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#101 3 years ago
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#102 3 years ago

Shameless plug: I am writing a comic with my friend and amazing artist Lucas Cervellini. He grew up in Argentina and came to the states to do comic books, and got sidetracked into becoming an outstanding tattoo artist and shop owner. He had the art done for the first several pages of this project for years, and a rough idea of a story and a few pages scripted in Spanish. He first asked me to be his editor and help him with some of the harder aspects of English vernacular that even non native fluent speakers never quite get down. But we ended up sitting down and completely rewriting the entire story arc and started a new script entirely. I’m writing, he’s penciling and a couple of his buddies back in Argentina are inking and coloring. We have a second and completely unrelated and totally original story we are also working on that we will do as an ongoing after Alice is done (5 issues), and submit to try to get picked up and published. Or we might self publish it.

Either way, this one is pretty fun. See what you think...

https://alicecomic.com/comic/alice-in-mobland-2/

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#103 3 years ago

I wanted to share an idea I had a while back about storing my comics. I had been doing the long box thing (probably like most of you) for the better part of 40 years. They work, but they are ugly and they ended up taking up entire closets and it was kind of a pain to access them. I needed a better solution. This is what I came up with. I bough some 4 drawer lateral filing cabinets (Steelcase Model #9LF18364F) from a used office supply store for $120 each (new they go for $600- $800). It didn't matter what they looked like, because I had a local cabinet guy professionally laminate them for $200 each. I bought some handles at Home Depot. I didn't want to stress the laminate when pulling on the handles, so I mounted some particle board on the inside of the facing of the drawers. And for the dividers, I picked out the thinnest plywood they had at Home Depot. I did all the measurements ahead of time and had them do all the cutting at the store. I would estimate that all in, it probably cost me about $360 per cabinet. Each one holds about 2000 comics. Just buying the long boxes for 2000 comics could probably cost at least $150. For me, it is well worth the additional cost to have something that looks great and is easily accessible. In the final picture, the bookcase on top of the cabinets is a typical oak bookcase that I just turned on its side. It fits perfectly on top of two of the cabinets (they are 36 inches wide each). I just cut up the shelves to make the custom cubby holes. Hope that gives you some ideas.

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#104 3 years ago
Quoted from Sanctionman:

I wanted to share an idea I had a while back about storing my comics. I had been doing the long box thing (probably like most of you) for the better part of 40 years. They work, but they are ugly and they ended up taking up entire closets and it was kind of a pain to access them. I needed a better solution. This is what I came up with. I bough some 4 drawer lateral filing cabinets (Steelcase Model #9LF18364F) from a used office supply store for $120 each (new they go for $600- $800). It didn't matter what they looked like, because I had a local cabinet guy professionally laminate them for $200 each. I bought some handles at Home Depot. I didn't want to stress the laminate when pulling on the handles, so I mounted some particle board on the inside of the facing of the drawers. And for the dividers, I picked out the thinnest plywood they had at Home Depot. I did all the measurements ahead of time and had them do all the cutting at the store. I would estimate that all in, it probably cost me about $360 per cabinet. Each one holds about 2000 comics. Just buying the long boxes for 2000 comics could probably cost at least $150. For me, it is well worth the additional cost to have something that looks great and is easily accessible. In the final picture, the bookcase on top of the cabinets is a typical oak bookcase that I just turned on its side. It fits perfectly on top of two of the cabinets (they are 36 inches wide each). I just cut up the shelves to make the custom cubby holes. Hope that gives you some ideas.
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That looks great! Nice idea and thanks for sharing.

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#105 3 years ago
Quoted from Sanctionman:

I wanted to share an idea I had a while back about storing my comics. I had been doing the long box thing (probably like most of you) for the better part of 40 years. They work, but they are ugly and they ended up taking up entire closets and it was kind of a pain to access them. I needed a better solution. This is what I came up with. I bough some 4 drawer lateral filing cabinets (Steelcase Model #9LF18364F) from a used office supply store for $120 each (new they go for $600- $800). It didn't matter what they looked like, because I had a local cabinet guy professionally laminate them for $200 each. I bought some handles at Home Depot. I didn't want to stress the laminate when pulling on the handles, so I mounted some particle board on the inside of the facing of the drawers. And for the dividers, I picked out the thinnest plywood they had at Home Depot. I did all the measurements ahead of time and had them do all the cutting at the store. I would estimate that all in, it probably cost me about $360 per cabinet. Each one holds about 2000 comics. Just buying the long boxes for 2000 comics could probably cost at least $150. For me, it is well worth the additional cost to have something that looks great and is easily accessible. In the final picture, the bookcase on top of the cabinets is a typical oak bookcase that I just turned on its side. It fits perfectly on top of two of the cabinets (they are 36 inches wide each). I just cut up the shelves to make the custom cubby holes. Hope that gives you some ideas.
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Damn that's an organized collection!

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#107 3 years ago

Sanctionman-get rid of the plywood dividers. They off-gas like crazy. And are able to discolor paper

Looks great

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#109 3 years ago

Anybody holding any Marvel Star Wars Comics? The key issues seem to be in pretty high demand these days with the success of the Mandalorian and the new Boba Fett series coming out. Heck, Star Wars is 44 years old this year.

#110 3 years ago
Quoted from Mad_Dog_Coin_Op:

Anybody holding any Marvel Star Wars Comics? The key issues seem to be in pretty high demand these days with the success of the Mandalorian and the new Boba Fett series coming out. Heck, Star Wars is 44 years old this year.

I have a few that I've managed to hold onto all of these years.

I have Star Wars no. 10 and 11. They are not graded, but probably a solid 7.5, maybe as high as an 8 if pressed.

I also have the reprint editions of 1-3. These are still from '77-'78. Marvel had no idea how quickly Star Wars was going to sell out. Movie tie-ins usually didn't do well back then. So they did reprints almost immediately. They are not as desirable, but still, as you say, they are going on 44 years old.

#111 3 years ago
Quoted from zombywoof:

I have a few that I've managed to hold onto all of these years.
I have Star Wars no. 10 and 11. They are not graded, but probably a solid 7.5, maybe as high as an 8 if pressed.
I also have the reprint editions of 1-3. These are still from '77-'78. Marvel had no idea how quickly Star Wars was going to sell out. Movie tie-ins usually didn't do well back then. So they did reprints almost immediately. They are not as desirable, but still, as you say, they are going on 44 years old.

Seemingly overnight 3 issues are over 1k if you have a nice example of the book (#1, #42 and #68). There are a lot of Star Wars fans. It would appear that Disney is tapping the comic books for some story lines on their new shows (hence the drastic price increase). I could sell mine and buy a Topper for one of my Stern games.

#112 3 years ago

The rise of the Dark Horse SW books is insane. And you suddenly can’t find them anywhere, with people buying all of them in the hope lightning strikes. I always wanted the Cline Wars title for my kids, wha have always been fans of the show—can’t even justify it now.

#113 3 years ago

Looks like I have a few but not many.
The "-2" are reprints.

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#114 3 years ago

When you folks send things to CGC, are you sending books with that have the storage bags taped? Not taped? Self-adhesive bags?

Also, any advice for packing? Do you get those comic mailing boxes?

Thanks!

#115 3 years ago

I sold my whole run of Marvel SW 1-107 just before they announced the Omnibus. $450. That was about 5 years ago. Was that a deal?

#116 3 years ago
Quoted from bayoubilly70:

When you folks send things to CGC, are you sending books with that have the storage bags taped? Not taped? Self-adhesive bags?
Also, any advice for packing? Do you get those comic mailing boxes?
Thanks!

CGC has changed their packing guide lines several times over the last few years. They now have a mailer kit you can purchase to send in your comics. If you go to the website they have videos you can watch. Personally, I still send them in using the old method. Stacks of 5 comics bagged, boarded and taped separately and the inserted into a larger magazine bag. The group of five is then tapped to a larger square of cardboard. Repeat the steps if you’re sending in more comics. When done assembling your stack add another square of cardboard on top making a comic sandwich. Wrap the sandwich in bubblewrap and box it up. That’s pretty much it. Just make sure you insure it when sending it off.

#117 3 years ago
Quoted from MRG:

I sold my whole run of Marvel SW 1-107 just before they announced the Omnibus. $450. That was about 5 years ago. Was that a deal?

I’m sure that made somebody happy.

#118 3 years ago

I'm selling a few things. 70 plus issues of SSOC.
All bagged and boarded in mylar. Issues from 70s through
164. All in vg to f condition. Savage Sword of Conan.

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#119 3 years ago
Quoted from albummydavis:

Sanctionman-get rid of the plywood dividers. They off-gas like crazy. And are able to discolor paper
Looks great

Albummydavis- just saw this. Thanks for the tip!

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#120 3 years ago
Quoted from lowbeau67:

I'm selling a few things. 70 plus issues of SSOC.
All bagged and boarded in mylar. Issues from 70s through
164. All in vg to f condition. Savage Sword of Conan.
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Will sell these for 150 shipped
In the box you see. Will donate to pinside if sold. Thx

#121 3 years ago

Wish my Batman 1 was worth over 2mil. Sadly it’s just a slightly restored 1.8 but still happy to have one. With the crazy prices all these silver and copper age comics are commanding I think most of the golden age mega keys are still way undervalued... or the silver and copper age comics are waaay overvalued based on rarity.

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#122 1 year ago

The Kickstarter is live for the comic I’m writing. If you enjoy my rants here, get a load of this thing…

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aliceinmobland/the-last-panther?ref=section-homepage-view-more-recommendations-p1

Thanks for looking.

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#123 1 year ago

RIP
Neal Adams
one of the best
if not the best

#124 1 year ago

Neal adams. Great artist and human being.

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#125 1 year ago

Neal Adams was one o& the best Batman artists out there. He, along with Denny O’Neil, helped revolutionize the 1970s Batman character into the dark, mysterious figure as originally intended. RIP Sir

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#126 11 months ago

Hey comic collectors: these are pretty cool. Limited to 200 each and featuring the girls of Archie comics (Betty, Veronica, Sabrina). Dan Parent is one of the more popular artists doing "good girl" art these days and the theme is pinball / arcade related. He has been the Archie Comics primary artist for the last 3 decades.

https://gr8wallofcomics.com/products/pre-order-betty-and-veronica-friends-forever-game-on-1-arcade-connecting-variant-covers-by-dan-parent?variant=42790386532559
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#127 11 months ago

He also did a LE cover for the same comic title. This one is limited to 150 covers and is offered here:

https://thecomiccornerstore.com/collections/june-2021/products/bv-friends-forever-game-on-dan-parent-exclusive

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#128 5 months ago

Here is a modern grail comic for fans of "good girl" art. One of Dan Parent's best covers. This foil verison is limiting to 30 copies and they were individually numbered. I scored #1. The book also received a 9.9 grade form CGC. It doesn't get much better than that.

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