NoMan

Thanks Mr. Glassman!

I figured there was a chance it could go like this. Having a brain that dwells on details like the school bus in your AF15 story and not the AF15 is a blessing and a curse, but mostly a blessing, I guess. I was not being sarcastic or whatever, I truly was interested in the details of the school bus. I guess you could double down and say, "The school bus is none of your business" and it wouldn't be that big of a bigee. No harm, no foul. You be you. I'll be me. That sort of thing. But I think about stuff like that, "Who was the last person to drive the school bus?" "How did it get there." Some people take their photographs at the Official Kodak Picture Taking Spot and some wander off, like Everett Ruess, never to return. Get what I mean, Mr. Glassman? I figured it might go down like this because social media is a foul sewer and all that so of course I'm on a social media site so I must be being an a-hole. I'm old, you know. But, really it's just how I am. I want to know about the school bus. I already know about the AF15. I brought up the facts of your AF15 story (Bob Storms, price, etc) not as a put down but just to get that part of the school bus story out of the way. Are there not enough AF15 threads? Friends?

Those of us who have hung around the AF15 threads long enough know the story about your AF15, Bob Storms drove to you to look at it, he sold it for 55K and all is good and you're son put a down payment on a house with the Spiderman money. I'm happy things worked out for you and your family and Bob Storms. But I want more information. I want to know about this abandoned school bus. Where was it? Why were you in an abandoned school bus to begin with? Do you often frequent abandoned vehicles? If you had to speculate, why do you think there were a box of comics in an abandoned school bus? Do you think the abandoned school bus, if restored, could bring even more money than the AF15? I mean, was it one of those cool old school buses from the 50s? I'm seriously wondering these things re: your AF15 story because, I dunno, I'm tired of AF15 and the abandoned school bus has really captured my imagination. I wonder about stuff like that. Who was the last person to drive it? How did it end up where it ended up? Did anyone die in the school bus?

Maybe this is the main reason I don’t haggle with a comic book dealer at a show about price. I try to respect the amount of work, skill and patience it takes setting up a show (I volunteered helping at a con with the guys from my LCS so I could experience a con from the other side of the table) and I saw the steady stream of thoughtless, unstable, unreasonable, disrespectful and straight up insufficiently_thoughtful_persons that seem to just hang out kicking the tires so to speak and making authoritative statements about this book or that book. One guy set his greasy hamburger paper plate on top of a box of slabs while he blabbered away about the depth and scope of his collection. now there were some great costumers but they were far outweighed by the bad can’t imagine how stupid a yard sale would/can get but sounded as you handled it with patience should be commended.

you know why I'll never "win" in this hobby? "Winning" defined as making a buck or two when I go to sell. When i see a book I want, I pull out my money and give it to the dealer who has the book I want. I really don't check anything or spend all day dicking with the phone. Now this only goes for the couple of dealers around here who have good reputations that I've dealt with before or two stores here in LA that I like or some in Houston when I go there. Heck I don't even bother "making an offer" when it says "make an offer." When I was a child I fell on a wheelbarrow and smashed my head bad. I got home from the hospital the next day and was then immediately hit in the head with a golf club. I believe this is the cause of me not really caring the costs of things I want

I see that some folks do that and I don't know about all that, just sayen' I love the fantasy that the book went out in the real world and returned.

yup.

thanks for posting this. I think.

^ what they said

I thought Red Ryder was a Daisy BB gun.

I’m opposite. I love me some newsstand barcode!

Comic collectors having fun with their collection and sharing with others just like here. Why the attitude?

It's a bullet proof investment, you know!

I dunno. The seller added description is fairly convincing: THIS IS ONE OF THE NICEST CGC 3.0`S IN EXISTENCE IF NOT THE NICEST! I WOULD NOT QUESTION THIS BOOK IF IT WERETO BE IN A CGC 4.5 HOLDER! NO MARVEL CHIPPING THIS IS ONE OF THE 3 MOST IMPORTANT COMICS IN COMIC BOOK HISTORY WITH ACTION #1 & DETECTIVE #27 BEING THE OTHER TWO. IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE AMAZING FANTASY #15`SWILL BE OUT OF REACH FINANCIALLY FOR MOST COLLECTORS.HERE IS A CHANCE TO PURCHASE A CGC 3.0 WITH THE LOOKS OF A 4.5!

good jumping in book/comic?

I always say I’m going to give Love And Rockets a look, but I never get around to it. It’s gotta be good. Been around forever Just don’t know where to start.

? Is this a William Burroughs cut up thing?

Gem Mint breaks it down for us. 4:23 re: loss in value. Yo!

You must have been the coolest dad!

Understood! The ritual of cataloguing is often more rewarding than what you’re cataloguing.

Good stories/art or expensive as a collectible? The Bill S. art of the issues in the 20s (before he went off the rails) and the writing( forgot writer of those issues) are really well done and worth a look. Check out the story “Hit it.”

I forgot. Looked interesting. Past my bedtime anyhow. Sucks being old.

seeing as how I derailed this thread, suppose I better try to answer the question before sensibilities and feelings get hurt: Opinions are like, well, you know. However, the general consensus that I've seen around here is that QES stickers and the like are kinda silly. A cash grab if you will. Overkill. Etc. Now if QES and their brethren created a detailed review of the book with (public?) detailed notes, maybe, you know. But QES and their brethren don't and can't because the book has already been graded and entombed in its plastic grave before those Johnny-Come-Latlies come 'round, so.... Now, young Debbie Harry or young Kim Gordon?

NO Q.E.S. STICKER FOR YOU!

I hope no books in your collection are ever exceptional enough to receive a QES sticker. At least until you learn to appreciate beauty.