The Less Blob

Was also well embedded in the cartoons Shang chi is just another martial Arts guy unless the story is really good. If it's a good movie it will do well. I think they may have done better with a more handsome lead tho. Bruce Lee was a good looking guy. The dude from crouching Tiger looks like a movie star. This guy not so much. Gotta get the ladies interested too!

The interweb says 1st easy co is OAAW 81, but the first story in 73 references it (and has an unnamed sgt. Which I would like to be rock but is not). Diff easy co? 81 is the first time its wacky members are listed?

I get it. I think my recently closed shop gave 20% off to members and discounted a decent chunk of stuff 20-50%.

Hard for a place paying storefront overhead to be able to give the same discount as a purely online place. What is his cost, 50-55% of cover? I suppose for a file order, but not to put out on the shelf.

I think it is more like if he was clearing $86k (a total guess BTW) jacking up his rent meant he'd clear $50k. Not worth it to him anymore at that pay to commute in from long Island. Minimum wage in NYC is $31k now.

Like rom 1 and dazzler 1 (and MS. Marvel 1 and nova 1 and star wars 1) there are a lot of these out there. All were speculated on.

He just said F-it. Finding space in Manhattan is too hellish, setting up a new location too expensive. His family has stuff to keep him occupied.

I agree. Something will go in there eventually, but the stores that are vacant are very shallow, not good for anything but small retail. Truth be told he did not have a lot of back issues, but he constantly got new stuff and moved inventory. As I said he was doing fine financially but raising hos rent like $3000 a month or something made it non viable.

Chameleon. They were 50-60% comics and comic themed stuff and 40-50% sports cards

I have found their grading on some books they had quantity on to be fine

A vg iron man 1 is more like $300. Still nuts. I sold vg tos 53s around 2004/5 for like $20. I cringe now.

When did 27 28 or 50 ever cost anywhere near 1?? I honestly can't tell you how much a VG 1 cost in 2005. $50 sounds about right. I do remember selling them in late 2006/early 2007 for triple digits when I was selling line crazy to pay for my house, but I guess the movie was announced by then. If a VG is $500 now that is Cray!! Super common book. Wow.

They all taste like chicken.

FF 52 was $425 in raw 9.2 in the 2005 guide, so not totally minor. As for whether Iron Man had collector interest,,,TOS 39-42 weren't chap books and neither was Iron Man 1. Other than 55, 116 and 128, do folks care about the other issues?

It doesn't need to be a billion dollar box office. If they can spend $100-125 million (and let's be honest, how much can they possibly be paying Jackie chan or akwafina? shang chi is played by a nobody. and this shouldn't be a CGI heavy movie) and have a $500 million box office all will be good/great. ant man did less and got a sequal.

Isn't that a nutria, found in the southeast, far far from NYC. the head is way too cute to be a NYC sewer rat

I don't want to call them drek because they are better than that. There is interest in them, it's just sometimes hit or miss interest and you need patience sometimes to get a decent price outside the 9.8 (or maybe 9.6) slab scenario...books you might only get 99 cents for in a 99 cent opening bid auction one week, but $10 the next week. The Batman book is more consistent as a $15+ type book though.

Mile High chuck wanders around shows buying $1 and $2 box books just like anyone else believe it or not. Or I have seen him doing so in the past. One show he was trying to get Joe Koch to give him a little bit of a discount on Koch's $2 books. He just does it sort of like Galactus eats worlds. Indeed, he had set up at NY Comiccon a few years ago but just had the smallest table or two you could get. It was more a parking spot for him to have a presence. One the tables he was selling dollar books. Actually, not a bad selection, low grade 50s and 60s stuff. Had a little chat with him. Seemed like a nice guy. He really liked the fact that my kids were jumping into the piles of stuff. At the time my oldest (who was probably 8 or 9) was into Richie rich, archie, etc.

This is in lower Manhattan. If you don't think there aren't already rats and giant roaches there you are cray.

Rats are yucky. Among many things it is very irritating to see a viable business that employed 3.5 people (he had 2 full time guys and a part-time guy in addition to himself) get replaced by a vacant store front. Sure, if they ever do get the space rented more people will be employed, but right now we have 4 empty stores (maybe 3, I could be wrong).

They pushed out 3 other continguous small shops on the block. I am sure they are looking to rent it as a single space for big bucks.

As per my other post, he was doing fine, just not fine enough to absorb a 40% rent increase on top of an already hefty manhattan rent. (And that the business was doing reasonably well is probably one of the reasons why it wasn't an unpleasant place to hang out... the owner and employees weren't stressing out every minute)

Yeah, I wasn't going to do better online than his 3 for $2 books and I was able to snag some more vintage books at solid prices. Sometimes even flipping them here. Most of his stuff was priced in line with online venues. He also didn't close due to bad sales. I posted about it earlier. He was doing fine, actually, two full time employees and I suspect he took in at least high five figures from the shop, maybe six figures, they just jacked his rent up 40% to get him to leave and he was a goner. The space has been vacant since.

As I am probably not changing jobs (and thus won't be near any different existing shops) and I don't envision new comic shops opening up, I have my doubts. maybe there is hope near where I live. One of the local shops I liked to take my kids to closed but insisted it was not due to bad sales, but a dispute with his partner, so maybe there is hope another comic lover will open a shop in some nook. I liked the old shop because there was a little bit of "Cheers" going on without the booze or the hunky owner. OK, maybe I was Norm, but whatever.

The Batman/Robin book is worth a little more, the others are kind of semi semi semi kind of sort of maybe minor semi minor keys... books that theoretically can sell for $5-$12 raw or so. Them being slabbed in those grades does not help them all that much given that it adds $5-$7 to your shipping cost. I'd pay $10 each total, shipped, but mainly because I want some exemplar slabs to help with grading ("what would cgc do?") as I sold most of my slabs.