The Less Blob

44 year old comic. Why not? Yes, warehouse find, but small print run. What is avengers annual 10 now?

His expenses may have gone up, but he has huge margins having paid pennies on the dollar decades ago. This poor lady is trying hard to survive, her husband died last summer, etc. She was paying her rent. He could have given her a year off from hikes. I know this isn't charity, but an empty storefront pays zero rent. Commercial landlords in nyc are a different species.

New comic sales are supposed to be up. Back issues are nuts. How can shops be going belly up? I guess if they were blasted for 6 months during the pandemic they may have debts they can't get out of, particularly of unable to get the stimulus $. With that said my kids' barber had her rent raised in october despite being required to work it 50% capacity. Landlord who has owned the building forever and barely has a mortgage did not care. Knew she wasn't in a position to move. Squeezed her another 5%. So who knows.

She may be a derivative rip off character, but they have now ( ok, 35 years ago...) developed her into something interesting in the spiderverse and campbell draws her real good

Yeah newsstand 9.8s of these mid 90s spawns seem to be hitting $250-300+... I won't judge. 1 own around 200 spawn comics and 1 is a newsstand, so mining a 9.8 out of them may be very hard.

What is clz and why should we care vs. Looking at ebay? A 9.8 newsstand of 53 hit $317. My guess is that this has warped perceived values of cgc copies. Raws are still under $10. As has been pointed out, big newsstand numbers are being used to hype direct numbers and too many of the folks buying stuff are too clueless to understand this and think this it is now a $317 book and then a website like this pushes it. Newsstand prices are their own wacky universe. And even if a direct is $300 because of a perception that 9.8 is really hard, I doubt it carries over to a 9.6 of this common as heck kind of nothing book.

I enjoyed them too. Although I feel like there was some BS involved. A dealer got in 6 long boxes of charlton westerns and suddenly demand is way up. A shop by me ("Funny Business") would claim wild sales prices and my shop (less than a mile away in a more affluent area) told me he was just notorious for making it all up. His prices were high, yes, but 2 shops within a mile were less dingy and creepy and 25-50% less.

It reads like one of them. They're informative

I am guessing you really wanted to be an overstreet advisor and write market reports when you were young.

Ridiculous. These guys are horrible at business.

Not a nothing character in spidey land.

Working at home for 12.5 months gave me a taste of it. Obviously there was work, but saving 1.5-2 hours of my life commuting was nice.

$4 worth of thundercats comics just paid for most of a $300 grocery tab

No need. I find it therapeutic

hardly. what's the difference between 57 and 62? 5 more years of job misery. For me it wouldn't be retirement anyway, I'd hang a shingle and do low stress stuff like trusts and estates and real estate closings, probably make a lot less, not work as many hours, and sell comics. and paint pictures of psychotic clowns.

Doesn't it all depend on what he pays? If he left behind 20 x-men 266 I can assume they weren't $5 a pop

Objects can be less awful than people, particularly lawyers .

I can make these plans because I have a pension in addition to social security and retirement savings. A rarity for most nearly 50 Americans. I'm still going to have to sell comics and do wills and stuff to pay bills from 57 until social security kicks in. I just don't think I can be a court room litigator anymore at 60 getting berated by some 40 year old political appointee judge.

We are all miserable in our jobs. (Ok, I'm generalizing) I am angling to retire at 55 it 57 even though it makes much more sense to hang on until 60 or 62. The job is going to kill me.

Talking about in the USA, not the northern worker's paradise. You folks tend to be more sensible.

Ok, not on one book. Problem is if you have 5x as many folks chasing books in person to sell online the in person books will stop being cheap. Not that there isn't a ton of arbitrage on ebay. I just bought a lot for $12 shipped after taxes. I have already sold the. best book for $20 plus shipping. The other two are $8-12 books and the 4th is a dollar box book. I'm already ahead of the game even if I sell the other two for $5 each. Of course, you can only stumble on a few of those a week with 50,000 other flippers hunting. If I shipped media while still charging $5 I would really be making out. And I get it, we are talking a $20 profit and 30-45 minutes of work. But if you are a guy making $20 an hour doing mold remediation making as much selling comics at your home seems tempting, particularly of the wife has a real job with family health insurance.

Who has time? I have 100 spawns I need to list.

I wonder if the current climate is getting some folks thinking they came do this full time who would have never considered it, like tales of professionals giving up careers to sell sportcards in 1990 or so. We don't need a crash for that to wreck folks, we just need to go back to 2018 where most folks here thought things were nuts. I'm having fun, but don't quit your day job. $200 for thundercats 1? Sure, why not? Sounds good!

281 was a bust, but 282 has always been good. 283 ebs and flows.

Why? It is apparently harder in high grade and there are a lot more GS 1. Maybe 94 being more $ 40 years ago made sense