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Half Priced books my ass Sue them for false advertising lol

Cool concept for getting your Hulk 181! Glad to have found your channel! I like the idea of TMNT first series, high grade collection (all 1st editions right)? Love the Scottie Y. books as well. Not sure what a _"what not show"_ is; but then again, I am old, and still have a flip phone LOL! *New subscriber **#419** here!* Look forward to watching more of your future videos brother! SKOL! ⚔

I wanted to be there but my work schedule has me working every other weekend. So of course comic con was my working week. Also comicpalooza is going to be on a weekend I'm working. I've got no luck. Lol

Loved the Con footage and you got some great deals! I also love that ASM 238 cover! My copy is a newsstand in pretty good condition(9.0-9.2? Maybe 8.5 because the pages are a little dark.) Still love it! Can't wait until your next update! Watched you on Whatnot for a bit today, but no funds right now. Hopefully soon!

Online auction… right 😉

Enjoying your videos a lot Bud keep it goin...Entertaining and also very educational so Thank you I'd have to say right now my grail would be an ASM 129 has been for awhile now hope someday to at least own a 9.0 something about the Yellow on that cover makes Punisher pop and stand out and to me thats a book thats obtainable and within my reach ill own one at some point I could pull the trigger on a much lesser grade but i want to make it a special purchase 😎

Nice 5.0 man. Mine’s orange 🍊. Nice books too!

Glad I just happened to stumble upon you on whatnot last week, that allowed me to get those early spidey books from you.

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You must be real close to getting hulk #181.

All great deals!! Wish I had a place around here where I could get some good deals on some back issues of Spider-Man!!

You crushed it. That Tim Holt Ghost Rider was an immediate score alone. A Frazetta cover.

Totally agree with the title! Our hunts are always more successful when we go together! 😃👍🏻

Awesome find! That Jackie Robinson one is really sweet. This purchase is going to take you to another level

I bought the Showcase #34 from you! Thanks again! I noticed that you didn't grab the Detective Comics #311 (1st Catman), just saying 😉

I believe they are Cheerios inserts I had a Donald Duck one they are from the mid to late 40s

Have you ever considered just selling what you have to get a high grade Hulk 181 with a 180. I know some collectors become attached to their books but if you focus on truly what you love more the rest of the books you have will be easier to part ways with as they are not hard to get again

Great buy! Make sure that Batman isn’t missing the scarecrow centerfold. Even if it is, you still got value there! Good luck on the goal!

i recently got back a submission of some 80s ASM with an 8.0 prescreen. big shock, the lowest graded books in the submission were 8.0 with no rejects. seems fishy to me

every fucking comic has spine rub, what can you do

Don't look at any of those early overstreet guides, they'll make you cry. 😅

Also I want that disney rabbit! I believe they came in cereal boxs

Thanks for the video The ghost ride is more than $40. You better check those prices. Hell I will give you $40.

Store looks awesome. I live In NY. What's the location! Want to visit

Nice job bouncing back! I've been a big fan of this series so far and it's awesome to see you getting so far with this challenge! Good luck on getting that 181!

You started this from $10?

Do you not have shipping costs, or are all of your sales pickup/local? Or are you just not mentioning shipping cost?

Great comeback man! Nicely done!

Maybe there is a video coming, did you go to NEO Comic Con? Some good values there if you had the time

You would have loved being in this store I went to when the store owner showed me his Hulk 181 VG+ condition and sold it to me for 450.00. Deals are out there when you ask and look

All those comics I have in my collection. Bought all at cover price 😊😁😁

The prices books go for on whatnot is wild. Im considering joining.

What was your initial starting budget? Im trying to recalibrate my collecting approach, i been buying too much worthless modern garbage. Id love to cop a hulk 181 your way.

Good luck with your whatnot sales. I’ll be watching the next video to see how well you did 👍

If we assume that everything is in the NM range… The Silver Spider-Man # 1s are indeed $20 books, but the thing to remember when dealing in raw copies is that any book sold in a polybag is usually worth more if it’s still in the bag rather than unbagged. In this case, a polybagged copy of the same book is worth almost double ($35). Silver Surfer Vol. 2 # 1 is a $16 book. It’s a solid book, but these are so plentiful out in the wild that it’s only worth buying to flip if you can get it for $3 or under. Iron Man # 282 is one of those books that seems to always sell for at least double its FMV at online auction, and it’s one that continues to go up in value even in a down market. Three years ago, this was a $50 book that was selling for $100 online, and today it’s a $110 book that I routinely see selling for $200 or more. Funny thing, I popped my head into Carol & John’s during their weekend sale the week after the Late Night Sale and they had 3 copies of IM # 282 on their wall for $50 after discount. I came back the next day with my wife, as she often sees flaws in books that I miss and C&J's grading isn't the most reliable, but in that time they sold ALL THREE OF THEM! Point being, it’s an in-demand book so swing for the fences when you go to sell it. Wolverine # 88 is currently $90, but with the FOMO being strong on this book it can definitely sell for higher. Infinity Gauntlet # 1 is worth $60, and again it’s one of those books that always sells ever though you’d think everybody already has a copy by now. That and Silver Surfer # 44 (1st Infinity Gauntlet) are hard books to find in the wild at a decent price as even non-LCS stores know what they are and over-charge for them, but for some reason I always find copies of Thanos Quest for cheap. Both issues are around $40 FMV, but I literally just found one for a dollar at a random Record Exchange. ASM # 250, 302 - 305, 313, 324 are worth $20 each. ASM # 306 - 311, 314 are $18 since the print runs started going up by this point, but 306 always sells for much higher because of the Action Comics # 1 homage. ASM # 312 and 325 are $30 books, and both have increased in value over the last six months so I always grab them if they're under $10. ASM # 328 is worth $35. ASM # 315 is the most expensive Spidey book you grabbed at $50, but I’d recommend doing at least a cold press on that before you sell it to see if you can get rid of that minor spine roll. The ASM issues of Kraven’s Last Hunt are worth the most, with both 293 and 294 being $40 books. The Spectacular Spider-Man issues are worth the least ($10 each), but people often pay $25 - $30 for them on the assumption that they’re worth the same as the ASM and Web issues. ASM # 332, 346, and 347 are $25 books solely for the covers, although 332 has been given “key issue” status for being the first appearance of Venom’s tongue (and yes I feel ridiculous just typing that). ASM # 362 and 363 are both currently $30, but those early Carnage appearances have all dropped exponentially over the last two years. ASM # 323 is a $12 book. ASM # 282 also has a $12 FMV but a book like that always sells exponentially higher because people think the Marvel 20th Anniversary covers are worth way more than they actually are (it’s the just the handful of keys and the Star Comics that have a high value). They also overpay for newsstand variants, So if you price this newsstand 20th Anniversary cover at $25 or even $30 dollars, odds are you’ll probably get it. So you spent $715 and you’ve got almost $1400 worth of books, so on paper you have the potential to at least double your money. It obviously helps that most of these books are spec collector dog whistles (NEWSTANDS! MCFARLANE COVERS! VENOM AND CARNAGE!), so the odds are pretty good that most of what you have can sell for much higher than their current fair market value. Play your cards right, and you could triple your money or better.

Carol and John's is a nice store that's got a lot of space and does a lot of positive stuff for the community, but you've got to be very careful not to fall for sticker shock when you shop there. They do half off sales on almost a monthly basis, and the reason for that is because people's eyes go right to the price tag and they're too busy thinking about how much money they're potentially saving to look at the books themselves to see what condition they are in. I've gotten burned one time too many at that store buying books in good faith, only to take them home and discover that the board concealed a rip in the back cover or there was damage to the interior pages. They're part of the reason I started including the name of the store in my records when cataloging the comics in my collection, so if I have too many flawed books coming from the same store I know not to buy there anymore. It's a good place for dollar bin diving, but if you're buying out of a regular back issue bin of theirs then inspect the hell out of the book first and take it out of the bag just to be sure. If it's a wall book with a grade they've assigned to it, then assume it's at least two grades lower so you don't accidentally overpay. Thankfully, there was only one book with a noticeable flaw that I could see on the video, so it looks like you took proper precaution. I will echo the sentiment that, if it were my money, I would've at least left $100 in the fund as seed money to minimize your risk in case doesn't sell as well as you're hoping. However, ASM is one of those series that always sells regardless of the significance of the issue, so you lowered your risk right there. Plus, you know that modern collectors put a premium on things like newstand editions, even though newsstand book prior to the 1990s are almost as common as the Direct Edition. It's still somewhat risky to go all in after accumulating so much profit, but at least it's a calculated risk. More than likely, it will pay off.

that’s funny I almost bought a couple of those ASMs last Thursday from them

It’s a risk to spend the whole bank but you know your audience and what will sell so I think you are closer to the goal!

Those are some good pick ups man! Hope u get that challenge!! Thanks for sharing!

You missed some good stuff

When I was a teen in the 90s they were cheap on everything….2024 is more like…half price unless they can make a bundle…it was only a matter of time….

I had no idea they sold comics.

More like "Over-priced Books". Yeah, run of the mill stuff is "half-price". Everything else is ebay/market price. You won't find Hulk 181 there. You're still better off winging it at flea markets and garage sales.

I never took another look at their comics since I had bought a Batman/Spawn online for $10 and a couple days later flipped through and found them selling one for $29. Bru...Bruuuu...I stopped right there and never looked ever again

that's why my content has been dry. we have more half price books here than actual comic shops and hpb is either really scandalous with prices, they charge cover and/or they put stickers on the books and most likely always terrible condition

Oh BTW the TT annual #2 and legends #1 were mine I sold to HPB. Glad you got them.

Is this is Mayfield Ohio? I know that store lol. I agree their prices are not good.

Those are WAY better books than the HPB I have gone to has. To be fair though, the one I went to was also open to having a discussion about prices. Especially for the ones they clearly priced during the plague times. That probably varies from store to store though.

Are you in the Bay Area ?

What HPB is this? I have picture after picture after picture of scores ive made at all my local HPB. I have one from this weekend as a matter of fact.