Mark Jewelers inserts... 19 19

[Get Marwood & I]

On 7/12/2022 at 12:14 AM, Cpt Kirk said:

Finally.  After approximately 10 years of searching, I have acquired every single Mark Jeweler insert in the title of Superman Comics.  

That's just fantastic Captain - well done! And in high grade too. Worthy of Laudation 

[ganni]

To mark this milestone, this historic moment achievements in life...

Cpt kirk, I salute you ! 

[Cpt Kirk]

On 7/12/2022 at 8:57 PM, ganni said:

To mark this milestone, this historic moment achievements in life...

Cpt kirk, I salute you ! 

That is awesome..... one of the all-time iconic covers.   Thank you!

[Cpt Kirk]

I discovered spin on jewelers this week.  

Up until now, I have only seen variations occurring within only one issue for any given month.  Now I've discovered a Detective 449 (in addition to the previously reported Superman 289) that contains two different jeweler variations within the same issue.  So TEC 449 and Superman 289 (both cover dated July 1975) have two versions of the jeweler insert.  On version of the insert has a 777 code on the lower corner of the insert, and the other insert has an 888 code.   

So did the printing company have two stacks of Mark Jeweler ads to insert into comic books that month?  I imagine that we will never know. And why would you switch to a different insert on both comic books.  I would think you would just use up copies of one insert before switching to a different insert.

The two versions of the insert that can be found in Detective 449 can be seen below.  Note that one of the jeweler inserts has a listing of the DC titles near the centerfold, and the other does not.  The inserts also feature slightly different versions of the insert. 

Sorry completionists…. if you want all the variations of Mark Jeweler inserts, you have to keep looking.

 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 7/14/2022 at 12:09 PM, Cpt Kirk said:

Sorry completionists…. if you want all the variations of Mark Jeweler inserts, you have to keep looking.

 

Variants of inserts.... 

[scburdet]

Made it into the Ms of my "1st floor" collection (where I think 90% of the potential for finding unidentified MJs is). The MVS is kind of a double-dip in terms of potential issues, but intact. I wondered if this cover is a quasi-homage to Tales of Suspense 76 (1st Batroc)

[Hey Kids, Comics!]

Why did someone ALLEGEDLY pay $437 for an Adventure 428?

Adventure Comics Mark Jewelers #428MJ VF- 7.5 1973 | eBay

[Cpt Kirk]

On 7/18/2022 at 8:09 AM, Hey Kids, Comics! said:

Why did someone ALLEGEDLY pay $437 for an Adventure 428?

Adventure Comics Mark Jewelers #428MJ VF- 7.5 1973 | eBay

I don't know.   But if you came to me with a high grade jeweler variant and it was one of the last ones on my want list, I might go that high as well.  They are really hard to find.  But unless it is really a key issue, that would be about as high as I would go.  

[Get Marwood & I]

On 7/18/2022 at 5:34 PM, Cpt Kirk said:

I don't know.   But if you came to me with a high grade jeweler variant and it was one of the last ones on my want list, I might go that high as well.  They are really hard to find.  But unless it is really a key issue, that would be about as high as I would go.  

I'll second that. There's no price as crazy as the price we'll pay for the 'last one on the list'. 

[Hey Kids, Comics!]

On 7/18/2022 at 12:34 PM, Cpt Kirk said:

I don't know.   But if you came to me with a high grade jeweler variant and it was one of the last ones on my want list, I might go that high as well.  They are really hard to find.  But unless it is really a key issue, that would be about as high as I would go.  

 

On 7/18/2022 at 12:38 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

I'll second that. There's no price as crazy as the price we'll pay for the 'last one on the list'. 

I see where y'all are coming from. I guess it's just different mentalities. Personally, I would have just bought the VG for $90 but I get people with grade standards. 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 7/18/2022 at 7:43 PM, Hey Kids, Comics! said:

 

I see where y'all are coming from. I guess it's just different mentalities. Personally, I would have just bought the VG for $90 but I get people with grade standards. 

For completist, read 'nutter'.

[OtherEric]

On 7/18/2022 at 11:44 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

For completist, read 'nutter'.

So true... look at my tragic example!

[Get Marwood & I]

On 7/18/2022 at 7:49 PM, OtherEric said:

So true... look at my tragic example!

Where, Eric, where?

[Cpt Kirk]

On 7/18/2022 at 12:38 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

I'll second that. There's no price as crazy as the price we'll pay for the 'last one on the list'. 

Amen brother.  Missing that last one is truly an affliction.  

[Cpt Kirk]

On 7/18/2022 at 2:43 PM, Hey Kids, Comics! said:

 

I see where y'all are coming from. I guess it's just different mentalities. Personally, I would have just bought the VG for $90 but I get people with grade standards. 

a "vg" would not cut it in my collection.... lol.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 7/19/2022 at 3:50 AM, Cpt Kirk said:

Amen brother.  Missing that last one is truly an affliction.  

Tell me about it. I paid fifty quid for a Charlton pence copy the other month. True worth about three quid. But it was the only one I've ever seen in five years of looking and I'd actually made a mental note that it may not even exist. The seller got lucky that day, pricing his book outrageously. I could have bartered but just dived in on the BIN. 

There's no sense to it sometimes. No point trying to fathom the whys and wherefores of comic collecting. Although the way I look at it is if you have, say, 24 of a 25 book run that you're collecting, and the 25th comes up once in a lifetime, then you either pay too much, and have it, or baulk at the price, lose it, and then spend years wishing you'd bought it. If you can afford it, the pain of overpaying leaves you quickly. The pain of missing your opportunity however can stay with you a long time. A long time. A long, long, looooong time. 

 

[ganni]

Let everything happen to you
VG condition and over price comic books
Just keep buying and collecting
No feeling is final    

[scburdet]

Found another one. Wish I could remember if it was disclosed as a MJs when I bought it since it I didn't record it as such in my app. A semi-key with the 1st app of Razor-Fist, who just screams the 1970s

[trademarkcomics]

Just got these two back:

Both with WHITE pages! Saw two #174s pop up on MCS, but they sold in 6 minutes!

Bet ganni got 'em...

 

[ganni]

@trademarkcomics

No idea TMC, all the good stuffs are all back in McHenry county...