JazzMan

Seems rather brazen and foolhardy to break in, get graded books with a clear serial number that identifies them and ship them off to a niche auction house where they now have possession of the books and are easily traceable back to the perpetrator. Are you sure, OP, that this was not a case of a non payment of a storage unit that was later sold to a speculator? Just putting it out there...I've sen a few episodes of Storage Wars...

Got to put these bad boys up on the bay...if I recall, I got these from one of the raffles or other events on these boards.

My donation is in! Glad to see that the goal has been surpassed.

from SpideyFein and donate it back to the thread again!

Where's @OldGuy ?

TOS 59 - 6.0 OW $125

Dude, if you're interested, call 867-5309. Ask for Jenny.

Not far from you - when they went from 35 cents to 40 and 50 cents (which used to be the price of the square bounds) I stopped. I scoffed at the comics when they hit 75 cents and $1.00 thinking, who would spend a dollar for a comic book?

Grew up in Brooklyn, and my first off the rack purchase was July/August of 1974 - Astonishing Tales 26. I still can't fathom that I was so close to the the silver age start (just 12/13 years prior) but I had a hard time finding any back issues. That news stand closed within a year or two so I was relegated to new comics from a news stand that was closer to school. It wasn't for another couple of years, probably 1976, that I started to pick up on the hobby but I was pretty much on my own since neither of my parents really "approved" of wasting 25 cents on a comic book. Of course, at this time my father made around $6,000-$8,000 a year and you could buy a car for around $2,000 so a quarter meant something for them.

No.

This is a classic!

For an accurate page count on a particular issue you can refer to comics.org

This is pretty damning on the bullpen's perception of Stan.

Dripko...I lol'd

This is good....Spoiler! https://twitter.com/MarveIFacts/status/1355951939729588225?s=20

Numerical grades. Page quality. Serial numbers. Looks a little too plagiarized and potentially the start of competition?

Not ridiculous, just true.

I look at 9.8 as the max structural grade. Other factors that are related to the manufacturing, like centering, color strike, etc. would allow for a 9.9 or 10.