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7 hours ago, oakman29 said:

My obsessive compulsive behavior keeps me from hoarding, everything has to be neat and clean.

Anal retentive, not OCD.

14 hours ago, catman76 said:

I never liked the term collector, I just search for things that I like and catch my eye and just am drawn to for some reason and have them because I enjoy them, they make me feel good, give me a sense of wonder, inspire me etc. To me collector and hoarder are almost the same thing, most collectors need entire runs of a comic or everything with Garfield on it or whatever. Collectors to me are hoarders with just a more defined focus on specific things they hoard, while a hoarder just hoards anything and everything.

It sounds like the only chatboard you've ever read is this one. Believe me, these people here are not your normal collectors, they are way more anal retentive and obsessive than regular collectors. Check out some other comic chatboards and you'll see that most collectors do NOT need entire runs of comics, etc. Collector and hoarder aren't even close to being synonymous in my book.

1 hour ago, greggy said:

If this is the same guy, he sure didn't age well.  I started dealing with him at Seattle shows in the early 90s and he looked old then.  He was cuckoo and just drove me mad with his constant chatter.  He did have a teenage daughter at that time and at that time, she seemed well adjusted but when I saw her again at an early Emerald City convention, she looked like someone who had to grow up with Charlie, as she seemed cuckoo as well. 

Exactly who I was thinking of, maybe I thought his name was Charlie Swan because of what's mentioned in that article above. I moved to Seattle in 1998 and would see him at the shows down near the Space Needle. Whackjob supreme.

10 minutes ago, NoMan said:

 

Curious if anybody had any contact info/knowledge about him. Trying to hunt down info on a book I now own that passed through his hands.

As always, many thanks.

Is his last name Swan?

20 hours ago, aardvark88 said:

Too many variants each Wed. e.g. Mighty Mouse #1 for some reason had 5 different covers so a pure marketing ploy by Dynamite Comics to increase direct sales. Good business or leading to a new issue market crash in 2018?

Any amount of variants Dynamite puts out shouldn't be surprising, they're just a front for Dynamic Forces. Another shameless company is Boundless, check out their variant covers for more