Lone Star Comics

[Crackandpresstoan11]

Anybody ever order from this place? They look like Mile High Jr. I was wondering if they grade like MH too.

[clobberintime]

Never did anything with them but Bedrock city from austin is very good. They grade accurately, have a big selection - especially hard to find 50s stuff, are nice to talk with and will negotiate prices. I think Lone Star is kind of like Mile High too.

[TheWatcher]

Their grading is very generous, like you find at Mile High/Ebay. They tend to gouge you with their prices, too. I do like their subscription service, though.

[MrBedrock]

Just wanted to thank Clobberintime for the kind words, but with one correction. Bedrock City is actually in Houston.

Thanks again.

Richard

[chrisco37]

I think Lone star is who I bought an ASM #300 from. They were a little high, but the grading was on.

 

Chris

[Bluecollarjoe]

I've purchased from Lone Star a number of times. Here's a sampling of their grades and the grades CGC assigned:

 

 

Aquaman 52 double cover

Lone Star grade: NM

CGC: outer cover 7.5 VF-

inner cover 9.4 NM off-white pages

(Higher grade awarded)

 

 

 

Captain America 103

Lone Star: NM

CGC: 9.2 NM- Off-white pages

 

 

Daredevil 11

Lone Star: NM

CGC: 9.0 Very Fine/NM White pages

 

 

Detective Comics 59

Lone Star: Very Good+ (bought two summers ago)

CGC: 6.5 Fine+ Cream to Off-white pages

 

 

Fantastic Four 80

Lone Star: NM

CGC: 9.0 VF/NM White to Off-white pages

 

 

Hulk 105

Lone Star: NM

CGC: 7.0 FN/VF White to Off-white pages (CGC noted a large stain inside the front cover, dark cover made it difficult to notice)

 

 

X-Men 65

Lone Star: NM

CGC: 9.2 NM- Off-white pages

 

 

X-Men 57

Lone Star: NM

CGC: 9.0 VF/NM Off-white pages

 

They've always been great about responding to questions I've had about specific issues I'm interested in.

 

 

 

[Guest]

bought a few "NM" Joes from them and they were all overgraded. Most of them would have graded a 9.0.

[Smitty]

They bought hundres of GI joes from me I listed on ebay as vfnm or better selling they in lots of 25.

[Guest]

got any high end copies still available of the first thirty issues?

[Hensley300]

I was not impressed with their modern issues. They list most of their comics as NM but that is as far as they go. The issues i have gotten were around VF to VF/NM maybe some were NM-. But they do have good customer service. I was able to get my money back for issues I didn't like but if you are looking for cgc quality high grades, ie 9.6 to 9.8, stick to books that are already graded

[Smitty]

No I have long since ran out of Joes.

[Guest]

Ill bet you wish you had them back now!

[black_terror-migration]

I'll never order back issues from them again, honestly. 80's-90's modern books near mint in their eyes generally turned up FN/VF... some even in the VG/FN range. Every so often a book will come in at grade, but that's more a happy accident than anything else, IMO. I've tried their back issue service a couple of times, giving them the benefit of the doubt, but I was burned in both cases.

 

Maybe they do better at Silver Age stuff - I'll never bother to find out.