The Less Blob

I brought an amazing stuffing to a relatives house on year. It had chestnuts, walnuts, raisins, apricot, sausage, mushrooms... The whole 9 yards. The tray of stuffing may have cost $50 to make. They didn't know what to make of it and were eating the stovetop stuffing made straight from the box with nothing extra. I took my stuffing home.

Is anybody wishing for 10 copies of Thor 339 this year?

I significantly improved a book by just having it sit under a very heavy mag box for 5 years.

I significantly improved a book by just having it sit under a very heavy mag box for 5 years.

He came back in 1985 and did a movie called "Alien Outlaw" that also features some old time western guys like Lash La Rue: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190229/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm I had never heard of him, but he did a ton of these B list movies from 1944 - 1950. I guess they were the second movie (usually about an hour) in a double feature. People got a lot of value for their dime or nickel at the movies back then. I guess most of these are so bad they don't play them on TV much. I see westerns, but usually with bigger names. It's interesting how a lot of these guys' careers faded out around 1950-52 even though they were certainly cranking out westerns after that, but I suppose not in the same volume. This guy's career was basically over at 30.

Well, it's a 6 digit book if you include a couple of zeros after the decimal point. Maybe $10k if cgc ss signed by Stan Lee today.

Thanks, checked ebay and mile high, now I know it is one of several variants put out with that release. Given it is not a 1:1000, not worth much.

I don't seem to be able to find this listed anywhere. It says #1 limited 2012 on the back. Does anyone know what it is an whether it is worth more than 50 cents.

Cracking them open can expose. Interesting nuggets. I quite randomly opened a marvel team up to read (because I am old and like self contained stories) only to see it had a short back up story drawn by ditko, something not mentioned on the cover.

Other than GS 1/94 and maybe a couple of others, those X-Men books were lousy investments if you were buying in 1983 or 1984. But so were a lot of books. But then again, they're great books, which is why they got popular in the first place. People care about that again? Those books were so hot around 1983, etc. it was ridiculous. I went into a shop with my brother and we asked if they had any Byrne X-Men and they had ONE book...a ratty 128 he proceeded to sell us for $5. I probably could have gotten a half decent SA ASM for $5.

right, it's the same press sold for less by others. it's not like there are presses made for comics, folks have just figured out which presses do the best job I assume

It is an A-list DC book. We can bicker over 40k or 45k or whatever and whether Detective was down a bit in sales during this stretch, it is still plenty of copies in this era and they didn't get trashed.

Probably a good incentive to actually open up all your books. I have found a few of these first page signatures over the years. Roy Thomas, Chris Claremont (I know he signs there because he did that with me on some Power Man books), etc. Obviously all unverifiable, but kind of neat. That I found them in 50 cent and dollar boxes probably means they are real and someone who got the sig just forgot it was there. Remember, these guys never used to charge. You could go to a show and have John Romita sign 40 books for you. Just be really nice about it. Really makes me wish I had gotten more sigs of these guys when it was easy. Herb Trimpe used to go to plenty of shows. Steranko. I certainly had plenty of otherwise worthless Trimpe books. His sig, even unverified, couldn't have hurt. Plus most of these guys were/are pretty pleasant and its fun to chat. John Romita Senior was super nice. Chris Claremont acted like he had not seen one of his Power Man books for a million years and started reading the corny dialogue to Neil Gaiman, who was sitting next to him signing (Gaiman's line was 300 people long, Claremont's was about 5 people)

It's a great idea until the klutz slices his hand open and I have a $400 E.R. bill. Maybe I should just buy them and do some supplemental cutting on my own when I have some prime cardboard at home. I guess my final concern is that at 7 X 11 the boards they sell seem to small for some GA books. Not that I sell that many GA books. But their price is competitive (and better) on boards than most other places. Weird how I can buy acid free buffered magazine boards for $10 (10 cents each), albeit thinner, but these cost more.

I wrap the taped sandwich with saran wrap. Creates a nice brick. And cheap.

At a $160 it is a bit much to purchase just for fun. I am putting together a pile of lumpy books to practice on if I ever get one of these. But I would be converting "Fair" copies to VGs. Maybe I could rent it out to local pressers who don't want to commit to $160 or do a time share?

The pads work out to almost 15 cents each if I order 400 to correspond with 200 mailers, adding a minimum of 30 cents each to every delivery on top of the costs of the mailers (which are pretty reasonable, actually). Maybe I can trust my 13 year old with a box cutter and pay him 5 cents for each one he cuts properly? But yes, other than misplacing comics, no having enough cardboard backing around and needing to cut more up (and running out of boxes to cut up) is my #1 cause for delay in shipping. On the other hand, I take it they are cut perfectly for these mailers, so that has some value. 2 for a sandwhich is good enough?

We now have a dollar box thread for these sorts of fantastic finds of common, but profitable, books. This is a great thread because it is very educational re: obscure stuff we may not be aware is HTF.

You sell them for 50 cents to $1 here?

I suppose, but I spend more money on my summer vacation than either of those, not to mention summer camp.

Yes,those are the S-165s I linked to earlier, which I used about 15 years ago. If anyone has used the S-165s and the genesis mailer, do you have a preference? Which one is superior? Is the genesis mailer a lighter weight cardboard? The difference in cost is about 20 cents each, nothing big.

using this machine alone?: https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Comic-Book-Heat-Press-Pressed-Comics-for-better-grading-Books-T-Shirt-Press/252687468740?hash=item3ad558c8c4:rk:1:pf:0 Or are a lot of these actually sold for making t-shirts? Seems like we are going to run out of pressable books soon.

That's a $25-35 book right now, nice score.

I like the idea of them fitting inside a flat rate envelope, I don't think the U-Line mailer does

How do they compare to the U-Line S-164/165 (which I have used before, a long time ago (in like 2002?), and buyers were very enthusiastic about, but I think back then folks were less accustomed to seeing a mailer like this: https://www.uline.com/BL_1301/Kraft-Easy-Fold-Mailers The genesis ones seem slightly cheaper/cheaper shipping, but are they a lighter weight cardboard?