catman76

So? People are still willing to bid even higher and buy the stuff. So he's making rich people pay even more, who cares.

There's a book called "The Comic Book Killer" about stolen comics, murder and all that. It's been so long since I read it I don't even really remember it. I just remember reading it while waiting in line at the theater to see Batman in 1989

I felt like that in 1988

Anything by Kim Deitch. I know it's not what anyone here is looking for, but I always suggest anything that's not superhero drek form the last 50 plus years. Deitch has consistently been making comics since the 60s and they just keep getting better and better. His latest comic from 2019 "Reincarnation Stories" is amazing. Nothing of his gets enough attention unfortunately...

Influential doesn't mean someone has to be directly influenced by it and what's popular have to do with influential? The Yellow Kid is the most influential because it started comics as we know it and everything today stems from it.

yeah stop being a mindless slave to a made up grading scale and fractions of a percent that aren't real. Can't you see how insane this is and meaningless? I am really starting to think this cgc and grading thing is a cult. Read your comics

I guess Wertham was right.

Fredric Wertham's worst nightmare

Most of you need to get your head out of marvel and dc's a-s-s and look beyond the mainstream c-rap churned out by them. there are more great comics and comic artists right now and starting all the time then ever before really. It's like most people here and anywhere don't look beyond corporate marvel and dc crud and seem to have no idea anything exists outside of that. comics are thriving and greater than ever but you have to go looking for it, it;s not going to get fed to you like marvel crud is.

No but I remember spitting on a comic years ago by accident. I had a badly chipped tooth for a few years and sometimes spit would shoot out if I was talking or just moving my mouth around and I remember that happening when I was reading a comic once. I think it was a late 50s batman comic. I just left it open to dry for awhile and no problem.

Free Press Weekly - Oct. 26, 1949... The Michigan Daily - Nov. 6, 1949...

Man you are all taking this way to serious. it's a joke people they guy isn't serious thinking he is like stan lee or anything. It's a joke and silly marketing to get attention and it worked you are all talking about him. Also I find it funny and ironic that a forum of comic collector nerds that argue about and care about decimal points of a made up grading scale and watch movies and tv shows with guys in stupid costumes jumping around are making fun of this guy saying he will never have a girlfriend

What comics has she drawn or written? None. So why would she sign any comic books? Makes no sense. Also an extra 210 bucks for her to write two more words? This is insanity.

it's hard to believe there was a time when late night talk shows had underground/independant comic creators as guests. it never will happen again. Lynda Barry's appearances on Letterman were great too.

I hope it all crashes really hard then I might be able to afford anything.

I couldn't care less about people that are just writers for comics and draw nothing so mine are artists who write their own work... Kim Deitch Robert Crumb Chris Ware and the last two aren't "comic book" artist/writers, but oh well... Gary Larson Kaz

A cool theater ad for the store from the mid 80s or so probably? Thought someone here might find it interesting...

In like 1997 my uncle found a bunch of unopened atari 2600 games in a electronics store he bought and was cleaning out and he gave them all to me. I kept the ones I wanted and opened them and played them and gave the rest away to people. Maybe I shouldn't of done that, I could be a millionaire now possibly

I have my ways of getting good deals on comics still sometimes and I am not telling anyone where, I am not giving myself competition.

They are still readable so all is fine

I assume you mean just comic book artists and not comic strips and other comics so I will leave those out. It would be different every time you asked me, but my top 5 as of this moment... Kim Deitch Jay Disbrow Jim Woodring Rube Grossman Al Feldstien

One of my favorites. It probably is the comic book with the most suicides in it too, there are three...

More than half my comics I found at garage sales, junks shops, flea markets, but nothing to make anyone here drool over at all. I almost always find one or two at a time. Only a few times did I score a bunch of comics. One of the first times I bought old comics in the late 80s was at a flea market some person had a box of unused store stock of 50s Weather Bird Shoes giveaway comics. The remaindered ones they put a new cover on. Most were westerns, but I got a Hot Stuff #1 in there and a couple other cool Harveys too. Another flea market I bought a stack of comics from a old guy mostly selling old 16mm films. For a buck a piece I got Batman 126 and 127, Honeymooners 4 and 5, A couple Date with Judys, A few Fox and Crows and a few others I forget. I bought like 20 cartoon films from him too. A great find I stupidly passed up was about 25 early issues of Archie, probably every issue from about #8 or so to early #30s. I stupidly passed them up because I only had like ten bucks to my name and had all day of searching junk shops ahead of me and didnt want to blow all my money right away in case I found something later. But of course I didnt and when I went back to buy some of those Archies they were gone. One of the many things i stupidly passed up and still think about 30 years later, like the huge box full of mint big little books for next to nothing I decided to not buy for some reason.