AC/BC Comic Con posted by DBoy

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It was a mixed bag.

 

Hi all! Just wanted to say thank you all again fo your feedback and suggestions for which book I should use to give to Stan Lee to sign, however it was all in vein due to Stan Lee canceling a week before the show.

 

I had actually heard the bad news from a CGC employee because I had called CGC to ask some questions on how to obtain a witness for the signing and he told me the bad news. I'm not mad at CGC one bit because you don't blame the messenger nor am I upset with Stan Lee. The man is in his 90's and is in the twilight of his years. However I put the entire blame on the organizers of AC/BC for not promptly issuing refunds for the cancellation and sending out notifications via e-mail to people who had purchased tickets to see Stan Lee. Very wrong on their part and very sneaky because I overheard people say they came all the way to Atlantic City just to meet Stan Lee as I did because I never would have attended this show and have not skipped WW Philly but I couldn't afford two shows in 1 week.

 

The show itself was mediocre at best. It wasn't too crowded which is great for me and had a decent amount of celebs signing autographs but only a hand full of comic book dealers so the pickin's were slim but I managed to find a nice copy of avengers annual #10 for a friend of mine for $40 so that was good in a way.

 

Marvel had a booth and stage set up in the middle of the show and I was able to get a few copies of Secret wars #1 AC/BC variant. But other than that nothing really wowed me there as side from a few hotties dressed up as marvel characters.

 

The people who ran the Stan Lee museum did offer a refund for the signing in the form of vouchers which can be used towards the purchase of some Stan Lee items that he signed and were graded by cgc but there wasn't anything there that was the value of the voucher do you still had to pay at lease $100 or more out of pocket which I wasn't planning on doing cause it was all waaaaaaay overpriced to begin with. So I decided to just stick with my refund which I'm still waiting for.

 

On a lighter note I did stop by the cgc booth and submitted some books for pressing and regrading and the girl who helped me was great and so polite and helped make markings on the cases for CCS to concentrate on where the defects were in order to get the most out of pressing my books. Thumbs up to CGC for their help.

 

So all in all I was very dissapointed with the whole show and will def not be attending it again. Lesson learned to just stick with what you know and not go to these pop up shows again.

 

Thanks for reading.

 

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[n2wdw]

Wow, Stan cancelled a week before and the show didn't announce it immediately?

[thecopperagekids]

I wouldn't call the AC Boardwalk Con a "pop up show" but moreso to the point, I disagree with the sentiment expressed about just going to conventions you have already been to.

 

That said, I did not attend the AC Boardwalk Con, I wanted to go there and dig around in some boxes and sub a stack of books to CGC. I could not get ready....I have about nearly a long box full of comics I need to have graded; most of which I need to prep for grading beforehand...ugh.

 

So, I just figured I'd go to the NYCC Special Edition to sub some books to CGC on the 6th, on the way to the Albany Con, on the 7th

 

Digressions aside, first time shows seems to usually have trouble selling out vendor space and the first time shows that I have been to, as well as set up at, consistently presented some very good buying opportunities.

 

New shows seems to attract new vendors and often, the new dealers do not know the market all that well so buying from them is usually pretty good.

 

 

About the AC Boardwalk Con specifically, how it seemed to be a big let down:

 

I hiiiiighlly doubt the promoters of that show will be promoting any other comic shows again.Having Stan Lee cancel, had to be a huge blow to a show which was a first timer....and then, after the promoters decided to apparently keep his cancellation as "mum's the word"....

 

'Nuff Said!