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Dick Giordano: Memories of a Legend Comic Book Resources

Execrate damn damn. I've been kicking myself hourly since the news hit on Saturday. My mentor and friend Dick Giordano was gone.

Dick’s vocation in comics spanned over 50 years. 50 years – most of us are lucky to get ten or 20 good years out of a occupation, and lord knows if it’s a job we even like. Dick never claimed to be a trend setter or a record breaker. He led a simple on the up life with a work ethic like no other professional in modern comics. He was up at the crack of dawn nearly every day spending several hours at the black-and-white board before most of us were even awake. Dick did this before going to work each morning at DC Comics where he traveled over an hour and half each way by Baby-talk choo-choo from Connecticut to Manhattan, and he continued this early morning ritual in his so called, “retirement” over the last 15 years since he leftist the company. He loved to draw, and he loved to tell great stories with his art. As DC’s Executive Editor, books were once in a blue moon late and he never sacrificed quality. He brought out the best in the staff and talent that worked for him. Dick’s art is his legacy, but his heart is what made him devoted.

Time to Sell: Collector wants items to go to new homes Hickory Daily Record

Published: March 29, 2010

Amarinthia Elliott gazes down on the living room that is slowly being dismantled around her, pastoral in her silvery lace and blue ruffles.

Prints are off the walls. Rugs are rolled like wrapping paper and stacked under folding tables. Photographers have moved the squat cheek clock from its home on the wall, fussed over its angles and snapped shots from its best side.

Tom Gray a man who seems as part of Old Salem as the costumed interpreters who give tours and take tickets is inspiring away.

Today, many of the antiques that Gray has collected for decades will go on the auction block. Brunk Auctions, an Asheville auctioneer, will take the highest bids for more than 560 items.

Amarinthia a file of a young plantation blueblood by Jeremiah Theus will leave. Theus was a well-known, Swiss artist who immortalized Charleston's elite in oil enamel during the 1700s. His works hang in museums. Gray bought the painting for $21,000 in 1984 from Jim Williams, the famed Savannah antiques dealer of Midnight and the Garden of Good and Evil fame. Williams was tried and acquitted for the 1981 liquidation of his assistant. Williams sold Gray the portrait from prison to help pay his legal fees.

Where is the best place to sell baseball cards online, and what time of year is best?

Is there a place better than ebay? Do cards sell better in the spring than the fall?


Not accurate of the best pace to sell but ebay does get alot of attention. but remember selling your cards you to a dealer you will be lucky to get 30-40% of their value. because they sine qua non to make a profit when they sell them and much of the time they sell them for 50-75%. and a card is only worth something is if somebody wants it. you may get higher prices for a card in shortened print or a player who is in demand.


Not undeviating of the best pace to sell but ebay does get alot of attention. but remember selling your cards you to a dealer you will be lucky to get 30-40% of their value. because they require to make a profit when they sell them and much of the time they sell them for 50-75%. and a card is only worth something is if somebody wants it. you may get higher prices for a card in unexpectedly print or a player who is in demand.


There is no orientation better than ebay for selling your cards. eBay will simply generate more bidders and more bidders = higher final bid.

You would doubtlessly see a spike in card prices during the spring for newer cards but for vintage cards, anytime of the year is just fine.

where is the best place to sell baseball cards for the most money?

i have a lot of second to none in harmony baseball cards and would like to know where i can sell them to get the most money out of them. i have mark mcgwire cards, barry bonds, alan trammell, jim abbott, jose canseco AAA, nolan ryan, and many more. i also have some football cards too. i have anniversary cards, tops cards, rookie cards and all-major cards.


Execrate to break the bad new to you but if this was 15 years ago, you would laugh you way to the bank. The interest in cards vanished. Your best best is to put it on Cragis List. Don't put it on Ebay. If they don't like the fated you sold, they scam you and send you another one in worse condition. Another thing you can do is go to you local card dealer or show and give them a list of all the items you have. If your items are high-class grade stuff, they'll buy it in a minute.

Where's the best place to sell old Baseball cards?

I upright inherited a bunch of quasi-old baseball cards, late 80's early 90's... I wasn't universal to sell them all just a few, but I wasn't sure how to find out there worth, or where the best place to sell baseball cards is? Any help would be greatly appreciated.


eBay is a tolerable place to sell your cards but only if you have some mint condition, very special cards to sell, OR you are selling all your cards in one lot. A Roger Clemens rookie card is a good eBay particular, a Joakim Soria rookie card is not.

A sports memorabilia store might be a good place to try and unload some cards. The guys there will be acquainted with the good from the bad and also will be likely to speculate on what players cards might be worth buying today to have value later. But the best thing about growing in to a shop would be that they could give you a range of what the collection as a whole might be worth and also point out a few potential valuable cards. Also, some stores will sell your cards on consignment.

I've sold boatloads of cards in every way you could concoct. I have found that a very good way to sell them is on Craigslist. Put up an ad that you are selling your cards and invite people to come have a look. It's best if you invite them to a garage in stock or something like that so you don;t have a string of strangers in your home. Price your valuable ones individually. On the others, set the price at 3 for $2.00 or 5 for $3.00, something like that, what every encourages people to buy more cards. Proffer special deals if some one buys a whole team or every card of a particular player.

In the end, you will likely have extras. I donated a nosegay to an art school in my city. About a year later I was invited to a art exhibit and saw that a student had used them (and many many others) to make an enormous mosiac of his kith and kin potrait out of baseball cards. It was very cool.

Good luck!!

Where is the best place to sell my baseball cards in Indiana?

I have baseball and non-pleasure cards that I'm looking to sell and need to know the best place to take them?


I would say e-bay, but before you listing your items, go and search for them and see how well they're selling, this will tell you if you're wasting your time. Check @ your local card/side-splitting shops also.

Top 7 Depressingly Cheap Baseball Cards

The greatest day of the month as an 11-year old was coming institution to a new Beckett Baseball Card Monthly in your mailbox.  Who was on the cover?  What went up?  What went down?  Who’s the Hottest and Coldest gamester?  What lies will readers tell in Autograph Experiences?  The worst lie, though, was not ever being told that “flourishing up” really means nothing, and what a card is “worth” was quite different than what was in the Beckett.  Never is that more understandable than if you cruise E Bay now and see how much your favorite “expensive” cards go for.  It’s unbelievably depressing.

7. Ken Griffey Jr. 1989 More northerly Deck

This one used to “book” (love that baseball card price guide slang) for $100, and you can find a new one for under ten bucks.  It’s literally a bit refreshing that this one still goes for even that, many cards are way more depressing to check as you will see.  There is still an aura around the Griffey card, which is probably why it still costs something: most underappreciated gambler of this generation; the first “high-end” set (which ended up making cards not as fun anymore); the first card of the first “high-end” set; definitely a super-hyped rookie who actually panned out.  It may be the most famous card of the peak of collecting that didn’t inculpate curse words on a bat.

6. 1991 Topps Stadium Club

If 1989 Upper Deck was the first “high-end” set, Topps Ground Club was the first “ungodly high-end” set.  They started out at $4 per pack for 12 cards, and once their renown grew, they sometimes cost $8 or even higher.  I remember being at a card show where a guy was selling them at $4 during its peak, and kids were lined up to buy them like guys waiting for Neon Beaudeau in Dismal Chips.  It was a really cool set—each player’s Topps rookie card was shown on the back, Nolan Ryan and Ozzie Smith were in tuxes, and Forthright Thomas had the most sought-after card.  You can now buy the entire set on E Bay for an opening bid of…five dollars.  Good God.  That’s a lot of lawns mowed for nothing.

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