The Less Blob

I was bidding on some funny animal books that had some WW II themes/references like super rabbit and a bunch of other related stuff I thought nobody would be interested in and all those auctions got jacked up beyond anything I felt comfortable with..$500-$100+ for G/VG to Fine type books. Westerns with cool art/artists? And the Barks Ducks...I guess supply hurts appreciation in that market, but there's a solid market and Ducktales seems to be doing well on TV. I don't think entire genres can rise, but individual books, good covers, art...something like this is going to have a market, no:

Yes, the nice covers do well. I'm thinking more atomic age stuff.

They're stealing royalties from herb trimpe's widow! Oh wait a minute...

Nitpicking. : ) think 1cool meant more "hot"... Like seemingly any precode horror, anything Matt Baker might have looked at, etc.

Still some cool western that is affordable, war... A lot of stuff outside super heroes, horror, Baker romance, sci do... Cheap barks ducks.. Those have not done jack for 25 years, maybe it's time?

No effort on my part. just looked at a couple of pages of recent silver age sales and cherry picked a few books that fit 1cool's $30 a week criteria.

I wonder if it is not counterfeit if the type of coin is out of circulation? Then again, morgan dollars are still legal tender?

Selling that is against the law. Potentially criminal. Yes, he is honest about his criminality. And the implication is that maybe you can con someone re-selling it.

Yup, under $30 gets you a decent copy of Aquaman 4: https://www.ebay.com/itm/AQUAMAN-4-SILVER-AGE-AQUALAD-APPEARANCE-DC-HARD-TO-FIND-/123767858151?hash=item1cd123a3e7%3Ag%3AcdEAAOSwHu5c2uO9&nma=true&si=k5rBGBi%2BuujbAIA%2FqNJ8cW9pcBQ%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 A presentable JIM 105: https://www.ebay.com/itm/JOURNEY-INTO-MYSTERY-105-1964-SILVER-AGE-MARVEL-THOR-JACK-KIRBY-VG-FN/202680509823?hash=item2f30b3257f:g:78MAAOSwIaxc3M80 A stack of Jimmy Olsen's, including Darkseid's 2d app: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermans-Pal-Jimmy-Olsen-Silver-Age-Lot-of-14-DARKSEID-DC/293086527401?hash=item443d517fa9:g:qt0AAOSw3rJc2NZb $51 gets you a presentable copy of the classic Hulk King Size Special #1: https://www.ebay.com/itm/SILVER-AGE-MARVEL-COMIC-INCREDIBLE-HULK-SPECIAL-1-OCT-1968-FINE-CONDITION-/401766771513?hash=item5d8b2a6b39%3Ag%3AHDoAAOSwqj1c2gsq&nma=true&si=k5rBGBi%2BuujbAIA%2FqNJ8cW9pcBQ%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 FF 44 , 1st Gorgon of Inumans.. https://www.ebay.com/itm/FANTASTIC-FOUR-44-Comic-Marvel-Gorgon-Silver-Age-Comics-NO-RESERVE/123765288636?epid=85420330&hash=item1cd0fc6ebc:g:dMoAAOSw3rJc2Db3 And that's ebaqy, where shipping is going to cut into things. Basically the cost of buying lunch at work 2-4 times a week. Brown bag it! It's not an expensive hobby. It's expensive if you go for hot books, particularly in slabs.

Marvel's copyright/trademark people need to shut this down.

Thanks for the suggestions. I spent a week up in Plattsburgh (not known for its cuisine) 2 years ago, I'm sure I'll be in the other corner of the state soon enough.

Frankly I am at a loss as to why they don't do more in NYC. Almost 9 million people. Shops are hard to find. Brooklyn and Queens, on their own, would be the 4th and 5th largest cities in the USA population wise. There's NYCC at Javitz and the Wintercon out by the casino/racetrack in Queens, but krapola in between.

If I ever have to go back up there (and if I stay in this job, I will be back up there eventually), where's the best place to go for wings? I can't handle too much heat though.

I will buy all of them for $1 each!! ;-) (Yeah, I have a bunch too, although I sold a bunch during/after the venom movie). It's pretty exciting when these books finally are barely worth listing on ebay after sitting there for so long. (I don't want to play around with fixed prices under $10, although I occasionally start auctions at 3.99 - 4.99 even though I doubt there will be multiple bids when I list a bunch of a title, figuring people will win more than one auction.

Well, yes, I'm not talking about new books, but yes. I'm talking about vintage books (admittedly, mostly "run filler" nowadays) that sell for as much as the new stuff. You have to value reading them right now for new books to make sense. Yeah, buying new books...one has to forego their weekly visit to the strip club to be able to afford them, I agree, it's nuts.

The pricing is out of whack, sure, but the books themselves aren't packing material or "absolute garbage" as you're calling it (maybe the stories are garbage, I have not read them for over 25 years). The 362/363 sell as a set nicely in the $15-$25 range. While that isn't the type of sale that has me jumping up and down, I'm happy to make it. Sure beats packing and shipping a $3 sale...

Hate to break the news, but it has been a business for a long time. As for the rich and elite nonsense...it really isn't. I go to a good big show with $300 to spend and I can walk out with a lot of fun stuff. This is a hobby where there is so much cheap stuff out there. A few books get hot, but there's a whole world of stuff that isn't hot, which might be later, or may never be.

What was going on in 2015/16 to be 10% more than now? Did the Star Wars comics come out then?

What you used to do with a book is irrelevant, the current market says 363 is about a $7-$10 book and 362 is $13 - $18 or so. So not $50, but not dollar box books. Well, maybe the 363.

I know where my wife would be!

Yeah, its not that the area is too small, you have a bunch of other cities within 2 hours of Buffalo, but if every one of them is having a con like this it gets pretty saturated

Sounds like they didn't get too many stars or artists though? Anyway, Brooklyn apparently has a "comic con".. for $30 sunday/$20 Saturday... but as far as I can tell, there might only be one dealer selling comics!! https://www.bkcomiccon.com/tickets With that said, I have been to that Brooklyn venue for a cheese show (they had more than cheese, I ate some frigging amazing sausage and salami and got pretty drunk) and it would be pretty nice for a comic show. A little bit remote in terms of subways...one local line that is not easy to get to...but the neighborhood around there is absolutely hopping.

One of these days I need to check out a jersey show, but before then I need to halve my collection.

I am talking from a comics perspective? What is nycc nowadays (if you can even get a ticket) that was $35-40 a day in recent memory. Is it $50-60 now? That is enough of a spectacle to justify it, arguably. So the jersey shows have 20 dealers and tve $32.50 show has 5? Where am I going!??! (Well, I'm not going to buffalo unless I am visiting Attica or wende, so that's a moot point....)

$32.50 for that karp is criminal. They run shows in Jersey almost every weekend that are free or near-free that sound vastly superior. I wish they'd do that in NYC, particularly Brooklyn. They had a small, cheap, show at a holiday inn on 57th for a while around 20 years ago. Once carbonaro moved out of the church it got expensive