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My favorite part of getting this in? The collection ALSO included the issue of Tales To Astonish that he cut the coupon from to get it. And in a rare turn of events? The loss on the comic is probably outweighed by the value of the stationery. Doesn’t often happen on coupon cuts.

They’ve now pushed twenty books into the search function. Some in weekly and some in June Signature. But now searchable by Truckee Meadows.

That’s a weird GPA result since the last 0.5 at heritage was $456.00. And one missing three pages (including story pages) went for $417.68 on eBay last November. $175 sounds like a steal by comparison. It’s been at least four years since the last 0.5 closed under $120.

Man the photoshop possibilities are endless!

Weird stuff just walks in the door… If anyone has any international treaties they need help with, I got you covered.

They don’t show up until a few days before the items are live for bidding. It’s an automated tag that gets added when the items get pushed into the “current” status. If you search past items it correctly pulls all 16 so far. There are two books in the May 16 weekly. The June Signatures open bidding May 26th (possibly a day or two earlier, the April books were early by a day).

The problem is in December they said check in March. In February they said check back in May… They also supply university and library and archive (and Library of Congress) clients. My assumption is that if supplies are below a certain amount those are the only orders they will fill. It might be two years before they are filling comic orders for fullbacks again. We all hope they’ll return to normal all at once and fill the pent-up demand that’s likely around 2,000,000 full backs by now with millions more capacity to spare. But that’s just hope.

A few more fresh scans from the June Signature.

Very nice. Pedigree or just a stellar copy?

Man this is like having a conversation with a friend and then suddenly seeing ads for that item on your phone. I literally JUST bought this book this morning. Yes it’s the second round of reprints but I hadn’t even seen this title in forever.

Actually I don’t do this at all. In a past life I was the guy doing injury prevention training for hundreds of union workers including ergonomics. All my comic “work” is done at a height around 44” off the floor. No hunching. More importantly, you won’t find a single long box on display in my shop, and every collection we get that includes them, the long boxes get swapped out for shorts and discarded. Long boxes are the devil. Short boxes are stronger, more durable, and can be carried with elbows tight to your hips so there’s no end range movement. Plus they do less damage to comics. A long box 75% full is empty enough for 170 comics to slide down and get permanently curled. A pair of short boxes each 75% full don’t have enough room for comics to sag far enough to be damaged. Whether it’s moving them from this table to that one, loading and unloading them from racks, loading and unloading them from dollies, or loading and unloading them into and out of a car, I’d rather move 100 short boxes than 10 long boxes. Long boxes are the devil.

No it’s not. I more wonder how much of an impact a dedicated Heritage auction of 9.8 newsstands will have on this particular niche in the hobby. I was a sports card dealer in the late 80s. And I still remember the shockwave when Beckett first started doing magazines for sports other than baseball. For most of 1990 I had fresh customers (who had never bought anything but baseball) suddenly asking for cards they saw in the brand new Basketball Beckett, Hockey Beckett, and Football Beckett. Sadly, looking at the Heritage item listings (admittedly not yet complete for an auction several weeks away), they aren’t the right newsstands to matter. It’s a ton of 1977-1983 stuff, plus obvious keys like Spidey 300, New Mutants 98, and Spawn 1. Books whose sale results won’t make newsstand collecting more appealing to the non-participant.

I wonder…

Thanks. I think all but two of the Sunday books were new highs in grade. The Avengers 11 was a “bargain” for someone. As was the 7.5 Green Lantern 13. But for the rest of the books, Heritage did Heritage things. (Some were obviously new highs just because it had been so long since they were available, the tide lifted all boats.)

Very light on Showcase. Less than five total I believe.

Most studies show the average person loses a half inch per decade after age 40. I lost a half inch in my 30s and a full inch in my 40s. My friends actually haven’t noticed it as much because my posture is better now than it was when I was young, so I routinely stand closer to my full height rather than slouching. A buddy of mine from high school was 6’9” at age 22. He’s below 6’7” now. No injury. Just luck of the draw and battling the only truly undefeated enemy, gravity.

There’s a lot of crazy in this story. But craziest to me is that Metropolis only has 250,000 comics in inventory.

Congrats to the winner of this HGOOSADC this evening. Sold for $2640. Previous high sale of this issue in any grade was $837 (back in 2013). Who says DC Silver collecting is dead?

Or perhaps a different “issue #1 of a DC title beginning with the letter A from 1962 in a 9.4 with white pages” would be more to your liking?

Here you go, Sal. Recently populated in the June Signature. Is this HGOOSADC enough for you?

Misdirection. ;)

At one point I was two meters. But cartilage compresses over time. I’m barely over 6’ 5” these days. You’ll find me standing in the back of a few group pics from forum dinners a million years ago. Including the dinner the night @greggywas crowned Short-Shorts.

Yes it has pre-Marvel chipping (just like the 9.2 White Mountain does). But jeebus, that centering!

My favorite of the five copies from the Truckee Meadows collection. In the June Signature.

Two of the top 20 slabbed copies of FF 1, both with white pages. From the same original owner collection. Plus a 7.5 and a 5.0… and…