Popular Post ADAMANTIUM Posted May 17, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2020 Some newsstands at cover price... non price variants ...the weapon x's Some newsstands at cover price that ARE price variants the wolverines 1 newsstand price variant that is not cover price the thor MGsimba77, Larryw7, Ira K and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Conacon Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 Liberated this run from a non-bag and board household for $20. Yep, with the 880 tucked in there like it was just one of the boys! This lot will hit ebay tonight. littledoom, djpinkpanther67, nepatkm and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post comicginger1789 Posted May 20, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted May 20, 2020 When a guy gets desperate he hunts hard. Tracked down a couple decent 30 cent variants that made there way to Canada and are now gonna make their way into my collection! PunisherPunisherPunisher, Ken Aldred, Larryw7 and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bigfiver69 Posted May 20, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted May 20, 2020 (edited) Hey everyone, I had an interesting week with my collection. I stopped collecting hard a number of years ago, and indeed have slowly been selling off a lot of my collection. I've held onto the books that I really wanted, but I still have a a few boxes of loose books that came in lot purchases, or got upgraded a long time ago, or that were unsold after selling threads and that never got put away properly. In short, I've been sloppy with a large part of my collection that got scattered around that I just lost interest in. With the whole Covid thing, I'm home with some time on my hands (like many of us, I suppose). So, I took a few days to just get all this stuff that is secondary to my main collection into one big pile and sort through it, something I haven't done in probably 10 or 12 years. Bottom line, I was shocked at some of the stuff I found. And because a lot of it is low to mid grade, I found myself spending a lot of time actually reading these books... which was so great. It's been a very long time since I've just put my feet up, sipped a chilled glass of root beer, and dug in. So... what did I find? Well, first up... a LOT of war books. Between all the boxes and misplaced stack, I found about 125 mid grade war books I had pretty much forgotten I had. A not-too-terrible run of Captain Storm... Buncha lower-grade Silver Age War... Some 1950s DC Westerns... Some 12cent Big Box DCs, and a copy of Sea Devils #1... had totally forgotten about that book. And this book I bought at my LCS (The Escape Hatch in St. John's, Newfoundland) in 1981. Great Joe Kubert art on a seminal Hans von Hammer story in showcase. This books would have been mint when I bought, and I read it down to a FN. Again, thought I had lost this book years ago... None of these books are super valuable, but I'm taking this as a Covid silver lining for sure. My old instinct would be to sell all of these, but these are sticking around... great to have some awesome reading close at hand and not getting weirded out about dropping a grade. Also found a ton of 1980s books like Firestorm, Fantastic Four and Avengers... all store stock books I bought years ago from a shop that was closing, and promptly forgot about. Anyone else digging around in their stacks these days and finding some forgotten surprises? Edited May 20, 2020 by bigfiver69 comicdonna, PunisherPunisherPunisher, stynxno and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin.J Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 26 minutes ago, bigfiver69 said: Anyone else digging around in their stacks these days and finding some forgotten surprises? Yeah, I am bagging and boarding the stuff i have bought in maybe the last year and finding things still on my want list, bought, piled and forgotten and still looking for A few I have bought twice too and thats always been a problem for me as I can never part with the duplicates either bigfiver69, ChrispyC66 and ADAMANTIUM 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfiver69 Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 43 minutes ago, Kevin.J said: Yeah, I am bagging and boarding the stuff i have bought in maybe the last year and finding things still on my want list, bought, piled and forgotten and still looking for A few I have bought twice too and thats always been a problem for me as I can never part with the duplicates either That's part of why I started getting out of comics about 9 years ago. I ordered a box of about a dozen slabbed war books for around $800. Sounds like a lot of money to me now, but that was getting to be a regular purchase back then. I got them in September, and didn't even take them out to put them in my collection until the Christmas break. When I did, I realized I had 10 of the 12 book already, in marginally lesser grade (9.4 instead of 9.6, 9.0 instead of 9.2, etc) and it just hit me like a ton of bricks that it was starting to get a little dumb. Over the following year or so, I sold the majority of my silver and bronze age war books - including solid copies of GI Combat 87, OAAW 81, 82 and 83, plus a lot of uber-violent Atlas war covers. Got great money for all my books at the time, though just 8 years later many are 4-6x what they were worth then. Still have nice copies of most of the 1970-onwards stuff, but I sold a lot of that too. Slowly re-filling those holes, but happy with clean raw 8.0-9.2, instead of chasing down white-paged 9.4 and 9.6 books, which even then were getting impossibly expensive to put together in long runs. ADAMANTIUM and Ken Aldred 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADAMANTIUM Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 (edited) 23 minutes ago, bigfiver69 said: That's part of why I started getting out of comics about 9 years ago. I ordered a box of about a dozen slabbed war books for around $800. Sounds like a lot of money to me now, but that was getting to be a regular purchase back then. I got them in September, and didn't even take them out to put them in my collection until the Christmas break. When I did, I realized I had 10 of the 12 book already, in marginally lesser grade (9.4 instead of 9.6, 9.0 instead of 9.2, etc) and it just hit me like a ton of bricks that it was starting to get a little dumb. Over the following year or so, I sold the majority of my silver and bronze age war books - including solid copies of GI Combat 87, OAAW 81, 82 and 83, plus a lot of uber-violent Atlas war covers. Got great money for all my books at the time, though just 8 years later many are 4-6x what they were worth then. Still have nice copies of most of the 1970-onwards stuff, but I sold a lot of that too. Slowly re-filling those holes, but happy with clean raw 8.0-9.2, instead of chasing down white-paged 9.4 and 9.6 books, which even then were getting impossibly expensive to put together in long runs. Collecting seems to ever evolve! Glad to hear you were satisfied! And minimal regrets if any wish it was under different circumstances, but being thankful for what we got, I'm also glad you've refound your collection Edited May 20, 2020 by ADAMANTIUM ChrispyC66 and bigfiver69 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfiver69 Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 9 hours ago, ADAMANTIUM said: Collecting seems to ever evolve! Glad to hear you were satisfied! And minimal regrets if any wish it was under different circumstances, but being thankful for what we got, I'm also glad you've refound your collection Thanks! I wish it was under different circumstances too, but these days I'm taking all the good I can out of the situation... ChrispyC66, ADAMANTIUM and johnenock 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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comicginger1789 Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 On 5/19/2020 at 9:04 PM, bigfiver69 said: None of these books are super valuable, but I'm taking this as a Covid silver lining for sure. My old instinct would be to sell all of these, but these are sticking around... great to have some awesome reading close at hand and not getting weirded out about dropping a grade. Also found a ton of 1980s books like Firestorm, Fantastic Four and Avengers... all store stock books I bought years ago from a shop that was closing, and promptly forgot about. Anyone else digging around in their stacks these days and finding some forgotten surprises? Definitely! I am going through my collection, rebagging and boarding and reading stuff that I have never had the time to read. Some of the surprises that I did not know I had include several books with Mark Jewellers inserts (I love hidden surprises!) in my ASM run that I had not checked out in years. bigfiver69 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post johnenock Posted May 21, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted May 21, 2020 (edited) 13 hours ago, comicginger1789 said: Definitely! I am going through my collection, rebagging and boarding and reading stuff that I have never had the time to read. Some of the surprises that I did not know I had include several books with Mark Jewellers inserts (I love hidden surprises!) in my ASM run that I had not checked out in years. I just found a few MJI's in my collection while doing the same thing....plus a few double covers I forgot I had. A lot of Idaho whites(as I like to call them) also. Here are yesterdays Idaho WHITES presented Greggy style: Been seeing this around lately and like the cover Found this tucked away in a corner This one had one of those old homemade bags. Still white as the day it was printed Don't collect Spidey but I like the inserts Spec Spec Skull covers...I know, hard not to find them in GR Bondage Buy this issue whenever I see one in nice shape This would be a classic eyeball cover if it was GA Like dollar giants Spec...horrible cover btw If you can't afford a number 1 collect homage covers Always liked the anniversary issues Spec Everyone should have 1 or ten of these Edited May 21, 2020 by johnenock letsgrumble, ADAMANTIUM, djpinkpanther67 and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicginger1789 Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 2 hours ago, johnenock said: Don't collect Spidey but I like the insert Nice, mine also has the insert that I forgot about/knew about but 15 years ago when I bought it, my knowledge on inserts was zippo and it was purchased purely as part of my ASM run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post littledoom Posted May 21, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted May 21, 2020 they're cute next to each other :). djpinkpanther67, Larryw7, nepatkm and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADAMANTIUM Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 8 minutes ago, littledoom said: they're cute next to each other :). wow Congrats! AND that is basically the only 2 I'm missing too haha just hard to put up $400 for a decent copy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
