Hepcat

Lightning Lad!

Yeah, well I'm on the side of the buyer/collector upon whom incidentally the whole comic market depends. If investors/speculators/flippers who bought in at nosebleed prices in 2019-23 are now taking a haircut, so what? Who's forcing them to sell the comic they valued so much as to pay those prices? And if they don't really cherish that comic, why did they buy it?

A phantom kitty!

On 6/3/2024 at 9:09 AM, 1Cool said:

Bunch and bunch of 30% and more drops on some of the biggest and best books in the industry is just sad....

Explain to me how lower prices (meaning more affordable product) is sad. Would you say the same about gasoline, sugar, butter, potatoes, shoes, refrigerators?

On 5/15/2024 at 7:36 PM, Stefan_W said:

I tell people that comics are like any other collectable. Most are not worth very much but a select few are. 

And the main reason that a select few are "worth" astronomical prices relative to all the rest is because of insane demand. That though should make comic "investors" nervous, very nervous. You see unlike supply, demand is fickle and subject to the vagaries of fashion. 

Now I know why I love my comics and other collectibles. It's a combination of nostalgia and my own personal aesthetics which are to a certain extent a product of my life experiences. Since these two factors are largely a function of my age, they're shared to a large degree by whoever else was born in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom at roughly the same time. But I won't last forever. And when I'm gone the nostalgia aspect of my demand will disappear and there's no guaranty many other people will continue to share my aesthetic preferences. So what will happen to the demand for the comics and other collectibles that I love so much? A sobering thought indeed for those younger than me.

This one's a fabulous ad to be sure:

Fortunately I've had a copy of Brave and the Bold 30 for some 25 years:

I've been longing for a copy of Showcase 26 with the fabulous Joe Kubert cover art for nearly as long however.

On 5/28/2024 at 11:28 PM, Stefan_W said:

If I was the owner of the 9.2 copy I would be extremely annoyed by these results that were only 40 second apart.

 

Not that the proverbial man-on-the-street could see a significant difference between the two other than the number on the label, which in actual fact isn't much different either.

Spike and Tyke as well as Droopy were regulars in Tom and Jerry Giants:

A big winner from Milton Caniff!

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Near identical composition on these two covers:

A Four Color with a horse to another Four Color with a horse:

Speedy being very heroic:

And being substantially less heroic:

On 6/2/2024 at 11:44 AM, Robot Man said:

My observations…

 

Pulps are on fire.

 

Another thing that kind of suprised me was Paperbacks. I had a box full and sold easily 75% of them at pretty decent prices. I was the only one with any. PB’s are HOT and catching on finally.

Were any of the men's sweat magazines in evidence at the show?

Many kitties here!

On 6/2/2024 at 10:56 AM, Robot Man said:

Show report…

Pulpalooza in Anahiem CA last night.

Free open craft beer and all the tasty bar-b-que you could eat.

 

Oh wow! Old magazines and BBQ. I would have been so there!

Three more of my Spooky comics:

Pecking out this post prompted me to break into my leftover Halloween stock of Dubble Bubble!

And back down to a single Marvel Giant:

Not surprisingly Krypto also made frequent appearances on Adventure Comics covers:

Here are four more of my Northland Herbie comics:

NM-

NM+

NM

NM

As of a few years ago this rad Dubble Bubble Fun Book circa 1958 was not included in the Promotional Comics section of the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide:

(Copy not mine.)

It's chock full of activity pages as well as comic stories. The back cover suggests that it may have been intended for Canadian distribution only. 

Does anyone have one of these?

On 6/1/2024 at 8:37 PM, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

I still remember seeing this advertised as “coming soon”, and waiting an eternity 

Indeed. Many of us have learned that turnaround times at CGC can be a tad longer than advertised.

Why the Ebay links? Hopefully neither listing is your own.