Aussie2B
08-01-2005, 08:36 PM
UPDATE: I know this topic is a couple years old, but I actually still have these issues kicking around my mom's house. I figured I'd give it a second shot at stirring up some interest. Since back then I said I'd sell them for $30 shipped within the 48 contiguous states, I'll lower the price down to $20 shipped, which gets even better yet when you consider how shipping costs have gone up.
I bought a huge lot of Nintendo Power issues last summer, and I was left with this stack of 26 duplicates. These cover the end of the SNES through to the beginning years of the N64, and they are sequential so there are no gaps. Or to go by covers, it goes from Mortal Kombat 3 to Diddy Kong Racing. It also include the 100th issue, which is one of my very favorites. But all of them are quite good, in my opinion.
Overall, I'd describe the condition of them as very good, with a slow steady increase in quality of condition from the oldest to the newest. As to be expected, the issues where Nintendo got cheap and used staples are the most worn out of the bunch, with one or two having loose covers. As you can see, these are subscription issues. Some of them don't have address labels, but I'm just leaving them on the ones that do since I figure it's better to let you guys handle it than possibly damaging the covers if I try to remove them. All but two issues have the posters (though I'll try to see if I can find those two; the two missing are January calendar posters, so you wouldn't be missing any of the magazines content). However, every poster has been removed at some point. They've been reinserted in the staple issues, and the others are just tucked in their proper spots. A good portion of them of them have one or two tiny pin holes in each corner of the poster, since they were actually used as posters. ;) A few of the later posters never made it up on the walls, though. One poster was ripped in half and neatly taped back together. All the trading cards that came with the issues will be included, but like the posters, they were carefully removed. Volume 92, the Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire issue, has the Boba Fett cover, which 25% of the magazines were (so it's not the rare 10% IG-88 issue, but at least it's not as common as the 40% Storm Trooper issue), just in case any collectors care about the cover variants.
So... there ya go. That's a pretty mighty paragraph of condition info, but if you got even more questions, feel free to PM me. I'd prefer to sell these magazines all in one lot, but if there's a lack of interest or no good offers I MIGHT consider breaking them up individually (but then again, I might dump them on eBay if that happens). But until that happens (if it happens), don't bombard me with requests for single issues. :P
Anyway, here's a photo to get an idea of the condition:
http://www.inverteddungeon.com/triacesuperfan/npmags.jpg
I bought a huge lot of Nintendo Power issues last summer, and I was left with this stack of 26 duplicates. These cover the end of the SNES through to the beginning years of the N64, and they are sequential so there are no gaps. Or to go by covers, it goes from Mortal Kombat 3 to Diddy Kong Racing. It also include the 100th issue, which is one of my very favorites. But all of them are quite good, in my opinion.
Overall, I'd describe the condition of them as very good, with a slow steady increase in quality of condition from the oldest to the newest. As to be expected, the issues where Nintendo got cheap and used staples are the most worn out of the bunch, with one or two having loose covers. As you can see, these are subscription issues. Some of them don't have address labels, but I'm just leaving them on the ones that do since I figure it's better to let you guys handle it than possibly damaging the covers if I try to remove them. All but two issues have the posters (though I'll try to see if I can find those two; the two missing are January calendar posters, so you wouldn't be missing any of the magazines content). However, every poster has been removed at some point. They've been reinserted in the staple issues, and the others are just tucked in their proper spots. A good portion of them of them have one or two tiny pin holes in each corner of the poster, since they were actually used as posters. ;) A few of the later posters never made it up on the walls, though. One poster was ripped in half and neatly taped back together. All the trading cards that came with the issues will be included, but like the posters, they were carefully removed. Volume 92, the Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire issue, has the Boba Fett cover, which 25% of the magazines were (so it's not the rare 10% IG-88 issue, but at least it's not as common as the 40% Storm Trooper issue), just in case any collectors care about the cover variants.
So... there ya go. That's a pretty mighty paragraph of condition info, but if you got even more questions, feel free to PM me. I'd prefer to sell these magazines all in one lot, but if there's a lack of interest or no good offers I MIGHT consider breaking them up individually (but then again, I might dump them on eBay if that happens). But until that happens (if it happens), don't bombard me with requests for single issues. :P
Anyway, here's a photo to get an idea of the condition:
http://www.inverteddungeon.com/triacesuperfan/npmags.jpg