BoogieWoogie

I'm a simple man, here's a simple thread.

The rules are pretty basic - no probies or HOS, shipping is included within the U.S., but overseas and Canada I will charge you exact weight for shipping Priority.

SHIPPING POLICY - FREE anywhere within the U.S.  Canada and overseas, shipping costs are based on weight of pkg.

PAYMENT POLICY - Paypal only. I will pay seller's fees.

No returns, so please ask any questions you need before purchase. Exceptions of course include items that arrive damaged or broken but I am going to package these very, very safely so I doubt there will be issues there.

Here are the books!

BLACK PANTHER #2 CGC 9.8 s/s John Romita Jr. - First Appearance of Shuri - $699 NOW $649

SPIDER-MAN AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS #1 Newsstand Variant CGC 9.6 s/s John Romita Jr. - First Appearance of Firestar (Outside of Continuity) - $299 NOW $249

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #210 CGC 9.4 s/s John Romita Jr. - First Appearance of Madame Web - $299 NOW $249

On 1/13/2021 at 9:41 PM, rjahn98 said:

Batman Last Knight On Earth #2 Jock Cover NM $4

Great cover but it's a John Romita Jr. piece, not a Jock piece.

24 minutes ago, Pontoon said:

2.0, and incomplete. You're missing the last page. One side is the second half of the letters page and on the back of it is an ad for WWII soldiers. That's what been cut out, not a piece of the back cover.

F me! Knew I should've returned these when I got them. The others are probably incomplete as well.

Expensive lesson to learn at this point, think it's been over 6 months since I got these. Thanks for the heads up.

Daredevil 88 - 8.0 W $12

What If 3 - 8.5 OW $7

What If 9 - 8.5 W $5

WWBN 15 - 7.0 OWW $16

WWBN 14 - 7.0 W $6

WWBN 13 - 2.0 OW $1

2 hours ago, Catwomancomics said:

Buy all copies of the 1:25  for $17 each.  Completed sales from $60 to $90.

It'll probably get snapped up before I get in today as I waited until NCBD but I'll try and get it, thanks for your help!

E: Thank you everyone else as well, much appreciated!

5 minutes ago, manetteska said:

You sure the ratio variants are cover? Although even the regular variants are worth getting at cover. Pick up a few for me.

I misspoke, sorry. I meant they aren't marked up as much as this shop marks up ratio variants that sit... which is counterproductive which is why they have like 10 longboxes full of old ratio variants no one wants  

They're well above cover but they're around $17 or so

What do people think about this Star Wars High Republic book? One of the LCS's in the area still has some of the ratio variants available at cover (under $20)... thoughts? Trying to find the cover I saw online but having a bit of trouble, sorry

3 minutes ago, comicginger1789 said:

I feel like I don't understand collectors constantly flipping books. Like, they buy a great books like AF #15 and say how proud they are and how much they love it and how it is a grail.

Then, a year later (or less), they have sold it and moved on to something else. Did they ever REALLY love it? Were they just in love with the fact they had it and the fact they could profit off it? It seems like a lot of these collectors just love the thrill of buying and selling and have a hard time focusing. They chase what's hot or they want whatever mega key now and if it changes, they change. 

Now, I am not saying we all must die with our books in our possession. I get people downsize, I get focuses change and so I totally understand selling books to move towards another goal. I just have a hard time connecting with collectors whose goals change all the time. Like one day it's "I love this great Hulk #181, grail of my collection!" and then two months later they sell for a profit to fund something else. Did they really love it? Are they funding a better book? Or are they just chasing that feeling or making money on something and trying to find the next book to do the same with? That is not why I collect but I know there are those who do. 

If you have enough money to just buy what you want I get that. But a lot of collectors don't. The only way I'm going to scratch up to an AF15 is through years of flipping. And you can think of that as allowing you to get a big discount on a book you wanted.

But you're also correct that some people enjoy the thrill of buying and selling. Getting a good deal when you buy and selling at or above FMV is FUN. Speculating can be fun. For some people, yes, it's another way to gamble but it's their money. 

And for some they enjoy chasing down books. Working up to a grail. But after you score your top book... then what? So I can get them turning their sights to something else purely because they love collecting and want to keep digging through back issue bins and driving to different comic shops and buying people's collections and sifting through them...

To me they're just different manifestations of the hobby, all of which I'm fine with. As long as their thrill isn't buying up GA and SA keys to use as kindling I say let other collectors do their thing  

1 hour ago, Angel of Death said:

$0.

I will not be told what to do with my property, whether it was paid for or not.

This is basically my attitude.

Once it has been sold to me and it's in my possession, what exactly is the seller going to do to keep me from doing whatever I want with it? And how do they plan on enforcing that I wonder? 

26 minutes ago, fastballspecial said:

I bought several presale 9.8s at $49 the first week they were listed.

I would have bought all those at $9.99 I would even go back and buy the VF copies. 

Where I failed was I didn't buy any Virgins and I was on the website I just decided to buy Presale 9.8s instead.  

You planning on putting any up here? I might shop with you...

And yeah they have maybe 3 more at 9.99 but they are a little finicky about letting you buy a bunch of copies of this book or that book. They still have a bunch of the Captain Marvel 23's, both covers, which I had flipped a few times for small profits. But they didn't let me buy another yesterday because my account shows I've bought a couple already. Even though that book came out months ago and they literally have 2 dozen copies left lol... part of why I usually go to a different shop in town...

My Not-So-LCS had a few copies marked up to 9.99 so I bit the bullet and grabbed two. My actual LCS had one for my pull but I don't think it had a shot at a 9.8. These look nicer. I really wish I had pulled the trigger on the presale 9.8 I was looking at for $55 on Ebay. Didn't sell out until the book was actually released, I presume as people hit their LCS and realized they were going to miss out.

I also grabbed The Next Batman and might double back for the Wonder Woman one. Anyone think there's anything to any of the Future State DC stuff? Presuming they keep publishing comics that is  

12 minutes ago, PeterPark said:

I think one of his best is ASM v2 45 (486)

Agreed. Beautiful concept, execution, and coloring. I would really love to see JRJR and Scott Hanna work together again. Hanna's coloring really lit up Romita Jr's pencils. They were a dream team during that ASM run with Straczynski 

E: For the uninitiated

I actually want to try and pick up 9.8's of all of these covers. And they're all hovering right around $50 right now, should be pretty cheap for a while

5 hours ago, the blob said:

And what makes this one $50+

 

Rather than this one?:

 

ok, i know the difference...

I know people love him but JSC is just not my cup of tea. Unfortunately I need 601/606/607 for my run so I'm going to have to shell out for them. Might just get 9.8's as they're not that much more than the raws honestly...

But hey I love John Romita Jr and I know not everyone does. The world will keep spinning and I'll keep burning a hole through my wallet 

18 hours ago, bellrules said:

They’re inverting the black and white for the 1:50 variant 

That looks AWESOME but I just can't do the ratio variants. Absolutely not for this cheap guy  

Just now, piper said:

Why is ASM 55 hot?  I have a copy sitting in my waiting to be read pile.  As an aside, it's the only title that I still have in my LCS file.

People just love the cover. Lots of black on it too so lots of copies were shipped dinged up much like ASM V2 #36

This was part of a silver age ASM lot I bought off of Ebay and it taught me a valuable lesson - look at the pictures very closely! I had no clue any of these had tape restoration until they arrived. I thought I was getting away with a major steal  The front cover presents well but as you can see a piece of the back cover was cut out... for some reason... and taped back in. There is also tape restoration on the back cover.

I have a few questions - does tape restoration like this merit a "restored" grade? I figure it's a ding, but how much? I will likely sell this and the other books from this lot as raw - all of them have tape restoration besides 1 or 2 - but I am having trouble figuring out how to price this. Any advice on any of that would be appreciated but feel free to just drop a number. Or if you want to laugh at me for not noticing the tape on the back cover of this and a few others I'm fine with that too!  

Just now, thehumantorch said:

Interesting question.  

I had expected that the value of collectible comics would drop as sales of new comics shrunk but the opposite has happened.  In fact values have gone up so much it doesn't make sense to me and that pretty well runs the gambit from GA to MA.

Are you just looking at sales of singles? I think when you lump in trades the industry is in really good shape. I bet there are a lot of young readers that only buy trades for new stuff but will occasionally buy back issues featuring their favorite heroes and villains. I think monthlies are too expensive for a lot of kids that are interested in following multiple heroes.

Any advice here? I'm going to get my first set of graded books back next week and I think I'm going to keep about half of them and probably sell the rest. For those that have shipped slabs, what size box would you recommend for a single slab? And how have you approached shipping multiple slabs? I have bubble wrap and packing peanuts to try and cushion as much as is possible but I am hoping to rely on the expertise of some of the wise, knowledgeable, and experienced posters here. Hope that was enough buttering up for y'all  

I think that the damage would be long term. Young readers already favor trades due to the cost savings versus floppies, but those trades are collections of floppies so when they eventually have the capital to pick up those floppies they can go back and do so. This will still happen on the DC side when old stories are re-released. But for, say, a Batman reader that starts reading in 2022 and is reading however many collected editions DC puts out in a quarter or whatever the time period is why would they go back? Especially if this move to trades and one-shot type stories means decoupling from the traditional comic format/story length. If DC is putting out 36-page Batman stories and 43-page Batman stories and 61-page Batman stories, will newer readers find the floppy format jarring or unpleasant?

I think, long term, it will hurt the number of people looking for DC back issues. And the vacuum DC would create at comic shops on NCBD and throughout the week would reduce their foot traffic and potentially hurt them too since a lot of the appeal of trades for comics publishers is the ability to sell them in many more places than they can sell floppies. So now DC readers may not even go to comic shops which would hurt that industry even more impacting how ALL back issues are sold.

Needless to say I really hope this doesn't happen. I'm more of a Marvel guy, lil DC curious, but it wouldn't be healthy for half of the world's major superheroes to no longer be published in monthly comics.

4 hours ago, fastballspecial said:

Fair assessment. The farther the books goes into prints the more iconic it will come I think.
I am okay with it either way. 

But I can say this. This is first cover I have seen in a long time that made me just admire it 
for awhile when I first saw it.

 

Any thoughts on the 2nd print? I think I'm going to stay away unless they invert the original cover with another black and white on a 3rd or 4th print or something

Frankenstein 12 - 7.5 OW $5

Marvel Two In One 7 - 7.5 W $5

Marvel Two In One 61 - 9.0 W $6

1 minute ago, Pontoon said:

Red Sonja 1 - 7.0 OW $4

 tonight is not my night. Nice grab!

Red Sonja 1