Doktor

Man’s gotta have a snack while organizing comics!

CLZ. Been using it for about 8-10 years now & it’s just simple. It’s generally crowdsourced for a lot of the info. They don’t make the determination on what a key book is when it’s coming out because they wait for the users to do that. They do have a staff that “updates” their database based on info from the crowdsourced data tho. And it’s pretty simple for adding indie, small-press, or even self-published stuff. And pretty easy to add your own custom scans of your books instead of the stock scan image. Plus, the cloud sync, ability to restore the collection on a new device, and ability to sync over multiple devices easily is pretty rad. I use the iOS & the MacOS versions. If you have a CovrPrice account, you can sync that to the CLZ to update “values” as well.

Recently did some rearranging of art, got rid of an old desk, and put my drum kit up in my comic room. Still rocking the legal filing cabinets & going to be installing another set of the drawers in the other closet in the next few weeks.

I'm reaching out to the board community for some help. This is a probably a REALLY dumb question but I've been failing miserably at finding this place again. I've been hunting up and down google maps to find this place again and I figured I'd take a stab at asking here because I cannot remember the name of this joint: This summer, I was driving through upstate new york. I was with the girlfriend and we were doing a bunch of antique shopping and comic shopping. We had started just hitting almost any antique shop we could find between Utica/Rome area and coming back west on I-90 before going down to Erie. We would get off the interstate periodically and hit a few antique shops and comic shops before continuing on. I don't recall when exactly we found this place but I'm really trying to find my way back. We happened across this little antique shop in a small 4-6 shop strip mall. There was a smoke/glass shop on the opposite end of the strip of 4-6 stores. They had like a small outdoor tent area with antiques as well. Inside the antique shop were a bunch of rooms with a few dozen different vendors set up kinda. It was somewhere between an antique mall and a consignment shop. There were a few little sections/tables throughout this place that had comics. Mostly dollar books. Some 90's stuff. Some modern variants. It looked like they were from different vendors too. I couldn't quite figure out exactly how the place worked and I didn't buy anything at this place. But it seemed like whatever you bought, you took it up to the front of the store and they would ring you out at a central cash register. I also recall that there was a side room that had a little bit of vintage toys as well. But this place was still like 80% antiques and furniture and vintage stuff. I'm trying to make it back there because they had this antique thing i wanted but couldn't fit it in the car during that trip. And now I've completely forgotten where this place is. Can anyone help a brother out? I know this probably isn't super helpful. But I figured I would reach out to you fine folks because all of us nerds have found a billion of these little antique mall/micro-vendor comic sources over the years and someone else might have a clue what the name of this place was and where it is. Thanks in advance, Dok

Yeah. I have a built-in on the other side of the vanity/desk to the right on the photo that's opposite this one (closet side on the inside as well with an existing drawer section along the side wills). So I'm going to do the same on the inside cabinet on that side. Since there's already drawers in the outer cabinets but can't fit comics, I use them for comic supplies, trading cards, statue boxes, shipping supplies, etc. Taking them out to do the same as this part would be a huge undertaking that I really don't feel like doing. I definitely have the books to fill the drawers. And it will let me remove one of the smaller filing cabinets in the process. If money wasn't an object, I'd probably convert all of it & try to get rid of most of the filing cabinets, but for the time being, I'll settle for the equivalent of 8 legal filing cabinet drawers.

So I haven't updated here in a while. I had these built-ins in my comic room that weren't really being used & rather than going out to find more filing cabinets & adding more weight to the floors, I decided to clear out the closet & add flat walls & then have custom drawers built for it. Each drawer holds the same amount as 1 legal filing cabinet drawer. So that's pretty rad. I'll be doing the closet on the other side in the not too distant future. I wanted to test on this one first.

I loved this copy the minute I saw it. It presents great. There’s a little damage in the top corner on the spine where there’s part of the book missing but I don’t care. I love looking at it.

This books is my grail book. I’d have loved to buy a higher grade but this is what I can afford at the moment & I absolutely love it

That's the Lim variant that's getting more copies released. The standard pre-AP version just has the regular cover minus the AP masthead. From what Brian has said on his patreon & twitter, he's only offering up the Lim variant. He hasn't mentioned anything about releasing more copies of the standard version tho.

Rags #1 pre-AP version still hot. I'm selling another copy (lowest grade of the ones I had with a clear CBC on the spine) and it's at $360 with 3 days left to go. That's also the highest price so far other than the Lim variant.

So best to maybe contact them before submission?

Stupid question, but does anyone know if CGC grades self-pub books? I have 2 more copies of Rags pre-AP & 1 is a 9.8 candidate (I also have a copy of the Patreon variant #1 that I don't want to sell but still might after seeing the prices on a raw one). I don't know their policy when it comes to grading stuff when there's a self-pub version that's identical to a later-released small-press published version.

I know Rags got mentioned a few pages back when it first came out & sold out from AP, but I had a feeling that once the market realized there was a pre-Antarctic version (2 actually), those would spike even higher than the $30-50 the AP Rags #1 copies were going for. So far, a handful of pre-AP copies have sold. $166, $285, $297, $277 and now $242. Rags 1 pre-Anatarctic Press self-published version There's also the Patreon Variant (the 1st is for sale now) that's still rising with another day left and is already at $255 make that $530 with 18 hours left.

I think it's really really good so far. Loved the first issue.

So this might be a really dumb question, but does anyone know the order ratios on the upcoming JSC variants (regular A & B, Virgin A & B) for this X-Classified #1 that's coming? It's a diamond orderable & I'm really debating whether I want to pre-order any of them but I haven't been able to find the order ratios. Or if it's a threshold or whatever.