The Less Blob

His linked in profile says he is still a lawyer and employed by a pretty big, reputable, firm, although my guess is that he is employed as a contract lawyer given he has so many other things going on that an associate would not be allowed to have. He went to U. Chicago law school, so he has to be smart, at least book smart.

Write your congressperson/people then and/or your governor/state legislators. The auction houses have no choice.

Yeah, what you wrote doesn't make that much sense, but we love you anyway. People are moving to lower COL areas because after they're done paying bills, even on a higher salary, they don't have that 10% left over.

Except in 41 years of going to conventions I have never had this added on a cash sale. I've used credit cards a couple of times, usually nobody adds it, one time I was told they couldn't give me the same "deal" with a CC. Is adding tax the norm in Ohio?

Yeah, this. He does have a couple of Die Spinne #1s that are crazy expensive. Seems to be a 1970s reprint of AF #15 with a different unrelated cover? I have no idea if Die Spinne #1 is worth anything. He might have duped that price over.

Well, it isn't that shocking that someone who shops at the store and has an interest in the store might be FB friends with the store/owner. With that said, this guy is a lawyer, and while this isn't him practicing law, if this was always intended to go to the friend and the "contest" was a scam, he could lose his license.

Ok, that is a bit much. Was it a 10.5?

late 60s/early 70s was the bush era

But she gets zapped!! (As if anyone opens a book anyway...)

It should have never reached those heights anyway as MSH 13 is the one to chase.

I guess that is the problem with saying "unrestored" when you really don't know? Did he run a black light on it? Measure it?

They were full naked if I remember correctly.

One of my roommates in college (1992-3) decorated our suite with vintage playboy centerfold's taken out of 60s and early 70s playboys. It was kind of embarrassing when women came into the suite, but I wasn't going to raise a stink because I probably would have had to live off campus if I had not hooked up with these guys. Plus they had a really nice TV/stereo set up.

The point is that this is not something new, Rom 1 had its bump several years ago. Heck, she hulk 1 and MS. Marvel 1 were $1-3 box books not long ago. A lot of late 70s stuff was being ignored.

I think the church just didn't want him there any more. That is a very wealthy church, I am amazed they ever had him and comic dealers selling porn in their basement. I did one show there. I only had one table, so in and out was easy enough. Yeah, manhattan is a PITA, although really, most places have an early bird special for a one day show you can probably park for under $25.

Say something about the print run of New Mutants 98 and an R-Bomb will go off around here.

Thing is there are lots of church basements and school gyms/cafeterias. It's not like you need to do it at a convention center or hotel. If you don't have a car (and most people in the city don't have one...heck, half of them don't even have a license) you don't go out to LI or NJ.

I don't remember all this hostility way back when, but in those days it was Joe Collector picking most of the fights around here.

Pretty sure I sold you a raw 8.5-9.0 for more like $80 a long time ago.

It makes their "free" listing give a ways a bit less free unless you can remember to cancel.

Come on man. Do you need to get this thread shut down?

I think he has been here since the beginning of the Board. Maybe his old account got messed up? A little bit of both for me. Last time I felt like I had a little bit of money I was chasing cheap 40s and 50s books, throwing out offers and such. Wound up with some Ducks and Warner books cheap, where I liked the covers, some interesting westerns, and a couple of slabs I spent money on (Showcase 23 and Cyclone 1, an obscure GA super hero book), also a bunch of Our Army at Wars (cuz I luv Kubert and Sgt. Rock) and some other war books. And some 1950s Archies. I figure for more available SA/BA/CA/MA stuff I hunt for those at shows and shops (of course, I have not been making it to shows), although I dropped about $300 on some folks here for $2-$3 books (seemed like a good idea at the time). Are these ebay purchases (and some board) "hot" investment books? Probably not unless there is a Sgt. Rock movie. Was looking for value vs. what these books are selling for elsewhere. Sometimes its emotional, not so rational. I always hope to buy for at least what I can sell it for net of expenses. Of course, want to pay way less. Don't always succeed.

I was at a show a LONG time ago and a dealer go fooled with a GA repro. He thought he had gotten over on a guy, bought a stack of books, did not even look at them outside the bags!... when he opens up the best looking one he realizes it is a repro (I think it was the same on the outside, but said it was a repro on the inside)

If you bring this into a shop or a dealer at a show with a stack of real BA books, maybe you give it a crease or two to make it look less perfect, I wonder if the dealer notices the difference?

Or corny stuff like this (I find the Choctaw reference funny as the Choctaw were really not much for war dances, they were more about trade and peaceful pursuits...):