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#190  VF-  $8

#212  VF  $8  (PAPER LOSS BK CVR)

#219  FN/VF TO VF-  $5

#221  VG/FN  $2

#235  VF+ VF/NM  $7  (LOOKS NICER,LONG INDENT BK CVR COULD BE PRESSED)

#240  FN/VF  $2  (BTM STAPLE PULL)

On 3/18/2024 at 12:41 PM, speedcake said:

Wanted to update everyone here: all packages got shipped this morning. I will bring the tracking numbers with me to Norway,  but as we still Have hours of moving out left to do before our flight today I don’t have time to send them out individually until Tuesday night when we are finally over there. 
very sorry  

this has been the most stressful and exhausting move of my life. 

That all does sound unbelievably stressful.  I hope you had an uneventful flight and get a little downtime soon.

On 3/18/2024 at 7:10 AM, Prince Namor said:

We can see proof of it. I've posted it here. It was talked about even at the time. 

It doesn't matter. Marvel Zombie's have been programmed to ignore facts and stick to their programming no matter what.

Here the enormously respected Joe Brancatelli, talks about the market in an article from 1979 (you may have seen his editorial's in the Warren Magazine's of the day)... Joe Brancatelli spoke about affidavit fraud and stolen artwork decades before anyone else would, because the rest of the hobby was too busy making money off of it to give it any traction. They didn't want it talked about.

In the same way we today see people finding ways to bust open CGC slabs and switch the comics inside, people were finding unethical and illegal ways to make money off of comics back in the 70's as well.

Thank you for posting this interesting article.  There really is nothing new under the sun.  Big Tony may be gone, but his spirit lives.

ASM #236  Fine  $4

Warlock #9  Fine $10

Warlock #11  Fine $10

Warlock #15  Fine+  $10

Tales To Astonish #95  Fine-  $15

  @25% off if the deal's still good.  Thanks!

Ooh, I read this book a year or two ago.  Brilliant idea to make it into a movie.  True story that reads like fiction.

The trailer does look like its been Hollywooded up pretty good.

I'll take the JLA 21 and TTA 91 at 50% off, please.

Wonder Woman

242

243

244

245

246

252

254

257

258

269

  @15% off

I won a Thor 126 in an MCS auction last week, filling a hole and scratching an itch I've had forever.

But I didn't want to pay $100-200 for a halfway decent copy.  I won a nice-looking G/VG for about $50, somewhat to my surprise.

On 5/29/2023 at 11:25 AM, ft88 said:

Amazing Spiderman 239 VF $20

at 10% off

On 5/29/2023 at 11:28 AM, ft88 said:

Amazing Spiderman 149 VG/F $25

at 10% off

I'll take the 300 $100 books.  I like variety.

I just did some filing today...2023 might be the year I start to switch to short boxes.  I might be finally getting too old for longs.

Thanks a lot, I appreciate it.  Always a good show, anyone on the fence should totally stop by.  Easy to get to as well.

I got a positive COVID test on Christmas morning.    This thread was a nice diversion, though.

Hi,

I do have a question, thanks.  I'm never exactly sure where I can park when I come to this show.  I think the hotel now has 'permit parking only' signs up in at least part of the lot.  I do always see a lot of cars with permits hanging from the rear-view mirrors.

Last time I came, I parked towards the back of the lot and didn't get towed, thankfully.

Do you happen to know what the rules are?  Can we park anywhere in the lot on the show days?

Thanks!

On 11/18/2022 at 2:29 PM, Juno Beach said:

 

No thread about multiple copies is complete without this pic:

 

Though I need this book, every time I see one for sale at the going rate, I think of this picture and I just can't pull the trigger.  One day.

On 11/1/2022 at 10:24 PM, speedcake said:

Amazing Spider-Man #122  VG  $150

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

At 25% off,

Definitely do shop around.  Most importantly, have fun and enjoy the show.

With your budget and tastes, I'd lean towards bringing home a nice Neal Adams Batman key.  227, 232, 251.  $500 might score a presentable mid-grade of one of those.

I never signed up in the first place.

On 8/14/2021 at 3:02 PM, JWKyle said:

Count: 75

G.I Joe : A real American hero (marvel) 1-75

Some Spoilers

I know I'm getting a late start but with just under 4 months left to go i'm going to give it a try. I've read alot of new releases this year from Marvel but I'm not going to count any of that. I have had a refocusing on my collecting and reading addiction. With that being said I have started with a new focus in reading :

1-10 are ok I don't think Larry Hama was quite hitting his stride yet, alot a characters were introduced and the foundation was put in place.

Somewhere in the mid teen issues they start hitting on all cyclinders. In the 20's you get issue 21 the classic you get some Snake eyes and Storm shadow origins Zartan becomes a Major player. I'm not going to touch on too much spoilers but DR. Vemon is killed and replaced with a better version DR. Mindbender. Serpentor is "made" and is pretty great. Cobra makes a Nation and tons of other crazy stuff is happening. Cobra commander is replaced by "Fred". The comics are so much better then the original cartoons. 

 

11-33 is the crux of that run, in my opinion, and those are classic comics.  Larry Hama was having fun with that series, and it shows.

Those were a blast to read as they were coming out.  (My first issue was 21, and I've since collected back to 1.)

On 8/20/2021 at 1:16 AM, MR SigS said:

I regret not striking up a conversation with Ric Flair on a crowded hotel elevator ride after SDCC Saturday 2019.

At first I thought it was a very good cos play, until I saw his colliflower left ear just before he reached his floor (Four, appropriately).

Unless maybe it was a VERY good cosplay.

Captain America 160-177

Action 480-483

Batman 235, 236, 240-253, 255

Detective 432-433

333 if my math is right.  Or, where I should have been end of April.  I'm only a month behind, but I usually take off the week after Christmas and I can read a lot of comics in an emergency!

On 5/4/2021 at 6:15 PM, ttfitz said:

This part of the review is subtitled Whatever Happened to Baron Von Shock #5-8? The last half of the series was apparently solicited but never produced, and the story pretty much stops right in the middle. Which makes sense, I guess, since that's where it was. So while it was fun, it was extreeeeeeemely annoying to get to the end of #4 and see "next issue" and discover there was no next issue. So, decide how you feel about that before you give it a try.

It still galls me that I collected the entire Star Hunters series out of the back issue bins, not realizing that it got cancelled in the middle of the story and DC never picked it up anywhere.

Not to pick on DC, but Marvel would have found somewhere, somehow to wrap up the story.  Hulk.  Marvel-Two-in-One.  Somewhere.  (Probably not Daredevil.)

It was great space opera otherwise.  My younger self didn't understand why it got cancelled in the first place.

I have read Captain America 145-159, and Detective 411, Batman 229, and Batman 232.

Let me say that Batman 232 is a key that delivers.  Reading that book feels like watching an epic feature film.  A lot of that is Neal Adams's detailed and beautiful illustrations of the environment.  Next time it wants to reboot Batman, Warner Bros could do a lot worse than just filming that book shot by shot and line by line.

The palms just get sweatier each time I read it as its value grows, but mine is only maybe a VG-, bought for $8.25 in the 2000s (thank goodness!).  But it's a favorite single-issue story regardless of the first appearance.

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