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Post by Ozymandias on Oct 13, 2022 6:46:41 GMT -5
I was impressed with my last order from Lonestar....I could not understand why they graded books as VF because they looked NM to me, and also to the people I resold them too. I've gotten many comics which were rated VG, FN or VFN, which looked FN, VFN or NM respectively. Both from LS and from MH. My hypothesis is that when they have many copies of a particular issue at a high grade, the place some of them at lower grade/price point, to make it look more varied and give different costumers, with different "pockets" a buying opportunity. Over time, the higher grades might get sold, and they don't go trough their stock to raise the grade of the lower graded copies which are still left in their inventory.
With LS in particular, I find this to be somewhat corroborated, in the fact the the lowest priced comics ($2) can be of a NM, or VG grade, depending on that they have, from one issue to another, in a given series. Example: Next Men. Look at issues 23 & 24. Is there a reason for both to be priced the same at so different grades? None other than this is what they have and they don't charge less than $2 (offers aside). They probably sold the NM, VFN and FN copies for #23 progressively, but have not sold all the NM ones from #24. Notice how any issue price capped at $2 only offers one grade available. As soon as the current grade is sold out, a lower one will magically appear. Of course, all of them will be overgraded, as they probably bought a whole lot of them back in the day, at a high grade, and had to resort to that grading "scheme" in order to make it look "natural". Turns out it wasn't baseless speculation on my part. From the latest newsletter:
Chuck Rozanski
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 14, 2022 4:21:39 GMT -5
Purchased in mid-September actually, but they just arrived in the mail over the past few days...  The Killraven book is an upgrade, as I have the Essentials book, but I've always wanted these stories reprinted in color and finally found a like-new used copy for a little less than $20 total (i.e., w/ postage). The Len Wein book, though, makes me particularly happy. I've been wanting it since I first learned of its existence, and the copy I found - again, used but like new - from an online seller in the UK was sharply discounted, so I paid the equivalent of a little over $13 total for it. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 14, 2022 5:27:09 GMT -5
Very nice books you acquired EdoBosnar. Does the Killraven have the entire series in that volume? |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 14, 2022 6:20:26 GMT -5
Very nice books you acquired EdoBosnar . Does the Killraven have the entire series in that volume? Yep. Amazing Adventures #18-39, plus Marvel Team-up #45 and the 1983 Killraven graphic novel. Basically it has everything that's in the Essential Killraven volume except for the 2001 Killraven one-shot (which I found a bit so-so anyway, so it's no big loss). |
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 14, 2022 6:47:08 GMT -5
Very nice books you acquired EdoBosnar . Does the Killraven have the entire series in that volume? Yep. Amazing Adventures #18-39, plus Marvel Team-up #45 and the 1983 Killraven graphic novel. Basically it has everything that's in the Essential Killraven volume except for the 2001 Killraven one-shot (which I found a bit so-so anyway, so it's no big loss). I remember the first appearance having inks by Crusty Bunkers , the Neal Adams led inking team. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 14, 2022 7:42:34 GMT -5
I remember the first appearance having inks by Crusty Bunkers , the Neal Adams led inking team. The art in that first appearance of Killraven in Amazing Adventures #18 is credited to Neal Adams and Howard Chaykin, with inks by Frank Chiaramonte. Adams did the pencils in the first half of the book, and Chaykin did them - but only rough layouts it seems - in the second half, which creates the impression of one of those 'Crusty Bunkers' or 'Many Hands' fix-up inking jobs. Alan Davis later - in the forward to the hard cover reprint of his 2002 Killraven series - commented on the inconsistency of the art in that issue and how it inspired him to do his own story, because he wanted something that looked, and read, like the first half of AA #18. |
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Post by tartanphantom on Oct 14, 2022 9:13:33 GMT -5
Purchased in mid-September actually, but they just arrived in the mail over the past few days... The Killraven book is an upgrade, as I have the Essentials book, but I've always wanted these stories reprinted in color and finally found a like-new used copy for a little less than $20 total (i.e., w/ postage). The Len Wein book, though, makes me particularly happy. I've been wanting it since I first learned of its existence, and the copy I found - again, used but like new - from an online seller in the UK was sharply discounted, so I paid the equivalent of a little over $13 total for it. The Killraven book looks like something I'm going to have to had to my "list".
Nice set of books.
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Post by tonebone on Oct 14, 2022 10:46:07 GMT -5
Very nice books you acquired EdoBosnar . Does the Killraven have the entire series in that volume? Yep. Amazing Adventures #18-39, plus Marvel Team-up #45 and the 1983 Killraven graphic novel. Basically it has everything that's in the Essential Killraven volume except for the 2001 Killraven one-shot (which I found a bit so-so anyway, so it's no big loss). I'm curious... the Essential version of the Killraven graphic novel has an image edited out... which was of a man's hand on a woman's breast. Is it edited out of this version, as well?  |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 14, 2022 12:16:25 GMT -5
I'm curious... the Essential version of the Killraven graphic novel has an image edited out... which was of a man's hand on a woman's breast. Is it edited out of this version, as well? Nope, it's there. |
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Post by tonebone on Oct 14, 2022 12:54:01 GMT -5
I'm curious... the Essential version of the Killraven graphic novel has an image edited out... which was of a man's hand on a woman's breast. Is it edited out of this version, as well? Nope, it's there. That graphic novel is such a beautiful work of art. I may pick up that Epic Collection now knowing it's intact. |
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Post by tonebone on Oct 14, 2022 13:08:14 GMT -5
I just picked up these at a used book store...   |
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Post by dbutler69 on Oct 15, 2022 10:12:51 GMT -5
Very cool pickups, EdoBosnar. You've especially got me curious about that Len Wein book. I never even know it existed. Speaking of Len Wein, I recently watch an FF documentary, and I found out that I've been mispronouncing his name (as well as Buscema) all their years. It was pronounced "ween", not "wine", in the documentary. |
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Post by shaxper on Oct 15, 2022 21:29:42 GMT -5
Just got this amazing repro of the original cover art for the book that turned me into an X-Men fan and remains one of my favorite stories of all time. Classic Mignola!  Yes, it's a reprint of the cover art of a book that was, itself, a reprint, but I adore it! |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2022 1:20:13 GMT -5
Went to one of the quarterly Jim & Dan Comic and Toy shows this morning before going to the "Funeral for their Youth" i.e. 30th birthday party for one of the players in our D&D group, and spent the afternoon drinking good whiskey while playing Cards Against Humanity and Never Have I Ever... all in all a good day. I came home form the show with a small stack of books (less than 20) but some (what I consider) great books among them. I had brought a small stack of books with me to trade, and about a quarter of what I came home with (including the two most expensive books) came out of the trade credit I got for that stack. First up, finally managed to get one of this series at a price I was willing to pay (especially since it was trade credit)...Fast Willie Jackson #6...  the dealer (Dan of Jim and Dan) told me he has a lower grade copy of #1 (2.5-3.0 he says) in his personal collection he would sell to me at a good price if I was interested, and I might take it up on him, I have until the beginning of November when my hometown show (Champion City) takes place to let him know if I want it along with a couple other books of interest to me he has. A lot depends if we can swing another trade or not. The second "big" book I picked up as part of the trade, was a Marvel Spotlight #8 (3rd Ghost Rider)  that was one of three Ghost Rider books I knocked off the checklist, as I also got a GR #7 and #8 from another dealer I knew as part of a larger bunch of books I got from him, so I got a better than sticker price on all of them...  I picked up two Red Dress covers today, one as part of the trade (Big Town #27) and one as part of that lot of books (Millie #143). Big Town features a very nice Gil Kane cover to boot.   also part of the trade was another Dell Donald Duck issue, Four Color #356  . The rest of that lot I got featured Jet Fighters #5-GCD isn't sure if the cover is Toth or Ross Andru, but there is a Toth drawn story inside, so it's another for my Toth collection.  it was stickered at $5 before the bulk price I got, but I'll take 50s books with Toth art for $5 all day long. Also included was Our Army at War #151 featuring the first Enemy Ace appearance  and Star Spangled War Stories #123 with a Russ Heath cover and Gene Colan interiors...  that wraps up the lot. I got a few more books I will put in a separate post. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2022 1:27:21 GMT -5
More from the Jim and Dan show this morning... I knocked one off my Groo list, snagging the Eclipse Special form a dealer I knew from a collection he had just gotten in yesterday and hadn't finished pricing yet...  I only knocked off one book form my attemt to recreate my childhood collecton, but it was a big one, the first issue of Spider-Man I ever got and possibly the first Marvel, ASM #146 with Scorpy looming over Aunt May is a hospital bed...  I got one other weird indy book from that dealer, something I hadn't seen before, but it featured skeleton pirates on the cover, so how can it not be interesting...?  I didn't have a lot of time to do dollar bin diving, but I did find a few dollar bin books of interest... A couple of Kubert war books...  this Bullock centered issue of Tec..  an issue of Adventurers to knock off form my D&D related comic want list...  and an issue of the Busiek/Perez run of Avengers featuring the Wrecking Crew  and that's it. Next show up is Champion City, the first weekend of November. -M |
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