Pontoon's Boston Comic Con Report 2016

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These folks were having a tough time in the heat on Friday but cheerfully posed on Sunday.

 

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Combo Clark Kent/Jimmy Olsen with camera?

 

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Catwoman and Lil Batman.

 

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CU of GA Collectibles Supes 6.

 

 

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Princess Power.

 

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That's Mark McKenna if I'm not mistaken. Didn't make it to his table.

 

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Harley is sleeved.

 

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Not Howard Hallis, but an incredible simulation!

 

 

 

Where's Clea?

 

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Wouldn't be a Con without Darth, no? With an SS photobomb.

 

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Supermom!

 

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When I step up to a booth, I like to look through the boxes and see what the dealer has for stock. Many people these days seem to prefer to charge up to a table and ask “Do you have XYZ?!?” regardless of what is on display. I understand that approach if you’re focused on looking for a key (“Do you have Walking Dead #1?”) but less so if you’re looking for nondescript unspecific moderns. Some stand outs from this weekend:

 

Person picks up a package of polybags and asks “Is this a book?” “Yeah, the thinnest book ever written,” says the wiseapple dealer. (I’m surprised that guy made any sales at all.)

 

Person looks over the table and wall and says “I have a bunch of Sikver Age. Silver Age isn’t so in demand now, huh?” I tell him, no, the Silver Age is one of the backbones of collecting. It’s very popular. Some of the common books not so much, but the key, important books fetch lots of money. “Oh!” he says, “So the Silver Age is from the late ‘80s into the ‘90s, right?”

 

Dude strides up and says “Do you have any IDW comics?”

 

“Umm, are there any titles you’re looking for? IDW is a big company, they publish lots of different comics.”

 

Muttering “Uh, well, uh….” he sort of drifted away.

 

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Almost forgot Jim Payette's wall books.

 

These days he only sets up at BCC. He usually brings slam-bang GA wall books, secret stash Big Boy Back Room books, and tables with several boxes of bargain books and regular show stock. This year he mostly brought DC for the regular stock.

 

 

 

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I didn’t buy as much as I hoped to this year, nothing was really jumping out at me. I wasn’t feeling motivated to go digging for gold at some of the shoddier tables, I’m close to finishing a lot of my SA runs so I’m getting pickier about price and condition, I didn’t see any new or recent collections and I bought a big book on the boards a few weeks ago, so there was no other big book I was targeting as I regroup. I past years I’ve come home with stuff that excited me, this year not so much. I did have a great time though.

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Here's some representative buys:

 

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Picked up a lot of this type of stuff: run-filler upgrades. These aren't 9.8s, but they're nice presenting copies. The dings up top are barely noticeable in hand.