The Less Blob

Yeah, i find it quite confusing as Mile High and My Comics show different stuff. Wikipedia says Image started publishing it as of Issue 21-27 or something, but those issues have a CB logo too, but MyComic shop seems to be following that: https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=119981. CB did issues 1 - 55, although maybe on the inside it says CB is an image imprint or something. And then MCS says the CB books from 21-27 are reprints printed in 1997?: https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=226621 But Mile High, which might be more accurate here, shows all of 1 - 55 as CB and does not list it this way. https://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=list&title=12149581664&publisher=CARB&snumber=81&instock=0 So, please, someone tell me, are the CB issues from 21-27 reprints or the first printings? (Also, mile high has a 2d print up to issue #14) Anyway, it seems to me that these books after issue 9 or 10 at current cheap prices are a steal, but then again, maybe we're never going to have a scenario where every book in a run gets hot regardless of whether they are keys/first apps like Walking Dead or the first regular Deadpool series did (it will be interesting to see if every issue in Invincible gets pulled up if the show is a success)

Makes sense. I did not see it at my local shop when I saw the overstreet magazine cover piece on it March 1994, so I figured it was not regularly available as it was from a publisher I had never heard of, but in hindsight that shop did not carry much from any publisher smaller than dark horse. But it's not like i see a ton of them in cheap boxes like most drek from 1993-95, but i guess there are enough of them to keep back issue prices more modest (as an aside, it seems my comic shop's listings on the issues after 21 or so are messed up), at least until there is some media hype for a TV show or movie. of course, they're all available as trades, so that may limit it.

I don't think even Stan G was that raunchy

I suppose we could follow the rule that if it isn't something you'd say in front of 20 co-workers then maybe don't say it here? (Yeah, I know, virtually nothing we talk about would be discussed in front of 20 co-workers...)

I don't know a lot about Bone, I've picked the comics up as I think they're cool, and I read some TPBs when my son was into Bone, and figure this is a natural for a show or movie, particularly as they were very popular as scholastic books, but from a collecting standpoint did the print runs suddenly get a lot bigger around issue 10? I'm surprised the CB books from 9/10 on are all pretty cheap (putting aside Mile High listing them all at $20-$30...). I do remember Bone being on the cover of the Overstreet Magazine (I think), but I figured it had already gotten successful by then (I think it was up to issue 13 already). or is is just a matter of that title being cool right now until there is some buzz? I know #1 is always of interest, but that's another issue.

Monica Rambeua has been around nearly 40 years? Yes, she's had like 73 different names over the years.

And I'd add that if kids (and not so kids) were unaware of the clone wars/rebels before, they are now, as so many people signed up for disney+ only to get not much new content and would like to get their $7/mo worth... so one of the things on there a mando fan would see and have years of episodes to watch are those two cartoons.

this is what bothered you?

OK, I really messed up missing this thread...

real shame on that staple pop

Ok, I can't say I have watched heritage closely lately, I've just seen some marvel lots I would have maybe bid more on.

Doesn't Heritage want a $5000 consignment? Anyway, I see some of their sales results and they don't seem that great. Honestly, with some of the lots I see some meat on the bones for resale sometimes. The other option is my comic shop, but I have concerns that they may turn a cc 9.6-9.8 into an 8.5/9.0 on consignment

97% of the sales on Facebook? The other day some guy had up Darker Image 1s for $15 a pop because an "app" told him to.

It reminds me a little of when Loki (who it turns out was being impersonated by the Archangel Gabriel) would stick the Supernatural boys in some TV pocket universe, but I doubt they're going to try to tie in the Loki show that way. This is not Marvel Loki's style.

I think I went close to 10 years without buying a slab. i bought some undergrounds from (i think, icefires) a couple of years ago and a GA book from (crassus?) and since then have bought the occasional slab now and then. it has mainly been a couple of impulse buys and stuff that i did a lowball bid on and won anyway.

These supposedly cost $25 million per episode. I have no idea what they're spending the money on though.

They're building. I'm trying to explain to my A.D.D. (not clinically) boys (9 and 15) that they're going to get there eventually. what i find interesting is that on facebook comments for the show, women seem to like it (much more than the men). This is a good thing. I hope it means that those non-comic nerd women will stay with the show when it goes in the direction we expect it to, where it is going to appeal more to male comic nerds. I get the irritation with it being too campy. Us GenExers and Boomers grew up on these shows. But, frankly, they're a little hard to watch now. I tried to get my son (9) to watch an episode of Gilligan's island yesterday and he was kind of "WTF dad?"

The 30,000 is a result of bad habits, I'm not bragging, it just is what it is. Going to my LCS and buying a stack of 15 for $10 books a few times a week instead of lunch. It adds up when you have been doing that since 2004... (and before that buying stacks of 25 and 50 cent books at my prior shop that closed since 1993). That coupled with about 300-800 books a bought a year at shows since about 1994. I've certainly sold books during that period, but inflow has definitely far exceeded outflow in terms of quantity. My main shop closing 2 years ago certainly slowed things down a bit on that end though. And covid. Less compulsive habit buying. I have fewer venues to go to.

"Ahsoka was in one episode of the Mandalorian and the series has been announced but the character is still pretty unknown even compared to Miles." She was a key character in the Clone Wars animated movie and then tv show for years and then was important later in Rebels, that began 12 years ago. So for anyone who was into the animated stuff back then she is kind of a big part of the star wars story. Both my kids basically grew up with her being a pretty important SW character. Anyone who was 14 when clone wars (animated movie) came out is 26 now... I was not so into clone wars when my now 15 year old was watching it in 2008 onward, but my 9 year old watched them all again last year and I have to say I appreciate them more now.

Well, not "friend," I think he is annoyed with me pointing this out, but I think we have to understand that CGC and the books on the census are a small part of the puzzle in determining the existence of books out there. You have a guy like me with 30,000 comics who has never slabbed one and currently owns like 7 slabs (once upon a time I probably owned 40 or 50 at my peak) and if I start slabbing it sure won't be books that might only sell for $40-$60 in 9.8. I don't think I am that unique. Every time I think about spending a few hundred bucks on slabbing I think about the books I could buy instead with that money and spend the money on books, not plastic and opinions.

I think it is difficult for someone who has not made a lot of submissions given how many 9.4 - 9.6 copies of books there are out there that wouldn't have been slabbed if the owner did not think they'd be 9.8s. For books that will be money losers in 9.6 I am going to do a pre-screen to get a sense of whether I am any good at distinguishing. I've looked at too many 9.6 vs. 9.8 slabs and been unable to see what the differences were.

That's irritating. So I guess I'll probably do the moderns first then.

Oh I can't just do them all in one?

Nothing that interesting. Probably my Hulk 2, avengers 2, one of my Raphael 1s, my nyx 3, legion 23 rose... Still thinking about others. I sold my best stuff years ago.

I'm engaged in a little debate elsewhere where a fellow boardie is under the impression that low census numbers indicate scarcity of a book (in grade), an early 90s Marvel, whereas I am more of the opinion that people don't want to spend the money to get back what might only be a $40-60 book even in 9.8 and the low census numbers are more due to that. Frankly, I have thousands of 9.6-9.8 candidates that could be $40-$60 slabs, but it has never occurred to me to lay out all that cash slabbing them with so little potential upside, particularly as your typical $40-$60 slab may not be a quick mover. And yeah, I can do a pre-screen and spend $250 on 50 books and if I am off on half of them that's another $125 down the toilet (and I sure as heck can't say "potential 9.8" in any listing then!). I ask because, after 16 years on these boards I think it is actually time to submit some books. I am probably going to put in 10-15 of my better books from various ages ... books that are already high value without encapsulation ... but am also thinking about separately putting in 50 on a pre-screen, probably modern tier, just to see if I have a clue as to what is a likely 9.8 vs. a 9.6 (disclaimer ... I never claim anything is a 9.8 because I don't purport to know).. At the end of the day I'd like to not lose money on the proposition... So, you big time slabbers, volume slabbers or otherwise, what logic do you follow when making submissions? I would assume there is a value floor you are looking for on a given book or do you put in everything you think it is a 9.8 or whatever floor grade you have in mind, figuring you'll be able to make your fees back at a minimum?