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Hello all! I've been on the boards for going on 2 decades with dozens of sales threads under my belt (although it's been awhile). I have a E-Bay store which I've sold thousands of books with 100% customer satisfaction because I stand behind the quality of the books I sell and resolve the occasional issue very quickly. Up for sale today is a complete set of Invincible Comics from 1 to 144. The set contains none of the variants and are the main issues. This set is in mylar and was picked out with care and gently read once so they are sweet. I'd grade all of them a 9.6 / 9.8 except for the following issues: #1 - Couple small spine ticks and edge wear and I'll give it a 8.5/9.0 #2 - Looks more in the 9.4 range then a 9.6 / 9.8 books #3 - small corner bend has it in the 9.0 / 9.2 range #4 - #6 could be closer to 9.4s but may benefit from a press. After that they get really nice. The rest are just fantastic and I don't see any reason quite a few could be sitting in 9.8 cases with a nice press. Scans of several issues are shown but I can show more if people are concerned about the quality of the books. Price is $3,500 shipped for the entire set (within the US - Please contact me for Canada). I was about to list them for $4.500 plus shipping on E-Bay but I thought I'd try them out here first. I accept Paypal, Venmo and checks / money orders but I'd prefer Paypal for this set. I'll be shipping will be via in a well padded short box with insurance so you will be getting the entire high grade set in fantastic condition. I do offer returns if you disagree with the grades or there are any other issues - just send them on back and I'll refund your entire $3,500 and the return shipping once they are received back in my hands. If you just change your mind on the purchase then I'll still return your entire $3,500 but you will pay the return shipping. I'm easy to work with so buy without hesitation.

200 comics bagged and boarded will fill up 75% of a long box so I'd guess they would just pad the ends and then ship the whole long box.

I looked at sold copies of his books on E-Bay and I couldn’t find any recent copies that have sold which shows you how rare it is to see this level of books to sell on E-Bay. Letting them sit for awhile is always and option but I just see these type of books selling on E-Bay.

These books look right up ComicLink's alley. They don't seem high priced or rare enough to go with Heritage and I'm not hearing a lot of positives about Comic Connect lately.

I was curious about my statement that Golden Age is just a small subset of the market so I checked books available on E-bay and there are 180,910 Golden / Platinum Age books up for sale currently on E-Bay while there are 8,180,288 comic books up for sale in general. So Golden Age and older books account for 2% of the available books on E-Bay at the moment. Now I know E-Bay isn't the best venue for most high priced Golden Age books but it does highlight how small of a portion of the market those books are (at least on the biggest sales site). Let's expand that thought to include Silver-Age books which gave me 387,997 books up for sale in the Silver-Age area of E-Bay. So Silver-Age accounts for about 5% of the available books and anything older then 1970 accounts for only 7% (!!!) of the E-Bay comic market place. I'm sure that is because these older books are squirrelled away in collections but when you look at the numbers it's pretty shocking how small percent older books are of the overall market.

If a book is that rare then sky is the limit but I personally lump anything prior to Silver-Age as being old comics that I don't know much about and haven't taken the time to learn about them. I can see why big money has congregated into Golden Age books the way people put money into gold bars when the economy goes through a down period. They are a very small subset of the market and I let others who know that market handle them.

I disagree with you here. There is quite a large amount of drop available for big keys especially since a lot have not yet given up all their 2020 - 2022 gains yet. I don't typically talk much about big key or golden age books since they are outside my wheelhouse but unfortunately everything that commands a high price has room to drop in these type of corrections.

Great time to be buying if you think there is a great FF movie coming and people will see SS as the next Rocket or Groot then you will make a killing when it comes out. I personally think we will see a surge in prices for SS books if the trailer looks good but I just don't have faith that a FF movie will not be a dud and SS just doesn't have cool enough story to make people have to have FF 48 at any price in droves. I'm a seller of all FF books but if you are a buyer then my fingers are crossed that it goes your way!

Everybody and their mother was buying books during COVID and getting books graded. I had a guy return a 9.0 book that I had listed as a 9.0 VF/NM high grade copy since he said he couldn't grade it. He had no concept of what a grade meant other than high grade meant he could get it graded. I still see some decent prices being made on graded books but the glut of graded books (especially Bronze - Modern) will eventually have to be deeply discounted to make sales

I don't think I've ever said that comic collecting will be going anywhere for at least 15 - 20 years and I think we could actually see an upswing in sales when Boomers really start passing their inheritance to their Gen-X kids. Gen-X is to me the last batch of kids who had comics as their primary entertainment (or at least us weirdos and geeks) so I don't see a reason it will continue to be as vibrant a collectible once the Gen-X generation start selling more than buying (ie which is where the 15 - 20 years comes from). When I started collecting the hot books were black and white books which led into the wizard fueled crazes of the late 80s and early 90s. The movie fueled mania for certain comics lasted much longer than any other "comic fad" I can remember so I don't see any reason it will come back but who knows what type of books will be instantly hot over the next 15 - 20 years. Buy what you love and don't over-spend for stuff that doesn't matter to you and things usually turn out fine.

Yep - sad to say I think the movie and shows causing a massive surge in book prices is basically dead (or on it's last legs). I see a book pop up because of a show every now and then but they are far between and the surge can be only for a week and then the book is back to reality. Rare and hard to find books seem to be the flavor of the month which is fine if you can find them but they are called rare and hard to find for a reason. It was a great 12 year ride with movie hype fanning the flames but it's a whole new game out there.

Excellent synapsis of the current selling market on E-Bay. Kind of a waiting game right now with people not buying and people not ready to blow out books. Not a good time to test out the auction market in my opinion.

That is a sweet Thanos and I can see Shang Chi due to the headband but I really see Conan's chin. Great mystery box regardless.

Are you sure that isn't conan? Sure looks like conan to me.

If you are looking for the mega key books then New York Con may be best for you and if you like to hunt through boxes looking for a deal then Heroes is my pick and Baltimore has basically a great mix of everything. In other words - east coast is the place to be for great comic cons.

I can't remember hearing how Harley did ever at a show - even second hand. Not sure if he is tight lipped or I just don't talk to the right people.

I got my mystery box from KirbyJack last night. Thanks again for some Bronze Age goodies. My mystery box is all packaged up and ready to go out tomorrow

I’m #1! Contest is over - you can all go home.

The nice thing is Rebel Moon was MUCH better of a movie then Leave the World Behind even if it doesn't do the same number of views. I'd watch Rebel Moon again but you would have to bribe me with free food to get me back in front of a tv screen to watch LtWB again. I think everyone can agree Rebel Moon wasn't a knock it out of the park success but it was far from a flop.

I did some searching and it does look like Netflix released some initial numbers which don't look great (24 million views over the first 3 days) but I'd be interested to see how it did over the next holiday filled week since it seemed to get quite a bit of buzz (not all good) after the first 3 days. Lets say it does 45 million views by now then wouldn't you think it would get a huge surge when volume 2 comes out (repeat watchers and people catching up)? If the pair cost $166 million but get a combined 80 - 90 million views would that be a bomb? I'd think keeping that many people talking about Netflix and entertained would be worth $2 a person.

Without knowing how many people watched it over the Holidays there really is no way to say a drop is a bad thing. If 100 million people saw it then you would expect a quick drop since who would watch it again so soon? I'm not saying the watch numbers are great but unless we know it's really just guessing at if it was a success or not.

Only losers when you are talking about those two movies. The recent John Wicks numbers look fantastic compared to those two duds.

Count me in

I had it at 6.0/6.5 but would have gone 6.5 since it presented so well