| Author |
|
Ted Pugliese
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 05 December 2005
Location: United States
Posts: 7979
|
| Posted: 31 August 2015 at 1:16pm | IP Logged | 1
|
|
|
I was born in 1970 :-)
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
| www
|
| |
Paul Gibney
Byrne Robotics Member.
Joined: 17 April 2004
Location: Canada
Posts: 1075
|
| Posted: 31 August 2015 at 1:57pm | IP Logged | 2
|
|
|
And that's bad timing. You missed Star Trek AND the First Moon Landing.
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Wallace Sellars
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 01 May 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 17669
|
| Posted: 31 August 2015 at 4:57pm | IP Logged | 3
|
|
|
I saw a framed, signed and numbered "Secrets of the Batcave" Dick
Sprang print for $550.00, but foolishly passed on it. A week later, I saw a
framed, signed and numbered "Guardians of Gotham" Sprang print at a
different comic book shop for $600.00. I decided to buy it, thinking that I
would go back and get the first print to have the pair to hang in my little
comic book room downstairs.
Of course, it was gone.
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
| www
|
| |
Shaun Barry
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 08 December 2008
Location: United States
Posts: 6833
|
| Posted: 31 August 2015 at 5:17pm | IP Logged | 4
|
|
|
It's not comic-book or comic-art related, but...
On my last day of art college back in '93 or '94, I was hell-bent on asking out our painting class student (nude) model for a date, and had been psyching myself up for WEEKS, thinking the only proper way to ask would be at the end of the last class, once she was properly dressed!
I had knots in my stomach all during that last class, wondering if she'd say yes or if I would botch it... 10 minutes before the class was up, another male artist got up on the modeling platform and, in an act of solidarity and appreciation for "Stephanie" posing nude all semester long, he proceeded to strip off all of his clothes and sit next to her, all to thunderous applause and cheers from (most of) the other students. She then exclaimed, "Omigosh, that's the greatest thing that anyone's EVER done for me!!!"
I stood there in stunned silence, thinking "How the HELL am I supposed to top THAT?!?!?!?" Needless to say, I didn't bother and sullenly went home... I always wonder what could have happened, if only...!
Edited by Shaun Barry on 31 August 2015 at 6:23pm
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Brian O'Neill
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 13 November 2013
Location: United States
Posts: 1964
|
| Posted: 31 August 2015 at 6:34pm | IP Logged | 5
|
|
|
Shaun, just a wild guess, but something tells me you didn't miss much!
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Shaun Barry
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 08 December 2008
Location: United States
Posts: 6833
|
| Posted: 31 August 2015 at 7:25pm | IP Logged | 6
|
|
|
(I've wondered about that, too, Brian... but at the time, I thought she was just about perfect!)
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Chuck Wells
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 27 April 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 1244
|
| Posted: 01 September 2015 at 12:27pm | IP Logged | 7
|
|
|
Some years ago, a decade perhaps, a local comics shop liquidated their wares after someone bought them out; reopening just down the street. I've never understood why the new owner didn't retain the lions share of those comics, but I cleaned up on boxes of medium to high grade bronze age Marvel at a fraction of the prices.
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
John Byrne
Grumpy Old Guy
Joined: 11 May 2005
Posts: 132279
|
| Posted: 01 September 2015 at 12:40pm | IP Logged | 8
|
|
|
And that's bad timing. You missed Star Trek AND the First Moon Landing. •••And the first ten years of Marvel, crossing the Atlantic by liner (three times!), the golden age of EAGLE comics, FIREBALL XL5, and I could go on with other significant moments in my life AFTER 1970 that I would have missed because the whole timetable was off. Geezerhood is a drag, sometimes, but it also has it's rewards.
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Andy Mokler
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 20 January 2006
Location: United States
Posts: 2799
|
| Posted: 01 September 2015 at 1:11pm | IP Logged | 9
|
|
|
Sort of happened just the other day. Went into Toys R Us to browse around, expecting to not find anything* but they had the TRU exclusive '66 Batgirl. Not just one, but about 40 of them. Peg after peg, chock full of the things. I thought they had finally produced enough of something to go around.
I wanted to see if a couple of friends might want one so I waited until the next day when I'd had a chance to talk to them. Went back and they were all gone.
*Now, the reason I usually don't expect to find anything is that in my particular city, there is only 1 Toys R Us and who knows how many collectible dealers. I swear, anytime I look for something I feel like I'm in Beyond Thunderdome scavenging for water. Worst of all, there is one particular "dealer"(I prefer the term scalper) who buys everything whenever he comes across it. Capitalism, right? No, he buys things so that others can't. Literally. Sure, he sells the stuff that he buys but that isn't what interests him. He's run off more customers than he's got.
Man, I hate that guy.
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
e-mail
|
| |
Topic Closed)
