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[n2wdw]

27 minutes ago, Ricksneatstuff said:

I’ve only been to The one Il Mulino, though I might go to Orlando one. 

What did you think Mike?

I liked it, but I think Quality Meats is better.  But then I'm all about steak.  I'm sure Il Mulino is better for Italian.

[Ricksneatstuff]

1 hour ago, n2wdw said:

I liked it, but I think Quality Meats is better.  But then I'm all about steak.  I'm sure Il Mulino is better for Italian.

Quality Meats is definitely better for steaks IMO. 

[n2wdw]

New Pictures of My Comic Room

Here are some new pictures of my comic room, from this past weekend.  I have a vintage Star Wars Deathstar playset from the 70s.  Its shelves are perfect for displaying miscellaneous items.  On top I store Bettie Page cards.

To the left is a shelf with more miscellaneous stuff.  I try to layer things from front to back so I can store more but you can still see everything.

I moved some comics and art around on my main CGC and art shelves.

My cat likes sitting in the comic room. 

Finally, I've begun displaying a few comics in the hallway outside my comic room.  I've picked comics of interest to non-comics fans -- Walking Dead, Game of Thrones and Spider-man comics signed by the actors.  I store them in nice looking CGC frames that I bought cheap from a boardie who was looking to get rid of them (proving again that one person's garbage is another's treasure).

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On 3/22/2018 at 11:54 PM, Readcomix said:

Here's a Fighting Indian Stories, Robot Man.

Technically, it's Midget Comics 1.  St John set a record that will never be beaten for giving confusing names to some of their series.

I was lucky to grab this copy raw (and undergraded). 

[Readcomix]

18 minutes ago, Sqeggs said:

Technically, it's Midget Comics 1.  St John set a record that will never be beaten for giving confusing names to some of their series.

I was lucky to grab this copy raw (and undergraded). 

Sure is undergraded! Wow! I realize about the name; just keeping the reference consistent for the conversation. At any rate, they are an uncommon item.

[n2wdw]

7 hours ago, Sqeggs said:

Technically, it's Midget Comics 1.  St John set a record that will never be beaten for giving confusing names to some of their series.

I was lucky to grab this copy raw (and undergraded). 

Very nice.  My copy is beat up but I’m just happy to have found one.

[Ricksneatstuff]

Went to the Orlando Il Mulino Trattoria last night. A fine meal but a long way off from the original Il Mulino in NYC.  

White sangria, caprese salad, veal parmigiana, rigatoni funghi, flourless chocolate cake. They did a nice eggplant caponata amuse with house cured meat. Last pic. Had less than half of each item. 

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On 3/28/2018 at 3:45 PM, Readcomix said:

Sure is undergraded! Wow! I realize about the name; just keeping the reference consistent for the conversation. At any rate, they are an uncommon item.

I think the slabbed grade is pretty accurate.  The raw book was graded VG+ or something like that. So, I was happy with CGC's grade. 

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8 hours ago, Ricksneatstuff said:

Went to the Orlando Il Mulino Trattoria last night. A fine meal but a long way off from the original Il Mulino in NYC.  

White sangria, caprese salad, veal parmigiana, rigatoni funghi, flourless chocolate cake. They did a nice eggplant caponata amuse with house cured meat. Last pic. Had less than half of each item. 

Saving the other half for breakfast? 

[Readcomix]

1 minute ago, Sqeggs said:

I think the slabbed grade is pretty accurate.  The raw book was graded VG+ or something like that. So, I was happy with CGC's grade. 

Oh, ok. Sometimes it's hard to tell with a pic of a slang, but it sure does look stunning. Of course, maybe my crappy copy side by side helps make me think yours is under-graded! 

Either way, I don't think there's a lot of them out there. If we started a club thread, I'm not sure we could double membership.

[Ricksneatstuff]

5 minutes ago, Sqeggs said:

Saving the other half for breakfast? 

Nah, I never do leftovers on vacation.  

Tonight was Hemingway’s at the hotel.  A better meal. Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress is pretty awesome place with 1500 acres of property. Sorry to continue the Travel and Leisure section of your thread Mike.

 

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3 minutes ago, Ricksneatstuff said:

Nah, I never do leftovers on vacation.  

Tonight was Hemingway’s at the hotel.  A better meal. Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress is pretty awesome place with 1500 acres of property. Sorry to continue the Travel and Leisure section of your thread Mike.

 

Remember that I'm always available to carry luggage in exchange for food. 

[Readcomix]

6 minutes ago, Ricksneatstuff said:

Nah, I never do leftovers on vacation.  

Tonight was Hemingway’s at the hotel.  A better meal. Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress is pretty awesome place with 1500 acres of property. Sorry to continue the Travel and Leisure section of your thread Mike.

 

Food porn 

[n2wdw]

1 hour ago, Ricksneatstuff said:

Nah, I never do leftovers on vacation.  

Tonight was Hemingway’s at the hotel.  A better meal. Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress is pretty awesome place with 1500 acres of property. Sorry to continue the Travel and Leisure section of your thread Mike.

 

Please feel free to post more!  I love food pics.

Are you hitting Disney or Universal?

We are in Cabo for spring break.  I'll post some pics later.  Nothing as good as Il Mulino but still who doesn't love Tex Mex?

[Ricksneatstuff]

5 minutes ago, n2wdw said:

Please feel free to post more!  I love food pics.

Are you hitting Disney or Universal?

We are in Cabo for spring break.  I'll post some pics later.  Nothing as good as Il Mulino but still who doesn't love Tex Mex?

Went to Magic Kingdom for a day but that’s all. I’ve spent my fair share of time in Disney. Went to Disney Springs.  They really built that up. 

Had another great mean in Orlando at this Robata place called Dragonfly. Recommend it. 

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We are Disney-holics.  That's why my name here is n2wdw (as in, in to walt disney world).  As an example, my 22 year old daughter (my oldest) has been to WDW about 25 times.  Here at Cabo, we have 3 of our 4 kids with us.  My second oldest daughter had to stay at college because she couldn't miss classes.

Edited March 30, 2018 by n2wdw

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Food and Comics in Cabo

We're in Cabo for Spring Break with me, my wife and 3 of my kids (my 4th had to miss it because she couldn't miss class).  I like Cabo.  I like Cancun too.  Vacations in Mexico are great because they're fun and relatively easy on the wallet.  The 18 pesos to one US dollar definitely makes it an attractive place to go for holiday.

The place we're at is particularly beautiful.  This is our 3rd time here and the landscaping has always amazed me. 

The food is excellent too.  On a long weekend vacation like this, we don't even leave the resort as there are enough good restaurants to go to without repeating.  Here's a sampling of the food we're got so far:

I've been trying not to spend so much money on comics lately.  But still, I've managed to add a couple jewels to my collection while on vacation (and just before).  Thanks for reading.

[n2wdw]

Very annoying!  I was all set to watch last week's Homeland and I got this.  Ugh!

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Harvey High Grade Romance

I picked up these high grade Harveys recently.  I'm amazed how affordable they are.

[szav]

6 hours ago, n2wdw said:

Harvey High Grade Romance

I picked up these high grade Harveys recently.  I'm amazed how affordable they are.

Terrific pick ups, while these are still affordable.  I don't really know how common some of these are in high grade or not, its really hard to say because they're still not valuable enough to slab for most of them, and who really knows with the whole file/warehouse copy thing.  But I will say that the good ones, like you've been posting, seem to be getting increasingly scarce in VF or better.  There used to be several online sites that had tons of them and most of the places I'd found them are starting to run dry.