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alexanderjk reacted to a post in a topic: When the BACK Cover is BETTER than the FRONT Cover
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alexanderjk reacted to a post in a topic: CGC Files Lawsuit Against Employees
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Incredible. 🏆
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alexanderjk reacted to a post in a topic: Daredevil Collecting Thread
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alexanderjk reacted to a post in a topic: Whats the worst price-quality ratio of your collection in term of story?
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Matt1982 reacted to a post in a topic: Daredevil Collecting Thread
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Amazing. I have an unsigned 9.8 of the homage. One (well, two) of my all-time favorite covers.
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Congrats on the impressive run! I’m two away from a mid- to high-grade raw newsstand 1-258 collection, and have a 1-55 volume 2 run. Adjacent: virgin covers and quirky editions of modern issues (like the hip-hop variant) that catch my eye. Might be helpful in your search: There’s a site, whose name escapes me at the moment, that posts every DD appearance in chrono order. I believe it’s mentioned in the book All the Marvels.
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Miketimus_Prime reacted to a post in a topic: Cleaning and pressing? Have CGC do it or someone else?
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universal soldier reacted to a post in a topic: It's done, so now what? ASM run completed.
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It's done, so now what? ASM run completed.
alexanderjk replied to universal soldier's topic in Comics General
Or at least all the non-ASM runs. -
SkOw reacted to a post in a topic: Collector (or Speculator) Fatigue
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Browns81 reacted to a post in a topic: Collector (or Speculator) Fatigue
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My son gave up collecting in his late teens because of the cost of single issues. And he would have given up sooner had it not been for Spawn’s $2 releases. Just too many other things — especially digitally and movies — competing for kids’ money. (How can comics even compete with movies for kids’ attention and money?) I teach high school and probably have just one kid out of 150+ each year who buys physical comics (or reads them at all). Seems the industry is staying afloat on nostalgia alone — 50-year old fathers like me who are way more interested in collecting comics than our kids, and their kids, are.
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jdandns reacted to a post in a topic: What's the longest series run you collected?
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mec3437 reacted to a post in a topic: What's the longest series run you collected?
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Daredevil #8-257, and “just” missing 1 and 7 to complete the run. Next longest run: DD Vol. 2, 1-55.
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Will never use CCS again
alexanderjk replied to Acolyte33's topic in Comic Book Grading and Restoration Issues
Update! Cracked the slab, sent the book to another presser, submitted again to CGC, and got a grade bump from 8.5 to 9.2. (Confirming my suspicions that the book was never pressed in the first place.) -
1. Hopefully finally get my DD 131 back from CGC. 2. Read a trade a month (read eight in ‘22). 3. Sell off more of my ever-shrinking collection. 4. 5.0 (or higher) DD 7. 5. Make a pilgrimage with my son to A1 Comics in Sacramento.
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When my son was experiencing an especially rough time this year, so I drew this for him. Our favorite character is DD, and it’s an obvious homage to Miller’s Dark Knight cover (and an homage to my sons’ favorite Spawn cover).
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You have $500-750 to buy 1 book right now. What is it and why?
alexanderjk replied to burnsbabe's topic in Comics General
Only two holes in my DD 1-300 collection — 1 and 7 — so I’d probably nab a 7 in the 5.5 to 6.5 range. Or a high-grade raw. -
Possibly! But also the stories just aren’t that good and the rogues gallery is mostly forgettable — Bullseye doesn’t even appear until 131, and Elektra, 158. It’s also telling that the most valuable early keys feature characters introduced elsewhere, like Electro, Namor, and Spidey. A value, for sure, but I don’t think it’s UNDER-valued.
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Compared to the other first issues in ‘63-‘64, for sure a bargain. But the character doesn’t really get interesting until well into the hundreds, versus iconic early-issue runs in Spider-Man, FF, X-Men, Avengers, etc. So it makes sense the first issue would be a fraction of the value of the others. (And I’m saying that as someone who ONLY collects DD.)
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Will never use CCS again
alexanderjk replied to Acolyte33's topic in Comic Book Grading and Restoration Issues
Happened to me. Neither cleaned nor pressed, and returned with a bend and corner crunch that weren’t there when I shipped. Never again. -
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alexanderjk replied to Ryan.'s topic in Comics General
Imagine telling someone else what they should or should not enjoy. Lol. -
Are prices still climbing or have they eased up a bit???
alexanderjk replied to InfantTerrible's topic in Comics General
Weird statement. Some of us collect newsstand editions out of nostalgia. I bought a bar-coded Power Pack #1 off the rack — along with countless issues of X-Men, Daredevil, and the Avengers — so that’s the edition that has the most value to me.