shadroch

I attended a Silver Age meetup in Long Island in the mid 1990s. It was kool but it was pretty far from my house. The store that sponsored it ended up shutting down that location and while the new place was closer to me, the three guys who were the glue to the group stopped coming and it pretty much dissolved itself. I went to three meetings over six or seven months. Maybe ten years ago, my Mom was living in the Villages and she wante me to move there. She mentioned they had a comic collecting club but I never went to a meeting.

I remember sending money to a dealer upstate NY for a Conan 1 only to get a bunch of JLAs and a note the Conan was sold out. A week later I get a postcard that they have new inventory including a Conan 1 for $40. I'm pretty sure it would have been "sold out" again if I ordered it again.

This is a very interesting question. I thought about it and don't have an answer to it. I should, but I just don't remember it.

It was a Holiday Inn back then.

Thats what slabs are perfect for.

Throw it in a box and forget about it. Take $20 from the money you will save y not regrading it and buy something that will bring you joy.

I don't see anything wrong with cracking your books, as long as it doesnt involve breaking out PLODs and not disclosing it to prospective buyers. If you think they look better in mylars, break them out. Just be aware it is an expensive habit.

I keep my slabbed Avengers away from my raw ones. To me ,it is not a big deal but I know some folks are much more obsessive than me. I'd display a reprint or a photocopy before I started cracking slabs. I'm sure others will post with variant opinions.

So you can actually read the contents? Do people really do that?

There is always Myspace.

It's Dejavoodoo all over again.

You can tell when the person joined by looking at the boxes yo your left. Someplace there is a top posters list.

I've been investing in low grade SA Marvels for about 20 years. Without bragging, I'm pretty sure I have a good feel for the market and put out a lot of fairly low bids that don't pan out, but SA books I paid under $10 for now routinely sell for $30-$50. A few books turned into homeruns but almost all were solid doubles.

You already played that card a couple of hours ago.

Isn't the idea of being here to learn? I'm 48 years in the hobby and still learn things here.

I wasn't a huge Dr. Strange fan and was going to quit the series when he got his own title ut that cover blew me away. Captain Marvel #29 is my candidate for consideration.

Restoration wasn't considered a bad thing until CGC decided to use a different label and a bunch of obsessive comic geeks decided to call it the purple label of doom and over-reacted to it. Try explaining to an outsider why a single dot of touchup on a cover makes the book worth 85% less.

I don't know. Were you around when bugabbo used to create an id only to argue with himself?

The ten cent cover price lasted well over twenty years, but the page count was halved over that period. Most comics were 64 pages in the forties and were down to 32 when the price increased in the early 1960s.

Shill fight would be more accurate. It amazes me, even after all these years, that people don't have the balls to say things under their own names. Do they think coming on as an obvious shill is going to make their point stronger?

Say what?

Sure, you can apply heat so the books structure is affected at the molecule level, and subect the book to ungodly pressure and that isn't restoration, but trim off a microspot of bad paper and the book is ruined for ever.

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Any ideas why DC didn't have much of a B&W line? Their Filipino artists would have rocked in magazine format. I wasn't too big on magazines myself. I found two huge boxes of them at a flea market for almost nothing around 1979 and thats how I got interested in them. My friend had a stack of Skywalds that I'd read but I never bought many new. I greatly preferred color comics to b&w magazines

Did you split a single transaction into two or more boxes? That seems to cause occasional delay and confusion. d