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2 hours ago, Ken Aldred said:

I missed most of the early issues of Mighty World of Marvel, and this was my own starting point with Marvel UK reprints as well.

I'm sure there was a brief TV ad in the UK for the first issue of Spider-man Weekly, which caught my attention and prompted me to buy it? I can't be certain?

.....first book (I can remember) being bought for me, followed by the first book I bought with my own money. Who could resist a free spider-man mask AND the startling secret of FOOM!

3 hours ago, oldrover said:

I want to frame it... not in a plastic job, but a wooden frame. Anybody know of an off-the-shelf solution for this? I've looked on Amazon, but those seem sized for moderns

...I would go to a bespoke framing shop for your book. They have the expertise in this area and prices (in my experience) are very reasonable.

1 hour ago, a.breton said:

do you think thecause of the problem might be the halfbacks?

.......no

29 minutes ago, a.breton said:

.is there a chance air might be the cause?

.....when you store a comic in a mylite2 it's not meant to be air tight. The folded flap is meant to allow the bag to breath, even if it's taped down.    

2 minutes ago, Ken Aldred said:

It does capture that warm, cosy, radiant feeling you get from a great comic book.

Agreed, but more variant madness on the way, I'm guessing.

.....KERR-CHING !!!

.......love September / October. The warmest UK sea temperatures and epic Cornwall surf.

1 hour ago, FoggyNelson said:

I,m sad😥 this time of the year because swimming is all over 

too cold😥😥

....no wetsuit?

Ebay auctions are so passé. Buy It Now / Best Offer is the (near) future.

1 hour ago, THE_BEYONDER said:

The auction house basically shill bids the auction to just under the reserve?

1 hour ago, RockMyAmadeus said:

The price gains of the last ten years are nothing...nothing...compared to the price gains of the 70s

The market I feel, is different now. There appears to be a feeding frenzy for modern / signature / variant slabbed books which has created a bubble. On the back of that bubble, sellers seem to think that any old back issue can be sold at an inflated price. The feeding frenzy has also pushed key book prices into the stratosphere. It's never felt (to me) more like the 90's all over again. There has to be a correction, but whether that's a crash or a soft landing is anybody's guess. Surely there were far fewer key/hot books in the 70's compared with now? 

6 hours ago, EastEnd1 said:

...and it suddenly struck me how many books closed for over $1000... many for multiple thousands!  It's become such a common event these days that I'd never really stopped to take note of it before.

Agreed. Apparently 'the market is insane'. 

4 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

What impact does this miswrap have on desirability do you think? If you were on the hunt for a first Punisher appearance, is this a book you would walk past and wait for a better centred copy of? Or would you happily have it in your collection?  

If it sat next to a 9.4WP perfectly centered copy, how big a price difference would compel you to dive in?

Nice book. I actually find white margins or diagonal miss-wraps to be worse regarding eye appeal. I would happily have that book in my collection with a 10-15% adjustment against a perfectly centred book. 

43 minutes ago, FlyingDonut said:

if you have an offer for $3,000 for those books you should jump all over it.

..........this.

19 hours ago, Lurker89 said:

Irrational fear of losing items in the mail along with not wanting to wait months to get it back are keeping me from pulling the trigger on the Re-Slab

.....last time I got books re-holdered, they came back in a fortnight and that was to the UK. 

,,,,,,,,,,the only mystery is why anyone would be dumb enough to buy one.

9 hours ago, Carlucci54 said:

That set him off, and he immediately became angry.

......any LCS owner can have any opinion they like, but getting angry with (polite) customers is rude and bad business sense. 

8 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Tatty low grade affordable Daredevil pence copy! Only four hundred and seventy five of your Earth pounds...

.......thanks for the report. I can almost smell the dank, musty odour from that DD1, from where I'm sitting!

Chili Comics (because my books are hot!)

The new covers don't look great. The last one I really liked was the Adam Hughes Catwoman cover.

My first OSPG,

All grail purchases on hold. Waiting for the crash.

2 hours ago, oakman29 said:

I saw the Stones in their 82 farewell tour at the Forum.

Only they  didnt retire, sons of a ......

......that figures,

1 hour ago, Pontoon said:

9 minutes ago, Ken Aldred said:

The Marvel UK weeklies messed up the distribution of US comics, something along the lines of, for example, while Spider-Man was being reprinted, distribution of new US material over here would cease.  It was a frustrating time.  

FP  was a great shop in the late seventies.

I loved the Ditko run in Spider-man Weekly, however the disappointment was palpable when I discovered that the 'free spider-man mask' in issue 1 was in fact a neatly folded paper bag!