Tri-Color Brian

On 4/23/2024 at 4:33 AM, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

I hadn’t seen this thread before. I think the covers of Mystery in Spaces are wonderful, and don’t get enough acclaim 

That's why I keep bumping it...  I only started collecting DC Sc-fi titles in 2015.  I have no idea how I overlooked them before that...

New pick up...

As Silver knows, I have this one...

On 4/15/2024 at 1:36 PM, Robot Man said:

Pretty far from my focus but I do have a few of them. I'm sure @Tri-Color Brian has quite a few. 

I only have 2 DC Funny Animal comics.  I don't consider Rex to be a funny animal.  Here's one of my 2 Real Screen's...

On 4/11/2024 at 7:45 PM, Hepcat said:

Hey, wow! Nice copies of old Archies are super tough to find. And Laugh 128 contains a "Fly" story!

Thanks Hep!  I started grabbing the Sci-fi/Horror Archies in the mid-90s.  Most of mine are not that nice though. 

On 4/11/2024 at 7:13 PM, Silver said:

I am amazed at the breadth of your collection Brian, and as usual, super nice copies!

I appreciate that coming from the Silver King...

A few new pickups...

Re-scanned my #1 recently to fix colors that were "off"...in 1979 the American Comic Book Co. in Studio City, CA called it a NM.    Guess they just didn't notice that piece off the top left corner...

On 4/4/2024 at 1:40 PM, sfcityduck said:

That flip didn't work. $750K is down $60K from the $810K paid the for same book, presumably by this seller, less than a year ago.  

Reminiscent of the flipper who got only $1.5M for the All-Star 8 in January of this year which had been purchased a year and half earlier in June 2022 $1.62M.  

 

People who have that kind of money for funny books aren't too smart sometimes...

On 4/2/2024 at 10:43 PM, Hepcat said:

Here then are scans of my five earliest Mystery in Space comics:

 

Dallas Stephens copy

 

 

 

 

Nice books.  That #56 almost has the feel of a grey tone cover...I might need to get one of those. 

On 3/30/2024 at 7:20 PM, Hepcat said:

Great condition for one you yourself bought off the newsstand!  How old were you then?

Batman and Robin though should be cheering for their regular partner Superman though. And Hawkman should be with the Atom and Green Lantern cheering for the Flash.

Thanks.  I'm your age...so...  And I don't know how that survived in such nice condition.  A lot of my rack bought comics did, and a lot didn't...

And these I just re-scanned...

I think I forgot to show this...

Here's my latest Four Colors...I never knew Donald was a surfer...

On 3/18/2024 at 8:01 AM, Robot Man said:

I rarely buy many Four Colors but had to grab this for $3. yesterday.

A real flood of memories from my childhood watching Disney’s Wonderful World of Color on TV. I believe I might have had this comic as a kid.

@Tri-Color Brian

Huh!...I bought a couple Four Colors today...here's one of them...

On 3/1/2024 at 10:03 AM, Robot Man said:

I was kind of afraid of that. I looked at the dealer list and only saw Harley and Sibra who would have been targets for my wallet. I imagine if I did some serious box diving and found “that one guy” at every con I might have been a little disapointed.

This years CalCon was a bit disappointing for me. I set up as a dealer and wasn’t sorry by any means. I’m 20 minutes away and a table was reasonable. I noticed right away that the crowd seemed a bit light. It is usually elbow to elbow and packed all day. I left about an hour and a half early and made about half of what I did last year. I heard a bit of dealer “grumbling” but mostly from those who brought super high priced (maybe overpriced) stuff. I mostly bring lower priced but unusual GA/SA stuff that goes to readers, run fillers and folks who just like old books on a budget. As a buyer, I found that “one guy” with some cool GA priced right.

Might have been the weather. We had a pretty massive storm predicted starting on Sunday. Or it might have been the market it’s self whereby, folks are just holding back a bit.

Next show coming up is WonderCon on Easter weekend. Bad weekend for a show anyway. Last year it was a little “thin” for both buyers and sellers. I am going with a full wallet to buy but don’t expect much.

Are comic cons slowly dying? Are prices to the point where setting up at shows or traveling to buy just isn’t worth it? Even at smaller vintage comic dealing shows? I hate to think this. I MUCH prefer a live show over the internet. Both for comic dealing as well as the social part of it.

Appears this might be the case everywhere and not just limited to the West Coast. Any opinions? 

Maybe Terry doesn't advertise like he used to.  Remember when he used to do those TV commercials and the announcer would say, "Here's Terry O'neil and his dog Spot"?  He used to always end the commercial with a jingle that said "Go see Cal Con, Go see Cal Con, Go see Cal Con".  I loved those, except for all the used cars.  I don't know what they were doing in a comic con commercial...

I never knew Ed in person, only from an ad he placed in the old CBG in the 90s.  It's always sad to lose a member of our community though.  R.I.P Ed...

On 2/23/2024 at 10:48 PM, fifties said:

Why not break down and get a new printer to scan with?  They're dirt cheap.

Because I don't know if a new dirt cheap scanner will do a better job.  There's a whole discussion on scanners and what they can do in the Baker thread.  I just don't want to deal with buying a new one.  I'm learning how to manipulate mine better, and I'm also learning more about my photoshop, so the books are looking a lot better and I enjoy working on the images.    And really, I haven't seen anyone show a scan on here that was exactly how the book was supposed to look.  I think we all have the same problems.