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Anyone here know if the first story in World's Finest Comics 71 has ever been reprinted either in comic book form or in a collection? Please LMK as I bought a nice CGC copy of the book from GAtor at San Diego last week. I would love to read the story.

 

Thanks,

 

SLR

 

Yes, DC has a black and white World's Finest paperback out that reprints the Superman/Batman stories from 71-100.

It's also been reprinted in World's Finest #179.

Pretty clear what this guy is doing. Trying to get refunds when one isn't due to get free books or partial refunds to get them cheaper. Nothing more than a conman since it's obviously happened to a few people. Should be added to the HoS.

Agreed!

So never had cause to use this thread before but what can a seller do to a buyer?

 

I sold some books a week and a half ago. Buyer gets them saying one slab is cracked. I told him to send me pics of the box and of the slab so I could see because they were double boxed. Buyer then removes himself from the topic and opens a paypal claim. I replied to the claim and then to the buyer in a new pm. New pm states that I offered a counter refund to cover a reholder fee and that he cannot get a response to me if he removes himself from the topic. Without replying he simply removes himself from that pm as well.

 

Edit: Sale was for two books shipped for $110. I think I had them up for 60 each. Buyer is asking for $80 in the refund.

 

you may have to wait for the paypal outcome and see if the book is returned before you can nominate the buyer

if you want, out the buyer anyway and see if he/she shows up here

 

Yes. Please out this person so I don't have to sell to him.

 

 

 

I'd like to know as well

 

I didn't realize the reholder fee had been bumped up to $80 a book.

 

Sounds like someone's dipped in the peyote bucket again.

I countered him with a $30 refund and he accepted. That should cover a reholder and some shipping assuming it really is damaged. The guy's user name is gecko157 for those of you that care. I guess it is resolved but he is now on my ignore list and I will never have any dealings with him again.

gecko157 just opened a $50 PayPal dispute against me. Here's what it says:

 

"The top label of the book has been removed. You did not disclose this to me prior to the purchase. I would like to send in for a refund or I would accept a partial refund to have the book re-slabbed."

 

He never PM'd me after receiving the book. Just opened a the dispute with PayPal.

 

The sale was for $130 shipped, by the way. I packed the book myself and the top label was still attached when I did. I e-mailed him back through PayPal just to send the book back for a full refund. I'm curious how this will play out.

 

In the meantime, I think sellers here should be aware.

The top label? Seriously?

He opened a PayPal dispute over the fact that the top label is missing?

This guy sounds like a real pain in the .

American culture (pop or otherwise) is my passion. Sports, movies, TV, comics, literature, you name it.

It started with some Batman comic books when I was 5 and it all went to hell from there.

But baseball is the only one I could never really get. Even though I love most movies that deal with the sport, I could never really convince myself to watch an actual game.

I'm pretty sure the person on the left of the "I" photo is Ted Williams.

Assuming Scrooge is correct (a pretty good assumption) and "I" matches #9, then you also have Ham Fisher (Joe Palooka).

You mean Ted Williams the baseball player, right?

My lack of familiarity with this particular sport is showing. The guy is (as far as I know) a legend and even though I've heard of him, I had never even seen a single photo of his so as to know what he looks like.

My picks are based on a combination of personal knowledge, google searches and pure guesswork...

- A is Chic Young, creator of Blondie (cartoon #11), and the two cuties are, If we believe Wikipedia, picture, Jane Lane and Gretchen Davidson (both models).

- B is Otto Soglow, creator of The Little King (#3). The lady is singer Kate Smith.

- C is George McManus, creator of Bringing Up Father (#8). The other guy, of course, is Buster Keaton.

- D Is Zack Mosley (Smilin' Jack, #5).

- E is Milton Caniff (Steve Canyon, #6) with Joan Crawford.

- F is Billy DeBeck (Barney Google, #1) with Jack Dempsey.

- G is Alex Raymond, creator of Secret Agent X-9 (#10).

- H is Harold Grey, creator of Little Orphan Annie (#13).

- I... No idea!

- J is (probably) Chic Young again, with (definitely!) Olivia De Havilland.

- K is Hal Foster (Prince Valiant, #7)

- L would probably be Billy De Beck again, since the strip pictured is Snuffy Smith.

Based on the comic characters pictured, I would assume that the cartoonist in picture "I" is either Walt Kelly, V.T. Hamlin, or Ham Fisher.

But I could be wrong...

30 days? . I put my books up at auction here for $1, the have a gude value of about $600 and they sold for $50, I also stated that I would only charge1/2 price for international shipping. The weight of the lot of books forces me to ship priority $33 and I am paying out of pocket $16 of that actully. What I am saying is that Tis is a smoking hot deal for the noob and now the no response thing. 30 days? Now if I received a request like, can I pay you in a month I would certainly be so accomadating. Having heard nothing. Keep in mind I did not run a sale and get GPA+ on a book and made a good flip, so waiting for an imaginary deal isn't so bad. I am losing so big in this deal and having to wait 30 days is just wrong on top of it.

It was the lot with the Blackhawks and the other SA DC stuff, right? 19 nice mid-grade SA DCs was, indeed, a pretty sweat deal for $67 postpaid.

Speaking as an international collector, I think that the (non)buyer should be added to the Probation list just for being dumb!

(I kid. But not much... )

I have a friend that loves the original X-O title, so I thought I would surprise him with a nice example of an X-O Manowar 1. Even better, a board member selling Valiants in his thread informs me he has two 9.4 (+) copies of this book that I can buy as part of my purchases. I thought that was really nice of him, and perfect timing to deliver one as a gift.

 

 

 

My 9.4 (+)s have arrived.

 

 

 

 

 

I'll wait the 30 days expected on the forum in the event this situation isn't addressed. Unfortunately, the board member seems to log in and post on the boards - just not respond to PMs. Thank goodness these were not expensive.

 

So sellers unsure of your books, please - please - please take those books out when grading and bring yourself comfort what you sell matches what you state. It's a huge help to both parties.

Yikes!!!

This is definitely not cool. Hope everything works out in the end, Bosco. (thumbs u

It's been an interesting,

 

I took our son to a LCS to check out some Simpson and Muppet comics. While I was browsing I ran into a small stack of Fatale #1 2nd prints and a stack of Fatale # 2s. So I grabbed both stacks but when it came time to check out, the dealer told me I could only buy one of each? Is this standard LCS practice?

 

Now for the rest of the story,

 

The above wasn't my normal LCS I like to visit, it was just more convient at the time. Well after I was denyed buying those books. I decided I would go ask my usual crack dealer. So I walk in the store and first thing I asked the owner, do you have a limit on books, the owner's reply, yes, what ever you see on the shelves. So I asked, if say you just got a stack of Batmans for example, I could buy them all, his reply was yes. So I proceeded to see if he had any Fatale's on hand and there they was, two complete sets of first prints I grabbed all four plus a couple Fatale # 2s and headed for the door. The dealer never blinked once about it.

 

I guess I should thank the first LCS, if I had been allowed to buy his 2nd prints, I wouldn't have looked else where and never found the 1st prints.

 

I've had similar things happen. The only thing that it's done is the same thing that your experience did for you: I basically now shop almost exclusively at my old LCS (Lee's comics in Mountain View). Even though it's a 45 minute drive from my home, I tend to be in the area every week anyway for work, so it's not a big deal. Still, I find it baffling when LCS' don't want to sell their products to customers. Comic shops that are serious about making sure that their customers get their books offer really flexible and easy subscription programs.

 

Yes sir, instead he turned down about 20.00-30.00 in sales.

 

I ran into the same thing with toys-r-us with hot wheels and Star Wars. They actually had signs posted limited one! I would go bankrupt if I turned customers away.

 

 

 

If a store has a specific sign that says "limited to 1 per customer" or something like that, then I'm OK with it. It's their stock and they can choose how to market and sell it.

But, if they don't make it clear from the beginning and let me get to the register and only THEN point out that they can sell me only one copy, we'd probably have to do some serious talking.

To return to the topic at hand ... does anyone know whether the Darker Image ashcan predates Darker Image #1?

 

 

What's odd about Image at that time is that, jumping on the ashcan bandwagon, they had a tendency to release ashcans as dealer promos AFTER the issues hit the stands. I have a box of promotional material in storage and this was right in the wheelhouse of when I had my Diamond account and I remember getting ashcans after the fact. It was strange.

I'm almost certain that the Darker Image Ashcan came out after the actual #1.

Name ONE other Boardie that gets gangraped like RMA. One. No one has to put up with what he has to put up with. Regardless of how "annoying" he is. If I said I like NFL Superpro and 15 people told me I was stupid, that is one thing. But if, every time I got engaged in any thread (at least in General) a 15 headed Lernean Hydra of Internet Trollhate came at me, I would leave this place. It would suck so bad, i would leave.

 

RMA won't leave. He will keep hacking at heads until there are so many that finally he gets gobbled up. And that will suck.

Great post. Most of RMA's detractors are suffering from the same dogged determinism that RMA is chided for. They can't let him go. They are just as much like a dog with a bone as RMA himself is. The problem is that they can't see it, because they are too busy saying "Look at RMA, look at all the threads he is in causing trouble," rather than saying to themselves, "Why am I following this guy around and pointing out what a I think he is?"

 

It is almost always patently false. He is not causing trouble. He is zealously, vociferously and aggressively debating all of the points that he feels are worthy of his efforts. If you don't like it, go away. I did. Go find the last time I really engaged RMA. It was about the comics distribution system. I thought he was full of mess, but he kept on steaming along. Finally I gave up. He is still my friend, even though I think he was cuckoo for cocoa puffs for thinking that he knows exactly what may or may not have happened with pallets of Silver Surfer #4s circa 1969.

 

These are posts on an internet chat board and the haters get themselves wound so frickin tight about his posts and then they blame him. HUH? The bottom line is that haters want him gone, and they follow him around to goad him into engaging all of them at once and making himself look like he is frothing at the mouth, because they want him gone. The real question is whether he will stop taking the bait before the haters get what they want.

 

+1

+ infinity

Seriously, a lot of the people who accuse RMA of certain things are certainly just as "guilty" of these same things.

RMA's "problem" is that whenever he's gang banged (and he has been gang banged constantly in the last few months), he prefers to take on each attacker separately so he ends up replying to 10 people one after the other. Could he possibly just let go and not respond or just put some people on ignore and never bother with them again? Sure, I guess.

But the same thing goes for everyone here! I don't understand where the double standard comes from.

Welcome back, RMA!

(And I voted 'yes', as well. )

I'll take a pic if I can summon up the will.

 

MANNUP!

Yeah, we wanna see it!

Please?

Avg. print run for 1990 is 480K.

And I agree with RMA on this one. I just don't see it happening. This is one troubled book and it's entirely possible that a 9.8 never actually existed.

In my opinion, you're doing absolutely nothing wrong in this case. (thumbs u

The buyer is trying to convince you to commit fraud by declaring a false value on the the item. Under no circumstances are you forced to comply and I would totally support your decision to end the transaction if the buyer doesn't change his tune.

Is Popeye public domain?

 

Popeye the character is a registered trademark of King Features.

 

The earliest Popeye strips by E.C. Segar, though, were published before 1923 and are now public domain.

 

This means that you can't create a new comic book (or strip, or TV cartoon) with Popeye without the permission of King Features, but, in theory, you could reprint the strips from 1919-1923. I'm fairly certain, though, that King Features will have a fit about you making money off their trademarked properties.

 

At least, that's how I understand it.

 

I believe Popeye is public domain in Europe now.

I'm still not sure if King it's that cut-and-dried, though. Way I see it, King could still make a strong case of trademark infringement, if anyone tried to publish anything with the characters without the Syndicate's permission.

Is Popeye public domain?

Popeye the character is a registered trademark of King Features.

The earliest Popeye strips by E.C. Segar, though, were published before 1923 and are now public domain.

This means that you can't create a new comic book (or strip, or TV cartoon) with Popeye without the permission of King Features, but, in theory, you could reprint the strips from 1919-1923. I'm fairly certain, though, that King Features will have a fit about you making money off their trademarked properties.

At least, that's how I understand it.

Some observations about the covers I posted:

 

Have you ever seen a pink room before on a comic?

 

Lois Lane #13

 

Why is Pa Kent still wearing a tie?

 

Why not?

 

If the box of marshmallows are full, where did the one come from on the skewer? For that matter, who eats roasted marshmallows in their living room?

 

Not to mention that the marshmallows in the box seem to be significantly smaller than the ones being roasted.

Murphy Anderson can draw women....baby got back

 

No argument there!

 

Would you really leave your non super powered young son sitting on a fence while you just flew off with his super powered brother?

 

Bad parenting on Superman's part, that's for sure...

2. is Barbara Stanwyk

3. looks like Donovan.

I'm sure Ted's kidding about 7.

 

3. looks like Dylan to me

Judging from the fact that many of the pics' names contain the initials of the people pictured ("lt" for Liz Taylor, "bs" for Barbara Stanwyck, etc.), should we conclude that it's someone whose initials are "A.R."?

Well done, Mike! It's always nice to see good things happening to good guys!

There are 4 or 5 cheap copies on eBay right now.

I'm in the process of migrating my collection from poly to Mylites2. I've been quite regimented in replacing poly bags and boards every 5 years. It starts out as a fun little task but soon becomes endless days of repetition.

 

This thread has been an absolute godsend in ensuring I'm buying the right bag type for my books.

 

Definately needs to be stickied up there with Boozads shipping guide..

 

Now all I need to find is a relatively low cost way of obtaining the Mylites in the UK. Based on board consensus Hotflips would be the way to go if I was in the U.S.

 

Any UK boardies got any local recommendations?

 

P.S. Stickie please

E. Gerber Archival supplies (the ones that Hotflips has) are available through Diamond, so, in theory, your local comic shop should be able to order them for you, even if they don't carry them at the moment.

I'm not absolutely certain they're gonna be any cheaper than ordering directly from Hotflips, though. (I know that for me it isn't)

Super-excited to add Superman #1 to my collection. I've wanted one since I was a kid, but just got serious about it this year. Shows what you can do if you put your mind to it.

 

Toilet paper!

Just kidding! Congrats!

Why hasn't this thread been pinned at the top of this page yet?

Hear, hear!

One of the most useful and informative threads in the history of the boards