shadroch

Years ago, I remember reading this, perhaps in a fortune cookie "Find a job you love, and you'll never work another day in your life." What a crock of Shiite. I had tremendous passion for every job I had my entire adult life, but eighteen months in retirement, I'm still coming to terms with just how much I worked. I'm finally getting away from feeling guilty for doing nothing.

Saw It today, and really enjoyed it. I don't read anything about movies and try to avoid online trailers so I went in fresh. 3:45 showing was 95% sold out and I ended up having to sit in the second row, on the right facing the screen. Guy next to me had a giant pretzel, a personal pizza, a bucket of popcorn and a giant soda. That must have set him back $30. Place sells 12 ounce draft beers for $9.50 Third movie I've used my Moviepass for.

Give a fool enough rope.....

First I've ever seen them. Very nice. Are you a pro?

Looking through these today, I think I might have undergraded many of them. From about 117 on, there are a number of candidates for slabbing and possible 9.6+s. On the downside, 108-112 are in the 7.5-8.0 range. Been awhile since I had a buy like this.

I'm sorry, but I think this whole thing stinks, and this nonsense about being already sold to a boardie only deepens my suspicion.

I just paid my policy today. I recently added a safe and spoke to an underwriter to see if it qualified for a discount. It didn't as it isn't 350 pounds. I asked her about this and she wasn't sure., especially as I have a collectors policy, not a dealers. Offered to connect me to an underwriter but I wasn't that interested. The $328 a year I spend on it is a great investment, as far as I'm concerned.

Does insurance, such as CIA, protect a seller in such a situation?

Closed the deal. 101-300, plus X Factor 1-43 for $1300. Then he had a short box of Bronze,, early Copper, best was a NM She Hulk 1 and a couple of Moon knight 1s. $200, so $1500 for everything. Pretty sure I will hold the101-125 and move the rest.

Someone has to ask this. What were you thinking bringing $30,000 worth of comics to a meeting with strangers in a fast food parking lot?

MCS has them pretty, pretty, high.

Cant cherry pick. It's one of the three. I'd love to buy up to 150, but that's not an option.

Thanks. Do the rest move? I know 101-110 and 141-142 sell well, but not sure about the rest.

How are these things selling? I have a chance to buy a supposed OO collection of 101- 300, but he is giving me three options, So I can buy 101-176, or 101-200 or all of them. He graduated HS in 1975, and bagged all the books after buying them from a comic shop, but didn't board them until many years later. A lot of 9.2-9.4s but few 9.8 candidates. Do these still move fairly well? He wants what I think is a pretty fair price for them. My thought is to skip the 201-300 run, although he is only asking $125 for that part if I buy the others. Any advice?

I've found a lot of photos of him and famous people ,circa late 1980s, and several of him in a tux holding an Emmy. Photos of him and friends inside the hall during rehearsals and such, and a couple of him standing by a limo outside a film studio. I'm amazed there is so little on him on the web.

The Chicago team in the WFL was known as The Fire. By the way, My son and his fiancé are on their way to Orlando where they will either hunker down in the Villages at my Uncles place or drive north depending on the path of the storm.

Anyone, anywhere.

Anyone, no matter where they live, that has a sizable amount of their net worth tied up in a collection and doesn't have it insured is playing with fire.

The money I donate is a pie, and I seriously doubt a lost comic collection will get even a sliver of a slice. I don't recall us ever raising money for lost comics. It would be nice to have such a luxury, but life has a funny way of getting in the way.

The Invaders big little book is from the late 60s. That and the modern Flash comic simply don't belong in the group.

If this was offered at an estate sale for $500, I'd pass but I'm sure it would sell. Much more than that, and it's iffy. For insurance purposes, I'd go $1,000.

I found an old gmail account. I'm thinking of writing to it. It would be great if he were alive, and if he consented to popping up here. TGTCF was so much more than the Ebay of the day.

I have stuff out at a number of consignment/ thrift shops in the Vegas Valley. All of them have terms that go something like this- shop gets 30% for a sale in first sixty days, fifty percent next sixty days, eighty percent for the sixty days after that. After six months, consigned goods becomes property of store. It's the consigners responsibility to keep track. I rotate stuff between stores every two months. I had one argument over a sale I was charged 50% on when I thought it was 30%, but it was a $5 purchase that sold for $75 and the shop had sold a bunch of stuff for me. I've signed receipts with such terms.

Do you have any information on that?

One of the most influential people in the hobby in the 1970s, he founded The Buyers Guide to Comic Fandom, which morphed into The Comic Buyers Guide after he sold. He also published a number of Golden Age reprints under the DynaPubs label. These were mine and many others first exposure to Golden Age material. I might not have been able to splurge for $200 for a copy of Action 1, but $3 postpaid for a copy of Worlds Fair Comics was doable. He seems to have faded into obscurity, all but forgotten by the hobby he had a major role in starting.