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On 1/25/2024 at 12:59 PM, Matt1982 said:

Really excited to add this beauty to my pc!

 

Incredible. 🏆

On 10/9/2023 at 8:16 PM, Matt1982 said:

One of my favorite covers, and my favorite homage to that cover.

 

Amazing.

I have an unsigned 9.8 of the homage. One (well, two) of my all-time favorite covers. 

On 7/22/2023 at 8:32 PM, wiparker824 said:

Getting closer on my quest to collect all of DD 1-current, under 50 issues missing, but I have most of the keys. Don’t have quite the high grade in the SA books as some of you but I’m enjoying collecting DD a lot. 

My question for any of you other DD completionist is do you go after all of the DD adjacent series and one shots as well? I did not do that for my X-Men complete run as X-men side titles are infinite but DD seems plausible so I’m considering it. 

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.

On 6/12/2023 at 9:17 PM, StillOnly25Cents said:

sell all your Spider-Man books to pay for it

Or at least all the non-ASM runs.

On 6/20/2023 at 5:26 AM, Browns81 said:

I don’t know how anyone can stomach modern pricing.  $5 a book is robbery, even for an A-list title like Batman.  You’re getting a 10 minute read and nothing truly earth shattering is likely to happen.  Just hard to justify.  That is also who I stopped buying boxes/packs of sports cards.  No big deal back when they were .25, but $3 for a standard pack is just insanity.

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. 

Daredevil #8-257, and “just” missing 1 and 7 to complete the run. 

Next longest run: DD Vol. 2, 1-55. 

On 11/26/2022 at 10:31 AM, THE_BEYONDER said:

Another glowing testimonial 

Yikes

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. 

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. 

On 12/3/2022 at 4:30 PM, The humble Watcher lurking said:

Good points..

I wonder also if issue 1 has the yellow costume  and not the iconic costume we all know and love might be a factor?

 

 

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. 

On 12/1/2022 at 1:09 PM, JazzMan said:

It used to be Daredevil #1 for me.  Not any more.

I don't think there's a sleeper out there that hasn't already been hyped.

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.) 

On 11/24/2022 at 1:54 PM, Upgrayedd2 said:

I've seen several YouTube blogs where (1) the comics are not pressed and cleaned or (2) returned slabbed with more damage. I continue to see more posts on CCS. I really hope something changes soon.

Happened to me. Neither cleaned nor pressed, and returned with a bend and corner crunch that weren’t there when I shipped. Never again. 

On 10/23/2022 at 4:21 PM, batmiesta said:

It's sh!te man, don't kid yourself. 

Imagine telling someone else what they should or should not enjoy. Lol. 

On 10/21/2022 at 9:50 PM, Steven Valdez said:

Collecting newsstand 'variants' reminds me of those guys who collect editions of records based on their slightly differing matrix numbers and not the actual music they contain. It's where things start getting creepy.

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. 

On 10/7/2022 at 9:05 PM, Microchip said:

 

Option 2, a big stimulus cheque, and too many meds??

 

You do realize that very rich people also collect comics, right? Paying $9K over a books’ value is nothing for someone making millions a year (or a month). And art and collectibles buying is a common method of washing money. (See: Billion Dollar Whale, which chronicles one billionaire’s massive overpaying for art and property to launder his money. Absolutely happens in the comic collecting world, too.) 

On 10/4/2022 at 12:21 PM, NoMan said:

Can someone explain to me the She-Hulk books with the Nude/pin up covers selling for so much. Or better yet someone just explain She-Hulk prices to me in general. 
 

thanks

The show is getting positive buzz and the character is expected to have a role in the next phase of MCU films. Plus, I think a new audience is discovering Byrne’s great cover art, and the novelty of having GGA in an otherwise staid ‘80s Marvel universe. 

But also: perverts. 

On 9/27/2022 at 8:38 PM, valiantman said:

I'm also a "memory" based collector, which is why I seek newsstands. My hometown had zero comic shops. There were no direct editions. There was not a place to buy bags and boards. The newsstand books I could buy were in the path of the misting nozzles for the produce in the grocery store. Newsstands in high grade were unicorns in my hometown. Buying direct editions with bags and boards in bigger cities seemed like cheating. 

This is exactly why I seek newsstands. Not because they’re more rare, but because most of the comics I held onto over the years are newsstand editions from neighborhood markets and, well, actual newsstands. So I enjoy filling holes in my collection with newsstand editions (for consistency and out of nostalgia). 

On 9/21/2022 at 4:52 AM, billsid said:

So if a book with 4 added holes can get a 9.8,9.9 and 10.0 then realistically all of our LEGIT 9.8's should really be 10's right????

Well, yeah, that’s part of the con. CGC screwed their customers from the get-go by making 9.8 their go-to grade for flawless books. 

On 9/2/2022 at 2:41 AM, kiefsweet said:

Noob question and first post. 

Hi, I've just bought a Variant Set where you get the trade dress and the virgin copy and was wondering which one I should get encapsulated? 

 

The virgin editions look way better slabbed, IMO, and you get the bonus of having the issue’s details — number, artist, writer, etc. — visible at top of slab. Plus, the virgin editions are sometimes rarer, and thus more valuable. (Although for most variant sets, I doubt either edition will ever be worth more than what we’re paying for them.)

On 9/1/2022 at 4:39 PM, D2 said:

I hate newsstands and will always hate newsstands. 
They are ugly and stick out like a sore thumb. 
In a hobby where people collect, primarily for the superficially beautiful it seems, I find it perplexing that people would rather an ugly barcode, simply because they deem it ‘more rare’. 
They are more rare because they are ugly. 
Congratulations. 

Fascinating. I loathe the Marvel diamond price boxes and giant Spider-Man head on the direct editions. The white boxes, bar codes, PLUS the NOSTALGIA of the bar codes are far and away better, and better looking, IMO. 
 

(Caveat: I only collect DD. I can see the appeal of a direct SM for #300.)

On 8/31/2022 at 10:11 PM, LDarkseid1 said:

Picked up a really nice copy of #116, from the collection of Kevin Michael McFadden.

 

Curious as to why you cracked this.

On 8/24/2022 at 12:56 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Books tended to be printed and distributed around three months prior to their cover dates back in the day so this one is spot on. 

Thank you!

Any idea why a date stamp on a cover would predate the publication date? Shenanigans, an error by the shopkeep, or something else?

(Apologies if this was covered earlier in the thread.)