shadroch

Isn't Bermuda a self governing overseas territory of the United Kingdom? I believe that is how it's Constitution states it. In the 1977 riots, when the government lost control, they brought in British paratroopers, as well as hundreds of police from the Bahamas and Nassau, although it wasn't until the US Marines were sent in that peace was established.

I remember a show around 1978 where a well-meaning dealer tried to explain that trading my Classics 43 for a run of X-Men 100-115 was foolish and if I was still around in twenty years I'd regret it. He said there were tens of thousands of Xbooks and he didn't see them keeping their popularity. A few years later, the same dealer was saying early Teen Titans would duplicate the success of the X-Men. Everyone has opinions, and the truth of it is that no one knows the future. All you can do is study the past and try to apply the lessons learned. I have had some great advice from many people in the last forty years but no one in 1988 suggested stockpiling Tales to Astonish 13, and in the go-go 90s, no one was pushing NM 98 as the book to have. NM 87 had all the buzz and some thought 100 would have legs but I honestly don't recall anyone clamoring for cases of NM 98.

Yes, it is a shame I didn't think I'd need to produce photographic evidence fifty years from that moment, although if I had I'm sure you'd say they were photoshopped. I've offered my evidence. Other than trying to discount my memory, do you have any evidence they weren't distributed in Bermuda? Perhaps a photo or two of your own ?

I was in Bermuda the summer of 1975 and then for two weeks in the summer of 79 and the two shops in Hamilton that sold comics all had the stamps on them. I didn't buy any in 1975 because the issues they had were all two or three months old. It caused a problem because when I went back to NY I had missed out on the summers issues and had to track them dow,. No easy feat in the era before comic shops. As far as Jamaica goes, in my two visits there I saw no American comics, but the late great Peter Tosh had a comic book collection and there were many of these books in it. Most things in Jamaica seemed imported from England and Europe rather than the US. I saw a bunch of english rock mags at a studio I visited so I am assuming the distribuors were English. I'll admit that is circumstantial but that the comics sold in those stores in Bermuda came from England is not. In 75 I scoured the island for shops and I'm pretty sure those were the only two stores that carried new comics, and no one knew anything about a place with back issues. It was easier to find reggae music than back issue comics, and possesion of reggae was a crime at the time. When I went back in 79, nothing had changed as far as comics or music.It was strange. The clubs could play soca, or calypso, but still no reggae. They had a strange hybred they called goombay that sounded a lot like reggae but somehow got past the censors. These days, the Soca/Reggae Festival seems to have supplanted tnhe Bermuda Jazz fest as the big music festival.

What is misleading about it? Did DC change the cover prices as Marvel Did? Is that price not hand stamped on ? Were these books not only sold in England, but also in Bermuda and Jamaica? What did I say that you find misleading? If you were at an American convention and the guy next to you pulled this book out of a box and asked you what the stamp was- what do you say?

You aren't trying to sell an investment to most people. Most people won't pay a million dollars for any comic, even if they somehow had a million dollars. To have a successful auction, all you need is two people who really want it. It doesn't matter that most comic collectors are turned off by autographed books, if that is true. What matters is there is a niche for them and people who like and collect them have been shown to pay premiums for the books. Why should I care if 99.9% of the hobby hates a book, as long as that small minority who likes it will pay for it. While I wouldn't put all my money into signed copies of DK1, I'd certainly buy one if the price was right. I'm pretty sure it will still be in demand fifty years from now. I can't say the same for most comics. of that era.

I think this is done with books that won't get a 9.4 or better. Rip out the insert( carefully) and submit it. Throw away the useless comic.

That book was originally sold in England, or perhaps Bermuda, Jamaica, or the Bahamas. While Marvel actually printed the British price cover price on the cover, DCs and Charltons had the british price handstamped on the books.

That a comic about a tv series that got canceled wasn't worth a premium spot in the lineup. That bag is from 1975 or 76. Star Trek was long canceled and the movies were still on the proverbial drawing board.

I have two guides to Hot Wheels that Krause put out but they are far from being definitive. I have more than enough run of the mill Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars to sell before I get to the rare stuff. I just bought a collection of Matchbox military vehicles that came with a bunch of 1/72 and 1/144 WW2 tanks. Some of the Matchbox are from the late 1950s, but they are all loose and have some wear on them. Some are from the 1990s so I imagine they came from various collections.

Very nice. One of the things I like about collecting 1/64 and 1/72 vehicles is you can display an awful lot in one display case.

Hot Wheels can be tricky when they are not in their packs. Many models have been re-released multiple time and many later releases look very much like the originals. A car may say 1967 Hong Kong on the bottom but have been made in China in 2020. I''ve seen auction houses selling 21st century repros as originals. Some of the Original 16 that I have on display are true originals and some are reproductions and 99% of people can't tell them apart. The originals are worth hundreds and the repros possibly $10.

Thats what I was hoping but I have not found any values yet. The Fuji mail aways were supposed to be rare and expensive but I tried an auction with a $19.99 minimum and got no bids. The same estate sale yielded some unusual Pepsi brand delivery trucks I can't find online. I spent a few hours researching them but then some new stuff came in and those got put on trays, shrink-wrapped and put in a bin until I have time.

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I have the original 16, and copies of the ones I collected myself. My originals are long gone except for one Woody in really bad shape. I collected and played with them until 1971 and then for a few years I'd buy an odd ball one if I liked it. I remember buying a Good Humor truck at Toys R US but it wasn't until I moved to Vegas that I bought large amounts of them. I've no idea how many I have, except it is too much and I'd love to unload at least half of them. I doubt I have many rare ones, but some of the variations I have seen uncommon. For example- I have a tray of ambulances that all have Columbia Childrens Hospital on the side. I've seen lots of this ambulance being sold but none with this logo. I imagine it may have been a special order/promo/giveaway but I'm just guessing. I also have several dozen that were supposed to be Fuji film mail away orders. I like the modern Marvel ones, especially the Alex Ross ones. I have a Captain America AirFlow van that is off the charts. I just wish they would market larger versions of the original redlines. I'd love to display 12 inch Twin Mill or Demon.

It's a silly money grab.

Eclipse did a really nice point of display poster and ran a contest where if customer wrote in and said he saw the poster in a shop, both the shop and the person who wrote in got a smaller matted version of the poster. From what I was told, less than 500 of these were sent out, but that seems pretty low.

Any of this ring a bell? Posted June 15, 2018 (edited) So I thought I would get peoples view on the issue I have with buying an investment comic First of all I have over 5k comics in my collection and have been collecting for over 25 years, so I’m not just in it for the money (just to try and stop an potential abuse). Secondly this is aimed at people who have views on future investment values (just to try and stop the “I collect what I like and don’t worry” repliers) Once every few years I splash out and buy a key comic at a reasonable price specifically aimed at the future value as part of my investments pot, anywhere between $1k and $10k. Because of my choices and the prices increases seen in the last decade or so I’ve been fortunate enough to bank quite a bit with buys such as AF15, FF1, Hulk1, WD1, TMNT1, XM1 etc. This time I have about $7k tops to spend. The 3 I’m looking at are either TOS39, JTM 83 or ASM 1. All 3 are safe bets and cant see them going down, but what do you think is the best value. Prices are raising and I don’t want to hang around too much. I’m looking at holding on to these at least 10 years so its all about the long haul not what film is coming out next year. For me it’s all about if its a key issue, an important established character and scarcity. I am however open to other suggestions?

The guy wants us to share our best investments but won't bother to tell us about the 5,000 books he has recently bought. It doesn't seem like a fair exchange of information.

It's only the sounds of the low spark of high heeled boys.

I believe it falls in the "What I have rocks, what I don't have sux" grouping. To paraphrase Mick Jagger- You can't be a man because you don't collect the same books as me.

Book is sold.

Three years ago, you had 5,000 books and were planning on selling the top ones. What sort of books have you been buying up since you last posted. It seems like your collection had doubled since then. What have you been buying? Any photos of this magnificent collection?

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I don't know if it is real or fake, but with so many bad real signatures and so many good fakes, I will not pay much of a premium for an unwitnessed signature. That signature,to me, looks like Stans signature from a time when signing the splash page was most common. I'm not an expert and am speaking only for myself but I would not pay extra for that book. My sister used to forge her friends signatures on school notes and such. She would turn the signature so intead of going east-west, it was going north to south and copy the line as if it were a work of art, not a signature. She was pretty good at it but I like to think she retired soon after high school.