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oh, man!

This is nightmare-inducing.

Yes, this too! I've found lots of great runs to READ in dollar boxes! Especially some really great Vertigo stories, etc. I consider it a win if I find a complete miniseries that I've been curious to read, which happens once in a while. $4 for a complete miniseries is better than paying $15 for the trade paperback, with the added bonus of being the actual original issues. Did I mention I'm poor and a cheapskate?

I also vote "no" to pressing this.

I laughed way too hard at this.

I asked this same question to the signature crew several days ago. I also wanted to know if I could split the Perez signing order so that some just get returned raw, and others either get graded (since they're there anyway) and/or moved to the Wolfman signing. I have yet to hear back. It appears the cancellation of the Perez signing has severely complicated things for the signature and accounting departments.

Yeah, I just had three charges in one day resulting in a HUGE hit to my credit card. None of the charges matched any of the invoices for orders in the past few months. I emailed accounting last week, but have yet to hear back. In the meantime, these new charges are costing me interest on my credit card. It would be lovely if there was a transparent billing page that was part of our online account that would show orders that have been paid, yet been billed, current balance, date paid, etc. This could also reflect account credits from membership renewals, which is something people are always asking about ("How/when will my credit be applied? Do I have a credit?"). Most places with online ordering have his system. As it stands, having three large charges show up in my credit card statement, NONE matching any invoices, is really suspicious looking and worrisome to me. More transparency would be great.

But having 50 long boxes means not being elbow-to-elbow with people or having to wait/come back later to start digging.

Creeper

I'm not looking for books to flip - I'm looking for cheap run-fillers. I'm trying to complete multiple titles, and if I can get non-key filler issues for cheap, then all the better. It's cheaper to get them at a con in a bargain bin than to have to pay inflated prices AND shipping online.

Yep, then another few months for grading.. That's why I don't get my books pressed...er, I mean, "maximize their potential."

I haven't gone through all 20 pages of this thread, but the Frog Brothers run a comic shop in The Lost Boys. I love that movie, but that comic book shop scene is SUPER cringey, because the books that Cory Haim is talking about are about 30 years off from what he's pointing to in the shop

Wikipedia credits Lee to inks on this cover:

I do all the boxes. I love thumbing through bargain bins.

Ah, yes, Charlton - the mark of quality and consistency!

I'm hoping they can split my order, as some I may as well get graded while they are there, and the rest aren't worth it so I'd rather just have them returned raw.

Some recent bargain bin mid-'90s Marvel newsie acquisitions:

New 52 newsies found in my LCS bargain bin! Supes #11, 12, 15, 28; New Guardians #15, 28. I bet the print run on that New Guardians #28 is LOW. Most recent issue is the Superman #28, April 2014.

My credit card got charged 3 large mystery charges from CGC yesterday, so I attempted to call accounting and was directed to an answering machine. I emailed accounting and am awaiting a response.

What's up with the repurposed John Byrne Captain America head? That's weird.

I grew up in rural NH - read: the closest comic specialty shop was 4 hours away. Collecting in the 80s was pretty much just buying stuff off the spinner rack at one of 3 local stores, two of which were drug stores. For back issues, I actually answered ads in comics. I think I placed orders with Mile High, East Coast Comics, and American(?) Comics. I eventually got the CBG, and may have answered ads there as well. And then there was the time I bought that customized shortbox filled with comics from the JC Penney catalogue I still have that shortbox, two-color with Marvel characters on it. I was kind of sad when I got some water in the basement a few years ago and it got damaged. But I still have it.

My first show was one of those! I got my first page of original art there, as a teenager. I think I paid $25 to Bill Reinhold for a page from a Punisher GN.

For all its hokum, Frank Gorshin is always entertaining.