What were the first comics you bought from Milehigh comics??

[Titan777]

Even though we hear certain things about mile high at a certain point before all the nonsense I would assume that almost everybody must have bought comics from mile high back in the day since they were the most obvious mail order company from the 70's and 80's especially with the priceguide right in the center of the book that I looked forward to every month for some reason.......I think I was 11-13 and I bought Avengers #200 and Avengers annual #10 both in VF/NM and I still have these comics it must have been around 1983 or so

 

post what age you were, what you bought and what year it was when you bought it.

[OldGuy]

First and last comics were in the same order in 2001. Three issues of Concrete sold as "NM" but in reality F- to VF.

[Rob]

Never bought a comic from Mile High. Prices were high compared to eBay, and I from what I heard, they didn't provide reliable grading to justify the higher price.

[Lofwyr]

Old valiant backissues that I didn't feel like digging through comic store bins for. The rule of thumb in dealing with milehigh is to only buy when his store has a "sale" and when shipping is free. I've never paid more than 80 cents for any issue from milehigh. The only reason Chuck charges outrageous prices is because there's usually someone there to pay those prices.

[Rickdogg]

I never bought from them because of horror stories I read here. I visited their southern Cali store that had many overgraded NM's as well.

[chrisco37]

I'm like OG. Bought once, and here are results:

 

ASM #252 (NM) close enough w/ their guidelines I kept it (prob a 9.2)

X-Men #141 (NM) same as above (prob a 9.0)

Tales to Astonish #57 (NM) so grossly overgraded I'll never buy from them again

 

This was when I first got back into the hobby, and Mile High was the only name I could remember from "back in the day". My feelings of them have changed greatly since then.

 

Chris

[Hensley300]

X-men King Size Special # 1 back in the mid 80's. Got it graded back in 2001 and came back a cgc 9.4 with ow/w. Having said that, I bought a few back in 2002 and sent everyone of them back. Will never do business with them again with ungraded books. Considering the price of their cgc books, I doubt I will ever buy any graded ones from them either. Though I did buy their Avengers annual 10 in 9.8 with white pages two years ago for $150 during a sale.

[murph0]

Avengers 16 in "NM/M" for 25 dollars (maybe 30) in 1988, it was probably actually a VF.

 

Brian

[fantastic_four]

Spidey 11 in "NM/M" in 2000. I returned it and told them it was a VF. They submitted it to CGC and it got VF- 7.5.

[comicmankev]

Sub-Mariner 1 + 7 for total of $450, 6 months ago! Both CGC 9.6

[CosmicBob]

I bought a Superboy 109 and some others this past summer, all graded NM. They were mostly that grade and some were very, very nice. Then I bought some other Superboys that were very overgraded and I was disappointed. So now I only buy CGC books from him and only when they're on sale.

[Smokinghawk]

Thor 337 NM and some other stuff. I still have the Thor; it's sitting out beside me right now.

 

[aardvark88]

From Chuck at San Diego con, I bought 4 raw X-men KS Spcl #1, 14 Spect Spidey mag #2, 8 DD #43, 2 Nick Fury #4, 3 Subby #8, 8 Marv Super-heroes #1 one-shot, etc.

[joe_collector]

From Chuck at San Diego con, I bought 4 raw X-men KS Spcl #1, 14 Spect Spidey mag #2, 8 DD #43, 2 Nick Fury #4, 3 Subby #8, 8 Marv Super-heroes #1 one-shot, etc.

 

Bleeding that MH2 collection dry, were you?

[Paladin]

It was the other way for me. I actually sold to them back-in-the-day. It was for pennies to the dollar of course, and it pains me to say it was early X-Men (100 to 150 range). Only sold a few issues as I didn't have to many. Plus I wasn't rolling in the dough like I am now.

[aardvark88]

An example of bleeding the collection dry is Motor City walking away from Chuck with a long box full of cherrypicked vfnm silver Marvels. Some of the Mile High 2's submitted came back cgc 9.4, 9.6 but I saved the best copies for myself. I like them RAW.

[greggy]

but I saved the best copies for myself

 

What? I thought money talked with you? You think you have a 9.8 copy of MSH 1, as the other 2 copies that I bought from you came back as 9.4 and 9.6?

[Smokinghawk]

Damn! I forgot about that! I sold some books to them, too! Most of it was junk, but I also sold by double run of Secret Wars, and the first 10 issues of Lone Wolf and Cub.

 

[Bugaboo-migration]

I can't remember the first comics I bought from Milehigh. I grew up in a very small town, so the only place to get comics was at the local drugstore. And all they carried, of course, were the new comics.

 

So, when I saw chucks adds in the centers of new comics with an opportunity to buy (gasp) older comics, I thought I'd hit the mother load. As a kid, I'd save up my money and I ended up placing several orders with them over the years. I didn't give a flying flip about condition.....I just wanted the books to have and to read. I still remember how exciting it was when that package came in the mail.

[Hensley300]

For some reason I would order from East Coast Comics in the same fashion but yet I did care about getting NM from mile high. It probably should have been the other way around.