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Subby Story Part 2 of 6

I have been going through a box of low grade GA that I have had for years. All kinds of titles - some complete but many coverless and some missing pages. I have a few Timelys in there. Not sure if anyone would be interested but I pulled this one out - Marvel Mystery #58 (sadly missing the great cover and most of the lead Torch story). I thought I would post the complete stories if anyone wanted to read the Subby, Miss America, Patriot stories: Subby Story Part 1 (6 pages of 12)

The back cover is fun too. It is cool book for sure.

I did notice that davedawbg visited the boards 10 hours ago although the last post was Saturday. A fairly long term member and I don't remember any other issues but I don't frequent many sales thread except mainly GA threads and have never personally dealt with him. I still think it would be a positive to share any of his interpretation of the PMs, payment terms, etc. I am always a fan of hoping these issues come to a positive resolution and maybe just a misunderstanding that could have been avoided. Again good luck.

You might try the HA archives for raw sales to see if there are sales but it is hard to gauge. Just being low census or even rare doesn't necessarily make them in demand and increase their value. One reason for low census may be because they are not deemed valuable enough to incur grading costs so no one bothers to submit them. It comes down to supply and demand to set the value and obviously that is not a static line over time as peaks and valleys may occur. I grade odd and esoteric books just because and many times they are the only copy in the census. I have no aspiration of them being overly valuable but they are of interest to me and I prefer those to be graded.

So would that mean you can withdraw a bin on eBay to sell it elsewhere but not an auction item? I would think if an auction type listing has bids, it would be problematic unless there was an error in the listing. I know I notified one seller of a GA book that had bids and was in the hundreds of dollars that the book had missing pages after asking for a page count. The seller ended the listing and relisted with the pages missing noted. Not sure if both the error and the relist made it possible but I assume if there is an error in the listing, sellers can end the auction and probably under no obligation to relist. Unless they need to show some proof to Ebay of the error, I also assume they could just that reason for any other scenarios.

Too bad this keeps lingering. I still get somewhat lost in the PM thread but after 11 days of payment sent/received, a refund or tracking would seem most appropriate. If the seller is unable to get the book back from the consignor (I guess it was a consignor) and hasn't provided any updates, that is disconcerting. You should not forfeit your payment even if you missed a terms-written payment deadline (which evidently is still up for contention). It still would be nice if the seller offered any response here as well. Also as for the possible deletion PMs from the seller, for future reference you might want to quote the PM response when you reply especially for first-time buys from a seller or if you are at all uneasy or if you have OCD You did copy and paste them so a record exists but I guess in extreme cases, it could be alleged that you forged those. You should have at least the e-mails notifying of the replies if they haven't been purged. But if it got to that point, it would be just dumb. I assume you did initiate a PP dispute already? In any case, good luck.

And by the way outside of everything else great about these covers is there is no Boy Wonder mucking up things

Aren't these great. I have the run of Blue Bolts from 102 through the end. That logo started with #111 and a couple of issues sported Tales of Terror and subsequent title changes Blue Bolt Weird Tales then Ghostly Weird Stories. Without looking back I believe the bats were on 111 and on. Check out the covers of these - super Cole.

Those are great.

I do believe grading wait times are faster and more reliable than the forum.

I do believe wait times are faster and more reliable than the forum.

Yes it is a classic.

Oh yes, now I remember. I know tigerscomics, Richard Evans (Bedrock), Catman, Roger (weirdpaper) are there usually and would love have to see you too. Bud Plant always sets up too. Take care

I figured you had started one, Art. Yeah they always do the Groupon. I just don't get too excited about WWs anymore. May waste some time there - you'll be at OAFCON again, right?

I did not see one for this. It has been in Tulsa and is coming here. I never made the hour trek up to Tulsa for it but being in my backyard, I may drop in. The last WW I went to was some years ago in Dallas. Not a huge WW fan as usually not a lot of GA selection and the cost seems onerous considering that is would be my main reason for going. https://wizardworld.com/comiccon/oklahoma-city October 27-29, Cox Convention Center

Hard to believe it has been for 50 years although I am unsure if there was one every year. I went to my first in the mid to late 70s. No admission fee this year although the previous $5 admission wasn't a wallet breaker.

I am almost positive Lone Star (MCS) has some automated routine that automatically closes the EBay auction if it sells from their site. The others I am unsure. Maybe hte big ones Metropolis who lists on Ebay and CC/Metro does too but no doubt others are not as adept. Can the seller still close an auction by choosing the item is no longer available or does that automatically incur fees?

Hey, you're right. I didn't think of that. That's gotta be a mistake. At least the "Lamination" notation is there. That makes no sense at all. So if you have a cover that has been re-glossed and then you laminate over that cover, I assume the glossing is now not noticed, so a blue

I saw a blurb on it and had read about. At first I thought the guy had died and thought it was in bad taste make the references to superheroism, or rather non-superheroism but after reading he got and walked away. Here the end part of the article I had read. Bit a security guard after the leap to boot. A security guard spotted him, and asked him to sign an affidavit saying he’d never return. He agreed at first, police said, but bit the guard and made a bee-line for the window. Police took the man, who's in his 20s, to Bellevue Hospital with a fractured hip and a concussion. His identity and charges are pending. The guard, who suffered minor injuries, went to NYU Langone Medical Center, cops said.

Very nice books indeed!

I am not an EBay expert at all. Which policies would prohibit it? Just curious? I know other dealers list on their sites as well as ebay. Plus other sites at the same time wuth different asking prices. I just wasn't aware of any prohibition but again, it could be mu ignorance.

No big secret or clandestine behavior, I believe these are consignment books and Lone Star doesn't set the asking price on a consignment although I believe they offer guidance and previous sales data to help a consignor. But with different venues, many times, sellers may ask different prices based on fees on a particular site and they are free to ask what they wish, the market will ultimately too high or not. Folks that sell books here for example (as an exclusive offering may tend to offer it lower than another site since there are fees incurred - outside of PP if that is the requested method but that is incurred wherever). The son's owner, Conan (@mycomicshop), is an active board member here and he has shared the methodology for the tap increase on Ebay and I believe too it does not cost the consignor additional fees to have the additional exposure on both the MCS and EBay sites. Not trying to promote MCS necessarily, it just seemed like there may some thought of misdirection with the EBay listings and I do not believe that is the case.

I have also expressed my desire to delineate PQ and page color on the label. I view them as very different. Is it necessarily true that the next degradation of tanned pages to be SB and would tanning be a suppleness scale? Just my good for naught thoughts. If at least the brittleness scale can be added, a step forward for sure. (as long as it doesn't in itself raise grading costs of wait times)

Great books. This is such a cool one - I remember seeing the cover in the first OSPG I bought in the mid 70s. I also really wish CCG would put books iwith these type of defects in a blue label and note both the universal and qualified grade similar to a double cover so there is no GLOD pullback. Really nice books.