shadroch

If you consider defrauding up to two thousand of your fans squat, I'd agree. Personally, I think it leaves a dark stain on his legacy that a couple living in a million dollar mansion felt the need to squeeze money out of unsuspecting fans. It's one thing to sign your husbands name to a fan letter who didn't pay for it, but the Kirby's took a large paycheck and committed fraud. Shame on them.

I don't get it. Part of me wants to start using CGC again, just so I can drop them over the latest idiocy coming out of Florida.

Lesson One. Don't buy collections. Cherry pick them. . Well over half the books printed in the last thirty years are worthless. Learn the economics of dealing. It might seem foolish to offer $900 for forty books when you can buy all 800 books for a thousand but that is the difference between a successful dealer and somebody who is drowning in unsold stock.

Blackstone should start it's own credit card. Imagine getting 18% interest on all those packages sitting in the processing areas. Just remember that whatever temporary pain your family goes thru will all be worthwhile when you get your cards back in those beautiful cases.

It works until it doesn't. It saves me three percent on the MCS auctions which adds up to an extra book or two a year. I don't see it becoming common on the boards.

Stan hated Ditko so much that of all the artists struggling to find employment in the late 50s, he picked on Ditko by making him work.

What year are you looking for? It will be easy to track down which Marvels and DCs were distributed which week but the indys could vary depending what distributor a store used. Glenwood might distribute a Comico book one week, and Capital would release it a week later. At one point, there were about a dozen big distributors and dozens of sub-distributors and most used trucks. Then some switched to planes and the rush to be the first to the stands was on.

I use zelle to pay Mycomicshop and my landlord, but that is it. As people said, it offers no protection and should not be used to pay strangers. I mostly use paypal but have used venmo a few times with no problems.

Something seems off with those prices.

It's an even money bet you find at leat one copy of New Mutants #1. It simply isn't a comic collection without at least one copy.

I agree.

Color touch is usually meant to improve a books look. Extending your arguement, the manufacturer intended people to read the book so why deduct for creases, and so on. The manufactuer didn't intend books to kept in mint shape so perhaps they should be punished. The nice thing is if you want to pay full value for books with clipped coupons, no seller will try to stop you. It would be nice, after years of buying plods and glods at discounts for the market to decide they are worth more.

I disagree. I think a cut coupon is worse than minor color touch, but better than trimming.

Where do you draw the line? If a missing MVS is okay, how about a missing pin-up page? What about the couple of MVS's that actually affect the story. I can't give an example but I remember there were a few. I have a few GA books where someone stripped out all the ad pages. Surely you can't think those books should be graded as if all the pages were there.

CGC should spring for green/purple labels to avoid books like this.

I just went to order a copy and saw they also have an Avengers coming out. I ordered both.

Pretty colors.

Looks hand painted to me. I'm not sure what it is, but it isn't a jackpot.

Those colors really pop. good luck.

You folks can mock him now, but what are you going to say when the NY TImes is writing up his Sunday brunches.

Those are estimates and as such are okay but newsstand sales don't tell the whole story. Fraud was rampant and tens of thousands of books that weren't sold and were supposedly destroyed were going out the back door. If 300,000 copies of Spiderman 126 were printed, and 150,000 were sold, thats the circulation number but the blackmarket on these were huge. Newsstand and magazine distribution was long run by organized crime types who were laundering other money and had no problem swearing they destroyed the book while selling it to a third party. Warehouses of supposedly destroyed books used to routinely show up and there still could be some out there.

Pre-1982, there were few comic shops so the number of kids living around them would be pretty slim. The first explosion of shops was in the 1983-86 range. Thats when distributors were opening everywhere and often giving ridiculously easy terms to business novices. Got a credit card? You too can open a shop.

At the beginning of the Direct Era in the 1980s, newsstands accounted for most sales so those books are the most common. Early Marvel Directs with the BIG Diamond were possibly 10% of the run, maybe less. By the mid-80s, sales were pretty split but by the mid 90s, newstand copies were in the minority. Newsstand versions of some of the smaller companies are very tough to find. Many store owners sought out newstands to sell their unwanted books. I supplied two or three candy stores at different times. They could only get Archies from their regular distributor so I'd supply them with leftover books from the week or two before. Newsstands lagged comic shops by two or three weeks so shop owners could give them two week old books that still hadn't been made available via the newsstands.

So kids twenty years from now will see Stans image in cameo spots in movies and might have to wear a Stan inspired tshirt. The horror. It's not like they are going to wheel his body on to sets. I don't have a problem with this at all.

I can't think of a Golden Age book that I have sold to a youngish person. Or a female of any age.