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I don't consider myself a dealer yet and I'll probably never own a physical store because I don't want one or see the need of it for a long time. I don't want to collect for fun I want to make money with this and when I have a decent amount of money then will I only collect for fun and my thoughts on long term investments is I've been doing it all wrong all the current comics I have a "long term investments" and it's not going well so far. And, as everyone has been saying, this is the exact opposite of the way you should be going about this. You will learn much more with less pressure if you collect for fun first. You're trying to cram too much knowledge into too small of a time window. This will continue to go poorly as long as you insist on swimming against the current. I've been collecting for 35 years and am just now starting to dip my toes into selling, and I recognize that I still have a lot to learn. I recognize that it is still difficult to pick winners and buy at prices that will allow a bit of profit. You can't force this overnight and expect to make any money.

I see what your doing and the answer to that would be no I wouldn't credit him $100 for it. Then why would you think he should give you more? If someone pulled that on here, they'd get skewered. Not sure why you continually get the benefit of the doubt. My thoughts as to why he should give me more is because the value of the comic went up while his didn't. I don't ask people to give me the benefit of the doubt unless someone is saying I want to scam them which I don't. I admit my mistakes and I do my best to learn from them. And if the book had gone up a month or a year later would you have expected him to pony up the difference? When you agree to a deal, you agree to a deal. You live with the consequences of the deal that you made. When you change the terms of the deal after they've already been agreed to it does look like a scam, and it looks like you don't have the integrity to stick to the terms of the deal that you agreed to. If you come up on the wrong side of the trade, which you clearly did here, you take your lumps and learn from it. But learning from your mistakes doesn't seem to be your strong suit.

RIP

Seven months away. Doesn't look like Wizard has changed their booth prices, unless you count raising them by $100, so it'll cost you $1,100 to sell in Des Moines vs $1,500 for the four day Chicago show.

I'd love to make it down, but that weekend may be difficult...

Wait, previews can be first appearances? If the story is original, yes. If not, no. The nature of a "preview" almost universally means that it's material intended to be printed elsewhere. I'm pretty sure that the Damage Control preview in Marvel Age Annual #4 is not excerpts from the book, but it's been a while since I read it. I do remember that the Wolverine preview is sort of a recap of what had been happening with the character in X-Men, so it's not exactly a story, although the art is original. A good example of a legit first appearance in a preview is Lazarus. I just read the story in Marvel Age Annual #4. It's a 4 page, original story that predates Damage Control's other appearances. Even at only 4 pages, it's actually a frame story - the first page has a guy from Damage Control approaching the Joe Fixit version of Hulk and handing him a brochure about Damage Control. Pages 2-3 are basically an ad for Damage Control (which Hulk is reading) explaining what the series is. And page 4 is Hulk kicking the guy's butt and tossing him out of the casino. So it is an original story, not an excerpt of a later published issue. It's not much of a first appearance - in terms of these sorts of things, it's not as strong as something like Rat Queens in Image What's Next - but I think it is their first appearance. Erm, we're talking Damage Control, right? Who cares? Even if this show gets picked, and even if it does better than Walking dead (Sorry, I have to be my eccentric self here, bear with me), its still a series about a unit reconstructing demolished areas. How will this ever generate cult following status?? People just get into the habit of "investing" in "optioned" books without even thinking of the book's context. This is a fun series, a brilliant concept and Im glad it got picked. But come on now.. When it comes to Hollywood I think the "yeah, we can do it but should we?" Question got thrown out the window a long time ago. Yep.

I’m never sure when you are joking and when you are serious, but what are "latchkey kids"? I see the term refers to a copy of a key. Kids who come home to an empty house because no adults are home. They need their own keys to get in, which is where the term comes from.

I'm not sure what you'd need to qualify as meat, but turning $4 (if they all came out of a dollar box) into $19 before fees sounds fairly meaty to me. 400% profit isn't meat?

By who? I've got one in a box somewhere. At this point, I would be very surprised to find ANY DC book from 1994-late 96 that doesn't have one. Earlier in the thread there was a conversation about it, and Revat took it off the list because there were some books where a second print may have been confused for being a DCU. It was originally on the master list, then it was taken off.

Thanks for the update! Can you still edit the list in the first post?

So this book has a first and second print, plus a DCU. I was very pleasantly surprised to find it. Nice find! Thanks! I almost passed it over because I have both first and second prints and this book was not thought to have a DCU variant. I'm glad I looked more closely. This, and the Looney Tunes #15 I found back at the end of August, really underscore the need to check any DCs from this time period. You never know when you might find a new DCU.

So this book has a first and second print, plus a DCU. I was very pleasantly surprised to find it.

Just found a Flash #94 DCU. I'll scan it tonight.

I still think you can sip a little homerum for a good sale. You turned $30 into $300, a pretty nice profit for the money risked. The buyer had to risk more capital and turned a much lower profit on a percentage basis. I think you did just fine taking the profit you did, especially when you consider that for all anyone knew then Saga could have been a $5 book three weeks later. If you made 9x your money that's nothing to sneeze at.

Nabbed this one in the Comiclink auction last night, I've always liked the cover.

Home page Looks like Wizard is shifting some shows around to try some new strategies...

It is a great cover. One of my faves from JIM. I didn't even notice the boat until I counted the people on the water tower in response to that other post (though I have always wondered what they were doing there). It's a cover that would definitely make me pay my dime for the comic. I'd bet that most of these covers take some artistic license for the sake of creating drama, perspective being the most often bruised. But I'd rather look at pre-hero Marvel covers than any other SA books I can think of.

Very cool copy! Always wondered what the lady (?) on Mummex's back was trying to do. -bc I'm more curious about what some of the people on the covers posted on the last page were trying to do. Why are there three people hanging off the legs of a water tower, and what is the guy sliding across the back of the mummy's hand hoping to do? And this is to say nothing at all about the perspective on #63, as that is either a toy boat that is sinking under his right armpit or the folks on the dock are giants...

Yes, the crunching can get loud.

Word on the street is that there will be a 2016 version with dates announced soon. I enjoyed the day I went and would go back.

Here you go.

Poor Uncle Ben. Maybe this version of Spider-man can actually catch the mugger that killed the last version of Uncle Ben to complete the origin retelling in ASM.

The treasury doesn't seem to be that difficult. The first appearance is the paperback with Yoda colored purple (colorists were given no guidance, so they guessed at his color). Later editions show Yoda as the correct green.

My thought exactly.