Just bought the grossest, most disgusting collection 6 6

[William-James88]

2 minutes ago, gadzukes said:

You may be right.  They're high grade, but I doubt I'd get 9.8, even with a press.

sell them as a lot (complete story arc), that's how most dealers ensure not to be stuck with some they'll never sell. Should be an easy sell that way. 

[gadzukes]

I'm done working on this today.  I'm pooped.  Taking in a collection is a LOT of work.

Overall, I'm please because these are all looking pretty good outside the comic bags.

Here's the last couple pics I snapped.

I don't know anything about TMNT comics.  Hopefully there's something good there.

 

[Get Marwood & I]

1 minute ago, gadzukes said:

I'm pooped

So were some of the boxes 

[Ryan.]

10 minutes ago, gadzukes said:

I'm done working on this today.  I'm pooped.  Taking in a collection is a LOT of work.

Overall, I'm please because these are all looking pretty good outside the comic bags.

Here's the last couple pics I snapped.

I don't know anything about TMNT comics.  Hopefully there's something good there.

 

That TMNT 7 second print is legit. 

[Qalyar]

9 minutes ago, gadzukes said:

I don't know anything about TMNT comics.  Hopefully there's something good there.

I'm not the local turtles expert by far, but there's some cash in that stack of turtles. Not "TMNT 1" cash, sadly, but still nice. Off the top of my head, the #3 reprint (top row, far right; note: multiple printings complicate things), #6 (top row, center, with the triceratops), and especially the #7 reprint (bottom row, blue cover) are all pretty good books to have in the grades these appear to be in.

[gadzukes]

Ok, so if you're curious.... I paid $800 for these 11 boxes.  I only wanted to offer $500 because of how the boxes looked, but she's a friend of a friend so I offered $750.  She countered with $850.  I grimaced and countered with $800. Done deal.  

I'm going to do pretty good on it now that I know the comics are in great shape.  But.... there's a lot of work ahead.

[JazzMan]

Many years ago I put an ad in the local Craigslist buying/consigning comics.  I visited one guy who answered the ad and asked me if he could consign a short box of books he had.  I opened the box and there was a combination of comics, mostly modern, and a few TPBs.  The smell of cigarettes was overpowering when he opened the box.  I picked up the TPBs and noticed they were stamped with the name of a Correctional Facility.  He confessed to me that he had been incarcerated and was making a new life for himself.  I told him that selling comics that smelled of cigarettes was going to be difficult and I declined.  After lighting up another Marlboro and snapping off the filter I think he said something to the tune of, "what cigarette smell?"

[gadzukes]

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I've been told this is the 1st appearance of Beebop & RockSteady.  Looks to be in great shape

[ADAMANTIUM]

8 minutes ago, gadzukes said:

I've been told this is the 1st appearance of Beebop & RockSteady.  Looks to be in great shape

It is, and it goes for a pretty penny but also worth keeping in a collection 

 

[gadzukes]

Just now, ADAMANTIUM said:

It is, and it goes for a pretty penny but also worth keeping in a collection 

 

I don't own even one Turtle book, but I might need to keep a couple of these.

[WolverineX]

3 hours ago, Rip said:

I've bought collections with rat poop and cat pee. Yuck.

The most insane nasty story was the one where I went to Happy Valley in Northern CA to pick up a pulp collection.
As soon as I get there this guy greets me and says he's selling his parents magazines.

Tells me his parents died in a honey oil accident. Shows me the blown up trailer on the property. Looked like a huge bomb blew up right in the middle of it.

Says he got out of prison recently and there is no water or electricity on the property.

Has a stack of pulps and tells me there's more in the barn. It's dark in there so he says he will get a flashlight. While I'm looking in there I can hear outside screaming and yelling fighting over a flashlight.

The person who greeted me earlier starts yelling at a woman he's fighting with, "I said you can stay here if you sleep with my brother."
At this moment I can see transients have been sleeping in the barn. Sleeping bags, excrement, food wrappers. I saw some older magazines but, it simply wasn't worth it.

As the fighting escalated I got in my car and got out of there, told him I would contact him later.

 

 

Good thing he didn't ask you to sleep with his brother too.

Edited April 20, 2021 by Wolverinex

[Galen130]

Even though I would wear a bio-hazard suit going through a collection like that, it would still be entertaining to go through it all.  I still go through my own collection in order to list stuff in my sales thread, and I still get excited when I come across something I had forgotten all about.  My stuff is in a much cleaner environment though.  

[WolverineX]

26 minutes ago, gadzukes said:

I've been told this is the 1st appearance of Beebop & RockSteady.  Looks to be in great shape

Boom.  Nice work! as well as the Krang cover.  I would buy it if I hadn't seen the boxes

[gadzukes]

15 minutes ago, Wolverinex said:

Boom.  Nice work! as well as the Krang cover.  I would buy it if I hadn't seen the boxes

I will have to sell these under an alias

[Haupia]

WOW!!! What an amazing collection. (minus the cat poop) ....

 

I once purchased a full run of Iron Man from 1-200 all mid-high grade. The boxes were soaked in rat pee & poop! 🐀 💩 ... I had a homemade hazmat suit with 3 layers of clothing, rubber gloves, goggles, and ventilator mask. Unboxing was HORRENDOUS, but the books were EXTRAORDINARY!

[catman76]

Searching through junk shops and putting classifieds in newspapers and stores for 35 years i have seen a lot of stuff like this, mouse chewed comics and ones full of mouse poop or a whole stack that had been eaten completely through top to bottom my bugs. I once got and answer to a classified ad of mine in the early 90s from this guy that said he had tons of comics in his garage. He obviously didn't look at them before he called me because when I got there the box had been sitting on the garage floor for decades and gotten wet constantly and only the very top few comics weren't totally a disgusting mess. it was mostly late 50s and early 60s stuff. The only comics I salvaged out of there was a Batman 127 and a couple Date With Judy comics and those were water damaged kind of bad and still stink or mildew and stuff to this day. The rest were a soggy pulpy disgusting mess and had to be tossed.

[JollyComics]

HOW did the hoarder end up with those books are in amazing condition???

She may find them outside of the closed comic book store or someone threw them away at their front yard where she picked them up at the curbside.

I KNOW hoarders who pick up everything in the path and NEVER threw them away.  I am shocked that she let them go to you.

Yes, it was a big mess but it was a MESSY fortunate!