shadroch

Turn several thousand Copper and Moderns into a couple dozen Silver Age books.

My store is quite slow, but I haven't entered new merchandise in two months. Planning an expanded one in Feb.

Sharks! South Side Sharks. S.S on a shirt doesn't really work.

Perfect stocking stuffers. I have three of these original stock certificates issued in 1967. Perfect Film and Chemical Corporation was Marvels parent company during Marvels Siver Age boom. They eventually renamed themselves Cadence. The Perfect Film certificates are for 100,18 and 16 shares. First responder gets choice of the three, etc,etc. These stock certificates have been cancelled and are only sold as collector items., and are in nice, but not mint shape. If they were comics I'd say VF+ or better PayPal only. $10 each shipped in the USofA $25 for the three.

On a related front, All State determined my losses of non-collectible items to be just over $6,000, with a depreciated value of $5200. I had a $1,000 deductible so they sent a payment of $2200 and are holding about $1900 that they release when I send receipts showing I've replaced some items. Shouldn't they send an itemized list of what they will pay for an item. I understand my five year old DVR isn't worth much , but how do I know how much they are allowing for the replacement? I expected a much more detailed summary from them. Have not submitted the list of comics to CIA yet. I thought I'd wait to see what AllState paid or didn't pay before going to my secondary. I filed the claim immediately, just have not submitted the inventory sheet yet.

CGC doesn't only grade the cover. Defects to the interior affect the grade. A book might have a 3.0 outer cover, a 6.0 inside cover but the interior book would get a 2.0 In a case like that, the assigned grade may differ than that given the covers alone.

I recently had a flood. All State paid for two boxes of modern comics, as well as the boxes, boards and elites. They also covered the comic drawer boxes my more expensive books were in. Collectors Insurance is covering the more valuable books. I took photos of the damaged books and simply used mycomicshops sell your comics tab to compile a list of the damaged books. In my case,I still had the books to photograph. I was told CIA has a method of determining fair market value. I didn't put in a price, only titles and conditions.

I don't get the Firestorm character. Is Jefferson still Firestorm, or did it die with Stein? Thought the concept was dumb in the 70s and my opinion hasn't changed. Really beginning to like this show, after thinking the first half of Season 1 was utter .

Use a mylite2 once and you are good forever. Use a poly bag and eventually you need to replace it. Labor alone makes that a bad choice. Always buy mylites and boards in bulk. Much cheaper per unit.

My $100,000 retirement fund just got gutted and cut in half. Should I take half of what I have left and buy the best $25,000 AF 15 I can find?

I wish they would.

That's when my lending on comics business takes off.

If I sell in the next recession, it will only be because real estate has dropped enough first.

First off ,they are short boxes, loosely packed. about 140 books in them. The six boxes yielded 850 books. About half is total . Three for a dollar fodder. I'm happy with the results, but won't buy the entire lot for the same price as it mostly duplicated stuff I already own. On the plus side, I got six brand new BCW short boxes, about fifty mylar4s that I will repurpose and at least 200 mylite2s I'll find use for. Bad side is it took about four hours to loosely organize it. If it is still there in six months, I'll buy again but first I need to move the stuff.

Many small publishers in the 40s/50s were little more than money laundering operations for the mob. You would have six or seven different companies working out of a single location, with a single receptionist and a single accountant but each company would "pay" them as if they were stand alone operations. The mob run companies would ship product to mob run distributors who would deliver them to mostly mobbed up newsstands. Remember, in the days before lotteries, people played numbers, and most newsstands took action as well s booking horse bets. In the early 1950s, The Senate started looking carefully at the mob and how it made money and also how it laundered its money, turning bad money into clean. Just as they were set to investigate the magazine distributorships relation to organized crime, many distributors declared bankruptcy, closed shop and disappeared, leaving behind shell company after shell company. Even after the industry supposedly got cleaned up, mob run distributors still ripped off comic and magazine publishers but sending in affidavits saying they destroyed the unsold product while selling it out the back door. Mile High 2 is the most egregious example, but it was down hundreds of times on smaller scales.

The much bigger story was the investigation into the mob that caused dozens, if not more of mob owned newsstand distributorships to simply close up shop and disappear overnight. Hard to publish books without distributors.

Easy thing would be to catalog it and send $1,000-$1500 a month to two or three consignment houses. After the work of organizing it, the monthly work will be minimal and you'll have steady income for several years.

Dancer is the best VP instructor out there, but that software is pretty dated. Lots of very popular games didn't exist back then.

I get sick every time I see this book. Back in 1986, I had a customer who wanted one and asked me to find it for him. Instead of simply taking a finders fee, I bought a book from Fantasia and sold it to him. Knowing what we now know of Fantasia, I assume the book had restored disclosure and I unknowingly sold a big ticket item for far more than it was worth.

I agree.

As a kid, my Dad would drop me off at the PX while he went grocery shopping. Killed the time reading magazines as I usually had the comics they had there already. Used to read Argosy and True Detective for hours on end, and Psychology Today had some amazing ads. I don't remember anyone stamping the occasional comic I bought.

It really doesn't bother me, except when I get in the car the next day and it smells of smoke from my clothes the night before, I realize how nasty it is.

Sadly, yes. Although more and more places are offering smoke free sections. I tend to play off hours so it doesn't really bother me that much.

You are not factoring in the $50 a week in free play. That's $2600, figure you lose 20%, so your $1,000 loss becomes $$2,000 in cash plus a meal. Would you lend someone $1,000 if they agreed to pay you back $45 and buy you lunch every week for a year?

Make a living? Some people do, I don't, but I don't need to. To me it's a fun part time job. In the end, I may clear $700-800 a month working maybe four hours a week. That's not gambling. That's just exploiting mailers and clubs. I might gamble another 3-4 hours a week. That's results are more choppy. There is actually very little risk involved. Lots of studying clubs and networking with other people, finding promotions and match play coupons..