The Less Blob

This happened a couple of years ago.

Basement apartments in my neck of the woods often get you the backyard, so often are desirable...

It probably gets to be worth it if you can shave him down some from 10 cents and you plan to do some shows. You have ready made dollar box inventory. Bring shorties and tell people that can fill then for $50-75. Of course I am a guy who passed on 6-8 longs of free stuff when a local shop closed. My back started hurting thinking about it.

60 longs will more than double you. 225 or so bagged and boarded books per box? What do you plan on doing with the 56-58 boxes of books that are not solo ebayeable?

Well, it's a shame the other one got locked down. Superman 50 2d print newsstand going for over $300.. https://www.ebay.com/itm/SUPERMAN-50-2ND-PRINT-NEWSSTAND-EDITION-RARE-HISTORIC-ENGAGEMENT-ISSUE/254231624391?hash=item3b3162bac7:g:7~4AAOSwMNZc2wxS But are these results real? Book sold for even more in other auctions, but always the same seller? Is it possible one guy has a monopoly on this obscure book? https://www.ebay.com/itm/SUPERMAN-50-2ND-PRINT-NEWSSTAND-EDITION-RARE-HISTORIC-ENGAGEMENT-ISSUE-F/254218820509?hash=item3b309f5b9d:g:ESUAAOSwcT1cy7tX I apologize if there has been a thread on this issue, is this real?

My dim recollection is that my copy, with a giant spine ding, sold for $50-$60

It is way less common than the regular #100 though. I sold one on these boards a year or two ago.

Peter returns to high school and is buddy is there, so I assume he was zapped. But half his classmates are 5 years older and, presumably, graduated? MJ is maybe a grown up woman...I know they wanted it to be a chunk of time for Stark to have a chatty cute daughter he does not want to nullify with time travel, but 5 years was just too darn long. Should have been a year.

Until I started lifting again, moving comic boxes around and dragging groceries home (yes, gasp, I walk to and from the grocery store most of the time) were my main upper body workout, particularly after my oldest got too big to carry around

Only for $120k or less family income.

X-men/teen titans? Admittedly, 35 or so years since I read it, but thought it was cool

I am curious how newsstand ordering was done then. Did the distributor decide how many of each book (since they were the ones who would have to accept the return) would be delivered to a newsstand, or did the guy running the newsstand put in an order for __ copies of each title?

It is incredible how many copies a terrible Jimmy Olsen book sold.

OK, Sandman 1 and Omac 1 clearly had big speculative purchases. Forever People is a little before those, true, but everything I read is that there was some hoopla about Kirby launching these titles and those early collectors and hoarders socking away copies of them. Forever People 1 may very well not have had an enormous print-run, but maybe not so many returns? Of course, there weren't that many collectors then, but obviously there was hoaring of some DC #1s just a year or two later like the two Kirby books and Shazam 1. Throw in Jimmy Olsen being read by a younger crowd, maybe a huge number of those 333K got trashed and tossed? Obviously there is nothing hard to find about Jimmy Olsens of that era. I have like 5 copies of 135 purchased from dollar boxes.

Yeah, these Kirby #1s were some of the earlier big speculation books (relatively speaking for that era)

With 2 kids going to college, even state school, starting over the next 4.5 -10.5 years and a desire to be collecting my pension starting at 57-62 (in the next 11-16) the books are getting sold one way or the other between now and then.

That is a personal decision. It is all about money for me. And running out of space.. I was adjuncting last year and felt "flush" and bought a bit. Reality is back. My closest shop and their dollar box closing has helped curtail me.

Sold years ago.

Once, long ago, when I was strong as an ox and not overweight, I carried 2 long boxes home over a mile on my shoulders from one of carbo's church shows.

Some venues do not allow them, but really it is about rolling in with one. I have a small one I carry folded up in a big canvas bag with a short box in there. The canvas bag fits an unfolded shortie. I also have a big backpack. Inside fits an ikon box (they are a photocopy vendor) that is perfect for comics. So I have done shows and brought home 2 short boxes (3 is possible, but unstable) on the cart, one in the canvas bag, and about a half a shortie in my backpack. Dragging it home on the subway is brutal, but a cab home from javitz is pushing $50.

I was a couple of hours late to this party!

Someone has some chutzpah to return a slab as "not as described" unless there is a crack or something in there. Dunno why you should be on the hook for any shipping. that's nonsense. They're buying the grade on the label, not the book!

If someone was amassing a high end collection in the 70s and 80s and are selling now there was a lot of room for growth. Of course, if they focused on Dells and westerns in the 70s they might be SOOL. Even if they bought restored books, provided they were big time books, they probably did better than the S&P.

How many returns do you have? You mostly (entirely?) sell slabs? Other than the principle of the matter, is this a real financial issue for you? Anyway, I just refunded shipping on an item because it took a long time to get to the buyer. The fee was covered, just like before. Does this not become an issue with a partial refund?

Not Arya?