MattTheDuck

On 3/21/2024 at 10:10 PM, Changer said:

I don't see any but will take them off your hands anyways..

Your sacrifices are always appreciated.

On 3/21/2024 at 4:02 PM, crassus said:

What about the Mistress? Doesn't she count?...

Don't really need the Mistress to be good at math.

That's a beautiful copy!  Just received an email from ComicLink that they will have an FF #5 in 9.4 in the next auction .  If anyone has $150,000+ burning a hole in their pocket....

They're "Lakeside Skin Tattooz" and their inclusion makes the book a "variant" in the eyes of My Comic Shop (at least). There are a number of issues of different titles around this time that have them.  You want to leave them in the book.

Amazing spider-man comic books issue 238 (mycomicshop.com)

On 3/18/2024 at 10:02 PM, sfcityduck said:

Correction: It is two billing increments. Once an attorney hits 7 minutes, you get a .2.

I stand corrected

On 3/18/2024 at 9:22 PM, tth2 said:

Honestly, I don't even care as I couldn't be bothered to look up the grader's notes for a book I have no intention of buying, I was just amused by people complaining about a CGC technical problem on the CGC boards and it never occurred to them to just ask someone at CGC to look into it.

If it turns out that everyone was just entering the number in the wrong interface, then I am truly angry about the cumulative 10 minutes of my life that I've wasted.   

That's almost 2 full billing increments 

On 3/18/2024 at 8:23 PM, sfcityduck said:

The thing about him, is I've heard he could exagerate.

800,000 seems like a big number

Also, that Dave was (apparently) smart enough to realize that if he didn't charge reporters for asking questions, he would get more favorable coverage.

Reading that piece about Jimmy Jacobs makes me wonder if we shouldn't start a "Comic Book Collectors Hall of Fame."

On 3/18/2024 at 4:24 PM, FoggyNelson said:

I can never remember the highest number issue of FF there is?

The original, 1961 series goes through #416.  

The second series was 13 issues.

The third series was 171 issues

The fourth series was 16 issues

The fifth series was 18 issues

The sixth series was 48 issues

The "legacy numbering" (counting everything published under the name "Fantastic Four") is 645 issues through the fifth series, but the series all have their "#1!" issue probably because Marvel thought they'd sell more.

On 3/17/2024 at 8:11 AM, TheComicsPreacher said:

Ok, a question to pose to this crew, if I may…

If somebody gave you $20k and you could only spend that $20k on FF comics - what big FF book(s) would you choose to buy?

I’m asking because somebody in our ranks may soon do just that (not me, but one can always dream).

My vote is a sweet FF5.

But I’m just a Doom Bot with not much imagination, so I’m curious to hear from the other FF lovers here.

Based on fairly recent prices paid, I would probably get the 10 books I need between 9 and 25 in the raw equivalent of 8.5

On 3/16/2024 at 2:07 PM, Surfing Alien said:

So I get to my hotel in Glendale and on the wall behind the Customer Rep is a sign for "The Paperback Brewing Company" which is down the road from the hotel 

https://paperback.la/

Doesn't seem any relationship to the show but I may have to go down a can of "Hollywood Hellcats" 

That seems super Karmic

I stop at #400 and this Annual.  I do have some FF TPB's and a few Volume 2 books.

Estate Sale today.  Has a 1950 copyright notation but is in better condition than I would expect from something actually issued in 1950.  In any event, if you need a Trail Boss to run your kid's Savings Rodeo, hit me up.

I've been stuck at one copy since about 1974, but this section of the run is probably due for an upgrade.  A lower-grade copy, obviously a garage-sale refugee although I'm pretty sure I picked it up from Apache Books which is where I bought the bulk of my Silver Age books in those days.

On 3/15/2024 at 6:47 PM, Aman619 said:

yeah  like the Pharaohs, hire contractors to build you a hidden storage space...  but dont forget to kill them all when they are done.  Its not pretty, but it works.

Not my thing but a pretty decent collection of "I shouldn't have stored these in that damp shed" cans at a local Estate Sale on my way home from work today.

On 3/14/2024 at 10:15 PM, divad said:

Define "good"  

 

"Lots of books available"

There have been some pretty good sales of underground comix in the last couple of years, so there are clearly collectors on the Boards.

The books offered on here recently have really leveled up.

If “guaranteed hits” were possible it seems like that’s all any studio would make.

Damn, Daniel!

Kang Kang Kang Kang

Kang Kang Kang Kang

Lovely Kang

Wonderful Kang

I have 3 of these for some reason