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Why are Concrete prices soaring? Was there a media announcement?

I guarantee if Marvel Studios (not Fox) made (insert random Marvel character) movie, it will beat the Fantastic Four at the box office.

I've got this, and I have no idea where it came from A few years ago, we were offered a large quantity of these from a remainder house. 10,000+ copies if I remember correctly.

What's it smell like? Toast 80's Toast, you say? Yeah toast!

Trying to read the spine, but all I can make out is "book."

I picked up a couple hundred Stars & Stripes newspapers dated 1943-1945 from a craigslist ad . They obviously have cool historic value but also include several comics strips including Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates and Male Call, Lil Abner, Blondie and others. Some of the issues also include a little cheesecake for our GIs. They certainly deserved it. There were also ~30 issues of Yank magazine. I found the 11/3/1943 headline (in background in first pic) strangely relevant.

Someone mentioned this would give evidence of the stocks>comics debate. It won't. Even if comics come out ahead, the bet is rigged in favor of comics. Still, this will be fun to watch. A bet makes it even more interesting. I see at least three large flaws with the comparison. Transaction costs - You buy comics with 0% commission, but you sell with something much higher - call it 10% (higher at Heritage, potentially lower at eBay). You buy and sell stocks with a much smaller commission on the way in and the way out. Stocks already have an inherent edge because of transaction costs. That should not be discounted. Asset vs Index - The bet is "cherry picking" a select group of comics or a single comic, but chosing a market index for stocks. This will produce more volatility for the comic side of the bet, which could either be good or bad. A more appropriate comparison would be all comics or all silver age, etc if comparing to an index. Liquidity - Although not captured in the numbers, there is a HUGE liquidity advantage in stocks. Say you wanted to invested $50k in that FP#1 CGC 9.6. Not going to happen. Even if it could happen, that would drive a CGC 9.6 well above $650 in the process. Say you have an AF15 CGC 4.0 and have to sell it tomorrow. Will you get full GPA? Maybe, maybe not. Using the same $50k investment, could you sell 5 copies at full GPA tomorrow? Probably a bit harder. The least liquid stock in the S&P 500 trades ~$20 million a day. That is probably more liquidity than occurs in the most liquid comic book in a year.

Exactly -- per GPA, those 10 recorded sales in 2014 averaged out to $337. In 2015, there was a sale in Feb. at $339. It's just disingenuous to say "sales of $300-$400 even before the announcement" when the average over 15 months & 11 recorded sales was consistent at $337. In my mind, $337 is a far cry from $350, let alone $400. Per GPA, the low was $300 and the high was $395 in 2014. Despite an average of $337, "sales of $300-$400 even before the announcement" seems like an accurate statement. If you click on the link within GPA, it gives you that same range for 2014 - $300-$395. I don't think he was disingenuous at all.

That's helpful! I love this thread, but sometimes I scratch my head at some of the finds as I am not up to speed on modern books. Or, even the hot movie/TV stuff sometimes.

Stopped at a local antique store on Saturday. Didn't find any comics, but did find two complete Varga calendars from 1946 and 1948. The 1946 has its original envelop that preserved the calendar quite nicely. The 1948 is not as white, but the interior pages look more like the 1946.

You can see the word "REPRINT" in the box just left of Luke under the price. It is a black rectangle with "reprint" in blue letters. You can see a similar one on #2 and #4.

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Given what I have paid for a couple ads and what I have seen ads sell for, these are worth more broken apart than they are complete. Pretty sad, actually. Many of the ads are very cool though.

Just received a few golden age books from Soft-serve. Very pleased with the books.

We do lots of garage sales throughout the summer. I don't find much comic related stuff, but I have been wanting to post to this thread for some time. Here's the best I got so far that is remotely related to comics. Hopefully, not too far afield. I bought a big pile of Life Magazines with about 125 between 1939 and 1945 (most between 1941 and 1944). The war year propaganda is fantastic. There are several ads from this period for which I have been searching (I'm doing a book on Nash Kelvinator ads). The first copy I picked up (USSR Scientists, lower left) has a letter from a woman explaining why pin-up art may give servicemen unrealistic expectations of women when they return home. She even included a drawing showing the differing proportions. Plus, there are ads with George Petty and similar art. Great stuff all around. This was a craigslist find for $135. I wish I could buy 125 early 1940 comic books for $135...

One of my favorite Baker covers: Reed Crandall Another Cow Puncher cover by Walter Johnson

It was. Sorry. Thanks for the comments.

Just a quick plug for our book at Canton Street Press. Our Canteen Kate book is nomiated for an Eisner this year (fingers crossed). I posted some pics of our book in the thread below and compared the two volumes. The Lost Art book is well done and each has its advantages. You can't go wrong with either book in my opinion. Of course, I'd prefer you bought ours If you buy it from our website (www.CantonStreetPress.com) you get your choice of a free print. No Baker, unfortunately, but some cool GA covers. http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=323515&Number=7264701#Post7264701

Chaos Comics produced several "Octagon Editions" in the 1990s/early2000s. The print run was 8 copies and each cover was an original piece of art. The covers were black with the sketches done in silver ink. I have all 8 of an unreleased Octagon edition that was scheduled to be released, but the company went bankrupt first. Not mine, but here is an eBay link. You don't see them up for sale often. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Purgatori-The-Vampires-Myth-1-Octagon-Edition-CGC-9-6-Chaos-Comics-8-96-/301190918453?pt=US_Comic_Books&hash=item462060b135&nma=true&si=EzW9w43R51A%252FBsHIOAi5G1Pbuts%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

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Look at Volusion. We run two sites on Volusion. Here is my publishing site with products for sale: http://www.cantonstreetpress.com/ This is the cheapest of Voluion's store options, which is based mostly on the number of products. Volusion has limitations, but all these solutions do. Our much larger store was run on Coresense, but that is a more expensive service. Before selling our business, we looked into moving from Coresense to Shopify. We never actually built a store with Shopify though.

Two more from romance books. This story by Krigstein is a romance story, but reads as a really good adventure story. This is a romance story for guys from Romantic Confessions V2 #3. Some Kirby romance from Young Romance V8 #8

A few more splashes. This one if from Eerie #4. "The bottomless slime of degredation..." love that text. Kubert splash from Weird Horrors #9 Splash from True Life Secrets #12, the "I was an escort girl" story. Great floating head splash. There is not a mention of gambling in the entire story, but if you are an escort girl you are probably wrapped up in other "seedy" activities like gambling...