Artboy99

Longest i ever collected is probably Hulk: had Tales to Astonish 59-101 + Hulk 102 -474, all annuals and giant sized, Hulk vol2 1-111. Currently the longest run i still own is Conan 1-275 and all annuals and the Savage Sword Magazine 1-235. *hardest run i put together is Planet Comics 1-73

I wouldn't use crazy glue. If I was your buyer I would immediately return these when I detect that the slab case has been glued as I would suspect tampering. If you intend to sell these you will need to submit for reholdering and unfortunately pay for that. It also depends what books you have and whether it is worth submitting for reholder. Is the Batman a news stand? If not it isn't worth it. The TMNT Adventures at 9.4 is very marginal if it is worth it.

likely it is just the type of spacer they put into the slab. If it really bothers you contact CGC to see if it is a reason for a reholder submission.

I started drawing at the age of 3 and spent many years practicing. Keep at it if you enjoy it, and I recommend some training be it a class, or youtube video.

I have a comic convention program signed by Barry Smith before he became Barry Windsor-Smith, which is rare.

This one is strangely appealing. You have to wonder exactly what is underneath the costume.

Golden: we sold several Fiction House that we had that were in the under $400 category, Dave sold a golden above $1000 so they did sell. He had an inquiry from Harley Yee on his Diary Secrets but they did not agree on the selling price. Harley has a raw copy that Dave asked me to go look at to grade it and I thought it was a 2.0 maybe 2.5 that Harley has priced at $1700 usd, Dave's copy is a cgc 6.5. There is very little sales data. Ultimately Dave's copy should be priced at some multiples over the 2.0-2.5 copy My biggest sale was my Foom 2 cgc 9.8 What was moving for us was some silver age but mostly bronze age and copper selling quite a few from our 25% off section as well as our "key books" boxes and books off the wall. We emptied 4 magazine sized shorts of "Key" books which are 1st appearances or something of note books but in the $10 - $50.00 price range. Sold quite a few X-men books from the #150-200 range. Kimik mentions selling 75% of his modern variant longbox: we have many of those same books that just sit for some reason. My Fantastic Four #1 facsimile is priced at $25 and I didn't sell a single copy as an example. Didn't sell a single modern Vampirella either. Dave and I are not sure why ours don't sell that well but it is a reason why we have slowed down on buying them. I sold a high percentage of my Faust run, which was buried in a box unlabelled so it is proof that customers definitely dig boxes for things. Sold several 1970's horror magazines, and my complete run of the 1970's Avengers vs. Defenders story. Had a customer (female) browse boxes and was disappointed that we didn't have a Defenders 4. I am glad she mentioned it to her friend within earshot as I happily pointed to my box she had not looked at yet as I had a copy. Apparently I was the only vendor at the show with the book. Dave had prepared 11 longs of $2 books that did sell but not as well as we had hoped selling approximately 2 longs worth. The attendance for the show was "nearly 100,000" as per this news story: https://calgary.citynews.ca/2023/05/01/record-crowds-attend-2023-calgary-expo/ One downside to the show is theft. Quite a few booths were victims, thankfully not ours. We were aware of thefts from other shows thanks to these very boards so we purposefully designed our layout to have our cheap items at the front, more valuable items at the back. The entry to our booth is single file and if we have customers in the booth I go stand in the entrance: I make a great door. As customers go to leave I scan our wall inventory and let them out when I see nothing is taken. The vendor right across from us was heavily targeted and he reported 3 thefts (that he is aware of). He is the owner of the attempted theft of the Superman #2 mentioned above. His booth was too open, at many times he had 10+ people inside his booth browsing. He also had boxes of sets he built on the floor under his tables with high prices on many of them: $500, $600, $900, etc. I watched a guy kneel down there to ties his shoelaces, he reached into a box, pulled out one of those sets to show his friend. While that guy put it back he could have easily taken it as the vendor was oblivious. Overall we did about the same total as the previous year, so it was a very successful show.

it is a very common issue with this comic. The ink flakes off of the book mostly on the spine

I just finished doing the Calgary Comic Expo last weekend and I had a guy in my booth looking at the Hulk 181 cgc 8.0 on display and he rejected it because of the sealing lines of the inner well. The case is perfect otherwise.

depends a lot on the book. The more rare a book is the higher the demand for a pedigree copy of the book as it is likely higher grade or possibly the highest known graded copy. It also depends on the pedigree, an example is the Edgar Church pedigree as Church books tend to be highly desired. Your Amazing Spider-man 195, the Western Penn pedigree probably adds a little value but in my opinion not that much but that is because there are over 200 CGC 9.8 copies of the book. Hope this information helps.

I have met several creators but one of my favorites was Bernie Wrightson. It was the Calgary Expo in 2012 which was the first show I did as a vendor. Our booth was right in the line up of fans who were there to see Leonard Nimoy: lines of people who didnt bat an eye at our comic boxes. My friend @piper had requested an art commission from Keith Pollard and asked if I could pick it up from the artist. I had brought my Wrightson "Frankenstein" high quality print with me rolled up in the tube we had our booth signage in and hoped I would get the opportunity to meet Bernie. When Nimoy was at his table our booth business died, we didn't sell anything during that Saturday afternoon. I stepped away from the booth and went to the artists and I was in luck as Bernie's table was right beside Pollard's so I was able to chat briefly with both artists and picked up my friend's commission and I got my print signed. I absolutely love this drawing, the detail has always captivated me.

you were not "blown away" by the big reveal?

exactly what I was thinking about when I made my post above. When I heard Marvel intended to bring Warlock into the MCU I was thrilled because I tend to prefer their serious films: Winter Soldier, Avengers Infinity War to name a couple. Warlock is a very serious toned character, and I hope he is even a glimmer of this...

Sorry to hear. My condolences to his family and friends.

I heard he was offered the role of the Thing

there has been a long line of actresses considered for the role of Sue Storm.

it was a very horribly written concept: Because of a pheromone he has she is unable to attack him. Yeah: she can't attack him because of the way he smells, so once she figures out the reason why she can't hit him she hits her own head on the desk breaking her nose and then she can kick his rear. Totally ridiculous and not one person sitting in the writing room raised their hand and said it was dumb.

I don't recall Warlock's character in the comics as one that is for laughs. This is a major mistake Marvel keeps making: straying very far from the character that is known and established usually for jokes.

It is almost impossible to tell if the book is trimmed by looking at a book in pictures on the internet. It could just be a badly cut book at the manufacturing stage as the Marvel cutters at that time period were terrible ( they are the reason for all the Marvel chipping ). Some potential tests you can do. Hold the book up so you are looking along where the folded pages meet. It should form a shape like this: cover |/\| cover The folded interior pages should make a peak, if the book has a significant spine roll then the pages do not form a peak, but your book appears to not have a spine roll. No interior page peak then it is either trimmed, or badly miscut at the manufacturing stage

i have been using the 56pt boards from ComicProLine and I highly recommend them. They are very solid even more so than putting 2 28pt boards together. I am using them on more valuable books even for comic show inventory. Everything more than $20 value is getting these super thickness boards, and they create a nice impression for the potential buyers. As mentioned above they also sell clear plastic back boards which are 60pt thickness.

This one?

makes me think of the pride flag, and I can't help but assume it is what they were going for.

Powers of X #4 Greg Land variant based on the image he posted.

I like the idea as well, I have several books I would send for reholders if it was in the country.

even without the color loss defect, the book has several spine ticks so the book is probably worth $30 maybe $40 max.