The Less Blob

Looking at a nice copy of a book I like, but the cover is detached. I assume there is no way to fix this without it being a PLOD? Does CGC give this a green?

My Thor 339s are, in fact, unread. I bought them still in their paper wrapper from the distributor. Alas, that does not mean they are all 9.8s....

Agreed. I don't see anything illegal/fraudulent about cracking the slab if he thinks CGC's 9.0 should have been a 9.4, but don't lie about the back story. I don't think he is obligated to say it once lived in a CGC case though.

Seriously, DC comics should probably take about 500 square feet of office space at this point.

The stock market is taking off like a rocket. It isn't like Fidel Castro just got elected.

I am confused. Why don't you just leave the stuff to your wife? She can figure out what to do with it.

If any of you boomer types (heck, anyone over 48) who don't have kids or who don't talk to their kids want to informally adopt an obese 48 year old for the purposes of having someone inherit your comics I am available. If your collection is good enough I will send a birthday and december holiday (you pick which holiday ... I ca do Christman, Chanukka or Kwanza based) hand painted card every year (psychotic clown inspired, of course) to formalize the relationship.

I go in and out. As I always have financial needs beyond my salary I tend to look at every box as a potential $150-5000. With that said, what I collect right now is some DC war and disney ducks with some random GA, stuff I don't view as great investments (the ducks have been horrible), I just like them (even though they are material I never read when I did read comics). With that said, if there's a Sgt. Rock or enemy ace movie my basement is getting renovated! Personally I have found the lack of the physical hunt has hurt me. MY main LCS closed last year, the one I went to a lot before then closed, no comic cons around here during covid ... I enjoy the hunt. Hunting on line is not the same, at all.

OK, officially closed, will get invoices out tonight, but PM me if interested in anything. Worse comes to worse I pull it down off ebay.

OK, here is a recap of what is left. Final discount of 15% for the remaining stuff. I am closing this out 6 p.m. EST and sending the remainders up to ebay. Will do my best to get invoices out tonight. SOLD Marvel Super Heroes 20 CGC 6.0 - $300 (includes shipping) [15% off this with free shipping is a steal based on other CGC copies I see out there/sold] Michel Fife's COPRA .. All NM or better Copra #7 1st Print - $65 (the copies up on ebay are $100-124) Copra #13 1st print - $15 Copra #14 1st print - $10 Copra #15 1st print - $9 Copra Compendium Two 1st print $12 (Or all for $100, no $90, no $80! with shipping included!) Fall of the Hulks : The Savage She-Hulks #3 9.4 - 9.8 Campbell variant (looks pristine, but I don't like calling anything a 9.6 or 9.8) - $50 (the lowest I see on ebay right now is $69.95) (the sticker is on the bag, not the comic, and shows how some variants do go up in price!) Sleepwalker 1 9.2-9.4 $17 Crypt of Shadows 17 8.0 - $6 The Heap 1 4.0 - $6 Where Monsters Dwell 4 7.5 (little ridge on back cover that could get flattened out) - $8 Where Monsters Dwell 11 7.0 - $5 House of Mystery 201 6.5 Wrightson - $12 House of Mystery 206 6.0-6.5 Wrightson - $9 House of Mystery 208 5.0 - $5 House of Mystery 210 8.0 Kaluta - $14 Night of the Living Dead 1 7.0 $3 Swamp Thing 4 5.0 Wrightson $9 Tower of Shadows 9 3.0 Wrightson (damage on front and back bottom left corner) $6 Weird Wonder Tales 13 5.0 Ditko/Kirby $3 Werewolf By Night 3 - $4 Original Swamp Thing Saga 1 1979 5.0 or so $4 Marvel Spotlight 22 Son of Satan, Satana, Ghost Rider 4.5 $4 Marvel Spotlight 23 Son of Satan 8.5 $5 Son of Satan 1 Low grade (inked) $5 Son of Satan 2 Big NCB crease on side you can't see in scan and CB crease bottom right, VG - $3 Son of Satan 4 6.0 $3 Son of Satan 6 tiny dent bottom left 8.0-8.5 $4 All Star Batman 6 Jock variant 9.4-9.8 $4 Batman 346 9.2 $10 Atari insert Chilling Adventures in Sorcery 4 Gray Morrow 9.0 $12 Black Canary Oracle Birds of Prey 1 NM or better $3 DC Special 11 5.0 Adam "Beware... The Monsters" $8 Iron Man Annual 4 MODOK! Ghost Rider! Champions! 8.5-9.0 $7 iZombie2 9.4-9.8 $5 (I really like this show. Have been watching on netflix) Luke Cage Power Man 20 9.2-9.4, nice copy, 2d Cottonmouth $20 House of Secrets 101 Kaluta 5.0 $4 Wonder Woman 281 Atari insert 9.0 (slight dent top right and slight scuffing) Joker Demon Huntress $10 X Factor 87 signed by Quesada 1993 pristine 9.4-9.8+ no COA $6 Amazing Spiderman 51 / 492 mid-grade spine ticks $3 New Mutants 1 "rare" "COMPLIMENTARY COPY" stamp mid-grade wear $4 Darkchylde: The Legacy 1 Dynamic Forces Darkchrom variant COA 527/1500 signed Randy Queen 9.4-9.6+ $16 X-Men 256 1st New Psylocke NEWSSTAND 9.2 - $13 Batman Shadow of the Bat 81 Road to No Man's Land 9.4+ NEWSSTAND $5 NYX 7 9.4+ $4 X-Men 150 9.2+ $7 Adventures into Fear Morbius 22 6.0-6.5 $11 Adventures into Fear Morbius 23 7.5-8.0 $16 Adventures into Fear Morbius 26 7.0 $7 Adventures into Fear Morbius 27 8.0 $10 Adventures into Fear Morbius 28 7.0 $7 (Take all the AIF's for $43) Marvel Team Up 55 Warlock 1st Infinity Gem 7.0 $5 Plop 17 6.0 $4 Iron Man 125 1st Rhodes cover app, Ant man 9.2 $14 Moon Knight 50 SPLATT 9.4 $8 Ms. Marvel 15 6.0 $7 DC Super-Stars 18 Deadman and Phantom Stranger 7.0 $5 Creatures on the Loose 17 picture frame 9.4+ gorgeous slight blunt top left $9 Sandman 45 9.4+ $3 Sandman 46 9.4+ $3 Sandman 10 1st corinthian 9.2 $17 (Take all 3 sandmans for $20) Avengers 227 9.2+ $7 Avengers 236 9.0 newsstand $7 Defenders 22 7.5 crease bottom right $6 House of Secrets 125 4.0 $3 Marvel Chillers Tigra 5 8.0 $8 Son of Satan 1 ..some water damage, oxidized bottom staple $5 Aquaman 63 8.5 Oceanmaster $7 Creatures on the Loose 16 9.4 nice picture frame $14

Cut the sides and then inside outed it and taped it back up. A lot of effort went into not having to buy a big envelope. A little more effort with a piece of thick cardboard or two would have been nice. that's all.

OK, third comic received was at least in between 2 sturdy pieces of cardboard...I was ecstatic!

Alright, I have too many other things to do, 10% off anything left on this thread.

It did get overwhelming trying to follow either the MCU or DCU. It is probably why when I have read comics it has been more stand alone titles like WD, Chew, Goon, etc. I like the MCU characters, but it is so hard keep track of all the history and 11,000 reboots. So, ironically, yeah, I don't read the insides of the big two all that often, but do read the insides of the other companies. Go figure.

I am so tired of careless packing. Last week I got a SA book in a Gemini mailer, but rather than being inside a cardboard sandwich inside, like Gemini suggests, the guy taped the comic (at least it was bagged and boarded) to the inside of the mailer. Undoubtedly this added a few spine ticks, but as the book was described as mid grade, I didn't make a fuss, but did email the seller to tell him the problem with shipping like this and it would be really bad to send a high grade book like this ($8 shipping I expect more). No response. And no feedback from him despite me leaving a positive. And today I get this... The comic shipped with no extra backing other than the acid free board inside an inside out priority mail envelope.. 69 year old comic deserved more love. The book was sold as a vg/fine and it still looks to be that, so I won't cry, and I got a deal, but I think this was a 6.0-6.5 before this crappy packing job.

But really though, 12 titles, 50,000 copies sold each... $1.50 of that to DC comics? $900K revenue a month for their whole publishing business? (At least comics) That's barely a business anymore. Or do they think 12 titles means 100-150K sales each month?

Anyway, back to comics... scaling back to 12 core titles probably makes sense for a while. if they could do 48 page comics and not jack up the price and have back up features to keep some characters alive that would probably be smart. Maybe 32 pages is more economical, i dunno. We could have 25,000 print runs done for like 25 cents each: https://mixam.com/comicbooks.... printing cost is certainly not an issue as DC must have lower costs ... they can probably pay talent not that much to do back up stories. https://www.jimkeefe.com/archives/3644 : Pencil Art $100-400Ink Art $75-300Lettering $40-50Coloring $100-150 Why do inkers and colorers make nearly as much as the penciler? (And why are there even letterers anymore?) Isn't coloring done on computers mostly nowadays? And while a good inker helps a ton, the penciler has to create the whole thing from scratch? Anyway, I know, this is off topic.

So sorry about your brother. I nearly lost my youngest child to waves in Santa Monica when he was a toddler.

when you talk about press artwork, are you flattening out water colors or something? i find that my water colors do a lot of curling (primarily because I don't use good paper) and I flatten them out with a little dampness on the back and a bunch of flat weight over 6-8 hours.

I have to wonder how much office space they use nowadays (particularly post covid), but even before then. it isn't a business where you necessarily need much of a central office. editors and other talent can work from anywhere.

Perhaps $4 for a fragile paper pamphlet someone can read in 5 minutes does not help matters. The average minimum wage in the U.S. is about $12 an hour, with some states at $7.25. So 2-3 comics an hour. In 1967 the national minimum wage was $1.60, 13 comics an hour. Your grocery store clerk could work one or two hours and take home practically every new comic that week. I know we can't have an inflation adjusted equivalent of 12 cent comics now, but if we did comics would be about $1 a pop. At $1 a pop I would (and do) buy stacks of comics every week and I suspect a lot of people would, but that price isn't feasible I guess. I do think kids of today are still cool with reading TPBs/GNs. They want the story all there in one big read. They (or they ask their parents) to buy diary of a wimpy kid, captain underpants etc, en masse. (hundreds of millions copies thus far...) and that is basically a comic book (more or less)

I could never keep it all straight. I actually used to represent them occasionally, albeit in the pre-AOL merger days. I see AT&T bought it for half as much as AOL "bought" it for 18 years earlier!

I feel bad, this is bid up to almost as much as you can buy a (non-hulk) keown page for

Might his other stuff he has sold also just be images he found on the internet he had printed out? It is really easy to do and you can have it printed on quality paper (or canvas) for not much.

How do you know what it sold for? An offer was made on a $249.99 asking price. I don't see what the accepted price was. How does one do that?