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Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

581 - Dealing in High-Grade Back Issues

Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

Speakers of Geek

Comic Book, Comic Books, Superhero, Arts, Comic, Comicbook, Graphic Novel, Comics, Comicbooks, Arts & Entertainment

4.3668 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2009

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Every comic collector has back issues, but not every comic collector buys and sells top-notch key issues. Joining us to talk about the ins and outs of dealing high-grade back issues is comic dealer Bob Storms.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Comic Geek Speak episode 581 dealing with high-grade back issues.

0:07.0

Welcome to Comic Geek Speak. I'm Brian Deamer.

0:18.0

I'm Adam Murdo. And I'm Brian Christman.

0:22.8

Welcome to the show.

0:30.9

And this episode of Comic Geek Speak is sponsored by Comic Cubes. All right. So what the heck are comic cubes?

0:41.0

Well, now, if you're storing your comics, you have back issues, and don't we all? And traditionally, we have to put them in cardboard boxes.

0:47.9

And, you know, while that's fine when you're 13, when you're 33 and you're married and you have a nice house and you have a nice furniture, the cardboard boxes sitting on the floor,

0:52.4

they just don't cut it anymore.

0:54.3

And, you know, God forbid, you're never going to have your comics in the living room or in your

0:59.2

bedroom because your wife just is not going to allow that, or even you aren't going to allow that,

1:04.1

because it just looks ugly.

1:05.3

You don't want people coming over to your house and seeing giant cardboard boxes all strewn about your living room.

1:10.7

So comic cubes are wooden drawers essentially for your comics.

1:16.4

And they look beautiful.

1:18.5

Not only are they just wooden drawers, but it's a completely interchangeable,

1:25.2

reconfigurable system for storing comics. So you can buy one or two drawers

1:30.5

today. You can stack them on top of each other. They lock in the place with pins, no screws, no

1:34.5

hardware. You don't have to actually build anything. This is not like IKEA. And then next week,

1:40.5

you can buy two more. And the month after that, you can buy 17 more, and you can change them around.

1:44.7

You can put four across and make a row of four and have two high, and then you can make change,

1:49.6

know what, I want three wide by four high, and you can do whatever you want, change them all around.

1:54.8

They also have smaller drawers that hold DVDs or video games or baseball cards or whatever.

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