The Detective 27 comic shop purchase

[AceVentura]

This post really struck me in particular:

Paul A wrote: "stop me if you heard this one.hanibal the cannibal walks into one of 5 shops belonging to a 21 year comic dealing veteran .as per newsarama, the value of anything is merely the agreed to price.todd is the pro and the guy selling even admits guarantying that to the best of his knowledge these 3 books spent the last 65 years locked in an attic. was a crime committed? todd did not report a crime! in fact,he only strengthened the case that no crime was done by nationally declaring what a brilliant deal he made.perfect crime.newsarama rules! todd has his own fake news just like fox news. punch line........beware the ides of october ,todd"

In my opinion, Paul A is not just some CGC forum shill having fun. This is written by someone likely INVOLVED in the deal itself. Though parable-like in nature and delivery, I would re-read Paul A's posts more carefully, then decode them to get at the truth, or a good idea of the truth.

[paul a]

T. you’ve played a great game! I give you kudos for your ingenuity, deviousness, tenacity, and greed. My two spies from Shittim (don't even think of "spooning" that, look it up in your Funk and Wagnalls or the Bible, Joshua 2) have invaded Jericho. The seven trumpet blowing priests are at the wall (Joshua 6) and the walls are tumbling down. All the inhabitants will be massacred, I curse your city and destroy it.

Many who say they can see are really blind and I would never save a lamb from the slaughter, but T., I should have charged you more for all the publicity you milked from this. Are you going to milk the publicity out of your shame also? Do you call the news every time you take a dump? How long did it take you to move the All American #16 piece of shit that you stole from a little old lady? God, you are totally shameless. You are the whore of Babylon. I should have doubled the price if I knew what you were going to get out of it. International, all over the internet, Fox News, papers, radio, you got millions of $$$$$$ of free publicity and conned more people than Ewart, Dupcak, Metropolis, CGC, Heritage, Old Guy, Geppi, Newsarama, PGX, etc, etc, etc, put together! Damn you! T. you said “don’t believe everything you read in the news. They have missed a lot of facts!” God almighty, how prophetic! Time to fill them in T. ”This is the best.” How’s your stomach feel now that that you’ve entered the comic book crooked villain hall of shame as both greatest chump and greatest deceiver? How’s about posting a new Comic Logic at your own personal Fox News explaining how, anyone would have done the same thing and how great an investment Batman is! Hey T. you didn’t burn, loose ,bury or have the book stolen from you did you? What a shame! Was it insured? How many “experts” looked at the book and said it was good! Seniors? What, your Mommy and Daddy? How long can you afford to sit on that book without selling it? Cash crunch? Maybe it should get its own pedigree, the TM. Yeah the TM! Let’s coin a new term “THE TM” Now you can be infamous in the hobby after you are laughed out of business and branded the greatest chump and deceiver that comic fandom has ever seen. I guess you felt lucky, punk. You pulled the trigger. You brought this on yourself. You and you alone caused all this God awesome chaos which will cripple comics dealing for years or even decades.

Hey T., I’m declaring my payday to the IRS! Need to keep everything nice and legal. You know how they hate those no contract, under the counter, possible money laundering, strictly cash, unreported exchanges of large sums of money. Almost forgot to report that FF 4 for five grand..

Let this be a lesson to every fan boy around the world and remember George Santayana. Look something up in a BOOK for a change, you morons. The Internet is the devil’s tool. Robert Burns “the best laid SCHEMES O’ MICE AN’ MEN GANG AFT AGLEY.” You were given ample opportunity to be a man T., and you blew it! What will you answer to now?

And for all you idiots who knew, didn’t ask questions and let yourselves be willingly fooled… “the hottest circles in hell are reserved for those who in times of crisis maintained their neutrality,” Dante. You can say anything you want on the forums, right! That’s what I’ve been told! People say enough shit about me. The other shoe is falling, tick tock, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

It’s all over now except for the crying. Your diligence and dedication to self promotion have paid a handsome dividend. Take a bow T. You certainly deserve it. Now that’s entertainment.

[AceVentura]

Is it altogether possible that T had knowledge of this book or already owned it before it showed up for sale that week from a "find"?
I still can't figure out WHAT he would have planned to do with increased visibility through public exposure if in fact this is mostly or all staged.
Someone like Geppi, or any seller that has alot MORE prime Gold and Silver age books to sell would better benefit financially by all the publicity than a guy who deals mostly in new sh*t and can't follow up on his new found fame by providing alot more of the same to interested parties attracted by the publicity.

Everything about the whole scenario strikes me as very strange, as in, there's alot more to it than meets the eye.

[The Charlton Guy]

Let this be a lesson to every fan boy around the world and remember George Santayana.

I think I love you...

[AceVentura]

I think I love you...

Now I AM Jealous!

According to the CGC Forumites, you're supposed to be MY "arse-buddy"

[The Charlton Guy]

Sorry, but George Santayana fans take precedence in the "Arse-Buddy" Department.

[The Charlton Guy]

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.

George Santayana: "The Age of Reason", 1905

[AceVentura]

Sorry, but George Santayana fans take precedence in the "Arse-Buddy" Department.

Well isn't THAT a swift kick in the arse!

[paul a]

We are down the rabbit hole and in an endless freefall . A correction is coming . Thank you Ace, for the re-direction . Hollywood is calling , DD. I am working up a major dump . I thought arithmetic was still taught in our public school system . Guess I was wrong about that also . 2 +2= low battery . Do not worry the basic story stands-just minor disruptions in time and space . Anything else you would like to contribute , Ace ?

[AceVentura]

We are down the rabbit hole and in an endless freefall . A correction is coming . Thank you Ace, for the re-direction . Hollywood is calling , DD. I am working up a major dump . I thought arithmetic was still taught in our public school system . Guess I was wrong about that also . 2 +2= low battery . Do not worry the basic story stands-just minor disruptions in time and space . Anything else you would like to contribute , Ace ?

SURE! I'm always contributing.

Although, I have no idea what I've contributed in this case! I'm on the end of the spectrum that knows very little about the deal or it's mechanics, and before the story hit the CGC Forums, I wasn't even consciously aware of Todd's existance.

My impressions were based on whatever was brought out on the CGC Forum. I haven't even read any of the media text related to the Det. 27.

BTW, I'm not DD, if you're referring to me as Danny, Daniel, or Danny Boy (as CGC forum member refer to Dupcak). I'm CK, but after 6 years of erroneously being called DD, the mis-identification doesn't faze me anymore other than to occassionally cause me to point out that I'm not DD, for all the good it does.

Maybe you're right to include DD's mug shot though. Maybe DD was the guy that sold the book to Todd. Who knows. I certainly don't have DD under lock and key, do you? If so, God bless you. That'll sure keep the hobby safe from any and all scams.

I'm sure Todd knows what DD looks like by now, even if he didn't before. If he STILL doesn't recognize DD as the guy who sold him the book, it could be that DD shifted his shape!

I'm surprised that nobody else has come up with that possibility, that DD MAY be a shape-shifter! That would certainly explain alot of other ills in the hobby, the 1% of the ills that AREN'T DD's fault out of the 100% that are! It could ALL be DD's doings.

Ewert himself may have really been DD. Has anyone ever SEEN Ewert and DD in the same room at the same time? There's probably a good reason for that if they haven't. Did anyone ever try surprising Ewert from behind, yelling out "Hey DUPCAK!", and seeing if he spun around? I would of given Ewert that "Dupcak test". I've ALWAYS had my suspicions. Nobody even thought of that one.

I'll go you one better though. Here's something that neither you nor Old Guy or anyone else has probably thought of. My theory is that DD is the culprit. Not just the Det 27 caper, but EVERY caper that has ever been visited on the hobby. Anything negative. Every ill, every bad deal, every scam, every phony auction on Ebay, every seller postal overcharge, every comic that ever disappeared in the mail! Everything! DD did it. That should be a bumper sticker.. DD did it!

My theory is that if you can neutralize DD (if one can truly neutralize the Devil himself), either drive a stake through him, entomb him, or trap him in amber, ALL of the above ills and more will come to a grinding halt and the hobby will revert back to the Garden of Eden!