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Mercury Man

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  1. Some people like scribbles on their comics, some don't. I think the heart of the issue is, the two camps. By doing the scribble, you reduce the resale pool, if you decide to ever part with it, or you leave it to your kids and they decide to sell it. But hey if it is your funny book, and you want scribbles, and it makes you happy- go for it. Maybe you will keep it forever and it makes you smile- win! You may even find somebody willing to pay you gobs of money for it down the road. Just not as many as you may have hoped.
  2. No. I still pull out better copies from the $1 bins. *and still would never send this book off for encapsulation.
  3. At least with the hotel you get to sleep in the bed, use the amenities, and physically see the view. You are there. Your comparison would make more sense if you said you purchased a brochure of the fancy hotel, and can only look at the pictures, pretending you stayed there. Rally Rd is like purchasing a stock. I don't actually own part of Coca Cola, but I can own some of the stock and sell it whenever I want. Except there is more transparency there.
  4. I will admit, not just comics, the hunt for good stuff is getting harder and harder. Combination of it gets snapped up quicker or goes straight to ebay. My wife and I have several collecting addictions. She went to an estate sale got there too late, but saw some woman walk out with Franciscan Starburst plates, which is her passion. She died a little inside, but aside from big cash- timing *and luck are everything in this collectibles game.
  5. Not because it was really any good, but I was just happy to see Falcon get his own spotlight.
  6. If it's the old stuff you feel you missed out on, keep searching, keep digging. 99% of the time you walk away from a garage sale or flea market or thrift store disappointed. Then the 1% you find something worthwhile, gives you that impetus to keep going.
  7. Agreed, the constant renumbering, volumes etc. is out of control.
  8. Alan Scott and Bobby Drake jumped the shark for me. I mean Drake was a somewhat of a womanizer back in the day. And you will find anytime this happens in comics, it basically has ZERO to do with any significant part of the storyline. Lazy comic book writers, doing lazy things for a social agenda. Pass.
  9. We have the sun in Florida. It doesn't work as well for humidity here.
  10. I yawned once, drip of spit hit it. It was the 1990's. Hence the yawn.
  11. @Buzzetta Thanks for posting. Bloom County was my favorite back in the 1980's. I had a 'Bill The Cat For President' Poster in my room.
  12. Never liked a Celeb signing a comic book, (unless said Celeb is actually pictured on the comic book). But at $400, now I really don't like a Celeb signing a comic book.
  13. CGC photo of their shipping and receiving area:
  14. As mentioned earlier, BCW also experiencing slow delivery. My one LCS has been out of Regular/Silver 2 Mil Mylars for months.
  15. An American but stuck in a Britcom World IT Crowd Peep Show Black Books One Foot in The Grave