FineCollector

Careful what you say about Gene Colan...!

Moral of the story: if he doesn't know anything about them and you do, you insert yourself as the expert. Agree on a book as payment before you do the work, and tell him what he should be selling for. What did you want a reward for, telling him to check the prices? Like he wasn't going to do that anyway?

Sharp copy! Are you building a high grade Aquaman run?

Great haul. The bigger the stack, the more interesting this stuff is!

I'm not offended by this. I don't view it as a key, mind you, but that's pretty much par for the 80's in my opinion. I'm certain the ugliest key that everyone wants right now is Green Lantern #10, first Vandal Savage.

Astro? Only book store in Montreal who would even know what those are.

Nuh uh... no baggy jeans and hip hop talking Boston bums in my Shazam movie, please...

Zoom is Earth 2's Barry. I'm pushing all in on this one.

Look at it this way Jeff, you have one of the nicest .5 books ever. Agreed, Overstreet calls that a Fair. Harsh.

First off, he doesn't know I'm a reseller. Secondly, he most certainly does NOT know what he has. The ASM #300 was $300 and not even an 8.5... 1) dealers smell like dealers. It's unmistakeable. 2) he might not have known what the book was worth, but he knows it's a key, and isn't going to give it away.

Good luck chip tried getting him to down on that ASM 300 but he thinks its pristine condition and worth what he has it marked at. Nice booth. What's the grade/price on his 300? The answer to me is simple: if he thinks his copy is high end, bring him a high end copy to compare it to. He's still not going to give you a resale discount, he knows what he has.

Now, I'm not seeing any other 197s around

I don't mean to be critical, but how did she go from getting her ### handed to her to trashing the same dude later in the episode? Not digging the idea of Phantom Zone criminals as the main foil. When does Toyman come in?

Jerry did a great job, and avoided the wrath of the Spectre by finishing my set!

Get your Crisis On Infinite Earths #4's now. Thanks for the heads up. Grabbed two NM copies for about $10 each before they all get grabbed up. *shakes head* Flavor of the week, dude. Do you have a stack of Atom Smashers and Bug-Eyed Bandits too?

Gator, wandering around a neighborhood con, I overheard a guy asking around for a copy of All-Star 8. I don't know if it was his young age, or the bored girlfriend in tow, but I wondered if he understood what he was asking for. I understand that every request is an opportunity, but when someone asks you for a big book, how often are they serious and ready to buy, as opposed to someone who balks when you produce it?

I wish I had stacks of PWJ 6-7 to hand out at Halloween. It has Jim Lee art, popular characters, a good message about protecting animals, and also teaches you that if you mess with nature, you may end up getting ripped to shreds by African gorillas

Have fun all by yourself, bud!

Love seeing a fellow completist doing his thing!

Someone must've opened one and realized it's not a very good comic...

Correct. I'll never forget the mess Bendis made of Avengers. He called Vision a toaster, and couldn't understand why Wanda would be in love with a toaster. Hawkeye killed himself when he ran out of arrows (instead of firing debris), Iron Man called Wolverine an honorable warrior (instead of a little psycho who doesn't follow orders), chaos magic didn't exist (despite the existence of an elder Earth demon, Chthon, who wields chaos magic)... that's what Marvel's feature writer knows about his own universe, folks.

Agreed. We've talked about young people/women/new collectors/etc with deep pockets driving prices up. If you didn't get stuck holding the bag when prices fell, someone else did. No one likes being on the bad end of a deal, and whoever was paying $200 for VG copies of Sgt Fury 5 won't be putting much more of his money into what appears to be a losing prospect. We can't afford to be so short sighted.

You're pushing the title hard, but I pulled a few out of the discount bins in the 90's, read them, and wished I had my dollar back. I'll take a Quasar from the same period over a Darkhawk any day of the week.

Any issue of Maximum Carnage is always an easy sell, and they turn faster the more issues you have. They're not going anywhere, but they're stable enough that you shouldn't dismiss them for a dollar.