shadroch

I own shares of Harley. It doesn't mean I have a Harley, or even that I can walk into a dealership and get some special privilege. I own stock in REITs around the nation and the world. All I have to show for it is a little piece of paper and a check that comes on a regular basis.

Marvel Comics was a minor part of Martin Goodman's publishing empire. In 1963, it appears that Stan worked alone, before he was given Flo Stienberg as his Gal Friday. They worked out of an office that included mens magazines, mens adventure magazines, romance magazines, crosswords magazines, ect, ect. It was a few years before Marvel got it's own dedicated office with Stan in one room and Flo becoming his gatekeeper. Even then, Goodman's magazines produced much more income than the comics did. I read that in 1964, one of their monthly crossword puzzles outsold all of Marvels eight comics combined. Magazines sold for double or triple the price of a comic, and were higher on the pecking order. Magazine Management, the parent company of Marvel took up the second floor of its building, with a few big shots having offices and the other departments worked in a huge open spaced area with self built room dividers separating them. Fabulous Flo was Stan's only help, but she also had to handle MMs switchboard during the regular girls lunch hour. The Mighty Marvel Bullpen existed only in the minds of Stan and his loyal followers.

Ditko went to the office once or twice a month. Stan made it seem like the artists worked in the bullpen, but Jack and Ditko worked from home, as did John Romita.

Metropolis used to publish a theoretical blue chip comic portfolio, and I'm sure they would attract investors in it if it actually existed, but how would they make any money?

The second of my three deliveries from Russia showed up yesterday. According to tracking, it was scanned May 1st in Russia and no further data is available. These products cost $9.00 landed or I can buy them from the exclusive North American distributor in New Jersey and pay $17 plus shipping. In the war to produce the finest toy soldiers, Russia has won , hands down. Whats funny is the packaging in Russian says these toys are intended for boys ages 5-9, with an after production sticker in English saying- this is not a toy and is intended only for adult collectors. To the OP, your shipping cost will make or break your business. Study what your competitors offer and what the big boys do. Steve Geppi and Mile High Chuck owe much of their success to understanding logistics.

I've been waiting on a package from Russia since April 24th. Seller had said to look for it the first week in June. The last tracking had been May7th, in St. Petersburg. Yesterday it scanned in NY. From talking to a few of his regular buyers, delivery from Russia is taking 100 days or more, up from 40.

A lot depends on your passion. From a purely financial view, perhaps not, but how much would you pay for a job that you love?

You know CGC is serious when they bring out The Arseman.

I wish I had known that before I responded. I'm out of here.

It may be a minor thing, but Ditko refers to Sol Brodsky as Stans assistant. Sol was the Production Manager and had also worked with Steve cobbling together Daredevil #1 when the artist blew the deadline. It seems very dismissive. Ditko seems to have been a very difficult person to work with, although his long time editor at Charlton says the opposite. He was, and remains a mystery to me. Outside of Spiderman, I don't like his art at all. When he did some Rom stories, I almost stopped reading that book.

If someone cut a circle off the cover, I'd check the inside very carefully and count the pages.

Have you ever lugged a couple of long boxes of FBs around to do a show.? For numerous reasons, I now use half backs. The weight being one of the main reasons.

Unless you are using GA bags and boards, mylites fit in any box I've ever used. While different brands make different length boxes, the width seems pretty universal. The problem is 60 books won't fill a short box.

This is not the first time this has happened. A few years ago, a boardie bought a GA book from a major dealer. It turned out the interior didn't match the cover and he started a thread about it. Bottom line was the book was sent to CGC. At that point in time, several CGC bigshots were still posting so they almost certainly were aware of the very well read thread. A few months later, the graded book was posted. Everything was based on the cover, without any mention of the interior. Perhaps someone who can get the search engine to work can find the thread.

In my opinion, they graded the book as if it was coverless. It's not restored. It's not an apparent grade. I see it as a coverless book with a bonus replica cover. I'm sure others may disagree.

I used to own a copy of that Batman and am almost certain my copy had a plain white circle, not one with text.

My Cub Scout group went to the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant. After the tour, we were allowed to exchange one of our dimes for a dime that was exposed to whatever and glowed in the dark. I slept with that dime on my nightstand a few inches away, for many a year.

I'm not sure how you wanted them to grade it. They called it coverless and assigned it a .05 I'm fine with it.

Follow out of state dealers home from shows.

I imagine Schomburg handed these in in B&W and someone else colored them. Did he want all the masked and robed to be klansmen and some hack decided to make them green? I would think that representing klansmen as bad guys wasn't a great business decision in the South. This was only about twenty years from the Klans height of popularity in the mid-1920s.

mycomicshop.com lists the contents of every book and will tell you which ones have pinups. If these were all books bought off the newstand and he took one pinup out, chances are he took more. Sadly, those pinups can end up costing a fortune

I wish I had time to watch random strangers opening packages on the internet.

What other books did you get graded ? There are a lot of SA Marvels that have pinups, many a teenage boy hung them evidently.

I'm 61, six months from Social Security. I got the set in 1965, after it had sat in my Uncles basement for many years. He'd bought it second hand for his son ,who was fifteen years older than me. It was missing two volumes, including the first one which would have had the publication date. An educated guess was it was from the mid to late thirties.

My childhood set was so old that when looked up World War One, it wasn't even listed. That confused me because many things after WW1 were covered, such as the Depression and the New Deal. Eventually, I found it listed under The Great War.