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Holly Jesus!!

Great call on that Legionnaire #16.. Now that's Dreks Gone Wild!!!

"Amazing Stories" --- "See back cover!" Amazing indeed!

I love this place. I swear to you, theres nothing more entertaining than this message board. 2 months ago, everything was drying up. This month everyones unloading

Every word ma'man. Every word. I live in the city and most of my young adult life I spent working the nightlife. I now live in a (relatively) quiet neighborhood and just dying to get out of the city. I have properties down south and midwest but I just cant make the move yet. I always say Ill do it next year, but find another excuse to stay. Maybe next year... As for music, I cant listen to it anymore. I think Ive been traumatized after playing over 500 gigs in my lifetime. Ill listen to some stuff on my phone on my way to work and in the gym but thats it. Maybe its gone, or who knows, maybe ill get to be a 60 year old hippy one day and re-start collecting records again. So far Im happy with my decision to focus on comics as opposed to music.

Of course. This is not a records vs comics debate. This is just to draw an example from my own experience and to demonstrate how much money is spent on records as opposed to comics I have had thousands of Pop, Hip Hop, New Wave, Punk, Freestyle (sigh, sorry Im from NY), House, Techno Trance... Tons... The weird thing about records is this.. The absolutely rarest stuff I ever owned was in the electronica genre, stuff youd never heard about. The pressings were hundreds, probably less at times. I knew the guys and girls from the distribution lines (Downtown 161, groovejet, etc) I'd get the first copies off of them before theyd sell out at the stores. None of these ever picked value, although they were big hits at the clubs. Huge! Even when I finally decided to sell my collection, mainly because they occupied so much space. I had advertised on craigslist for OVER A YEAR and had very few bites. The ones that came over, looked, said they loved what they saw but didnt buy. Finally I had a guy that actually collected comic books and offered me cash with a trade for some amazing books. I got 800$ plus early graded and signed ASMs, FFs and DDs plus a few thousands Bronze/Copper books My dad's records (I want my daddy's records!!) were of great value. Most classic rock and Motown. But were talking 60s-70s

I was DJing professionally from the 90s till last year really. I bought mainly LPs in the 80s just to play, and 12" singles when I took my hobby seriously, again, just to play, not collect. I remember in the late 90s early 00s blowing all my money on records. I played mainly dance & Hip Hop and later Electronica (what they loosely refer to as EDM nowadays) as thats what most clubs/bars would cater to. There were also record pools I joined which were going for more money than what a subscription of a whole line of books from one publisher will cost you. The way I saw it was, I made that money back (and then some) from gigs. But all these records had no value. I had a tremendous amount of records that were limited editions, promos, even some test pressings. Zilch. This is ABSOLUTELY not to say that records make for horrible collectibles. But merely to illustrate how comic books, which I paid very little for at the time (mainly late 70s to 80s, by the 90s I ditched) which I collected mostly for reading, ended up being a FAR FAAAAAR better investment at a FRACTION of the cost, than records. And youre absolutely right, I had many of those "weird" friends who actually collected records, did not dare play them out, went after the avant garde, imports, treasured each one and treated them better than their pets. I dont recall anyone calling them "speculators" or "investors" at the time. Just "Vinyl Nerds". How is it that they dont get the same treatment that comic book collectors who dont read books and buy them for the same reasons do, is beyond me

Many thanks for this ??

And why didn't you provide a quote of the article???

I was merely talking about buying new books/records from off the shelf. Not about secondary market value. A comic would cost 60 cents to a dollar in the 80s whereas records would be 5.00-10.00 dollar each (with most being the latter)

I just feel bad for the guys getting into the hobby having to pay so much for what used to be such a cheap hobby to begin with. I collected comic books and records from an early age. Just to read and play. At a later stage of my life I quit buying comics and concentrated heavily on records. 5 years ago I got back into comic books after finding out that some of my books have gained tremendous value (among other reasons). None of my records did. Not even one.

And another 100 buyers who missed out on said book

Stop dropping acid during the shows 1WC!

Actually I think that the Walking Dead COMIC success is proof that people are receptive to everything, not just superheroes. If u were to tell me 15 years ago that a comic book that involves zombies would be a top selling book, and have a big hit TV show based on it I would've never thought it be possible. In that regard I absolutely attribute its success to the writer. I don't think that zombies is the selling point or the reason of its success. Kirkman didn't do anything groundbreaking that made people revisit zombies popularity. He just wrote a hellova book, and created a brilliant line of "human-heroes" and villains. Rick, Michonne, Negan, et al. They're the real reasons why people read the book, watch the show. Not the zombies. They could've killed ponies instead of zombies and it would've still worked.

So apparently the modern Star Wars vs Star Trek debate is WD vs GOT debate

Boomers are selling S&GA books so they could get shiny 1:100 worthless variants

I started selling 5 years ago for my retirement in 9125 days from now

Looks like this DC-Hughes variant caught on

Always thought this was the best V cover

I did notice Warrior and V/Vendetta books closing for crazy monies lately. May be bcs of this or not. Even tho I'm pretty sure that political activists are not geeks like us and follow 1st appearances etc

Yes, as well as Anonymous of course

That is definitely brilliant. I wasnt aware of those masks prior to V.

But then again, is it the design? or the "creepiness" of him that made the mask so popular. If it was just a question mark on a face lets say, would that be as impactful

I wonder who came up with the design. Was it Lloyd or both him and Moore. Is there an interview with them discussing it?