eselrod

Avengers West Coast 62 - Timekeepers appearance in trailer for Loki series on Disney+

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/did-steve-ditko-create-venom-marvel-spotlight-9-sells-90-on-ebay/

Curious on grade of this book and if it’s a good press candidate to improve grade 

Looking for opinions, thank you.  Wondering if it’s worthwhile to submit, planning to sell. 

Looking for opinions, thank you.  Wondering if it’s worthwhile to submit, planning to sell. 

Looking for opinions, thank you.  Wondering if it’s worthwhile to submit, planning to sell. 

1 minute ago, Turtle said:

A quick search on Ebay turned this up:

and there you go!  Mystery solved haha.  Thanks.  Was really racking my brain on this one.  I was wondering if it came out of sticker vending machine but that makes sense now.  What could be more 90s than a ninja turtles movie soundtrack cassette?!

On 1/19/2020 at 8:23 PM, Dark Knight said:

Yea FF 5 and 48

$4k to spend, one book.  Mid grade FF 48 highest growth potential for the money?

Unpacked a box of early 90s garbage mostly but found this random TMNT sticker in there. Anyone know what this is from?  I bought pretty much any TMNT in that era so could be from a toy or book. Searches on eBay and Google came up empty. Measures about the size of a trading card. I’m sure the artwork was used elsewhere 

All coverless

More Fun Comics 75, missing 2 outer wraps

Victory Comics 3, missing 2 outer wraps

Blue Beetle 13

Red Ryder 9

Captain Aero vol 1 #10 missing outer wrap

Coverless issues were

More Fun 75 (missing 2 outer wraps)

Victory Comics 3 (missing 2 outer wraps)

Blue Beetle 13

Red Ryder 9

Captain Aero vol 1 #10 (missing outer wrap)

I thought it was pretty cool for WWII era comics to show up on a yard sale site so sorry for the false alarm haha.  Got a kick out of the comments and did appreciate the input.  I did buy the books, no I'm not planning to retire on them but do hope to break even plus a little just for fun. 

BTW, did get a coverless More Fun Comics 75 in there too. 

To that point, how likely is it a cover would ever appear for something like this?

Sorry guys I was driving so it was spotty posting

it was an online yard sale and the guy went from $500 to $1000 during my commute. I got him to $300 but got some coverless stuff too that I need to check out a little more thorough. Hopefully you were at least entertained with the post. I appreciate the input 

Well I paid $300 so hopefully that’s not terrible 

1 hour ago, Spyder! said:

I sure hope you're not serious.

I’m without and on the road. Would $500 be more reasonable?

Let me rephrase. I can buy them for $1000. Is it worth that?

Seriously guys. Out of my realm on this one. 

I am. Not familiar with these 

Paid $1000, can I make it back?

Wondering how this would grade, couple of questions about it. I'll point out what I think could be drawbacks.  I'd be interested in opinions.

1.) my initial concern is this discoloring below the "A" and "N" in Gaiman on front bottom left side of the book. It is not a physical imperfection to the touch, cover is smooth with no scrapes or grooves.  I found another 2 examples pretty quickly on ebay, links below, and one is graded 9.8 so maybe they're not counting off for this.  I'd like to hear others' thoughts

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sandman-1-CGC-9-8-1989-2066767006-1st-app-Morpheus-the-Modern-Age-Sandman/362932645162

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sandman-1-DC-1st-App-Morpheus-Lord-of-Dreams-Key-Very-High-Grade/202945153441

2.) Probably hard to tell but there is 2 spine ticks that don't appear to break color, I've got closeups below, maybe they'll show up.

3.) Bottom and top corners on spine side are a little soft.

So assuming the odd printing is accepted as normal for this book, does a press on the spine ticks improve this book to a 9.6 range?

On 7/16/2019 at 8:05 PM, wiparker824 said:

Thanks! Sorry forgot to get scans before I sent them, only got the photos... no color breaking defects that I could see, bottom left corner is a tad soft. 

What did this end up grading at?

On 3/12/2020 at 10:26 AM, eselrod said:

Question, turnaround time on reholder

Received book in damaged slab, no damage to shipping box at all so had to leave the shop in this shape which I'm a little frustrated by.  They allowed me to return it due to mechanical error to reholder free of charge.  I was under the impression this would be expedited through the process since it was clearly a problem on their end but doesn't look to be the case.  Book shows received 2/24.  Looking like it's going to be every bit of standard reholder estimated timing and maybe then some.  Anybody had this done lately?  Hoping they wrap it up this week....

Received the book yesterday, 4 weeks 1 day from received status.  I called last week and was able to get someone to push it through.

17 hours ago, comixry said:

Was it just one book or did it arrive with a bunch of others? I'm just curious how the damage could be missed if it was just a single submission.

2 books were submitted but one went through CCS so had different return schedules. 2 corners were crushed.

2 hours ago, ChrispyC66 said:

Might be worth a quick email to submissions@cgccomics.com to see what’s up.

Did you write “ME” on all sides of your box for expedited service?

yes, all 6 sides of the container.  I think I'm going to contact them, thanks