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You pay tax when you buy the book, unless you have a resale license. You collect tax when you sell the book.

3.0, maybe a very generous 3.5.

Went a bit overboard today at a local auction. When the smoke cleared, I had four professionally framed Alex Ross prints. JLA: Secret Origins, Good Vs Evil, Mythology; Superman and Mythology: Batman. Four DC statues that were never displayed. Six sealed Omnibi, four DC Archives, a Hawkman statue, three DC Absolutes, a Wonder Woman Omni, A Slipcover Crisis on Infinite Earth Set with an Alex Ross Dustjacket, a bunch of signed Frank Miller CBLDF stuff, A Dell Zorro Archive. and an assortment of minor purchases. Lots of lookers but no serious competition. Most of the online bidders were turned off by the auction house wanting $175 per print for shipping, with no combined shipping on art or statues. I got three of the prints for around $200 each, just about the cost of the frames. The JLA one cost me a bit more. https://www.proxibid.com/aspr/Collector-RARE-JLA-Secret-Origins-Limited-Edition-Fine-Art-Print-Issued-in-2003-With-COA-98of-250/37567233/LotDetail.asp?lid=37567233&rfpb=0#Top

Fun read. I wish someone had kept a contemporary diary of the events.

Glad they turned out to be real.

I've seen shops that charge sales tax on discounted back issues, so I'm not sure just what the law actually says. When I do small shows in Nevada, I pay sales tax on my total sales. To start figuring out what part of a $3 sale of a comic that was $1.25 new is subject to sales tax would be a book keeping nightmare. Some shops here say TPBs aren't periodicals, others say they are.

In forty five years of collecting, it's never come up. Not sure there is much demand for it. Interesting question though.

My Mother was born in 1931, moved to America in 1937 and often says she had no idea that word was offensive until the late 1950s. She says and Negro went interchangeable in her social circle, which didn't include any of "them".

It's funny, I just bought a box of TPBs from a local flea market vendor. He had them three months, was selling them for $5 each and unloaded the stock to me for $1.50 each. Included was a Secret Wars 2 Omnibus that sells on ebay for an average price over $150. Had eight Dr Who TPBs that seem to sell for $10-15 on the bay. Also was a Conquest Omni that goes for about $30. He also sold me some oversized( treasury sized but thinner) comics I'd never seen before. Superman/FF, a JLA and a Batman . I'll recoup my money on the SW Omni. Going to offer the rest here for a nice discount.

I hope you did your due diligence. There are reprints of those issues with .35 cent prices. They are almost worthless in 4.0.

It's funny but I have few memories of actually opening my first store. everything was a blur and a rush and I still opened sooner than I should have. One memory I do have is getting a UPS box from Bud Plant, with 20 X-Men 176, the current copy. Cover price was sixty cents and with shipping, I paid 82 cents each. Learned quickly that comics are heavy and its the shipped,all in price that matters. Nothing else.

Mcs and mile high buy surplus new stock. Don't consider them mistakes as much as learning experiences. How long from the time you get the keys until you open?

Having comics delivered before you open isn't good business. If you get the keys on the 3rd, what date do you think you'll be open? A disappointing beginning. You have to be more careful. Rookie mistakes will kill you.

I think mycomicshop prices their books pretty fair. Look at their website and you'll see what books go for in various grades. A word of warning- some of their listings are consignments and some consigners are, shall we say, extremely optimistic about what they can get.

Pretty sure the IF- Sabertooth one has an MVS. It's been awhile since I handled a raw one.

Some of those books have pinups, which are often missing. Count the pages if everything else checks out. I'd be shocked if he were the original owner so h may not be aware they might be missing.

Where did you come up with this theory?

I found a coverless copy at a NY show about ten years ago. Was going to get Fedora Man to do one of his excellent cover reproductions but never did.

I think the CGC guidelines are written by the same guy who wrote the WWE record book.

Sounds like it's coming together nicely. You might want to think about having a soft opening with a Grand Opening party a week or so later. Consider the first two weeks a preview or shakedown cruise. One time saver and inventory helper is to price cheaper books using a sticker system. Purple stickers are $1, orange are $2, red are $3, etc,etc. Every two months or so,change the shape or size of the label. If you start with quarter inch round stickers, then switch to square stickers, you'll be able to easily identify stale inventory. Best of luck.

Great old gal. Rest in Peace.

How many staples on the Avengers #3 two sets or four?

I hate to say it but in my shop, I culled out Whitmans when people bought in collections. I kindly and gently explained that they were reprints and had no collector value. As late as 2005, I returned a bunch of Batbooks I bought on ebay as several were not first prints and two were Whitmans.

Joe must be 90 by now. I went to school with one of his nephews who wasn't the least bit impressed with his Uncles profession. I picked him up one day after Spring Break and we passed" Uncle Joes" house getting back to the highway but he wouldn't stop. He lived about a block away from the house he grew up in, in a pretty small town about an hour from NYC.

If you don't want to throw them out, but don't care about the money, just sit in front of the local store and give them out. You could try handing them out in front of a high school, but not if you aren't squeaky clean.