The Less Blob

I read here 17k.

John Byrne was scheduled to fly in to be one of three guests at a tiny fund raising thing for a local public school here in NYC run by a PTA mom who had a bunch of connections in the industry. My friend knew her and we set up a table along with another couple of local folks selling comics with a share going to the school. The school had an arts focus so it made some sense. Not sure if they charged at the door or whatever. Anyway, this was probably 1996 and the line was into the street for gaiman (who was one of the other guests, along with Claremont), Byrne wound up cancelling due to some legit sounding reason, but the reality was that he was going to fly in to do this to help his friend's school, no pay. I think Claremont and gaiman might have already been in NYC at the time. That was the first time I realized there were actually female comic groupies given the number of attractive 16 - 22 year old women waiting on line to meet gaiman.

$500 in store credit? Wtf, that doesn't cover slabbing costs.

Selling most of my keys in 2005-2008? I doubt I got $5000 for them. Prolly worth $50000 now. Could finish that darn basement!

Adams was probably pleasant to me because I told him how I grew up appreciating his work and did not ask for a signature. And my pretty girlfriend (now wife) was with me, so I had showered. And it was not comicon, it was the ny art Expo at javitz. I probably would have gotten yelled at otherwise.

If you are getting it personalized to you folks know it is less ebayable

No. I am very polite. Even Neal Adams was gracious. Don't act like a grubby fanboy and these folks are more personable.

Wow they had 3 locations in Rochester in 1977??

He's got 2 or 3 books folks want signed. That's his market. He helped create some good characters

They still planning May 20? Parts of New York are reopening today, but they are not, mostly, the high population areas other than Rochester and Syracuse. NYC, Long Island, Westchester, Buffalo, and Albany are still on lockdown. Isn't CA still pretty tight? Of course, comic shops here should just start selling food, in which case they can be open, and it seems some electronics are getting a pass. (So set up a cell phone kiosk?) Go figure. (Or booze, but they need a license.) While I believe covid19 was an is a big deal, it's time to start. The irony is they want to push barbers, gyms, etc. in some areas to open up... those are the most dangerous ones!! A comic shop? Easy...ask folks to wear a mask and limit how many people come in for a while.

Crazy how some of the more generic spawns from then are still $10-$20. I guess my LCS was still in a 1993 mindset and he always ordered too many spawns, even in the 220-230something range. I wound up fishing a lot of the homage covers (ASM 300, Hulk 340, etc.) out of the dollar box and tons of the less popular issues in between. But by 240 or so I think he had stopped overordering.

"This comic came out the same month as Action #1 and is a fraction of the price!" (OK, I might have done that...)

Batman 664 is down from 4-8 weeks ago as far as I can tell on feebay

That has always been the case if you looked. Nothing to do with the last 2 months.

Yeah, Carbonaro used to run zillions of 99 cent listing and charge $1 extra per book for handling/shipping and ship media. so people would win 12 99 cent books and get charged $15 shipping for media mail. He's one of the reasons a FVF is charged on shipping now.

Its funny ... I Just had a Facebook chat with a black/Puerto Rican friend who basically said he tried to watch and just can't take the racist undertones on the show and is giving up at season 5? Obviously I don't really see it, but 20 other people just chimed in and pointed out all the racial stuff in the show they found offensive. So I guess it is all your lense. Not sure how having gay characters makes it politically correct. The creators have tried hard the last few years to paint a world where race isn't an issue. Quite possibly that happens after 10 years of this, who knows? Nobody has the time or energy for that nonsense?

The Eternals 1 needs to be in nice shape for that to work unless there are some others in there. I guess SW 1 is now worth something.

Folks may believe you. Tell your story. If you aren't selling 300 other "signed" dollar box books you don't look like a fake. The other companies sell a service too. It seems like a b.s, "after the fact" authentication, but whatever.

There have been plenty of others, at least from DC. I blew them out cheap here, like an insufficiently_thoughtful_person. $10 each or something. paid 25 cents each so I felt good.

If you don't have space to process it, you don't have space. You can do a decent run through 40 or 50 long boxes in a day to pull all the obvious winners and look up the books you think might be winners. You will miss a fair amount of obscure $ and "recently hot"... my problem would, no doubt, be casting too wide a net. before you know it I will have put to the side every 1980s decent book, every batman, Spider-Man, X-Men, wolverine, etc etc.

Seems like the issue is "how much" really. Granted, I have space. I probably wouldn't turn down a 25,000 book collection if I was, effectively, not paying for the junk.

Many folks are under the impression that common 90s books in 9.9 - 10.0 condition can easily be pulled in bulk out of the dollar box of your choice.

This [$1.50 book] is a Fine, but could easily be pressed and cleaned into a NM- or better copy [at a cost of $40 to make it worth $3.25].... oh wait a minute, that's not a 2000 listing, that's a 2020 listing! (or a listing on a less expensive restored book saying the restoration can be removed...)

To clarify...I am thinking of the stiffer insert. I could very well have more that just have a glossy page. I have some of the National Diamond ones.

Well, I guess my collection mostly comes out of 25-50 cent box, dollar and $2 boxes at shows and shops, so it is entirely possible that what I have has already been picked over by the people selling the books who pulled out and re-priced the MJs beyond my comfort zone. with that said, the shop I bought a ton of books out of I never remember seeing anything ever labelled as a MJ. Double covers even less for me. I have randomly gotten maybe 3 or 4 over the years. I have a lot of frigging comics though. The bulk of my MJs came from a lot on ebay where the seller didn't even mention they were MJs.