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GM8

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  1. Thanks for your insight. It is plain to see for anyone who disbelieves the numbers. Go look for Spawn #1 newsstand and you'll see that sure enough there is about 1 for every 100 direct, give or take. The number gets even more ridiculous as you get higher up as you state. All it takes is a little investigation. But no, we have to be "saved from ourselves" by the quixotic gestures of some armchair experts. See above.
  2. Really, captain obvious? Besides blathering on and on you purposely misinterpret things for effect. Chuck at Mile High is a comic expert. Get over it.
  3. Ooooo....what does re-tor-icul mean sir? Looks like someone needs to take their medication. I'm so sorry you had that bad experience with Mile High Comics.
  4. You post way too much for a simple argument, so I'll summarize your point here: You say Chuck has no idea what he's talking about, that you're the actual expert and everything about newsstand print runs and distribution is wrong that everyone knows, except you of course. My response is simple: Chuck is an expert on comics. He would be called to the stand in a court as an expert on comics and no one (except apparently you and a few others) would sit there and say he's not. Arguing over minutae like "1:100" terminology and exactly what it means is unnecessary. It's meant to convey the rarity that is all. No one confuses it except you for sake of argument.
  5. That says it all right there doesn't it? Noone should dare question you when you make such broad claims about a comic book expert and legend like Chuck. You conveniently ignored the second part of my post, I'll repost it for you here: The newsstand comic market wasn't some black box unknowable to anyone who didn't run a $0.05 & $0.10 store. Someone with his experience must have knowledge of it, most likely a great deal. Plus buying all those books he has seen most everything ever printed go through his warehouses. The guy's an expert, hands down. The question is why do you feel the need to bring him down so badly?
  6. That sounds like it's coming from a disgruntled customer. "Chuck sucks!" "Chuck is a meanie!" The newsstand comic market wasn't some black box unknowable to anyone who didn't run a $0.05 & $0.10 store. Someone with his experience must have knowledge of it, most likely a great deal. Plus buying all those books he has seen most everything ever printed go through his warehouses. The guy's an expert, hands down. The question is why do you feel the need to bring him down so badly?
  7. Well we're all eyes and ears waiting for your sufficiently thoughtful analysis disproving his expert (yup, nearly 40 years selling comics) opinion on Spawn newsstand numbers.
  8. There are newsstand versions, and then there are newsstand Spawn versions. Spawn was famously printed in high numbers (1.5 Million for #1 direct?) and because of that Spawn collectors are always looking for a more collectible #1. It's the reason you have Spawn #1 Black & White being so valuable. It was printed 5 whopping years after the original! Yet Spawn B&W #1 was a 1:50 printing (actual run unknown but around 3-4K) and collector's love it. Price verifies it. Both Spawn #1 and #9 newsstand are gaining momentum from what I can see. They have doubled in sale prices on ebay over the last year. Spawn regular series newsstands are estimated to be 1:100 in rarity by Chuck at Mile High Comics (don't start naysayers, he knows a thing or two about comics probably more than you), so that would make #1's newsstand print run around 15,000 (#9 around 7,000).
  9. You're probably right, but what I'm saying is that I believe the warning is rare and probably for egregious, obvious cases of dealing outside ebay for high priced items.
  10. I've never seen this message from ebay and I get offers for transactions outside ebay from time to time. I've had responses rejected that include email address information also, but again, never received one of these messages. This seems like a scare tactic by ebay or maybe is the protocol for the type of listing ($0.99 auction for mac laptop). Ebay is about making money so if you are bringing in revenue I don't think they are going to cut your cord.
  11. Congratulations! You did well with an 8.5
  12. I hate thieves. Hope you catch this jerk. He wouldn't have changed the name unless the previous one had some identifying information. I googled it and nothing came up but it looks like a name or names in the text.
  13. Turok the Dinosaur hunter. Just kidding! Glad I never bought that thing, those back issues are like locusts! Every lot I buy has at least one in it. Wolverine #1 1988, bought 4 copies, a few years ago 2 came back 9.8 and sold 'em. One sold raw and I kept the best copy.
  14. I just replaced poly bags that were 25 to 30 years old. Most were housing comics I bought off the shelf, never read and then bagged (usually no boards, I know, sue me! I was a kid!). Plus they've always been in boxes and stored with care. Several books I've sent to CGC and all came back 9.4-9.8. That said I did look for nice copies at my LCS back in the day. The bags when removed were often slightly cloudy and yellowed. Replaced with new polys except for any keys which go in mylars. Repeat in 30 years.
  15. +1 on the Koreatown food. Korean chicken wings are really good, I like Bonchon on 5th and 32nd street (there's a $1 slice pizza place a few doors down too if you want some cheap carbs!). Bonus is the mostly good JHU comic shop just around the corner. Comic shops - stay away from Forbidden planet. It's just new issues and toys. There's real comic shops in the village and you can avoid this mess. For kids, Gulliver's Gate in Times Square is a large display of miniatures, I just checked and there's some special on their site. https://gulliversgate.com/ A little further uptown on the upper west side is the always-great Natural History Museum with its planetarium and big dinosaur exhibit. A crowd pleaser.
  16. You'd think right? Classic cover, movie coming out. That's what I thought too but I had one on the bay for at least 6 months in high grade and not priced too aggressively. Not much traction.
  17. If you need to buy it then go for it. It does save a little time. However, there is plenty of free cardboard around. I usually wait until I see a neighbor throwing out a large TV box. They have a coating on one side that provides extra strength. Measure with a tape measure and pencil out the entire side. Cut. Easy as pie.
  18. TMNT #1 9.8 auction on Heritage stuck at $20,000 (~$24K total) with less than 9 hours to go. Looks like buyers aren't fooled by the buyer's premium bs they put on top of bids. https://comics.ha.com/itm/modern-age-1980-present-/alternative-underground/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-1-mirage-studios-1984-cgc-nm-mt-98-white-pages/a/7163-91017.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515
  19. Yes, just ask him to cancel the one order on his end. There is an option under purchases. Don't ship him the other one until he does it.
  20. http://www.cosmicbooknews.com/marvel-comics-likely-cancelling-30-titles Great Lakes? Comeon. smh
  21. What a great question. It would take some research but I think you could come to a close estimate with a few key pieces of information: 1) ebay annual sales. Someone said ~$160 Million above. This sounds reasonable but a more accurate estimate could be obtained with the last 3 months sales and annualizing it. 2) off-market sales. Combined LCS (back issues only), Facebook, craigslist, CGC and other private sales are at least as much as ebay. Estimating these is art not science. 3) Diamond new issue revenues, their sales could be taken and given an average cost per book. Relatively easy with comichron I believe.
  22. Not from what we see. You can't rule out private sales. There's a huge incentive to avoid fees and duties by trading in private. That said, you can't factor them into a current market price either. It looks like the Comic Connect $27K sale last April was a recent high for this book.