rumrunner71

My only green label (so far). It was a good reminder to check the interior before making a purchase

That is so awful. I'm really sorry, and I hope that someone can provide some help tracking them down.

Ah, but did you try covering the front end with acetate? Then you'd have the extra-rare Gran Torino variant.

This +100. You might not see it again, or the next time you do, the price will have risen out of your reach. Can't count the number of times that happened to me. Scour these boards and get a ton of free advice about storage. Learn to grade raw books for yourself, and then test your skills against the "Please grade my..." forum here.

Fascinating story, but also really sad. As a father, my greatest hope with my collection is to share this passion with my kids. It has to be really hard as an adult son knowing your father had this passion (or obsession) and never invited you in to share it. Maybe it was the Aspergers, maybe not. I don't want to jump to conclusions about his neuro-abilities. But that has to be painful either way. Imagine losing out on embarking on the thrill of the hunt together, as father and son. No doubt, the money will be nice, but, man, what a loss.

Fair points. Supes didn't fly, wasn't topless, and didn't have a cameltoe until much later

I thought about that with the ads. For the vast majority, those ads are the closest we'll come to AC 1. There's an argument to made there about them being poor man's AC1s. (I won't make it, but it could be made.) I wouldn't disagree on 180, either. Just trying to think of better examples than some of the suggestions in the thread for AC 1 alternatives.

I kind of wonder if some books are just too singular to have a true "poor man's" version. I mean, clearly, some do. IH 180 as the poor man's 181 comes to mind. Or one of the MF issues with Action 1 ads as the poor mans New Adventure 26. But with AC 1, TEC 27, I don't know that there is a true poor man's version.

So, for argument's sake, couldn't any collector create their own blue label variant now? Why limit it to just retailers, since it doesn't matter whether it comes from the publisher or not? I feel like I should get my kids to draw some junk on plastic and, voila, a blue label variant has just been born. Can I win a registry set competition if I have the only complete set of Rumrunner variant Shadowhawks?

If these were stolen from you, I'm really sorry. But I'm also really confused. Your first post said you were only allowing the police to handle this. If so, why post here and tell people to return them to the auction house? If you believe the auction house is complicit, why do you want people to return them to the auction house? If you want the police to handle everything, why do you not want to share the police info if people have the books? What the heck is a "red flag"??

Agreed, that's a great group! I'm also loving the confused zombie on the Baffling popping up like, "What am I doing here?"

For me, part of the fun in collecting is the thrill of the hunt. I don't generally seek out multiples, but if I find a key or a good GA or Platinum in the wild, and the price is right, it's that thrill of finding it and the story I can tell that makes me buy it, even if I already have it. Just as an example, I found an Iron Fist 14 sitting unbagged in a stack at an antique store a few years ago. It was lower than the copy I already had, but it was just sitting there in a stack of dollar books, and the price was very good (more than a dollar, but still). I've gotten a few multiples like that. A lot of the other comics, it's just my bad memory that leads to things like half a dozen copies of Death: The High Cost of Living taking up space.

I think that's the problem with the comparison, though, as revat and KCO tried to point out. It's not that simple because "white pages" is one designation and "not white pages" is half a dozen designations. If "not white pages" means tan or brittle, then yeah, it probably makes a big difference to most sellers for most books. If "not white pages" means off-white, then it may not make that big a difference for most collectors or most books. As KCO said, if it's white vs. brittle, then maybe it makes up some of the price difference. But it also depends on what the other reasons are for the grade. As you learn more about collecting, you'll see that some of the questions you are asking don't have black-and-white - or, in this case, off-white-and-white - answers, especially when they are hypothetical. The more specific you are, the more specific your responders can be.

Looks like this one. I'm not the only getting Spideysense going about this listing https://www.ebay.com/itm/STAR-TREK-22-Wolf-on-the-Prowl-DC-Comics-1984-Series-/313553703549?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=706-127636-26712-0

That's usually a good start and makes sense about the marks on the tags. But the seller with the Star Trek 22 seems...off. The real price seems about right, but the shipping is insanely high, and the listing strike me as suspicious. Also, all of these are available on other sites for very cheap. I'm sorry, but you have what you paid for...maybe not what you were hoping for.

In looking at just the ones you have pictured here, I hate to say it, but even $225 for the lot might be an over-estimation, depending on grade. These are selling for under $10 (some under $5) even for strong grades. You can find the current fees for grading on the cgc website. It'll cost you $24 plus shipping per comic. I'd say you have some wonderful reading material there, but whoever put stuff like "$20 comic for $1" on those tags was not being very honest. You can check ebay, but a better gauge might be mycomicshop. They have these listed for current sale.

Thanks! Their list seems pretty comprehensive

Thanks! I have some in oversized bags that are sort of folded over and taped. They just seem a bit insufficient. I'll have to take a look for treasury sizes. I tried searching for "platinum age sized" and there was nothing.

Those look great! I'll have to check out their sites. I have some older magazines I'd like to store, too, so it looks like they would have something for both. Thank you!!

Hi all, Not sure if this is the right forum for this, but has anyone found products or techniques for storing Platinum Age? I'm talking about the old Bringing Up Father, Gumps, etc., the square-style old ones. I've tried to search for boxes or mylars and come up empty. My assumption is that larger collections of these aren't common enough for companies to mass produce boxes, bags, and boards, but I could be wrong. If anyone has a link or a suggestion for how you store these, I'd appreciate the advice. Thanks!

I did my first sales on Comiclink, and the process was really straightforward with prompt payment.

Not necessarily. A good presser will be able to deal with comics of multiple ages. And a good presser will let you know if the comic might get damaged. (Speaking of which, DEFINITELY get it pre-screened. There was at least one thread where CCS damaged a comic that might have not been damaged had the owner known through a pre-screen of the risk.) The bigger problem than age seems to be page quality. If you got chipping pages or brittle pages or pieces hanging by a thread,then yeah, you might be asking for trouble.

I would search the forums. I know there are a few threads with recommendations. With CCS, you definitely won't get speed. Maybe not even quality

Trust might be too strong a term here They will take a long time, that's for sure. There is a ton of debate on the topic, as mentioned above. One of the questions I would wonder is whether it's worth it for a comic like this. That era of comics has a lot of high grade examples,and even in the best of grades, you're looking at a bit over $100 reliably. Given its lack of rarity and its age, do you want it enough to be worth it? Are you thinking about pressing because you really dig the cover and want a clean example? Or, are you thinking it will help the monetary value? If the latter, you might be better off saving the time and trouble and just buying a 9.6 or 9.8 already slabbed. If it's just for your own aesthetics, then yeah,CCS pressing through CGC should work. Get ready to wait, tho If one day you do go and sell it, it's a common courtesy to let the buyer know it has been pressed and cleaned, since that wont be in the grader notes. Not required, just a courtesy.

There are some great threads on here already with suggestions so you might want to search the forum. I used Comic Doctor before,and I was really happy with the customer service and results. One thing to note about CCS pressing is there are a lot of threads about the wait time. From what I've seen it is VERY long.