The Less Blob

Neal Adams owns the copyright in his derivative work, but both he and DC could sue you for mass producing items. I suspect, but do not know, that artists are generally allowed to create one of a kind works, but if Neal wanted to do a 1000 copy limited Batman print he probably needs to get a license from dc if they haven't already granted one.

They could sue right away. And if the image is registered with the copyright office they can go after you for statory damages, which last I looked were 10-150k per infringement as well as attorney fees and costs. Otherwise they are limited to profits, etc. I had a case where the infringer only made about $1500 in profit and likely less, but I think the court awarded $450k in statutory damages and about $250k in legal fees.

I don't think taxpayers are bailing them out other than 33,000 folks who may have gone on unemployment or other assistance. Not that I don't disagree about the lbo stuff. Toys r us was a viable company if it wasn't paying off lbo debt.

Well, you can, but you would be subject to a lawsuit.

And no.

No, no, and no

Admittedly it is a newer thing, but hundreds of thousands of people are reading comics on line. Not just through the Marvel and DC apps, but through videos where someone goes through the comic and frigging reads it. My son was watching one the other day, I was like "you're too lazy to read a comic???" The videos had hundreds of thousands of views each. This is how he is familiar with the Marvel and DC universes despite not having read THAT many comics, he has had them read to him, FOR FREE!

"person on the street"? If that person was a boy from 6 - 18 I would disagree on Deadpool. People were wearing Taco Tuesday t-shirts who may have never read the comic.

I am less sure about Deadpool. My kid, with no prodding from me, was into deadpool well before the movie and so were his friends. Harley has been popular for a long time because she was showing up in the cartoons around the same time as she was showing up in comics. The cartoons probably had a bigger mainstreaming impact. If anything, Harley in the movie might have made her less popular as Suicide Squad stunk.

It doesn't take much for an 8.0 to be made. It might ave gotten some bendies on the comic rack before you bought it.

https://www.spin.com/2014/03/marvel-music-rock-comics-revolution-1994-billy-ray-cyrus-onyx/ I guess they tried this with other musicians, but I don't think others came with a tape. Anyway, seems to sell for $5-$15, I guess until all the cheap copies get bought up when they make a "Break the Chain" movie...

I'm figuring at $6.99, that was real money in 1994. People weren't buying that to hoard in some comic collection, fans were probably buying it for the tape because in a pre-internet world, that might be the only venue to find the song. So I'd venture a lot of the polybags were opened up (and seriously, at $6.99, how many could be sold??)

Doom has already been in multiple movies? I know they will eventually do him properly. So far, terrible, all of them.

So what do you think a stabbed 8.0 is worth.

No, I am still full from it and feel guilty because I promised my wife I would get back on my diet. A biggie roast beef and a shake do not qualify.

I snagged one of these in the dollar box today. Had never seen it before. Someone has one up for $104, but actual sales are lower. It comes polybagged with a KRS-One cassette, which would make it a weird item in your typical comic bins in a store. Also got the whole set (1-4) of Pizza Hut X-Men comics, although I guess those aren't particularly rare.

AHHHG, my LCS still had copies of that Deadpool, but as nobody said anything about it here I did not buy it! wahhhhh! it's all your fault! (I should have bought it, I looked at it and thought it looked cool. I liked garbage pail kids. it was a skottie young cover too, right? I like him. seriously, why didn't I go for it?) addendum: went back, they were all sold out, but in the interim they had dumped some good stuff in the dollar box, so it was not a total loss

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Superman-The-Man-of-Steel-18-19-Newsstand-Variant-First-Doomsday/123373616044?hash=item1cb9a3fbac:g:qfEAAOSwDjFbnsy8 Criminey, DC really killed that character

Well, yeah, I like to think my brilliance and expertise allows me to search through a few thousand $2 box books to extract the mispriced potential $5-$15 books (and heck, occasionally more), but yeah, even my reject bad back cover books are perfectly reasonably priced at $2

Fair enough. There is a guy who goes to the NY shows, I have seen him for years as he frequents the cheap boxes (and he is a fellow smelly fatty ... mind you, I shower and deodorize before shows, even wear clean clothing, but by the end I no doubt stink). He pulls out every third book and meditates over them. He totally shuts down any progress on people getting through the long boxes. I have never ever seen him buy anything. But at least I don't see him asking dealers over and over to open up $500 books. frankly, as a dealer I would be worried this is a diversion for someone else to shoplift.

Tell him he has been looking at your stuff for years and never bought anything, so buh-bye.

I'm just not going to do that (go back) for some $2 books, I'd just rather not spend the money. A stain on the back isn't a misrepresentation, it is what it is, someone may still like it for $2.

Actually, probably a net loss of about $13 as I got hungry on my waddle back from midtown comics and wound up getting a roast beef sub and milkshake from potbelly samich shop on a day I was planning to skip lunch and just drink a lot of coffee in the office.

The guy at Midtown (downtown branch) was saying people showed up and 8 a.m. and were screaming about them not having any rack copies. It is not as if they had it behind the register at $20, they had no copies other than file customers.

So I ran to the shop and I must be going blind because I paid cover price for the danged Deathstroke 35 variant, not the 36 (which they did not have), at least I got the right Wonder WOman variant. So I will break even... stupid And then I waddled over to midtown to find more and it seems they never got any delivered, I guess all their non-subscription copies were sent over to their NYCC booth because Mattina is signing there (not sure what happened to the WOnderwoman book) So at least an hour of hunting and waddling will produce about $1 profit... This is why I need to stay out of the modern flipping market. I am not good at it unless it is a dumb luck type thing of 20 copies of Saga 1 on the shelf.