shadroch

If the stamp indicates the comic was paid for, then an unstamped MJ was possibly never distributed or was an unsold copy that wasn't destroyed. I assume there was one distributor for all the bases, if not worldwide, then at least regionally. I never paid attention to MJs or stamps, but what I do remember was that the Navy Exchange in Mitchell Field and the newsstand at St. Albans Naval hospital got their comics a week or more later than the PX at Ft. Totten. Never got an Mj or National sales comic from Totten, only from the two Navy posts.

VP, with near perfect play can get you close to even. Add in cashback and comp club points and you turn the game positive. The real money is in exploiting casinos loyalty clubs. Not too difficult to do, once you learn how clubs work. In some cases, losing $1,000 today will get you $50 in freeplay and a meal each week for a year. Blackjack is exploitable, but VP is your best shot. Lots of double, triple and even ten times points day in Vegas. Lots of over 55 specials as well. Today, I'm eating lunch in a place that gives a free lunch for cycling $20 thru a video poker machine. Nice fried clams, fries and a beer for an expected loss of less than fifty cents.

That's pretty ironic ,seeing how I make my living beating casinos out of their ill gotten gains.

I picked up a Prince Valiant mounted statue that was dropped and broken in about six places. All nice clean breaks. Can anyone suggest the best glue to put it back together again.

Run of Captain Marvel 3-11, a 6.0 Shazam 28 and another that is about3.0., 35 X-Men from 144-195, wolverine 2,3, Special Marvel Edition 16 in about 6.0.

I'm back. Not as many books as I hoped for, but it worked out much better than you folks were thinking. I'll call it a long single, with the possibility of getting into second. Nice house, in a nice neighborhood, nice seller. Easy to work with in person. he showed me one room that had lots of comics, very disorganized but nothing caught my eye. Next room had 30 new BCW short boxes, piled two high. Told me to pick any one and go through it. After about fifteen possible dollar box books, was a decent BA run. Roughly 35 Marvel twenty and twenty five cent books, VFish overall. Couple twelve cent DCs, some offbrand twelve cent comics, Wolverine Mini #3 in real nice shape, dozen thirty five-forty cent FFs and Defenders, couple of early DH Star Wars books, ,bunch of fodder, more fodder, five twelve cent Hulks in VGish, couple of Watchmen and Crisis issues , bunch of NM X-Men pre-200. He wanted $60. I took it, partially because it had a brand new BCW box . I used to use a better box than BCW but those are a fraction of an inch longer and don't fit onto the shelves properly. An ice breaker. Picked another box and pretty much the same, less Defenders and bunch of C.A. Conan's This box he asked $50 and I took it. Then he said to pick any two boxes, sight unseen for $100. I hesitated and he said any four for $150. When I agreed, he said he was going to have to finish another time. I paid $260 for six short boxes. Now I get to really examine them and see if it was worth it. 95% bagged and boarded with maybe third in Mylites or mylar.

Nice.

He's not a new seller. He's a long time mail order/small show dealer who is downsizing from a large house to an apartment. From our conversation, I'd be shocked if the stuff is priced sky high. My biggest concern is he bought up a couple of formerly hot books as examples of what he has.

Heading there now. Not expecting to buy all 5,000. It's a 25 minute ride, but I have some free play to cash in on that side of town anyway.

No, you don't get to make an offer on the box. He names the price and you accept it or go home.

A guy I know from the auction circuit gave me the number of a former shop owner who is piecing out his collection/inventory as he is downsizing . Had a long phone conversation with him, and we have pretty similar backgrounds as far as comics go. He started reading a year after I did, and while I had a few periods of non-collecting/buying, he had gone straight through. In fact he still reads new material. So we have a meet up scheduled for tomorrow. He has about thirty short boxes he definitely wants to move, and maybe a few better things, as well. Here is the thing, though. The way he wants to do this is to show me a box, and name a price for it. If I like the price, I buy it and we move to box 2. Each box is a different transaction and when I turn down a box, we are done. He seems surprisingly adamant about that. His way of preventing being cherry picked. He said after we agree on a number of the boxes, he'll name a price for everything left. I'm intrigued by the idea. Very curious to see how it pans out. He says it totals just under 5,000 books, with at least 20% being SA Marvel, 30% BA Marvel, a decent amount of 12-35 cent DCs, the rest almost all from 78-90. A few early Trade paperbacks- . No Mega Keys in this lot, and he said most of the SA stuff isn't HG. I'm not really looking for 5,000 books just now, but timing can be everything.

They might have sent a few copies out to get feedback and reviews. It's not unheard of. I have a couple Apple/Warp copies that were made only to get a trademark. Could be that, as well.

Pennywise and pound foolish isn't much better than drunk and stupid.

I'll appreciate any and all nice gesture in my directions. Anyone with spare gestures,PM me for shipping info

Is this yours or did your get the image off the net? If it's yours, I'd love to hear how you managed to get it.

Just bought a 1962 Montgomery Ward wish book. It's a year or two older than the ones I remembered but many, if not most of the same toys.

I've got to hand it to you. You have no idea what you are talking about, but just keep posting stuff anyway, making it up as you go along. Most people would have caught on by now but you just keep plugging away.

No. that's not it. This guy is amazing. He's of an age where he wasn't allowed in certain establishments in his hometown and dropped out of school to join the Army. Went to school on The GI Bill and joined the Navy. Spent 26 years working with electronics and retired. He and his wife took in a foster child and twenty years later has nine adopted Special Needs children and fostered dozens more. He's going to school to learn how to write requests for grants so he and his son can open a ranch for urban Special Children to spend a few weeks in the country. Anyway, he never read comics until his first foster son.

You are going to go far in this hobby.

I have a seventy one year old in my class. When I mentioned I collect comics, he said he did too. He told me he had almost six hundred, some of them very old. When asked what his oldest book was, he thought it might be The Death of Superman. Or maybe Lobo 1.

Disney will simply hurt Netflix enough to be able to scoop it up at a decent price. Engulf and Devour. Rinse and Repeat.

Suspend the sale. Keep posting and driving people nuts.

That's about $7 a week in fees. Hope they didn't blow it on Monday morning Starbucks

I'll take the stamps if still available.

I'm comfortable at 5.0.