NoMan

you mean just good old average working people can actually now afford a house in Los Angeles?

why would there be a spinoff? Of course "People Who Purposely Socially Diminish Others" is about exposing people who purposely socially diminish others. That's what the film is about. Do you want to go over the pitch one more time in the car before we pitch to the suits in the glass towers?

used to love those PSA books: Spiderman and Herbie the Robot about talking the evils of drugs, the Fantastic Four lecturing us on the dangers of Michael Milken's Junk Bond scheme. Those were the days. What do we got now? Nothen', that's what. We need them more than ever!

Is there a certain group that American Collectors Insurance accepts? Guess it's a question for ACI.Just curious if anyone has experince changing t their policy as their book goes up (or down) in value. Thanks in advance, thereby, ostensibly, changing their insurance bills.

thanks! good stuff!

now you've done it.

that is a nice copy.

It was an underground type book. If it was Fantagraphics, D&Q or deeper underground I don’t know. group of kids one of which loves to play war. He imagines himself a general leading men into war and so on. One day the other kids tell him, “ we’ll give you all the tanks in the world if you poop Your pants.” the next frame the war guy is standing proudly on a hill as he has thought ballon of him commanding all these tanks. Below his pants Appear to be getting heavier with stink lines and flys buzzing around his drawers. i laughed my off when I first read this. Anybody know book I’m talking about. Yummy Fur?

Did you like Swank porno mag? All photo shoots started out with woman prim and proper with clothes on then as shoot progressed her clothes came off and she became slutty. Used to blow my mind as a kid and other things got blown too

"People Who Purposely Socially Diminish Others." What a great title of a documentary that HBO will make 40 years from today about life in 2020.

Didn't Art Buchwald's lawsuit reveal that even the studios don't understand the "box office numbers?" How you guys do is beyond me. Just a short visit, I don't belong here.

I wear the same thing everyday and get lots of flack for it. "Fashion" is not important to me, so who cares? It's not my biz, however, I'm always curious why others the same everyday. Curious why you do.

Yeah, i dig ya. It's the same with Rolex watches. They really are the Honda Civics of Swiss watches. No big deal except everyone wants one so they sell for big $$$$. Everyone has one and and it seems everyone wants one. Now a Blancpain Fifty Fathoms (original diver from the 50s, not the current line of abominations) or a Patek Philippe, hell any Patek Philippe, now that's rare.

thanks for taking the time to type this and communicate it in easy terms. It must be frustrating for you as people, I dunno, they wanna believe wack shzit from non-experts and argue with the experts. I'm an expert on one thing (unfortunately) just cause I've done it night and day for 3 decades. People ask me about celebrities all the time (never interesting filmic questions like, "How can the choice of film stock and lighting become an important character in a film?) and when I tell them, yeah, Dr. Phil is an a-hole, a worthless human being they argue with me because they saw a photo of Dr. Phil in People magazine and his teeth were perfectly straight, he was smiling with a litter of puppies and worthless people don't do that. My 10 years working on the stage at Paramount next to his stage means nothing. Me knowing every security guard at Paramount means nothing. Me knowing 70% of the artists working on his show means nothing. Just that photo in People with the puppies.

I admit it. I'm a bit confused. While I appreciate that you might write a longer, more detailed post with explanations, don't. It's not gonna help me and just kinda waste your time. Too many AF15. Wish they would all burn down, except for one.

Yeah, bro, I don't have it now. Next Week. I swear. The one (and probably only) time I got a high dollar book from HA they wanted to see a letter from my financial guy stating I was a serious bidder even though I had met them at the HA office in Beverly Hills to talk about the book and I told them then, "I'm going to win that book but I might be in Africa when the auction ends." Guess I don't make a good first impression. When I got home, my wife did tell me that my clothes didn't match and I was wearing two different style of tennis shoes.

in all seriousness, what happens to a sale of this magnitude if the buyer gets "buyer's remorse" or just splits. I know they've got to kinda know you personally for sales like this, but what if you do skip town. Is it lawsuit time or does the book got to next bidder down, or.... ???

Yeah you’re right. Like I said couldn’t do that to the guys over at HA guess my punishment bid would have been the winning bid oh lordy!

umm.....no.

one would think, but the HG AF15s just a keep a commen'

I was wondering about that 7.0 with the "Paid" date stamp. Gotta see what that went for. Was going for 55K last I looked. People don't seem to like it. I thought it was sweet!

so there is a cut off on internet bidding and it goes to the floor? If no one challenges the largest internet bid, then the floor bidding stops. Prolly pretty exciting to be there. Kinda cool. Maybe the comic could be destroyed right after the sale, like that Banski stunt that nobody at Sotheby's was in on (cough, cough)

HA takes me serious and thinks I'm a Mac-Daddy due to a pricey book I bought a while ago. Therefor, they take my bids seriously. Wonder if I should place a punishment bid on that AF15 9.4? Guess that could go bad for me and I wouldn't be able to keep my word. Also couldn't do that to Barry Sandoval and Ed Jasper (sp?) who've been nothing but cool to me, helping me uncover the history of my book. Oh well..... having a conscience and good manners is boring sometimes.

I'm old enough to know how the world works, however, it still at times hard for me to wrap my head around that kind of money for a comic book. This is not a slight on comics, comic collectors, key comics, collecting comics, AF15, the state of the hobby or anything other than that's a lot of cash. And yes, I know for some people a million dollars is like the change I keep trying to find in the center console of my Volvo.

i think I'm gonna walk by that pokemon/magic the gathering card-table playing business in Little Tokyo when I go to the shabu-shabu restaurant and see everyone laid out dead on the floor like those pictures of Jone's Town.