The Less Blob

What I am saying is if you itemize and can take a charitable deduction then claiming $3-4 each should not be hard. I have donated to thrift shops. But under the new tax laws few are itemizing.

Do you itemize your taxes?

I blew out 1.25 long boxes of trek for $70 (around there a little fuzzy) at my yard sale. This was after about 5 years of wheeling the same stuff out (I started with 2.5 long boxes) for yard sales so this was after 5 years of being cherry picked.

Sales history on eBay is a rough gauge, not perfect, and it helps to have many data points.

Why are you apologizing? I don't subscribe to GPA either. But completed ebay sales should give a rough idea, assuming there are any.

Disagree with the notion the movie is a bust. Eventual $400 million on a $100 million budget with no star power whatsoever? And a totally obscure character? Warner is making a $50-100 million profit. (Based on needing 3x budget to break even). Could it have done better in june? Maybe. But who cares what the avengers with a $300 million budget and 20 stars does? Plus it gives some context to black Adam, which will crack a billion with the rock.

Is it ok to say 1:10, 1:25, etc? I'll admit, I don't know what that really means (do comic shops get 1 for every 10 copies ordered, but back at Diamond there could be another 2,000 copies of the vaiant in inventory?), but is it ok to repeat it in a description?

Who is paying $5 for non-hot generic $3.99 cover price new books?

Shouldn't weekly pulls be profit? Or are the copies you feel obligated to put on the rack wiping that out?

I got my fridge at a local shop after the cluelessness of the folks at Home Depot sent my wife into a rage. Slightly cheaper, next day delivery (because their warehouse is in Brooklyn, not 8 million miles away), and delivery guys who know how to get the appliances into old houses without destroying them. Home depot told us one model could not get through our door because they could not take the fridge door off. The local place was "of course you can take the door off." Admittedly, the local place is not exactly a "mom and pop shop," but it is one single location. Of course, my wife likes it when the sales people know the product, rather than someone working minimum wage who is stuck in appliances that day who might be in the paint section the next. OTOH, when I just wanted a cheap dryer I went big box. And then they installed it defectively and I had a gas leak that was slowly poisoning us. As for comics...I can usually find something worthwhile in most shops. Admittedly, it might not be worth the time hunting, but it's fun. Of course, I have pretty broad collecting goals. Lots of folks here are down on shops in general. But let's face it, if all those shops disappear, the hobby probably has another 5 years left. As for cons, I always find tons of good stuff to buy, but yes, you're rarely going to get a real deal on a three or four digit key.

Hey, at least there is an increase in demand somewhere for pulps. Every couple of years I buy some pulps, sci fi or western (because they're cheap), and while I will bid based on author (I am familiar with some of the sci fi names, although, frankly...have you read some of them? They're terrible by today's standards)., age and great cover get a little bit more $ out of me as I have no idea what I am bidding on. I did pick up Frank Herbert's first published work last year, which was cool. Boring cover though.

I hear Joe Robertson will be wielding Stormbreaker in Avengers Endgame and might be the key to saving the universe? And what mycomicshop missed was that while there may have been terrible amateur color touch along the spine, that was, in fact, applied by Stan Lee when he accidentally missed the center of the book while attempting to sign his 8 millionth book that day. He was exhausted.Poor Stan, RIP. OK, enough bad jokes. Anyway, I understand and appreciate myscomicshop not messing around with consignment pricing, OTOH, at that price they are just wasting space at MCS and MCS's time.

I can't find it on their website? Depending on the cost I actually think it is a pretty decent idea. Basically it gives the sort of confidence in a grade that MCS gives.

Its the star of endgame. I heard captain marvel uses it to behead thanos/end the patriarchy.

I can't believe Thor 339 is now a $500 book.

Artgerm isn't the guy I was thinking of. Some middleton covers are what I was thinking of. Although he has others that look more hand done.

Apparently none of them ever saw the X-Files or 500 movies/TV shows before that dealing with these topics? Or read a comic book.

I liked this show. Yes, a little teeny bopperish, but fun, and I suppose if I was watching it with my 11 year old daughter (who does not exist) I'd be a little stressed. My 7 year old boy wasn't that interested. My 13 year old has not gotten around to it yet. For some reason the 7 y.o. is really into Lemony SNickets.

I think her name was "Woman who was brutally murdered and tortured and stuffed in a refrigerator in order to serve as plot device/motivation for male hero because we're supposed to worry about how the guy is stressed out about this and not really care about the dead lump of meat in the fridge and what she went through." That one.

Why does PGX say this is a Marvel book?

Seems like a fun project to do on some cheap books

Yeah, that one is pretty good, what medium is he using?

This one is better than the ASM 189, which is what, just coloring in spidey for the most part?

That looks like it was done by hand. I was curious about the artgerm type covers that look like photographs "but not quite"...

Does anyone know if these covers computer generated? or largely computer generated and the artist comes in and does some touch up? I assume Ross does a lot of projections and photo references and such, but they're all painted by hand as he has been doing for decades?