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On 5/23/2019 at 9:26 AM, newshane said:

I've never seen this. 

It's a production flaw, and it's hard for me to speculate how the CGC would treat it. Most likely, in order...

1. They would completely ignore it. 

2. They would treat it as a defect. Shouldn't impact the grade that much though. 

3. Highly doubtful, but it might get a green label. 

Honestly, it's not that exciting or interesting of a defect, and it doesn't occur on the front cover so...

If I were selling - I wouldn't modify the price at all, but I would make a note of it in my description. 

If I were buying - I would pass in favor of a cleaner copy. 

If I already owned one - I would keep it as a curiosity. 

Sorry I don't have anymore insight! 

I'd imagine that it would get ignored if CGC'd.  If it was really half of the run I feel like I would have noticed before since I've graded/priced probably 500 Spawn 1's over the years, but maybe I just never noticed before. I honestly figured there would be a lot of responses from people that also had the flaw. It's pretty ugly really, and it's on the inside cover, so I'd be shocked if anyone would want to pay any premium for it. It was mainly just a mild curiosity. 

3 hours ago, HuddyBee said:

My thoughts exactly.

Not too much sympathy here for Mile High Comics. 

 That was my first thought too. Before the glass case was mentioned I was thinking someone probably stole a small run of New Warriors. 

10 minutes ago, Lazyboy said:

Fixed.

Seriously, I've never seen that, but I believe the only copy of Spawn 1 I've ever opened is the one in my PC.

 If I were still setting up at 10-15 shows a year I might try some shenanigans like that. These days I only do a few a year, and I price stuff to get gone. I had a Surfer #50 that was missing the foil on the "Silver" part of the title. I put $100 on it, my dealer friends were all "yeah, right.." and BOOM 10 short little shows later some guy couldn't give me a Franklin fast enough.

18 minutes ago, Avi said:

Real question is will you jack up the price because the 5 are RARE Misprints or lower the price since they look like mess.

Lovely question. They're all marked at $15. 9.0-9.6 copies. 

Went through a stack of about 20 copies of Spawn 1 getting ready for the Atlanta comic con coming up next month, and noticed on the inside front cover of one that the Spawn logo is all jacked up. I just figured some dumbo took a marker to it. Then I went through the rest and found 5 more identical to it. It's not marker, it was printed this way. I'd imagine it's common due to 25% of this little stack, but it's something I've never noticed before.  Anyone else seen/have one? 

My all time favorite WW cover. 

Bolland's prelims are so detailed they look pretty close to the finished product. 

I've sold 2-3 copies of each of the first 13 issues for $50-$100 over the last couple of years. 

Those early issues had tiny print runs. Think basically the Walking Dead numbers had it not taken off..lower even. 

This is off the top of my head, but I think most everything under #15 has a sub 10k print run. I want to say the #'s I was hearing were like 6-7k copies for some of them. 

There are plenty of keys in the series (by the modern definition). They haven't really been cited much, but the series is full of 1st appearances. The Invincible gets raped issue could also count as key. The issue where Invincible fights his father is cited pretty as often as being key. Invincible going into space and living on another planet is pretty key for the series as the last big part of the book is all about that. These days the term "key" has gotten pretty broad in it's definition. 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1984-Hasbro-Transformers-G1-Twin-Twist-Jumpstarter-Sealed-Box-NEW/392296259338?epid=1208082588&hash=item5b56addf0a:g:GWQAAOSwaGhcwv9Z

I'm no Transformers expert, but I've been buying some lately. 

Sealed???

Sealed with a Bumblebee inside? What craziness is this?

6 hours ago, artistlost said:

You are correct. They had a different artist do the last three pages of the story and those pages were all traditional. I owned one of them for a while. Really nice work.

 

Congrats on that beautiful page!

Thanks! You should be the one congratulated though. Those covers are the nuclear bomb to my smoke grenade.   

On 9/3/2015 at 8:24 AM, artistlost said:

Just became the proud owner of these amazing beauties.

 

 

 

When I get back to my office on Tuesday I will scan them in with my large format scanner but for now these pictures will have to do.

 

A bit about these...

 

They are the original cover art for the series and the only original artwork for the series that exists (not counting variant covers) as all of the interior art was done digitally by Josh Hood.

 

There is no original cover art to issue #3 as i was done digitally.

 

The cover to #1 has the logo hand drawn on the art board (as this is the way Michael did the logo) which is an added bonus and just so cool. The artist then had the logo printed onto the art boards for issues 2, 4 and 5 for placement.

 

Anyway, I am beyond excited about owning these and just wanted to share

 

mathew

Just noticed this post...There were a couple of non digital pages drawn for this series. I own one. If I remember correctly, I was told the last 3 pages were hand drawn. 

20 hours ago, eee91 said:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/X-MEN-10-VF-7-5-SIGNED-JACK-KIRBY-ON-1ST-PAGE-1ST-SILVER-AGE-KAZAR-ZABU-L-K/133039905938

Our favorite Alabama con-artist is now trying $2000 fake Kirbys. 

 

How does this guy still have 100% feedback??

3 hours ago, djpinkpanther67 said:

Thanks! It was a fun morning, wasn’t it?

 Yeah. I got a few books. 

5 hours ago, djpinkpanther67 said:

NICE! You totally called it on these. Glad you got the grades! 

6 hours ago, dupont2005 said:

You can auto reject low offers though, which means it’s of no concern to you at all if someone lowballs you. Once I got a message and the guy said “Let’s stop wasting both our times and you can just tell me the lowest you’ll take”  and something indicated he had submitted multiple offers that had been rejected. This was for 50 ounces of fine silver, I didn’t get any notifications that he had submitted offers. After a little looking I find the auto rejected offers and see its $8, $10, $12, ect. I told him to look up spot value of silver and work with that and that it’s not wasting my time at all to allow eBay to auto reject his ridiculous offers

I'm just going to opt out, so I guess it doesn't matter. Thanks for the insight though  

2 hours ago, Point Five said:

We've had this debate here before. Honestly, I think you guys do a great job with your current model. The offer of 'guardrails' for consignors is nice, but I wonder if it's even feasible. There are just endless variables with comics that factor into the pricing. So much is subjective.

 

I agree with this. I consign A LOT with MCS. I don't want to jump through hoops to justify my pricing. I wouldn't ever price anything like that sweet restored Spidey, but I do price some things well above current market. In this market it only makes sense on certain things. I've set GPA records on plenty of books that at the time of pricing may have seemed outrageous. Books go from being $20 to $200 overnight these days though. Non key stuff I usually try to be the cheapest available unless that price would have me losing $. 

As far as best offer goes, I am against it.  I'm not interested in getting offers of $175 on my items priced at $200 when that book would sell for $200 without a best offer option. I price the majority of my stuff to be competitive with current pricing. I'd rather not bump things up that I don't feel deserve it just to haggle and end at the same price. I don't want unnecessary steps to end at the same result.  A lot of people that sell on Ebay loath the best offer option for this reasoning and more. 

1 hour ago, comicginger1789 said:

Here is a link to an auction I won the other day...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Super-Hero-Lot-7-Variety-10-editions-1972-1980/183753443435?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

Take a look at what I see pictured there, albeit unclear and unable to attach a grade to. But for a $1.00, I will happily own Hulk #180. My estimate is it will be 3.0-4.0. Back cover corner is all folded up. Needs a good press. 

Looking at his feedback he cancelled this same listing on someone that won it for $26...Hope you get it! 

i binged it all and didn't go to bed until nearly 4am. 

This show is incredible. It's like a really long, really good Zombie movie. 

Some people are trying to say that it's a Z-Nation prequel. It's not. That show is hot garbage. 

The #1 sketch variant is the way to go. Biggest book. 

Don't get fooled by the studio edition. It's similar, but just a later reprint. 

Just sold a 9.8 #1 sketch for $150 last week.

I had a guy last year return a Daredevil vol. 2 #1 because he said he read it and it didn't have Spider-man in it. No lie. He basically paid return shipping just to read the issue, and not find a Spider-man story in Daredevil #1. 

I even looked him up on Facebook because I had to see what this stupid looks like. 

my god. Who in their right mind would pay that?? 

Nothing good will come from this. 

These are all pretty awesome! 

22 minutes ago, deadleg said:

Would you rather a series end at a good stopping point that wraps most things up but does leave some room for speculation as to what could happen to characters in the long run, or have a series continue on forever and ever getting boring over time because of writers running out of ideas, so they just start printing anything just to get to the next issue. My point is that sometimes things coming to an end isn’t a bad thing. Sad indeed but I would rather see a series come to a good closing point than to see it go on and on and loose the soul that the series once had. You can always go back and reread a series from the beginning and still have that joy even if you know what’s going to happen on the next page. 

I'm going with the third option. Kirkman keeps coming out with entertaining issues of Invincible until I die. Then he stops. That's my choice. 

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