http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/week-geek-11409 Get the Most from Your Antiques & Collectibles Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:34:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/week-geek-11409/comment-page-1#comment-885 Kevin Cook Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:42:14 +0000 http://www.worthpoint.com/?p=2468676#comment-885 Thanks, Matt, for the background on this interesting subject. I called my local comic shop (in McDonough, GA, a suburb of Atlanta) yesterday and reserved a copy of the Obama variant cover for $20.00. When I picked the issue up today (along with a copy of the regular issue), the owner commented he had ordered 25 copies for both of his two stores, and they were all spoken for. I don't generally buy contemporary Spideys, preferring instead to fill in the gaps in my Silver and Bronze Age Spidey collection, but I had to have this issue, which I first read about in the January 9th edition of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The combination of Spidey, my favorite comic hero, and President-Elect Obama, whose charisma and idealism makes him a superhero in his own right, was irresistible. Too bad the Spidey/Obama story itself is so predictable. Still, a nice keepsake—much better than an Obama T-shirt, coin or plate! Thanks, Matt, for the background on this interesting subject. I called my local comic shop (in McDonough, GA, a suburb of Atlanta) yesterday and reserved a copy of the Obama variant cover for $20.00. When I picked the issue up today (along with a copy of the regular issue), the owner commented he had ordered 25 copies for both of his two stores, and they were all spoken for. I don’t generally buy contemporary Spideys, preferring instead to fill in the gaps in my Silver and Bronze Age Spidey collection, but I had to have this issue, which I first read about in the January 9th edition of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The combination of Spidey, my favorite comic hero, and President-Elect Obama, whose charisma and idealism makes him a superhero in his own right, was irresistible. Too bad the Spidey/Obama story itself is so predictable. Still, a nice keepsake—much better than an Obama T-shirt, coin or plate!

]]> http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/week-geek-11409/comment-page-1#comment-878 Matt Baum Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:56:16 +0000 http://www.worthpoint.com/?p=2468676#comment-878 The Obama variants were sold out at my shop 5 minutes after it opened this morning. The Obama variants were sold out at my shop 5 minutes after it opened this morning.

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