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Thanks Andy! First time doing this.

Hey Gang- I am beginning to liquidate stuff I've had boxed up due to needing to raise money for an emergency. I believe I'm posting in the right thread, though someone will tell me if I'm not (but if I'm not it's not intentional) *- will accept PayPal, Venmo, Zelle Here are six Hardcover Marvel Masterworks Editions- all still factory sealed, untouched, unread, a $359.94 Value. I am asking $23.00 a piece for them so for the whole set it'd be an affordable $138.00, and I will cover the shipping. I will throw in a DC Archive Edition which is incidentally also still sealed and unread, if anyone wants to bring the price to $160. Again, I don't mean to be flippant but I have an emergency vet bill now which is kind of expediting me preparing to unload my comic collection, other brand new TPBs, and so forth. Golden Age USA Comics Vol. 2 (cover price: $64.99) Golden Age Human Torch Vol. 3 (cover price: $59.99) Golden Age Marvel Comics Vol. 2 (cover price: $49.99) Golden Age Marvel Comics Vol. 6 (cover price: $59.99) Atlas Era Strange Tales Vol. 1 (cover price: $54.99) Not Brand Echh Vol. 1 (cover price: $69.99) ******************************************************************* ($359.94 VALUE) and.... Superman: The Action Comics Archives Vol. 5 HC (a $49.99 Value) if you want to add that and round off the figure. Thanks!

Magicians are usually very title specific and will say they don't do such things. Illusionists use pyrotechnics and lasers.

Steranko deserves extra credit simply for being one of the very few males at a convention not wearing cargo shorts and a super-hero emblem t-shirt!!!!

Does the Rascally One have a tip jar, or is that for his omnipresent Manager

You've sold me, ol' pal- I am going to this for sure next year. Looks fantastic!

I've already got one but have thought about doubling up on the Golden Record Reprints lately. I think they only seem unappealing when someone is trying to pass them off as NOT a Golden Record Reprint. On their own I think they're very cool- not a typical reprint. I only have one slabbed, tho'

Whenever you see a '1966' on an FF #1 (or Avengers #4, Journey Into Mystery #83, or Amazing Spider-Man #1) this means they're the Golden Records Reprint edition. This is basically a nearly exact reprint which came with a record, as you likely deduced but it won't have a cover price either. Now, this seller is potentially oblivious or misleading but we shouldn't let that make the Golden Record editions look bad- they're still good investments being the first reprints of the titles in question, and an affordable option/alternative for those that will never be able to shell out for an actual FF #1. I've gotten a few for a few hundred a piece and their value has doubled in the past year. They're very nice.

Marvel started out packaging the early Big Boy comics. Stan Lee and Bill Everett did early stories. Ditko was doing art for them in the mid 2000s'. Smilin' Ed was a regional children's show host in the 1940s' on radio. I learned about him by reading a massive Old Time Radio encyclopedia back in my twenties that described him as "one of the favorites of the radio uncles" which was a sentence I always remembered as it delighted me with that phrasing. Manny Stallman, who was a really great journeyman artist who worked at Tower in the Sixties was the writer/editor/artist of the Big Boy stuff for years and years and apparently really loved it. Premium comics are very interesting because of the work; they're often overlooked in comics history though there's been a few books about them over the last few years.

My suggestion would be to meet in the parking lot of a public area or a hotel lobby. A big collection can be moved to these places, though it would take some effort on behalf of the seller. I tried listing my collection for sale on CL as I want to sell it as a whole and it's different ages; I got a lot of cranks and one guy who was messing with me and gave himself away. I don't think CL is that serious for significant comic sales; most of the ads I've seen involving comics are clearly by people with a loose familiarity with them; stuff like 90s' Marvel and Death of Superman.

This cover.... uhhh, should have been framed differently in my opinion. It looks like... something more than an interrogation is about to take place. :/

let's not forget the legendary lost scene from A Christmas Story

I wish there were still more of those regional shows that played cult stuff late at night.

I will add that my friend and I saw two musicians in a hotel lobby circa 2014 and, as we were also in a band, started up conversation with them and discovered they were actually a touring Queen tribute band which I found genuinely fascinating. My friend asked them if they did anything from the FLASH soundtrack and the guy playing drums (I presume only the singer was trying to resemble Freddie as this guy certainly didn't look like Roger Taylor) got real annoyed and pseudo-offended though we were being serious but he took it as if we were mocking them somehow. Hey pal, that title track is f**king awesome and I'm amazed they didn't include it in their set!

I'm so eager to just wash my hands entirely that the insane idea I had today was to just price every comic in my collection at $6 or $7 each (but whoever buys it has to buy the entire collection). Let me clarify that out of nearly 1,000 comics in said collection maybe 4 of them would be close in price to $7 and what I've got is primarily Silver-Bronze and a bunch of slabs; but I don't need to make a profit at this point I just want completely out of collecting and go cold turkey. Like some of the posts here, sometimes I feel like they sit there untouched and unloved and sometimes the thrill of getting some new SA books is overwhelming to the point of obsessive. It can really run hot & cold and I suppose there's never one easy answer.

How do you guys go about it, may I ask- collections are listed in the "Mixed Ages" thread, right?

I'm going through a very similar thing of late as well, not for the same reasons and it's my feeling that you should be all or nothing in this regard. Either sell the entire collection and go cold turkey, so to speak or don't sell. Keeping some while getting rid of the others has some logic to it for sure but I feel anyone with that seed of having a passion for comics- it's just going to burn like a fever and you'll just start collecting again. In my case, I want to get rid of my collection in it's entirety NOW and then have a couple years finishing other things and then I fully intend to start collecting again when I'm slightly older and presumably making more money. You can always start collecting again in the future. Yes, we run the risk of an increased market making everything cost more but that's part of the risk/reward. If it's already subtly nagging at you to sell, there's your answer. Those Thor books are great Silver/Bronze Age filler and should be a good addition to anyone's collection. I have almost all Silver/Bronze stuff with no extraordinary keys but just a lot of cool books from the 60s and 70s- I know lots of collectors will be glad to have it to fill and boost out their own stock. Have faith in what you have, you can always start again.

Thank you. It's something I've been dwelling on the past month and a half

A simple answer- yes I do. I also don't know anything about the circumstances or timeline/deadline he had for getting those books signed. Did he have a week? A month? I imagine that even a man with arthritis with a strong will like Kirby's could do a bunch at a time and then return to it later. It just goes against so much of what Kirby said and did that exists in his ledger. For Kirby to not sign Marvel's contract to get his original art- when he could have used it- and say, "I wouldn't collaborate with the Nazis, I won't collaborate with that"- and then to also publicly state that, "If I sign such a thing, it'll set a precedent to make it that much harder for younger artists to get their stuff"- it just doesn't seem like Kirby to have it in him to scam, blatantly or otherwise. I do believe he signed them until I'm shown something that strongly casts doubt. Again, did they let him take 3,000 books in a room for one hour?? Then yeah man, I'd consider that's a little difficult. What were the parameters of getting the books signed? Do we know? And QVC has regulations- not because they're so moral, but because of legality. I imagine it's the same with Dynamic Forces. Would they casually allow things to be so unobserved as to welcome the possibility of forgery?

1: You stated Kirby was a multi-millionaire who had a mansion. That is, in fact, a lie. I'm sorry reality is insulting, but it's not like I'm out to get you or something- you said something that is ridiculous and actually researchable! So yeah- I called you a liar, I'll do it again. When you catch me blatantly lying about something, by all means, call me out. I tend not to lie or say things that are my own guesswork. 2: I have made nothing up whatsoever and stand by every statement I say. I have provided context and references to much of what I've posted. Incredible. 3: I would be the first to agree with you regarding the D.F and QVC deals. You'd be absolutely in the right- but it's just spec, it's not proven. I just need proof of it. 4: "I also believe that..." and that's fine, I know you're not a rookie Bill but at the same time- you *believe* it, it doesn't mean it's been PROVEN yet.

You're older than me so it's bizarre how you're unfamiliar with how using a figure of speech works. The guy put it like this: 'house rich, cash poor' That statement literally means you might have a house that has value but it doesn't mean you are wealthy in the bank account sense. You know as well as I do that he did not mean Kirby was literally without cash. I deny nothing. You're the one who lied; you're the one who had a very different stance about this subject back in 2019. Deflect it and twist it all you want. You claim a guy has a mansion then a few posts later you state maybe he didn't. You're a flip flopper who puts out blatantly dishonest statements and then adopts a petty approach to nitpick and continue arguments rather than try to continue discussions. I'd give anything to meet you at a convention, Shadroch. I'm sure you're much more charming in person.

They're speaking about the later years, why he stopped drawing as much, the decline and slant in his art that was evident starting in the mid to late Eighties, and then statements about him being wobbly when holding a pencil and barely being able to sign 30 things a person took for him to sign (though this person still states that he DID sign them); Kirby had such stature that to see him struggle I imagine was very disheartening. But the point is, he still signed. It just took longer and more effort. I believe that when people are generally proven to have lied, their credibility is in question. Greg Theakson lied and was called out for it by Mike Royer. Much of the spec about Jack needing "unknown assistants" comes from a THEORY and speculation on behalf of otherwise decent blogger Daniel Best, who wrote about it on his blog. Royer has called all of this out and I spoke to him at length about it where he was incredulous at the things people say and that they read too much into things. Royer is outspoken. Daniel Best has a blog; a blog needs content. He read one of Theakson's books and was like "Hmmm..." Okay, fair enough. But then spec like that gets out in the world and becomes hearsay. Hey, maybe Kirby DID use a lightbox to do cover recreations. But he didn't have someone else do it.

Maybe you're an objectivist like Ditko He used a phrase, a figure of speech in regards to your blatant lie about Kirby being a millionaire/having a mansion. You said those things. They are literally untrue. They are literally lies. No one has spoken about Kirby being "cash poor" once. We said he was not a millionaire and cited evidence that would lend itself to him decidedly not being a millionaire. You're old enough to know better, especially as you were saying Kirby autographs "looked okay" to you as recently as 2019. I was reading those threads at the time, as this signature gossip is something I've been aware of for quite some time. Again: every time we slowly proceed the discussion, or every time some people come together, here's ol' Shadroch to twist something or take something obviously used in passing as an example or figure of speech and make it some literal thing so he can extend his agenda. Someone made untrue statements without facts to back them up while also stating his disdain and contempt for that individual. That was you "Shadroch". Got it?

He did indeed Kav; he wrote "Either way. I was wrong in outright calling it illegal. I do fully believe it to be unethical."

For people who often purchase or at least consider buying collections, may I ask how much an estimation of the collection's entire value matters? For example, if this collection is logged on GPA or CovrPrice does it help or is it irrelevant?