The Legion of Daffy eBay Lots!

They're a bit thrifty with item description considering their OPENING price is two bucks an issue for this auction.

It's not a good idea to buy anything from ANYONE with a feedback rating of zero.

The way to get a handle on how eBay works is to first build up a few dozen positive ratings from successful purchases. Then you know enough to avoid, as a seller, creating such utterly vague listings as this one. You've then been through the wringer with their shortcomings already, and are less likely to inflict them on others.

They might even be cheaper - it says "at least 100" books - could be 101, maybe even 102...

Of course, the lot could comprise 20 copies of Space Circus, 30 of the ProFem story and 50 of the Bizarro Legion.

Exactly. Way too little on the description and not enough on the feedback. And the new seller notification isn't there so this seller has been around for at least 30 days.

I'm with Grey. They need to build up some feedback with purchases first then try selling. And try being more descriptive. If it isn't worth your time to catalog what you are selling then it isn't worth my time or money to bid.

Poor queenofhearts42 is gonna have his/her li'l heart broken when that auctions ends bid-less, as it must.

Teeds, I love it when you spotlight amusing eBay auctions.

I'd like to suggest* you use this thread to do so whenever you happen across one.

*Actually, I'd like to order you to do so, but I'm fearful for my shins if I do...

Thanks for the info.

I'm new to ebay, but having good luck so far.

The Case of The Scandalous Skirt!

Excuse me, but aren't those shorts?

Scandal!

Those are definitely short-shorts/hot-pants, Kara's 70s outfit.

Sometimes these color-guide pages get good bids, but I still think I would have started it at $9.99.

This guy appears to have some experience though, so we'll see...

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See here.

What the heck is that? Was there a real live group call the Legion of Super-Heroes, or was this hommade fanboy thing?

BUY IT NOW AT THE "niceprice$" OR CAL WILL BEAT YOUR ASS

$70.00 for SUPERBOY #212!?!?!

I love the Legion, including Calorie Queen, but that's just wrong.

Holy Hannah!

If that's the "nice" price, I'd hate to see the "snarky" price!!!

And was Superboy using x-ray vision when he was staring the Legion?

Nightcrawler, you are too nice, so i will say it for you.

"They must be outta their ****in' minds!" I bought that book a couple of years ago, i think it was. And while i love it, it wasn't that good, or that rare.

However, maybe i should put my BoP #8 up for sale. I hear some places are askin' $75 for it.

My copy of the preceeding issue, 211, was published in September 1975. The auction item is Nura's personal way-advance copy. Snap it up!

Superboy #212, CGC grade copy at 9.4, is worth $25. A 9.4, non-CGC graded, is worth $12. Anyone who doesn't do their own research before falling victim to eBay sellers like this deserve the item they purchase.

The monetary value of this comic (or any comic, or anything) is whatever someone will pay for it. I ain't holding my breath for ol' niceprice$ though.

Now, cultural value...we are talking about the FIRST APPEARANCE OF CALORIE QUEEN. Hooray, Taryn!

Say, did you see the seller's other SLSH auctions?

SLSH 213

SLSH 241

Perhaps they're a bit pricy but they are in minit condition!

The guy should stick to selling CD's, watches and dog leashes. He knows nothing about pricing comics.

Do our friendly niceprice$ merchants have a British branch?

By the way, there's another copy of the "Legion of Super Heroes" record up.

Do you remember when this thread used to be called The Legion of Vague eBay Lots ?

His math and economics teachers from his school-days must have been amazing, as he's reselling the book at one-hundred times the price the original owner bought it!

I got mine (He's referring tho the oversized Legion reprinting the Mordru story, I'm sure) for $1 and shipping a couple of weeks ago... :rolleyes:

I don't think it's really a good idea to announce the markup.

I DO think it's a good idea to SAY EXACTLY WHAT IT IS, especially if you can't add a picture.

Still no bids!

Thanks, but no thanks.

He's got a nice chunk of the TMK stuff, but $190 opening bid? Silly greedy eBay sellers!

What is with the fall foliage? A back to school sale?

Rare All Paper Comic Book

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Rare All Paper Comic Book

"and is not missing any pages". Not if you don't count the cover as a page.

"All Paper Comic Book" is the new way to position your coverless issues.

It's marketing genius!

So if I start an auction labeled "Rare All Paper Currency" does that mean I can sell photocopies of my one dollar bills?

I have a better photocopy idea: Rare All Paper Coins.

Well, they would be!

$10 opening for a coverless tabloid that one could likely get in MINT for the same price? Sheeesh!

Hey if more than one person can pass off a $200 dollar bill with George W. Bush's face on it, I'm sure you'd find a buyer for you paper coins.

I so need to return this thread title to The Legion of Vague eBay Lots.

Well, they might be LSH.

I like how the "larger picture" of the item is really just the thumbnail pic with a huge white border around it. Kudos to the seller on telling us absolutely nothing about what it is he's trying to sell here!

STORMWATCH #0?!

Why THAT was worth the $12+shipping by itself!!!

I'm still searching for Stormwatch #-1 but no luck yet on eBay. Someday...

All right, there may not be much (or any) Legion in this lot, but you want to check this out.

Dammit, and I just gave most of those to the Salvation Army store for nothing, too...

Who KNEW how much money I was sitting on/throwing away??? :rolleyes:

I didn't know eBay was displaying questions asked of the seller on the site now.

Too bad for this guy.

I for one am ASTONISHED that these didn't sell!

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Garth takes vacation photos as well as he programs the autochef.

Makes you wonder if maybe somone burned the top of her head wth cigarettes or something...

Now, Proty II....

Painless shopping for us - but that must have hurt Imra.

Item #6508827293:

"Man in picture is NOT part of auction."

Well, just so we're clear on THAT!

Good Lord, Povvins-- and just when I was starting to feel better...!

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Item #6508827293:

"Man in picture is NOT part of auction."

Well, just so we're clear on THAT!

He kinda looks like Bouncing Boy.

Chuckles! Maybe MEL can do a photomanip!

Ummmm... no.

why have such a high starting bid if it's not even your reserve

That got me, too. Not only is the opening bid exhorbitant, but to put a reserve on it as well?!

What exactly do they think they're selling??? Sellers who don't do any research just bother me. :rolleyes:

Wanna bet the resrve is like $1000 or something ridiculous?

What's a trip is, the stuff he has would likely sell-- but in small same-issue sets, with nice affordable opening bids of $4.99 or such, depending on the size of each lot.

Sure, it would be more effort, but he's a lot more likely to make his $200 (or more) that way, with several seperate lots.

That X-Men 201, for example-- if it's in even decent shape, he can get $7-10 for it. First app. of Cable as baby Nathan Christopher.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=348&item=5962258322&rd=1

Good Lord! Is that legal?

Grife ...
Why did it have to be somebody in Texas?

Why would it be anybody anywhere ELSE? :rolleyes:

(I guess I should go look at the link now...

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Oh. My. G_D.

THAT is hysterical!

Is he Legion-related? He's Lazy Man.

Wasn't that one of Jimmy Olsen identities?

Lazy Lad?

no!

La-Z-Boy! he's also a transformer - into a comfy chair!

Bouncing Girl?

I saw that, too. Oy vey.

BAH! They stole that idea from Dean Lee's character & former LMBer Globe Girl, the lass who could expand her breasteses to planet-sized proportions.

Though why she would ever want to is beyond me...

...all you need is a cover...

All he needs is a CLUE... :rolleyes:

I dunno if this is as daffy as some of the other auctions I've linked up, but I wanted to hear what you guys thought of this one...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=32742&item=6541869935&rd=1

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I dunno if this is as daffy as some of the other auctions I've linked up, but I wanted to hear what you guys thought of this one...

Uh...Wow.

So...you'll be bidding?

Anybody want to take up a collection?

OK, I'm new to eBay, but I don't understand the odd pricing. Is this the Bizarro version of the comic? Or is Bizarro the seller?

Well a 9.4 CGC graded copy of Adv. #247 is currently priced at $45,000.00. But a regular, ungraded, mint condition copy is only worth $9,750.00.

And we\'re back to vague!

The boots make me think someone knew exactly what they were doing.

ANOTHER way to position those coverless/incomplete issues, part 1

...and part 2

Legion content? Oh yes. Jimmy Olsen's hangup (indeed) and Big Mamie (do I even need to tell you which issue?).

Am I to understand that these are loose... pages? Not even coverless issues, but loose pages from comics?

I imagine a fun collage could be made with these loose pages, or perhaps a portion of a wall papered with them to neat effect, but... selling them for $8?

Big Mamie never lost a man. Does that put things in perspective?

Custom, recolored Legion poster

Custom Legion HeroClix figures, with one winner being promised a custom Nemesis Kid!

Colossal Boy
Ultra Boy
Mon-El
Sensor Girl
Duo Damsel

Someone posted a Want-It-Now listing for Grell SLSH or 185-258. A certain dealer posted this for the Wanter's perusal:

Remember this?

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Custom, recolored Legion poster

This is from the description.

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Nice quality custom poster printed on high quality semi-glossy paper. Digitally recolored-nice vibrant colors!

How could you Digitally recolor a vintage poster? Unless you scanned it and then printed it on a large format color printer.

He also has a George Reeves Superman poster listed. I think there's a copyright violation going on here.

I have never heard of this before. Although I do know that here in the UK we used to get a thing called double double comics which would bind together "american" comics (from marvel and dc) in a new cover.

Adventure Comics # 247 Unique variant cover

So is this for real or just clever marketing? And if so is it a good price?

I'm no expert... but it smells hinky to me... and I'll tell you why. He says he has something that should be worth a lot, but it sounds like he doesn't even know the facts behind it.

For instance, the description states, "The covers include Red Circle Comics 4, Blue circle 5, & Blazing Comics 5,6 All printed in 1945." But the first appearance of the LOSH (as stated here ) wasn't until 1958.

I don't know if that's clever marketing or not. If you look at the sticker on the PGX comic, it says "DC 4/58", which I'm assuming at this point is the publisher, month, year of the comic.

Now it could be that he made an honest mistake in the description and that the book is really worth the over $300 price it is at right now. I don't know.

What I do know is that I wouldn't pay that much money for that comic when I could pick up the DC Legion Hardcover Archives (which has this comic reprinted along with several other early appearances) brand new for $50 or less.

Other than that, it sounds like a legit first appearance variant cover. The seller has a pretty good feedback rating so I'd be inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.

FYI... if you go here you will see that a CGC 5.0 Adventure 247 sold for $1,200 (although I don't know when it sold). So by the reasoning of the description, this variant cover should be worth in the $600 range.

Maybe someone with actual expertise can add a little more to this than I can though.

Elmo\'s Junction: A Golden Age Oddity

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For anyone who thinks variant-type comic books are something relatively new, think again. Comic book variants have been around since at least the time when DC Comics (then, National) stuck a fifteen cent sticker over the original price of the 1940 World's Fair comic and re-released it for sale.

What I think was one of the most interesting variants ever published was Red Circle No.4 (pictured above). Red Circle was published by Rural Home Publications (also known as Enwil Publications) from January to April of 1945, producing four issues. Each issue in the series contained stories about such characters as "The Pranster", "The Judge", or "Red Riot". But obviously, sometime in the early 1950's, this company discovered they had a LOT of left-over covers around for the 4th. issue. So they re-released the comic, but this time they put all of these covers on some OTHER comic!

Now, other companies had re-released remainer issues before, most notable Fawcett with their Gift Comics in which they bound together various comics with a cover and re-sold them, and even EC did that with a title or two, but each time they'd created a new cover , AND, they'd used their own publications. Enwil wasn't so picky.

They'd just used ANY coverless remainer comics they could find (or maybe even removed the original covers just so they could have coverless books) and reattached their OWN cover back on it. So finding a copy of Red Circle No.4(cover date April,1945) could have just about ANYTHING within it from the early 1950's.

Some of the variations that are known are: Woman Outlaws(published by Fox), Dorothy Lamour (also by Fox), Crime Does Not Pay (Lev Gleason Pub.s), Sabu (Fox as well), Diary Loves (Quality Comics), Love Confessions (also Quality), Young Love (Prize Publications), as well as the above book (that is from my personal collection) which contains Strange Adventures #24 (from 1952, and is a National/DC Comic).

I would'nt call the number of variations endless, but there are literally thousands of different variations of the interior of this particular comic!

So bascially it is probably an original, remainder, issue of Adv. #247 that had its original cover stripped and this company tossed on one of their extra covers from a book from the 40's. Worth it? To me only if you have an original cover to #247 to make a true issue.

What would you say this Dan Jurgens art is worth?

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It's specifically described in the eBay listing as: "Nice art." That's it. The whole set of details. Nothing about condition.

The sellers want $5,800. Fixed "buy it now" price, no dickering or auction.

Even though this is the best cover from my favorite Dawnstar story, and even if I'd won this week's Mega Millions jackpot, I wouldn't shell out one-tenth that price for it. I've seen signed Giffen original-art boards go for one-tenth that price, and he did fewer of Dawny than Jurgens did.

Crazy, mon!

Less Daffy, more cool...

Fire Lad custom

Color Kid custom

Stone Boy custom

Night Girl custom

Insect Queen custom

Elastic Lad custom

Nemesis Kid custom

Oh, how I wish I was in a better place financially to buy these. DCD has really let me down with not making these beauties.

The Subs are daffily charming!

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What would you say this Dan Jurgens art is worth?

It's specifically described in the eBay listing as: "Nice art." That's it. The whole set of details. Nothing about condition.

The sellers want $5,800. Fixed "buy it now" price, no dickering or auction.

If I thought it was worth that much, I would have bought it!
Seriously though, a lot of the art in the seller's store is overpriced in my opinion.
As the saying goes "caveat emptor".

If I could sell my two Legion rings for this much, it'd help fund my trip to Vegas in July.

it's written 54.95$ on the box of the ring on the photo and they sell it for 150$ !

Sure the art is pretty, but how daffy will the price get with 4 days to go? Currently $4,050.

Adam Hughes\' variant cover

I have ceased to be amazed at the levels that Adam Hughes' art prices reach. Several months ago a Scarlet Witch piece went for $10K

Well it went for over $8K. Here is the final result with the top three bidders.

Item title: Adam Hughes Original Cover Art: SUPERGIRL

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vinceszo( 96) US $8,350.00 Nov-05-06 19:59:16 PST

nonnon000( 97) US $8,250.00 Nov-05-06 19:59:58 PST

drpainfree( 172) US $7,800.00 Nov-05-06 19:59:57 PST

On another note - spotted this poster on ebay today. It's not from my favorite era of the Legion but it was a nice poster that I haven't seen in a while.
Legion poster by Immonen and Boyd

My friend spent $75 for a pewter GL ring I woudl certainly think a gold legion ring would be a great offering

Forget "Plant Lad"

Get Super Plants!

I wonder what the actual sourcebook this poster advertised would fetch me?

100 dollars?!?!? no way...it should be 4 dollars at least. 100 is a major rip off.

That isn't the only Legion poster he's trying to sell .

You know Iwould love to have thoses posters but not at thoses prices. Added together I reckon it would go a good way towards getting me a 267 or 247.

Ah, but just think what it will be worth in 3008. Your great great great etc. grandchildren will thank you!

With the anniversary next year, I wonder if Legion material prices in general are going to inflate. Or if people will try to boost the prices.

those look like the feebie posters that all retailers would get week-in, week-out.

Whata deal! Only $99.99 for Tales of the LSH #354!

Cool. No photo and 6 bucks for shipping. Who wouldn't want to buy this little gem...

The only thing daffy about this one is the price, although it is respectable, just too high for me. Great adaption of the cover to X-Men #141 by Bob Layton. Thanks to Michael at the Omnicom for finding this one.

Legion Days of Future Past

What the heck is this?

"This Legion try-out issue rarely comes up for sale. Don't miss on a tough to get comic."

Adventure #237 F/VF Scarce Legion try-out issue

Intergalactic Vigilante Squadron?

I'm not going to buy it but I'm dying to know what that blurb means.

The Overstreet price guide has a history of erroneous listings for various "try-out" first appearances, particularly early SA Marvels. Sounds like this seller is trying to capitalize on something like that. The fact that he offers books graded by PGX and lists himself as an Overstreet advisor... pffft. :rolleyes: Don't sweat the hype, Art.

And what do you make of this offer from Great Britain???

Legion Of Super Heroes Comics (Over 350 Issues)

Scanned comics? Can he do this?

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Note to eBay, Nothing on this DVD breaks any Copyright.
The contents of this DVD are in the Public Domain and are freely available from different sources and have been compiled over a number of months / years .

DC Legal would beg to differ, I'm sure...

[RE: Intergalactic Vigilante Squadron]

Look here for your answers! (Including scans of said IVS!)

By the way, in that Legion Checklist, all the links that point to online versions of the stories that were from the superman.ws site are now bad. That domain got moved to supermanthrutheages.com several months ago, but now, even that site has been shut down, apparently permanently (see DC message boards ).

Thanks! I'll delete the links then.

Calling Dr. Mayavale. DoctorMayavale

Actually, I don't find the auction listing itself "daffy", Scooter. It is the best page of art from that issue... (Ditko interior work...

IMO, the sheer fact that it's Mayavale classifies it as daffy. But then you know how I feel about those kind of characters.

Please don't buy this. I can send you one for free.

Before reading the above = oblivious to Legion L badges
Now = Secretly want one. Well, secret as in I'm only sharing it here.