shadroch

The Direct Market existed since around 1974, with Star Reach. If it makes you happy to call the books Early Direct Market copies, go for it. Whitmans sound better and is commonly accepted. I've better windmills to tilt after. Enjoy your crusade.

I often get convention programs as part of collections I purchase. I'm sure many dealers do. If you can post a picture of the program, someone may recognize it as something wallowing in their excess inventory.

It's a name that has already caught on. You can be the smartest person in the room and try to educate people or you can simply accept what is common usage. Choose your battles well.

The Monitor, from the original Crisis.

Backing boards go a long way towards preventing spine rolls.

That's just wrong. An witnessed signature does not disqualify a book from a blue label. It dqs a yellow label.

They were groundbreaking but also an example of books that didnt age well. Some great covers in that run.

These came out when I'd cut back my comic buying and I rarely bought Green Lantern but I remember picking one up and being bored at the time. Hal and Ollie spent most of the book sitting around a fire moaning about stuff. I didn't read the whole series until the deluxe versions came out in the 80s. When I picked up one of these recently, I thought I'd enjoy it.

I'd simply note that the photos are stock file photos, and that the book you get may be a different 9.8.

I read a couple of the Denny Oneil/Adams Green Lantern run and was very disappointed.

Poor woman obviously ran out of fuel while detouring to the ATM.

He was from something like the Consumer Protection Agency. I'm glad he came by, I never had given safety much thought. Fire protection and exits, yes, but not thinking about selling something unsafe. Swords, knives, brass knuckles, baseball bats, etc all, can be sold no problem, as they never hurt someone, but that 1970s crib ...... The weather looks good for a sequel this weekend.

I wasn’t selling any. It’s things like old cribs and car seats. Mostly old baby stuff. Only thing he warned me about was the old pre war lead soldiers but they are marketed to adults.

So I get to my property about 11:15AM and one of my guys tells me a guy in a suit was here and just left.Said he was from Consumer Affairs. Imthinking I cant believe the woman complained and especially cant believe they responded so quick.About a half hour later this man walks in that looks like he could be a linebacker. Im 6'3ish and he .was a good bit taller. He introduces himself and says he is the Field Agent for the US Consumer Agency in the Tucson area and is here to give me a list of recalled items I shouldn't be selling. Says he gets down this way once every few months but gives me a number to call if I have questions about a specific item and left behind a couple of pamplets.

I'm assuming somebody put it down where they shouldn't. I was pretty unorganized, but it was by design.

When I was cleaning up, there was a WW1 trench knife missing. I remembered a guy looking at it and tried to remember where else he had been looking. I also was thinking about is it worth confronting someone who you know has an incredibly dangerous weapon on him. As I was adding some new stock today, the knife turned up.

My experience with 60s Marvel and DC UK editions is they sell for substantial discounts than their US copies. Perhaps in super high grade they bring more but most collectors don't want these. At some point, Marvel started publishing separate UK magazine's, often in B&W.

Are they American comics or their British cousins? In any event, Marvels and DCs from the 1960s have value in almost any condition. Speculation is meaningless until we see a list or photos.

A stranger is simply a friend you haven't met yet.

I decided to blow out a bunch of merchandise in a sale in my side yard this weekend. I did alright but had two very strange encounters. I've owned this property since the end of May so when someone showed up looking for the old owner, I explained this to the seemingly normal fifty year old women. To my shock, I'm hit with an F bomb and called an Fi g insufficiently_thoughtful_person. Woman says she was here last week and wants to return something that doesn't work. I explain the store wasn't open and she starts chanting something under her breath and tells me my store is now cursed. Tells me she would have settled for a refund but now I have earned her scorn and she is going to go on Facebook and tell the world her story. Other one I kind of feel bad about. I had a bunch of Barbies on a lower shelf, marked $5 each. On the upper she were some collectible Barbies with a sign asking people not to handle them. So this grandmother type is looking at the $5 ones,and reaches up to bring two of the upper shelf ones down. I see this and tell her the ones in her hands are expensive. She gets all indignant and tells me she is a collector and knows what they are worth. It's been a long weekend and I was a bit impatient with her so when she asks how much they are, I tell her $50 each, figuring that will end it. She counters at $40 but I don't feel like dealing with her so I tell her I can't do better as they are on consignment. She goes into this rant about how it is illegal to sell consigned items at a yard sale and how I need special permits to sell consigned items in Arizona. I don't have time for this and pick the items up and say then I guess they aren't for sale then. She pulls out a $100 Bill and asks if I have change, that she will take the one for $50 but if I wasn't such a bully she'd have bought both for $100. At this point I was done and refused her money telling her if she wasn't such a pain, she could have had both for $50. Let's just say neither of us were happy. All in all, a reasonably successful first sale.

We can't have nice things because too many people throw dirt at anything slightly outside their comfort zone. Let's burn down the house, that way we don't have to worry about bedbugs.

We can't have nice things because too many people throw dirt at anything slightly outside their comfort zone. Let's burn down the house, that way we don't have to worry about bedbugs.

1) they are a lot more fun to do than listing hundreds of books to sell 2)they are a source for moving mid level stock.

I've run perhaps a dozen raffles and every one of them was one hundred percent square. Been involved in many charitable ones and only one gave the appearance of being fixed. On the other hand, I have seen numerous casino raffles that certainly seemed fixed. It's a shame people aren't more honest, but more of a shame people are so suspicious.

You end up with one $300 book AND nine others. Assuming the raffle wasn't one good book and 99 smurfs, you will probably end up with $400 worth of books.