Bragging rights - your best deal of late?

Eric Jackson · Post by **Eric Jackson** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:27 pm

certainly a nice starter kit

time to get reading, eh?

Escaflown4 · Post by **Escaflown4** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:29 pm

kelargo wrote:but I'm a newbi valiant fan. so I'm starting from ground zero.

I got the following 83 valiant's for $5.00+ shipping... $8.84 total.
so its around $0.10 each. the condition good enough for me.

Archer & Armstrong #6,10,11,14
Armorines #6
Bloodshot #4-8,12
Deathmate #Epilogue
Doctor Mirage #6,11
Eternal Warrior #10,16,18
Harbinger #9,14,15,17-21
H.A.R.D. Corps #4,6-8,23
Magnus Robot Fighter #15,24-28,33,54
Magnus and Nexus #2
Ninjak #8,9
Rai #26
Rai and the Future Force #9,10
Secret Weapons #5,6
Secrets of the Valiant Universe #2
Shadowman #10-12,15
Solar #22,23,27
Timewalker #2,3,7,8,10-14
Timewalker Yearbook #1
Visitor #3-10,12
Visitor Vs. Valiant Universe #2
X-O Manowar #0,14,16,17,20,22,25,29,33

I kind of re-discovered valiant in a hodgepodge ebay auction that had a bunch of stuff in it. neat little place here.

This was on ebay. the seller was great and threw in some old marvel which I gave to my kids.

Ken

Welcome to the boards!
Nice start and definitely a good price on that set.

I've got a list of extra copies I'm trying to sell off to make room.
Here's the link to it.

http://www.valiantfans.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2318

Let me know if you're interested in any books and hopefully it will help your Valiant collection.

dino · Post by **dino** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:30 pm

kelargo wrote:but I'm a newbi valiant fan. so I'm starting from ground zero.

I got the following 83 valiant's for $5.00+ shipping... $8.84 total.
so its around $0.10 each. the condition good enough for me.

Archer & Armstrong #6,10,11,14
Armorines #6
Bloodshot #4-8,12
Deathmate #Epilogue
Doctor Mirage #6,11
Eternal Warrior #10,16,18
Harbinger #9,14,15,17-21
H.A.R.D. Corps #4,6-8,23
Magnus Robot Fighter #15,24-28,33,54
Magnus and Nexus #2
Ninjak #8,9
Rai #26
Rai and the Future Force #9,10
Secret Weapons #5,6
Secrets of the Valiant Universe #2
Shadowman #10-12,15
Solar #22,23,27
Timewalker #2,3,7,8,10-14
Timewalker Yearbook #1
Visitor #3-10,12
Visitor Vs. Valiant Universe #2
X-O Manowar #0,14,16,17,20,22,25,29,33

I kind of re-discovered valiant in a hodgepodge ebay auction that had a bunch of stuff in it. neat little place here.

This was on ebay. the seller was great and threw in some old marvel which I gave to my kids.

Ken

Nicely done, you should check out the early issues, they are the very best reads.

dave · Post by **dave** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 7:20 pm

if you're not looking to spend a bunch of money (to start with...but you will eventually) you can get the trade paperbacks of nearly all the early harder to find issues.

my personal favorites are the 2 magnus' the rai and x-o.

Escaflown4 · Post by **Escaflown4** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 7:42 pm

Even tho it's not Valiant, but I think it's a great deal for a big key issue. I was shocked that no one else bother to throw a bid in. I didn't even expect to win the auction until I came home from work. I can't picture any other ASM 300 selling lower then this in NM condition. This seller tends to undergrade as I bought a first gambit off him not long ago. I got the book today and it's at least a 9.4-9.6. It has all sharp corners and the only defects were 1 small visible spine crease and two miniscule non color breaking dings only visible if you look really close to it. This was pretty much the same case with the X-Men 266.

Out of my 3 copies of ASM 300, this came out to be the best one.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 2277464658

Out of my 4 copies of X-Men 266, this again came out to be my best one.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 2275707453

BTW. his $1.75 shipping fees = Priority Mail, which means he's paying more of the shipping fees himself. So far I have never encounter any other seller packing books more securely then him. There's simply no way the book can get damaged unless it got ran over by a truck. This is a highly recommended seller if any of you are interested in his books.

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 8:43 pm

Escaflown4 wrote: Out of my 3 copies of ASM 300, this came out to be the best one.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 2277464658
:

Very, VERY nice for a Spidey #300! Just as an aside, my 'willing to pay' price for Spidey #300 is $25....which means that, if *I'm* willing to pay that, you KNOW it routinely sells for roughly double or more.

Ahhh...can't believe I could have bought all I wanted for $1.50 in '88....but, alas, I was bit a wee High School Sophomore, and knew nothing about funny books.

soundoftheuniverse · Post by **soundoftheuniverse** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 6:47 pm

I'm beginning to feel pretty content with the graded books I've won over the past few months and this one is especially satisfying.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... RK:MEWN:IT

Thinking like many of you when you want a uber Valiant, there's only ONE GUY to really worry about!

So remembering back that a board member once bribed him to not bid on an auction gave me an idea

...

(I contemplated emailing him to ask him not to bid but then there's the down side that he might not have noticed it and thanks to me he NOW wants it and just might bid more knowing that I want it also!) Re running the scenario over and over I decided against sending the email.

Call me crazy but I'd rather have a EW Gold Embossed 9.8 than just about anything else in grade with the obvious exception, but I recently received one of those in 9.6 so I'm content.

I just got an ungraded Harbinger 1 today that's really nice (especially nice comming from the Ebay crapshoot) but even so it makes me appreciate a quality grading service that helps eleviate the grading guesswork because even as nice as this Harbie 1 is it's still only 9.2'ish. I can now see how magnificent a 9.6 Harbie 1 looks like so it does help for comparison if nothing else. To imagine some of us may still have an ungraded 9.8 Harbie 1 in our collections is what makes all this all the more fun!

mrwoogieman · Post by **mrwoogieman** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 8:19 pm

All of my pre-Unitys have been upgraded over the years, some up to 5 or 6 times, until there was no reason to look for better copies anymore, all raw.

I'm sure that a lot of others here would tell the same story.

Eric Jackson · Post by **Eric Jackson** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 8:28 pm

Looks like he's got another one.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 72639&rd=1

dino · Post by **dino** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 10:27 pm

I'm very pleased with this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 2279816232

Great art and lots of nice shots of Ninjak. I reckon I got a low price too.

Ninjak Yearbook #1 pg. 16
US $53.86

x-omatic · Post by **x-omatic** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 10:56 pm

dino wrote:I'm very pleased with this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 2279816232

Great art and lots of nice shots of Ninjak. I reckon I got a low price too.

Ninjak Yearbook #1 pg. 16
US $53.86

Look at our bid times.

BodaZoffa · Post by **BodaZoffa** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 11:05 pm

dino wrote:I'm very pleased with this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 2279816232

Great art and lots of nice shots of Ninjak. I reckon I got a low price too.

Ninjak Yearbook #1 pg. 16
US $53.86

I was gonna go for this one too. I love Bryan Hitch art. I was a little tapped out, though, with my recent commissions so I held back. Very nice piece!

Boda

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 11:54 pm

Wow! That's a really nice one. Good job, Dino.

bboro30 · Post by **bboro30** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 12:23 am

All 1st prints and all in NM or better

whetteon · Post by **whetteon** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:45 am

bboro30 wrote:All 1st prints and all in NM or better

1st prints of what?

ckb · Post by **ckb** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:57 am

The subject of the message had what he was talking about. Good deal. I would buy NM copies of 1-9 these at up to $2 at this point, just out of sheer principle.

whetteon wrote:
bboro30 wrote:All 1st prints and all in NM or better
1st prints of what?

MedicAR · Post by **MedicAR** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 1:16 pm

I've been getting some good deals on the board from Sonic Dan, Dino, and Dave, but my really GREAT deal of late isn't Valiant, it's Fantastic Four#1.

It would be a qualified VF, beautiful white cover light tan pages, no chipping, but at some point the lower staple was damp, creating a rust spot on the back cover going through the book

It looks like an investment grade book in the mylar, just don't turn it over!!

All this for $1700.....no conventions for me for two years!

Good deal though!

Doug

whetteon · Post by **whetteon** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:10 pm

Fantastic Deal. Just make sure it's not the reprint. Count the number of peon people on the cover to make sure.

MedicAR · Post by **MedicAR** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 5:19 pm

Oh no, it's not the reprint!!

I counted the peons and the terrified man in the brown suit even has his knee showing, so I know it wasn't trimmed!

My best buy of late and quite possibly my best buy EVER

I guess I'm living right!

Best,
Doug

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 5:21 pm

whetteon wrote:Fantastic Deal. Just make sure it's not the reprint. Count the number of peon people on the cover to make sure.

Hmmmm....which reprint? Golden Records from 1966?

whetteon · Post by **whetteon** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 7:51 pm

ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:
whetteon wrote:Fantastic Deal. Just make sure it's not the reprint. Count the number of peon people on the cover to make sure.
Hmmmm....which reprint? Golden Records from 1966?

yeah

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:02 pm

whetteon wrote:
ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:
whetteon wrote:Fantastic Deal. Just make sure it's not the reprint. Count the number of peon people on the cover to make sure.
Hmmmm....which reprint? Golden Records from 1966?
yeah

I *believe* the easiest way to tell the Golden Records reprints is that none of them have cover prices. I have the Avengers #4, and it doesn't have the cover price, and I'm fairly certain this is the same across the board.

MedicAR · Post by **MedicAR** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 10:01 pm

Yup, there's the cover prices, and the shocked bystanders are different. Also, there's an ad for other Golden Records on the back. I checked my GR reprint just to be sure!

Escaflown4 · Post by **Escaflown4** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 12:26 am

Just really wanted to share with you the Valiant books I received today from several different sellers.

Jaknife · Post by **Jaknife** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 7:10 pm

well, my buying has slowed WWAAAAAYYYYY down, but i did manage to find a A&A0 gold and an EW #1 gold for coverprice. i also am only one book away from a full bloodshot run.(enter Homer drool) mmmm...bloodshot.

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