SURF'S-UP!!!!: A WONDERCON (SOME-WHAT) REPORT

Larryw7 · February 20, 2005

Does that include WORLD'S FINEST #3(origin and 1st appearance of the Scarecrow)?

Rip · February 20, 2005

Good question. We talked about it at the Con, but didn't see any. (I did see a White Page Bats 232 9.8), but the seller wasn't really selling. He was also asking 1K for a 9.4 Witching Hour 1.

FFB · February 20, 2005

Zonker · February 20, 2005

Read Pov's posts in the Infinite Bronze Horror thread...

Sharkey · February 20, 2005

I turn my cell phone off at night

PedigreeMan · February 20, 2005

Revenge is a dish best served cold, Bono.

FFB · February 20, 2005

Call me anytime, Alan! As soon as the haze of my 3:00 a.m. delirium clears, I'll just start asking you about Salidas.

fingfangfoom · February 20, 2005

Rhino-Ze: I picked up GR copies of Thor #142,143,144 from Shin (and for the thousandth time, thank you Shin!) and The JIM from Harley was #119 and the Oakland copy was #161 and the Northland copy was #177. Tomorrow Metro gets mailed a nice check for five more various pedigree Thor copies.

I suppose at this point I should take the opportunity to ask board members if they have a CGC recognized silver age Thor pedigree copy, slabbed or raw(with certificate/provenance), that they are willing to part with, PM me and perhaps we can arrange a transaction.

nik · February 20, 2005

Picked up my first GR today at the Boston Show, Thor #148.

And a few other goodies.

fingfangfoom · February 20, 2005

Hmmm...Bob sold you the #148...okay, now I need to find an alternate pedigree for that issue. That's the great thing about Thor's...they appear to be part of every silver pedigree with the exception of the Curator (if anyone has Curator info to the contrary on this please PM me)

divad · February 21, 2005

I hadn't done anything like that since my bachelor party Herradura (repeat) Herradura

jimm94 · February 21, 2005

That was me!!!

Sharkey · February 21, 2005

PedigreeMan · February 21, 2005

So were Rhino and me the only ones you guys drunk dialed?

jbud73 · February 21, 2005

MY 2005 WONDERCON REPORT

Gonna be a little long as I was there all three days and was on the floor pretty much start to end for that strentch.

FRIDAY: Hit the show floor at 9:30ish which gave me approx. 2 1/2 hour on most of the competition. Have to throw the first big thanks out to Shin (sckao) for the Exhibitor Pass which got me in early and for letting me stow what turned out to be quite the haul of comics there over the 3 days of the show. Shin and his wife are awesome

So I hit the floor with a vengence: Hero's, Ronnie Murray, Red Beard, House of Comics, Swain, Terry's Comics etc etc I plucked some sweet late SA / BA books, some of which are awesome first additions, or now the best existing copies in my collection. Of course the focus was House of Mystery where I was nabbing early 200s in VF/NM or better - but the best HOM book I got was an amazing NM+ 290 from Red Beard for a song. Maybe dealers have tonnes of this book, but I don't see it that often in HG, maybe they just don't bring it Red Beard brought one

So after getting my initial whack of cherry picked BA Horror it was off to snoop around. Things I noticed at wonder.... More slabbed books last year, but a lot were just for show, or priced so out there that they might have as well been. The 2 most common wall books that were evident (because they are usually not on the wall) Bats 232 and Saga of the Swamp Thing 37. Saga's were priced as high a $65 a pop RAW needless to say they were all still there Sunday. DEALER ALERT - ITS A $10 BOOK at best. Same with Bats 232 I make it a point of every show to seek this book out on Friday and then again on Sunday. From what I could gather it was over priced in all grades - and guess what, didn't sell.

I met Andrew (Goldust), Chris (Lord Rahl), Brain (Stephen), fingfanfoom for the first time as well as reuniting with what seem like old friends - Jimm94, Jefflyriki (er you know) FFB, Pov, Supa, BassGman. Sure I'm forgetting someone or many ppl - apologies if its you. As Pov related, Scott, liz, Jim and I went out for Dinner that night - highlighted by (aside from the Pov/FFB show and Liz actually being there to talk about something other than comics ) Scott had Sotheby's auctions 1991 auction catalogue, the auctions in there just blew me away IE Sprang's personal copy of Batman #1

Saturday: It was PACKED - said another little thank you to Shin for the pass, because I had done the bulk of buying on Firday. Garthgantu and Richard hit the floor saturday and they again invited me out to lunch with Erik Larson. Erik's a very cool guy and it made my day just to be able to harass Garth with him. You can definitely tell they've been friends since they were kids. HEY GARTH ARE WE AT THAT Restaurant yet its raining. Garth had a sketch that Neal Adams had done at one of the first BayCons for him as well as a Spidey drawing Erik had done in High School - at the top of the sketch Garth had written " This is a Spidey sketch by my friend Erik Larson, we both think that he is quite talented and think he should work for Marvel. Well it seems Marvel agreed - a few years later hahah.

I didnt buy too much Saturday a few random books here and there, Harley had a few book I wanted, but the $$$$$$$$ luckily I collect BA/SA and can shop around, or be certain the book will come up in a different place for a better price. BA is in the bubble right now, some of the prices were so high that I didn't even want to get into negotiations.

A word about the CGC forum and what it means at a con, or what it can mean. As Pov has already said, I was on my cell phone or tracking down various forum members at least a dozen times to say, hey this is your type of book and such and such deal has a few of them, have you seen them? I literally dragged Pov to the Ghosts books Swain had And forum members also contacted me to say, hey have you seen this book that X dealer has, I know you're in the market. Thanks Scott, Garth, Pov, Jeff, Jim etc.

FORUM DINNER - well Jimm, Jeff and I walked across town and through the Chinese New Years Parade. I won't say anything about the no shows, except I told Jeff and Jim that I bet at least 5 ppl wouldnt show (alas I was right) all I will say is that I wish everyone had made it.

I was seated this year next to Andrew (Golddust) and Terry from Terry's comics, as well as across from Divadrabnud and Burtboy and his wife (Elen?) sorry bb if that wrong, I had a lot to drink. Had long comic conversations with many forum members, the two I enjoyed to most, due to where I sat, included my talk with Diva and Goldust. I had never met them before and Andrew and David are great guys and know a lot about comics.

In general the forum dinner was much different this year, there was more of a family feel to it, which was probably due to the increase in members who brought significant others which I applaud. As well there were just more people there, dealers etc. I'm not saying I enjoyed it any more, or any less, I guess last year with the concentration of forum members with significant post totals, the preliminaries were waved and we got to main events straight away. As well I think the dinner started later this year? Don't worry it whittled down after a which to the hardcore forumites, but I had to catch a train and missed the end of the dinner -well the one that stopped at 3AM anyway.

SUNDAY - Nursing a hangover I strolled into the Room at Noon. One thing on my mind, close out two seperate deals. Well the first one fell through, glad it did as I write this, insane multiples are stupid for BA I still cannot emphasize this enough, there are no BA JIM 83s or FF 3s (Kudos to Jimm94 on the purchase of his FF 3 copy though) and I still shake my head at a lot of prices realized. So on to good news. After much diligence I am the proud Owner of the Monterey copy of Jimmy Olsen 134

When I was a kid the Marvel / DC crossover with X-Men and New Teen Titans was my favorite book to read. I loved that story and it was my first exposure to Darkseid who scared the cr@p out of me. So to have his first app. and bring the Monterey copy BACK home to its place of discovery was just too sweet. Had a smile the whole rest of the show. Thank you Mr. Murray

WonderCon is a great show with a HUGE CGC forum presence for a show of its relative size. Glad to meet all the new forumites and great to see those I had already met one more time.

garthgantu · February 22, 2005

Sorry to have missed the fantabulous dinner Had other stuff come up, and my back start to go out... a bad combo at any time. Sounds like it was a much tamer meal without the "Grilled Borock" on the menu

Glad to have bumped into PoV and a few other board regulars on the show floor, and Jason, you owe me lunch, so next time you're up in SF we're hitting Roy's... you'll love it, trust me.

Good show, lotsa good stuff at decent prices... I'll post a few in the appropriate threads!

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