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I don’t really spend a whole lot on comics anymore. So far this year I think I only bought the Usagi Yojimbo Saga vol.9 for like $80. My collection fits in my comic closet and isn’t a significant cost. She spends more on purses

A lot of people here are involved in both.

My kids aren’t into toys at all. They still get them on Christmas and birthdays, and they go in the box until we throw them away. I only own one Elfquest action figure and it’s in storage somewhere but the kids can have it. My boy still likes nerf guns and die cast cars. The girl likes stuffed animals and her iPad.

Elfquest VHS tapes and an Elfquest poster, neither ever arrived. Some comics here and there, again, never arrived until I ordered from I think it was mile high, right before I quit reading comics. I was really soured on mail order for a long time because of my string of bad luck

I listed a half ounce silver round on eBay. Seller sent me an angry message claiming he thought it was a US silver dollar coin. He also disputed the sale saying he never received the item. I gave him the benefit of a doubt because it’s a Morgan style coin, maybe he didn’t read the auction right. Told him send it back and I’ll refund him. He then threatened to call the feds on me if I don’t send him money and let him keep the coin, and then he gave me bad feedback. eBay is withholding payment while the dispute is investigated

What was in the box?

I’ve been here 12 years and they’ve been steady the whole time

I was busy getting all the Silverwolf comics out of the bins, skipping the Archies saying I’d get them another time. Then someone came and cleared the bins of Archies and I was kicking myself because nobody was gonna buy those Silverwolf comics 😂

I think I’m younger than many on here and I remember when they were quarter boxes

I have no clue but it’s not just comics. It’s across the board with just about any collectible/hobby/investment. Did the pandemic do it? The stimulus? I dunno. Lucky I bought my car when I did. Too bad I sold all my comics when I did

There are, or at least were. Years ago on the boards there were a couple home brew grading services posted in here from eBay finds. Top loaders with tamper proof stickers

It wasn’t a coincidence. The mass public outrage at the content of comics at other publishers, and then the Comics Code helped Stan greatly by eliminating the competition

Notice the lack of action lines, smoke, and rubble

You’re only posting double page spreads

Yes

The subject matter is what keeps me from reading most Kirby books but I also don’t like a lot of “poses” in comics. Everyone flexing and facing the camera, panel completely devoid of background. And Kirby’s signature inappropriate smile, which isn’t any worse than the more common fang face, just different

I get all of mine personalized to me because I’m not getting them to re-sell. I look at them more of a memory of a moment when I met someone whose work I admire. I like seeing my name on it. I will buy signatures and sketches by people I haven’t met and I’d prefer if they weren’t personalized to some dude named Josh

Haven’t bought anything but new releases in a year or more

If he liked being employed by Marvel

Would Marvel publish the story if it said Stan did nothing and Ditko did everything?

Many comics industry figures screwed people over and don’t get the hate Liefeld does

Want to be disappointed? Google “Kirby comic”

He wasn’t terrible at comics, although an objective art critic wouldn’t be a fan of his illustration style. He was creating more than lines on paper. It’s a lot of right place at the tight time but if he wasn’t good at what he did an entire industry wouldn’t have imitated it for half a decade. It was all teeth, tits, Guns, claws, and explosions. It’s what the 90’s 12-14 year old was after, and I don’t think most of his fans spent too much time staring at a panel to notice a missing limb or a gun barrel that bends and twists. None of them were looking for an Alan Moore plot. They’re too busy looking at the tits and claws and explosions. I’ve known people who considered Liefeld to be their favorite artist, and those people spent money just like we do. They were looking for something he was providing. I honestly don’t see him to be a whole lot worse than 90’s McFarlane, and it can be difficult at times to tell many 90’s artists apart because they’re all trying to be Liefeld.

As different as The Big Lebowski and No Country For Old Men?

I think it’s obvious Stan did less than he claimed, but I also don’t think he was completely absent from the process. I do think he was just rushing out content off the fly. “Uhh uhh it was a radioactive spider! Call him Spider-Man! Uhh, space radiation! Uhh, radiation from a bomb!” You know he didn’t create Wolverine because he wasn’t bit by a radioactive wolverine