The Less Blob

Does Lt. Cloud get shot down pretty much every comic but manage to survive?

You are going to encapsulate one page from Hulk 180???

Are you making fun of me because I am fat?

Yeah, that sort of stuff, $10 and under.

I hate to say it, but I agree with the buyer. Your listing infers that the staples are most likely production related. Book in hand he disagrees. If you had said you do not know their origin, etc. I think you have a better argument. Mind you, if I was buying the book I would assume you were being optimistic and that the staples were added and bid accordingly and accepted the book that was delivered.

I love candy corn.

Nothing of interest in the $1-3 boxes? (I understand, maybe you don't want to waste time/space?)

It was assumed in my day that they had razor blades in them. Only a sadist would give an apple.

So another show with nothing worth buying?

It is definitely a $40 book. I have 10 of them.

Get back to organizing and sell half of it. Not that I do not have warm fuzzies for all of them, but I just can't move around up there anymore.

I think the stock market tumult may matter more than time of year. But actually I always felt like sales picked up in the fall, slow during Summer. Also, for people with better paying jobs you stop paying 6% to social security after $128k, so it is like a 6% raise whenever you hit that point, so that may boost discretionary spending. While toward Christmas I guess money may get redirected, but then again, there are year-end bonuses for some.

The books look good but do you think any are high enough to justify slabbing? I think I see a boo boo on the shazam 1, do you see what are the others in the packs? Maybe good Batmans, jlas or green lanterns?

Anybody with a few bucks can self publish. Publishers have no obligation to take on projects that may harm them.

Waid is represented by Mark zaid, a long time boardie and accomplished lawyer. Plaintiff is represented by a real looking austin lawyer. If on contingency, this may not be worth his time. Otoh, if he got a $100k retainer out of that $400k they raised he may not give a hoot whether the case is a loser.

If they need a defense, shops getting harassed for not carrying this would be a good way for no Antarctic product getting ordered, but is there a claim against Antarctic?

Antarctic is in western dist Texas, so proper

Filed in West texas, perhaps to get a more favorable judge and jury, despite the lawyer (who looks legitimate) being in austin, which I assume is in the eastern district.

Folks who encourage their fans to intimidate and harass shop owners for not carrying their book? At least that's what these articles seem to be saying.

That did not phase me at all. If I saw it for more books it probably would have. Of course, I didn't get back into comics in 1993 or thereabouts because I was interested in the new stuff, although I dabbled a little. I was there for old stuff and eventually broadened my habits.

Well, some of that weight was from gold foil and chromium, no doubt, but those were the usually the "regular", there weren't that many variants (compared to now) back then. few issues had one, they were reserved for special issues, and there was usually only 1, maybe 2, now it is every issue, a 1:10, 1:25, 1:100... Heck, 20 years later some of those variants, the ones with not crazy print runs, are actually worth something! My theory is that if you were a monthly comic buyer back then (A) half buying to read and (B) half buying to collect because you thought things might gain value, which was probably a lot of people, when you walked into a store in 1996/1997 onward and saw dozens or more of long boxes of overstock unsellable drek and all those books of a few years earlier in 4 for $1 or 10 for $1 boxes, you had to seriously re-think Part B of that equation, and if the stories/art were getting worse, Part A was impacted as well. I was a 5 or 6 book a month off the rack guy then, but I basically gave up when it became obvious everything I was paying cover price for was likely to go into the discount box. So off the rack buyers got paired down to the 80-120,000 or so people in the USA who need their new comic fix every week and who are willing to pay extra to get it now and for sure.

The comic market in the 90s collapsed under the weight of a bazillion turok 1s and similar books, not under some shiney variants.

Maybe it was slab sales and some folks posting a "can you believe??". I am looking at OPG 35, which is 2004 sales data and on p. 128 they do highlights of CGC sales... New Mutants 98 --9.8 -- $175, NM 87 -- $228. Admittedly the CGC 9.8 market in 2004 was figuring itself out...but , but it does seem like 98 had some significance then, even if not busted out as higher in the guide that year.

At this moment 9.8s of 423 are selling for more than 340s. Go figure.

Those 3 packs are pretty cool. I don''t think I have seen 12 centers in those.