Brother J

Well, the only issues that are really "Neil Gaiman's Books of Magic" are the four issue prestige format mini series from 1990. The regular Books of Magic series was written by others. The first issue of the mini is the first appearance of Timothy Hunter, so that's a decent one to go with.

death high cost of living 3 - chris bachalo, mark buckingham - $10
gumby’s summer fun special  bob burden, art adams, diana schutz $5
milk and cheese 3rd #1  evan dorkin $5
hellblazer 78  garth ennis, steve dillon $5

at 60% off 

7 hours ago, Second Blight said:

thats a different Ronin

It doesn't seem to matter, if you clicked on the link, you'll see all the copies of New Avengers #11 that sold on 12/7 (today) and the prices were going higher.

Looks like New Avengers #11 (Ronin) just started selling like crazy. Even the VG condition copy I had sold!

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=New+Avengers+11&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&LH_Sold=1&LH_Complete=1&_sop=13

I find it irritating when sellers send your book Media Mail when it could have been sent for close to the same price via First Class Mail. I was looking at the tracking, wondering why my package was lingering at each stop so long, so I took a look and found out it was sent Media Mail. 10 days shipping time for something that could have been here in 2-3 days.

If you look at the web site for this store, it's pretty apparent their main focus is the collectible card games, not comics. One of the local shops here is almost exactly the same way. They do order new books, but their back issue boxes have become a jumble of books in no particular order, their boxes of bargain books and overstock books are now just stacked on top of each other, making it very hard to go through them, and the decent back issues they have on the wall aren't that great and aren't priced to sell easily.

Yeah, If I spent hours in front of a dealer pulling books and then put them all back, I'd be pretty much a toolbag. Being experienced with cheap boxes, I also can tell pretty quickly if I want to invest the time going through all the books a dealer has, or if they might not be the right books for me, so I don't waste either of our time. I have a 9 page paper list that I use to try to complete runs, and many people look at me like I'm a dinosaur! Probably over half the things I pull are NOT on my list, but catch my eye for one reason or another.

3 hours ago, spreads said:

What's funny is that there are people that will dig for books, pick them out and then decide they don't want them or try to beat you up over a 50 cent comic.  No joke, I had a guy him and haw over a handful of 50 cent comics....I think I kind of laughed and said he can just have them for free.....honestly, sunk cost people....

So because they are 50 cent books, people aren't supposed to double check the books they pull? When I go through cheap boxes, I pull any book that is of interest. Then, when I am done, I go through, check condition and also check to make sure it's something I really want, meaning I might find a book from a run I'd like to get, and I pulled it hoping I would find more issues of the run but didn't find any more. A book that has a defect that I didn't catch on the first go through isn't worth the 50 cents to me and it will likely go into my trash when I get it home and look at it closer, so wasted money.

my copy is the same way, just checked.

Marvel Epic Anthology Featuring Sleepwalker 1 

To make it an even 3 for $1

On 11/12/2018 at 8:53 AM, Buzzetta said:

Books 108-109

John Byrne: Babe: 1-2 Sold as a Set Only

 

Nemesis 2 (Variant Edition)

Hawkeye 1 

add to my stack

She-Hulk 1989 Series #51 and #52 

She-Hulk 2006 series #11, 13

Dune 2, 3

Thanos 8-9

Ms. Marvel 14 (1st series)

double post

6 hours ago, classicaaron said:

the older couple selling junk 50 cent books are just that, 50 cent junk books.  sorry don't need those for my collection, that's the junk I just want to get rid of. 

Plenty of good stuff in those boxes, but you have to be willing to put in the time to go through them.  At other shows (Lehigh Valley) I almost have to wrestle with other fans just to get through their boxes there are so many people trying to go through them. So that was one nice thing about this show, not as many people in the way. You do have to go through and double check condition as there are a lot of stinkers. There was one book in those boxes that is currently selling for about $30 on eBay, but it was so beat up, I put it back for someone who might not mind a beat up copy.

I attended the show because of the couple with the 50 cent books, they do a lot of the local shows and I have often come up with really good deals. I pulled 100 books, which gets the price down to .40 a book. Spent 3 hours looking at his stuff, then took a look around the room and was very disappointed. The guy with the junky bagged books I've seen at the Philly show. The funny thing to me about him is he puts no effort into selling books, doesn't sort them, doesn't bag them in decent bags. To look at his setup, you would think they were bargain books, but I think he charges full price for most of what he has. Since I go to this kind of show looking for bargain books, there wasn't much else for me there.

I bet you were probably disappointed, turnout seemed very light. First time I ever went to a show at opening time and was the only one standing in line to get in. I did very well with the one dealer I bought from, but didn't see anything else of interest.

5 hours ago, flashlites said:

This year I was able to find 'It ain't me babe' Trina Robbins book with others at MCS. I miss very much my old friend Don Donahue who had that amazing underground catalog and mail order sercice! Does anyone out there know where his collection went?

Buying from Don was great, everything was high grade and the prices were very fair. You could sometimes make out like a bandit with his eBay auctions.

1 hour ago, 50 Cent #II (1st) said:

Moriarty then was also the one to confirm that Big A s s #1 with the red box (and pages out of order, which was my discovery) was the 1st print, not the white box version (with the pages also out of order).

Yeah, that one I still don't get, I guess the only thing that makes sense is that is was supposed to be a red box the entire time, was a red box for the first printing, somehow got changed to white for the second and then fixed again for the third and later printings. I'm still glad to have my copy with the white box.

31 minutes ago, 50 Cent #II (1st) said:

And about a decade later, after only seeing 2 of these previously in this decade, I happen to come across 2 by the same seller.

 

 

Weird to see mycomicshop.com selling underground comix, for the longest time they seemed to avoid doing so. Congratulations! You might want to explain what the significance of these are compared to the other "gray tire" printings.

You also might want Omega Men #37, 1st solo Lobo story.

On 10/19/2018 at 6:06 PM, Black_Adam said:

There were seven in the set - all 22" x 34"

I had the Seduction of the Innocent poster on my walls for years. Wish I still had it.

16 hours ago, oldmilwaukee6er said:

Two of the four Collector's Edge locations have closed within the last 1.5 years- the West (outcompeted by another store) and East (rising rent, re-gentrification) locations. Any other long-term store, Turning Page, closed for a while when the owner died. It reopened just over a year ago under new management and is succeeding. It appears, looking at Google maps, that another store opened within the last two years in nearby Glendale. 

No real net change for Milwaukee

I miss all the great shops in Milwaukee. Vortex and Lost Worlds of Wonder were always my two favorites. Collector's Edge is fine, but I wish they would make the basement available more often than just once a year. There's really only one decent shop for back issues around me here in my area unless I want to drive a bit.

On 10/10/2018 at 2:19 PM, 50 Cent #II (1st) said:

Anyone see this before?

I have the later CD edition from Shel-Tone, I'm guessing this is the original version of the cast recording from R. Crumb: The Musical, and with four cassettes' worth of material, there must be a lot more songs than the ones available on the CD.