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RockMyAmadeus
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On 5/1/2024 at 2:21 PM, bc said:
Fellow Paper Boys Unite!
Delivered the now defunct Cleveland Press 7 days a week for about 3 years before we moved out of town during my 6th grade year. Had to do the weekly collections, which never really bothered me since the weather blows 6+ months a year in Cleveland and the sidewalks were seriously uneven. Hated the Sunday paper - the wagon would be plenty heavy. Grew my route to 4 city blocks by the end - think I pocketed a whopping $5 a week.
Moved to the country and got a job on a farm that paid $5 a day (plus food, drinks, horse riding), but it was real work.
-bc
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On 5/1/2024 at 1:21 PM, NoMan said:
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On 5/1/2024 at 12:29 PM, GeeksAreMyPeeps said:
It would be nice if Barry Windsor Smith would do a signing. I'd like to get some Valiant books signed without breaking the bank.
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On 5/1/2024 at 8:39 AM, MattTheDuck said:
Valley Times
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On 5/1/2024 at 8:24 AM, fast eddie said:
It's funny...... at the Atlanta comic show a few weeks ago, I mentioned I was a retired paperboy and would be good to give correct change to a dealer,,, the guy next to me piped in "I was a paperboy as well,,,I wonder how many of us were" Made me think about it a minute,,,, probably quite a few of us!
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On 4/27/2024 at 8:16 AM, NoMan said:
Did you know that was a game changer? Did you know to buy multiple copies?
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On 5/1/2024 at 5:49 AM, ThothAmon said:
Those of us from the hyborian age would like a 10,000 years and older choice please.
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On 4/30/2024 at 7:11 PM, comicjack said:
Can we lie on this poll
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On 4/30/2024 at 10:21 AM, DocGo said:
And this would be awful and put CGC on the same level as CBCS. I realize people really want to put their green labels in yellow but the Signature Series brand would effectively be destroyed. No one wants to squint to figure out if what they’re looking is witnessed or verified.
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/196369585945
Bid high, bid as much as you'd like. 18 on the census, 1 Sig Series. Just an absolute monster of a difficult book to find (I've never found one in the wild. And I've looked. Oh, how I've looked.)
Don't miss out! You could get one hell of a steal!
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On 4/26/2024 at 8:33 PM, BombTech02 said:
I know this is an older thread but does anyone know where I can buy one of these Spiral bound 30 Day of Night. Been looking in the wild but haven't found one. Thank you.
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On 4/27/2024 at 9:41 PM, paqart said:
So if someone tells me I don't know geometry because of a misunderstanding about the shape of a slab, he has to know geometry better? Look, RMA ruffled my feathers,
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On 4/27/2024 at 9:39 PM, Domo Arigato said:
STFU!
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On 4/27/2024 at 8:55 PM, paqart said:
Are you saying that isn't possible?
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Andrew. Allow me to break my "vow of silence", as it were, for a second, because you're taking some very aggressive shots at me, none of which are justified. When I first responded to your drawing, I had no idea that you had no idea how the mechanics of Gen 2 cases (which is what you have) worked, so I was reminding you...yes, with my "crude" drawing...that what you had drawn was physically impossible without A. popping another corner post, or B. (and infinitely less likely) warping and damaging the inner well and comic inside. Most people I know who spend $$$ on slabs have seen one or two cracked out, or have done it themselves, or at least watched a crackout video on the internet, to familiarize themselves with how the product they're putting so much trust in works. You don't need to crack a 4 or 5 figure slab to do that.
And now, you're angry...again...because you didn't understand what you were dealing with, and when someone gently corrected you, reminding you of the properties of the inner well (and not knowing you didn't know those properties)...with a picture, no less, which is about as non-confrontational as it gets...you immediately assumed bad faith, immediately assumed someone was "making a joke at your expense." But nothing could be further from the truth. I don't need to be "right" at the expense of others. No, I want everyone to be correct, so that everyone works from a position of knowledge.
I am a buyer AND seller of slabs. It is not only in my nature to want to be factually correct about the things that interest me, as a matter of personal pride, but it is in my business interests to make sure that misinformation about slabs doesn't proliferate. While everyone was praising your admittedly excellent drawing, they had missed the fact that there was a glaring error in it: the idea that a comic is not sealed into the inner well, and can simply be "tilted" and "pulled out" if one corner post is broken. That is not correct, for ANY generation of slab.
My goal wasn't to make you feel stupid. My goal was not to anger you. My goal was not to belittle you. My goal was not to "tweak" you. My meme about geometry was a very gentle poke about the physical impossibility of your drawing. My goal isn't...and I cannot emphasize this enough...to "shoo anyone away", but to make sure everyone goes into comics with KNOWLEDGE, because knowledge is power. People who know what they're doing are much, much less likely to be scammed, taken advantage of, or, as in your case, assume they're being taken advantage of when they're not.
My goal was to bring you to understanding, and prevent MISunderstanding in others who, like you, don't know the mechanics of these cases, how they're designed, and how they function, and might look at your drawing and internalize it, thinking what you drew is possible. It is not. It never has been. And it's important that that idea was corrected.
So, just so you know: for Gen 2 (which is what your slab was) slabs, the inner well is nearly the entire length and width of the case, and it is divided into two parts: the bottom part where the comic sits is completely sealed by a sonic weld on all four sides and cannot, outside of QC issues, be opened without cutting on the inside of that weld. The top part contains the label, and is lightly welded into the label on both sides, while the top is unsealed and open.
I get it. You're a very educated and talented man. You spent a lot of time and energy getting to where you are. And no one likes to be corrected, especially in public. But there are a lot of people who know a lot more than you AND me about many subjects here. And there's nothing wrong with that. Instead of assuming bad faith, perhaps just asking "what do you mean by that?" would smooth out the rough spots that may not actually even exist. Everyone has something they know that others don't, and learning is a lifelong process.
I hope my explanation brings clarity, if not reconciliation.
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On 4/27/2024 at 6:42 PM, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:
Doesn't Vintage still have more points?
Trimmed edge or a slice?
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