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Coming up in about a month (September 14-16, title is wrong). I might be heading down for it.

Quoting this is worth a bump back to page 1.

@bffnutTop of page 52.

At least he didn’t leave any porn tabs up.

Definitely this. Box was left on the road under my mailbox in a heavy thunderstorm with hail all night. Fortunately the book was wrapped in like 30 feet of bubble wrap so it stayed dry. This was how we learned to check the road for packages.

I have to admit that, even though I couldn’t care less, I had this same thought.

Wish one of those faces was going to be mine... Missing this show is a bit like missing Christmas.

Preview night in two weeks!

Won my entry to the club in the last Clink auction.

I took several years off from buying toys, and sold some of them off (namely BTAS and Spidey Animated), but fortunately I kept my Secret Wars. They’ve gotten pricey since I last checked! Now I just need to remember what I did with my sealed Tower of Doom...

@Chip Cataldo, those are fantastic. Thanks for posting the pics.

Luckily Comiclink still allows the customer to dictate how they would like their own books to be shipped. Just rerouted my latest wins to my local FedEx office for pickup, where I’ll be required to show a photo ID to get them at my convenience.

Now that my one FT is coming back I closed the tab on my phone so I can do just that on my others.

Sacilitator sounds like something illegal in most states.

They do have some creators listed. Starlin and Ron Lim are the highlights.

You and me both. I had one in my Hulk run once upon a time, but sold that off about 10 years ago to raise funds when I started attending cons again.

Yeah, that was my mistake in not taking enough time to respond. Thanks for clarifying.

That’s fine, you just hadn’t provided a lot of detail in the first post. To my eyes they’re both autograph shows. Not sure who is spending with vendors after blowing $1000+ on autos and photos. They have payment plans on these ops now, so you don’t even have to come up with all the cash at once. If you have to use a payment plan for a photo that should tell you something about where the costs of these things have gotten (and that vendors aren’t getting any of their money).

That’s the deluxe, which is still a desirable book.

Those Robins are worth picking up. If the Robin #14 is the non-deluxe version PM me.

Especially if the buyer pool is *really* small, and that $50 book could quickly go back to being a $5 book.

Man of Steel #28 is known, so that may be a typo on the list. The #103 is not common and those higher number AOSs aren’t super common, but wouldn’t go so far as to say rare.

This may be a YMMV moment, as I’ve found about four of those. Other Showcase 94s are quite a bit more difficult, to me anyway.

I’ve always wanted to find books at prices I’m willing to pay. Sometimes that’s under market, sometimes it’s over. Value is a different proposition for everyone. Sometimes it takes a few years to find that thing at that price. Either I do, or I keep looking, or I lose interest and forget about it because it wasn’t that important anyway (this last one has saved me a bit over the years). In the past few years I’ve learned about my habits as a collector. I like to make acquisitions. It scratches that itch whether it’s a $1 book or a $1,000 book. Having a few foci at different price points helps. As someone else mentioned, I’m working on DCU variants. I’m also filling in a Nam run at $1 apiece and recently re-completed Robinson’s Starman through a similar hunt. Starman took about 3 years, but it was enjoyable. If there are other books I would like but can’t find or afford (or simply don’t want to afford at today’s market price), then I can be patient and wait for my opportunity. And I’m constantly glad that I bought most of the early/key ASMs back in the late 80s when I could afford them. That also helps. But if I hadn’t the same principle would apply.