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My first pre-hero books.


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... Y.m238.lVI


I am pretty stoked. I am interested in these (of course), but I don't want to pay big $$$ for them. I think I did pretty good.

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Elveen wrote:My first pre-hero books.


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... Y.m238.lVI


I am pretty stoked. I am interested in these (of course), but I don't want to pay big $$$ for them. I think I did pretty good.
Fantastic find! I'll venture to guess that if the seller had put the word "Valiant"
anywhere in the description the price would have been higher.
If he had put the word "Valiant" in the title, it would have been MUCH higher.
(I would have bid at least $30 for the set, and I'm notoriously cheap!) :D

Great job! :clap:

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greg wrote:
Elveen wrote:My first pre-hero books.


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... Y.m238.lVI


I am pretty stoked. I am interested in these (of course), but I don't want to pay big $$$ for them. I think I did pretty good.
Fantastic find! I'll venture to guess that if the seller had put the word "Valiant"
anywhere in the description the price would have been higher.
If he had put the word "Valiant" in the title, it would have been MUCH higher.
(I would have bid at least $30 for the set, and I'm notoriously cheap!) :D

Great job! :clap:
Thanks. Now I have to get them all. :thumb:


(do you have them all?)

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Elveen wrote:
greg wrote:
Elveen wrote:My first pre-hero books.


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... Y.m238.lVI


I am pretty stoked. I am interested in these (of course), but I don't want to pay big $$$ for them. I think I did pretty good.
Fantastic find! I'll venture to guess that if the seller had put the word "Valiant"
anywhere in the description the price would have been higher.
If he had put the word "Valiant" in the title, it would have been MUCH higher.
(I would have bid at least $30 for the set, and I'm notoriously cheap!) :D

Great job! :clap:
Thanks. Now I have to get them all. :thumb:


(do you have them all?)
I have these WWF four... but not the Nintendo ones. :hm:

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greg wrote:
Elveen wrote:
greg wrote:
Elveen wrote:My first pre-hero books.


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... Y.m238.lVI


I am pretty stoked. I am interested in these (of course), but I don't want to pay big $$$ for them. I think I did pretty good.
Fantastic find! I'll venture to guess that if the seller had put the word "Valiant"
anywhere in the description the price would have been higher.
If he had put the word "Valiant" in the title, it would have been MUCH higher.
(I would have bid at least $30 for the set, and I'm notoriously cheap!) :D

Great job! :clap:
Thanks. Now I have to get them all. :thumb:


(do you have them all?)
I have these WWF four... but not the Nintendo ones. :hm:
I've been looking for all the Nintendo books for a while. They're sometimes hard to get. But i'm trying to go cheep in completing my pre-hero collection, so it's going to take a while.

And nice pick up El. :thumb:

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I also just got Ghost & Hellboy #1 & #2 for %25 off cover.

I am now collecting Ghost books so I am pretty stoked about getting these.

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Elveen wrote:
greg wrote:
Elveen wrote:My first pre-hero books.


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... Y.m238.lVI


I am pretty stoked. I am interested in these (of course), but I don't want to pay big $$$ for them. I think I did pretty good.
Fantastic find! I'll venture to guess that if the seller had put the word "Valiant"
anywhere in the description the price would have been higher.
If he had put the word "Valiant" in the title, it would have been MUCH higher.
(I would have bid at least $30 for the set, and I'm notoriously cheap!) :D

Great job! :clap:
Thanks. Now I have to get them all. :thumb:


(do you have them all?)
You're now part of the "Anal Completest Club". :twisted:

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jedimarley wrote:
Elveen wrote:
greg wrote:
Elveen wrote:My first pre-hero books.


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... Y.m238.lVI


I am pretty stoked. I am interested in these (of course), but I don't want to pay big $$$ for them. I think I did pretty good.
Fantastic find! I'll venture to guess that if the seller had put the word "Valiant"
anywhere in the description the price would have been higher.
If he had put the word "Valiant" in the title, it would have been MUCH higher.
(I would have bid at least $30 for the set, and I'm notoriously cheap!) :D

Great job! :clap:
Thanks. Now I have to get them all. :thumb:


(do you have them all?)
You're now part of the "Anal Completest Club". :twisted:

Yes.... why yes I am. :)


But I never see me getting some fo the VVSS books. Just to crazy on the price.

But I am on the look out for the Nintendo books. :thumb:

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Great pickups :thumb:

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Unity #0 and Eternal Warrior #6 for .50

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JustCallMeAric wrote:Unity #0 and Eternal Warrior #6 for .50

One of my fav. covers.

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Well today I got a long box of mixed up issues of all types of titles from the Crossgen universe.That is all needed more comics in my room :lol: .I could not pass up the deal he gave me,$12.00 bucks for the box not bad.

Jesse

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h-comics wrote:Well today I got a long box of mixed up issues of all types of titles from the Crossgen universe.That is all needed more comics in my room :lol: .I could not pass up the deal he gave me,$12.00 bucks for the box not bad.

Jesse

If you have any doubles, let me know I have a BIG wants list. :D

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Tell me what for looking C,and I will see if i got them :thumb: .

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Elveen wrote: But I am on the look out for the Nintendo books. :thumb:
The Nintendo books are a neat little piece of Valiant history. I'm a huge Nintendo fan too, so it's a cool combo for me. Some of the coloring and artwork is actually pretty cool considering the content.

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Well, here's one I thought might be a great deal, not so sure once I got the books:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0227374825

As you can see in the picture, there's a Unity Red. I hit the BIN, taking a chance on the condition of the book. The books were unbagged, so I made sure I talked to the seller about getting them here without damaging them. I must say, he did a great job of packing, if someone was going to ship a bunch of comics unbagged, this was the way to do it. However, when I looked at the Unity Red, it had some spine stresses. I figured, ah, not bad, probably about a VF or possibly VF+. However, after looking a little more closely, I see the book has a store stamp (very faint) on the cover. Major bummer... :(

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Brother J wrote:Well, here's one I thought might be a great deal, not so sure once I got the books:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0227374825

As you can see in the picture, there's a Unity Red. I hit the BIN, taking a chance on the condition of the book. The books were unbagged, so I made sure I talked to the seller about getting them here without damaging them. I must say, he did a great job of packing, if someone was going to ship a bunch of comics unbagged, this was the way to do it. However, when I looked at the Unity Red, it had some spine stresses. I figured, ah, not bad, probably about a VF or possibly VF+. However, after looking a little more closely, I see the book has a store stamp (very faint) on the cover. Major bummer... :(
That's a shame about the condition, but good eye on catching the red in the middle of all those commons.

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Elveen wrote:
JustCallMeAric wrote:Unity #0 and Eternal Warrior #6 for .50

One of my fav. covers.
Yeah me too. I thought about bidding on the cover color art when it was for sale but it went too high.

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Great pickup the red is a hard boy to pick up right now

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Brother J wrote:Well, here's one I thought might be a great deal, not so sure once I got the books:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0227374825

As you can see in the picture, there's a Unity Red. I hit the BIN, taking a chance on the condition of the book. The books were unbagged, so I made sure I talked to the seller about getting them here without damaging them. I must say, he did a great job of packing, if someone was going to ship a bunch of comics unbagged, this was the way to do it. However, when I looked at the Unity Red, it had some spine stresses. I figured, ah, not bad, probably about a VF or possibly VF+. However, after looking a little more closely, I see the book has a store stamp (very faint) on the cover. Major bummer... :(

How much does that effect the grade?

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Elveen wrote:
Brother J wrote:Well, here's one I thought might be a great deal, not so sure once I got the books:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0227374825

As you can see in the picture, there's a Unity Red. I hit the BIN, taking a chance on the condition of the book. The books were unbagged, so I made sure I talked to the seller about getting them here without damaging them. I must say, he did a great job of packing, if someone was going to ship a bunch of comics unbagged, this was the way to do it. However, when I looked at the Unity Red, it had some spine stresses. I figured, ah, not bad, probably about a VF or possibly VF+. However, after looking a little more closely, I see the book has a store stamp (very faint) on the cover. Major bummer... :(

How much does that effect the grade?
good question, the old time date stamps don't seem to lower grade much (if at all), but this is a stamp that has the store name on it, so I would imagine it drops it down a grade at least.

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maraxusofkeld wrote:I just got a set of The Goon #1-4 Abaltross for $20 all NM.
Fooking WiinnnnnnnnnnaaaaaaHHHH !!!!!

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Brother J wrote:Well, here's one I thought might be a great deal, not so sure once I got the books:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0227374825

As you can see in the picture, there's a Unity Red. I hit the BIN, taking a chance on the condition of the book. The books were unbagged, so I made sure I talked to the seller about getting them here without damaging them. I must say, he did a great job of packing, if someone was going to ship a bunch of comics unbagged, this was the way to do it. However, when I looked at the Unity Red, it had some spine stresses. I figured, ah, not bad, probably about a VF or possibly VF+. However, after looking a little more closely, I see the book has a store stamp (very faint) on the cover. Major bummer... :(
Not to worry dude, you know you will probably get $25 for it still in a year when things get out of hand again.


:lol: :lol:

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Draco wrote:
Brother J wrote:Well, here's one I thought might be a great deal, not so sure once I got the books:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0227374825

As you can see in the picture, there's a Unity Red. I hit the BIN, taking a chance on the condition of the book. The books were unbagged, so I made sure I talked to the seller about getting them here without damaging them. I must say, he did a great job of packing, if someone was going to ship a bunch of comics unbagged, this was the way to do it. However, when I looked at the Unity Red, it had some spine stresses. I figured, ah, not bad, probably about a VF or possibly VF+. However, after looking a little more closely, I see the book has a store stamp (very faint) on the cover. Major bummer... :(
Not to worry dude, you know you will probably get $25 for it still in a year when things get out of hand again.


:lol: :lol:

He could get more than that right now. Do not underestamate the power of the Untiy Red.

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Brother J wrote:
Elveen wrote:
Brother J wrote:Well, here's one I thought might be a great deal, not so sure once I got the books:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0227374825

As you can see in the picture, there's a Unity Red. I hit the BIN, taking a chance on the condition of the book. The books were unbagged, so I made sure I talked to the seller about getting them here without damaging them. I must say, he did a great job of packing, if someone was going to ship a bunch of comics unbagged, this was the way to do it. However, when I looked at the Unity Red, it had some spine stresses. I figured, ah, not bad, probably about a VF or possibly VF+. However, after looking a little more closely, I see the book has a store stamp (very faint) on the cover. Major bummer... :(

How much does that effect the grade?
good question, the old time date stamps don't seem to lower grade much (if at all), but this is a stamp that has the store name on it, so I would imagine it drops it down a grade at least.
I wouldn't downgrade it a grade. It's not wear, after all. It just affects the eye appeal. If it's faint, and it took you a while to notice it, then probably no one will mind if you sell it and mention it.

:thumb:

For 115 books, even with the bum Unity Red, that's not so bad!


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