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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 

On 4/20/2021 at 1:58 AM, Corona smith said:

You realize you’re in a Comic book forum, right? Unsure why you’re posting about coins here. 

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

20 minutes ago, wisbyron said:

Yeah. I was a child in the 1980s' and I visited many regional comic book stores along the East Coast and there were quarter boxes, 50 cent boxes, and then 3 for a dollar boxes. I just wanted any comic I could read and, off the top of my head, I remember getting old Defenders from the late seventies from the 50 cent boxes and then stuff like an 80s' B&W Airman reprint, Ditko's Static, things I'd never have been exposed to otherwise. As this was when my Grandparents had a specific house, this would have been like 1987. I loved it. You'll still sometimes see 50 cent boxes at cons but it's more dollar boxes. No complaints. 

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 

2 hours ago, shadroch said:

Funny you should say that.

In the 1940's, there were many dozen comic publishers. In the 1950's, that number declined to a precious few. Companies that had been huge all faded away. Yet somehow, the company formerly known as Timely kept plugging away. Crestwood failed, Simon and Kirby failed, Quality failed, EC failed, MLJ failed, Gleason failed, but somehow Stan kept his little company going, even after it distributors closed. 

Was Stan producing great stuff? Not at all, but his job wasn't to produce great stuff, it was to sell comics and that's what he did. By the late 50s, there were only a handful of companies left, and I suppose it might have been a coincidence but one of them was Stan's.  It was a third rate company, but it sold comics and kept it's doors open. That's something very few of his competing editors could say

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

8 minutes ago, kav said:

Nope

You’re only posting double page spreads

23 minutes ago, kav said:

Devoid of background?
 

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 

5 minutes ago, kav said:

would Ditko lie?

If he liked being employed by Marvel

1 hour ago, kav said:

what abt Ditko's own words tho?

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

8 minutes ago, XjYoZbQ said:

 You obviously do not know the history of Liefeld screwing people over.

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

Want to be disappointed? Google “Kirby comic”

3 hours ago, newshane said:

To succeed wildly at something that you're actually terrible at doing. 

I would normally applaud such astonishing overachievement, but that would mean applauding a system based on anything but meritocracy. Think of all of the legitimate artists who will die unknown and poor. Then, you have straight bums making millions. How does this even happen? 

 

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. 

16 minutes ago, kav said:

There's no way say Kirby wrote FF and Kamandi-the difference in writing style is like that between john grisham and dr seuss.
Likewise ditko with spider man and mr A.

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