What is your "white whale" aka the one comic/collectable you seek?16418
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DWeeB1967 private msg quote post Address this user | |
| More Fun #52 (1st Spectre) And if I'm serious about completing Fantastic Four #1 through #100, I have to add FF #1. |
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 I hear their hourly rate is outrageous!
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Quote:Originally Posted by power_struggle55 My Comic shop has a What If 105 7.0 for 165 OBO. Just sayin'. good luck with your search |
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 I'm waiting.... (tapping fingers).Splotches is gettin old! |
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| Very High Grade Dell Four Color featuring the 1st appearance of Disney and TV characters. (Bambi, Pinocchio, Cinderella, Dumbo, Sleeping Beauty, Seven Dwarfs, Lady & Tramp, Brer Rabbit, Quick Draw McGraw, Bullwinkle & Rocky, Twilight Zone, Crusader Rabbit, Huckleberry Hound, Felix the Cat, etc...) I consider White Whale both something I desire incredibly AND cannot even find anywhere for any price whatsoever. Anything Marvel, DC, Image, Dark Horse I can find relatively easy. It's just a matter of money. |
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I hear their hourly rate is outrageous!
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Quote:Originally Posted by Darkseid_of_town Don't ask why I hate you. |
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SteveRicketts private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by esaravo My all time holy grail. I've never owned one. Will this be my year?  |
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cesidio private msg quote post Address this user | |
| I have 3 left. Tmnt #1 1st print. Only personal grail I'm missing. Just got done paying the mortgage 3 years ago. Not going to remortgage. Still have the Mickey Mantle rookie 9.0 or better. Carson city silver dollar graded 67. Again not going to remortgage the house. | ||
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 I don't want to brag, but cashiers are always checking me out.
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power_struggle55 private msg quote post Address this user | |
| this year...try and get one of mine. no replica like a fasimile. its good to have it in collection but not the same. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by SteveRicketts Maybe, but you only have a few weeks left  |
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doog private msg quote post Address this user | |
This is the latest book I am fixated on. Just missed one this year. Definitely findable. |
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 If the viagra is working you should be well over a 9.8.
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xkonk private msg quote post Address this user | |
| My grail is an X-Men 1. Gonna have to be low grade at this point, but hopefully within the next couple years. @power_struggle55 I have a NM 98 in 9.2 if you want to talk about it. |
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| Both of mine are rather odd and equally unattainable. WWBN #32 signed by Moench and Perlin - 6.0 or higher and... THOR #330 signed by Alan Zelenetz and Bob Hall in 9.8 As odd as it may be, those are my ultimate chase books |
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I don't want to brag, but cashiers are always checking me out.
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power_struggle55 private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by xkonk probably out of my budget for time being. thats why its a goal...but unlikely |
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Davethebrave private msg quote post Address this user | |
| No real White Whale for meā¦ True āgrailā is AC1. Unlikelyā¦ Very happy with the books and other collectibles I have. If there is one collectible that comes closest to something like a White Whale for me, it would be a Ferrari F40. Unlikelyā¦ |
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00slim private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by 00slim An honorable mention is Dell Movie Classics āCreatureā 1st print in 9.4 or better. Iāve chased this for years. My best copy is a 9.2 2nd print. Close. Very close. |
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KatKomics private msg quote post Address this user | |
| @Davethebrave in a similar position..for years I had a thing about Teen Titans but a while ago I finished off BB54 through most of maybe all New Teen Titans 1984? - so no real itch to scratch on the TT front - maybe a better TT #1 (but that depends on the grade the one I have at CBCS gets - hope 8?) |
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Davethebrave private msg quote post Address this user | |
| @KatKomics I am still searching for a Tec225 and AC252 so perhaps the numbers 2 5 2 in various combos are my White Whaleā¦ but not really | ||
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 Not trying to be an ass since February 12, 2020.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Davethebrave ?????  |
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I don't want to brag, but cashiers are always checking me out.
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power_struggle55 private msg quote post Address this user | |
| i decided even though its not completely the same....get a facimile edition of Ultimate fallout #4. those are still collectable worth getting graded. its cheap (only way with my budget for me to get it) | ||
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KatKomics private msg quote post Address this user | |
| @Davethebrave oh sure..there's things I want.....I would like a decent copy of Planet Comics 58 or really any number of Planet comics issues....but not in a real hurry to get them and certainly not white whale level. Not sure there is any 1 comic/collectable that would rise to that level - just stuff that if the right opportunity presents itself I'll pick up |
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I've been looking for this forever. One just sold on Heritage from the promise collection but I was outbid which I expected. At C2E2 a dealer that sells a lot of golden age books told me today he hasn't seen one in 30 years.  |
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 I have a problem with fattening women up.
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Bronte private msg quote post Address this user | |
| One book I let get through my paws was a double cover amazing Spider-man 194. If only it came to auction again.... | ||
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EbayMafia private msg quote post Address this user | |
| For about 5 years I looked at copies of Marvel Family #1 with first Golden Age appearance of Black Adam. They could rarely be found and were typically very low grade or quite expensive (what seemed to be expensive at the time anyway. There was a restored 6.0 on Ebay for a long time at about $3,000. It was always too much money for me to justify spending on a comic. I kept hoping to find a way to buy it directly for a discount and no sales tax. One day about 14 months ago I went to pull the trigger on it and it was gone. I doubt I will get another shot. | ||
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Davethebrave private msg quote post Address this user | |
| I will admit that I am working on obtaining by far the rarest book Iāve ever attemptedā¦ but I canāt call it a White Whale because: A) have spent <2 years working on finding one and B) I am not going to feel bad if I never get itā¦ |
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Darkseid_of_town private msg quote post Address this user | |
 Something that drastically alters a person's view of whales and grails, is just look where you have been .....I was collecting marvel keys in the 80's when you could buy every book in that picture for less than 300 apiece. Looking at prices nowdays, anything else is just gravy. |
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| Aside from the obvious unaffordable true grails... I am quite keen to get a high grade copy of Caliber Presents 1 and Crow 1 in 2022. | ||
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 You can't get good wood on the ball every time.
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 Superman #1, Spanish 1940. I will have one in 2022, somehow.  |
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50AE_DE private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by DWeeB1967 I was going to say the same, only I'm just searching for the cover to More Fun #52. My second book is All American Comics #61 - 1st Solomon Grundy. |
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andy49 private msg quote post Address this user | |
| mad #8 & mad #14, VF 8.0 or better you just don't find them |
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Studley_Dudley private msg quote post Address this user | |
| X-Men 1 UK price variant Transformers 1 (complete) Marvel UK Dazzler 41 CPV Two are a possibility but the Dazzler might be tough. |
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