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That would be awesome. I'm not 100% sure you are from Michigan but I always assume you are with that avatar (I'm from near Kalamazoo and almost went to U-M).

More like two weeks later. The local con calendar is very crowded in Sept. and Oct.

Is that going to be it or any more coming?

That's an easy read. Still feels modern enough that it reads well. For me it's probably FF 48-50. Don't think I've ever read it all at once.

How about DCs being more likely to be saved as well? And maybe less purposefully destroyed in the 50s.

That 8000 is an interesting number. One of the ideas I trot out when people discuss back issue sections in comic book stores is that one of the difficulties is the huge increase in comics published and each little era has its own fans. When a comic book store opened in the early 80s, one long box would hold all of ASM and another long box would hold all the Spectaculars and MTUs. That's it. But now they are supposed to try to carry 4000, 5000, 6000, 7000, or 8000 Spider-Man comics? At $2 to $3 to $4 a square foot rent month after month?

I prefer Mr. District Attorney, but same story. Rarely collected.

Cool points.

Agreed on the different take. I liked the WW II/Vietnam aspect and the Monarch part. I got a little bored during the second half but that happens a lot in movies like this.

Agreed.

Congrats! First time is the hardest. If you think you'd make more money being personally able to move around the room you can consider paying someone to be the main "day of" person. With our Berkeley show Wormboy and I put it on but during the day of, he's the main guy in charge so I can sell, etc. As for it slowing down by 2 pm, that's not too surprising. I wasn't sure it would happen with your show since there would be a lot of dealer to dealer sales, but most one-day shows I do, it slows by 3 pm, so that's only an hour difference. For our Berkeley show I wanted to avoid that for the vendors, so we made it a tight 5 hour show and the first time it didn't die until one hour to go and last time, 30 minutes to go. As our crowds grow we'll have to start extending the hours to thin out the crowds a bit. Again, this is a great start you've made.

How many board members attended?

HarvDoss from the boards will be set up.

Exactly. The idea is that everyone has so much more material back at the warehouse or back at the shop, whatever, that having the fans tell you in advance what they want avoids all the conversations about oh, I left that back home. And even if they want key books that of course everyone is bringing to the show anyway, telling them who specifically has what saves time and perhaps even gets the fan off the fence about attending or not. They see the promoter is absolutely putting the work in to encourage commerce between the two parties. I think your show, like ours, is really built from the ground up to facilitate back issue commerce, not general public ticket sales. That means it's really perfect for the comic fans and the comic dealers. Your branding is very distinct and strong. It's clear what your show is and what it aspires to.

You guys have lots of great ideas. Wish you all the best with your show. Trying to have all the items $50 and up seems steep... We did beat you to the punch on the "buyer's survey" which we've had at every Berkeley con dating back to last summer.

Would love to see you there, yes. With the move to Saturdays there will hopefully be less parking conflict for you to have to negotiate!

Also happy to take any suggestions to heart! I'd say this show averages 60-65% vintage comics and the rest modern and dollar books. Usually around 11 comic dealers.

I'm kind of surprised by the Wyatt Earps making the list.

Our back-issue-only, comics-only event returns on the first Saturday of June. We have eleven comic vendors, including board members HarvDoss, CW, and HOC. We have longtime local con mainstays Dale Quick and Ray Storch and strong newcomer Bronze Age Batcave. We also have modern comics expert Brian Wells (Comic Web). The con is put on by myself and board member Wormboy, with other great local board members helping out immensely. Board legend sckao designed a killer website that has all the info, as well as our innovative wantlist feature: http://www.berkeleycomiccon.com/

Been going back and forth on this one long enough.

Take it