and utter chaos between the combination of the new board layout confusion and the constant influx of new people selling.

I need to take a look for non-Atlas books I have around. In the meantime, here's a nice Journey Into Mystery:

Starlin and Cockrum!

I missed an even nicer copy a few weeks back elsewhere and didn't want this one to slip by. There were other nice square bounds in the bin besides this, but somebody had already grabbed them when I went back a week later. So it goes.

Jeez. My last post was last May. I'm between books right now, but the last two I read were Woody: The Biography by David Evanier (it was very good and insightful) and Savage Night by Jim Thompson (always enjoy Thompson, although reading too many consecutively can be a little routine).

In the meantime, let's revisit 2015...

It's not a Giant-Size Man-Thing, but it is a Giant-Size Marvel Triple Action, which almost sounds just as wrong.

One good Man-Thing deserves another.

I missed a minty-mint copy at my LCS a few weeks ago, but this one is close enough. And some lesser books Greggy wouldn't even blow his nose on:

Congrats! What about Tales of Suspense, Tales to Astonish or Journey into Mystery? Just curious since you went for the early issues of the other titles/characters.

Don Heck is another example that leaps to my mind. Most people hate his style (not me) but he knew how to tell a story.

There's been countless threads about these guys. Here are several. The third link has links to multiple other threads on the subject. https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/87806-my-first-experience-with-popscomicbooks/ https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/341549-popscomicbooks-on-ebay/ http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=3500885

Had to scan this for something else so I figured I'd toss it up:

That's actually my single cover undercopy. I don't have a shot of the double cover. But since everyone's is clamoring for it, I'll post it up ASAP.

I have a double cover Captain Gallant.

That's not correct, it does have to be scanned by then to qualify for Top Rated status. It must be scanned within your stated handling time and to be Top Rated your stated handling time must be 1 day. As stated in ebay's guidelines to qualify: Late shipment rate In order to be a Top Rated Seller you must have less than 3% of transactions with late shipping. The late shipment rate is the percentage of your transactions that weren’t shipped on time. We’ll track how often your items were either shipped within the stated handling time or delivered after the estimated delivery date. If the shipment receives a carrier scan within your handling time, it will count as being shipped on time.

I usually just roll when ebay makes changes but these new ones really me off. The combo of reduced FVF discount AND upping the 24 hour shipping to 95% to qualify for Top Rated is ridiculous. If you’re not selling a lot of volume, it only takes a package or two to drag it down. 24 hours is a BS notion anyway. If an auction ends in the evening and it needs to be scanned by 12 midnight the following day, that really means I have to get it scanned before 5:00 pm when the post office closes; I don’t really have until midnight. Getting a package to a box before last pickup isn’t so tough, but there’s been a few occasions where it doesn’t show as scanned in the system until after 12:00 am, which means ebay’s algorithm dings my account.

That's just wrong.

+1. A press isn't going to do squat. With all that wear, color loss and big color breaking creases I think anything above a 4.0 is optimistic.

I like that line of thought! And it's not just because I have all 3 books, either.

I need to start keeping better track; I can't remember what I've posted and what I haven't, and what i've scanned and what I haven't. I know I didn't put this Journey Into Unknown Worlds up, though.

Super cool! That's one of those books I'd like but always forget to look for. Congrats!