Buzzetta

Starcom might have been one of the best toys that never had its proper respect. Everything was kind of in scale with the figures. There were playsets and vehicles and vehicles that go inside other vehicles and it was not too cost or space prohibitive. Damn both of you... now I am going to start looking into getting a Starmax Bomber.

So I've alluded to the ongoing war against the wasps... and I believe the war is over. I did many a shovel strike into the earth pouring chemicals and bleach into it. Today I yanked out the rotted stump and roots of something long buried and the remains of a now gelatinous mass around it. There were two strays that flew at me and I hit one with the broom (reflex - trust me, no skill) and as it was stunned to the ground I stomped it and slid my foot. As that happened his wingman stung my ankle and I smacked it dead. I think that is about 6-7 stings over the course of the week. War over and the flies are feasting on the remains of the hive on the lawn. So because I yanked out part of the cement rockwall... I had to start digging to replace it with a new wall I will build. Then I found this... It's cool. It's a spoil of war. I want to keep it. So how do I clean it up? I can make out a 1966 Matchbox stamp on it and miraculously the stickers are in tact. According to the online guide and based on the wheel type, it was produced from 1966-1969. I am also putting this in plastic crack and tagging a couple of guys here that might know what to do. @STORMSHADOW_80 @Robot Man

Very good... I bought a GA book that had disclosed CT on it... that was advertised... it came back from CGC as trimmed. I have no problem with CT on certain GA books... truly does not bother me. I don't want a trimmed book in my collection. Heritage took it back. It wound up going for about a little more than half of what I bought it for. Apparently collectors do not like trimmed either.

They don't tell you. I was told that I was detained for a random search. I believe that I might have been flagged for an earlier incident in 2005. I hitchhiked out of Hurricane Katrina. My family and friends arranged for me to pick up a one way ticket back to New York flying out of Memphis. Think of the time period and that did not go over too well once I arrived at the airport. My brother, who at the time shared the same legal address as me, had also been detained. He decided to play poker in Montreal and took too much cash with him over the border. He was searched. So there are a couple of reasons leading up to me being flagged crossing back into the United States in 2011 from Canada. Since 2011 I have not been out of the country. I have had too much going on to really go on vacation and leave the country.

I have been selling comics and toys and things like that for about twenty years since high school. I realized real quick that I could sell comics and stuff I no longer wanted and get more money selling it than trading it in to the comic store. I was selling on the Prodigy message boards in 1995 and was on eBay by 1998. In fact if anyone on the boards bought any copies of Shi #1 autographed by Billy Tucci from a guy on Long Island in the 90's over the Prodigy Message Board... that was me. Yes, they were really signed... The store owner bought too many after a signing in his store... I bought each book in mass quantity on what turned out to be about $5 each I think... I sold each copy for $25. Yay capitalism. Do I have a Passport? Yes... although I have not used it as much as I wish I have. Fun Fact... Last time I left the country I was detained on the way back in. Fun Fact II... US Customs officials go berserk as you take pictures of them as they are yelling at you.

I actually laughed out loud...

One time I called and did not get a satisfactory response... Then I decided to ask here, on the boards, if others were having the same issue... I called again... and crickets... This eventually evolved into a complaint. The head guy in charge, El Presidente, who is no longer El Presidente there but El Presidente of his own thing got involved and took care of it for me. Next thing you know my book is in the mail ! Yes, I did wait on the lawn for that book with a bucket of beer... It was the big un' in my collection.

I was hoping to be a judge for the Greggy's Anyway... Apparently my vote matters or something like that. If anyone is up for consideration I can easily be bribed with Legos... Here... a song...

Your honor, will I get my books back soon?

This doesn't count since I found the thread before you. For those that don't know, the guy who went nuts on Baltimore Lauren is the guy who had his Batman books stolen and is going nuts in another thread in gold.

Before the Mods shut this thread down... and you know they will... I think we should explore the OP's post history... @Gotham Kid, @jaybuck43 @mattn792 Alfred Pennyworth's Tremendous Five Post Contribution to the Boards... Now... let's examine one of those further... Apparently his first post here was to counter Baltimore Lauren's claim about a deal that went bad seemingly between her dad and himself. You can find that one right HERE The original poster seems to have always been an angry young man. Of course... if you want to get it in context I would suggest reading the whole thread. It's a time warp thing going back in time 10 years... but hey... as far as CGC's hottest threads? This thread has EVERYTHING... it has Baltimore Lauren, ComicalGems, RMA, Angry Caplock posts, BHComics, Jeffro being Jeffro and Human Suitcases What's a Human Suitcase? A human suitcase is when a little person on roller skates is wearing all of your clothes and you pull them on a string through an airport.

I'm sorry... you are correct... Peace and Love, Peace and Love...

Same here... I started buying GA around 2011? 2012? I could not afford to buy what I have already purchased at today's prices... or at least not all of it.

I don't believe you. You told me that there would be some big concert this summer by your country house... That almost turned into another "Fyre Festival"...

I'm trying to get a certain someone to come with me to meet the penguins at the Bronx zoo... but in the meantime... I just told her about NJ Alpaca farms... You know what I immediately included in that text message?

In Pakistan a child of nine months was charged with attempted murder... Granted the case was thrown out BUT the baby was processed. https://www.cnn.com/2014/04/12/world/asia/pakistani-baby-case/index.html

Dear forum... I thought we had an understanding... @Buzzetta

We were texting back and forth a few times this weekend and you never mentioned Alpacas! What the? I wanna see the Alpacas.

I still kick myself for not buying the Ideal Superman for a few hundred when I had the chance.

I cut into threes... GF does not like a lot of garlic or cilantro so I went a little bit light. This was for 1 3/4 lbs of strip steak 2 Cloves of garlic chopped 1 tsp of cumin 1/4 Soy 4 TBSP of Brown Sugar 3/4 cup of Tequila 3/4 cup if lime juice clump of minced cilantro Take the above and mix the bejeesus out of it until the brown sugar is dissolved in the mix. Get a ziplock bag and toss in your raw steaks with the mix for a nice hour... hour and a half... (All I had time for as I got a late start - normally I would have done that for a few hours so the mixture could REALLY soak in and break down some of the fibers in the meat.) Get the grill to a nice smoky heat. I grilled on high and lowered to a medium high on all three burners. Baste every now and then with extra marinate leftover from the bag. You are only flipping the steak once. Cook each side to desired taste. Here is the important thing... let your steak stand when it comes off the grill for a good 5-10 minutes and with a little pat of butter smeared on it. (That's a trick I picked up from the steakhouses.) Salsa? Three mangos diced 1/3 a pineapple diced. 1 lemon 1 lime 1 Plum tomato diced salt 1/3 red onion diced 1/2 orange bell pepper diced 3 pieces of cilantro diced. Mix well and let it sit. Peppers and Onions? 1/2 a sweet white onion Mix of green, yellow, red and orange bell peppers TBSP of sugar olive oil Heat your pan, olive oil in, get that nice and hot... perfect. Add in your mix of peppers and onions. Let it start to cook. Add in sugar to help caramelize the mixture. Eventually it will break down and get a nice browning to them. Serve... amazing...

I don't know about any of that... but there WILL be dinner... So what do we have here? Sunday Cooking: Tequila and Lime strip steak with peppers and onions and a homemade pineapple and mango salsa. (Marinate was tequila, lime, soy sauce, cumin, brown sugar, garlic, and cilantro) (No filter... marinate allowed it to get a nice char around the outside) But what to drink? Hm... Blueberry lemonade mixed with a splash of Jose Cuervo, Coconut Rum and Absolut Citron. It packs a punch but only a small splash to keep the lemonade the main taste.

I am taking suggestions on the response... will post pics for the win.

I am getting salty on eBay today. Guy stole my pic to hawk things he may not have. He has a new account with a "2" feedback.

You know how certain hands beat other hands in poker... I think the only thing that beats this is an Ideal Wooden Superman combined with the earliest action cover that has survived. A few people may not realize what you have there and what that cover represents... That is amazing Joe and I cannot think of a better home for both that cover and Fett to be in.

For the most part, I personally do not care about the artist. I shrug at the artist. When buying a page it has to pop. I worked with collectables for Disney when I was in college. I learned that what makes a single page of art great is that the single page should convey a story. Now, if you are looking at the entirety of the film or in this case the comic then the artist becomes very important. However, I like to find pages of art that convey a small story on the page. I've shared these before but these two singular pages convey the character of Spiderman and Superman extremely well on one page. Both were purchased in the last few years for a few hundred each. I don't get owning a McFarlane page of Spider-mans rear end while you see the face of a robber he apprehended between his leg gap as he talks down to him... just to say you own a page of McFarlane art... I like pages that tell a story. To me, comics are character driven and not artist driven since many artists work on a character over the history of the publication. So... my collecting habits seem to be more character driven as well. Superman is at his most iconic on this page. Spider-man is defined by his every-man problems to which he laments at while swinging through NYC. When you think of Indiana Jones, the boulder scene is easily in the top three sequences out of all four films. Out of a lot of pages I own some are supposedly much more valuable... These are the ones that make me smile.