BLOB'S QUICKEE $100 BOOK SALE - GA BATMAN 72 74 ACTION 189 ASM 47 50

[The Less Blob]

Okeedoke, here's the deal: Each book in this thread is priced at $100 each, which includes shipping in the USA. Take $5 of for each book above 1 you buy. Paypal, cash, money order, etc. accepted. First "I'll take it" beats PMed offers.

 

SOLD - Batman 72 - VG/VG+, somewhere around there. That white you see on the top is not the first page of the comic popping through, the cover is slightly miscut, but not really miswrapped. A really nice tough to find early 50's Batman and the last of the 52 pagers I believe.

 

 

 

SOLD - Batman 74 - also around a VG/VG+. Used in the POp comic witchhunt. Might be a joker app in there too.

 

 

 

Action 189. Looks like a nice F/VF except for the bottom popped staple.

 

 

 

SOLD - ASM 50. First Kingpin. VG+ or thereabouts.

 

 

 

ASM 47. 1st MJ/PP date, the Osborns show up and it's like the 5th Kraven. Nice VF/VF+ copy.

 

 

 

 

[The Less Blob]

You can buy a nice raw Saga 1, Nowhere Men 1, a decent Peter Pinklepuss 1, etc. for the same price as these vintage gems. Puts these in perspective.

[The Less Blob]

I do not know if any of the marks on the 50's books signify that they came out of a pedigree type situation. These were all bought via someone whose only collecting experience was going to a very early NYC comic convention in about 1972, bought these and about 250 other GA books, sat on them for 25 years and sold them to my old LCS (he had the materials from the convention too).

[The Less Blob]

To clarify, by popped staple I mean the bottom staple is detached from the cover

[vaillant]

It’s the right terminology, I believe.

[The Less Blob]

popped is always how i've seen it described, but someone wanted clarification. it's a nice book, doesn't come up on ebay by the box load either, that bottom staple is the only real problem. honestly, i'd rather have it popped than nasty and rusty and I've seen cgc 4.5s with a big rusty staple and the rest of the book doesn't look nearly as nice as this one either.

[The Less Blob]

These 50's DCs in particular are priced really nicely...both the Batmans are $154 each in VG and the Action is $162 in VG/Fine (would be $305 in F/VF!). I will not further reduce them.

 

 

[whomerjay]

take Bats 72 and 74.

[vaillant]

Hi blob,

from what I have learned, independently of the beauty of a book, a popped staple usually does not allow more than a VG range, so 4.5 at best. I believe this goes for both CGC and Overstreet grading rules. I don’t recall how high you can go with a completely detached cover.

A popped staple in the centerfold allows a F range grade, about 6.0.

 

Stating a X.X grade "Qualified" is another way, but personally I am very annoyed by popped staples, as I don’t feel comfortable in handling the book, with the fear the cover could come off completely.

But of course there is no problem as the defect is clearly stated.

[1Cool]

Hi blob,

from what I have learned, independently of the beauty of a book, a popped staple usually does not allow more than a VG range, so 4.5 at best. I believe this goes for both CGC and Overstreet grading rules. I don’t recall how high you can go with a completely detached cover.

A popped staple in the centerfold allows a F range grade, about 6.0.

 

Stating a X.X grade "Qualified" is another way, but personally I am very annoyed by popped staples, as I don’t feel comfortable in handling the book, with the fear the cover could come off completely.

But of course there is no problem as the defect is clearly stated.

 

I don't particularly like popped staples either but it has to be one of the least obvious "major" defects. Half the time you can't really tell the book has a popped staple without looking for it. I like those kind of defects when a book is in my collection.

[vaillant]

I don’t want blob’s thread to derail because of this; the important thing is to just to state it (as he did) when you are selling a book.

[The Less Blob]

Well, putting aside whether the commentary is better left for the grading forum, I have owned slabbed, old blue lable GA CGC 5.0s (and I believe a 5.5 as well) with one popped staple (and they weren't NM or anything otherwise), so I dunno about "cgc" rules. I think nowadays cgc may be more inclined to give it the higher grade in a green lable, though I do not purport to know their methodology. OPG allows a 1/2 inch spine split in VG/Fine...so, arguably, the spine split just happens to be where the bottom staple is!

 

I don't think I'm totally off my rocker citing to the VG/Fine OPG price for the book, particularly when I'm only looking for 62% of that price . If you like VG+ better, It is still $146, so $100 shipped is still a pretty good deal for a pretty nice HTF GA (or atom age if you prefer) Action...a pretty cruddy looking copy recently sold for $70+.

 

Grading discussions are funny and subjective...OPG allows a spine roll, 1 inch spine split, a centerfold detached at one staple, a "not completely detached" cover, a missing 1/4 inch corner, a missing 1/8 square and foxing and soiling are allowed in in VG, apparently, maybe all in the same book!...yet if there's a small clipped interior coupon that does does not impact the story on an otherwise NM book, many folks here will say the book can't be better than a "Fair" (which in OPG allows the whole centerfold to be missing!)

[vaillant]

They are just different criteria, I don’t find them "funny".

 

I agree that your book is very nice, and the price is good, but personally I don’t go much with the grades, rather with what’s comfortable with me, and the popped staples are one of my "pet hates", but it would surely be a good bargain for someone not annoyed by it.

 

There are strictly grading renowned sellers, like Worldwide (but also Metropolis), which for a NM book with a popped staple, especially if belonging to some "pedigree" would not make such a price difference.

 

So, grading is not subjective, it follows certain criteria, but ultimately the collector buys what he likes. Personally, for example, I do not mind color touch at all, but I dislike miswraps.

[The Less Blob]

hey, no offense, and i'm usually a jolly camper around here, and I probably should have said it after the first obnoxious post, but get the f*uc*k off my sales thread, ok? i'm selling stuff to help pay my bills and keep a roof over my family's head, don't f**ck with that.

 

 

[ironman4472]

Action 189

[DR.X]

hey, no offense, and i'm usually a jolly camper around here, and I probably should have said it after the first obnoxious post, but get the f*uc*k off my sales thread, ok? i'm selling stuff to help pay my bills and keep a roof over my family's head, don't f**ck with that.

 

 

 

 

 

When are people going to learn to keep certain thing's to a P.M.

[vaillant]

First of all, blob, it’s been you that raised the "popped staple" question, if not for that I’d not even have participated.

 

Second, as you see, what I stated is correct: it makes no difference as long as the buyer likes the comic, so the discussion hasn’t harmed the sale at all.

 

So much for trying to be objective and balanced…

[The Less Blob]

Action 189

 

thank you for purchasing my poopy comic book. you will receive a bonus present.

 

ok, everyone who buys from me in this thread will. fair is fair.

[The Less Blob]

First of all, blob, it’s been you that raised the "popped staple" question, if not for that I’d not even have participated.

 

Second, as you see, what I stated is correct: it makes no difference as long as the buyer likes the comic, so the discussion hasn’t harmed the sale at all.

 

So much for trying to be objective and balanced…

 

I'm thinking we're having cultural differences here on when/where is the right place/time to say what that might be perceived as a threadkrap.. I'll leave it at that. I'm not known for blowing up on these boards (I don't think?). I'm having a rough day at work.

[The Less Blob]

OK, to close out the thread I can do $85, shipped in the USA, on the ASM 47, though I do love it so. Priority mail at cost to Canada, U.K. and Australia to established boardies. I do not ship to Italy!