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They're kind of beat up, but it looks like the Dark Shadows #27 has gone for $4-5 in similar condition on eBay recently. The others, maybe $1 each.

Anyone maintained their run through the years? My continual run starts/ends with these. Which means I'm only a couple months shy of having every FF published in my lifetime. Also have about 1/3 of nos. 1-75. What a great run!

And there's nothing wrong with this. There's a dealer here in the DC Metro area called Big Planet Comics, who deal almost exclusively in current issues and moreover, GNs and TPBs. And the business model must be working for them, because they have four stores. Not much in the back issue stock, at least not that they keep out in the front. But if you're looking for any GN or TPB, that's the place to go around here.

How do you dipstick something like that, though? Ok, I live in an affluent part of the country, but here, the release of certain books is a cultural phenomenon. And the kids do a good job of cross-pollinating each-others' reading choices, so word of the popular stuff spreads pretty fast. And I would assume, it's similar all around the country. Contrary to what the alarmists will tell you, kids coming up today aren't an Army of screen-addicted zombies -- at least not totally.

Yeah.....I could see that, although there was about a 50% difference in the Dec and Jan Shoff shows in terms of the dealers present. The name is escaping me now, but the gentleman (probably early 70s) who sets up in the back corner of the Annandale firehouse has a collection of 50's DCs and Atlas books that brings a tear to my eye. And there was another dealer there with a beautiful early run (like the first 60 issues) of "Creepy" magazines. Such great stuff. But yes, the GMU show was REALLY well-attended. And a pretty decent mix of comics/pop-culture material too -- NOT the disappointment that the Dulles Expo Center show was in August. Too many Funko-pops and not enough comic dealers willing to deal at that one for me. Although my kids loved it. But given the recent success of the NoVA shows, I think the GMU show is moving to AT LEAST twice a year now.

It was the VA Comicon at GMU in Jan. if you guys are in NoVA, I highly recommend you look up Shoff Productions on FB. He hosts a monthly Con, usually just comics and cards, in Annandale, Tyson’s Corner, and Frederick. The selection is great — all local dealers, ready to deal. My silver and bronze-age collection is swelling with books I’ve picked up at 30-50% Overstreet. Awesome selection of Golden Age and 59s material as well.

Well, now we’re painting with a pretty broad brush here, aren’t we? First, I don’t think Comichron tracks secondary market sales. Second, I’d have a hard time believing that anyone who goes to a Con to buy back issues DOESNT buy them outside of cons. If the LCS doesn’t provide that service as well, then customers will go elsewhere.

Perhaps start by going back to the business model where one could get all their comics by going to their local 7-11 each week, rather than having to seek out a specialty store. LCSs are great, and I support mine, but I'd bet the average potential reader doesn't even know where their nearest LCS is.

You should do a search on ebay for sold Elvis memorabilia: magazines, records, miniatures, plates, bookends. Its all still there. For $500,000, photos of the actual toilet Elvis dies on can be yours. (Apparently, this is hard-to-find, as the bathroom was locked down right after he died, and then Precilla renovated the bathroom). You "sky is falling" guys crack me up. A comic-con at a local DC Metro area college just last month had a line around the block of people waiting to get in. This for a small con of primarily just comics -- not a San Diego or Baltimore-type event. This hobby ain't going anywhere.

Absolutely. I have four kids. My three oldest LOVE coming to real old-fashioned comic cons with me to help find good deals. The PROBLEM -- if you want to call it that -- is that there's so much out there to be consumed , compared to what was readily available in the mid/late-70s, that it's hard to know where to begin. So they need some help. My 17-year-old just got through "Dune" in a week -- couldn't put it down in fact. My 15 year-old love Stephen King. My 12-year-old is starting on Tolkein. They all love going through my old long boxes with me and seeing where their favorite Marvel Studios character got their start. And yeah, they all have titles in my weekly pull box. But yes, it takes help to separate the wheat from the chaff. And I'm challenged to think of ANYTHING in the 70's (when I was growing up) that compares with the phenomenon that was a new Harry Potter book or a new Diary of a Wimpy Kid book. Likewise for the YA market with things like The Hunger Games or Maze Runner -- these kind of series regularly support a half-dozen books each, and kids gobble them up.

Hello......long time reader, new contributor here.

Uh, no. Go to the Steve Hoffman music forums, and you'll see all the audiophiles arguing about whether the latest 180-gram vinyl pressing of "Blonde on Blonde" is better than the 2009 box set pressing. No ONE there is collecting digital downloads (and I don't mean CDs here), but many are engaging on hand-wringing as to whether it will be possible to still buy physical media in 10 years. The analogy is almost perfect.

No......it will create a bubble that will eventually burst, leaving speculators with a ton of -near-worthless variants on their hands, which they will then sell for cheap on eBay. And i'll be there to reap the benefits.