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On 4/2/2024 at 5:14 PM, spracknetch23 said:
Interesting to hear a take from a Swiss native. I visited the German part of Switzerland in 2019 and noticed there was very little comic (and pop culture in general) prevalence there compared to the US. I visited a comic shop (in Winterthur, maybe). There seemed to be a large presence of Disney ducks, Marsupilami and Schlumpfe, with some superhero sprinkled in. I don't remember seeing many back issues.
And notice that the German part is most involved! Probably because the French part are pretty bad in english...
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As demanded by: @thehumantorch , a little article about how things are going about comics in my country.
Here comics is a really little nich, most of the interested people are more focused on a charachter rather than comics on overall, i observed a sort of tendency to batmania, confirmed by my sales data, since i started i sold few stuff to make profits to buy more ( i buy only what i like so i bought again everything which i sold) and 90% of the books were Batman related, to put into perspective, its only based on 8 transactions. However a great part of the announce that i see online are also about Batman, but above all in most of the case its some translated edition, originals are just unfindable and about that i m going to speak of another point:
The comic shops: there's like at best 3 or 4 place to buy original comics in this country and i will be honest: they are motherf*ckers, sorry...
To explain it, my collection is now to 1.2k books, and im under an average price of 3 per books (shipping is include!), which is for me an ammount that im totally agree to paid for a comics. Im principally collecting modern however i own several great keys books, how is it possible? Since the beginning my goal was to complete runs so by the purchase of great lots the value was splited, and i will never have so much than i got now if i had bought them individually...
So now come back to these comic shop
They re offering an interesting selection of random books, mostly Marvel and DC from the 90s or more recent for mmmh... i would say approximately 8 or 10 dollars an issue, and the worst is that you can easily see by the scan that the books arent even in a decent condition... for the keys its going worst... they re priced as CGC high grade slab... so calling it a "scam" is not too much, and by evidence the books are rooting in the boxes for years... the principal target are the tourists who have no idea about comics and just want to bring back a memory, i will say that its look like as the policy of "Mile high Comics" in the USA. So the great parts of the comics transactions is made between the collectors themselves.
To conclude, yes as i said comics are really uncommon, and the people intersted by this universe are rather collecting related stuff, like figures or accessories... few are readings, mostly translated editions, and original floppies are definitely the smaller part and Manga and Franco-Belgian are the principal graphic novels who sell well here.
However, im really happy to have now 3 true friends who are into it and with who i can share my passion, several times when i ordered some stuff for me i d asked to them if they wanted to buy some comics and this way they have saved on shipping, the best moment is when i met them with their new comics and we unbox the stuff togheter, i can see the joy in their eyes!
Here a pics of probably the best books i ordered for a friend, as a great fan of the Teen Titans, following their adventures into the TV Show when i was young, i hope to also buy it for myself a day.
Thanks to everyone who will take the time to read this sh*t and see you soon for new adventures!!!
JR
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On 3/31/2024 at 10:38 PM, Phicks said:
Some pickups this weekend from Carry On Comics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Did you purposely included this aquaman book to hide your Marvel obsession, right?
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On 4/1/2024 at 4:18 PM, rlextherobot said:
Took forever to find a copy with a wrap I was happy with. Why is this book so commonly off-center?
I d take the most off-centered copy of it everyday. However i could understand
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The Graail, the one and only is in the box!
Own it for a week now and honnestly... i always tought that the books of great value could be a good oportunity to resell and buy a new new copy and more books with benefits, so i tought to be open to sell it, but now that i have it, each day i like this book more... i tought to keep it for life, falling in love of each deffect on it.
If you didnt followed my threads since im here, i started 1 years ago with the goal of collecting the 7 complete runs of the JLA original members from 1987 to 2011, today i have almost finished this first project with a bit more than 1200 books in the collection, and this book was just the logical conclusion of this great work, the cherry on the cake i mean.
Now that i got the big one i started to think about completing the fr*aking entire Volume 1 and the idea is growing in my head, i think i will take this path now!
Bought it from Twilight Comics, Swansea, Illinois. Thanks to this amazing shop and his owner Brian who had a really great communication with me during the process, i also asked to him to send me in addition a random book from their dollar bin to get a memory from the shop where i bought the Graail, asked for everything except DC or Marvel, and look below what i received
always loved the pink panther, remember me the cartoons at the TV when i was young
Sorry for the story but here i tought it was necessary.
Thanks for who have read it.
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On 4/1/2024 at 3:34 PM, Ken Aldred said:
A terrible burden, especially when many of these comics contain great story and art, despite that.
Honneslty if the story was making the value tons of Golden Age would rot in the dollar bin, im not saying that these stories were poor, just a different time... and personally i like these old tales but there s no world where they are better than any 80s or 90s or 00s stories...
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On 4/1/2024 at 6:45 AM, Hepcat said:
Beautiful book
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On 4/1/2024 at 2:22 AM, ADAMANTIUM said:
Bought the slab as a raw to submit...
But had to buy the raws to read, thinking surely the wolverine didn't go through with it and it was just a ploy? Variant cover ploy?
Boy was I wrong and glad the notation is now on the slabs
Always was chocked by the violence of this cover
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On 4/1/2024 at 1:49 AM, ADAMANTIUM said:
More Newsstands that I got for the nich, but a direct copy as well to read
See if they're worth there salt, some were "interesting"😉🤔
Isnt it the issue just following one which is worth like 100?
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On 4/1/2024 at 12:12 AM, zzutak said:
It's obvious that English is not your mother tongue. However, since you've now scolded others for not understanding your poor English, let me just say this: your title, "I have chosen to get my book authentic" could easily be read by someone trying to understand you as "I have chosen to get my book authenticated" rather than "I have chosen to leave my book as is" (which is apparently what you meant).
There have been three major milestones in our hobby, and each dramatically expanded it:
- The introduction of a formal, widely-accepted price guide by Robert Overstreet in 1970.
- The publication of The Photo-Journal Guides by Ernst Gerber in 1989/1990 (as Hannibal Lecter notes, "We begin by coveting what we see ...").
- The founding of an independent, third-party grading company by Steve Borock et al in 2000.
"Wisdom is achieved by keeping an open mind and a closed mouth. On the other hand, ignorance is exposed by having an open mouth and a closed mind. "
Sorry if was looking tough, i do not wanted to "scold" someone else.
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On 3/31/2024 at 11:04 PM, shadroch said:
Has the market for the very highest-valued stamps crashed? I know stamp collecting is a dead hobby, but I think the high-end still has significant value.
Yes you right but i was speaking of the difference between random silver and random modern books, batman 227 would keep value but what s the argument on favor of a 212 which a nice copy is today sold for 25/30...
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On 3/31/2024 at 11:08 PM, Yorick said:
It must be the translation of the title. I assumed you intended to have the book graded.
It's a very cool book!
Ah ok got it, the fact is just that i d prefer that the book dont try to look better than his real condition.
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On 3/31/2024 at 10:59 PM, Semicentennial said:
Didn't you just get into the hobby? I'm curious as how someone who is new to the hobby think comic grading kills the hobby when it was here before you even started. I can see how the hobby has changed for those that were in it before the grading company came along, but not for someone who just started since the grading company were already in existence when before they even started.
There s only the grumpy old man to tell you that you can't have an opinion on something older than you...
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On 3/27/2024 at 5:58 PM, Hepcat said:
Here's my own Justice League of America 1 which had visible colour touch on the lower right when I bought it more than twenty years ago:
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The defect grew to bother me so much over the years that about nine years ago I sent it to Susan Cicconi at the Restoration Lab to see what could be done. Well she returned it free of charge saying nothing could be done about the existence of the colour touch but it was no longer visible! Now I'm content with my copy.
Sorry im so blind to detect defect... but i see nothing... where is this colour touch?
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On 3/31/2024 at 7:29 PM, Yorick said:
Why grade it at all? Post pictures of it in the "Grade-My-Comic" section, and use the average from there to print a nice personalized label for it. You already have it in a really nice hardcase. I'd be worried about other people (mail person included) handling it in order to have it graded.
But who have said that i would get it graded?
And the part about the "personalized label" i just dont get the interest... sorry.
Honnestly even if its not a good place to mention it, i have a little hate about cgc and all these grading society who are killing the hobby.
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if the market fall definitly a day as the stamps did and that everything goes to the bottom except a fraction of keys, the books who are already at the bottom couldnt fall more than they are already. I mean a dollar bin book will be a dollar bin book for ever, so there no risk to lost value on it... but a book who worth around 50 have a good margin for falling
You follow me?
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On 3/31/2024 at 3:22 PM, Paul Kosnik said:
Ever consider reattaching by an archival paper mending technique? Reversible, and Conserved label from CGC. That would be the route i would go personally. Preserves the piece from getting lost, presents better, and does not add anything destructive to the comic book.
Well honneslty we re rather talking about few little pieces than just 1... it was divide in 3 so it just looked like frankenstein book as they said
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Notice: im open to best offer
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Beautiful JLA first issue, raw book in good/very good condition.
The principal deffects are: the missing piece in the right top corner, some little tears on the back, few color breaks lines and one staple detached at bottom. Interior is nice.
Asking 1100 usd or eventually trade against another copy or another silver age big key or maybe a Golden age (maybe an All Star
) or even as you know me... a BIG collection of modern DC 
Books is shipped from Switzerland, fees are up to me, but im not responsible of potential supplementary customs fees. sent with a toaploader, in a secure package. It will be no return.
Payment by Paypal, NO FAMILY AND FRIENDS!
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corner piece was fallen irretrievably so i decided to leave the book without rather than stick it with tape or glue.
Who agree? This books looks so proud even with a missing piece
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Lot of 4 early JLA, honnestly #3 look really well on overall, if you didnt have problem with writing on cover it could be a good deal.
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On 3/28/2024 at 9:41 PM, Daryl4Fun said:
Why is there so many different color writing on the cover. Is one worth more then the other i just got the one with blue writing on cover.
This book was truly succesfull so they had to reprint it several times... By luck your not looking about the really recent trends with comics variants
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Unfortunately im the probably the greatest radical of the country, i cannot even think to buy a tpb or omnibus, and dont speak to me about translated stuff
Yes i know that i have a problem...
So i cannot give you my personal opinion on it... except that im a great novel reader so i often go to the library to buy books and when i go i just take a look on the graphic novels part just to see what is offered, and honnestly this part of the library is submerged by the Manga, but also a good quantity of Franco-Belgian. For the US translated comics well... the space dedicated to it is probably smaller than the personal librabry that some people have in their home
these translated edition are mostly some trades of 6 to 8 issues of the recent comic books, there s an editor named Urban Comics who made a good job for DC translation, Marvel are principally managed by Panini and their work are pretty bad, ridiculous translation, books which are often out of stock and some people use it to sell them for stupid price and weak people buy them then we all know that they will be reprint... and nobody care to get the first print of a tpb especially a TRANSLATED tpb... so these price drop are stupid, like some omnibus value in US...
Translated comics in floppy form were totally stopped many years ago for the french editions, dont know if german have survived...