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I will be very interested to hear how long the process takes, as I have heard unflattering things about the wait for non modern books,

How and why is this only a 6.5? I see a couple of minor spine ticks on the front cover. On the back, near the top, it looks a little rolled. 6.5 seems really harsh, unless there is something wrong inside.

Some pickups this weekend from Carry On Comics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Happy Good Friday to all! Here are today’s pickups from the Comic Warehouse in Kitchener, where stat holidays are unheard of for their staff:

From time to time on these boards, we have rallied to the financial help of a member who has become disabled or worse, died, leaving their family in a financial bind. And it’s great that we do that, and no one should feel shy about asking for help when they need it! Please continue doing so. I’m just saying…if you can afford to buy new comics every month at your LCS, or buy old comics here, then you can spare the money to get some minimal level of death or disability insurance. We are all getting up there in years, as shown by our grey hair, or less hair every day. The statistics come for each and every one of us one day. When it’s your turn, please make sure you have done what was possible to look after your family. Now some levity to lighten the serious mood:

Wow! I was about to ask why you didn’t have Galileo and K7 kits, but they were just vacationing in another cabinet. Love those old AMT Star Trek models! They were the gift of choice whenever my childhood friends had birthdays in the late 70s.

Does anyone know why DC was so reluctant to have Superman and Batman in the JLA or on the cover for the first 30 issues or so?

That happened to me once at the Comics Warehouse in Kitchener.

I HATE going to a comic store and the staff saying “ Oh, the boss is at a show this weekend with all the good stuff.”

My two Toronto go tos for Silver Age back issues are not on your map. Google Silver Snail, and Paradise Comics. And I am happy to hear from native Torontonians if there are other good sources for Silver Age books.

Take, per DM.

Key issues like Action #1 will continue to climb in value, but I don’t think the longterm future looks good for non key issues like Action 101, 201, etc.., because there just is not a crowd of young people anymore interested in reading comics. The last time we saw actual kids buying comics was the 80s, when the industry had big hits with Transformers, GI Joe, X-Men, New Teen Titans, etc. I think values for common issues like Action101 will continue to gradually increase until the kids who were buying and reading comics in the 80s hit 65 and sell off their collections. So let’s say we are talking about kids who were born around 1970 to 1975. So when they turn 65 in the interval from 2035 to 2040, I think we will see values of common back issues plummet in value, just like 1950s Westerns have already experienced. i intend to sell my collection before then!