jimhouston1

Amazing World of DC Comics, DC related Magazines and Marvel B&W and Color Magazines are For Sale below. Hello. I have purchase items from Board Members and have sold comics on ebay. Here is a link to my Feedback https://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=jimhouston 1) Payment via PayPal, Checks or MOs 2) I will ship via USPS in a Priority Box. Buyer pays for shipping. 3) Raw books may be returned within 7 days of receipt IF not as described and returned in the same condition. 4) No sales to Probation Members. 5) The first or a typed"I'll take it" or "take it" in the thread gets the book. Amazing World of DC Comics Vol 1 #3 Fine/Very Fine $20.00

I think there are less full run collectors because the comic buyers today may not be reading the comics they buy. Marvel comics we read as kids were continued into the next issue. I knew my son was reading the comics I gave him because he would ask me for the next issue. My wife and I were happy to know he was reading the comics. Even though DC comics were not alway continued next issue there was continuity. We knew some D.C. Heroes were on Earth 1 or Earth 2 and could easily explain it. Also, any slabbed book is not read unless it's broken out of the slab. We paid higher Prices If we wanted to know how a story ended and missed an issue. Especially if it became a key issue.

I use to type up every issue number of comics I collected and cross out issues I had and underline issues I wanted to upgrade. I would put out the last issue I bought and write the next issue number and the word "up" so I knew what to buy next Once I had a computer it made it easier to update the list every month. Now I have photos of each issue I own and I look at the photos on my iPad to see what I want to buy next.

Here is an idea I had to get people into a store that sold comics. In the Bronx we called sub sandwiches "heroes". I thought it would be cool to open a Superhero shop that sold sandwiches everyday and gave away common comics with each sandwich maybe once a week to try to get people to come back as customers of both parts of the store. If you made good sandwiches you have the lunch crowd coming in all the time paying the rent and you still get to sell new comics and older comics and give away the drek so you continually turn over inventory. All comics would need to be bagged so sticky fingers don't mess up the comics. But I was told my store could not be called Superhero because Marvel and DC had the rights to it. A hero sandwich shop opened in The Hamptons that had original heroes painted on the walls but they did not carry comic books. You may need adjoining storefronts but I just wanted to share an idea I had but never tried. I own a TV Production company now and I have always had a job with benefits in education which let me loan the company money when needed to get new equipment. I buy my new comics from Zapp in NJ (Hi Ben) and I buy old comics on line. Whenevef I travel anywhere I look for a Brick and Mortar store just to stop in and say hello and I try to buy something just as a Thank You for helping to keep the hobby alive. When you open I'll come for a visit. Good Luck.

I'll take Detective 91 with 16% discount. Happy Easter

This is an old concern. I was Phil Sueling's first convention, DC Comic Con and sold comics at Creation Con. My favorite part of the conventions were the costume parades. My non-collector friends enjoyed that part of the convention program the most. I dressed as Conan one year and had photos taken with "Red Sonja" and Roy Thomas. Back then "Heidi" would wear costumes that offended older collectors. Then professional strippers started dressing as Vamperilla to win the best dressed competition. New catogories were added to the competition I took my 3 kids to cons. My daughter won a competition dressed as Captain Janeway. Anyway. I buy golden age and silver age comics and I don't mind seeing cos play costumes. I appreciate the work that they put into their costumes.

This is the one in my collection It has some ripples on the cover

I use to get back issues at a Used Book Store behind Fordham Road and just up 2 blocks from Webster Avenue in the Bronx in the 1960s. It was owned by a nice elderly couple. They got their back issues from Passaic Book Store. I started getting Warren back issues there too. I probably have some of those comics I bought still in my collection. I also had 2 catalogs they use to send out if you requested it. They had ads in the marvel comics classifieds with Robert Bell and Howard Rogofsky. I visited the store years later and they had sold all their back issue stock. Not sure who they sold it to.