Aweandlorder

6 hours ago, Robot Man said:

The world is such a lonely place when you need to yearn for “likes” by total strangers on the internet. Represents desperation and insecurity. 

Who cares what the number is on a plastic case? I’ve been collecting 50 years, I’m way more impressed with a cool, old rare book than what the “number” says.

And, I can’t count on one hand who my real friends are and I’m way OK with it...

Post of the year

22 hours ago, southern cross said:

Facebook is a funny place

Especially when someone posts about a tragedy somewhere in the world and people hit the like button.

I'm thinking are they hitting the like button because they appreciate the post informing them of the disaster.

Or they like the chaos that was posted

Or they hit the like button without even thinking what they like

Very bizarre

Seems that the obsession with likes is even more apparent in Israel

It never ceases to amaze me how all these value stamps were meticulously cut off the books. Every marvel comic that I find with a missing mvs was cut near perfection around the stamp. Which kinda tells me that the readers/collectors still cared for the book, but I guess cared equally to collecting the stamps. I often come across many older books which had carelessly torn pages around coupon ads, which kinda tells me that in older times people didn’t care much for the comic nor preserving its looks

Meanwhile in 2020....

1 hour ago, Raze said:

What issue is this?!?!?

Pretty dope cover too.. too bad no newsstand editions  

I dont know about hottest but Ill tell you that from a market perspective we wouldnt be sitting here if it wasnt for 1987

I guess youre right

6 hours ago, 1Cool said:

Slabs seem to be selling pretty nicely but raw books have not seen a large increase like previous years.  Hopefully people start getting their tax refunds next month and the pocket books start opening up soon.  it's scary when you go to price out a book and see only a couple copies have sold in the last 3 months.

I stopped selling to anyone International except Canada and Austrialia.  90% of my issues over the years have been international buyers and the return shipping cost if a book has to be sent back is just a killer.  I'm sure I've missed out on some sales but considering I only did maybe 5% of my business to International buyers it can't be many.

I love international sales. They’re always for high ticket items and almost always pay top dollar. I also get many more repeat buyers from overseas. I had a MOTU buyer from Belgium that kept buying MOTU books from me and even put a list together for me to find for him. Another was a Conan fan from Lebanon that bought several DH TP from me. They’re not many but they’re a lot of fun 

This would probably never see the light of day today on DC 

12 hours ago, Domo Arigato said:

 

 

 

 

Be honest... how many of y’all scrolled up to the original post to check and see if that was true 

On 1/27/2020 at 9:10 AM, theCapraAegagrus said:

'Cause people on FB don't like you?

Well in all fairness... it looks like he doesn’t get too many likes in this post as well

Did your computer just come back from Wuhan?

Who the hell needs a Mega key when you can have.....

A SUPER key!

There are many “undervalued” important books. But since we trade in such a volatile market it is such a waste of time to even mention them anymore

Theres a damn good reason why people pay a good dime for the first appearance of Punisher as opposed to, say, the first appearance of Wolverine 

On 1/22/2020 at 4:02 PM, Senormac said:

Indians are very popular these days 

The only difference being, those new Indians are willing to redistribute their reservoirs freely

3 hours ago, ThothAmon said:

Thought I’d cross post here as this magazine came out of the collection I purchased up in Syracuse. Freshly back fro CGC. Wizard 1. 
 

I think I saw you post it on a fb group the other day?

7 hours ago, theCapraAegagrus said:

I prefer the barcode over Spider-Man's face (on a Star Wars comic).

I dunno man, Im kind of a big fan of the early Direct Version of Marvels books

maybe i should just contact sellers and ask them to move their comics to electronics then

dunno why the heck they bombarded me with this damn thing on every page that opened on eBay... if they search my cookies they should know i buy all my electronics from amazon

ok, false alarm... looks like its only to be used on electronics 

go go go

2 hours ago, Jeffro. said:

Facepalm assist

And what's with this? Thriumph? What the hell is thriumph?