The Less Blob

Solid $10-20 book.

She does not want cold. Only looking warmer.

I dunno, I'd like to see the buyer not demand a refund after damaging the book while opening the packaging, for example or not act like a psychopath and threaten me if the 9.2 is a 9.0 in their eyes or scream about a $5 shipping charge because postage was actually $4.76....

Maybe I am naive, and yes, as a seller I like seeing happy feedback asap, but I figure me leaving the buyer feedback 5 or so days after they received the item (and probably have no complaint) is a little reminder to them.

How do you retaliate? Every couple of weeks I go through and leave feedback for buyers, but it could be a couple of weeks after they paid. I generally wait to see if it has arrived and they've had it a few days.

She is more interested in New Zealand really. As a lawyer I would be denied entrance, but she is a scientist with a fancy ivory league doctorate. Maybe if we sell everything we can do a "buy in" for a visa, but I might be 50 by then.

That is the British spelling...

I live in New York City. I already know expensive. Not yet 50. But not on the occupation list. My wife is though.

My wife wants to flee to Australia given our current political climate, your initial post had me hoping I could make a living selling comics there. Oh well.

Why do you ask? People still leave it.

On an unrelated note.. I am a little surprised Kirby came up with something so goofy... As if he couldn't conceive of a magnetic creature without a traditional magnet on his head? Then again, magneto was not shaped like a magnet. Or was this a spoof issue?

I am looking at the Target display box and it looks like it is intended for more than 5 books. As for Walmart, I have no idea. Haven't been there for a long time. How is it cost effective for a store to only get 5 of these? Why would Walmart bother? They presumably don't put them all out at once so they don't all get trashed at once. Look how many of the "controversial" one people snagged to re-sell.

I would try to grab that display box. With that said, Walmart and Target do provide avenues to get "readable" comics out there to kids. At over 5,000 Walmarts nationally, selling 10 of these DC books per month per store would be 50,000...so the print-run of a good selling comic. 20 is more realistic...100,000... There are about 1800 targets, so they'd need to be about 27-30 a store to get to 50,000. Maybe it is not worth the money, true, but don't you see that as doable if every month or two they come out with something special? True, it may just be old dudes like us buying them. They refuse to have this stuff near the check out where it gets visibility.

good stuff!

good pile of stuff!

Don't make me feel guilty for money grubbing! But yeah, I'd like to think if you are in this hobby you'd start having an appreciation for some of this stuff at least. I wish I didn't always have to think about $ while participating in this hobby.

Some of us can enjoy the medium, but also have financial issues, kids to pay for, roofs to fix, etc. So when some previously worthless dollar box book is now a $50 book, whatever fondness I have for Jack Kirby's chunky human form goes out the window and the book gets sold. "How much is it worth" can also just be an evaluation of priorities. So even if you're collecting its triage...space concerns, money concerns, upgrading concerns. With that said, while I have done close to $2700 in sales the last 2 months... Alas, it seems that less than $1,000 of that went into my bank account! But I do have some nice books to show for it! (And probably a few I now regret...)

I love what appears to be an eye roll from Ben

The writers are more often than not the stars in this era outside of "cover" artists. Walking Dead is all about the stories, for example. Does anyone care who the Deadpool artist is?

Yes, I saw. Now I need to find those copies again before they become my copy of I Kill Giants....

Stumptown 1 is back? That book was hot for a few minutes a few years ago, but by the time I found my copies it was worth $2. Now it's $30? Nice.

If they're 1st prints, sure, I'll take them at $2...I might be 4 yars late to the party, but...

take $2

take $2

At the time I thought some of the 90s stuff was fine. The X-books seemed fine, ASM was readable, I even liked Spider-Man 2099. Spawn was pretty good. I liked the run where Thor went insane. Peter David's Hulk was good. I liked Maxx. Didn't read much DC, if any, though.