Dergrosse13

I’ll take ASM 78 at 20% off, Machine Man 1 and FF185 if they’re all still available

Good suggestion. I’d also consider a My Comic Shop auction.

Here’s a good example of why I wouldn’t slab non-keys in the original Marvel Star Wars run unless you are confident they are in pristine condition: https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?ItemID=58331093 In an MCS auction ending in a few hours, there’s an 8.5 issue 29 with white pages and a pretty nice, clean looking slab. The current bid is $27. It might go up a bit more before the end, but not much. Whoever paid to have that slabbed and sent to MCS for auction probably is going to end up losing money on the process.

Haven’t there been some crazy weather issues down there in the last week or two? Maybe that’s it.

Again, only for the keys if you’re going to get those ones slabbed. The non-keys aren’t worth the cost of slabbing in my opinion, even though I love them.

If by “Should I have them graded before selling or only grade the key issues,” you mean, should I have them graded and slabbed by CGC, then I would definitely only do the key issues. Pre-pandemic I collected this entire run of Star Wars comics, mostly by buying individual raw copies off of eBay and graded copies of the key issues. For the graded key issues, I bought 9.6s or 9.8s. I did it just for fun since I had collected these as a kid. Back in 2019, it wasn’t particularly expensive to get the whole run raw in mid-grade to upper-mid condition and I think that is still true today. 9.6 and 9.8 versions of the keys have increased substantially in value along with everything else since then, and your 8.0 issue 1 is a lot more valuable today than it would have been in 2019. I also bought some graded and slabbed copies of non-key issues, but only 9.8s. Even 9.6s of the non-key issues aren’t worth that much. And based on the condition of your copies as you’ve described them, they’d likely grade out below 9.6–maybe significantly so. If that’s the case, you’re probably going to spend more on having them graded and slabbed than you’d be likely to sell them for. You got an 8.0 on issue 1 — that’s likely to be your most valuable book, followed by the 8.0 issue 42. The 9.2 issue 4 isn’t going to be very valuable because it looks like a Whitman reprint. You might consider pressing and slabbing the 2-6 newsstand versions (not the Whitman’s with no UPC label), the Empire Strikes Back books (issues 39-44) if they look like they are in decent shape, and maybe #68. Before deciding what to do, you might post those issues in the Buddy Can You Spare a Grade forum to get a sense of How they would grade out. If I were you, and I didn’t want to spend too much time on this, I might send the whole lot to My Comic Shop and have them include them in one of their weekly auctions as a group, or as multiple groups. I think they’d advise you on the best approach to the auction.

OK, not below 50. There are 51 Universal and 1 Signature Series

Take!

The last couple weeks the Heritage Sunday/Monday Auction has included lots of CGC and CBCS slabs with a “Forbidden Collection” symbol in the slab label. Many mid- and lower-grade slabs. What’s the Forbidden Collection?

Oh I know. And that sequence was pretty spectacular on that front. The makeup compact laser. The cocoon gun. Awesome.

There are so many hilarious things about that Batgirl clip that its hard to know where to begin. But let’s start with Yvonne Craig delivering the line “isn’t that your youthful ward” with a straight face, and Bruce Wayne introducing the explorer dude as “my millionaire friend.”

Thanks all - I appreciate the advice!

I just received it. I’ve gone back and looked at the photos of it from the CLink auction and the fold is not apparent. Is this something that is returnable? I got it for what I regarded as a good price ($326) but now am worried this will impact its value.

I recently picked up a Bronze Age CGC 9.8 Star Wars book at auction. When i got it, I noticed the bottoms right corner is folded over slightly as seen in the attached picture. Is that a flaw that a boook can have and still get a 9.8 grade? Or is this something that likely happened after it had been slabbed?

If this is the case, does it counsel in favor of pursuing golden/early silver age books now, since presumably (maybe I’m wrong) there can’t be nearly as big of a glut of newly-slabbed books of that vintage about to hit the market, as compared to late silver, bronze, copper, modern, etc.?