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Post by impulse on Jan 13, 2024 11:06:05 GMT -5
Yeah, the analysis paralysis used to happen on Netflix when they actually had content, too.
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Post by MDG on Jan 13, 2024 11:27:25 GMT -5
Imagine a store stamping the back of a sold comic book as 'PAID' instead of just bagging it....
Poor Jonah, a #1 too, with the Mark Jeweller insert. Indifferent people can be dumb.......
How does affect the reading experience? Not at all. So does it matter? No
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Post by Calidore on Jan 13, 2024 11:58:10 GMT -5
I’m really considering giving up Marvel Unlimited. I often find the choice of reading material overwhelming. Its biggest strength is its biggest weakness. Earlier this evening, and this isn’t the first time this has happened, I spent at least 15-20 minutes deciding what to read. Do I continue with Lee/Ditko Spidey? Do I resume the Star Wars comics I have been reading for a while? Hang on, that classic Namor book looks appealing. I stopped at a friend’s house over Christmas. We joked about how, between us, it took many, many minutes for us to decide what to watch on Netflix. Sometimes, too much choice is overwhelming. But at least with Netflix, it’s (mostly) modern or relatively modern stuff. With something like Marvel Unlimited, you have 85 years of content! Prior to being a Marvel Unlimited customer, my approach was simple: with the same limited budget that most people have, I made choices and I made them quickly. If I had £20-25 to spend on trades and/or graphic novels one month, I’d choose two or three books I really wanted. It didn’t take me long to decide, and I was rarely disappointed. But even though Marvel Unlimited only costs about £9 a month, there’s a frustration in spending a lot of time deciding what to read. If I added up the time I’ve spent on deciding what to read, it’d probably irk me; as I stated, when you’re buying physical books on a limited budget, you make decisions quickly. I haven’t spent huge amounts of time being indecisive about what to buy in my LCS. I hope I don’t sound like I have a short attention span, but every time I open up the Marvel Unlimited app, there are all these great, intriguing books, modern and classic, to read, and it just feels like it’s harder to decide what to read. Anyone been where I am? Would you say dropping Marvel Unlimited and limiting my choices would be good? Paradoxically, it seems unlimited choice is not good, while a limited choice based on one’s budget would be good. This is where the D&D dice come in handy. I can just roll up the next thing to try. Then I think, "Well, nah, not that one," and roll again. And again. And again. And again....
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 13, 2024 12:04:10 GMT -5
The stamp leads me to believe that it was a book exchange type store or a thrift shop. I suspect they had less than zero concern about defacing the book or its potential collectibility in the future.
I’ll add that I’m astounded that anyone cares about Mark Jeweler inserts. I remember a time when people hated them.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 13, 2024 12:47:57 GMT -5
The stamp leads me to believe that it was a book exchange type store or a thrift shop. I suspect they had less than zero concern about defacing the book or its potential collectibility in the future. I’ll add that I’m astounded that anyone cares about Mark Jeweler inserts. I remember a time when people hated them. Probably because when it's removed, it makes the book incomplete. I used to rip all those types of things out of my books.
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Post by MWGallaher on Jan 13, 2024 17:28:08 GMT -5
The stamp leads me to believe that it was a book exchange type store or a thrift shop. I suspect they had less than zero concern about defacing the book or its potential collectibility in the future. I’ll add that I’m astounded that anyone cares about Mark Jeweler inserts. I remember a time when people hated them. Probably because when it's removed, it makes the book incomplete. I used to rip all those types of things out of my books. I can top that. In the early 70's, when I realized all of the ads in the DC books were printed on the same sheets, I'd often rip 'em all out, leaving only the story pages and ads printed on the inside and back covers.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jan 13, 2024 17:39:03 GMT -5
Probably because when it's removed, it makes the book incomplete. I used to rip all those types of things out of my books. I can top that. In the early 70's, when I realized all of the ads in the DC books were printed on the same sheets, I'd often rip 'em all out, leaving only the story pages and ads printed on the inside and back covers. I used to find DC books without ads at shops and shows all the time. Often not realizing it until I got home and took the book out of the bag because the seller didn't note it. I think I had most of the Conway New Gods series like that. -M
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Post by MDG on Jan 13, 2024 17:48:47 GMT -5
Probably because when it's removed, it makes the book incomplete. I used to rip all those types of things out of my books. I can top that. In the early 70's, when I realized all of the ads in the DC books were printed on the same sheets, I'd often rip 'em all out, leaving only the story pages and ads printed on the inside and back covers. A few years ago I picked up a half-dozen or so late 60s DCs out of a box. The previous owner razored out pages with ads or text pieces on both sides, glued together facing pages with ads, and three-hole punched them.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 13, 2024 17:52:45 GMT -5
Probably because when it's removed, it makes the book incomplete. I used to rip all those types of things out of my books. I can top that. In the early 70's, when I realized all of the ads in the DC books were printed on the same sheets, I'd often rip 'em all out, leaving only the story pages and ads printed on the inside and back covers. This is the most interesting thing I read this entire week. You win the internet today. You can win it for the month if you show some of these books in tomorrow's Zoom meeting. * *Shameless plug
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 13, 2024 18:35:04 GMT -5
I can top that. In the early 70's, when I realized all of the ads in the DC books were printed on the same sheets, I'd often rip 'em all out, leaving only the story pages and ads printed on the inside and back covers. I used to find DC books without ads at shops and shows all the time. Often not realizing it until I got home and took the book out of the bag because the seller didn't note it. I think I had most of the Conway New Gods series like that. -M My run of the Conway New Gods are all like that, as are the three New Doom Patrol issues of Showcase. Did I somehow end up with your comics?
Cei-U! I summon the coincidence!
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jan 13, 2024 19:54:51 GMT -5
I used to find DC books without ads at shops and shows all the time. Often not realizing it until I got home and took the book out of the bag because the seller didn't note it. I think I had most of the Conway New Gods series like that. -M My run of the Conway New Gods are all like that, as are the three New Doom Patrol issues of Showcase. Did I somehow end up with your comics?
Cei-U! I summon the coincidence!
Maybe? I bought them in Connecticut, but they were among the comics I sold via ebay between '98 and '03. so they could have gone anywhere. -M
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Post by MWGallaher on Jan 13, 2024 23:28:16 GMT -5
I can top that. In the early 70's, when I realized all of the ads in the DC books were printed on the same sheets, I'd often rip 'em all out, leaving only the story pages and ads printed on the inside and back covers. This is the most interesting thing I read this entire week. You win the internet today. You can win it for the month if you show some of these books in tomorrow's Zoom meeting. * *Shameless plug My collection's in a highly disorganized state at the moment. My first thought was "How would I even find which ones I did this to?" but then I remembered specifically doing it to THE SHADOW #2 while I read it in the back seat of the family car waiting for my father to finish up with something. If I can find my DC 'S' box, it would be fun to confirm whether this is a true memory!
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Post by impulse on Jan 14, 2024 10:38:25 GMT -5
It's funny how the things that make certain collectibles so desirable are the things that collectors don't want in them. Periodicals were meant to be consumable and disposable, so preserving them in their original pristine state wasn't on anyone's mind compared to functional things like stamping for easy tracking of status, removing annoying inserts that degrade the reading experience, etc.
As a result, there are very few that are intact and well-preserved, so those few are in demand and hard to find. It's just a funny thing. I threw broken scraps and pieces of old Transformers and whatnot toys in the trash that would sell for hundreds/thousands if they were unopened in their box, but I was a kid. Why would I not open and play with them?
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Post by Batflunkie on Jan 14, 2024 11:37:20 GMT -5
As a result, there are very few that are intact and well-preserved, so those few are in demand and hard to find. It's just a funny thing. I threw broken scraps and pieces of old Transformers and whatnot toys in the trash that would sell for hundreds/thousands if they were unopened in their box, but I was a kid. Why would I not open and play with them? Yeah, when you're a kid, you really don't think about collectability. I can't tell you how many toys I ruined over the years by repurposing them for little skit shows that I filmed on my camcorder. The ones that I still have I try and take better care of even if I don't really play with them anymore and just basically use them for display purposes
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Post by kirby101 on Jan 14, 2024 12:45:16 GMT -5
If I never opned any of my toys and kept them in the box, I'd be a millionaire. (Or a thousandaire)
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