Point Five Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Good old Jef. The scans in the auction listings could not be any more random instead of showing the "key" books in the set. Speak for yourself. That Spin and Marty cover had me reaching for my wallet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4GEMWORKS Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 I think you'd have problems at $10,000, most of the big money books are missing, first series 1, 4, and 16 second series 9, 29, 38, 62, 74, 97 and a lot of the rest are in the fa to G range. Breaking it up and selling it on e-bay might get an average of $10 a book after fees, but it'd be a daunting task. I think he would be VERY lucky to get 5k for the whole set. Most of the stuff will probably go for 10-20% of guide sold separately. Some of the higher numbered stuff he has at 3-5 bucks each MIGHT sell for 3-5 for 10 issues in an auction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4GEMWORKS Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Monte, I thought I was being generous. I gave $10 a piece anything after 300 and assumed paying more for anything pre-300. Regardless, $25K is much too high. Maybe I should email Jef ... he might simply be advertising the set and is willing to break it up But, if his price expectations are the same as for the set Make him an offer: $100 if he agrees to free shipping! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 I think you'd have problems at $10,000, most of the big money books are missing, first series 1, 4, and 16 second series 9, 29, 38, 62, 74, 97 and a lot of the rest are in the fa to G range. Breaking it up and selling it on e-bay might get an average of $10 a book after fees, but it'd be a daunting task. I think he would be VERY lucky to get 5k for the whole set. Most of the stuff will probably go for 10-20% of guide sold separately. Some of the higher numbered stuff he has at 3-5 bucks each MIGHT sell for 3-5 for 10 issues in an auction. I disagree with that last statement. If you know where I can buy high numbered low grade FCs at auction for $5 for 10 issues, I'll bid right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmg3637 Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 while it a great collection for breadth, it is kind of dissapointing with an average grade of v/vg and nothing above an f+. Most of the books are g or less. It seemd like a guy who had spent decades collecting would have had a better overall condition. seems like the full value of these books would not be 15,000 It would not surprise me if he would break it up in smaller lots or say sell maybe a hurdred or so of the books at a time. I know there is someone else who has 300+ books for sale with a better grade range for I hthink about 4k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ft88 Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Back to the regular program. Here's an FC 488 White Mountain - and not yet slabbed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciorac Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Monte, I thought I was being generous. I gave $10 a piece anything after 300 and assumed paying more for anything pre-300. Regardless, $25K is much too high. Maybe I should email Jef ... he might simply be advertising the set and is willing to break it up But, if his price expectations are the same as for the set The only complete set that I've seen in person was at Ruben Blades' house back in the mid 90's. Jack Mallette claimed to have a full set, but I never saw it. Ruben's was very nice, all on one book shelf. He really loved comics in those days and bought a wide variety from me. He even flew in from LA to New Orleans one day just to shop at the store. Bought a ton of stuff. Does he still collect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmg3637 Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 I got in quite a few books in recent trades. I have many of them scanned and uploaded now. I will try to post most of them when I have a chance. Some of them are very nice books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 I got in quite a few books in recent trades. I have many of them scanned and uploaded now. I will try to post most of them when I have a chance. Some of them are very nice books. Great score! Any chance of scanning a few internal pages of this one? I've never seen this book and would like to see Kelly's duck in action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmg3637 Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 I'll try to get some scans of interior pages when I have the chance. In the meantime here are some more of my recent trades. To have all 1200+ books is quite a feat. Having them all on on bookshelf would be an awsome display Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 Great batch of books Jim This one just came in courtesy of ft88 - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selegue Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 Great batch of books Jim This one just came in courtesy of ft88 - Another Big One bites the dust -- and a most presentable copy! Congrats. Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 Another Big One bites the dust -- and a most presentable copy! Congrats. Jack Thanks Jack. Yes, the fact it is so presentable for the grade sold me on the purchase (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmg3637 Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 Great pickup scrooge. here are a couple moe form recent trades. Most of the books came from Catrick who is now my top trading partner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 Nice ones. Got my Sparkle Plenty from the boards too from ft88 not too long ago and the Xmas on Bear Mountain from shiverbones. Wish I had stuff to trade to Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmg3637 Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 I will publish my complete trade list soon. Most likely in the wanted to buy section. in the meantime here are a couple more recent additions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Love the Porky. Still need it. Got this recently. Not as good as expected but I've never read that story - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmg3637 Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 I just got a really nice upgrade for this Tonto. If anybody needs my undercopy they know where to reach me Most of the books in this series had more than 1 issue. Hard to imagine where they were thinking the "I Met a Handsome Cowboy" was going to continue. I met another handsome cowboy...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmg3637 Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 I am trying to go through my photobucket account and post the new additions page by page. I now have 19 pages of scans. These are from page 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comicdey Posted January 2, 2010 Author Share Posted January 2, 2010 I just ran into an old acquaintance collector that has the complete four color 1st and second series runs. I'm looking forward to getting to look through them. I hadn't seen him in 20+ years. Cheerio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
