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Grass used to shop at my store back in the 80's and sent me the same card! He was a good guy.

You never know, Jeff!

Oh my. BZ, is there anything you don't collect? First printing and second printing! Wow!

Welcome back, BZ. I hope all is well with you and your family.

No gray hair! Hair! Touche!

No gray hair!

Guy Holcombe! Fishler and I split this collection back around 1987 or so...Some beautiful books! One of the best things about these Boards is the incredible amount of history that we all can share about our books!!!!! Imagine, you recognizing a book that you had dealings with over 20 years ago.......amazing insight and info....Thank you. FISH I was contacted by a fellow who found two boxes of comics in a house his family had purchased. It was a very nice GA collection. GL 1, Special Edition 1, Timelys, etc. Stephen and I were just getting to know each other and I offered to bring him into the deal. Everything went very smoothly including splitting them up. Many of the books were cleaned and the name removed (I remember Mark Wilson doing the GL 1 for me) since Guy seemed to have written his name in a place where it could easily be removed (this Batman would have been a perfect candidate). Stephen told me years later that he tracked Guy Holcombe down. I can't remember exactly what he told me about him, but I do recall something about his not wanting to leave his books but him mom made him - something like that...

Guy Holcombe! Fishler and I split this collection back around 1987 or so...Some beautiful books!

Thanks BangZoom! I do have one issue (red cover unsure of issue number) of Pirate Stories in my collection. You gotta love those covers!

I once won an unmarked Mars Attacks checklist playing pinball.

Wow! Nice to see some of those beauties again. Very nice! Thanks for sharing, TB.

Wow, I've been looking for that book for years and have never seen one before! What a great cover!

Ian: Just returned from a business trip and see that you're back. Wonderful! In case you haven't seen this yet, it took me 23 years to complete this set. You can read about my trials and tribulations here http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2509046#Post2509046 Do you have any ashcans in your collection? (and I apologize if you've answered that question already - I haven't gone back yet to read all 245 new posts...). Regards, --Gary

is that a double action 1 in the pic?! i thought it didnt exist. It doesn't.

Welcome back, Bangzoom!

I'm glad things got resolved to your satisfaction.

If you look at the bigger picture that was his business relationship with this company that turned on him it was thousands of dollars. Even as a business you have to look at the whole monetary relationship every now and then and make a reassessment. In this case mycomicshop.com made a one and we need to make it known to them , by email, if they are too stupid to come to this forum. Yeah, I can't begin to fathom how he built a business as big as Lone Star, with this kind of business sense. I know that if I had someone who was selling me $1200 of books a year for credit (no money out of my pocket). And then I was selling those books for a 30% profit (and covering the 10-20% overhead) ($360 profit), and then he in turn, was buying another $1200 in product from me with the credit. Thus yielding me another $360 in profit on those sales. So I have now made $720 because of this customer. Even if they return a batch of books every month for misgrade, and I have to eat $5 a month in return shipping, I would gladly still have them as a customer because I would still be making $660 in profit from them, ALL WITH NO MONEY OUT OF MY POCKET! I was a cash cow for them. I didn't really t rack how much I traded very well, but I think it would be safe to say it was $1200-$2000 per year in trade credit. Again, it just blows my mind that he can have a succesful business with this approach. Maybe if you were a customer who placed one order a year for $3, and every time returned your item and wanted a $3 shipping credit. Maybe if a customer is doing this chronically and you are losing money. Maybe then you ask them to go elsewhere. But not when they are a cash cow... Shakespear: I've known Buddy Saunders for 25 years. He's a great retailer. His stores have a wide and deep stock of new comics and tries to be fair regarding back issues. Selling back issues via mail order is a very difficult way to make a living. Because so many sales are low-priced bulk copies, many errors can be made. They try to be accurate, but they know mistakes will happen. Aggravation has a price and clearly you've reached that threshold with him. Buddy has made a business decision that YOUR business isn't worth it. It's nothing personal. You just hit the limit. And Buddy couldn't care less what anyone on this board thinks. As I said before. Time to move on. --Gary

No doubt that it's Stan.

These "blown-out-of-proportion-I'm-going-to-sue" diatribes make me ill. It's only $200 in credit and you're getting a hundred bucks. Suck it up and move on.

Amazing indeed, the guy in the photo should take his hat off to you guys. http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/lotsofmags/newsstand.jpg' alt='newsstand.jpg'> (thumbs u Thanks!

I can't find a comic book in the photo! Where are you guys looking? If they're hanging above their heads, the print is so dark that it's illegible (at least on my computer). Can someone enhance it?

Very cool cover Classic cover, no doubt, Steve.

Billy, do you know where that copy came from? Man, it looks very much like the Windy City...

Wow! Crime pulps and SF comics! BangZoom rocks! Thanks, BZ!

I don't have this one. I have "Cooperative."