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Whoa

Bought another three long boxes. That makes around 12 in last couple months. Also, bought a few thousand Magic Cards from a lot of the early sets.

Quite interested in those MTG cards. Early sets, how early?

Now that is a gorgeous looking X-Men 1. Dude, if I had the couple grand that that is gonna run someone when you sell it, I'd be all over it. Because that looks to be in seriously high grade. Amazing pick-up.

This once again reminds me that I seriously need to set aside bigger chunks of cash & start buying collections outright.

Congrats! Looks beautiful!

For the last few years I've had ads up that I buy collections. In that time I've talked to 100s of people and have only bought one collection, which had a full run of JLA v1 and some other goodies. I bought my second collection tonight. This guy contacted me a year ago about his father's books he inherited and has stored for like 20+ years. He could never give me good pics but from what I did see it looked to be low grade (GD/VG) copies of ASM from 8 through 130ish, including 129, Fantastic Four 20-30, and Detective Comics 270-300. He said he had around 700 books total, but I never received photos of them.

 

His initial asking price? Well since he looked them up on ebay and values them at 26k, he would cut me a deal at 13K. I explained to him that that would never happen, and over the course of a year and many phone calls, we finally came to an agreement tonight on a much more reasonable price. Literally a year of haggling.

 

We meet up in a parking lot and all of the books are smashed togethe rin ziploc bags or wrapped in saran wrap. Guy was pretty creative making bags, no boards of any sort of course. Everything is there though and I think I can make a pretty good profit so we do the deal.

 

Just got home and nearly fell out of my chair when I uncovered this.

 

 

There's some other great books I uncovered but this one takes the cake. Unfortunately no ASM1, FF1, etc.

 

Persistence pays off!

Fantastic find! Congrats!

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Nice score! Congrats!

There's some other great books I uncovered but this one takes the cake. Unfortunately no ASM1, FF1, etc.

Dude... Be gracious and grateful.

Suddenly the seller's 13K asking price seems entirely reasonable.

If I found a gem like that, I would have trouble parting with it.

For the last few years I've had ads up that I buy collections. In that time I've talked to 100s of people and have only bought one collection, which had a full run of JLA v1 and some other goodies. I bought my second collection tonight. This guy contacted me a year ago about his father's books he inherited and has stored for like 20+ years. He could never give me good pics but from what I did see it looked to be low grade (GD/VG) copies of ASM from 8 through 130ish, including 129, Fantastic Four 20-30, and Detective Comics 270-300. He said he had around 700 books total, but I never received photos of them.

 

His initial asking price? Well since he looked them up on ebay and values them at 26k, he would cut me a deal at 13K. I explained to him that that would never happen, and over the course of a year and many phone calls, we finally came to an agreement tonight on a much more reasonable price. Literally a year of haggling.

 

We meet up in a parking lot and all of the books are smashed togethe rin ziploc bags or wrapped in saran wrap. Guy was pretty creative making bags, no boards of any sort of course. Everything is there though and I think I can make a pretty good profit so we do the deal.

 

Just got home and nearly fell out of my chair when I uncovered this.

 

 

There's some other great books I uncovered but this one takes the cake. Unfortunately no ASM1, FF1, etc.

 

Persistence pays off!

Best of luck sounds like a great score

No random UX1, but a few fun finds at the local library sale.

No random UX1, but a few fun finds at the local library sale.

 

Izzat the recalled version on the Mad Millennium edition?

No random UX1, but a few fun finds at the local library sale.

 

 

Izzat the recalled version on the Mad Millennium edition?

I never knew that it was ever recalled, now I need to check my copy...

Thanks for the info.

No random UX1, but a few fun finds at the local library sale.

 

 

Izzat the recalled version on the Mad Millennium edition?

 

I never knew that it was ever recalled, now I need to check my copy...

 

Thanks for the info.

Unfortunately, it's the non-recalled version. It has the reference to Mad creators on the inside covers.

Was at an estate auction today and there was a batch of caricatures of Hollywood stars from 1981-83. Burt Reynolds, Loni Anderson, Danny Devito, and a few others. Googled the artist and he was the cartoonist that did Opus. For a buck a pop, I took them home.

Berke Breathed ?

For the last few years I've had ads up that I buy collections. In that time I've talked to 100s of people and have only bought one collection, which had a full run of JLA v1 and some other goodies. I bought my second collection tonight. This guy contacted me a year ago about his father's books he inherited and has stored for like 20+ years. He could never give me good pics but from what I did see it looked to be low grade (GD/VG) copies of ASM from 8 through 130ish, including 129, Fantastic Four 20-30, and Detective Comics 270-300. He said he had around 700 books total, but I never received photos of them.

 

His initial asking price? Well since he looked them up on ebay and values them at 26k, he would cut me a deal at 13K. I explained to him that that would never happen, and over the course of a year and many phone calls, we finally came to an agreement tonight on a much more reasonable price. Literally a year of haggling.

 

We meet up in a parking lot and all of the books are smashed togethe rin ziploc bags or wrapped in saran wrap. Guy was pretty creative making bags, no boards of any sort of course. Everything is there though and I think I can make a pretty good profit so we do the deal.

 

Just got home and nearly fell out of my chair when I uncovered this.

 

 

There's some other great books I uncovered but this one takes the cake. Unfortunately no ASM1, FF1, etc.

 

Persistence pays off!

Hell of a find congrats. The only collection I bought this year had a hidden gem in it as well, always nice when that happens.

No random UX1, but a few fun finds at the local library sale.

 

 

Izzat the recalled version on the Mad Millennium edition?

 

I never knew that it was ever recalled, now I need to check my copy...

 

Thanks for the info.

Thanks for the reminder. I have 2 copies and checked both. One regular version and one recalled version.

This has been way more work than I expected for such a small collection. The collection was probably close to 1000 books. I took out all of the ones I want to sell myself and placed the rest in a box that I am selling tomorrow for a bulk rate. There's around 350 that I kept judging by the number of packs of bags and boards I used. This was a very long process because books were either unbagged, in a ziploc, or (for the majority) placed in these weird produce bags and taped up. The bags and tape were so old that it was hard to open, especially with this many books, so I ended up carefully ripping them open from the middle. Thankfully this went off without a hitch.

Here's the other books from that collection. Placed it in spoiler tags because the photos are large. The post-its are for my notes for condition issues.

ASM 8 through 130, not many missing between 20 and 60 but theres a lot of gaps between 60 and 90, then hardly any from 90 to 130, lots of duplicates

Superman 199 through 234, barely any missing

Detective 270ish through 300ish

Neal Adams Detectives (my favorites, especially the 408)

Submariner 1-66, none missing

Congrats. I usually have a pair of scissors and cut the old bag/wrapper off and slide the book out.