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    EC Annuals, Mask 2 and an insanely rare EC giveaway. New PCH classics added 3/28

    in Golden/Silver/Bronze Age Only

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    3 hours ago, Polonsky said:

    I hope you will accept me Wally :foryou:

    I accept you bro...
    I don't know if that has any intrinsic value though, because I accept so much I could easily be a politician.
    My main goal was to be a Norm at the end of the bar type. I made it and I'm happy.
    Anyway Cheers to you and welcome to the club!

    EC Annuals, Mask 2 and an insanely rare EC giveaway. New PCH classics added 3/28

    in Golden/Silver/Bronze Age Only

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    1 hour ago, Comcav said:

    Just buy what you like.  pay too much if you feel like it.  Enjoy the hobby however you want.  

    And I agree with you 250%...
    I'm not throwing stones. I'm just defining what a PCH Junkie is to me. People want to quote my goofy made up title and I felt I needed to define it. I have a lot of buds in this biz that collect what they want to and they're awesome all the same. Don't take what I'm saying as some type of purist, because it's actually the opposite. Funny as it seems I care too much. lol!

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    EC Annuals, Mask 2 and an insanely rare EC giveaway. New PCH classics added 3/28

    in Golden/Silver/Bronze Age Only

    Posted · Edited by Wally's Comics

    I never meant for "PCH junkie" to be some time of premium status that I was claiming, I see it as the exact opposite really...
    I did a lot of stuff that wasn't considered the smart money path for the love of it...
    For example, when I was at many a con I wouldn't go after the Hot SA Marvels that could be flipped for the big win. I was in a dirty old bin flipping through box after box of LG books of Pre-code. I would have stacks and stacks of not the Premium books, but just picking up the GA jewels in hopes to find a solid read. To me a PCH junkie isn't just about the price tags, covers or just an artist but the whole gamut of entertainment that is called the Golden Age. For instance: I have read a Black Cat 50 and I wasn't impressed. There are SOOOOO many people that are gaga over this book simply because of the fantastic cover to even care that the stories inside suck and don't even relate to cover at all. I look at it as a nice cover, but a failure of an opportunity. The benchmark for such great covers and classic interiors go to none other than the famous EC lines, where isn't isn't a gimmick to have a wild cover that sells and has no interiors to back it up. Plain and simple this type of mindset is in my thought plane of a true "Pre-code junkie". Bottom line If you are one of those odd birds that would cherish your Pre-code books even if the market turned south and weren't even worth a dusty old stamp collection - congrats you are a junkie.

     

    EC Annuals, Mask 2 and an insanely rare EC giveaway. New PCH classics added 3/28

    in Golden/Silver/Bronze Age Only

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    1 hour ago, Ghastly542454 said:

    A few more years and it won’t be no April Fool’s joke!!!:roflmao:

    I hope you're right. I 'm a pre-code junkie and would love to see the bump like SA marvels are currently enjoying...

    I do however find it amusing the upside down airplane of pre-code is a book built out of remainder issue stock.

    The Great Collectibles Bubble: Waiting To Pop?

    in Comics General

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    21 minutes ago, StingerMcK said:

    Im very curious how prices will be at cons, as they start to become a thing again.  You always hear about dealers making a killing at a show, and other dealers who make nothing, because the casuals and cosplayers aren't spending money.  If cons have eBay and Clink prices, the casuals will continue to not buy., but will collectors pay those prices in person? And will the 'bored rich' go to a con to get more books?

    I just had my 1st Covid shot, so next con (where ever it is) I'm going! 
    There are 2 things that can happen between now and then - One the market will cool? or more likely the prices will set at the high level to a place where an educated person can learn what can be bought without getting burned. I on one hand think there will be a lot of deals! But you never know may of the dealers that I know that do shows didn't like to sell online and that could've changed since Covid.

    Sad enough I had the best show of my life right before this Covid slop...

    The Great Collectibles Bubble: Waiting To Pop?

    in Comics General

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    It's all in what you want. I like comics even if they weren't worth much, because of the historical aspect, I'm just lucky that they are worth something. That always seems the case for me though, whenever I like something it doesn't take long before it becomes successful.
    Just for reference - I never liked being poor, so I decided to work hard, become educated and learn to work a dollar at an early age even when I didn't have the support to do so. Back in 1978 when the superman craze was gloating on how much a copy of Action 1 was - as soon as I walked out of the theatre from Superman the movie I stopped becoming a just collector and more of an end goal collector. I love spider-man, I've always been a fan of Spidey. I thought to myself back then that $600 (guide) for an AF 15 would be a deal because one day (and I told a lot of people that laughed this) There's going to be a spidey movie that people will love. At the time Spider-man was goofy TV show - that was BAD. So I saved and I thought that I might not find an AF15 right of the bat so I started going to shows and picking up ASMs that I could afford while I searched for one. The day did come in 1979 where I found at the Raleigh flea market a guy that was behind on his alimony was selling his comic collection that included an AF15. The only problem was I was little short. The man wanted half guide $300 and all I had was $250. As a 10 year old with pocket full of grass cutting money would do I begged the man and he said come back at closing and if it's still here... and I did and this is where I became the collector I am today because right then as we were doing the deal my Dad (which is very frugal/stingy) flipped out when he saw that I was going to buy a comic for $200!!! I was literally dragged from it. It's crazy but in the months at that followed I would check the PG and see that it went up and by the time I had the full money the market would raise it to another ceiling and this would happen over and over. When I was in my teens, when I was in the army, when I was in college. I told people my story and by college I had ASM 130–present, still on the journey, still looking, after college I bought down to ASM 100 and opportunity finally came. I had 10k and a people laughed when I drove18 hours to get my AF 15 finally in CGC. I paid over guide for it, I didn't care - I've been following this book most of my life and I was going to get it.  and I did...

    The thing is this mind set made me have the same drive for any comic first app and it had me less patient that I have learned in a painful way.
    I bought a Hulk 181 right after the CGC bronze bubble burst around 2005. Regardless of all the x-men/wolverine movies that book just wouldn't go up for SIX YEARS! I got tired of that and in 2011 I flipped it and a GSX1 for the same price I bought them for (just dumb for not being patient) and FINALLY only a few months after my flip- the Millennials "POOF" had $$$ and the IH 181 was their baby. LOL!

    Oh well lessons learned, flip when it's hot, books are very cyclical... The time value of money (meaning $1 today isn't $1 tomorrow) so with that in mind try to avoid flipping a book just to get your money out of it mindset. Stay focused on goals and you will get there.

    The Great Collectibles Bubble: Waiting To Pop?

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    I'm thinking this may be a perfect time to move a ton of personal collection stuff that I have been sitting on a long time.

    Not to "liquidate" mind you, but sell at nutty inflated prices.

    It's so ridiculous, but I consigned tons and to keep me from having to babysit the market I put insane 3–4 X guide prices on them...
    (I'm not greedy, just lazy...) but they've all flippped. now I gotta work! LOL!
     

    The Great Collectibles Bubble: Waiting To Pop?

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    It's kind of funny, I was doing an associate a favor and helped him with his collection about 5 years ago...
    With a good heart I bagged a boarded all of his stuff and I told him what it was worth online, showing him the price guide.
    He had an ok collection and he liked to buy #1's as a kid in the 70's. I did the tally for him and I told him that with work and fees you'd do well. He just wanted money now and I looked as just breaking even except one. So funny that he loved (and they were worn and read) most of the 1's except his biggest book. So he took my OSPG offer on the set and was thrilled to do so. I sold all of it and covered the tab except for the book he hated an never read. He said he "didn't like x-men" and it was a beautiful VF copy of GSX1 when all of his other books were VG.