OuterboroGuy

Seems like there are many sub-categories here: --Pure drek --Independents (good and bad) --Solid DC/Marvel series that people bought and enjoyed but have little value --DC/Marvel series that seemed to last without any redeeming qualities or audience

That was my favorite series in high school. For some strange reason I specifically remember picking up the following issue at a newsstand at the Hoyt-Schermerhorn A train station on the way home from school.

well said

I should have titled the thread better . . . not thinking of crappy uncollectible series, but good uncollectible series.

What, in your opinion, is the epitome of the least collectible comic series? Obviously there's lots of drek and otherwise highly readable '90s independents (e.g., Nexus), but I am thinking about late Silver or Bronze mainstream series that people read and enjoyed, but have little value. "Warlord" by Mike Grell comes to mind for me. Maybe Marvel Two-in-One -- I had a particular fave issue as a kid I read many times -- "The Thing vs The Thing". What's yours?

Yeah, there was a box set that came out around 1978 or 1980 -- had this Hulk book, the FF, and I think 2 Spiderman books. They got thrown out along with the rest of my childhood belongings

So . . . there is an auction going on today . . . I was interested in maybe picking up the Thor 165. Based on online pics I thought maybe it was in the 4.0-5.0 range. It went for $550 plus the 25% commission. https://www.proxibid.com/Art-Antiques-Collectibles/Collectibles/Marvel-Comics-The-Mighty-Thor-No-165-comic-book/lotInformation/56072018 Am I crazy in thinking this is crazy?

I got the same letter from Joe Mannarino

Best is cropped last panel:

That Supergirl-Superhorse story was really something

Action Comics 509. Imagine what Earth scientists could do with simulated gravity. (In fact, the entire premise of the story was ridiculous. Aliens crash landed 50 years earlier and disguised themselves perfectly as humans. But they grew so lonely that they erased all memories they had that they were, in fact, aliens, and then dedicated their lives to proving that space travel was a fake. then their subconsciouses banded together to form a psionic ghost creature that started interfering with human space exploration, which is where Superman gets involved.)

In one of those weird coincidences that convince me that quantum entanglements sometimes guide our lives, I had never seen this cover before today, and then I saw it twice -- here, and then in this issue of Marvel Age that I picked up for bathroom reading material . . .

Quite a story: ‘Crush This Lady.’ Inside eBay’s Bizarre Campaign Against a Blog Critic. Security employees allegedly orchestrated deliveries of live cockroaches, pornographic videos and a mask of a bloody pig’s head

That's nondisclosure IMO. Legitimate basis for return.

Just curious -- Was it a hidden defect? Or were the pictures misleading? I always assume as a buyer that the Seller's opinion of the grade is just that -- an opinion and not something that is the basis for me returning a book.

I won't tell yours if you don't tell mine.

Actually there randomly is an interview with Joe Kubert in that issue! Who knew he lived in Dover NJ? (Anyone ever been to The Quiet Man pub there?)

Archive.org has a lot of those old magazines scanned online. (I particularly enjoy reading issues of Color Computer Magazine, as I was a TRS-80 owner.) Here is a nice issue with world-famous heavy metal singer on cover. https://archive.org/details/DynamiteMagazine112Volume7Number3/mode/2up

6.5

7.0

If that right edge is doing what I think it is doing, 8.0

6.5 . . . sweet

4.5 with clean and press. Sweet copy.

4.0. A press would help the cover presentation, but nothing to be done about that spine.

That is one of the nicest 7.5's I have ever seen. Harsh grade for that copy!