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Solid 7.0 and possible 7.5

Looks solid 8.0

Pressing won't replace ink lost in a colour breaking crease. If the book has already been pressed prior to grading then further pressing won't help. If it wasnt pressed, then you may get a small grade bump, but it will be unrelated to the crease. Personally I wouldn't meddle with a graded ASM129 that presents very nicely for the grade. Most 6.0s won't look as nice as yours!

Sounds like you weighed everything well in the balance before going ahead. Rarely if ever will you feel regret in those circumstances. And if you know and like the seller, then it's never. Great purchase.

Looks great in the slab! Congrats!

I'd say 2.0 since detached cover is, I believe, allowed in the Good range. Looks nice enough for 2.0

What grade was it sold as? (I was on the platform for the 6.5 train but you bought it before I could jump aboard!)

Just one question at this point: If DC had continued with the UKPV experiment beyond those 5 issues, what would have happened to the mountain of DC returns? If the answer is "a big loss on DC's balance sheet" maybe that persuaded them to maintain the returns model and let the Brits carry on stamping away. Malacoda's already stated that Marvel's sell through was far greater and no mountain needed to be shifted.

Ideally a file copy would be of higher grade, making it a bit more of an attractive proposition over and above a merely average copy bearing a stamp. Without any provenance I would steer clear on this occasion. Maybe try and sleuth down some true examples before lining up a purchase.

You can run into trouble with the self sealing bags too. I hate them with a passion!

Not sure why you would want that many WW books, but there are some great covers there! I could see a lot of comics with a crease down the spine. Readers crease? One had a lot of spine roll and a lot look as though they should make Fine or Fine Minus. I feel your pain on shipping when you live so far from the US.

Welcome to the boards! Your Hulk 104 is worth maybe $35 in that condition, so not worth the cost of grading, but I'll say one thing: If you're going to do a tape pull on a Hulk 104, you've chosen the best possible place to do it. It barely shows! No tape or adhesive strips on any of my bags! A lesson learned a long time ago. Besides, it keeps em ready to read!

Share the link to the eBay auction and we can take a look and offer some options. But you're right: Sellers aren't always collectors and have almost no idea about grading, although it's usually "I would say this is near mint..." when you can clearly see it's been used to line the cat litter tray.... (I usually try to get my own idea of grade from the photos and only bid accordingly!)

If you are determined to sell there is always the tried and trusted 99p start on eBay and let the market decide. Minimum effort on your part and no need for all of this troublesome research, pricing and grading.

Given how rare an opportunity it is these days to come upon a collection of bronze and silver age comics, I would suggest you just take the time to sit back and relax, looking through them and getting to know the various artists and their styles and decide which of them you really like. You're bound to have books by a good many of the greats, like Gene Colan, Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby (the King) and others. What a chance you've been given. Don't rush to sell anything yet. And apart from the fun of learning to grade, for your own benefit of knowing the difference between a very good and a very fine, there's no real need to have anything locked away in a plastic case unless it's really valuable. You can't read it sealed in plastic. Good luck, I would love to be in your shoes. I haven't been in your situation for well over 30 years! It's a rare gift you've been given. Don't blow it!

That fact does not make it a genuine item. I have to say it looks poorly done. Kanes style appeared simple, making it tempting for people to copy.

A grail like that, that has very likely been through the mill once already isn't worth risking. Hold and treasure!

I used to buy a lot of 12 inch GI Joe bits from the states. Every now and then I'd get stung for import duties plus a £15 admin fee which covered the supposed costs incurred in opening my package. Some got through unscathed while others were held to ransom. On that basis, not knowing that comics were exempt, I used to restrict the value of my comic purchases from the US to the allowable limit, per HMRC website. I had one box of comics arrive from Lone Star Comics (Mycomicshop) in just 5 days. I was amazed.

What, like the moderator's attention??

There are so many things you're not allowed to even think any more. Am I allowed to say her maj was quite a looker back in the day. There, that's booked my stay in the tower. (Mind you if Boris was never incarcerated for telling her porky pies, I have nothing to fear.)

Interesting to note that it cost women twice as much to wee as it did for men. At those prices, women's comic collections would have been half the size of men's. (Assuming the only things they had to spend their money on was weeing and buying comics.....)

Can't imagine a 9.6 with a wavy top like that. Might be you're better off with raw. High humidity is a nightmare.

Wonder how your haul would be viewed by customs nowadays. There could be a good bit of duty and tax to pay on it....yikes!

Here's another of those Time Machine comics where it's been stamped with a 2/- stamp, well after decimalisation. I'm suspecting this is a foreign 2 shillings. (Austria used shillings.) There has been one on here before but I can't recall which page it's on now.

Hoping we'll see a Kamandi thread, similar to this one. The Mike Royer inked & lettered Kamandi issues are just gorgeous. Kirby's sense of design, individual panel design as well as page design, is incredible.