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gacguy

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  1. I think that's probably a combination of personal preference and depth of your wallet. Some prefer raw, some prefer slabbed. Do you want to be able to flip through it or showcase a higher grade copy? All up to you, in my opinion.
  2. Sorry that you didn't win the book that you wanted, beancurd. I'm really shocked! I mean, when I saw that Scottie was selling off everything all in one day, I was thinking that he would saturate the market. I estimate that the #2 through #66 total sale was $35k to $40k total. (very rough, assumes an average of about $600 each) I thought that the relatively few collectors that could afford books of those grades would not be able or willing to bid on more than a few and that this would limit bidding on some books. I was wrong! In a way, I'm happy that there is so much demand and available cash for high-grade X-Men books. Perhaps the X-Men title is doing better than I realized. I need to get working on that price index study. It's so overdue. Rhonda From the ones I was bidding on, it looks like the silver and bronze age ones went for pretty good prices, while the copper were average or below average except the keys and rare ones.
  3. I'm right there with you, the price jumped up and fast on that one.
  4. Got these a little while back from the good Doctor and just now got around to scanning them.
  5. For board members that had dealings with daken2626, there appears to be some hope, the tracking # he/she provided about 2 weeks ago is showing as valid on the USPS website. It gives the following message:
  6. Similar story, I sent Daken a PM a few weeks back asking about status and received the same response as you guys. Still waiting for package to arrive ...
  7. When I finally decide to go for those early issues, this will probably be 1st on my list. Great copy!
  8. I've been bitten by the SS bug ... even though I have a universal in 9.8, I just couldn't pass this one up: