mysterio

I'm doing a LOT fewer books than I did 4-5 years ago. I was never a huge player in SS, but I would do a couple dozen a year there for a while. As prices have escalated I have turned more of that money into SA books rather than modern SS. I think I've done one SS book in the last 3-4 years (a Starlin last month).

About a month out, if anyone cares.

About two months away.

About six months away.

For CGC the upcharge is something like $5 a book, give or take. You would be correct that that would provide room to give him some money, but obviously not a lot. That upcharge is almost certainly going to offset the costs of CGC setting up and providing witnesses at the various shows, so once you factor that in the "wiggle room" loses most of its wiggle. Say Rob gets 20% of that upcharge, that is a buck a book. Not a particularly lucrative deal.

Great looking book for the grade! Sooner or later I will need to bite the bullet and go after one of those...

3 for 3 this month, I’m done.

Had another bid hold up to help with the shipping.

Pat Broderick added.

Never noticed that the claw at the very bottom of the cover is being held by his pinky.

A signature seems more like a product to me. It’s a tangible thing. Installing something is a service. Delivering something is a service. A signature is a product that can be passed on to another buyer. I can’t resell a delivery or an installation, only pay again to repeat them. Signing a book is essentially manufacturing a product.

The question was in regards to different amounts charged for the same thing: a signature. By your logic, a gas station would have the right to see if you drive for Uber and charge you more per gallon of gas if you do. After all, you’re going to profit off of their gas so they deserve a piece of that. Right?

Not to mention, if I sell the slabbed book to someone, who then later resells it, does that next seller need to send a creator that signed it more money?

But which cover?

No Spawn is drek. Is it worth it to have a garage full of BS that might have a couple of books that might someday pop to $10 for 3 days?

I just feel like any group that would aspire to “inclusivity” by making anyone feel excluded needs to think about what their goals are.

Got the book I was after. Paid more than the last time it auctioned, but I think the price was fair. The fact that I share a name with the graffiti artist gave me special reason to pursue this copy.

This could also help explain why some are more difficult than others. If they started, or finished, prepping bulk packs with regular versions of books it would create disparities in DCU population numbers.

Quite possibly.

Sorry I left your name off, Rick!

I am sure that as the show approaches people that are vending will speak up. Off the top of my head I know of the following already: Black Cat Comics (bcc here) Duncanville Bookstore (I think their board handle is dvillebookstore) Monster's Lair Comics (that is their board name, and I will be working that booth as well) If you have specific wants to be filled, I would either post a list of issues or titles here so any vendors can see them, or wait to PM those that come to the thread. Trading is also definitely encouraged if you want to bring books to the show to shop around.

Cool, thanks for that. That would explain why some of these, like the Supes #118, are fairly easy even though they are relatively late DCUs (exceptions to the "1996 DCUs are the most difficult" rule of thumb). It does beg the question of why a book like Supes #118 is fairly common even though other books from those sets (like MOS #63) are difficult. I have seen a bunch of Wedding DCUs, but nary a single copy of MOS #63. So, either the MOSs got destroyed in much higher numbers than the wedding books or #118, or there were different distribution channels that ratcheted up the extant numbers of #118 and the wedding books and not MOS #63. These are the questions that are so interesting in regards to these variants.

It'd be interesting to see if there are any exceptions to this. I've got a couple of two-packs, but they tend to contain more difficult to find DCUs.

I was about to type something along these lines earlier, but bailed. You're paying the facilitator for a service. It's not exactly cheap to fly around the country, stay at hotels, drag around fat stacks of books, walk a 50 mile lap around the convention center every day, stand in line, prep books, fill out paperwork, etc. I certainly wouldn't expect someone to do it for free, and god knows I'm too lazy to do it myself! This. People deserve to be paid for work performed and services rendered, especially if we would expect them to be done well. I don't even mind paying (most) creators a fee for their signatures, because they often couldn't/wouldn't appear at a show without compensation of some sort. But expecting to charge more for a CGC book is unfair. I've always thought that if these creators think that their signatures are adding so much value, then they ought to submit their own books for CGC and reap all the "fat stacks" themselves. If they truly believe that everyone is making mega-profits then that would be an easy way to move to easy street.