Jesse-Lee

- 1 copy please

I don't read so good... totally missed that!

I look at eBay sales. I signed up for Covrprice, and while it's nice to organize my collection in a nice, visual way, their valuations are way, way off. It's an interesting service, but I might cancel. I wish there was a service out there that had closer valuations to what's really going on with sales, but I haven't found one yet. Edit to add - they don't take a lot of things into consideration, like grade, etc. For example, I have a Fantastic Four annual 3, but my copy is probably around a 3.0. Their valuation of FMV is $126. But that's just based off whatever sold most recently without taking into consideration the grade. Another example is I have 5 copies of Batman 655, in grades that I estimate from NM to VF (you can put in estimated grades, so mine are from 9.4 to 8.5). It shows that I have 5 total copes, but regardless of grade, it shows the exact same FMV. I don't have a good solution for how to show valuation based on grade, but that's not my problem - I;m not the one providing the service. I just know that an 8.5 and a 9.4 shouldn't have the same estimated FMV just because of the most recent sale of whatever grade. Adding to that, I hunt and find deals all the time on eBay based on bad listings, misspellings, bad timing, etc. All of that isn't taken into consideration on Covrprice - their system looks at last sale only. So while I know Stray Dogs 1 first print is selling recently for $50-60, their system can't figure it out, showing an "N/A" for the value - and showing a low price of 99 cents for that issue on 2/26/22 for some reason. So yeah, the more I type, the more I'm convincing myself to cancel. Just check eBay sold listings.

Sextuple cover has to be the most amount of recorded covers right? I've never seen anything like that!

This is from last year, but I just read the 12-part Strange Adventures miniseries, and wow, I really liked it. I've never been huge into Adam Strange, but I did like some of the stuff in the Rann-Thanagar War/Infinite Crisis stretch. But this miniseries I thought was really well written, and I thought the art was great too. Cool concept and it was a page turner for me.

I absolutely love digging; it's one of my favorite parts of going to shows. I just went to a show at the end of January, and one dealer had a $4 box, or 6 books for $20. This is what I pulled - I found 19 books I wanted so he gave them to me for the price of 18:

Nobody can do the (Shing-a-ling) like I do Nobody can do the (Skate) like I do Nobody can do (Boogaloo) like I do Nobody can do (Philly) like I do Sorry, couldn't help myself.

Off the top of my head, if you're talking 9.8 sales, Batman Adventures 12 is selling recently around the same price as UF4: ~$3,500. Edited to add - I think Invincible 1 9.8s are even higher, I didn't check though.

I can confirm with 100% certainty that the print run of that book is somewhere within the range of 1 copy to 5 gajillion copies.

Yeah, I always wondered why those other three McFarlane covers (Tec 576-578) don't get the love that Bats 423 gets. I love the 423 cover a lot, but I feel like the Tec covers are up there. And once you start pointing out the flaws in the Batman cover (missing color, etc.), you can't not see them again.

For $25, I couldn't pass. Always liked the Year Two run.

Won this one in an auction (not eBay) for $30 - my 3rd newsie of this issue (have a raw and a 9.6 CGC).

Scammy seller, but also, come on bidders - the price is right on the cover! https://www.ebay.com/itm/115256867196?hash=item1ad5d8397c:g:WaYAAOSwulViBpwH Seller's description: "Batman #251 NM/VG Original Niel Adams Cover! Bronze Rare!."

Excellent game! You deserve it!

Rogers is so great - I love his Detective run.

Some cheap auction wins: And some fun stuff from @paperheart's latest sale - thanks!

Another great transaction - shipped incredibly fast, packed great, and the books are beautiful. Thanks!!

We don't know each other, but you seem like a cool dude, and Ellie the friendly Shepherd/Husky says "Hello!"

This is pretty much exactly my workflow when listing - I do look at sold comps and use the "sell one like this" function where appropriate to save a little time, but there's still cleanup involved to make sure the listing is unique. I've thought about trying to find a faster way, but I feel like this way cuts down on potential errors which can mean fewer headaches down the road.

I don't know how much it actually moves the needle, but the number of polybagged copies is a subset of the number of total copies, so basically it sets the polybagged apart as a "different variant" if you look at it that way.