oldmilwaukee6er

Once I subscribed for 3 years and got an exclusive Witchblade Darkness comic. I swapped it to my local (Billings MT) for $280 in trade and that was a fun day! 

I personally love synthesis work such as Grand Design. With mountains of canon, it's required reading IMO

Some Saturday morning fun coming up for me - unboxing NECA's Year of the Rabbit set. This includes a new Space Usagi sculpt and some thoughtful accessories true to the comics. One fun 'happy cartoon' head. Also fun are the 6 tokage lizards ... only 2 figures had that prior (plus MAYbe one SDCC exclusive). Finally I've always liked a good Samurai armor Usagi, since the original 1989 Playmates figure had him w/ armor. The 2013 TNMT line Samurai Usagi is great but this one is much more colorful w/ accessories that recall the 90s Leonardo Sewer Samurai figure.

Also awaiting a carded Usagi from the 2003 TMNT line in (what I believe is) 2005 packaging vs normal 2004 packaging. There's a few that seemed to fly under the radar recently- happy to add one to my collection. While the sculpt diverges from Usagi in the comics or in the show really, I like the swivel action and that Usagi can be set to finish the swipe in his iconic kill pose from the comics. This line also had a Battle Nexus Gennosuke "Gen" figure that fetches $200+ (UY's Rhino bounty hunter friend). A someday chase. One drawback - it's a challenge to find clamshells for the larger 2003-2005 cards so condition can be tricky. 

On 12/30/2023 at 11:48 AM, The Sledder said:

Sorry...I have to hack the mainframe to decipher @oldmilwaukee6er's list.  He skipped some numbers and duplicated others.  There's no 2,8,9...but then there's 3x 33's.  I'm working on it. 

Thanks for your help@The Sledder and patience all - I intended to pick live but ranked the list from my phone after an airport delay.  I'll review my messages and respond soon!!

Patch of a toy of a comic character 

Received safely and stashed under the tree. Packing my gift and it will mail in the next 2 days. Happy holidays everyone! 

All items received and about to take a victory lap at the last Burnham Bowl comic & toy show of the year 

Mmmmm bowling alley cheeseburger 

90s Spawn covers ranked

On 12/1/2023 at 11:02 PM, pmpknface said:

Here's another modern variant that's a copper image...

My favorite local vintage shop just did a Hobgoblin shirt as part of their last clothing drop ... HTF good Hobgoblin gear! Keep up the great focus 

RIP Bird! Sincere condolences to the family. It's unfair that life moves on when it seems it should stop, as it does for them. May you find all the grails in the next life! 

On 11/23/2023 at 10:31 PM, mattn792 said:

Oh he definitely still puts out the emails, almost on a daily basis.  In a recent one, he railed about ending tours of his Pueblo pottery museum on the 2nd floor because too many people who requested them didn’t know anything about pottery.  Because why take a chance at educating when you can stick your nose up in the air instead?

That was an odd gatekeeping he rant he went on - most def

Chuck has also had an inventory algorithm that prices a comic lower when there is more stock. So if prices are high, he's high or he typically only has a few but if stock is deep then prices (after the codeword sale) is low. And this blanket algorithm doesn't account for speculator news, nouveau Keys, or move fast, it just reacts to a number. One boardie used to buy Sensational Spider-Man 2 from Chuck and flip them as 9.8s to good coin. 

He's also been a historically poor grader, which can be gamed. He was a lateish adopter of CGC, sans the Mile High 2 books, and grades off Overstreet. That means anything NM can be 9-9.8- lots of ppl complain about the 9.0 but fewer about those 9.8s. Recently he's been deliberately downgrading NM books to lower categories too, to fill stock at different price levels. He also used to not differentiate printings or errors which is frustrating until it's not - Thank you for the error Sandman 18s, 19s.

In! Look fwd to it

Mail call from McFarlane toys... thought I was pre-ordering and they were delivered quick. More variants 

On 9/29/2023 at 8:30 AM, Mijael.Levy said:

Brazilian comics are very hot right now. People who collect foreign books are paying a lot of money . You should buy them , resell them and get the books you want. If you want to avoid taxes just ask the seller to declare lower value. 

Good advice. Spawn collectors pay (on average) $20 usd for Mexican editions. I have. One could collect and resell those and you can use the funds to buy US comics. I started collecting by flipping books that were affordable and available to me for books that were less available and less affordable. It's a great way to build a collection.  

I think classic covers, homages or cover swipes would have the widest appeal. Or hot books, first appearances 

On 9/19/2023 at 9:41 PM, newshane said:

I called it quits at issue 275. 

 

I've been thinking of stopping at 350. With the new titles and variants it's a lot. I have 3 short boxes for Spawn 1-299, and filling 5 more since 300. 

Some Denis Kitchen buttons bought from the man himself... he's out in MA now. 

Bought them for the Strictly Uppa Crust button, head/comix shop at 1234 E Brady St, also home to the 1812 Overture record shop

Also this Milwaukee barfly button cracks me up 

Here's the best I can boast- my 1995 Grateful Dead tour shirt with stash bag sewn from the scraps of a friend's pants 

Sadly, I cut up all my vintage Liquid Blue, band shirts, etc and repurposed them into quilts from Project Repat.