• When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.

shadroch

Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    53,809

  • Joined

 Content Type 

Everything posted by shadroch

  1. shadroch
    I think Batman and Supes not being on the cover hurts., as does the bad guy. A Giant Starfish? Oh my. Get me my brown pants.
  2. shadroch
    As a fifteen year old, Rima was one of the few DCs I bought. Almost passed on the first issue because of the Kubert art.
  3. shadroch
    Depending on the year, it might be Comic Code related. Can't be showing vampires in a positive light?
  4. shadroch
    When I first dealt with DW, I got the impression they were newbies making newbie mistakes and they would either learn or get out of the business. That was over ten years ago. I no longer give them the benefit of the doubt. At best, they are incompetent, but I now suspect they know exactly what they are doing.
  5. shadroch
    Most indications are that the smaller states will reopen weeks, if not months before many of the big ones. I'd imagine the North East and the West Coast combined account for a very substantial portion of Diamonds business. If a shop in Alabama is open, but one in NYC is closed, what do you do? Diamond is walking blindfolded through a minefield. They can't make a misstep.
  6. shadroch
    Worst cover ever.
  7. shadroch
    If it ain't broke...... I ,for one, have no problem with it. I don't buy a lot of GA, but don't see the three combined as an issue. With that said, if enough people want to break it down I'm good with that too.
  8. shadroch
    Sea Monkeys. I believe they were some sort of shrimp brine that would grow for a few weeks . John Glen took some to space with him in the late 1990s.
  9. shadroch
    What you seem to be looking for is books that have broken out price wise from the books surrounding them. That doesn't make them " keys" ,as much as it just shows they are in higher demand. Key Comics has a very useful site that breaks these down pretty well, but it's a pay as you go site. I think its around $2 a month.
  10. shadroch
    What I collect rocks. What you collect sux. A lesson I learned in fifth grade. Imagine having the complete set of 1-44 Matchbox cars, including the rare Blue Rolls Royce and moving to a neighborhood where Hot Wheels ruled.
  11. shadroch
    If you weren't going to take their advice, why pay for it in the first place?
  12. shadroch
    As opposed to someone spending hundreds or even thousands on a price variant of a 1970s Marvel reprint book like Kid Colt 214 or a Sgt. Fury? a
  13. shadroch
    Mycomicshop has a similar book, by Castrillo and also from 1996 for $2, but not that exact one.
  14. shadroch
    CGC certainly appears to be winning the Newton Ring war. Neither of their competitors can come close to duplicating this CGC exclusive.
  15. shadroch
    There used to be a diner/comic shop in Jackson Hole, and a tattoo/comic shop in Vegas. Does anyone remember the comic shop that was located inside an advertising office on about the 90th floor of the Empire State Building?
  16. shadroch
    So buy more books.
  17. shadroch
    I think the relationship between Marvel and Heroes World needs to be examined. I'll note that the original name of the business was The Super Hero Shop but they were forced to change it to Hero's World when Marvel and DC were able to jointly trademark the word Super Hero.
  18. shadroch
    Its an incredible resource if you use it right. If a book is in stock and has no yellow consignment boxes, odds are its not in demand. Some prices are whack, but that doesn't matter. Lots of yellow means high demand. High demand makes keys.
  19. shadroch
    Try mycomicshop.com. If nothing else, you can see which books have broken out price wise from their neighbors.
  20. shadroch
    Heroes World was a retail shop that rather quickly grew to about a dozen stores before it morphed into a major distributor.
  21. shadroch
    Someone mentioned they thought the Marvel UK editions had brighter covers but I've never noticed any difference. When I had my shops in the 1980s, UK Marvels sold at substantial discounts, if they sold at all. I thought I had scored when I picked up a bunch of Byrne X-Men with pence prices but couldn't move them.
  22. shadroch
    In coins, the early runs have the best detail, so I'd assume it works the same with printed stuff. I'd be shocked if they didn't follow the same order each and every time. It is a process, not some wily nily operation.
  23. shadroch
    Semi-key? If 10% of a run can be considered key, I'd put it in that grouping. 161/162 always sold for a small premium without Jigsaw.
  24. shadroch
    161, early Nightcrawler app.
  25. shadroch
    Along a similar vein, I recently obtained a deeded one square inch of the Yukon Territory. It was a promotional giveaway from the old Sgt. Preston television show. The deed is the actually bigger than the plot.