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Another very fun show in Berkeley!  Tim was an absolute superhero yesterday on setup day. There were a lot of surprise problems with the venue that he had to deal with using creativity and a lot of brawn.

First show as a vendor for Shin anywhere since Big Wow 2012?  First Berkeley visit by FFB as well!

Next show is our sixth anniversary--coming right up on August 6.

On 6/17/2022 at 8:05 PM, JWKyle said:

 even though the Kuberts I have are Marvels 

 

The benefits of being on the comp list--he got all the Marvels free, I believe. I'm sure he had one of every DC free too.

I enjoy some of them too. The IRS collection. The Kubert Collection. Etc.

Elveen's Comics unfortunately had to cancel last minute and couldnt' make the drive up from SoCal.

Actually with all the people who are sharing booths, I would say it's really the best stuff from 35 different back issue dealers!

Some of the vendors have really upped their game with some big pickups. (including A-1 Comics with the biggest collection purchase in their history). It's going to be interesting to see what the new vendors have too.

Isn't Comic Cellar down there packed with old books and modern keys? Con dealer GoDaddyO's Comics shares a shop with his daughter and I think his stuff is available, at least sometimes. Knowing how big the area is, perhaps these are out of your range.

I don't feel that it's like that six hours north, here in the Bay Area. A lot more stores started to carry back issues and we now have two stores at the north and south edges (Rohnert Park and Los Gatos) that are essentially back issue only shops. I also follow a local flea market hunter on IG and he's constantly finding books there too.

You may not like the prices, but the books are in the stores up here. Don't even get me started with how great the supply is in Sacramento, with the behemoth A-1 Comics, numerous other stores, and a new back issue only store up there too.

Lee's Comics will be setting up at the Berkeley show in early November. And yes, that's the same Phil.

The Berkeley Comic Show, giant room of only back issue comics, is Saturday, August 6.

It was August that you visited the Bay Area all those years ago, wasn't it?

Looks like we have a shocking 12 vendors who are doing June that didn't do our last show. That has to be a record. Highlights include Steve Wyatt and Elveen's Comics, both coming up from SoCal, plus the return of the board's own SIlverweb, plus new vendor Modesto Comics, who has a shop with good back issues. Big vendors Champion Comics and Heroes will also be returning.

Ah, right you are. Two weeks until season 3.

Agree with all you guys. I knew this was going to be overspray before I even saw the pics. Makes so much sense.

As Tim just pointed out to me, we have Darick Robertson, just as season two drops of The Boys.

Great answer. Yes, you always get less as a set.

On 4/29/2022 at 12:25 PM, wormboy said:

Oh no! Terrible news.

Such a nice guy, and the greatest comic book artist of all time imo. 

Just heard this too and I totally agree. What a talent.

Thanks for the answer. That's pretty amazing. I realize that I must've seen one of them as I had the Shaun Cassidy/Hulk issue as a kid which I see has the final installment of the Star Wars comic story.

How many pages is that story?

First issue I ever bought was 7 or 8, probably after seeing the movie a bit late. I think I had the full story, so if it was 8 I was able to scour the local spinner racks and find a 7 that hadn't been returned yet.

I think both you guys are right--I have read various things about the number of books "allowed" to be published per month by Marvel before the agreement came to an end in 1968 and noticed the discrepancy in # of issues per month. Seems somewhat variable.

I assume the dropping of the romance books in 1963 is due to wanting to ride the superhero wave more, which gave them room in the schedule to do Avengers and ASM and X-Men and Daredevil. Or move some superhero titles from 6 or 9 times a year to 12. Clearly, the increasing sales were in the superhero titles and I assume romance books were declining.

How interesting. I have one of those but did not realize it was considered a 159 variant. I thought of it as just a giveaway promotional comic. Did not realize it's a straight reprint of a Dennis that also had a pumpkin cover.

See everyone tomorrow!

On 2/21/2022 at 5:51 AM, 1Cool said:

How many books are needed to constitute a warehouse find?  I've got 250 copies of Avengers Annual 10 that I picked up from basically a warehouse (had 400 at one time).  I'm sure that wasn't the only stash of that book since I'm sure nobody bought that cover when it came out.

I went to a show in Detroit in 1985 and Sparkle City had a big stack of them raw, face up on the table for seventy five cents each.

Current vendor list for the upcoming show:

A-1 Comics

Bronze Age Batcave

ComicWeb

JCT Comics

Kalen’s Collectibles

DevCo Comics

RJ Collectibles

The_Real_Clark_Kent_21

Brett’s Comics

Mike’s Comics Plus

The Batcave Comics & Toys

Worlds of Wonder

Harvey Doss

Dragstrip Comics

Fulton Street Comics

Ray Storch

Santa Rosa Comics

House of Comics

Antone Perry

Bill McGregor

He has a conflict for this show.

Heard from a big show dealer that he's making the switch and dropping all big shows and just doing little ones, where he's killing it. More and more one day shows are feeling a bit more old school these days, even if they aren't fully old school like ours and a few others. It also kind of reminds me of what's going on with LPs lately, even sales of new release LPs.