NoMan

I generally kinda fail at stuff. And when I sold the Dazzlers, to put it mildly, I failed, too. It's ok tho. I got a career, I'm nice to people and help when I can so in the important stuff in life I'm blessed and doing ok. Buying and selling comics with profit in mind? Yeah, no.

I dunno much about that particular issue of that title. I know the art is insufferable.

I bought 50 copies of Dazzler #1 when it came out in/around 1980.

During this stay-at-home time I've read through Michael McDowell's epic Blackwater novels. I've poured over William Eggleston's and William Christanberry's photo work and now I'm looking for something a little lighter. Is/are there any particularly bad comic you tube shows. Bad defined as: incorrect information, obsession with $ value, obsession with speculation, TELLING viewers what's hot, what's not, etc. Just somebody showing off their collection isn't really the road I'm traveling down this afternoon. That's all good. Thanks for helping me pass the day safely

hence the suggestion to gain the experience of being on the other side of the table. It's rather eye opening.

well my goal when I got back into collecting after working on my career for 30 years was to become The Greatest Comic-Book Collector In The World. I don't think I speak for anyone when I say that many people have come to the conclusion that I am The Greatest Comic-Book Collector In The World. It seems like it would be kinda like a glory position but it's actually a lot of work. People calling and stopping by the house night and day asking what's "hot" and "what's the best book to buy to be able to sell and pay for their kid's college." A lot of people just want to tell me their mom threw away all their comic books or they use to have this comic or that comic. So the current hot book is She Hulk #1 (1978).

I highly suggest you volunteer to help a friend/your fave local comic shop/whatever behind their table a con and see how costumers act. It makes you cringe.

Thanks guys for all answers to my continued insurance questions. I insure with American Collectors Insurance. $853 or so a year for a for a solid six figure book. (and it HAS to be in a Bank Safe Deposit Box - that part doesn't bother me as I like Safe Depost Boxes but what if I wanted to show it at a party with lines and girls in the hot tube?) Seriously tho, not sure I like em. I gotta figure this one out.

I'm not understanding how you just arrive at a price (without proof) and give it to your insurance company and they say "OK."

I'm not understanding how you "manually update" an in demand key, the value of which is reflected poorly in a price guide. I'm sure the insurance company would have a hundred problems with your "manually" listed value when and if pushed came to shove and you had to file a claim. I'm just guessing so please help educate me, because it's kinda exactly where I am. Thanks in advance.

i guess i gotta call my insurance and ask. Do you know the second I unlock the key and open the door to my Safe Deposit Box the book is no longer insured. It's only insured in the box, door locked. It sounds insane. Maybe I'm wrong. I should call. I would like legendary comic book expert/collector/lock & stop dancer Magik Woo to appraise my comic. But he won't even give his fax number to somebody to give me yet he'll go to conventions in Canada and talk and talk and talk about himself and his collection until people grow tired of him and wish he'd shut the F up. And here I am WANTING to talk to him but he won't talk to me!? Somebody please make this situation right......,

serious question here: I should get the book, umm, forgetting the word now. Apprasied that's it. right? I figure it's gone up or maybe down but it's a pretty stable mega key. Who do I hire to do that? And that means my rates go up cause it's worth more.

i just paid my comic book insurance for the year.

The bioavailability of boofing comiclink auctions just doesn’t make it worth it.

thanks

it's the problem with the internet...every thing is free. Look up Richard Prince if you really wanna sink into it. "Hey cool investigative piece in the Los Angeles Times." "Oh, hell man, there's a paywall so forget it." So eventually know more investigative pieces in the Los Angeles Time and then folks person_without_enough_empathy about that. "No local coverage, bro!" Well are you paying for it? and on and on. It's supper not cool they used your collected art in their tv show and didn't ask first. But the train has left the station and we are all worse for it... But tho answer your poll questions: None are good answers. Being jazzed they used your picture (even without asking) and you have bragging rights will continue the act of high dollar productions stealing from others on the internet. Getting a letter from an attorney will cost upwards of 350 -600$ and resolve nothing and from the sounds of it you didn't register your photograph with a copyright (yes,* a photograph of artwork photograph is it's own art). You will never get future credit for said photograph in future re-showings of the production because that would cost money to add more credits in post, never gonna happen.

you have to register a copyright. when you do this, then attorney fees can be calculated into settlement.

wonder what the oldest comic to get a 10 is?

speaking of which i guess i have to comic apprasied and that ups the value and ups the premium. Wonder who has to do the apprsial?

No. I’m not sure anyone had that has spoken. Could be wrong.

It's the standard cost. It's what anyone would pay, but yes, I got on a waiting list in my early 20's and after 17 years a large box became available. these large boxes are very, very rare and are often handed down from family generation to generation through wills, or something like that the Wells Fargo guy was telling me. I live adjacent to an old money kinda area and those big families got em all with who knows what in 'em. Things can get dicey tho because the banker is suppose to turn around and not look what you put/take out of your box. There is a very real fear that someone is going to get a gun into the insides of a bank this way, as opposed to walking through the front door or whatever. From I gather from my Safe Deposit Box research is that they really aren't that profitable for the bank, but to keep the rich old timers customers happy (at least in my area) they provide the service. Sometimes old folks are in there just fondling stuff. Like one time I saw some old guy just running his fingers over this old lamp. You're really suppose to go in a private room to look at your goodies buy most people don't.

For what? What's on Dr. Phil? It's more Covid-19 information. Dr. Phil knows the deal. You know he doesn't like his wife, you know? He also has a weight alarm on his parking space so it goes off if anything is parked or set there and Paramont security has to come running. They can't stand him. Some old lady feel down in his audience and broke her leg. Paramedics had to come and he was pissed cause it delayed him going home.

there are already threads about that and some people get real angry around here if something is asked that there's already a thread. But those guys are d-bags so forget about 'em. I know folks with comics for years in Safe Boxes in Houston. No problem. Look up the putting comics in a Gun Safe thread from a couple of years around here. Good luck with the search function, tho. I'd try to find it for you but Dr. Phil is about to come on. Basically, some people get all voodoo about it and put in little packs of whatever that stuff is that takes the humidity out of stuff. Little packs of salt or whatever that you're not suppose to eat. But what do you expect from a crowd suffering from OCD and other aliments that want their comics in a plastic tomb. Hey I kid, collect however and all. I've had books in a Safe Box for a couple of years now and no problem and it gets humid here at times. Plus the history of Safe Deposit Boxes is a rather interesting one. If you're kinda lucky you can peek what someone has in a box when you're in the vault together. But don't get caught! I saw an urn (human remains?) and something official looking aged document with a swastika on it.

I say everyone gets a Safe Deposit Box. I love em! And still gotta have insurance cause the bank don't insure what's in the box....

These insurance threads come up from time to time and they baffle me. I mean I understand the question, but, but, but.... Shouldn't the question be who has had insurance and then had to file a claim because of theft, fire or whatever and how were they THEN treated and made (or not) made whole again by said insurance company? The answers always seem to be: Oh my insurance company is great at collecting premiums. I highly recommend them! I know I'm not the smartest guy here, but sometimes, come on guys.... Yeah, I'm about to pay a huge insurance bill for a huge comic. I dunno what to do. I have to.