The Less Blob

Don't even think about pressing an expensive book on your own. No harm in practicing on junk books. Heck, I have turned $1 books into $2 books simply by putting them under 2 or 3 heavy magazine boxes for a couple of years!

I remember! Weren't you on the ebay boards too? Or was that just donut? Your J.D. was resulting in job prospects or something? I guess the MBA worked out better? Yeah, I should have kept it all segregated and self financed, but I came into the ebay era with a a collection already. Pre-ebay it was hard to sell anything.

DC Comics presents doesn't even show Teen Titans on the cover! Not to mention, half of the "New" Teen Titans were the old ones from the 60s (whereas only cycops was a re-hash and he is the most boring anyway)

Limit 1 per customer. I should have sent my wife into the shop to buy another copy, I think there was one more decent one.

? The black cover? Was still on the rack when I went to a shop yesterday (Monday). Yes, most were a little dinged, I got the last nice one.

Right, if you have a $2K budget for spending at conventions ... with that said, conventions are still happening, just maybe not the big ones? I am shocked the little ones in new jersey are still happening, but apparently they are.

Anyway, I still think the stimulus checks are pretty minor in terms of cash infusions into the hobby vs. $ people are saving because of not commuting, not going to restaurants, not buying lunch for work, not paying baby sitters, etc.

Well, if you are a junior flipper, $600 is a bit of seed money to get started for sure. I've always wondered what I could do with $500-600 of initial purchases at a show with enough rinse and repeat and reinvesting. But at this point it would be hard to keep the inventory separate. It would be an interesting project.

I am citing $75K because that is the income limit for a single person to get the checks

I suppose anything is possibe, but just as likely a guy who used to spend $1000-2000 a month on bar hopping, eating out, and strip clubs has extra money and hasn't blown it all on hookers and dope. Or you get a guy like me who is saving $1500-2000 a month working from home who still has a secure job (for now) and is less stressed about pulling the trigger. (And, of course, I got no stimulus check, as is the case for most white collar professionals (and blue collar ones in decent trades) who blow money on comics, $75K for a single person and $150K for a household (with 2 working adults) excludes a lot of us comic collecting nerds, especially in high COLA areas. Seems to me it is likely a wash because, let's face it, a lot of people who may be collectors have gotten big hits on their incomes too. Practically everyone in hospitality, restaurants, TV, theatre, movies, had 3-9 months of income that was wrecked. I guess we can do a poll on how many people here sunk their stimulus checks into comics. Yes, I know, everything can be indirect. Someone who used it to pay down their CC may feel more comfortable spending now, etc.

Are people who make $75K who get a stimulus check really spending it on $1500 comics?

I am talking about census numbers going up. The MS 16 is several hundred $ in raw nice shape right now, why wouldn't people who had been holding them get them slabbed?

I suspect the census is going to change. There are plenty of these out there. Yes, it is hard for magazines to stay in 9.8, but that was the kind of book that was bought in quantity for spec. I feel like an insufficiently_thoughtful_person for not realizing its significance (I do have a copy or two), but seriously, I ignored it for years in many $2-$5 boxes.

Well, Man Thing is also in an awesome conan mag. I remember bringing my Savage Tales 1 (in nice shape) to a show in the 90s thinking maybe I could trade for some early-ish ASM, and showing it to a dealer and sayig 1st man thing and him giving me a psshaw and saying people only cared about conan (and neal adams, right?) in it...and he didn't deal with books from the 70s, ony SA and earlier... so now I need to figure out where the heck it is if I did not sell it already....

It seems like WW is the only one with a real definitive shift somewhere in the late 50s this is true, i guess they jiggied with her origin in issue 98. maybe they did the same with superman and batman too, but superman 146 is wayy too late to qualify and detective 265 doesn't seem to be enough

take it up with CGC. if that was an action 1 it would be a 2.5.

what would those 7 pages be now? $350K? $500K? one page from the regular series is already up to $17K with 15 days to go.

I have forgotten my heritage PW, I wonder what this went for: https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/complete-story/bernie-wrightson-original-art-for-house-of-secrets-92-complete-8-page-story-swamp-thing-dc-1977-a-dark-and-profound/a/804-7451.s (and why does it say 1977? did they re-do the art for some reprint or is that a typo?)

Hmmm. seems like a prototype for Parliament of Trees ... But seriously, DC had stockpiles of Wrightson drawn stories to the extent they could be doling something out in late 1971 he did in 1968??? That is so much better than so much of the krap being done in 1968 by comic artists (and 1971, but it was really different for 1968)

Money talks I guess. And these were two characters he had made a big imprint on. Plus, he looked a little like both of them ...

I got "down" to 257 this summer, was lifting, exercising a lot. but since september, with work loaded up, kids back in school, and my mom in and out of the hospital, I have done a lot of stress eating (plus, going to the beach every other day gave me an incentive to try and kee the weight down)...280 is an optimistic guess. It is probably more.

my farts are world killers. ask my wife.

the supergirl variant is a weird one to pull out of a garage sale like that. you'd think someone buying those variants would know they were worth something. of course, i also got my copy out of an (LCS) dollar box, so who knows?

cuz if you are trying to insult me i will sit my fat 280 pound stinky unwashed arse right on you and flatten you out like a pressed comic. for the record, i do not wear glasses (although i probably should), I have straight teeth with no gaps (thanks to thousands spent on braces and crowns after I did a face plant into the sidewalk), and I have a full head of hair (for the time being).

that's what I do when somebody doesn't pay with goods and services. but i think the original buyer may get an e-mail confirmation and get confused.