BoogieWoogie

9 hours ago, Lazyboy said:

Well, it's a good thing this is a normal year and everything is guaranteed to follow previous trends...

Pretty damn funny but there is reason for optimism that we may be trending towards a more stable economic status quo by then. We won't be back to normal in February by a long shot but there should be a lot of people vaccinated by then.

37 minutes ago, Old_Man_Adam said:

That’s awesome! - I have a few spideys myself but nowhere near that - it’s almost sad to finish a run , but there’s so many more to start... kudos for playing both sides of the fence - DC and Marvel 

It's more aspirational than actual as it stands. 90% of the DC characters I know I know only from cartoons and movies and probably 95%+ of my collection is Marvel right now. Grew up picking up ASMs off of newsstands. Batman is the only one I've read more than a handful of issues for but some of the characters do appeal to me... Flash in particular seems pretty cool but don't know anything about him or his rogues gallary. I'll get there. 

I started reading Batman pretty regularly during No Man's Land and I kept picking it up off the rack for a few years afterwards... wish I would've held onto some of those books! Re-buying the Harley Quinn apps from that run is going to hurt my feelings  

11 minutes ago, Old_Man_Adam said:

That’s a heck of a commitment and way more expensive then marriage AND divorce ... just saying but Good Luck !!!!

I'm working on an ASM run and that's more than bad enough. But I do think I will finish my ASM run in the next decade or so as I've only got around 40 of the first 441 issues left. They're all the pricier issues but I can do it. If I started a Batman/DC run I'm pretty sure I'd be working on it until I kicked the bucket so to speak  

Add ASM 373, 381, 382, 427, 428, #17.1 2015 to my pile please... keep recapping I'll keep talking myself into more books  

Like... is now the time to start a Batman/DC run???! 

49 minutes ago, Galen130 said:

Return for sure.  Something smells like the south end of a northbound skunk. 

I’m so glad I closed my account back in May.  It sounds like things have gotten worse in regards to posts I’ve read here in the threads.

Best of luck.  Keep us posted. 

I still LOVE Ebay. What helps me is that I only bid within the last 5 seconds. If I forget, it obviously wasn't important enough to me. The big benefit to using Ebay this way, at least in terms of auctions, is that when I decide the highest price I'm willing to pay for what I'm looking at and enter it there often isn't enough time to make another bid if someone had a higher reserve, or if someone comes over the top. It's really helpful in controlling my spending and helps me pick up books under market all the time.

On 12/16/2020 at 7:50 PM, BoogieWoogie said:

Did anyone participate in the 10/26 signing event - John Romita Jr., Scott Hanna, Starlin, Milgrom, David, Adams, .etc? My submission is still in received, but I did opt for pressing as well.

Showed as received on 10/20, moved to scheduled for grading today. Hopefully I have these in hand this time next month? Does anyone know how long it typically takes once your books are scheduled for grading?

I had CCS press them first, wish I could see some before and after pictures before they get slabbed. I wonder how they compare to other pressers

On 12/15/2020 at 4:38 PM, ARMANDO M GOMEZ JR said:

Has anyone ever done a pre screen thru hero restoration and how much was the total cost for the Pre screen plus the grading let me know I trust mike with any comics that  I send him I just want to know the total cost so can pay him right away 

I have 10 books with him now. For pressing, cleaning, and forwarding to CGC that ultimately came to just under $300. If you had 25 value tier books you're probably looking at around $635 or so? So around $25 a book after shipping and fees... then you've got the CGC grading costs.

This is my first time using them so I can't speak to the quality of their service but I elected to try them because I've heard good things. I sent them my books at the end of October and they haven't made it to CGC just yet because I haven't been charged for getting them graded yet. 

44 minutes ago, the blob said:

Most of those are not/should not be dollar books and some of them never really were. The comic shop doesn't know what it is doing, doesn't have clientelle buying back issues, or just can't be bothered selling sub $15-20 books online.

I am wondering how these books hung around in the dollar box long enough to then be in a $100-$120 a long box? So my guess is that the store just doesn't have customers who buy back issues if this myriad of $10-$25 books were sitting in the dollar boxes already. Heck, Static 45 is a $75-$100 book.

 

Some shops can be oddly oriented, which is the case at my LCS. There's the main back issues... the first few times I went I stayed in this area. The new comics are in another room and the $1/$2 comics are in this kinda out of the way room. I haven't picked anything as good or near as much as @manetteska - let me know if you want to offload any of those What The--?! copies - but I picked up a NM copy of the 1st Mr. E(moved on from that quickly lol), 1st Typhoid Mary(3.0 but complete), 1st Marvel Zombies in Ultimate FF... I need to pick through their .50 issues. They're unbagged or boarded and packed very, very tight in some drawers. Doubt anything survives that storage in NM shape but should be worth a look next time I have time.

I'm just glad they have dollar bins at all. Only 1 of the area LCS's here has one at all

1 hour ago, jjonahjameson11 said:

I think its safe to say that this book has bottomed out at $4.1K for blue label, white pages, direct, and $1.3K for likewise in 9.6

History indicates prices will rise again beginning in Feb.

Plan accordingly.

Related to the movie or do you mean something else here?

I've been snapping up pretty much any copy I can find under $300 and a few nicer ones too but I can't keep up with most of y'all 

I will not start collecting treasuries

I will not start collecting treasuries

I will not start collecting treasuries

But DAMN these are cool. Do they make bags/boards/boxes for these?

Damn, too slow. Incredible bargain!

On 7/31/2018 at 12:20 PM, Brian48 said:

Surprised issue #162 hasn't taken off.  That's the first appearance of Jigsaw, right?  Maybe after Punisher Season II drops.

Hasn't happened yet but Fiege wants to do some Rated-R stuff within the MCU. Probably under an imprint rather than Disney proper but I do think we'll see Big Pun back in the coming years

I pick up all of the reasonable Spider-Keys from 100-265 pretty much whenever I can, especially the allies/anti-heros(Madame Webb, Black Cat, Silver Sable)... but I think we'll see Jigsaw on the screen again soon-ish. And even if not it's ASM so it'll creep up over time. Pretty much can't go wrong 

5 minutes ago, GeeksAreMyPeeps said:

Not "most of these guys"; just one guy

How do you know it's just one guy? The sellers' usernames are suspiciously similar now that you mention it. Think he's using multiple accounts so he can just ditch the ones that get negative feedback?

I really wasn't privy to some of these Ebay manipulation tactics before I came here 

Some of those are kind of minor keys. I think putting 9.8 on a listing for a raw book is borderline deceitful and I avoid sellers who do it but it looks like most of these guys have strong feedback. Probably selling to novices who aren't slabbing these books they're paying a big premium for.

I was hoping we'd get some bargain bin Daredevil but some signed books maybe sounds good too 

Conan #9 cover drawn by a Liefield precursor, just skipped the feet 

Just now, speedcake said:

Hopefully I can snag some of the Hulk era issues...  

I think you're better off spending your money now, while you have a chance... what if you miss now and miss then?

Just looking out for your best interests here... 

First appearance of Gloria Kent, now's your chance to pick up on some hot spec 

Are those kids being chased by a Klansman on the back of Shadow Comics #11? 

 Deadpool 13 Virgin Variant

 Silk 1 NM+

Daredevil 21

 per PM

Or what's on deck tonight?

Is anyone still a fan of the Ultimate universe?

Not a ton of collectible books out of this universe at this point... Ultimate Spider-Man 1... Ultimate FF 21-23... Ultimate Fallout 4 ofc... but lots of really, really strong reading IMO. For my money Ultimate Spider-Man is the best 100 issue run of Spider-Man stories since the 80s, Bagley and Bendis made an incredible pair. I was never interested in the Fantastic Four or the X-Men until I tried their Ultimate lines - X-Men in particular had gotten pretty convoluted in the 616 universe by then - so these retellings got me into those characters and I've read comics for close to 30 years.

The idea here is two-fold... share your collection - there are lots of cool covers in these series - and do you think these books will ever become collectible again? Will these stories be lost to the sands of time? So much great work was done in these series and now many of these books can be picked up for $1-2 per. There's practically a full run of Ultimate X-Men in the dollar bins at my LCS. I'm a big fan of Marvel's picture frame era so I also really enjoy the framing on the covers.

Anyone else like these? What do you think future collectors will think of this line? Will it be forgotten?

2 minutes ago, JohnH19 said:

Actually, the price of a low grade ASM 1 is only a few times higher than a 9.0 GRR. 

True, but I was thinking at the equivalent grade when I wrote that. Unfortunately that isn't what I said.

But I was comparing a 1.0 ASM 1 to a 1.0 GRR and a 9.8 ASM 1 (!!!) to a 9.8 GRR. Sloppy writing on my part.

Did anyone participate in the 10/26 signing event - John Romita Jr., Scott Hanna, Starlin, Milgrom, David, Adams, .etc? My submission is still in received, but I did opt for pressing as well.

4 hours ago, BigLeagueCHEW said:

The reason why these sellers deal in raw.

By the time you get the book, they have a 50/50 shot of you dropping it into your collection and never questioning the grade or if it was restored.

Or, by the time it gets graded and back in your possession, it may be to late to file a claim.

There are also some collectors that are against slabbing and they can sometimes still have very very nice books

Overall you just need to be more careful. Catching a listing ten minutes before it ends is a roll of the dice with raw books it's worth your time to survey the landscape if you're buying something expensive or a big key