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On 2/1/2024 at 7:02 PM, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

I did seee the selling/grading  part , but doesn't it reference this is supposed to be for their "private collection " (i.e. not commercial) and that these submissions and requests need to be filed with HR?

To me this has probably been part of their hiring package all along , 

Yes, part of CGC's staff terms, business ethics since 1999:

Recommend u just conserve and leaf-cast this GA Superman. Too much labor to do in-painting unless u want the practice during X-mas break.

On 12/10/2021 at 7:47 PM, Grottu said:

Reinforced the new spine with Japanese paper and wheat paste.

Didn't the spine thicken and become less pliable after u reinforced it with Japan paper and wheat paste? Great job in-painting with acrylics.

So u mainly used Absorene to gently scrape the moisture transfer on the above SA DC covers? Great job.

You should track down Metzger to get poster frame signed. He is usually walking around HH con, and may have a table again at Yaletown Comic Arts Festival May, 2020.

13 hours ago, Fan Boy said:

I would also stick my neck in saying New Westminster have no comic store after Steve’s Comics went bust, and Talkin’ Illustrations went closed.

The Uptown community in New Westminster would be a good spot, I think. I also think North Burnaby/Lougheed Mall region would be a good area where Skytrain major hub is located, plus SFU university is nearby - lots of young students around.

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By Uptown New Westminster, did you mean near Columbia St where 2 skytrain lines cross? That is where first Golden Age Collectables shop circa 1975 started out. Rent would be cheaper in New West than Lougheed Mall or expanding Brentwood Mall with it's new condo towers and community center being built.

7 hours ago, Fan Boy said:

Was told by one of employees that he is looking at a location somewhere near East Vancouver/ Burnaby in region of Victoria Street by Broadway Street. Something nearby around there, I think. It’s not officially yet decided with their future plans for a new reopening. 

 

My buddy Paul L used to have a small comic shop on Commercial Drive south of Broadway (at E. 11th Ave) about 26 years ago. Comic vendors always looking for pockets of cheap rent in East Vancouver. e.g. David Grannis (ex of Collector's Books and Comics pre-Bizarre Bazaar) had a back issue and record LP shop at Kingsway/Fraser St. but this was about 30 years ago. There is already a small gaming and some comics store at Rupert St/Grandview Hwy (E. 12th Ave).

North Burnaby has no comic store left after Taz Comics moved to Vancouver side of E. Hastings St. /Boundary Rd.

New 2 bedroom condos in Metrotown, Burnaby used to be $500k, now they are close to $600k. Rundown detached houses 45 to 110 years old sell fast on the poor East Vancouver side of town for $1.3 mil.

I am still hoping the 2 last Comicshop employees are able to find another retail space along W. 4th Ave or West Broadway else where are their 200 subscribers all going to move to? 8th Dimension Comics or downtown to Golden Age? I would recommend they try to open up a shop in North Surrey which is the nexus of a newer skytrain line being extended to Guildford mall side. Lots of young families in Surrey and the Tri-Cities area.

I think I stopped my new issues subscription about 9 years ago when cover prices went up and the Dark Horse cover price exchange rate was 1.50 to 1.60 for Canadian reader/collectors. Just funnel your $$ into back issues older than we are and you will be all right in the long run.

2 hours ago, Fan Boy said:

There were two stores on Columbia street in New Westminster? They must had went down early before 1980s. I remembered went to one store near Columbia street uphill from the old Canada Post building (where the NW police dept currently occupies) on 6th. I forget what the store name was, but the owner had lots of decent Bronze Age-1980s comics in bins. Sadly this store went out of business a short time later .

 

I think Paper Chase was on 6th and there was a corner magazine, used bookstore near there that had some second hand comics outside of of Golden Age Collectables on Columbia St, New Westminster before Talkin' Illustrations opened by Terry S.

From my recollection, David G's Collector's Books and Comics at Dunbar and W. 16th Ave was Vancouver's first comic shop. I think Ken W used to work for Collector's Books before the 2 hippies started up The Comicshop on West 4th Ave. Patrick S also had Starfire (or Phoenix?) Books and Comics up the stairs in downtown New Westminster, BC before he opened up the first Golden Age Collectables on Columbia St, New Westminster. These are the tales from old timers like us.