The Less Blob

X-Force 1 and countless others don't have a similar affliction?

This was a book (Darker Image) I used to see 20 copies of in 50 cent boxes, not long ago, and I would take a pass despite loving the character and Kieth's art. I don't see that anymore. I do see Maxx 1s occasionally. I'd think the SS getting $300+ is more about it being really hard to get Kieth's signature? The book should still be easy to find in 9.8, no?

Star Wars 1 had a mega ginormous highly speculated on print run. MTU 1 probably had a typical print run of a #1 for a popular character of its day (dunno what to compare it to other than maybe MTIO #1 that came out a little later? Defenders 1? I dunno.) These are common books, they just have a vast market. In the early 2000s after the last of the bad prequel movies you could get a nice SW 1 for $5 on ebay (. Plenty to be had. It is not a book I chased particularly, but I wound up with about 10 copies over the years. My issue is with the notion that somehow speculation hoards from 40 or 50 years ago are sitting there intact today in pristine condition. The owners would be 60-80 years old. They have been selling them off over time. When MTU 1 became a $20 book you don't think they started unloading? And then $100? People move 4 or 5 or 10 times. You think they're dragging these hoards around with the plan to sell them in 40 years? Yes, there were some folks buying 100-500 copies of these books for future resale, but that future resale has 99% happened already. For example, Koch had a vast quantity of Special Marvel Edition (1st Master Kung Fun). He slowly and steadily sold them off over the years, but when ebay came he was able to unload them en masse. I bought 15 copies for $10-$15 a pop. Others did the same. Now they're gone. And, by the way, they were not all NM or better despite being stored by a comic dealer. And yes, he has some 80s books in quantity still, but he has been furiously unloading those too. He might be down to a few dozen copies.

Nonsense. They were bought and speculated on, sure, but they have been getting sold over the course of 50 years. You think there are a bunch of 75 year old guys who have managed to sit on all these books while they hit new highs every year and kept them minty? Mtu 1 isn't rare. If you're 45 and have been buying every affordable copy you see for years because you love the book you can have a table lime that. Why you would I have no idea. I stop at 75 copies.

Any of this software let you upload info to ebay?

I have no idea. There are a lot of pristine copies of that book out there, but I guess 9.9 is something they can limit the supply of by deciding they are just going to give it to 1 in 200 9.8s or whatever.

Ok, thanks, I just found it odd that the two I had have no copies for sale or sold recently on ebay or listed at mile high or MYCS. I couldn't imagine they would be all that rare, but if one can't find them...

I just have a tough time spending $10 on a book when so many wind up deep discounted later. I spend $10, sometimes, on nice hardcovers.

This came out today and looked cool, but I wasn't spending $9.99: https://www.ebay.com/itm/DC-Cursed-Comics-Cavalcade-1-Comic-Book-NM-Unread/132815277355?epid=16024688808&hash=item1eec684d2b:g:10wAAOSwflBbvkMt:rk:9:pf:0&LH_BIN=1 So all the copies on ebay that were under $10 sold, and a few above in the $15-19.99 range have sold too: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_nkw=cursed+comics+cavalcade&LH_BIN=1&rt=nc&LH_Sold=1&LH_Complete=1 Too much potential to cool off by tomorrow for me to run out and plunk down $10 a pop on the copies at my LCS right now for a potential $5-$10 reward and I am not into spending $10 on a batman comic just to read. But someone with more initiative than me will make a few bucks off these.

This is what I am talking about:

I only seem to be able to find a couple on ebay (and none on mile high or MCS) and not the ones I am looking for. Any idea what these logo variants for Batman Shadow of the Bat 0 and Steel 0 might be worth?

I understand a 9.9 is a borderline impossible task, but , 3 or 4 years ago how many of these were sitting in dollar boxes in pristine shape? seems that despite being only a 9.8, this one may be more interesting: https://www.ebay.com/itm/VENOM-LETHAL-PROTECTOR-1-CGC-9-8-GOLD-VARIANT-1993/173577248854?hash=item286a02a056:g:EmYAAOSwX2xbutC8:sc:USPSPriority!54956!US!-1:rk:13:pf:0

My dim recollection is that a lot of the Modern Comics Blue Beetle 1s were printed and maybe Captain Atom 1s, I really don't feel like those were just in multipacks.

Yes, a local newsstand type place sold them and a few other random comics. I remember buying some of the E-Man issues there.

Yes, and a lot of guys who seemed ok in regular comics (some of the philipino arists) look much nicer in B&W. anyway, it is what it is. maybe I have sentimentality for them because my brother would buy comic magazines and heavy metal and epic back in the 70s and 80s and I could read them when he was done, so they were part of my childhood. but I got really hooked when my LCS blew out most of his magazines to me for 25 cents each in the mid/early 90s because he couldn't sell them.

What do two 6 foot tables cost for the show? One? Just curious.Seems like for what they charge for admission they could have some mercy on the comic dealers who actually show up. And yes, were I paying triple figures to attend the show as a comic collector (and I know that is like 5-10% of the visitors) I'd be annoyed I was getting cherry picked remains of books from another big show a few hours away that had just ended. I know some of this is inevitable and my guess is that a number of the local guys don't go to Baltimore, but they should not be so close. OTOH, I get it, it probably makes it easier for dealers who are doing both shows. Do you guys not go home in between the shows if you are travelling from the south or wherever?

I did not go for the first time since 2007. I have gotten over my sadness. Instead, last night we blew $200 on Brazilian churrascaria for my mom's birthday. They had a 40% off Columbus day special!

I think they have people cleaning pretty frequently, but the urinals at NYCC are generally not that horrible. Have never been in a stall.

Most comic readers are too tunnel visioned to deviate on something as minor as the size of the comic. They don't want to buy magazine bags an boards, it freaks them out, so they don't look at magazines. The black and white art in these magazines from the 70s is often stunning. John Buscema, for example, was a fine comic artist, but his lines look so much better in black and white.

I am not so sure you have an unlimited right to make money off parody. Like I don't think you can take a neal Adams batman, stick a joint in his mouth, and sell a thousand t shirts. But you can probably draw your own. Also the parody rules for copyright vs. Trademark may not be the same.

I think the procedure is to have a written agreement stating that this is work for hire and that all copyright and other intellectual property rights are owned by you.

A terrific actor. He was in heat of the night in 1967 and was able to play a middle aged guy convincingly.

Tiger claimed he had a trademark in his likeness. The court disagreed and exempted his right to his image from transformative 1st amendment protected artistic expression. Some states specifically have an exemption for fine art. In reading the case summary I saw nothing about this guy painting over someone else's photo. That was the Obama poster?

Actually, the photo image was likely owned by someone else. A right to one's image is separate and depending on the state there may be a claim if the use of your image is done in a way that incorrectly tarnished your reputation, which was Grant's angle. Nothing to do with the OP.

Fair use. The boundaries of fair use are not perfectly defined. Wasn't the problem that they copied an iconic image of her rather than just coming up with their own? I can't remember. Also, remember, image rights are not copyright. Image rights go state by state.