The Less Blob

I have a soft spot for conans, not knocking them, i pulled a bunch of that issue aside hoping they would do a good conan TV show and these characters would come out. if they could do a good season 1 of the witcher, conan should be easy. just need to find the right guy. I know they've been talking about this for a while and with the strike nothing is happening

It somehow happened for about 12 years of priming the pump. I'm fine if we can do it again for 12 years and then have another rough stretch. By then I expect to be retired. Selfish I am just like the generation older than me (won't name names...). Excuse me while I cool my drink with some ice from an iceberg.

well that is a $1 book if it isn't 9.8, right?

The guvment needs to figure out a way to print extra money for 12 years while somehow at the same time keeping inflation and interest rates low.

When they aren't moving, like that, they are the least of my concerns. He's just taking a nap! At least he isn't taking up 5 seats on the subway. Admittedly, since blowing out my achilles two months ago I have not been commuting, but before that I'd probably see one crazy a day on my commute. Totally manageable! I take 2 trains each way into Manhattan. It's just not THAT bad. I go for walks during lunch (Wall Street area) and it is practically sterile. And in the last 15 years I have avoided sitting on the subway maybe twice due to mystery substances. I try to avoid holding the handrails (or wear a glove or have a paper towel) in the subway not for the reasons you suggest, but because non-homeless people are also disgusting, sneeze into their hands, half wipe it off on their pants, and then hold the handrail. Yuck. But yes, be ever vigilant. I do have eyes in the back of my head after so many years here, growing up in the heroin 70s and crack 80s/early 90s, so I don't have the terror of a suburbanite when i come here. Heck, my son's Long Island (Suffolk Co.) girlfriend's parents w**ke up to all their tires being slashed, bad stuff can even happen in the burbs! With that said, I live in a big Brooklyn house in a "diverse" neighborhood and aside from a couple of package thefts and one time someone stealing a pair of sunglasses out of a friend's unlocked car in my driveway, nothing in 17 years here. And some crazy neighbor dug up and stile some mums in the middle of the night. And sure, some middle aged well dressed white guy decided to sodomize himself in front of me at the end of my driveway on our fence post and take a selfie and run off giggling after I threatened to kill him. Pretty normal stuff. Aside from that I can't count how many times I've left the car unlocked accidentally or forgot to close a window and even left my keys in the front door! I did find the most polite homeless guy ever rummaging around on my porch once when someone left the front porch door open, he walked away with the shoes I was going to give to goodwill anyway. In sum, don't be afraid of NYC and if you are in the market for a pied a terre with 11 foot ceilings and incredible Hudson River views in a luxury doorman building on the Upper West Side give me a call.

Can we stop trying to scare people about the subway? My clueless 11 year old rode the subway in Krooklyn half an hour each way and into Manhattan occasionally for the last year and never got mugged, assaulted, molested or covered in feces. Keep your eyes open and be alert. 99.9% of the people on the subway are just going about their business. That .1% can be a problem though. Then again, I have lived here for 51 years so my danger radar is very sensitive. As for Times Square, agreed, sort of. Virgil's BBQ is pretty good though and I know Board folks have met there, although I can only imagine how expensive it is nowadays. And there is a pretty good Brazilian all you can eat place near there. I say this as someone who had to go there for 8 years for work, but rarely go back now. Absolute nightmare to walk through, too many people.

"REAL and QUALITY will always command a premium in any market so these two are the safest bets for investors." I need chuckleheads spending crazy money again on dookie, at least until my kid is done with college. Bahhh!

well, if folks were keeping the unsold newsies and lying about it their crime was organized, even if not mafia....

There was a huge store in NYC that had no prices. Cosmic comics? I forget. I don't know why I even bothered. I brought my stuff up to the register and they started quoting me the highest ebay prices they could find. Needless to say, they closed, though likely for other reasons. On the other hand, Roger's Time Machine usually didn't have prices either. He would price them at the register, but he wouldn't look them up online (maybe look at guide on some expensive books and discount accordingly), he'd just go by his gut. I don't have an issue with that. I'm not finding his treasure for him.

The inventory is hard to replace, you don't have pulp collections wandering every week. If he has regulars maybe there is more wiggle room. My local shop was a little high in the 90s, but he'd generally give me 40-50% off, cash discount

in 78-79 my shop had racks and the comics were just as likely to get damaged there as at the newsstand. The way you'd have minty comics is if the owner (or file customers) was buying extras for future spec, but a book like that, I doubt it, because marvel team ups that did not sell on the rack went into the 25 cent box. I honestly do not know if they even had file customers at my shop in NYC. When did the "on your honor" system for newsstand unsold books end, because frankly, if it was still going in 78-79 and the unsold books were just going into mafia storage, I'd think you would have a lot of high grade newsies. Anyway, all speculation, of course.

So I take it we're seeing a lot less 50 cent box books turning into $50 books a week later because there is a rumor someone might make a cameo in Loki? I see the postings on facebook and folks seem as delusional as ever. I have just mentally avoided looking at ebay. Have cons bounced back post-covid and with the ebay income reporting rules?

what about mid grade SA?

except newsies might have outnumbered direct 5 to 1 or more back then, so I am dubious. Has anyone studied this in the 78-79 era?

So are we back to 2013 or 2018? 2019? 2011? I've been out of the loop.

Thor 339 is a great cover and very kid friendly. I could provide you with enough to cover all of your child's walls and a few more rooms in the house:

Why? A newstand on that is probably more common than the direct.

So how is the market? Is it 2021 again? I have been out of it.

Massive cleanup of the room in question. I might have too much up against an exterior wall now though, possible (not stacked that high, but maybe too much anyway), but what was once a disaster area has been cleaned up. That hallway is empty. The big room I have posted before, all my junk is on one side and I have a curtain dividing the room in half. The other side is now a nice guest suite/office area where we had a house guest spend 2 weeks in July. And another room that had been packed is now wide open and I plan on having an art studio space up there. Unfortunately, during the 2-3 weeks I was cleaning up that floor (threw out massive amounts of junk) I injured my achilles from all the up and down. What was probably a partial tear turned into a complete rupture when I fell down outside. I have not been able to get up that flight of stairs for 2 months due to my condition. Been completely cut off from my comics! I will take pictures once I am able to get up those stores safely. Maybe a month.

I like the cover too, although not particularly "artistic"

I paid 25 cents for mine, so not a huge loss. A few weeks ago I vowed to start selling again. I promptly tore my achiles and not only can i not move boxes of books around, I cannot even get up to the floor in my house where I keep them. And now my 18 year old son/box carrier/lifter person is going to college in less than a month. I am skrewed. The 11 year old is not ready to do my heavy lifting, he only works his video game muscles.

The Thing is the only loveable character in that group

But each of his paintings is considered a separate work for infringement purposes. Listen, I am not sure if the sampling defense works here either, but it is an argument. I've defended and prosecuted copyright infringement cases, but it has been a while, so I am fuzzy on some of this stuff. I had this defense in my last case (the plaintiff claimed a graph from her book was copied), but we settled on terms that were favorable enough it was not worth litigating.

Has anyone heard of this? Been to one? I get the sense it is not a pure "comic con" https://events.longisland.com/cradle-con-2023-a-comic-collectible-and-pop-culture-con.html

If these artists owned the copyright in these images they could have sued for infringement. For whatever reason the comic publishers (who did own the copyright) did not sue. I guess the defense would be taking one or two panels out of a comic that has 400 panels is fair use. I'm not sure if that flies as taking one small rif out of a song seems to be enough for infringement.