The Less Blob

I hate you people! I too was tempted on the FF page. You guys are too quick!

Or maybe set up a Family Office to manage that long box of comics.

BY the way, I was not advising anyone to set up an LLP to live inside their IRA so that they could invest in collectibles in this manner, just throwing out the possibility that this might be a way to avoid taxes, at least until you actually start drawing cash out of the IRA... not sure though, it seems really complicated. then again, I got a B- in accounting.

realistically, if that's your only sale in a year the IRS is not going to care. it only becomes an issue if you are audited for 27 other things you did.

as opposed to putting in a 40-70 hour week and making the same $1998.50 and possibly getting taxed even more (overall) depending on your various rates?

Alas, the guvment does not feel that way. If you got a second job and made $5K off that, the guvment wants its share, just like if you made $5K in profit off some comic sales. And it does not seem you can keep collectibles in your IRA or 401(k), which would allow you to avoid paying taxes on sales that you are just reinvesting into other collectible investments. Although if you create an LLP owned by your IRA you might be able to get around this, although the LLP may have to pay taxes itself...not sure. https://finance.zacks.com/can-put-collectibles-ira-6486.html#:~:text=While you can't put,organizations that have such holdings.&text=You can't put antiques,in antiques into your account.

If I still had those they would be in one of my 10-15 spiderman boxes though. I probably have 15 different individual sets of boxes for groups/charatcers - spiderman (and girl, woman), hulk, avengers, wolverine, x-men titles, DD, thor, iron man, captain america, FF, conan, batman, spawn, What If, Defenders, Punisher, Master King Fu, Luke Cage, Archie, DC War and Horror (I need to split those up), Undergrounds, Magazines ... and then I have Marvel Misc, DC Misc, "Old misc" anything before 1980 or so, "Indie misc" (any thing non-big 2 after 1980 or so)... those later "misc" boxes are going to need some organizing, espcially DC, which is everything other than Batman titles --

well, folks are doing it to get a deal on a sub-$100 book that isn't worth a slab. i used to big on heritage auctions like 15 years ago. you could occasionally win a good lot at a pretty nice price. the grading was fine then.

I dunno, that looks like some golden age cgc 7.0-7.5s I have seen over the years.

Burt is LUSTING after Ms. Piggy

Now I have to find the 20 copies of #1 I have spread out over 15 "miscellaneous marvel" boxes.. great! any hope that 2 or 3 might do ok too?

I am convinced I have seen something else that did not have sesame street or muppets in the title. I remember a guy looking at them at a show and the moment he seemed interested the dealer quoted some astronomical price claiming he "never" got these comics, etc. and I was flabergasted that a kids comic from the 70s would be so much..just blanking now

1979 Before that Cliff ROberts did a sesame street strip in newspapers that had kermit and others, and that might have been collected. And Seame Street had an illustrated magazine going bacl to 1971, but it wasn't just a comic. It had acitvities, etc.

it took me so long to scroll through all of this I missed this one!

Roger's Time Machine is still around (ok, I don't know what happened during the pandemic), he's a hole in the wall nowadays. But certainly not dangerous (ok, last time I was in there he offered me some shots of vodka or whatever it was they were drinking, but i was driving,,,) Forbidden Planet in the mid-80s was actually a nice huge store on the top level if i remember correctly. Downstairs was your bins and bins of back issues.

A little rough and quick.. My son doing a Zoom piano recital. Gonna give one to grandma who is not doing well and can't travel. Another theme where if I do 30 more I might do some decent ones.

Yup. Near where I used to play pool in 1985 or so.

Awesome, maybe I can get my $3 back on my 3 copies of #2! I have huge stack of posters for the TV show somewhere.

Count me in. As I am a cheap bast**ard, I'd prefer to ship within the USA, but it isn't a deal breaker.

OK, I have to admit, I remember those covers hans did, I just didn't know off the top of my head who did them. now I do!

Wasn't he listing it for $28,000?

Thank you for your honesty. I have a stack of your comics. If you would like I can send them to you so that you can practice your latest signature and if you have any sketch ideas you want to work on before committing them to bristol board, you can do so on the comics. I will provide return postage. Best regards....

OK, stop it please, I was psyched whenever I could fish that book out of a dollar box and would have gone $2 for a copy in really nice shape knowing that one day that book would pop. Of course, back in September at least one seller was paying about $4-5 for you to take it off their hands: https://www.ebay.com/itm/The-New-Teen-Titans-Annual-2-1983-First-Appearance-of-The-Vigilante-Cheshire/313216677470?hash=item48ed2b365e:g:9tIAAOSwxDVfXRQs

The CW super hero shows introduced everyone eventually, so I think folks just stopped caring. But being in a show with John Cena? Now that matters!

I assume there are still a lot out there as a zillion were printed, but might the gold foil be tough in 9.8? all of mine have at least a spine tick somewhere.