Turnando

Re: reading your comics.  I'm a reader and I read them all but with resources like the GA Reading Room thread, widely available reprints, compendium volumes, and cheap reader copies of some books I wouldn't be comfortable thumbing through a valuable book for anything but a quality check. I get nervous when I'm holding a valuable collectible of any kind.

I love what is IN comics and focus almost entirely on reading and directly appreciating the art but I do understand the compulsion to buy some that are never read.  I collect vintage action figures that I just stare at.  Collecting is a personality trait that, for comic collectors, would probably be manifested in some other collection if not comics.

Wally Wood 

Ed Piskor

Jesse Jacobs

Geof Darrow

Moebius

Ashley Wood

Robert Crumb

Al Williamson

Marie and John Severin

etc...

Just now, Chicago Boy said:

And it takes a guy with only 13 posts......

Thank you Turnado for what appears to be an excellent reference piece and welcome to the Boards !!!!!

Thanks! I absolutely love comics and have learned a lot from these boards.

Depends on the book.  A publisher/printer can do whatever they want to do.

For example, Image reprints #1 issues to get people to look at series they missed the first time around:  https://imagecomics.com/news/what-can-you-get-for-a-dollar-new-image-firsts

Those Image books have a gigantic "image firsts" logo by the spine.

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Ture Hoefner

On 12/28/2018 at 3:36 PM, Karl Liebl said:

 

On 12/28/2018 at 3:36 PM, Karl Liebl said:

... Not 5 minutes ago I slid a slab into a mylar and it split halfway down one side.  No, I do not know where the "mylar" bag came from or who made it.  In that thread I posted that I thought the mylar was less flexible and more brittle.  Maybe someone should do a pull test vs poly bags ...

 

I wonder if the bag was a cheaper version of "mylar" that was not really biaxially-oriented (polymers all lined up with each other in 2 orthogonal directions like east-west and north-south).  Maybe it was PET instead of BoPET.

http://www.wikiwand.com/en/BoPET

Just a guess but a sharp object could easily split/cut a thin plastic that has all of the polymers pointing in one direction (think of splitting wood with the grain)... But not so easy to split a thin plastic if it has "grains" in multiple directions.

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Ture Hoefner

I've seen GPAnalysis.com mentioned many times on these boards:  https://comics.gpanalysis.com

...but I'm more of a reader of low grade copies and reprints than a collector of valuable books so I don't use an online pricing service.

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Ture Hoefner

Less than 709,379

http://blog.comichron.com/2009/06/detective-comics-sales-in-1940s.html?m=1

I like the part about how the Edd Cartier cover was creepy enough to make the editor to think about who he wanted to sell to and he decided to start putting out boring covers after Unknown "But Without Horns"

6 minutes ago, ygogolak said:

I would agree that it's more important to find a murdered than a box of comics. But, if they have all the evidence already, how much work is it really?

Yes.  It was frustrating.  At one point the police reconfirmed with me that I had insurance.  At that point I realized they would probably not expend much effort on my case. 

Never use a storage unit.  I had one get burglarized and the cop who filled out the report told me he would never use a storage unit because they get broken into very frequently.

In my case they had video, license plate, everything.  I never got anything back.  The officer working the case, when visited by me after I got impatient and drove to the police station and visited his desk, said he simply didn't have time for it as he was working cases for things like gang bangers who were driving stolen vehicles through the front of pawn shops to steal guns.

Always have insurance, never use a storage unit.

On 12/26/2018 at 7:35 PM, Rickyy said:

I'm just getting into comics, I've read: Avengers Volume: 1, 2 , 3 , 4 , 5  and I've just finished 6 (Infinite Avengers) 

I can't find a volume ''7'', so where do i go from here? Is there a following comic that continues from there?

 

Thanks

You are reading the 2012-2015 Avengers.  Those TPBs seemingly end at Vol 6 "Infinite Avengers" at issue 34 but see the "Avengers Time Runs Out" series of TPBs.  Vol 1 of that series starts with #35 of the Avengers series that you started reading.  

There are so many volumes/series of the Marvel characters that the first step you take when presented with this problem is to figure out which volume you are trying to complete and how many issues it had.  In this case it's the 2012-2015 series with 47 issues (maybe/probably the 5th series, who's counting).  Once you know that it's not too hard to search the rest.

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Ture Hoefner

14 hours ago, the blob said:

I get it, they need your pw to function, it just feels weird.

They are using OAuth for authentication if they are legitimate.  https://oauth.net 

Think of it as a way for a website or web service (app) to use your credentials to connect to some other website or service without knowing what the credentials are. 

You see OAuth in action when you do things like access some website as your Facebook user or your Google account user.

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Ture Hoefner

1 hour ago, Readcomix said:

If it's free, what's their business model?

Some people write free software to show that they can (to help their resume or to stroke their ego), others do it to learn, some do it to stick it to the man, some do it to provide a path to some enhanced version that costs, etc.

I'm a comic book reader and appreciator of comic art and comic history.  I've learned a lot while lurking here and thought it was time to join.  

Favorites include Wally Wood and all the other EC artists, Moebius, Robert Crumb, Jesse Jacobs, Ed Piskor.

I buy mostly TPBs, compendiums, compilations, reprints, and comic history books.  Just finished reading "The Ten Cent Plague" and now reading "Men of Tomorrow".

On a desert island with only one book to last me until starvation or rescue I'd have to choose "Safari Honeymoon" by Jesse Jacobs.

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Ture Hoefner