The Less Blob

Your book is certified by CGC. It doesn't get better than that in this hobby.

I guess there is a little lull in the character. Is he just going to be a Deadpool buddy? Is he going to get worked into the X-Men movies? I think he was done well in Deadpool 2, but I don't think there was enough to have people screaming for a Cable movie. I have a couple of these I may get submitted. On the fence as they are probably 9.0 - 9.2 unless a press may help.

If you think it is worth in the $500s list it as a fixed price BIN a bit higher in the $500s with a best offer. You may never sell it, but it won't cost you a dime to list it. As $500s is already $150-$300 more than market (of course, you have a small sample size), I'd be hesitant to go into the $600s (with the assumption you'd take an offer for less) because that number at just result in people not even looking. Yes, the Stan Lee signature market is certainly in flux, in part because everyone and his second cousin (that he might be married to) seems to be signing stan lee's name to comics and claiming authentic sigantures. It is disgusting and so many look like bad amateur jobs. You have the real thing, so that helps. Alas, Stan signed about 3 billion SS books, so not a rarety, but heck, Picassos aren't rare either! Neither are diamonds.

Just have a cork board on an easel behind you table and pin the keys to it, preferably through the top of the comic because it holds better that way and you know the book is a key because it has a pin hole in it.

OH well, the fridge died last night. $1200 towards a new one will set back most of my 2019 goals other than the losing weight part, it may help that.

The only avatar I ever had was a cartoon of a guy getting anally assaulted by a giant celery stalk and enjoying it. (It was a 50s cartoon promoting eating more fiber and having a healthy colon).

Blahhhhh. I need lists.

Man, folks around here are secretive!

Have any? Anyway, I feel like I made some progress on some fronts at the end of 2018 and feel like I can get a lot accomplished in 2019. I'll start with comics stuff and move to other stuff. 1) Clean up my comic cave, get my collection organized and databased, bag and board what should be, get rid of gross bags. Some of you have seen pictures of the cavern, one of you has actually been in there.... Be able to produce a picture of that place worth showing here! 2) Start selling consistently again on ebay (I have accomplished this in the last month or so) / get my oldest son as a productive part of the comic empire team to make up for income that does not come in during the months when I am not adjuncting (I got a little addicted to that extra $ every month, but I won't get another class until September, if ever)... maybe become flyingdonutjunior? 3) Find some other venues to move some stuff in quantity (I just need a more manageable collection right now) 4) Make some smart GA acquisitions (ok, this is pretty broad, I know) / rip off an old person who has a room full of comics their long lost son left there 50/60 years ago (ok, joking about the last part...) 5) Get a bunch of books off the CGC. If I have 50 books worth slabbing, I should just suck it up and do it. If some would benefit greatly from a press, go for it. There is no time like the present. 6) Try to get a great piece of OA from an artist I like of a subject I care about for under $350 7) Set up at at least one local show (unlikely) Non-Comic 8) Clean up my garage so I can have an art studio in there 9) Paint for at least 5 hours a week (I think this will help my psyche) -- this probably means less social media / here time 10) Participate in my neighborhood "open studios" tour in October.. which means I need to have my garage studio set and have painted some paintings worth looking at 11) Lose 100 pounds (I have lost 35 thus far...100 gets me down to where I was when I started dating my wife, that will be fine for now) [this includes a lot of stuff like going to the gym, etc.] 12) Be able to bench my weight again (not so easy when you weigh over 300 pounds, I am hoping more doable at 220) 13) Pay off my credit card debt (I don't have a crazy number, thankfully) 14) Get the $15-25,000 in immediate home repairs I need done completed (not sure where the money comes from...sell more comics?) 15) Lay some groundwork for finishing my basement (exactly what, I dunno, maybe get an architect down there?) I have some other stuff, but 15 seems plenty, especially some of them entail a few things in one

Or you get vacuum cleaners like me. I'll admit that subconsciously I might be a little less strict in what I pluck out of the boxes if I have snagged a couple of really good books. And frankly, if you cherry pick the best 5 books out of 10 long boxes you might run into a dealer who says "why were those in there, that was a mistake"..generally that won't happen if you are buying a stack of other stuff. at least not to me.

Seeding would make more sense to me if, let's say, you had $5 boxes but the books were 3 for $10 (or, more optimally, 6 for $20). Of course, folks would try to make their three "seeded" books, but absent that, maybe a better book may be the needed incentive to get two more less desired books.

Someone paid me with ebay bucks. Now he is attempting a return, showing damage to the cover that is just not possible (the auction had a high res front and back cover scan that I took just before listing) given that he does not claim the gemini mailer was eaten by a pitbull or there was any evidence of damage or it being opened up prior to him getting it (and no, it was not sent media mail). we're talking about a $50 book, so I am irritated. ANYWAY...will the refund be in real money or will he just get back ebay bucks? Could that be the motivation here, to convert ebay bucks into cash? Guy has decent feedback and recent sellers have not had an issue with him, so I don't see a fraudulent operation going on. but seriously, if he wanted to just return the book he did not need to trash it to make his claim stick better. I will be getting the book back to see if it is indeed the same book. I think my scans were good enough to confirm this.

I was able to get a spine roll out in a few years with a comic in between two backing boards under a few packed mag boxes and flatten out a wavey book similarly. Both were about 80% corrected. Obviously a professional press gets this done in a day and may be 100%.

Hmmm, maybe it's just that I only started actively listing again in December. I am about 35 sales in and I got my first scammer/return item. I'm so excited!

Are you trying to press those comics by placing them under a stack of toys? I think you need more weight.

That answers my question. Thanks. More than I want to pay, but I am a cheap and need to suck it up.

I would like to frame some of my OA, which I acquired mostly 15-18 years ago, but I feel silly spending serious money framing pages that cost less than $30-40 a pop. For example I have some great Archie pages (whole stories) from the early 60s ( Archie as Tarzan), but professionally framing 5 pages will cost more than the pages. What is the cheapest frame you've seen out there that will work? I want something made with archival materials and preferably some UV protection. If they come in sizes close to OA sizes I can live without matting.

You can make it so that just the comic is framed and not the grade? Might be tricky having SA vs. GA though.

Those other states will jump in. It is free money with ebay, Amazon?, etc doing the work. We have a short grace period. My state and city govs are probably budgeting to spend this revenue in 2020 or 2021.

for all of the above

Batman/Lobo puts me at 48! I am insane!

Wonder WOman 142 Legionnaires 14 Worlds finest 236 - 240 (3 issue) Venom 10 11 12 Thanos 1 Swamp thing 29 30 31

Hellblazer 3

New warriors 1 Deathstroke 1 1st issue special 17 Deadpool 11 varbiant Captain America 228

B&B 162 163 166 172 180 Maxx 34 Rocketeer 1-3 Swamp thing 26 27 Avengers 209 Batman Blue Grey Batman ghosts