Conacon

Hey folks, I'll be in the Kissimmee/Orlando area this week and was hoping for some good hunting suggestions. I'm sure I'll visit Coliseum and whatever else hits on a google search, but anyone know of some good dollar bins or old used book places that carry back issues? Also we have Entertainmarts, Half Price Books, etc. where I live. Anything like that around there? Appreciate any help in advance!

I usually pull up the Sold list for what I'm selling and write down all the information other sellers think is important. Then I make a Frankenstein title made up of all the good bits! This thread did make me realize that I don't go looking to see what others are listing once I've posted mine. For all I know, others have copied mine. Who cares, I guess.

Your previous post completely answered my question, thanks! I guess I skimmed over it and didn't pick up enough key words! 🤭

The seller showed me the damage on the spot. He's a reliable flea market guy who has sold me at least a hundred comics in the past year or two. Showing my rookie-ness here: what's the reholder fee? Sounds like I may keep this one to display. The books I bought this with make it a throw-in at this point.

I bought my first slab today. I'll start sending my own in to slab one of these days, but this one was a good one to start with. I've read a reprint somewhere and thought this was a nice piece of history. Only thing is, there is a big chip/cracked corner. What does that do to the value overall? I paid little enough that I could just eat the cost and keep the slab to display, but I'd like to hear some thoughts on what this kind of damage does to it?

Found some good stuff today. I bought #2-8 of Secret Invasion because I thought I had #1 at home. I'll know when I get around to it one of these days. My first slab! It has a chip off the top right corner, so there was a steep discount. Most of the rest I'm flipping. Bought at 3 of the 5 booths I stopped at. Nice Sunday afternoon.

Apologize if this type of post already exists. I bought this today. Simple page protector folded over, but with an electric tape twist this time. No real way to unbag without completely ripping/stretching out the tape. Post your creative bagging photos or stories here.

I own the bonehead on that one, for sure. It didn't cross my mind that someone might want this and hope to get it graded. I assured a green label. I'll never do that again.

Yeah... now it's hanging over my head like a bad haircut. 🙄

Now that you mention it, I bought one when it came out back in the day and remember thinking Deadpool was just another guy with guns and alot of pockets. Now it's a little surreal to read since Domino was the big appearance of the book and that's totally flipped around. I think it turned out that wasn't even her anyway.

Yeah, slabbing never crossed my mind. I was just asking orginally what the clipping would do to the grade. Someone posted a 0.5 drop, but I expected more than that.

I should have taken a before pic. The chew took up most of that corner. I wasn't expecting $20-40 anyway the way it looked. To be honest, it's in pretty rough shape. I know the pics don't do it justice, but I was ready to chalk it up to tree-fiddy.

Why would you even reply to this? Other than attention, what is the reason behind it?

But it was so g-r-o-s-s. Just the thought of some rat sitting there thinking, "Hmm, this comic tastes better than the others. It must be special." Well screw you, rat! I will erase all evidence of your existence. Wait. I didn't, did I? I've immortalized this rat! Noooo!

I get it, I really do, but my OCD can't handle a chunk vs a uniform cut. Someone help me. Just take the scissors. Take them.

So I clipped the corner off a New Muntants #98... I pulled this comic out of a collection and immediately saw a thumbnail-sized chew taken out of the bottom corner that went several pages deep. My options were to leave the unsightly rodent/bug evidence, or clip it so that it's at least uniform. It's not like I'd have sent it off anyway. Had that corner been perfect, it's still a mid-low grade even with a press. I'll sell it at some point. What do you think the clipping does to the price and would it have been better value-wise to keep the chew instead?

I don't have pics on my phone, but also Batman Beyond #1, Batman #635, Spiderman #316, X-Men #266 and whatever Daredevil Echo debuted in. So far, I've made back what I paid selling four of them.

I bought a collection just over the Arkansas border of Southeast Oklahoma last May. A ten minute drive down barely-paved backroads brought me to a house where a teenager was living on his own. The very rundown house was his friend's grandfather's old place. The grandfather asked him to sell his old comics. I was hoping for some silver, but it turned out to be predominantly late bronze and copper/modern. Turns out the grandfather had an extensive Silver Age collection, but wherever he lived before burned down. He still had several comics that were charred. Didn't smell smokey, but very noticeably marked with black. Looks like he started over in the 90's. I dug for an hour in large plastic tubs. The kid got bored and came and went. I finally offered what I thought I could make back on the ones that weren't ragged out and he made a call to his friend's mother and then took the money. The comics took up so much room, we had to borrow the in-laws car just so the rest of my family could get back to Texas (we were visiting them in Oklahoma). Out of 3,500 comics all of them are newsstand outside maybe 50 or so that predate direct/newsstand. Here are a few-

Double cover, Mark Jewelers, Newsstand? You hit the trifecta! What trend/niche are we missing? DCU logo in the UPC box. Rare Whitman variant. These are getting to be borderline tropes (well, tropes that make money).

Found another last night. One of the Ninja Turtles issues. I'm thinking it happens much more than I've noticed.

This one is on the back. I'm sure that happens sometime, but this is the only issue I have like that.

I've read that slabs aren't forever, but as long as you take care of them, I don't see why they'd need to be changed throughout the life of your collection.

Couple of things I'm wondering here... Are your bags the right size for the board? Sometimes old modern bags are overly wide compared to new backing boards. This would allow the comic to shift more, causing the color rub. Also, as the rub is along the spine which sits thicker than the rest of the book, maybe your books are packed too tight or even too loosely?

Got to one of my honey holes just as the lady was putting out new $1 books. None bagged and boarded, but all are in VF+ to NM except the Wolverine (maybe a VF-) and Black Panther 15 (GD at best). Also picked up a nice run of mid-200 Avengers, but no keys and VG/FN condition.

I found this 365 newsstand in a tattoo place and I was wondering what you guys thought grade-wise. My biggest question is over the hologram. There are small flecks missing. I tried to pic anything that could be a defect. The line on the top corner of the back cover looks like a production defect. *poster is intact