Mac Man

On 11/25/2023 at 7:20 PM, VintageComics said:

There's an oldie goldie! 

Please tell me you’re still rockin and rollin?-)

On 11/24/2023 at 6:23 PM, VintageComics said:

Me and some friends were just chatting about this a few days ago via PM. 

This place used to have DOZENS of new posts every hour and on a Friday night there would be boardies having drinks and chatting the night away in one thread or another. 

There were regular sellers on Friday nights that would start sales threads, just as Friday night entertainment and those threads would have dozens of pages in an evening. 

For people that have just joined in the last 3-4 years, you wouldn't recognize this place, it used to be so busy. 

Where have all the good times gone?

 

I see a few that look like fun…

1) Shadow 2 CGC 7.0, TMNT animated cel, and...a mystery donated by Namtak

I’m traveling all - sorry! when do I pick? Or do I wait until the end? 

On 11/10/2022 at 6:28 PM, jbpez said:

Superman 3

CGC 5.0

Insane copy!!

last 2 sales in 2022 close in grade per GPA were:

Feb 4.5 $7000

April 5.5 $9600

Let's ask $8000 and see where that takes us!!

FYI: scanner makes staples appear almost rusty?-they are NOT!

 

 

BEST train cover!!!

Man. That 38 😍

On 4/20/2022 at 12:22 PM, Transplant said:

Here's another weird one.  Raina Telgemeir sketch from a book talk.  Marker (faded some) on paper.  The St. Louis Arch.  Dinosaurs.  What more can you want.  It's free to a good home, especially one that might include a young fan of Raina's book, Smile.  $15 shipping in the US so I can buy a poster tube and send it to you.  

I’ll take it!!

Kids LOVE Raina!!

On 1/5/2022 at 7:15 PM, SteveDuin said:

And Creepy 1B:

On 12/29/2021 at 8:25 PM, dupont2005 said:

I think if this collection were mine all slabs would go to Heritage and the Raws would go to the dealer with the best offer if I were looking to liquidate quick. If not all the keys would go to Heritage and everything else would go in an eBay store. I don’t think I’d bulk sell slabbed keys like that unless it were an absolute emergency. Either way if you have any unslabbed keys I’m not sure I’d bother sending them to CGC right now. 

Totally understand that. I expect that if I were to parse things out, I'd likely realize much higher gains on the big books - lower grade or not, there's a desire to get a ticket to the ballpark and even the cheap seats are always competitive and never truly cheap. 

The only challenge is then - as you point out - you have to set up an alternative for the other things. On their own, I know they won't do much and will linger around. I think when the time comes, I'll probably want to move as much at once as I'm able while realizing a good return on the bigger ticket items. 

On 12/29/2021 at 3:41 PM, shadroch said:

The  problem, as I see it, is most dealers are well stocked with books like Spiderman 150-320 so except for a few books like 239, 252 and 300 there isn't a lot of value to them. Same with X-Men after Bryne left.  You've got a lot of nice books and I can see it goingfor 100K or more to the right person but a lot of those less expensive books are worth more to collectors than dealers.  If I already have 50 copies of X-Men 176 and sell three a year, what is a 51st copy worth to me.

Totally hear you, but the value CLZ lists doesn't include them. So, for all intents and purposes (whenever I do sell off), I'd basically be look for close to full market value for the major keys and then the rest thrown in for pennies on the dollar. After all, shops may have a lot of those books but it's not without a reason -- they sell all the time. 

On 12/29/2021 at 12:37 PM, 1Cool said:

The values shown in the top 5 books seems pretty fair if not a bit low for the few I checked.  If the ungraded books have some keys or minor keys then the $100K sounds like a great price for the set (assuming full retail is about $200K after everything is added up).  I'd not let people see your purchase price since they could haggle you down since you netted so much profit.  It shouldn't really matter but it could hurt your negotiations. 

Yeah, I hear you. On the other hand, by the time I begin to look at eventually selling off, the purchase price differential will be about 20 years. I won't be disclosing that info per se, but I don't know if that argument would hold :P 

On 12/29/2021 at 11:15 AM, chrisco37 said:

If the graded books are 170K (and that comprises just under half the total books), 100K isn't out of the question at all.   You've got some big books there too (AF15, FF1, X1, TMNT1) that you don't need to take much of a haircut on a resell.  

Would need to see the full list but, based on that quick summary (with some of those books) I wouldn't settle for less than 100K.  What are the other Spidey's?   Ditkos?  Is there a 50 in there?  300?  etc..  or just random BA/CA books?   What about the FF's apart from the 1?  Is there a 5?  etc... 

I have a full run of ASM 1-320, X-Men 90 - 300, Batman 400-520, and then there are the golden age books in there (Tec, Action, Bats, Supes) that aren't mentioned. As far as FFs, I have 48-50 and 52 for the other keys -- never snagged a 5 in time. 

Honestly, I went in hard for blue chip books up until around 5 years or so ago. Not too much in the way of moderns, but I have some as well. There's very little about my collection that's random -- all very focused and chockfull of keys and semi-key books. The handful that aren't worth much are probably the ones I carried over from childhood and they're not adding much to the value ;) 

What’s the likelihood you would pay over $100k for a collection with some of these highlights? Worth noting that only 562 of the roughly 1278 comics have been graded. Most of these have no values assigned or identified in the market (e.g. mid or high grade copies of an issue that haven’t sold online), so the collection should - in theory - be worth more than what’s listed (and I was not about to plug in an OSPG value).

This also fails to account for how many have been signed and sketched on by the creators (eg dpuble signed and sketched SS TMNTs 1-4, almost all SA Marvel keys signed by Stan Lee, etc.).

I’m not fishing for offers; just trying to get a feel for where the market is these days since I’ve been a little less active on the movements.

• Mega Beedrill EX
• Mega Charizard EX
• Rainbow Celebi GX
• Groudon Ex Primal
• Kyogre Groudon
• Rainbox Mew / Mew Two Tag Team GX
• Darkrai Umbreon Tag Team GX
• Rainbow Mew Two

Yeah, I missed it, too. 😢

On 11/18/2021 at 7:57 PM, nochips said:

Auction ends on 11/20/21 at 9 PM central time

BIN is $ 50.00

STARTING BID IS $20.00, with bidding increments of $2.00 please

BIN 

I took waaaay too long to buy this issue (one of my FAV Batman covers). Really lovely copy here. 

On 11/12/2021 at 11:17 PM, bronze johnny said:

Lionel Trains are awesome!

Every year I get the Lionel Hallmark trains! I've been working on going back and buying the old ones, too. Love 'em!!

On 5/3/2021 at 7:53 PM, nicka said:

Marvel milestone fantastic four signed by Jack Kirby with coa

vf-    

Price?

13 hours ago, theCapraAegagrus said:

I'm pessimistically interested.

There are plenty of gatekeepers who "analyze" comics through indoctrinated glasses, so I am hoping that this reading is devoid of that outlook.

There were over two dozen contributors plus interviews with various creators. While every piece may not be everyone's alley, I'm sure there's a little something for everyone 

1 hour ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

I was just curious as I'm not familiar with this run but

Would "last ronin" be considered part of it, or its own series?

I'm pretty sure it's its own series, but thought I'd ask ....

I Tried to get Ronin added to the idw set in the registry and I don't want to over step

There are only 2 issues so far that people have slabbed of ronin and the registry requires at least three.

 

Last Ronin is its own mini series. But man, so good.