Only in Buffalo...

[The Charlton Guy]

...would a local comic book artist be able to pull this off:

http://spectrum.buffalo.edu/article.php?id=29133

As for The Charlton Guy?

I'll be there! (The Buffalo Comicon Convention at the Marriot Hotel, Sun. Oct. 29 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m)#woohoo#

Selling up a storm! #woohoo#

(I hope...:roll:)



With Charlton Comics in short-and-long-box,
high grade Marvel and DC SA books at the ready, I am

READY TO TAKE ON THE COMIC CONVENTION WORLD!

(In preparation for the Ohio-Con with Habib in November...#allhailme#)

Anybody who happens to be in the Buffalo neighborhood this Sunday (Oct. 29), please stop by the Marriot and say hello!

I'll be the one with the glasses...:D



http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a240/the-charlton-guy/CG-AV-1-1.jpg



And the Charltons, needless to say...#oldie#

Come on down! Or up! Or sideways! Whatever!

[AceVentura]

Here's some appropriate traveling music for you, CG!:

YouTube - 42nd Street (1933) - "Shuffle Off to Buffalo"

[The Charlton Guy]

LOL...talk about your shoe fetishes...

[AceVentura]

LOL...talk about your shoe fetishes...

If you're going to be shuffling off to Buffalo, you're going to have to upgrade your footwear, and your dance steps. I thought this instructive video may serve to help you fit in better on the convention floor with all the other Buffalo shufflers if this is your maiden shuffle-off. :D

[The Charlton Guy]

It's not my maiden shuffling voyage, but yes, your dance instruction video will come in handy.

My only goal? Not to spend more than I sell...(big ol' "good luck" on that one...)

[marvelguy]

Good luck to your salesman tactics at Buffalo. I wish I could be there but it's like 10 hours to get there.

[AceVentura]

I wish I could be there but it's like 10 hours to get there.

Even Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and Donald O'Connor would probably be daunted by 10 straight hours of shuffling. :)

What else is Buffalo famous for, aside from comic conventions, nickels, and shuffling off? :confused:

[UnlimitedRealities]

I like buffalo jerky!

[The Charlton Guy]

Even Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and Donald O'Connor would probably be daunted by 10 straight hours of shuffling. :)

What else is Buffalo famous for, aside from comic conventions, nickels, and shuffling off? :confused:

Major recession, government corruption, a downtown that looks like something out of an old Twilight Zone episode (no people) and ex-urban blight.

And O.J. Simpson of course (he's on the "Wall of Fame" at Rich Stadium).

Other than that, it's a real swingin' place to hang out!

[marvelguy]

Don't forget that they're also famous for being snowed in due to the "Lake Effect Snow".

[The Charlton Guy]

Don't forget that they're also famous for being snowed in due to the "Lake Effect Snow".

4 feet in one pop. In August...

[The Charlton Guy]

I am locked and loaded with fifteen long-boxes of SWEET $1.00 books, several boxes of SWEEEET high grade SA and GA books and my dry-eraser board and markers.

The last item is for my ongoing ond unrelenting "Charlton Guy Lecture" on the importance and relevance of the physics and motion of high grade Charlton sales.

This relationship is expressed using The Charlton Guy mass–energy equivalence formula:

E=mc2

where
E = the Charlton Guy energy equivalent to the mass (in joules (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule))
m = The Charlton Guy long-box mass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass) (in kilograms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilogram))
c = Charlton Comics selling at the speed of light (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light) in a vacuum (celeritas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeritas)) (in meters per second (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre_per_second)).
I expect to be giving my next lecture at M.I.T in Early November, followed up by a groundshaking revelation at the November 24th and 25th Mid-Ohio-Con, where I will reveal the REAL reason why "Charlton Comics Give You More!"

Can the Nobel Peace Prize be far behind?

I think not!#oldie#

[UnlimitedRealities]

Can the Nobel Peace Prize be far behind?

I think not!#oldie#

Haven't you heard? Since Al Gore won one, the Peace prize isn't worth the materials it's made from. Same goes for the Acadamy award. Maybe you could shoot for something more prestigious, like the Blue Ribbon at the Buffalo Science Fair.;)

[pasnat54]

Isn't Buffalo where Buffalo wings were invented?


Plus, it's also reknowned as the original home of the Los Angeles Clippers, who were known as the Buffalo Braves before they moved to San Diego and finally LA.

[The Charlton Guy]

Oh Lordy, what a fun day...

I was up and out of the house before the Charlton Kidlets woke up (small miracle there) and shuffling my way off to Buffalo.

I set up in a flash #flash#, then set about buying every BA Charlton Horror Comic in the building as the other dealers set up.

Then the other dealers found me, and I managed to do about three hundred before the first customers came in the door.

Then watch out, the customers descended on my $1.00 and $2.00 long-boxeses like LEECHES!

In the meantime, I managed to pry myself away and ask around for these books from my want list and found the following goodies:




http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a240/the-charlton-guy/Store/FF-52-CG.jpg




A very solid upper-mid-grade copy with a beautiful interior. And the first Kirby/BP splash page ever. One for the ages!

Then after checking around damn near every dealer (none of whom had this one), I finally find this, and bought it (at 20% off):

My all-time favorite Marie Severin cover. What a beauty (Marie I mean).




http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a240/the-charlton-guy/Store/TTA-93-CG.jpg




And of course, no CG excursion would be complete without at least one reptilian monster purchase, so:




http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a240/the-charlton-guy/Store/GORGO-18-CG-1.jpg




I also set up a swap for a very sweet FF #4 with a dealer from Ohio who's also attending the Mid-Ohio-Con. A very nice looking book.

I also managed to get my caricature done (complete with CG glasses) by a very grizzled and very congenial and interesting old feller who did free-lance newspaper cartoons and Sunday strips. I have to check his name, but man was he a character (and a very nice guy). I paid him double for making me look twenty years younger than I am (caricature scan forthcoming).

Then it was back to the long-boxes. Almost no big ticket sales (and I was not alone in this), but I made a very stuffed wallet full of twenties off of the $1.00/$2.00 stuff alone.

Then capped it off by unloading the remaining ten boxes on a local dealer, rather than incur The Charlton Wife's wrath by bringing them back home.

So a very fun and quite lucrative day in the home of Buffalo Style Chicken Wings (by the way, local credit goes to "The Anchor Bar" on Bailey Avenue in the City).

See you in Ohio Habib! #hello#

[habib]

Way to go CG!

Now bring those $20's to Ohio and spend 'em on the 2+ Charlton boxes (mostly horror...thank you!) habib has!! (only fair....since habib is furnishing the badge for ya :lol:)

We did a show in Indy today in which I spent almost nothing (a rarity I might add :grin:) but sales were good which is really what it is all about anyway!!

The big sale was a nice Herbie (ACG) #1 for $150.
Also selling...quite a bit of half guide Silver and 2-3 boxes of 50 cent comics and lots of misc....
(But when you take two trucks and a van full of product you expect to sell lots of stuff!!!)

[malaprop]

CG, are you sure that you ) of all people) are not being scammed? I notice that the Stectrum articly was written in 2006. The OP says it's on Sunday, Oct. 29. What year?

[The Charlton Guy]

CG, are you sure that you ) of all people) are not being scammed? I notice that the Stectrum articly was written in 2006. The OP says it's on Sunday, Oct. 29. What year?


:confused: You mean...it was all an illusion?

Cool!

But wait!

I have the proof it all happened!

You know that portrait I told you about?

Well, because you didn't demand it...

...here goes:


http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a240/the-charlton-guy/Store/CG-Portrait-Schlesinger.jpg


Kind of Clint Eastwood-esque, huh? :D

[AceVentura]

I also managed to get my caricature done (complete with CG glasses) by a very grizzled and very congenial and interesting old feller who did free-lance newspaper cartoons and Sunday strips. I have to check his name, but man was he a character (and a very nice guy). I paid him double for making me look twenty years younger than I am (caricature scan forthcoming).

Are you sure that artist wasn't DD, da'devil in disguise? He's been known to shape-shift according to Eides, and he might have been masquerading as an interestingly grizzled, yet charming old artist to foist some of the remaining restored high grade Golden Age keys on the unsuspecting Buffalonians that he couldn't bounce on Eides and T.

Did this grizzled artist at any time offer you a modern-sized More Fun 52 with three razor sharp edges? :)

[UnlimitedRealities]

That's some phat loot ya got there, CG! That Tales to Astonish is beautiful.