kimik Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 3 hours ago, kav said: I want to ask how much but I know thats verboten. just tell us if u got a good deal!!! It cost a fair bit since the owner knew how much his collection was worth. In the end I considered it a fair deal as we both had to make concessions to meet in the middle - I paid more than my ideal price, and he had to come down from his asking price as well. kav 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatninja Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 On 5/21/2018 at 4:56 PM, kav said: I bet. I immediatly wanted one and searched ebay but nope. Purple Pictography by Bode and Wrightson , they were reprinted in color from Eros in the early 90's and well worth picking up kav 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnasher Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 Man, that is the mother lode of hauls! Very well done. 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimik Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 (edited) Thanks. This collection actually does not crack the top 5 that I have had the fortune of picking up since I first started selling on the side 20 years ago for one simple reason - the books are low to mid grade for the most part. I wish I could go back to 1997-2003 when uber HG SA and BA Marvel and DC collections, as well as nice GA collections, were easy to find and cheap. Edited November 1, 2018 by kimik ADAMANTIUM and Gnasher 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 1 minute ago, kimik said: Thanks. This collection actually does not crack the top 5 that I have had the fortune of picking up since I first started selling on the side 20 years ago for one simple reason - the books are low to mid grade for the most part. I wish I could go back to 1997-2003 when uber HG SA and BA Marvel and DC collections, as well as nice GA collections, were easy to find and cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimik Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 To put things further into perspective, my best collection purchase would not crack the top 10 of a lot of other long time boardies. ADAMANTIUM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 1 hour ago, kimik said: To put things further into perspective, my best collection purchase would not crack the top 10 of a lot of other long time boardies. "There's always a bigger fish" Gnasher 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimik Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 15 hours ago, kav said: "There's always a bigger fish" Too true. There was a post in the Golden Age thread a long time ago where some of the boardies had pics of collections with Action 1-10 in nice shape, Tec #27-38, Marvel Comics 1 up, Captain America 1 up, etc. It was awesome to see. kav 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artboy99 Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 2 hours ago, kimik said: Too true. There was a post in the Golden Age thread a long time ago where some of the boardies had pics of collections with Action 1-10 in nice shape, Tec #27-38, Marvel Comics 1 up, Captain America 1 up, etc. It was awesome to see. There is the Bangzoom thread where he posted the piles of comics he liberated from the trash heap. Robot Man and Unca Ben 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimik Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 (edited) 32 minutes ago, Artboy99 said: There is the Bangzoom thread where he posted the piles of comics he liberated from the trash heap. That was one of the best threads, if not the best, on these boards. Not only did we get to see an assortment of treasures that he had amassed over the years, but other boardies started posting their books in it as well. Edited November 2, 2018 by kimik Unca Ben 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artboy99 Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 6 minutes ago, kimik said: That was one of the best threads, if not the best, on these boards. Not only did we get to see an assortment of treasures that he had amassed over the years, but other boardies started posting their books in it as well. it is to bad that Photobucket has destroyed that thread. Thousands of photos are now gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisco37 Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 59 minutes ago, Artboy99 said: it is to bad that Photobucket has destroyed that thread. Thousands of photos are now gone. Yeah, it was amazing. I remember when he posted the pic of his AA16. Holy smokes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimik Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 The books I sent in for grading from the new collection are starting to trickle in. I will post the first few later tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsilverjanet Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 On 11/2/2018 at 1:15 PM, chrisco37 said: Yeah, it was amazing. I remember when he posted the pic of his AA16. Holy smokes! AA = African Anaconda? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kimik Posted November 8, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted November 8, 2018 The first group of raw books that I sent in for grading from the new collection came back from CGC last Friday. Here are the books - the restored books were noted by the collection owner. And last but not least................ The crying shame book in the collection due to the small piece out of the tip of the bottom right corner: Cocomonkey, gino2paulus2, Gnasher and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cocomonkey Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 Nice X-Mens! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kimik Posted November 9, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted November 9, 2018 The Bronze/Copper group arrived back today. There were not many since the bulk of the collection ended at 1972, but there were a couple of gems in the mix: BlowUpTheMoon, badback83, Gnasher and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnasher Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 On 11/8/2018 at 5:34 AM, kimik said: The first group of raw books that I sent in for grading from the new collection came back from CGC last Friday. Here are the books - the restored books were noted by the collection owner. And last but not least................ The crying shame book in the collection due to the small piece out of the tip of the bottom right corner: Sounds like you were dealing with a straight up honest owner...? It's a shame and hard to believe it's only a 5.5, looks a nice copy otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimik Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 On 11/9/2018 at 2:48 AM, Gnasher said: Sounds like you were dealing with a straight up honest owner...? It's a shame and hard to believe it's only a 5.5, looks a nice copy otherwise. The owner used to buy books from me between 1997-2006ish when he stopped collecting. He has always been a good person to deal with, and buying the collection from him was the same. It likely helped that we knew each other from before as well. There was one book that he missed some glue on the spine with, but it was a common TTA issue. Gnasher 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 That black panther has really risen in value-I stocked up on them while people were still distracted by FF 52! Gnasher 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
