FCBD Hangover
Sorry for missing last week’s post, I blame Free Comic Book Day! For me these weekly posts are a mix of market research and benchmarking, performance art, marketing and therapy, the sum of these parts often adds up to bits…
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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Girl Problems
Apologies for the tardy post, I had an Easter dinner to attend on Sunday and I’m not sure how it happened but I ended up eating and drinking way too much, I got home in the evening with little ambition…
A Light Dusting
It was a beautiful spring morning this past Friday April 11th, perfect weather for me to go out on the back deck and enjoy some warm sunshine and hot coffee. The truth is I was a bit early with the…
Snow Day
To quote the late great Mr. Dangerfield – “I tell ya I’m alright now but last week I was in rough shape”. What the heck was that last week? The pic below is me driving home! I’m hoping the weather…
Stacked
You ever try to come up with a system to help tackle a big task? We’re trying and I think we’re learning that stacking things into big piles doesn’t work so well. But hey, we’re improvising on the fly –…
Heavy Load
We’ve been trying to list more and more lots on our weekly eBay auctions, we’re gunning for a consistent 200 lots per week and we’ve been coming close, getting into the 180s over the past few weeks. All those lots…
Good Read
Late isn’t the word. The Mighty Alex Sorensen sent me the following as a Happy New Years present on the 1st of January, I loved it and told him I’d slot it into an upcoming post… I find myself in…
Top 10 First Vehicle Appearances on Comic Covers!
This week, Chris and Walt have a look at the first appearance of super vehicles on comic covers! Whew! That’s a mouthful to say. Chris and Walt always seem to have a mouthful of thing to say. Check it out!
The Irishmen
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day everyone, may the luck of the Irish shine on all of you, me and the fellas are going to gather today at the warehouse and share some fine Irish whiskey, come to think of it we…
Top 10 Comic Cover Homages
Have you ever seen a comic cover and thought, that looks very familiar? It’s probably because that cover may have paid homage to another classic comic cover. Check out Chris and Walt’s Top 10 Comic Book Cover Homages!
Some Heat, Finally
Eat your heart Brisbane, Cancun, Miami, we’re getting temperatures in the mid teens this coming week, (that’s mid 60s for our American friends) it might even be hot enough to melt through those snow plow build, Antarctica sized ICE piles…
Waiting for the Weekend
That’s two weeks in a row where I’ve not had the time to rummage through the “going to eBay auction” pile on the weekend, doing so on a Saturday sets up this weekly post I write on Sunday evening, but…
Heat Wave
Australia eat your heart out, Southern Ontario is getting a week full of Plus 3 to 4 degrees Celsius weather, I can just see all those Kenora Dinner Jackets being folded up neatly and put away until next year, here…
Snow Day
Hamilton got hammered this weekend with something like 30 to 40 cm of snow and that’s on top of the big snow storm we got mid last week, to top it all off the weather doesn’t look like it will…
Super Results
OK, everything we need to get into the warehouse is now in the warehouse, time to like ninety to get all the comics sorted into their titles. I mentioned last week that our weekly eBay auction is doing well when…
Trade Winds
Well the obvious place to start is with the Tariffs, I don’t know enough yet on how it will affect our retail store, Big B Comics, in Hamilton (Big B sells little into the USA but we buy quite a…
Crisp and Clean
What a beautiful weekend in Southern Ontario, it was cold and crisp and the air felt clean, it was perfect weather for comic booking and I did lots of it. Don’t ask me how but I’m renting that large warehouse…
Vortex Comics
What’s wrong with this picture, our friend Spider going out on bike rides in his short shorts, basking in the warm summertime sunshine of Down Under, while I’m triple layered up here in the Great White North, praying my car…
Top 10 Spawn Covers
Hi gang, I’ll post out YouTube video on the Top 10 Spawn covers right here, hopefully everyone can go over to YouTube and Subscribe and hit the Notification Bell. I’ll keep posting the YouTube videos here until it becomes redundant,…
New Data
Whenever a new month rolls around I find myself peeking at the new month’s GPA sales data. I’ve been telling myself that price drops should be levelling off soon for at least the last 8 months, it’s like an echo.…