The perils of buying comics online

[Brazoo]

Congrats - those are some great looking books! I'm glad everything ended up working out.

[MegoSteve]

To think someone mangled that Batman #9...RECENTLY. I mean if it was a kid reading it to death in 1942, that's cool. But whoever ripped that beauty needs to have his hands slapped with an anvil.

Yeah, that's what kills me. I'm hardly an expert grader especially on Golden Age books, but the rest of the book (from what I saw through the mylar), was just beautiful (F-VF? maybe). Flat, no color breaks from folds, no major bending... just heartbreaking to think it made it 70 years until some clumsy doofus tore it.

[Adam West]

I think that an argument was made years ago that made sense to me regarding MIB Megos, comics, anything with paper. As ownership changes hands, they usually get degraded in the mail and the more it changes hands, the higher the likelihood of damage which makes the higher grade items harder and harder to find over time.

[Remco Monster]

Man, how depressing. Glad to hear you will be getting your money back, but yeah, that would have been a really sweet addition to your collection. Very sorry to hear/see this. I would have been crushed.