Howard Johnson's 2001: A Space Odyssey Children's Menu!

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Up for Auction: From my private collection - 1968 Howard Johnson’s Children's Menu comic book giveaway featuring 2001: A Space Odyssey . This 8-page giveaway comic served as a children’s menu at Howard Johnson’s restaurants. Promotional tie-in for the release of the film. It is complete but has considerable wear to the paper - creases, spots, and darkening of the paper. B ought and then immediately stored in a heat, light, and moisture free environment. Please look closely at photographs for overall condition and close-ups of areas where damage and wear normally occur. --------------------------------------------------------------------- About timcoleman-2007: I was a comic book and collectible dealer (Coleman’s Comics) in the Kansas City area from the age of 12 through my 20s, buying mostly private collections to keep items of interest or unique characteristics and then selling the rest to keep the entire process moving along. I no longer collect or sell as a dealer but have begun to clear out various items as I pay for music recording gear and the ever-ubiquitous “bills.” Additionally, I come across other items in everyday life that I sell now and again. As a collectible dealer for so many years, I witnessed a certain small but consistent level of bad habits, manipulation, and deception committed by a few dealers more concerned with immediate profit than in doing a fair deal. Unfortunately, I see these practices alive and well in varying degrees within the e-bay marketplace. As such, as I began to sell I stared to write down my overall approach to auctions and created the following e-bay guidelines that I hold myself to: Auctions should always start at $.01 and have no reserve; the e-bay community and laws of supply & demand set the price. There should be as many high quality photographs as possible considering the perceived value of an item. Spend the few extra cents on additional photos or large photos to highlight items worth even modest amounts, to show condition (especially defects not otherwise obvious or for high quality items where the condition is exceptional), and never alter or enhance photographs. Give very detailed, accurate, and even a little longwinded description of items. Error on the side of saying too much about and item. Omitting information is the same as lying about it. Being vague or making comments like “I think it is complete” or “as far as I can tell” usually means the seller knows exactly the answer but wants to hide from it. Reproductions, repairs, alterations, touch-ups, etc need to be explicitly described. Unless a third party grading system is used or the dealer is an experienced professional with an established record of being an accurate grader, any comments or grades concerning the condition of an item are completely unreliable. The comments and various grading scales I see used on many e-bay listings are surely hallucinations (it is staggering to see how many items described as “C-10”, “C-9”, “mint”, “near mint”, or some other high grade term are clearly missing pieces, heavily soiled, scuffed, outright broken, used, missing paint, played with, abused, cracked, or otherwise in a condition that would actually put an item in a grade at least half of what is claimed). BEST RULE I LEARNED BEING A DEALER: Let the buyer be surprised with an item when they receive it; make your description almost too critical so that the buyer views it to be better than they thought it was going to be. If you missed something or made a mistake and the buyer is unhappy, overcompensate in your efforts to fix the situation – you are also repairing their trust in you. Don’t play games with shipping amounts! I see this more and more recently on e-bay. People offering items at low prices just to charge two or three times the regular shipping is an absurd and sneaky way to make extra money. I always set my shipping costs at a very reasonable amount and do not charge extra for boxes, tape, bubble wrap, mailing labels, etc. I have, in several e-bay sale... read more

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