jaeldubyoo

I was so enamored by the Wolverine miniseries that I ordered 50 copies of each issues. Over the years, I gave away some and sold some. Luckily I saved a few sets for myself.

I've always loved the art in the Longshot miniseries by Art Adams.

On 4/4/2020 at 7:46 PM, Senormac said:

Couple more.....

 

 

Vampirella #7

Avengers #300

4 hours ago, Warren Oates said:

Yes.  I live in a big and here the police will not act on crimes that are non violent or do not rise to felonies.  Had two wheels stolen right off my new car.  Officer told me even if he knew who stole them there was nothing he could do, as the Court process would result in nothing.  That and the fact that they have a lot to do, if you are in a big town don't count on the police doing anything unless you have violence or a felony.

In Nevada, grand larceny is $650 or more. It is a felony.

It's lost sales, not lost income. You can't count your chickens before they hatch.

Apparently, CGC recognizes the "Club Bo" insert on the label.

I’m wondering if any of you have run across this? It’s an insert for Sega Genesis, Club Bo, and MCRB. I found it in X-Men #1, cover dated October 1991, Cover A (Storm,Beast and Angel). All 5 copies I have of that cover have the insert. I'm just wondering if it was in all copies of that cover, or was it only inserted in some. Can anybody check theirs to confirm this? I've already checked my copies of the 4 other covers and they do not have it.

I see where a lot of people on the internet are suggesting using HEPA filter material from vacuum bags for facemasks. But at the same time there are some warning you not to use it because it contains fiberglass particles that are harmful if you breath it into your lungs.

8 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Unless I missed it, no one had a go. It was ASM #45. I just thought it was interesting how much of the centre of the cover had nothing on it.

Anyway, carry on.

 

I knew the answer, but had to look it up, so I didn't bother. Even negative space in relations to images has a significance in a game like this.

98%. I did have to guess on a few and got lucky. The one I tripped up on was one that I knew, but raced through without looking at all the choices. (Stark Enterprises, instead of Stark Industries)

5 hours ago, PetuniaGrimm said:

I saw the recent thread, what a shame. 3000 comics and the person said they had no choice but to put them in a storage locker. 3000 comics bagged, boarded and long boxed will fit in a small closet with room to spare,ask me how I know. Tell the wife to put her 50 pairs of shoes and 30 purses in a storage locker, the comics are staying right here at home. 

You don't know my wife.

On 3/30/2020 at 5:00 PM, Senormac said:

 

Some easy points up for grabs here.  Well, maybe not that second one 

Fantastic Four 48

Donald Duck 116

Incredible Hulk Annual 1

Nick Fury 6

17 minutes ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

Double cover!

I wish. What you see is the atari insert, and not a double cover.

37 minutes ago, lighthouse said:

The exact same incentive that landlords have not to boot Cheesecake. 

There is no ready replacement for Diamond. Rich Johnston would have you believe that PRH could just immediately step in and distribute comics for these  publishers. The thought is ridiculous. Yes PRH distributes books, and yes comics are also printed material. But the scale differences are enormous.

B&N is the largest bookstore chain in the country. If you go to their website, and check “new releases” and sort by date, you’ll find that they average 30-60 new releases coming out each week. That’s 30-60 new book SKUs that need to be tracked. Add in some reprint editions, some hardcovers transitioning to softcover, and the largest bookstore chain in the country is getting in roughly 80-100 newly published SKUs each week. 

If PRH were supplying all those books (they aren’t), they’d need to make room in their warehouse for 80-100 new SKUs each week to go out. Pallets and pallets worth. Thousands of pounds. All of very durable material that isn’t terribly fragile. And items large enough that new orders are in full case quantities and even small batch reorders will rarely have more than 15 different SKUs in a single box. 

A typical week for Diamond sees 300-500 newly published SKUs (the current FOC week has 385).  Perhaps 10% of those are durable items similar to what PRH is used to handling. The rest are fragile and are being sold to condition sensitive customers. Boxes of new orders will routinely have 60 different SKUs all packed in the same box. Every one of those SKUs needs its own separate picking location. Items are easily misidentified. It’s not like pointing at a stack of pallets and saying “there’s the new Nora Roberts”. It’s “there’s the new issue of Spider-Woman with 17 different covers and some of those retail at $200 for a 2oz item that loses half its value if you grip it too tightly when taking it out of the box”. 

DC knows this. Marvel knows this. Image knows this. Just because PRH can distribute pallets of books doesn’t mean they are prepared to distribute comics to the direct market. Could they get there in 6-8 months, build all the infrastructure, train all their people, develop a new supply chain? Of course they could. Could they set up separate warehouses to handle the non-printed merchandise, and process orders for 500,000 SKUs of toys and shirts and statues and the rest? Of course they could. 

So could the publishers have a viable replacement for Diamond in 6-8 months? Sure. They could also take Diamond to court for their back money and just stop publishing altogether. But I think it’s far more likely they let Diamond slide for a while. Because the transaction cost of finding a replacement (or in this case encouraging a replacement to spontaneously develop) is enormous.

This isn’t like loaning money to a meth addict who smoked up the money you loaned him last week. This is like John Deere letting payments slide from a farmer whose spring crop burned this season, but has loyal customers waiting to buy his summer harvest. There’s reason to believe he has the means to make good in the future even if he’s broke now. 

Look at what happened when Marvel tried to self-distribute back in the 90s. A total disaster that contributed a lot to their bankruptcy. That's one of the reasons Diamond emerged as they are now.

7 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

 

Morning guys 

No one tried I see? Shame

@jaeldubyoo - you were right mate:

You obviously know your Amazing Spideys too!

Just for you, have a go at this one:

Amazing Spider-Man #113

For some, they feel like they won because they had the last word.