Aman619

They only require a list of any items worth more than $25000 each They are called “Scheduled Items”… I’m surprised they haven’t told you not to bother sending a full list… for years the cut off was only $10000 until recently. That shows how little they care to be tracking lower value stuff at all. They will honor what you say you lost if you make a valid claim.

Ask a lot of dumb what if questions. Like what if I drop my insured book and it gets damaged. Can I take my comics to a convention? What happens if I ship them and they are lost, or damaged? Being covered isn’t exactly what we think we are paying for…. Best to be prepared to avoid that awful call after a loss when you find out you only assumed you’d collect on.

Wow. First Hammer comes back. And now debating pressing again. I feel 30 years younger!!

I was always attracted to the GL covers Gil Kane pencilled AND inked in issues starting with 47 or 49. They really stood out versus the more fully inked earlier ones that 50 is a good example

WW 105... but nowadays everybody wants the 98 instead. back in the day no one ever talked about 98.

superboy 68

when you set up a business tp take over your personal items, in situations where the new entity is a separate entity from yourself, you cant "give" the comics, you must SELL the comics to it. This triggers income that is taxable personally in the year you do the transfer/sale. You could start fresh with a "corporate entity" with you as owner, and start by funding it with cash. Then do all future business under the company. In a few years it will be a real business with transaction history and tax returns. How you handle your "other" comics is up to you and your accountant. Maybe consign them to the new company for selling?

The double year is like a qualifier. Since it always comes out in mid summer, it has always straddled parts of 2 years. Last half of one, first half of the other.

It’s funny. He hung around for years blending in, helping out, being just a regular Joe. Under the radar. Must have been enjoying it… Until he hung himself talking about one of his deals and customers… and couldn’t help defending himself…

Not really short sided, though it definitely was I guess, because both of them were trying to achieve liftoff in new business ventures. Go collect wanted more web traffic and awareness so it let CLZ ride along. And CLZ got an extra feature to lure more paid users with functionality for free, or in a to be monetized later deal. Fellow travelers helping each other out for their own interests. Until things changed.

You know why you were arrested. You sold fake autographed memorabilia to the DAs son. You and lots of others get away with it because as you always said, most people when they get scammed do nothing and walk away. The few that complain are bought off with their own money back. You never counted on selling to someone who would shut you down. And you weren’t a master forger. Didn’t need to be. Just good enough to fool your trusting suckers. But you’re getting on in years… and seem to delight in taking down your competitors now. Or maybe it’s jealousy that they still get away with it?

Gotta say, smells like iduppy, argues like Duppy…. I’m thinking Duppy. Just loves the wordplay game , and deflects to overreach in answers.. like covid and conventions. And is too easygoing about being accused of being who he says he isn’t. DUPPY BABY!

And fewer crayon colors… the eye turns it all to brown from a distance. Maybe use really fat crayons… bigger circles.. for a guitar too I wonder if the sound qualities of polyurethanes crayons is good or bad?

That was fascinating! To me though like too many home art projects, he took a brilliant idea and didn’t know when to stop. The sphere was beautiful and abstract, but then drew clumsy continents, in black, and made it kitschy…. Final project is a letdown….

Clean up one by one? Say if some text came they misspelled in 100 records, you had to edit each separately?

I was generalizing a bit. You’re right of course He didn’t literally sign everything he wrote. To me just one more Ditko quirk. A guy who did what ever he wanted to.

I think we’ve seen other Steve Ditko letters refusing to sign anything. He always closed with his signature! Must be Ayn Randian humor, or torture!

I think Stan or whoever wanted the characters to appear at the top because that’s all a kid could see of the comics stacked on the racks. (When looking past the outward facing copy. ). Showing the characters might help sales by identifying which title it was, beyond a logo. It was a nice touch. Especially as they updated them.

I was looking at X-Men 7 cover and saw a random drawing of wings peeking out from behind the X of the logo. Was weird... SO I wondered how got there. Maybe it was drawn on the masthead from a previous issue's cover after they pasted the logo stat over the artwork? Looked at X-Men 6... nope looked at X-Men 5... nope looked at X-Men 4... nope and figured I had doodled it at some point. but saved by the Blob!

ignoring the Dentist copy, Id say the fact that 8.0 is still top graded is surprising. I think its a "pretty safe bet" that there is (at least) ONE copy out there 8.5 or 9.0. and if there isn't, so be it, but wow.

Bang zooms copy looks like a hg candidate for one.

Hold on Buster!

When I finally logged in tonite successfully, I saw that I was someone else! I was logged in as Spidey something. I clicked on it and it booted me out. Weird

Bring It On!

I just speak from where we are now. The fact that our hobby has become ever more a chase for riches by any means possible is regrettable, but basically human nature. Left to their own devices 98 out of 100 of us will take the edge, the shortcut, especially when if you dont, you haven't even put a dent in the problem, as others will swoop in and take advantage of you. and human nastiness isn't limited to collecting fields... it shows up in everything we do. Its a Darwinian, a dog eat dog, zero sum game... and we wonder why we all cant just get along. At this point I react to the kind of hypocrisy espoused here by "true collectors" etc etc. Its fine while you're amassing your collection, to just love collecting for pure joy, we have all been there! ...but when you get ready to sell, lets see how much $$ you are happy to leave at the table and into someone else pockets. But I agree that restoration - while not for everybody - is fine for many people and many books. and the professional work gets tainted with the hucksters greed and non disclosure.