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No worries! I did wonder about the lens thing, especially since it's right on his black pants/shadow/whatever. Could definitely be that too - I just couldn't find anything else that looked like an indent.

No, I circled it in red - the grader's notes said "indent back cover" and you can see the circular-shaped indent on the back cover (which I circled in red):

You can pretty clearly see the "indent back cover" indicated in the grader notes:

Oh sweet! I never did find the Deathstroke, but it looks like my Agent of Worlde preorder is getting ready to ship.

Just echoing others in this thread as to the quality of @CDaBruce's books and sales - as a multiple-time buyer, I've never been disappointed in his grading, speed and quality of delivery or any aspect of the experience. Also, I'm super excited I got that Kurtz Star Wars book! So much so, I hopped on Disney+ so I could watch Empire again right now! Looking forward to more great books (and trying to hold off on scooping some of the others still in this sale; I'm running low on discretionary funds at the moment from a few other purchases, so I'm trying to stretch my budget, but man, there's some cool stuff sitting here...).

What method did you use to ship? Does it show an estimated delivery date? PackageTrackr.com used to sometimes have a little more detail than even the carrier sites, and it's free to use I believe (used to be anyway).

Oof - well, bullet dodged!

Just got back from the local antique fair they hold a few times each summer - I've found some great stuff at this show in the past, but it was a huge bust this trip unfortunately. Only a couple of booths with any comics at all, and the one with the most had about four short boxes. We're talking nothing above mid-grade, with stuff like X-men run fillers priced at $20+, a Crisis on Infinite Earths 7 in probably a 3.0 priced at $35, etc. It was strange too because the seller was probably younger than me (I'm 44), and usually when I see crazy priced books in smaller quantities it's an older man or woman who are selling them in addition to other non-comic stuff. This guy had a lot of overpriced loose action figures too. I know there are others who have gone to these local shows in the past for comics, cards and toys, and it made me think about getting a booth next time and setting up some $1/$2/$3/$4 boxes and a few wall books. It costs somewhere around $150 to be a dealer depending on booth size, location and table rental. Anybody here have any luck/tips/etc. selling at mixed format events like this (a lot of the show is stuff like LPs, tin signs, old Pyrex and other cooking stuff, general "antiques")? Thanks!

This is cool, I didn't realize there were newsstand editions either. I see there are a couple of issue 2-4 newsstands listed on eBay, but I don't see any of issue 1.

Last year for Father's Day, my wife and kids got me a "Cowabundle" from Kevin Eastman's store. It's 6 Vol 1 Mirage TMNT books (1 of which is signed) and 6 TMNT Adventures books. It was an awesome gift, and I got some cool stuff. Right after I got it, I saw it was sold out on the website. Recently, I saw they were back in stock, so I decided to get one for myself. It's $54 after shipping costs for 12 books, so I figured it was a good deal. I thought I might get some doubles from when I got it last year, and I was right. Based on the doubles, I don't think I'd do it again, but I think it was still worth it based on what I got. If I'd never gotten one before, it would be 1000% worth it. Here's what I got this time: Signed by TMNT artist Michael Dooney with a small turtle sketch This was a nice surprise - the later issues (series' last issue was 62) had fairly low print runs. First appearance of Shadow Jones as a baby. Happy to get this one too as I didn't have it - first appearance of Mondo Gecko

First, hit a sale, bought a bunch of fairly inexpensive books: \ Next - last year for Father's Day, my wife and kids got me a "Cowabundle" from Kevin Eastman's store. It's 6 Vol 1 Mirage TMNT books (1 of which is signed) and 6 TMNT Adventures books. It was an awesome gift, and I got some cool stuff. Right after I got it, I saw it was sold out on the website. Recently, I saw they were back in stock, so I decided to get one for myself. It's $54 after shipping costs for 12 books, so I figured it was a good deal. I thought I might get some doubles from when I got it last year, and I was right. Based on the doubles, I don't think I'd do it again, but I think it was still worth it based on what I got. If I'd never gotten one before, it would be 1000% worth it. Here's what I got this time: Signed by TMNT artist Michael Dooney with a small turtle sketch This was a nice surprise - the later issues (series' last issue was 62) had fairly low print runs. First appearance of Shadow Jones as a baby. Happy to get this one too as I didn't have it - first appearance of Mondo Gecko

That's like an instant collection in and of itself - nice work!

Wow! I know there was a Spider-verse 1 pack, but that was on the outside. There were a couple of books in those Venom packs that popped, including a King Thor 1 2nd print. I was planning on keeping my packs sealed, but it might make more sense to open them...

Thanks - I believe that's the other part of the value issue of DCs vs Marvel. We're often comparing silver and bronze DCs that are "first silver age appearance" of a character vs a true first appearance, and even the true DC first appearances in those eras are often of arguably lower-tier characters compared to Marvel. In the case of Batman, a lot of the heavy hitters first appeared in the golden age. And even the ones who did appear first in silver/bronze (Batgirl, Ivy, Ra's, Man-Bat, etc.) don't quite compare to first appearances like Wolverine or Punisher overall. A lot of the books we're talking about for bronze Bats are "keys" mostly because of their covers - Bats 221, 222, 227, 244, 251 are all great and favorites of mine, but none are truly "keys" from a content standpoint. You could make the argument that 251 is a key because it introduced a major change in the Joker mythos, but that also seems like a tough leg to stand on (see what I did there? ).

Ha, I think @Gem_Mint was ultimately right - why not go for the high grade home run? It's a sweet book, and now you secured it in a 9.8. Congrats!

I think your book was just featured on a Comic Tom 101 video... Cool grab!

I took a look and it definitely doesn't pass the smell test. That said, if you have the extra funds to tie up for a bit, you could take a gamble on a book - eBay's buyer protection is pretty rock-solid, so if you pay through them I don't think there'd be a ton of risk on your part aside from having the money tied up for a little bit while it got sorted out if it is a scam. Edit to add - if you do try it out, be aware that it can take a long time to get books from the UK. I've gotten some great books recently from UK eBay sellers and UK retail stores, but in both cases it took weeks to get the books. Just don't wait too long that you're out of the protection period if you take a gamble. Luckily eBay and PayPal both provide pretty long return/refund windows now.

Like most, I've felt that the DC books, but the Bat books in particular, have been undervalued for a long time. It did allow me to pick up a lot of the books I wanted in grades I could afford (think entry-level grades for me) - which, trying to pick up what would be arguably equivalent Marvel books place almost any grade out of my range. I'm mostly talking silver books there, like Bats 181, 189, Tec 359, etc., but also Bats 244 and 251 - and for me, we're talking 3.0-5.5 on the silvers and 6.0-plus on the bronzes. I finally added a 'Tec 400 6.0 recently to my collection at what I thought was a decent price, because like your observations, I feel like Adams books will hold their value and hopefully continue to increase. I also lucked into a high-grade, nine-issue run of the Rogers/Englehart run that included 475 and 476 for less than $135. Higher-grade copies of 475 have continued to slowly increase. I wonder if the dearth of higher-grade Bat books in that era is due less to the amount that exist but more to the amount that are put up for sale, simply because the Marvel books are more "bankable" or liquid - they sell higher, better and faster, so maybe people are sitting on the DC Bats stuff waiting for a value increase? That's a theory on my part, I don't know if the CGC census bears that out. I do see you say it isn't evidenced in the registry though, so maybe I'm wrong. I also wonder if the bounce on the Bat books seems less in part because they don't have as far to fall, value-wise. For me personally, I do still "need" a 232 and 234, but I probably waited too long to get in at the grades I wanted from a cost standpoint. I'll probably get in on those at an entry level grade and hope to upgrade in the future. 222 and even 227 are lower on my want list, but they are also climbing. 221 is still underrated in my opinion, but prices on that climbed sharply in the past year-plus. Edited to add - From a Brave and the Bold standpoint, B&B 93 is my must-have. Mine is only a 5.0 CGC, but that's because I won it for $23 - it was a no-brainer for me at that price!

Some excellent books there, including the Batman 199 which is one of my favorites - nice score! I previously looked up all of the books that appear on the news guy's stand on the cover of that book for fun, here they are: Here's the Batman 199: And here are the covers on there:

This is so cool!

Just got this in today (not copper, but I thought it was pretty neat):