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Post by Ozymandias on May 14, 2020 7:15:17 GMT -5
Not posting pics of everything, but here are a few highlights: Why not? I'd say that's the main attraction around these parts (i.e. thread).
I've actually never crossed the $100 threshold, even when I was buying a ton of Silver keys. The most I ever paid was $90 for a VF+ copy of Avengers #2 in 1987.[...] I have a strict and limited budget when I go to shows or shops, or when I participate in a Lonestar auction (I don't do ebay anymore for a lot of different reasons including disliking Paypal and their policies). So if I blow the entire budget on a single high priced item, it means I do not have resources to get anything else at that show, in that auction or on that visit to the shop I would've been happy to be able to do that, but not living in a country were comic shops (carrying imported comics) abound, I've never had that option. The closest I ever had was London, where I bought hundreds.
The only time a budget's made sense for me, was when I made a trip to London. The last time I went I regretted even having one, I ran out of money in the last day of my visit, while looking around in the London Comic Mart, and saw a very good copy of Hulk #340 going for just £10. I couldn't buy it then and ended paying about four times as much recently.
Captain America #100 - $160 Captain America #110 - $110 (it's VF+ and likely the nicest Silver Age book in my entire collection) Captain America #117 - $140 (bought this a little late after it started to really spike) Ghost Rider #1 - $100 X-Men #10 - $125 (oldest book in my collection, paid fair price at time but it has gone down since) X-Men #94 - $195 (most I've ever paid for a book) The only ones I can say for certain I paid a triple digit figure, are:
- Bloodstar (The Morning Star Press) at $225: a VF copy of an item that's almost impossible to find in a better grade.
- Savage Sword of Conan #1 at £150: bought at the Book & Comic Exchange in London. I always thought (and still think) that it was overpriced, for a copy I'd grade around VF-, but I had credit and they didn't have anything else that could interest me.
- Daredevil #168 at 145€: bought as VF/NM, but I'd say it's closer to VF than anything else.
- Miracleman - The Red King Sindrome at $100: this one didn't have a grade description and was my first ever eBay purchase.
I have other comics I have spent close to $100, but I'm not sure how much exactly (Byrne's X-Men, Miller's DD, early Hobgoblin appearances...). The worst kind of dealer though, is the guy who doesn't have anything priced and when you ask him about a book wants to pull out his Overstreet and spend 20 minutes looking up the price. No it's not, the worst kind is the one that when you hand him multiple copies of the same issue, takes out the price sticker and jacks up the price. |
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Post by Ozymandias on May 14, 2020 7:17:58 GMT -5
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Post by Ozymandias on May 14, 2020 7:18:32 GMT -5
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Post by tartanphantom on May 14, 2020 8:45:53 GMT -5
Very nice haul, Ozymandias . It seems that we share at least a couple of common favorites-- the Miller/Janson era on Daredevil (actually, I like just about all of Daredevil) and the original Hobgoblin saga in Spider-Man. For me, that Roger Stern plot run from #238 up to #252 was one of the most intriguing stories of the time. Way better than the Clone Saga in my opinion, which just got complicated and convoluted and simply lost its way. |
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Post by Ozymandias on May 14, 2020 9:50:22 GMT -5
The 90's were a real drought for me, I didn't buy most anything, and nothing from Spidey (616) in particular. I haven't even bothered reading the Clone Saga or the majority of Spider-Man's comics from that period. By contrast, Stern's run is what got me back to comics (not that I went very far away, or for long).
DD was one of the worst titles Marvel had still running, then came Miller and it became a magnet for talent. I have more DD comics in my collection than any other character, by far.
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Post by Ozymandias on May 14, 2020 17:12:30 GMT -5
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Post by Ozymandias on May 14, 2020 17:13:14 GMT -5
Finally, also yesterday, my Overstreet Grading Guide. A low grade, very cheap copy that'll work just the same as a new, much more expensive edition. It was ordered April 2, and is the first USPS frozen package to break trough (I think Standard International Shipping equals in this case to First Class International).  |
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2020 17:16:13 GMT -5
That run of Avengers by Shooter from 160-177 that you got a bunch of is what made me a comic book fan. I was getting those as best I could off the spinner racks (and in polybagged 3 packs) as they came out.
-M
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Post by Icctrombone on May 14, 2020 18:01:47 GMT -5
I have many VG and Fine books. I just wasn't willing to pay that for a silver age Thor book. 100 versus 600.
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Post by dbutler69 on May 14, 2020 18:41:13 GMT -5
That run of Avengers by Shooter from 160-177 that you got a bunch of is what made me a comic book fan. I was getting those as best I could off the spinner racks (and in polybagged 3 packs) as they came out. -M Yeah, those were some of my earliest comics #161 was the first Avengers comic I ever bought. |
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Post by brutalis on May 14, 2020 19:47:43 GMT -5
Quite a haul of good stuff you have been acquiring there Oz! Lots of those I was getting fresh off the rack and loving it all. Those are all the kind of comics an addiction is made of!
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Post by Ozymandias on May 15, 2020 1:45:05 GMT -5
I still have about a hundred more in the mail. Getting quite late to arrive  That run of Avengers by Shooter from 160-177 that you got a bunch of is what made me a comic book fan. I was getting those as best I could off the spinner racks (and in polybagged 3 packs) as they came out. -M I only need #172 to complete the run, it should be in the mail, but I actually don't even have confirmation it was on stock, after more than a week since I made payment. Do you mean you fit three comics in each bag? I can only fit two in the cheapest mylars. I have many VG and Fine books. I just wasn't willing to pay that for a silver age Thor book. 100 versus 600. 600? Do they sell? Sounds crazy, but again, if it's movie related, even remotely... That run of Avengers by Shooter from 160-177 that you got a bunch of is what made me a comic book fan. I was getting those as best I could off the spinner racks (and in polybagged 3 packs) as they came out. -M Yeah, those were some of my earliest comics #161 was the first Avengers comic I ever bought. You started at the right time to pick on Pérez. Marcos was his best fit until Tanghal inks settled, around 82' or 83'. |
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2020 2:09:38 GMT -5
Do you mean you fit three comics in each bag? I can only fit two in the cheapest mylars. No, I didn't out them in bags. Comics were sold in polybagged three-packs at retail outlets (we usually got them at our local grocery store. They looked like these...  the ones we got had 3 different comics form 3 different series. You could only see the two on the outside, not the middle issue (though there ways to cheat and peak) and had a slightly different trade dress, i.e. the Diamond box for issue and price...  rather than the traditional US trade dress form newsstands...  DC did these too (they are what are called the Whitman variants as they had the Whitman logo on them rather than the traditional trade dress), as did Gold Key (who was the same company as Whitman-Western Publishing). You usually got issues that were 4-5 months old in the polybaggged three-packs-so I had Avengers 162 off the spinner racks, but got 161 in a polybag months later. I occasionally was able to get a polybag pack when my folks went Christmas shopping, but more often they were birthday gifts or Christmas stocking stuffers. Charlton did a set too in '77 and '78 using the Modern Comics trade dress, which was how I discovered Charlton comics, but thos ehad reprints of an older vintage as well as more recent fare. Marvel did some themed 2 packs as well, where you got 3 issues of the same series-Star Wars and Micronauts for sure in the 70s, and I think G.I. Joe in the 80s. shaxper posted recently about getting one of the Batman polybagged sets DC did in the late 80s recently as well, so it was a practice that lasted for quite some time in the industry. -M |
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Post by tartanphantom on May 15, 2020 8:45:35 GMT -5
Do you mean you fit three comics in each bag? I can only fit two in the cheapest mylars. No, I didn't out them in bags. Comics were sold in polybagged three-packs at retail outlets (we usually got them at our local grocery store. They looked like these... the ones we got had 3 different comics form 3 different series. You could only see the two on the outside, not the middle issue (though there ways to cheat and peak) and had a slightly different trade dress, i.e. the Diamond box for issue and price... rather than the traditional US trade dress form newsstands... DC did these too (they are what are called the Whitman variants as they had the Whitman logo on them rather than the traditional trade dress), as did Gold Key (who was the same company as Whitman-Western Publishing). You usually got issues that were 4-5 months old in the polybaggged three-packs-so I had Avengers 162 off the spinner racks, but got 161 in a polybag months later. I occasionally was able to get a polybag pack when my folks went Christmas shopping, but more often they were birthday gifts or Christmas stocking stuffers. Charlton did a set too in '77 and '78 using the Modern Comics trade dress, which was how I discovered Charlton comics, but thos ehad reprints of an older vintage as well as more recent fare. Marvel did some themed 2 packs as well, where you got 3 issues of the same series-Star Wars and Micronauts for sure in the 70s, and I think G.I. Joe in the 80s. shaxper posted recently about getting one of the Batman polybagged sets DC did in the late 80s recently as well, so it was a practice that lasted for quite some time in the industry. -M I still have a couple of the unopened Marvel 3-packs from the mid-late 1970's. Unfortunately, I have only the Smurfs pack and the Shogun Warriors pack in unopened condition, neither of which are considered very collectable. Each one of those contains the first three issues of their respective series.
However, I opened my Star Wars and Micronauts 3-packs right after I purchased them. I still have all of them and kept them in respectable condition. I bought them all when I was around 13-14 yrs. old.
It was a good time to be a kid.
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Post by junkmonkey on May 15, 2020 9:13:18 GMT -5
My latest purchase - filling in a hole in the collection before my mum catches up with me. I'm lending them to her in sequence and she's gaining on me fast...  |
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