Dr. Balls

All those surfers are sweet, especially that 4. Damn.

That girl isn't a hooker. She's was a nice, quiet wallflower type of girl!

My first wife was like that. When I upgraded to wife 2.0, I earned the basement hallway and basement living room for my "room" which has lots of area. Other than that, the house is "hers". I love this thread, because I'm trying to plan out a minor remodel of the room - and this place is great for display ideas!

I dunno about three front teeth, but he definitely has some alignment issues. He needs more front end work than my '71 Camaro!

Yep. There's always the super secret chatroom thread. Back on topic, both of you. What was the topic? Breast enhancements on men Or three hooters on women. I'm on the 3rd boob side of the argument.

Ok, ok. I admit it. I never said those things to your mother.

That's actually a great idea. I don't have any children, and I don't have any friends who collect. I'd hate the idea of my cherished treasures being tossed up unceremoniously on Ebay. At least that's one way to pass them on. Now, I just need some friends. Haha.

I can sympathize. My Man Cave is in the basement as well, which flooded last spring due to a broken sewer pipe. It ruined three rooms, but my area was spared - but it has inspired me to remodel it into a cooler comic room. Nice pics of the new joint!

I LOVE the JLA drawing. I don't know much about DC stuff, but I am a sucker for ensemble pieces with lots of characters. Very cool.

I picked up a very nice reading copy of Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney. The typesetting is easy on the eye, much more so than many of the other translations I've seen.

Moon Knight and Daredevil were my first true favorite characters. (outside of Rom, but I was only 6 or 7 at the time) I think they're both underrated.

He got better

A newt?

Well, that's just great. Frank with all his professionalism, courtesy, service and concern for customer's opinions of his company went and ruined a perfectly good crazy person thread!

That and the hair. Well, now I need to see the hair. You know the lion in The Wizard of Oz...?... Whoa.

That and the hair. Well, now I need to see the hair.

At this point, I would suggest forrestdharma solicit the services of excalib12, who is a renowned comic book lawyer.

Well, when you complain about a company on a message board and they show up to give you an explanation - doesn't get much better than that. Hell, I'd probably do future business with Metro simply because Frank cares enough to address a complaint. Kudos to Frank and Metro.

Definitely don't get rid of that rare book - sometimes they are gone forever!

so what's the problem? He paid for something he didn't get, and the resulting pain in the @ss process of returning it, wasting his time, effort and money isn't worth it. This happens frequently on Ebay.

I kind of miss having the book, and CGC seems to assign value to make-ready books, so I might have had something perceived by others as quite valuable.

I used to have what was referred to as the "Blue Wolverine Hologram" Wolverine issue 75 with an all-blue hologram (not gold/green like the original). I had it back in the 90's when I had my shop - it was like a sideshow thing, people would come in and check it out, mostly because no one had ever heard of it, or seen another one around, and it wasn't for sale. To this day, there is not a single reference to it anywhere that I have ever found. Eventually, I did surmise that it was more than likely a make-ready that snuck it's way through the bindery process, bad hologram and all. There were registration issues on the inside of the book as well that clued me into that once I learned more about the printing/prepress process. I ended up giving it away to my number 1 Wolverine customer when I sold my shop and got rid of all my stock.

I dunno - I have to agree with this statement. If I had valuable enough books to necessitate an entire safe to store them - I'd probably have them in a safety deposit box. I wouldn't keep anything mega-valuable stored inside my house. But, back on topic - the question I have is why the preference of a large fire safe compared to a large gun safe? According to this fire safe article , there were 389,000 home fires reported in 2008. According to the US Census, in 2010 there are 131,704,730 homes in the US - using those two figures (despite the variance of the two years data), that is 0.29% of homes succumbed to fire. That seems pretty long odds for fire. A four-drawer legal-sized fire safe is $4,460. And it's not waterproof. I watched a building burn downtown where I work and saw fireman put water on it for 12 hours because of the heat. And it's not like the owner of the building was able to walk through and pull out his valuables. I'm going to guess that if your house burns to the ground, the biggest, largest, longest rated fire safe might not hold up to the heat (especially if it's in the basement where the structure would collapse, taking the slow-burning heat with it) and even if it did - I can't imagine that the residual heat wouldn't damage the books, nor the amount of water used to put out a fire would not make it's way into the safe. If the desire for a safe is simply peace of mind - I would guess a big gun safe with a de-humidifier bolted to the cement from the inside might be the best financial choice? Slap on an insurance rider for your books and that might be enough coverage? Or, if you have $4000-$8000 for a safe, maybe considering a lockbox type of room that is completely insulated and waterproofed might be the better choice. An aquaintance of mine had one formed into his house when he had the foundation done. It was a separate all-cement room that he raised 6 or 8" above the floor and put a commercial-grade steel exterior door on - he didn't collect comics, but he had lots of coins, gold, guns and things of that nature.

Haha. No kidding!