AndyFish

Going to run the last few episodes of these all this week as I'll be heading to Wizard Chicago for a week.

I don't think it's a ridiculous thing to consider at all, but I would tailor it to high ticket high yield books. Let's say a group of investors got together in 2001 and bought an Amazing Fantasy 15 for the going price then of $35K -- flash forward to today and they've made a substantial profit over the initial input, far advanced what something like a mutual fund would return in the same number of years. So you get a bunch of doctors together and instead of investing their money and creating SUBWAY you do something good for humanity and buy golden age pre code Robin DETECTIVE COMICS. I know they certainly smell better.

I wouldn't let shipping stop you-- I for one love seeing TPBs and HCs here on the boards-- and I'm the guy at the con who buys up all the $5 trades. I prefer collected editions over comics anyday. Much easier to pull them off a shelf than dig through boxes. If you keep the shipping to cost and go with $5 a book I think you'll have no trouble moving them.

This x 10,000 I could lie and say there's nothing wrong with gamers but why? They are the stereotype of what a comic shopper is. You want to chase out Mom's or serious collectors or buyers? Fill your shop with a bunch of loud obnoxious social inebriates and watch what happens. I was in what I would consider a nice shop in Northampton Ma a few months ago-- prior to this I'd been there and dropped about $300 on trade paperbacks and an old comic or two. This was my sort of "test run" and I didn't have a lot of time to browse, this time it was a Sunday and I had the day off from projects. I grabbed a nice lunch next door and then went into the shop and right there in the middle of the store were a bunch of gamers sitting around a table eating chinese food, McDonald's, Subway and Pizza. You can imagine the mix of smells. They were loud, they were enthusiastic, the kid behind the register was talking to them and clearly engaged and I tried to squeeze around them to look at the stock. Needless to say after about ten minutes of this I left without buying anything. I've not been back since. I have two close friends who both own a combined three different comic shops within a 50 mile radius of where I live. One shop is big, it has a separate room for gaming-- and when there's a tournament you can't hear them in the store, only when you walk by to come in, and only when they venture out to buy a milky way bar and a can of Mountain Dew between dice rolls or card flips or whatever it is they're doing in there. The other shop is small, same owner-- he sets up the gamers off to the side of the store but they're obnoxious so I don't visit that one. The last store can't decide what it's doing-- they had a separate game room but he said he got tired of picking up their trash and repairing the damage they would do in there unsupervised, so he moved them into the middle of the store and only has gaming one night a week. He insists they spend money but he hired me as a consultant and I had one of my family members go in as a secret shopper to observe that over the course of three hours (said person was pretending to be a new gamer) that the group of 8 gamers spent $6 on snacks and bragged to them how they stole sodas from the cooler when the clerk was helping customers. Bottom line is do you want to open a business for profit or a clubhouse?

Looks like an 8.5 to me. Might be the scan, but the edges look a little soft and the color isn't popping.

All of the art is moved to eBay starting bids are all $10. ID is ROBOPICTO

My choice for skinny Alfred rather than the portly Alfred Beagle was simply a matter of how much story I could tell in this limited format, plus when I began the strip I "cast" it using working B-Actors from the period-- so Kane Richmond is Batman/Bruce Wayne, Doug Croft is Robin and William Austin, who played Alfred in the '43 serial, and who was responsible for National Comics changing good ol' Alf to match his appearance was my choice for Wayne's Butler. If this were an ongoing series I would have had fat Alfred and show him go off to the fat farm to lose all the weight, but trying to keep the whole thing to 30 chapters with only a fragment of story each week I opted to cut to the skinny version.

As impossible as it sounds there is going to come a point where the pain will be gone. It may seem ridiculous. But you'd be much smarter to store everything away somewhere and put it out of mind. A few months/years down the road you might discover an even greater level of happiness and comics might call to you again-- then you'd end up rebuying the stuff you had. Things happen for a reason, if your girlfriend was meant to be the one you spend your life with it would have happened. Her loss. Move on and don't let it affect the next day of your life. Be glad there was no marriage legalities to have to struggle through, divorce is not only hard it's expensive.

Why not set up a Sales Thread and in that mention you're interested in trading. It's a long shot, but I agree with the sentiments above, nobody goes in the WTB section. I've found anyone who goes that route is more "looking to get a ridiculously cheap deal" than actually buy.

That was Profiles in History which ran under the title Hollywood Treasures on SciFy. Comic Book Men is so fake I can't stand it-- and it gives collectors and comic fans a bad name. Carbo did three or four episodes of his show and it runs on ConTV which is a Roku channel.

Marvel Comics THE AGE OF THE SENTRY Issue #6 page 14-- great page from a fun series (remember when comics were fun?); $125. MOVED TO eBAY SELLER ID ROBOPICTO This is a great page with some really creative layout. Homage to the great Silver Age of Marvel Comics. Nick Dragotta with inks by Gary Martin (who signed the page). Also displaying the page from the book. Great stuff.

Squirrel Girl Cover is SOLD-- THANK YOU!

Squirrel Girl Variant Cover for the Marvel Legacy month that came out this month. Completely hand drawn, and you don't see that in modern comics anymore. On 11x17 bristol. Homage cover to the great Moebius cover. $800 SOLD!

That's a start for tonight-- more this weekend. Thanks for looking!

Here's an odd one to wrap up tonight (more to come) as I said, my wife Veronica and I are comic book artists-- I have 19 graphic novels from various publishers including McFarland Press, Quarto Publishing in London, Chartwell Books, Penguin and more. I've also done quite a bit of licensing work for both Marvel and DC. Currently I'm working on Gumby with Veronica, and I've done some ghost work on her Marvel titles. The latest issue of Wasp features a fight down a flight of stairs from above-- that was me. Veronica has worked on the ARCHIE relaunch, Marvel's SPIDERWOMAN, WASP, Squirrel Girl as well as Boom Studios creator owned SLAM! and she has a pretty big project soon to be announced. We often collaborate and recently did this color commission piece for a friend of his wife. You'll have to trust me on the likeness because I don't want to publicly post a photo of someone here. But needless to say, they were happy with it and we had fun doing it. We decided we'll do a few more of these and will be announcing that on our blogs, but here's your chance to get yourself or someone you care about done as a superhero or heroine. 11x14 bristol, full color single figure $125 Two figures $200 That's a unique gift and one that will certainly put a smile on someone's face.

Richard Sala Violenza Returns Page 19 Watercolor and ink on 11x14 watercolor paper Great page for fans of Sala, zombies, great art-- you name it. Colors are vibrant. $375 MOVED TO EBAY SELLER ID ROBOPICTO

Nice Phil Hester page, I think Phil is underrated and this page, from Beyond Belief, evokes a lot of Mignola while still having what makes Phil great. All done in ink-- no markers here. 11x17 on bristol. $125 MOVED TO eBAY seller ID ROBOPICTO

Just a quick sales thread with some original art bargain priced (or at least I think it is). 1- Shipping inside the good ol' US of A is $20 via Priority Mail with tracking the rest of the world it's more but it's just actual shipping. I'll get you some quotes if you take something. Shipping is the same for one or all of the pieces so don't be afraid to make a pile. OUTSIDE of the USA you must pay for insurance and tracking too. Sorry had some bad overseas folks who ruin it for everyone. 2- Payment is by Paypal, check or money order. PP will only go to whatever address is on record for them, so straighten out your info beforehand. 3- Don't be a bumble. I don't like bumbles. 4- First TAKEIT in the thread trumps any and all PM negotiations. If we make an agreement via PM please post TAKEN BY PM in the thread. 5- No probies or hosies allowed. See #3. 6- I have a Kudos thread and have been doing business on eBay as Seller ROBOPICTO for many many years. I am a comic book artist as well as my wife. We are currently working on GUMBY for Papercutz. I'll be posting to the thread all weekend, 7-8 pieces. First up, Jim Aparo BATMAN page from Detective #716-- I believe this is inked by Stan Woch but it's not marked. Aparo was a classic Batman artist in the 70s, by the late 90s he was not quite his old self but this is a good page with some nice Batman action on it. There are flickers of vintage Aparo in here (I'm pointing to the top right panel with Batsy). I like this page and I hope you do too. $175 for a nice Aparo page, with some great action and nice inks. MOVED TO eBAY $10 starting bid-- seller ROBOPICTO