Dick Pontoon

We need a thread depicting bald-headed dealers we know and love.

What’s a great price on 100 comic bags? Aren’t they pretty much $5-8 a pack wherever you go? Boards are heavy and expensive to ship. If you are budget-minded and only want 100, I’d suggest the LCS. Assuming you want to avoid Bababooey’s recycle bin. When I buy online, I use https://hotflips.com/

Just dad & son, just coincidence. We painted it grey together, he did the drawing and lettering and then i modeled it a bit. FWIW I googled Eric Cartman just to make sure you were referring to South Park, and that there wasn’t yet another current day comic artist I did not know.

For the last 6-7 years my son and I have been making a Halloween decoration for the yard. These are last year’s photos, don’t have a good one of this year yet, but the setup is very similar. Frankenstein and Dracula are based on James Bama’s great box art for the Aurora models.

I must have posted these at some point, but I was looking for something else in Photobucket and came across these so for the sake of bumping...

Is that a Halloween avatar or permanent?

Since Robin funded these on Kickstarter, perhaps a certain level of donation got contributors signed copies. That’s just a guess though, I never followed his latter day projects closely. Although he supposedly didn’t sign any comics after 1960-whenever the date was (1964?) there's bound to be some out there, though most likely in black hole collections. Maybe you should change the title of the thread to Ditko’s Package.

Would the copy be located at New England Comics by any chance?

Already listed on ‘bay! Some dupes I’ll keep or sit on but I’d rather put the money of Apache Kid towards something else.

Yeah, I like that one, too. Despite the stars on the cover, they’re decent looking copies. There were others from the same collection, too, but I can only handle so many westerns at once.

Tough to tell from the photos, but it might also be residue from an old price sticker.

Yup, it does.

CGC does not slab treasuries and probably never will. The tooling costs required to make a new slab that size are astronomical and the market too small to justify the cost. I'm rather glad they don't, since if they did slab them most likely nice copies would be harder to find and more expensive.

Picked these up a few weeks ago at a local show. Western Kids are #1 and #2, chock full of Romita art. Apache Kid #13 turned out to be a dupe. I need to enter Western titles into my notebook and not work from just my memory.

I have no qualms about reading my 2.0 Fantastic Four #1. If it was 9.0 and up, I would have qualms. When I see a a book described as a reader copy, I think of a low grade copy but not one so poor it will fall apart in your hands.

You want to spend $30k+ and are asking a bunch of strangers with your first post?

Well, if you have to ask which comics over the last 20 years are worth anything: What the key issues are: How to count unbagged comics: And now the business potential for selling comics, I'd wager you're not quite ready to leave your 9-5 and become a full-time comic dealer.

Without being able to read the ebay message you received to be sure, those messages indicate non-compliance with the Top Rated Seller policy, not general ebay policy. To maintain top-rated status these days, you have to offer 1-day handling time as well as free returns. I’ve been selling car parts as well as funnybooks the last few months. It’s a PITA, but despite working full time I’m unsually able to ship books within that strict time frame. In the real world, that means if somebody places an order on the west coast late at night/early morning, I have between the time I wake up and 4:00 pm to get it in the mailbox. (Scheduling a pickup is not an option.) With bulkier and heavier car parts that require a trip to the P.O., there’s no way I can ship that fast and no way I’ll eat a $25 return on postage for something heavy, so I extended my handling time to 3 days and dumped free returns for those listings, resulting in multiple messages from ebay about top rated seller compliance. My funnybooks display the TRS icon and receive the FVF discount, my car parts do not.

I believe this only affected certain sellers or sellers who had their listings set up in a certain way. I’ve never encountered this problem.

Latest change I can remember off the top of my head is that you're forced to choose a publisher from a drop down menu now when listing comics.

Silly me. Here's the Fall update: https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/seller-updates/2018-fall/index.html

I think this is the latest. Can't remember if I've seen one for Fall. https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/seller-updates/2018-summer/selling-metrics-and-shipping.html?utm_campaign=18.2&utm_source=v2_seller-metrics&utm_medium=email#service-metrics-insights

Okey-dokey. I'm now barefoot. What next?

Would that make Mrs. Blob Ethel?