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    Looking for a few Investment ideas for books to buy

    in Newbie Comic Collecting Questions

    Posted

    3 hours ago, lou_fine said:

    Sad to say, unless you pulled the pin already, I imagine your position in the stock market is a whole lot smaller than what it was a couple of weeks ago.  :tonofbricks:  :censored:

    Thing is, if you don't sell and everything bounces back (like it should - "should" being the operative word RN), then you lose nothing in the long run.

    IOW, if you don't need to sell your stocks, don't.



    -slym

    Be creative here while you are self-quarantine.

    in Comics General

    Posted

    Well, I have a picture of it around here somewhere...

    BsO1Tue.jpg

    Yes, those are hot-dipped galvanized nails I used for the pegs, they are peened over on the back side. I blued the blade with a Bernz-O-Matic torch, but it didn't turn out well because of some finish that was put on over the "Alaska" applique. FTR - this was an old bat I found in my house, and the ulu knife was a decorative piece I found elsewhere; it had some cheap-o cast resin handle on it that I broke away with a hammer. After that, it was a simple matter of drilling a line of holes (and some light chiseling) for the "tangs" of the ulu, then lining up the holes that were in each tang to drill for my pegs (nails). It probably weighs about a pound overall. A very light axe, and while I plan on never using it, one never knows what life will throw at them... especially now!

     :ohnoez:  lol  :)



    -slym

    What was the point to slabbing any of these?

    in Comics General

    Posted · Edited by slym2none

    CGC's whole business model (well, maybe half) is getting worthless books graded.

    I remember a ways back there was someone on here, CGC's very board, that was telling people that they shouldn't get moderns slabbed. Period. Weird, but it shows that, like TheDude and others have said, you can't figure someone else's logic out a lot of the time. In most of those cases, there probably isn't any logic or reason to begin with.



    -slym

    So... how exactly does Magneto fly?

    in Comics General

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Juno Beach said:

    To go a bit further, how does any superhero fly without a means of force and wings? Somebody must have explained Superman being able to fly around?

    Some things I don't question, but when the writers try to explain it, as with my case & Magneto, then I want a somewhat plausible explanation. "Somewhat" being the key word there.

    ;)



    -slym

    So... how exactly does Magneto fly?

    in Comics General

    Posted

    Has this ever been truly explained? I have heard something about "manipulation of the Earth's magnetic field", but how would that lift him and enable him to fly around? Is it a deformation of the field that he wraps around him somehow? Is he... oh, wow, this just entered my mind, is he hurling himself around by focusing and strengthening certain fields with his mutant power that pull on the metals in his body?

    Could you imagine, being thrown around by being suddenly attracted to a field stronger than yourself on a cellular level????? That would hurt - and I could see Magnus doing it over and over until he would just get used to it. That would be a great story, IMHO. (But of course I would say that, I just thought it up.) ;)

    Postulate!!! Yes, I am talking to you!

     :)



    -slym

    What was the point to slabbing any of these?

    in Comics General

    Posted

    5 hours ago, snitzer said:

    Maybe the seller isn’t the one who had them slabbed? 

    Good point. Maybe they bought a mystery box at an estate sale and these were in there, and they are just "blowing them out" so to speak.

    4 hours ago, frozentundraguy said:

    This thread does raise the question, at what dollar value does slabbing a book make sense?

    That is a good point as well.



    -slym

    Full Circle

    in Comics General

    Posted

    36 minutes ago, 01TheDude said:

    I would imagine people responding with TL:DR etc are not the audience you were seeking in the first place. You can tell you wrote that piece from the heart and fellow collectors can relate to that.

    I just want to re-iterate, my  "tl;dr" was a joke.

     :)



    -slym

    Looking for a few Investment ideas for books to buy

    in Newbie Comic Collecting Questions

    Posted

    On 3/20/2020 at 12:50 PM, BaronSamedi said:

    You'd probably have more of a chance in striking it big investing in paper mills then comics

    The auto industry might be interesting, if they go to producing ventilators to ease the lack thereof in this and other countries RN due to the CoronApocalypse. IDK if it will help, but if people invest, then maybe they can avoid a gov't bailout. But it's a huge question mark. There is a great discussion about such things over in the Water Cooler in the "Gold has hit $500 an ounce" thread, if people are interested in the stock market and investing, it's a great read.



    -slym