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Gathering of the tribe, tomorrow!

Oh-reminder. The website has a wantlist feature which we send to all the vendors in advance and then notify you of any hits. Especially good for the obscure stuff that otherwise might be left back at the warehouse. All these vendors have so much stuff they can't bring to the show, unless requested.

One week to go!

Congrats on being named one of the forumites of the year! Well-deserved. Hopefully we will have a Berkeley show the first weekend in November that coincides with the Alameda fair.

I imagine the vendors are very well stocked these days as shows are just starting to get rolling around here. Three rooms of comics! First show in the core Bay Area counties. This show we have: Terry's Comics A-1 Comics Heroes Champion Comics Silverweb Lee's Comics Harvey Doss Worlds of Wonder (Edger X) Shortboxed Bronze Age Batcave Ray Storch Drag Strip Comics Both Fantastic Comics (CW on the boards and the Berkeley LCS) Mike Jeter ComicWeb Brett's Comics Also want to say, Harley Yee and Superworld have both contacted me recently and they will return to be part of future shows again.

Will post the vendor lineup very soon!

No parking lot but it is suburban with a school across the street. Ie, almost no one parking on the street. The school also has what, a 35 car parking lot? San Pablo just a big block or so away and Plaza Bart and El Cerrito Plaza with huge parking lots just five or so blocks away.

Newbold's book is The Forensic Comicologist.

Tim and I are super happy to have our convention return, even if we couldn't return to our preferred venue. Next show is at the El Cerrito Veterans Hall, near El Cerrito Plaza BART. Happy to say that Terry's Comics is coming up from southern California and that we have Dan Brereton as our guest of honor. Street parking should be significantly better than our first years at the Berkeley Senior Center. Many board members setting up. www.berkeleycomicshow.com

I thought unemployment runs out on Labor Day, not July? (notwithstanding that many states have suspended it already) The ongoing child credits are going to be interesting. Pre-pandemic, this would've been a slow time maybe May 15-June 15 and people had graduations and end of school things, but I don't know how much of that is happening now. With a lot of pent-up travel demand, that might cut into hobbies a bit. But more specifically for comics, I wonder if conventions restarting will cause a flow of dollars from online to in-person? I'm pretty bullish about comics staying strong the next few years, regardless.

My autorejects and counter offers aren't working all day. If counter offers are working for others, I'm thinking it's something to do with my original listing having an autoreject. It's making me have to decline and explain and have them put in another offer, which will cause lost sales.

Auto rejects not working? I usually accept any offer that gets through because I've already set my autoreject to a fair amount, but had two offers get through today. And it wouldn't let me counter-offer, which I assume is a glitch. All these changes seem terrible.

Wow! I need to take time off from looking for Marvel Premiere 10s to add the word Mandarin to my Hulk 107 listings...

I remember getting a catalog my first year at college that had a Batman #1 offered, in GD condition. The seller dutifully listed it for the guide price of $1,000. I had the money, easily. A year earlier, I might've gone for it. Who knows if he still had it by the time the catalog arrived.

Reminds me of this piece from yesterday: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/12/opinion/biden-economy-culture.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage When markets are booming, everyone wants to talk about markets. The whole culture shifts.

Everyone pretty much has the same deal with Image. Image is a different type of publisher--they are more of a packager. So Image didn't make much more on WD than any other book--just their normal fee for getting it through publication and distribution. Kirkman made out huge.

That's a great one, Ernie!

One of my faves!

When you are going to make your first trip up to the Bay Area, send me a message and I'll hook you up with plenty of places in the Bay Area. Or make it coincide with one of our quarterly shows which are entirely back issues.

Superb job, Jeff.

Batman 313 has a one page character development/soap opera page with Tim being introduced as the slightly hotheaded son of the cerebral Lucious. They squabble over TIm not doing well in college, with the daughter as more of the peacemaker.

Supposedly they got together and looked at the Marvel books and thought the art was terrible and couldn't understand the appeal.

Congrats on getting close to opening a store. I always figured sorting and bagging and boarding was the kind of things the help can do while they have nothing else to do. No one in the store, while they are chatting with a customer and manning the register they can bag and board books, etc. I know one store that was large enough that they felt they needed four employees at once to avoid crazy theft, etc. and the aggregate work that the four were involved with at any one time was kind of minimal. But my general vote is if the book is nice, get it in a bag and board unless it's really a junk book. Hate to see something, especially something from what I consider the low print run, high cover price years of say 1997 on, get trashed. As for sorting, probably not, though it is really fast for experienced people to at least sort by publisher or even better the roughly A-D boxes, the E-J boxes, etc. Whatever.

Just curious if you happened to run into Harley Yee at those stores, when he was an MSU student?

Dave told me that he sold like a semi trailer full of stuff before he moved to Tucson.