TMNT #1 Club 19 19

[Kalel38]

2 hours ago, ghn999 said:

I too bought a 2nd print 2 weeks ago for 1675 for an cgc 8.5. It really high at 2200. But if turtle power doesn't go down. You might miss the train!!!

Good grab....

[Icculus308win]

I’d love to hear what telerites paid for his #1, #2, #3, #4 back in the day. I wanna say I he bought them all together? (They all graded out 9.8s btw and his #1 was the first and only for many, many moons in the census) 

[Icculus308win]

1 hour ago, Icculus308win said:

I’d love to hear what telerites paid for his #1, #2, #3, #4 back in the day. I wanna say I he bought them all together? (They all graded out 9.8s btw and his #1 was the first and only for many, many moons in the census) 

Fun quoting yourself, to show oneself (and the public) that myself was wrong 

“Although, I have never been a huge TMNT fan, I bought the firs four issues off the stands at the advice of a LCS worker. I was in college at the time and went ahead and picked them up. Never read any of them but stuck them in mylar and there they sat until I subbed them for slabbing.”

Pretty fricken cool provenance Jeff has for his #1 and company! 🏆   
All actually grading out 9.8s 
 

Edited August 19, 2020 by Icculus308win

[PeterPark]

TMNT 1 2nd print >>>>>> TMNT 1 3rd print

[telerites]

7 hours ago, Icculus308win said:

Fun quoting yourself, to show oneself (and the public) that myself was wrong 

“Although, I have never been a huge TMNT fan, I bought the firs four issues off the stands at the advice of a LCS worker. I was in college at the time and went ahead and picked them up. Never read any of them but stuck them in mylar and there they sat until I subbed them for slabbing.”

Pretty fricken cool provenance Jeff has for his #1 and company! 🏆   
All actually grading out 9.8s 
 

Eric.

Not anywhere close to yours but I like my copies of Jonny Quest 1 and Scooby 1 better.  I have a couple copies of JQ and three of Scoob - if I remember, you are a JQ fan too and maybe Scoob too.

Hope you and the family are well. 

[lou_fine]

4 hours ago, telerites said:

12 hours ago, Icculus308win said:

Fun quoting yourself, to show oneself (and the public) that myself was wrong 

“Although, I have never been a huge TMNT fan, I bought the firs four issues off the stands at the advice of a LCS worker. I was in college at the time and went ahead and picked them up. Never read any of them but stuck them in mylar and there they sat until I subbed them for slabbing.”

Pretty fricken cool provenance Jeff has for his #1 and company! 🏆   
All actually grading out 9.8s 
 

Eric.

Not anywhere close to yours but I like my copies of Jonny Quest 1 and Scooby 1 better.  I have a couple copies of JQ and three of Scoob - if I remember, you are a JQ fan too and maybe Scoob too.

Hope you and the family are well. 

Hey Jeff;  

That's fantastic pickup on your first 4 issues of TMNT and even more so since they all came back in CGC 9.8 grade. 

Was you able to pick them up for cover price at the time?  Just wondering since one of the LCS owners I knew here at the time said that he could order a copy for me directly from Mirage for $300 if I wanted a copy since he had just received one for another customer that had ordered a copy.  He showed me the copy which he just got in and being a mainstream kind of collector when it comes to comic book artwork, I thought who in their right mind would pay even cover price for this piece of doggie poo, let alone the $300 bucks he was trying to scam from me.  Needless to say, I handed it back to him as fast as I could before any of the stench from the book got onto me.  

I did ended up ordering the signed and numbered limited edition of the Batman Dark Knight for $40 though since I was really into the Miller stories at the time in terms of Daredevil and Bats.  Definitely ended up doubling down on my mistakes for that day as the Dark Knight book is pretty much worthless in today's marketplace while the TMNT 1 probably turned out to be another one of my bigger non-buying mistakes, but probably one that I would definitely have ended up repeating again if I didn't know what everybody knows now.  

Edited August 19, 2020 by lou_fine

[telerites]

Just now, lou_fine said:

Hey Jeff;

That's fantastic pickup on your first 4 issues of TMNT and even more so since they all came back in CGC 9.8 grade. 

Was you able to pick them up for cover price at the time?  Just wondering since one of the LCS owners I knew here at the time said that he could order a copy for me directly from Mirage for $300 if I wanted a copy since he had just received one for another customer that had ordered a copy.  He showed me the copy which he just got in and being a mainstream kind of collector when it comes to comic book artwork, I thought who in their right mind would pay even cover price for this piece of doggie poo, let alone the $300 bucks he was trying to scam from me.  Needless to say, I handed it back to him as fast as I could before any of the stench from the book got onto me.  

I did ended up ordering the signed and numbered limited edition of the Batman Dark Knight for $40 though since I was really into the Miller stories at the time in terms of Daredevil and Bats.  Definitely ended up doubling down on my mistakes for that day as the Dark Knight book is pretty much worthless in today's marketplace while the TMNT 1 probably turned out to be another one of my bigger non-buying mistakes, but probably one that I would definitely have ended up repeating again if I didn't know what everybody knows now.  

Yes.  I bought them off the stands - never read them because I had no interest.  I have related the story before that the LCS worker suggested I should buy them and I felt bad if I didn't since we had a good relationship.  His name was Barry - he wasn't the owner but a little younger than me.  I would have been a sophomore or junior in college.  When I graduated, I stopped buying comics totally and haven't bought a new book since.  I got back into buying around 2000.  Finished my Marvel keys and have been 99% GA ever since.

 Mine was the first 9.8 #1.  So I paid cover price or maybe less because he would give me a discount often.

[Icculus308win]

5 hours ago, telerites said:

Eric.

Not anywhere close to yours but I like my copies of Jonny Quest 1 and Scooby 1 better.  I have a couple copies of JQ and three of Scoob - if I remember, you are a JQ fan too and maybe Scoob too.

Hope you and the family are well. 

My man🤘
Hope you and your brood are well out in your neck of the woods. Always enjoy going through your sets and seeing what has been tickling your fancy collecting.

As for JQ and Scoob - you are indeed correct. Love em both! I’ve been trying to acquire a HG Scoob for a long time now, still on the hunt. But have a two pretty nice readers and one beater copy gave to my kids. As for my JQ.....🤗

 

 

[telerites]

32 minutes ago, Icculus308win said:

My man🤘
Hope you and your brood are well out in your neck of the woods. Always enjoy going through your sets and seeing what has been tickling your fancy collecting.

As for JQ and Scoob - you are indeed correct. Love em both! I’ve been trying to acquire a HG Scoob for a long time now, still on the hunt. But have a two pretty nice readers and one beater copy gave to my kids. As for my JQ.....🤗

 

 

Amazing 

I always thought they should do a live action JQ movie.  If done as well as the original cartoon, I think it would be great.  Just no rework like Land of the Lost - the original was great.

And don't think I have forgotten about your DD affliction 

[Icculus308win]

Coming from you......thank-you    
They was talk years ago on and off. For a year I thought close and the Rock was talked of to play Race and I think it was Zac Effron as JQ. Without being bias, I really do think it has the makings for a great fun movie, like a young Indiana Jones kinda thing. 
DD......

Take care Jeff👍 (I still think your #1 could be a 9.9 )

[Charleybrown]

3 hours ago, Icculus308win said:

Coming from you......thank-you    
They was talk years ago on and off. For a year I thought close and the Rock was talked of to play Race and I think it was Zac Effron as JQ. Without being bias, I really do think it has the makings for a great fun movie, like a young Indiana Jones kinda thing. 
DD......

Take care Jeff👍 (I still think your #1 could be a 9.9 )

Hey Boomers Wake me up when you guys stop talking about Johnny Quest!!

[WolverineX]

1 hour ago, Charleybrown said:

Hey Boomers Wake me up when you guys stop talking about Johnny Quest!!

lol, are you Gen Z ?

[Charleybrown]

8 minutes ago, Wolverinex said:

lol, are you Gen Z ?

No im old man in my late 30's but thought it was appropriate 

[lou_fine]

12 hours ago, Icculus308win said:

Take care Jeff👍 (I still think your #1 could be a 9.9 )

Well, if this actually happens, just watch some of these Gen Y and Gen Z boardies here wet their little diapers like there's no tomorrow.  

[Icculus308win]

“Jonny” Quest 

Now back to your regular viewing pleasure of TMNT

[LDarkseid1]

4.0 2nd print 😮, but then again that low grade raw copy like 2.0ish just sold for more than this. So I guess no surprise this may get close to $1K.

Edited August 20, 2020 by LDarkseid1

[Icculus308win]

My Wife has been a rockstar upon this first day of School (cough - eLearning) for my two boys. She had everything dialed for them ready for today and all is going surprisingly very well - still.🤞  
So in honor of fricken eLearning for a year and hoping kids don’t come out of this as mutants. I decided to take the first group photos of some actual 9.8 teenage mutants. Six of them of them to be precise........ 

 

 

 

 

 

[jaybuck43]

2 minutes ago, Icculus308win said:

My Wife has been a rockstar upon this first day of School (cough - eLearning) for my two boys. She had everything dialed for them ready for today and all is going surprisingly very well - still.🤞  
So in honor of fricken eLearning for a year and hoping kids don’t come out of this as mutants. I decided to take the first group photos of some actual 9.8 teenage mutants. Six of them of them to be precise........ 

 

 

 

 

 

[comicdonna]

6 minutes ago, Icculus308win said:

My Wife has been a rockstar upon this first day of School (cough - eLearning) for my two boys. She had everything dialed for them ready for today and all is going surprisingly very well - still.🤞  
So in honor of fricken eLearning for a year and hoping kids don’t come out of this as mutants. I decided to take the first group photos of some actual 9.8 teenage mutants. Six of them of them to be precise........ 

 

 

 

 

 

That is amazing!  

[Icculus308win]