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What you don't get in your underwear at home is the social interaction. Some of the best times I've ever had were because of comic shows and the people they brought together. Our parties were legendary for a time (those involved who knew, knew). Also, I do it nude.

I'd never thought of it that way but you may be right.

I remember seeing Carmine Infantino at a Motor City show sitting all by himself. Nobody wanted to talk to him. Literally one of the God Fathers of the Silver Age. I chatted with him for a good 20 mins all by myself and bought an autographed book for one of my best friends.

If your scanner is used, I believe that line is on the inside of the glass from the hardware constantly rubbing against the glass over the lifetime of the slab. It may get polished out but you'd have to remove the glass to get at it.

Many parts of North America are more or less 'back to normal' with places crowded and no masks, but personally, I'm not really interested in discussing anything about Covid (and actually, moderation has forbidden it because it was so problematic in the watercooler). I was more asking how people felt about going to conventions now that people have been accustomed to shopping from home and also how they will decide which shows they plan to go to and how they make those decisions now that many shows are crammed into a short period of time to make up for no shows for over a year.

I bump into him and Marilyn all the time and we are just cordial but a few times when there was nothing going on I just sat at his table and we chatted. He's still very energetic when he speaks and he likes to talk about his work and history in comics. Often he'll come up with back stories to how or why he did 'this or that'. I've never been a customer to them so I'm not sure which side of NA I've seen now.

He is a fascinating and exciting person to talk to.

You're getting old! Like me.

Such a negative Nancy. Regional differences noted.

Well, it's been a while. How do you folks feel about going back to shows? I think most people know by now that with the schedule crammed and many people trying to put on shows at the same time that Chicago / Motor City (Detroit) and Indianapolis are on the same weekends. For weekends like this, if you live in the area of these shows, how do you decide which show you want to go to since they're all within driving distance of each other? As dealers, how do you decide which shows you plan on doing? Will you avoid shows until things are fully in the clear? Are you done with shows because you realize you can buy everything online? Looking forward to hearing from everyone.

@davidpg calls me every day to talk about comics because he has nobody else to talk to. It's getting annoying. I wish he would stop.

Hardest thing I've ever done. Greatest thing I've ever done. There is nothing better.

What an absolutely fun thread. Thank you all you old timers for bringing back the spirit of the boards!

So, what box do these fit into? I assume you're using the USPS boxes?

I write sold in red, after the price. I also write who I sold it to, so I don't get confused, lol. I do the same. I take the time to put a strike through the price and then a red SOLD! afterward. It also helps if there is a problem and you don't get into a 'they said it was priced this and this' scenario. I just had a seller quote me the wrong price (honest mistake) and I had to remind him of the price in their listing. So it does happen.

Everything has a lot of potential these days. I remember laughing at The Eternals title thinking how silly it was back in the day and here we are. IMO, the MCU jumped the shark initially when they pandered to China as a country and made the Mandarin a bumbling fool rather than a villain with Chinese roots to not hurt revenue in China. Nothing from comics history matters anymore. Great villains and characters become obsolete, terrible villains and characters become popular. The only thing that matters is how MCU decided to film it.

Yes, during the pandemic the only rules that really matter are the ones that the people in power say they matter. I've heard multiple stories about deliveries like this.

I love it when even my enemies agree with me.

There's a lot to running any business and unless you start doing it for yourself it's easy to criticize the way others are doing it. Market dynamics create all sorts of variables, sometimes even variables that you can never prepare for. I think the takeaway from this thread is that 2 months is an excessively long time to find some sort of resolution in any transaction. Did the seller do the right thing by starting a thread? That's up to personal interpretation. We've had threads started for much smaller mistakes or examples of unresolved problems. I think it's unfair to pick on the OP for 'not picking up the phone'. That's just silly to me. Email is just as valid a form of communication as a phone call, and probably more so in the digital age. If you buy and sell online, you should expect the majority of your communication to me online. It's also easier to document all communication if there is a problem. Hopefully it gets resolved and the OP can post some good news.

Can so. Stamped it, doubled crossed it, no erasies!

Can I substitute a Yugo?

Come to think of it, now that you have that offer in writing, maybe I'll win the book and sell it to you for a cool Mil after eating my shorts.

It crossed my mind but since I'm a man of my word and I didn't think I'd be able to pull that one off, I decided against it.

That was my keeper copy, right? It's killer. Still one of the nicest I've ever seen.

Black microchamber paper would jump out at you through white covers. The only way that would work was if the paper was exactly the same size as the cover so that the effect would be even across the whole cover. What may work better would be a newsprint colored, slightly off white paper rather than the stark white one currently being used...but I'm not sure if that would be easy to spot through the cover as well. The other option is to place the microchamber paper a few wraps in and not behind the cover but then that prevents the protective barrier between the cover and the splash.