JiveTurkeyMoFo

Just my personal experience, but # 103 is tougher to find in true NM, while # 108 seems to be very plentiful compared to the issues immediately following and preceeding it (# 109 is another book you don't see offered in CGC 9.4 or better very often). I can only imagine # 108 was a Mile High 2 book (can anyone confirm this?) because it is pretty common.

You have your own little cheerleading squad, applauding every sale you make. Instead of Pom-Poms we cheer by hitting together old CGC slabs from successful resubs, all the while chanting: "Bob, Bob, he's our man, if he can't get you to pay 8x Guide, no one can" And frankly, some of us on the squad look better in a skirt then others. G-Man, for instance, just doesn't have the legs for it.

Glad it got there safe and sound.

Some long overdue kudos to folks I've dealt with recently: Drummy (Dan) HooDeeDoo (Mark) BlazingBob (well...uh....Bob) Cicamen (Chris) DiscountComics (Peter) Werner Von Doom (Mike) And the gentleman in Canada who bought the FF # 112 (I deleted my PMs so I forgot your Forum handle...sorry! ) And anyone else I might have forgotten. And to the sole forum member who opts to reserve a book but then decides to never communicate again (I won't mention names, you know who you are! ), please be courteous enough to return emails/PMs.

Geez..I'd love to work some deals with Bruce and a few others on here, but no one ever seems to have early CGC-graded F.F.s for sale/trade. Perhaps I should broaden my horizons and get into some killer Bronze material like Howard the Duck, Battlestar Galactica, and Night Nurse. By the way, I do have some Kudos for a couple of the people I have dealt with on here: Drummy (a stellar individual, through and through!) Fantastic_Four (ebay deals) FlyingDonut ClobberinTime (ebay & Forum) Odin88 Werner Von Doom Sullypython SilverAgeGuy (ebay deal) BlazingBob (his patience with nit-picky high grade collectors is legendary, and alone qualifies him for Sainthood) SpeedJunkies (ebay deals) My apologies to any I've left out. Cheers to all!

My advice for the new comic collector on what to do (and NOT to do): 1). Liquidating your home electronics and jewelry at Pawn shops is a no-no, UNLESS you have at least a full year of comic buying/selling under your belt AND you just made an impulse buy on a Buy-It-Now CGC 9.8 comic on ebay that you can't really afford. 2). Only sell your car to finance your collection IF: a). Your work is not so far that you can't bike or walk there AND b). You think that the money you're going to make on your comic collection will one day make up for all the girls who wouldn't give you the time of day because you were a car-less, comic-book collecting fanboy loser. 3). When attending the San Diego Comic Con, go to the unhappy-looking guy with all the expensive books near the main entrance (i.e. from where the Man of Steel hails), and say "Hi, I heard you were a royal h*le, could I have the 'special customer' discount please?" 4). Prioritize your monthly expenses: i.e., your comic book budget should always take precedence over things like deodorant, toilet paper (that's what fingers are for), utility bills, and secondary items like that. 5). And the last bit of advice I can offer: never take advice from a poster named JiveTurkeyMoFo.