jaeldubyoo

Monaco (Monte Carlo)

There are plenty of folks with a t-shirt press happy to pancake your books for $10 a pop.

You don't like the Chuck Roast here?

It's fun to guess grade, but unless you have it in hand, under the right light conditions and angle, it's easy to overlook those types of defects. Based on that picture, you really can't see those flaws.

I honestly believe your methodology is flawed. A difference of a few degrees can make a huge difference. The pictures would have to be taken at the same exact alignment, distance, and height to match up perfectly for your method. Also, the lighting is different. That's science. You will find that experienced collectors can tell whether or not a comic is the same one in different pictures, Especially on these boards.

Did you allow for the slightly different angles the pictures were taken at?

Research? What are you seeing that we don't see?

I'm not surprised that an enterprising huckster would market a t-shirt press for pressing comics. It looks like the same press that is sold for less as a t-shirt press. I'm sure you could press comics with this press. It has heat and pressure. You see these types of presses being used in Youtube videos for how to press comics tutorials. How good of a job you can achieve is questionable, especially in the hands of somebody who knows nothing about pressing and gets bad info from watching those videos.

There are a lot of Amazing Spider-Man #300 homage covers.

$10,000 in 1981 was a huge chunk of change. That's about 2/3 of the average annual income that year, You could have bought 20,000 new comics off the newsstands at cover price.

Alien Worlds Twisted Tales

Comicdom's equivalent of dumpster-diving or feeding time at the zoo.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=starlord+magazine+3&_sacat=0

Kirby’s Fourth World is fantastic as far as concept and art. His vision was awesome. But for me, his writing was wanting, especially the dialog. He was a great artist and idea man, he just was not very good in expressing it in words IMO.

Or sell your soul to the Devil. Seriously, there are no big secrets. You just have to put in some sweat equity. And the more you look, the more you find. And don't forget to tell people you know that you're looking for comics. Nothing like having a bunch of other people looking for you.

Like Uncle Scrooge and his money, I like to dive into a pile of comics and swim around a bit.

Around 6.0 for me. My concern would be the slight tanning around the edges.