Wall-Crawler

Oh I have (moved on). Just never had a reaction like that before. On to the next thing...

I know right??? I'm in a small town which is great as it allows for these easy personal meets but it is also BECAUSE it is a small town that I want to limit people who know exactly where I live and what I may have. When I do local shows I never answer reporter or potential customer questions like "what is the most valuable book you have" or "what is your collection worth" etc. I always redirect or flat out say "ask a different question". The other thing is the guy does not know my personal situation, like what if I was caring for someone who was ill? I'm not but the fact is this snowflake can't see past his own sense of "insult" as to the many potential reasons why I essentially don't want a stranger at my house.

Update: Deal is dead I forgot one detail...I had been to this guy's house before to look at an action figure collection and he basically wasted my time. Was more of a show and tell session. He writes back "I find it strange someone who has been to my home acts weird when I mention dropping by theres (uhmm, you invited me to yours under false pretenses to sell, you are now inviting YOURSELF to mine). I'm a military guy not some random. Anyway. Have a good one, ill spend my money elsewhere". I basically reply back saying well, if the above is true, so is the reverse in that you won't have me just DELIVER it to your house or in a public space where we can share a coffee or whatever and again it was not personal and sorry he feels this way. I then tell him if he changes his mind, I'll buy the coffee. He writes back: "I won't. Later". If anything this just solidifies my "policy" of not having people come to my house.

I responded. I politely said I don't have people I don't know come to my house. I said if he doesn't want to meet for like 15 min at ANY public space and if he don't want me to swing by his place, I can set them aside for him for the next local show in October and that way he can see a lot of my other stock. I also gave him an out and said if he wasn't interested anymore that was fine too, just to let me know.

Here's one I would not mind some feedback on... Guy contacts me, wants to buy a set and a couple of other books. We negotiate a price. A whopping $50 CDN. He says sweet, when can I swing by your place to pick them up? I say I usually just meet people at Timmies (coffee chain for my American friends) or whatever other public space. He says "looking at comics there would make me feel weird". MOST people I have never had a problem meeting me in a public space. Also, there are not a lot of comics to look at. I sent pics and grade, it would take him two minutes to look at. I say fine, I can just swing by your place and drop them off. All he replies is this "Nah thats ok man". First of all, what does that mean? Can't meet at my house so he doesn't want them? Am I being "paranoid" for not letting the guy know exactly where I live? If we were negotiating some big deal, sure, come to my house and I do have customers who know where I live, but that was developed over time...This guy I don't know from Adam. For something so minor, I am just as content to "lose the sale" and just stick the set back with my show stock...

New books added and 30 book Fantastic Four and Inhumans themed auction added! https://www.ebay.com/sch/more_fun_comics/m.html?item=122656125190&hash=item1c8edff106%3Ag%3AUEQAAOSw1g9Zl0dm&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

Last contribution for this evening...Detective #526, Batman's 500th Appearance in 'Tec!

Love this Bolland cover!

Starting to go through my CPV stock...Ultra nice Deadman #1 - #4 complete mini.

Interiors are complete. Nothing loose, missing or clipped. Thanks in advance for opinions!

Comics have been found. All I was told was that it was a "moving mix up". Guess it is "safe" to buy "Spider-Man and Namor" collections again...

You know when you are moving up in the world of buying and selling when the cops call you to advise you of a stolen collection and to contact them if approached to buy anything... I informed the constable I would need a bit more to go on. I asked what was stolen so that I can distinguish between a potential thievery and just a person trying to sell their own books. I was told "Spider-Man and Namor" - I said it would need a bit more specific information as Spider-Man is pretty common but I would absolutely help to catch a thief if I can. Constable understood and is working on a list from the complainant and will share it with me when he has it. Turns out the constable is the older brother of a junior high friend I use to play "Rifts" with back in the day

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What was the name of the show...I saw something floating around on FB but now can't find it...Driving me nuts LOL.

Finally got this scanned in and ready to enter onto my registry set.

No, not yet. I was busy with cottage life and they were not keen to movie it and said they would call me if they wanted to sell...Plus it was in the back of one of their storage trailers. I might just throw them an offer and see what happens. It needs to be repaired so I would not be looking to pay top dollar for it. Congrats on your second show! If you have pics, would love to see them. Where was the show? Was it a big show or smaller local show? I think most dealers at shows are ALWAYS keen to be able to sneak in more space. I do whenever I can and I usually have an extra 4 foot folding table on hand "just in case".

Never mind about there being "another Marvel"... How about we "Make Marvel Great Again"? Get a nicely stacked "bullpen" of new, young and established creators. Fix (many) of the problems with the actual comics. Honour the tradition of existing characters while welcoming new characters and stories. Focus on quality over quantity. Oh and how about they advertise their freaking comic books ahead of all of your blockbuster movies. Tell kids where they can find stories to read about what they are about to watch. What do I know though? To me it is just crazy that Marvel Comics proper are floundering while Marvel is kind of flourishing every where else (toys, movies, Netflix, TV, theme parks)...I would like to see a "Marvel Comics Renaissance" to be honest.

My copy. Price Variant. I believe the sole $5.95 cover prices are Canadian editions.

SIDEBAR: The antique seller I bought this from had a decent"Hey Kids Comics" sand which style display rack. It was BURIED in one of their trailers but they said they would consider selling it. The only downside is that the rack itself might have to be sandblasted and repainted (metal toppers are good though)...Given the issues with it, advice on fair offer?

That is the one kind of fun thing about a show...Selling something you never thought you would. 99.99% of my sets are individually bagged and boarded but for some of the really "cheapies" they are in a single bag and board. Looks like from this lot I will not really be bothering to make too many set story arcs, a few, but not many. Just going to throw most of them in individual title boxes. Exactly. Can't bring it all. Once I get my stock more thoroughly sorted, I would like to try that...Bring a lot of cheaper $2 books (I have $2 each or 3 for $5) and see how they do...I would likely do that at the smaller local show as opposed to say the Graphic Con show I just did as the cost to attend is peanuts for me and if they don't pan out, no big loss. If I end up selling either of those sets, Batman or Orion, will definitely let you know. I think the saving grade for the Batman and Outsiders is it is well, Batman and I will mark something on it like "Katana from Suicide Squad" too or some such note. On some books/sets I sometimes try to add a bit of a "notation" to help a sale. ...I also plan on posting some of the better books and stuff from the lot on eBay this weekend to recover my expenditure from this lot. I am in no rush to do so but figured my next show is not until October, so might as well...

For this particular lot, I have not made my money back yet as I had not yet sold anything, just getting it organized as I just picked it up a couple of days ago. My thinking was if I had a "ready made" set in the lot I just purchased, I would bundle it up.

I think one of the big differences between the two of us, is volume...I have very, very few duplicate sets (if any at this point) so I don't mind building a set or holding onto a set that takes awhile to sell. If I had what you are describing, I am sure I would be far more picky. I'm surprised you don't think the Orion or the Batman and Outsiders as a set will sell though. I have done ok with sets of that nature so long as they featured some key players...I had a large set of All-Star Squadron sell the first time I brought it to a show, which is why I thought the Outsiders set might do well. With the Justice League movie and speculation on Darkseid, etc. I thought Orion might do alright...Alpha Flight on the other hand, not so much I guess I was thinking with the not so popular stuff that I have a better chance of selling it as a set than as individual issues . Plus I tend to price those ones pretty aggressively to move them. Sometimes for mini's like that I might even put it in the "title run" box of a character said mini is connected to help "spur a sale". So would you be of the opinion instead of making sets of story arcs for say the New Avengers run I have, just list them as singles (if I did this I was just thinking of doing $2 per book)?

In addition to sets/runs previously posted, while there were not a lot of surprises, here are the individual books I was particularly pleased to find...Here are the Top 5 single issue finds. There are several books in the $10 to $20+ range, like ASM #529, Uncanny X-Men #509, Batman #638, 657... Sidebar on the Old Man Logan, only 2 stinking issues to have the whole run, the last two, #71 and #72.

Ok, so making good progress on sorting...I have dubbed this collection "the working man's lot" Here is an example of the sets I have been able to put together so far. There are a few mini's under some of the piles and a few more off to the side...I think I have around 35 sets built. The big ones are complete Orion #1 - #25 and Batman and Outsiders #1 - #32 and Annual #1. There are several more I could make but just missing one or two issues to make a set (so annoying), so those I set aside for another day in a special "to be completed box" in case I find the one or two issues to complete a set. Examples: I need to find a Kitty Pryde and Wolverine #6 to complete the mini and Avengers Forever #4 to complete the maxi series. I also have to decide whether to make lots/story arc sets out of runs of titles like Captain America, Dark Avengers, JLA/Justice League, Mighty Avengers, New Avengers and Uncanny X-Men or just sell as singles in my title boxes. Opinions? Anyway group shot on some of the sets I have managed to assemble.

...My problem is worse during the summer. I hate being indoors (especially in summer). When weather is good so I am at the lake whenever I can be. Which usually leads to small mad rushes in the Fall and Winter to get stuff ready. I am still way behind on organizing and sorting previous collections but I have my "core" books and slowly work on getting more sale and show ready.