Westy Steve

Hopefully they have better things to do! The good news is that the seller will likely make up any perceived losses on more future purchases. I'm a forgiving soul.

The seller reconsidered and did the right thing. So I've cleaned up the thread.

Happy Friday.

Can you PM me about this? I actually have a huge box of unlimited’s that I played with back in the day. Unfortunately for a while I had a roommate who was stealing them from me and he took the Moxes, icy manipulators and the lightning bolts and so I guess most of my stuff is fairly common. But it is vintage even if it’s while used. Trying to decide what to do with them.

I’m sorry but I would have to get rid of that statue. There’s no way I could look at that. I mean it’s a cool statue, and all, but it would be a constant reminder. Thanks for sharing.

So a while back (perhaps years ago) you had that key comic that you sold off, happy in the knowledge you were pocketing a few dollars that you could put towards something else that caught your fancy. Now once in a while you're reminded what a mistake that was. You see that the price of your former comic has gone to the moon. How badly does it annoy you? And if it doesn't, tell me your secret.

Hey, no. It's a 2010 reprint. Since i posted this, I found one for sale. Apparently they were sold with Block's autograph. The one I found was $40. Don't know whether that's high or low. Interestingly, the same guy who wrote the forward for this version also "authored" a second cover variant that doesn't have the original art. Makes me wonder if they got in trouble for trying to use the old art without permission....because...why would you use anything else? FYI: I still have the vintage version...I haven't read it, but I'll read this one.

Disclaimer: In now way, shape, or form am I advocating the following. Just pointing out a flaw in the system: (I mean, it *is* Friday, after all) Suppose I had a comic book that was fairly valued at $3,000. Let's pretend that my friend, "Billy Bob", has been pestering me to sell it to him. Finally, I relent and say, "OK, Billy Bob,...give me $3,000". He then says, "I have a better idea...I'll buy it from you for $4,000 in a public venue...Then you give me back $1,000 in 'change' later (under the table)". Then Billy Bob has a comic with a recent GPA of $4,000. Everyone would proclaim the book was "hot", and Billy Bob could then sell his copy for a fat profit. This could happen, right?

OK, sorry for so many posts, but has anyone ever seen this? This is a REPRINT. But it's not the usual reprint that I've seen and it's signed. Any idea of value? I just bought it so I could read it. (edit). Oops. I posted a picture of the signature page, but then noticed there was some overt nudity on it so I deleted it

Quick question on a Taboo subject: This just popped up on Ebay for the cost of a new book, and I snagged it as soon as I saw it. I have Amy Harris' spanking cover and wanted this one. My question is...is there anything I can do about the dirt/staining/(whatever that is) on the cover? I know most comic book restorers use dry eraser method, but it looks like it would benefit from some kind of liquid solvent "dry" cleaning. But maybe I'm wrong. I understand book doctoring might be frowned upon, but it's very distracting (which is amazing considering the subject matter).

I love the "girl in the car" covers. I've considered collecting them as a sub-genre. Something extra alluring about them.

OK, well that is disappointing. I was wondering if maybe we'd see Mephisto further down the road. Hmm...the production may have been under strict orders to "do no harm" to the MCU. Still, I can't help but feel that the executives at Disney may have noticed that advancing their overall story arc a little bit through Disney plus might keep the coals in the fire hotter.

Well at least some good came out my belly aching. I'll have to rewatch that one myself.

I'm not meaning to be argumentative, but when I watched it recently, there were these things: 1. The origin story was arguably one of the best parts, and perhaps richer than just pushing against a wheel for 10 years. 2. IMHO, the sword was just a bonus. I felt like Conan was just out for revenge for the death of his father. I wasn't even sure if he kept the sword at the end of the movie...he acted like he wanted to leave it at his father's grave. 3. There were two side kicks...his pirate friend and the thief he rescued who helped him break into the bad guy's fortress. 4. In the version I watched, there was a sex scene that I didn't want my kids walking in on...and true to form, her loved her and left her. Classic Conan! (Edit: On second thought, sex isn't necessarily romance, but he did give her leather armor...that's like a bouquet of roses for him.

I'll meet you half-way. Solomon Kane was awesome, and I didn't even know about it (or his tie in with REH) until years later when I was searching Netflix for Conan. That movie was amazing.

So it was Saturday evening and I was looking for something interesting to watch. I would have loved to watch an old Conan movie, but didn't feel like lining the pockets of my local cable provider to rent it. But I could watch the 2011 version of Conan for free, so I did. No Arnold. No Mako. I've seen it before. And I know that it's generally considered "not great". But you know?...in absence of other Sword and Sorcery options, I enjoyed it. How about the scene when Conan was a boy and ran that race carrying a bird egg in his mouth, and then his village went under attack? I loved that and I won't apologize for it. Capturing the "Pure Blood" in a wagon chase and having no clue who she was? Then telling her to just shut up and taking her captive so he could use her as leverage? I thought that was on-point with a lot of Savage Sword issues I've read! Sometimes, I can beg, plead or otherwise bribe my teenage daughters to watch some of the older fantasy and sci-fi that I used to watch when I was their age. And if they do, I receive their universal response of "Dad, that really wasn't that good". But then, I counter with "But that's all we had!"..."it was a different time and this sci-fi show was an oasis in a desert". Back then, if you wanted see a fantasy movie, that might mean you needed to see Beast Master a few times because you knew the guy at the theater. We didn't have non-stop cartoon channels and had to resort to Saturday morning cartoons if we wanted to watch cartoons (assuming we didn't outgrow them...Scooby Doo exemption not withstanding). I understand "Nerd Rage". But, when did we get so spoiled? I was just in the WandaVision thread reading people bashing it because the ending wasn't up to the caliber they expected. OK. But it's better than watching almost everything else and I don't think anyone here turned off the television in the last 10 minutes of the show. I don't think they walked out of Conan 2011. We have to be careful about what we pan, or they're going to slow down their production of them and we'll see other Genres cycle back into vogue. Support fantasy films, even if they aren't perfect.

Here's a question for the disappointed conspiracy theorists. Why are you guys giving up so easily? Perhaps Wandavision was only laying the initial groundwork for more to come. Sort of like the Infinity Stones and Thanos. Why the expectation that every storyline needed to be tied up into a perfect bow and culminate at a single finish line?

Cool! I thought Love Addict was the only thigh injection out there. Wonder if there are more?

Thanks. Every once in a while I snag one at a decent price from my ebay saved searches. Covid has killed my budget since I'm a landlord (not a fun time to be one), but I do look for books from time to time because the price point for these books seems reasonable compared to other stuff I chase...though I am seeing less and less bargains available these days. Books I used to see for $6 or $7 seem to routinely go for $20 now. The rarer stuff seems to have disappeared almost completely.

Once in a while something from my want list pops up on eBay. Happy to snag this one.

If you want to try it without getting your butt financially kicked, pick an early year in the silver age and just try to do that. My suggestion is to try to collect every book make in 1963. If you get sick of it, you'll still have something worthwhile to sell. If you still enjoy it, select another year and keep going.

Got it. Thanks. Taking offers on the astonishing

All Star sold to Wasm All star western number 10. I think this is slightly better than a VG copy but you’ll be the judge. There’s a small piece missing on the right edge and some nearly invisible creases in the lower right corner. Still pretty fresh book though and supple. $170.

Moved the Astonishing to a wider market. No longer available. Two books. US sales only unless you can convince me otherwise. PayPal goods and services only. Shipping is included in my prices. First “I’ll take it”in any format chronologically wins it. “I’ll take it” trumps ongoing negotiations. First book is Astonishing #3. I think this is the first golden boy in the series. Lots of spine splits and the cover is just barely hanging on to the bottom staple but it is technically attached. $300 or best reasonable offer

With respect to what you said and what Alex Gross said, here's some food for thought. I'm very "into" the science of collecting. Not just the psychology, but especially the "how do I pick out something that might actually make me some money" angle. I once even considered taking all of my ideas to youtube, but I'm glad I didn't. There's a guy on there who calls himself "Reserved Investments". Look him up. He's so good, IMHO, that I no longer feel the need to try to launch a youtube channel because I'm confident he's doing it at least as well as I could, and (not surprisingly), barely has 3,000 followers after working at it for some time. In summary, he proved to me that very few people care about the science behind collecting. Hence, there is no need for me to attempt launching a channel. OK, I digressed there, but I'm driving at a point. The guy is good. And he makes great points. He makes the case that there are certain collectibles that are nostalgic only to a single generation. Your grandma's dolls are an example. A great example might be something like Howdy Doody memorabilia. Or maybe Beatles memorabilia. OK, the Beatles stuff might be valuable now, but like Howdy Doody collectibles, they will have their day, and then they will fade. In general, all pop culture stuff does this, though IMHO, comics won't fade until long after many of us are dead (I have reasons for this, but there's already too much info in this post). Anyway....and this is IMPORTANT...it will fade. So the point Reserved Investments guy makes (I think his name is Shawn) is that coins and currency are some of the few collectibles that are multigenerational. Well selected coins or currency are slow to rise, but the good stuff does indeed rise, and it will keep rising (albeit slower), long after we're dead. Oh, and something else. Some collectibles have what they refer to as "dark ages". A good example are Lego. People who played with Lego stopped doing it as teens and young adults, but some circle back to it years later. Those people came out of their dark ages. I've always tried to look at the age of collectors as validation that coins or currency was "going to die", but I see now that lead to false assumptions. Now when I go on youtube, I see most of the collectors are younger than me. OK, so it's youtube and that's a young environment, but there are young youtubers with successful channels, and they are clearly talking to somebody, right? FWIW, I've picked up, and put down coin and currency collecting a few times each on average. And I can testify that this last go-around, I did see that prices rose. It's hard to see while you're doing it, because it's only like 5% or so, but if you do it for a while, and then come back to it years later, you can see the change. Some of it is due to inflation. Some is genuine "real" growth. And that has me collecting coins and currency again, though not as actively as my other pop culture pursuits like comics and video games. I want my kids to keep the coins and currency but sell the comics. Steve