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3 hours ago, NoMan said:

I don't see it. Don't see any or it.

Kids today don't collect comics. They don't care. Of course your wonderful children and their friend or two love to read and they know ASM 129 from Rom 1 to IH 181 to what-the-heck ever, however, the majority of young people today want and do stare at screens all day. They don't read anything tangible nor do they care to hence no nostalgic factor for a comic book. That means in 20 - 25 years mostly no one is gonna want your precious collection entombed in plastic. 

I don't care how well the MCU movies are doing now. (When I get really bored I go to movie section of the boards and see people arguing about grosses and have to laugh. You guys got points in these films or something?) The majority of of kids (and adults, sadly) would watch a monkey throw its waste matter discharged from its bowels on a wall if that's what was playing at the multiplex. I've worked in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles for 30 years and that's how the head honchos talk about you, Dear MCU Fanatics. I KNOW YOUR CHILDREN ARE SPECIAL AND LIKE TO READ AND WANT QUALITY ENTERTAINMENT. AND THEIR FRIENDS! I'm simply talking about the majority of young people. A couple of smart kids brought up by a couple of smart folks here can't support this hobby. 

I don't care how many people flood conventions. It's all dress up. Most cosplay girls look like harlots off to the strip club and get mad when the guys look at 'em. The guys, hell, I don't know what their deal is. It's creative and at least people aren't shooting each other, so it's all good. The point is the comic back issue folks are shoved off to a tiny corner. Why? Because selling comic books IS NOT THE DRAW like it used to be because the majority of people aren't buying. Duh! 

Some of you here see back issue market booming cause that's all you know. It's what all your friends do. It's like going to a Narcotics Anonymous meeting and thinking everyone in the world is shooting heroin in the vein that runs between your big toe and the toe next to it. No, the entire world is not doing that. Just you and your dumb friends. 

I say this not to be mean. I'm in the same boat. I have many nice comics and one phenomenally nice one. I betting that someone in 25 years just might be interested in the phenomenally nice one, the others, not so much. 

The talk here is 95% what something is worth or what something will be worth. The other 5%, unfortunately, is if something is a good read. Tells it all right there, doesn't it?

Pull your head out of your long boxes and look around.

Not even the Chinese can save this hobby.

And BTW,  if you think variants are a smart buy, you're unreachable. But please keep buying them, cause I think it's kinda funny and makes me laugh.

AND another BTW, before some one blathers but that's what I like to collect so that's what important! (variants, 9.8s in plastic, can it be a 9.9 with a press? MCU movies on streaming whatever) Again, no duh! Enjoy away. That's what life is about but know this: No one in the future will want them. And it will be a hassle for someone to deal with once you're dead, just like your Grandma's little QVC Home Shopping Club POS collectables. Heck, even your Dad's stamp/coin collection. But! But! But that upside down airmail stamp is still worth a lot of money. Yes! And the others?

Are there even that many of us here? 

 

 

 

I unfortunately agree with this.

3 hours ago, comicwiz said:

...this appetite to gain kinship by seeking out the handful of keys everyone thinks you need to own to be taken seriously as a collector.

This is so true. I belong to a couple of whiskey groups but left when I realized over 50% of the posts were people showing off their collections asking, "did I do this right?"

When it's time to move the books I bet you can move both newer books more easily than X-Men 1.

Seems very PGX to me...

Great looking 3.0, GLWTS!

I'd say this could be pretty handy when presented with opportunities outside one's normal area of expertise. There are other, probably better sources of this information, but I always have my phone with me and if I came across a box of Archies or something well out of my wheelhouse I'd be more inclined to investigate.

That will facilitate your sale enormously, and provide potential buyers a relatively solid baseline for evaluating your asking price (and you as well; you may discover that you are over or under charging).

Best of luck with your sale, that's a great looking copy!

Wow, this really took on a life of its own. I expected one reply, starting with a sensible explanation and ending with "...you !diot."

For the record, I was never trying to suggest this become some sort of rule or policy, just wondering if anyone else felt the same as I.

I never meant to suggest more rules, I think what’s in place is fine, and I’m sure there are plenty of instances where hiding it is a very good idea. I was just curious if others felt the same, and any dealers looking in are obviously free to use or ignore this insignificantly small sample size of opinion.

18 hours ago, Buzzetta said:

Sometimes... just sometimes... if you are nice... and PM the seller... they will tell you. 

I don’t doubt that for a second. Those guys are working though, and they don’t need me bugging them all the time.

18 minutes ago, punksdropdirtysrh said:

It bothers me when they do that, too. But it’s their thread. Jerks, I just wanna know what I can’t afford! 

I like salting my own wounds. "Oh dang, I missed out on that FF5. Wait a minute, it sold for HOW LITTLE?" @#$%#&!"

Although I monitor the forums pretty regularly, I often see books I am interested in too late. To be honest, I am way more of a tourist than a buyer but I am always really curious what the asking prices are. I also understand, I think, the practice of editing out prices on a sales thread once a book has been sold; I guess it’s a form of privacy, although the price had obviously been public up until that time. This isn’t a complaint, I get that this is perhaps out of consideration for the buyer, I’m just curious how others feel about this.

17 minutes ago, Robot Man said:

Yeah, they were made quickly and crude. They were given out as carnival prizes. There were lots of  comic characters and popular characters. I once had a pretty killer Uncle Sam one. Here is about as nice as the Supermans can get. 

This is very interesting, I had (possibly still have but I doubt it) a Red Sox baseball pitcher winding up on a mound. The mound is wider than these, and has what I think was an ashtray built into it. I always wondered what it was made of, plaster or something but it looks just like this stuff so I assume it was chalk. Very cool stuff, thanks for sharing!

13 hours ago, KirbyJack said:

One of these things is unique.

FIFA Thing!

10 hours ago, Top City Comics said:

1^st Appearance of Quisp

 

As in the cereal? Was he part of the DCU?

19 hours ago, grayzr said:

In todays market, from my experience, without going extreme like tan to off white or worse, page quality does not seem to be a big deal. Sure you have those who will wait and opt out of buying a book with worse PQ but today Cream to off white for hot keys seem to sell just as well for the same money as a white page copy.

Unless the book looks creamy, dark edged or tanned from the front or back cover and has less eye appeal itself then you should not have a problem selling it for similar prices as a WP or OW to W copy. Especially for a big key key like ToS 39.

I personally would not risk it.

That's pretty much how I feel about it, thanks for validating.

I've often considered resubbing my ToS39 CR-OW to see if it gets a page bump, but I hate the idea of sending it on a road trip. If it went from it's current CR-OW to OW, or possibly OW-W, would that be worth it, value-wise? I buy about one book every five years, literally, so I don't subscribe to GPA.

1 hour ago, kav said:

I hear what you are saying.  A real school-which is very difficult to find-delivers real training.  But in those schools they dont really need belts-just training.  If youre in a school, training and sparring, you know how good a fighter someone is, by their fighting.  Thats how it works in boxing-they dont give out belts.   I would claim that 99.93% of black belts are completely incompetent at actual fighting.

Yup. I once beat a black belt in a fight, and I'm about as tough as Aunt May. It's just a lot of bs.

17 hours ago, RCheli said:

It looks like the GoFundMe has died. They're at $6.5k, and I highly doubt they're reaching that $50k goal. If they had offered something like a "Save Our Store -- $100 worth of back issue comics for $50" voucher, I suspect they'd get a lot more love.

This would indeed be the smart move. It may not save the store, but he'll end up with some money and fewer longboxes to deal with when it fails.

Great looking 3.0, glwts

16 hours ago, Robot Man said:

Sadly, they are all gone now, sold off or traded. 

 

Easy come easy go...as an older guy I've had all sorts of amazing finds, as well as all sorts of bad sells. Just part of the game.

16 hours ago, 1950's war comics said:

                         here is the AF15 of the vinyl world.....

I have one of these. If anyone wants to trade for a silver Marvel key PM me!

My first was in the mid-70's, Bill Cole's (yes that Bill Cole) Comicbook Kingdom, in the Colonial Village Mall in Quincy, MA (about ten minutes from Boston). Pretty small shop, and all I really remember they had was Origins/Sons of Origins and Marvel calendars. I'm not saying that's all they had, that's just all I remember (I was about 10).