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    sign me up
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    room for one more?
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    I am not as active on the boards as I used to be. It is great to have more folks going after the set. Let me know if you need any help - the variant mafia got me through the set!
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  14. canickus
    i have seen a couple of Marvel Feature 4 double covers. Great Frank Thorne cover!! This one is pretty... This one is nicer... Not a double cover, but this one is a BEAST!
  15. canickus
    i will try again - bombed out last time.
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  17. canickus
    speaking of boom. This was a good result on a Kid Colt 35 center. They don't come up for auction much, so when they do - it is always fun.
  18. canickus
    Boom.
  19. canickus
    in, please.
  20. canickus
    on the top of the search function - click the comics down arrow and go to sold.
  21. canickus
    Here is the reason. CGC doesn't differentiate between direct sales copies and news stand copies. As you get later into the X-Men 94 -143 run, there are many more high grade copies of the direct sales version than the news stand copies. For example, if you search the Heritage archives for past sales of X-Men 129 CGC 9.8 - you will see 27 sales. 26 direct sale books and 1 news stand book. That should give you an idea of the relative rarity. There are 300 or so CGC 9.8s of that issue. I don't know, but I think that at most 15 to 20 of those are news stand issues. All in all, as strange as it seems, that was probably a pretty good transaction for both the seller and buyer.
  22. canickus
    I think you are right. Since this was around a $20k book at the beginning of the year, I am certain that the consignor is happy.
  23. canickus
    True that! It is like a lot of hot books right now in that it is hard to gauge the value and where prices will settle out. Many of these will show a grow, plateau, grow, plateau cycle. I am guessing that the book is $55,000 to $75,000 range right now - but that is just a guess.
  24. canickus
    The First Romance 1 is a pretty special book. CGC 9.8 1st edition with white pages, bright white cover and a File Copy from 1949. The next highest graded is an 8.5 File Copy. No pun intended but is is always nice to see Romance titles getting a little love...
  25. canickus
    Just had to use the go back machine to see what x-men prices have done over the last decade or so. An x-men 129 just sold for over $9000. It was a nice one and a newstand copy which drove the price, I think. Those were not great deals in 2008. They were good normal deals. Today, they would be unbelievable deals.