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1/23/2016 Topic: CapnDoug's Back Issue Discoveries CapnDoug Administrator	So, I have gone through a few more boxes in my collection, getting everything sorted in. I figure I should probably post a bunch of them (mixed in with some stuff I have scanned from the old forums). Let's start with some Batman. I showed off the death of Jason Todd in the last post. He stayed dead for over 200 issues, returning here. I started collecting Batman during the Bruce Wayne Murderer storyline, so all of these were bought new for cover price less my discount (I think I was usually getting 20%-30% off). I collected Batman up until I was forced to stop at around #695 or so. So I got these for cover price, too. This one's a little rough, but given that it's Neal Adams redesigning Green Arrow, getting it for 50 cents in any condition is a steal. This came as part of a collection I bought a few months back. Ah, Brian K. Vaughn... I'm three issues short of finishing the series. I picked up almost every issue when it was first released since the guy who runs my LCS knew I was interested in politics and such. So, I paid cover price on this one, too. I never really had much of a Green Lantern collection before I started doing the collection buys. I picked up the Geoff Johns stuff, but that was about it. Never something I really sought out. This isn't the most impressive, but it is the first Killawog, so that's something. This one ran me 86 cents and was in a collection that I remember for having some good stuff, but some look like they were rescued from a flood. I saw this one for 50 cents at a con. Given that it's an iconic cover and has some of the more shocking moments in a Code approved book I figured it was worth 50 cents. This was in that water damage collection I mentioned earlier. I don't think I really appreciated Dick Dillin until I saw this. As I was flipping through it, I was shocked that the quality of the art was as high as it was for the 60's. Again, 86 cents. Not that it's worth a ton more in this condition, but still a nice find. My scanner seems to have issues... Anyway, this is nothing special, but it is my favourite Esleworlds story. So, I feel like I should throw this in here. Bought it right off the rack.
1/24/2016 Topic: CapnDoug's Back Issue Discoveries CapnDoug Administrator	So, a few more scans of the recent buys and stuff from the old forums. The area I did over the last day or two includes a lot of series where I had nothing from it, now I have a ton of them. Like Legion of Super-Heroes. I had nothing from them a few months ago. Now I have over 100 issues. None that I really felt like showing off, though. Here's what I do feel is worth showing off: You know, I still haven't seen the movie. I'm told I'm not missing anything, though. Anyway, I was pretty excited about the whole ABC line, but I found I really only got into League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I got this off the rack, so it was cover price. One collection I bought recently came from a guy who loved George Perez. So it was filled with stuff like this. And his Wonder Woman stuff, some New Teen Titans, that sort of thing. Sadly, none of his 70's Avengers, though. That's what I was really looking for from a guy who loved Perez. Anyway, I got the collection for 67 cents an issue. Not bad for a book like this with the first modern Suicide Squad. Then again, whenever something is going up in value because of a movie, I don't exactly see it as a sustainable thing. I can't get rid of my Watchmen issues right now. Jack Kirby stuff. Really can't complain when you find that in a collection. So, in three different collections I bought, there was a large number of New Teen Titans. I don't think I had more than half a dozen issues of New Teen Titans from any series before I started doing the collection buys. Now, I have all but one of the original series before it went to reprints in Tales of the Teen Titans. In a lot of cases, I had a nice choice of which one I wanted to keep. As a result, here are the stats about my newly acquired New Teen Titans collection: Missing one issue One issue is in a condition below Very Fine Three issues are below Near Mint- Oh, and that issue I'm missing is #39, not #2, first appearance of Deathstroke. I only found one copy of this issue, sadly, but it is currently the most expensive DC book that I own. I have stuff with a higher near mint value, but most of those are a little rough. Not like this one that I put at Near Mint-. This one obviously came from the $1900 collection, as did the issue #1 above. I'm running out of my current supply of bags and boards, so it might be a bit before I post more. Hopefully not too long, though.
1/24/2016 Topic: Oxbladder's stuff 3.0 CapnDoug Administrator	Oxbladder wrote: Thanks Tex and Crow! Here is another teaser for you: That's an outstanding book right there. It would look good in almost any collection.
1/25/2016 Topic: CROW'S NEST CapnDoug Administrator	Crowman wrote: Actually, it was your post that inspired me to get this. I already have a couple of lower grade issues (unslabbed). It was also another post that pushed me to nab this copy of SPJO #133. I already have #134 slabbed at 9.2 so it is a nice pair to have in my collection. Kind of embarrassed to admit how long it took me to figure out what "SPJO" meant.... Seems obvious once you click on the link, but still... It's an awesome book, though.
1/27/2016 Topic: CapnDoug's Back Issue Discoveries CapnDoug Administrator	So, this isn’t going to be a normal post. In Canada, we are bombarded with mental health commercials in the month of January, because Bell Canada does a “Let’s Talk” campaign designed to raise money and raise awareness for mental health issues. Given the number of media outlets that Bell owns, it gets a lot of coverage. And for the last few years, I’ve been writing about these issues in the communities that I have been affiliated with. In my political life I have tried to advocate this as well, since mental health is one of the least understood health issues and one that effects a massive number of people. Partly because it’s something that very few people talk about. So, we need to start talking about it. Sharing our experience on all sides of it and how we deal with it. So that’s what this is. I re-read Identity Crisis on the weekend. I don’t know if I should have, but some of the images had been cropping up over the last year. In particular the image of Ralph Dibny struggling to hold himself together. But re-reading it, I saw so many more things. Mostly because I went through something very similar. I don’t remember exactly what I said on the old forums about my brother, but that’s what this post is about. About two years ago, my brother’s marriage began to collapse. There were a few events that are not well understood that stemmed from his gambling problem. No one will actually know what happened, and for this, it doesn’t matter. What matters is what happened next. Shortly after his marriage collapsed, he started threatening to kill himself. We managed to stop him, and when he threatened again, his friends called the cops, who threw him in the psych ward. We spent as much time as we could trying to keep him sane and safe, but people only have so much that they can give. As time went on, people in his support group just wore out. It takes a lot of effort to try and keep someone going. And we all saw firsthand what can happen even with all that effort. As much as we had been trying to keep my brother alive, he had been trying to keep one of his best friends alive. We’d known the family since we were kids, and he’d been dealing with chronic pain as a result of a workplace accident. And in November, he went into the woods to try and kill himself. My brother knew exactly what was going on and exactly where he was going to go, called the ambulance and had them meet there to save him. He spent a few weeks recovering in the hospital before being released for Christmas. As soon as he was out, he tried to kill himself again, with one difference: He didn’t warn anyone this time. So there was no one to stop him. My brother took this surprisingly well, but we didn’t realize that he had learned his lessons. My brother knew he was having mental health issues. Throughout his issues with gambling, he had committed several crimes, which caught up with him. He had robbed some houses and snatched some purses, and when he was on trial he asked to be given probation instead of just getting a discharge. He asked for this because if he was on probation, he could get access to mental health services. Something that he desperately needed. It seemed that he was trying to keep his life together. He even took an odd job contract for some extra money, and was given a bonus of an old comic collection. I remember going through the collection with him, seeing all the Jim Lee X-Men and some early Image and Avengers and such. It was cool enough that you didn’t care that the bags smelled of rats. I had drifted away from comics as a result of a car accident taking a lot of my disposable income, but he had never gotten away from it. We both thought the collection was so cool. We had collected together for years, with Spider-Man and Thor being his thing. This was just like old times, where we would get home from the store or a con and show off what we had picked up. But on January 25th, 2015, we learned that he had just gotten better at hiding his problems. I left for work in the morning and heard him watching Friends on his tablet. I came home and found him hanging from the balcony. I didn’t realize what was happening right away, not being able to see the whole scene. I still remember thinking that he was changing a light bulb. But the adrenaline kicked in as I did everything that I could to try and save him. Finding something to cut the rope, finding a working phone to call 911, trying to perform CPR. I asked the coroner later if there was anything I could have done, but he had been dead for hours by the time I got home. He died waiting for his probation officer to get him access to mental health care. And in return, I was saddled with more mental health issues. I was put into trauma counselling almost immediately and it quickly became apparent that I had Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from everything that had happened. It’s something that you often find in returning soldiers or victims of crime and it basically means that the stress and trauma has changed the way your brain works. You see the traumatic event in places that really only make sense to you, and relive the event. A song comes on the radio and you need to just stop, because it reminded you of the event. I can tell you exactly what I saw, exactly when I first realized that something was wrong. I can tell you exactly how he fell when I cut him down and everything I tried to do to save him because I still relive it. It’s something that I need to deal with. It’s also something that you have good days and bad days with. Some days it is almost impossible to get out of bed. Others, it’s like nothing happened, and days run the gamut in between. In November, I had a bit of a breakdown because of it. Several bad days in a row took their toll. One of the things that had gotten me through the whole ordeal had been my support group. My friends and family had kept the bad days from getting too bad, but in November, they disappeared. A few of my best friends had gone on a trip to the UK, several of my regular meet ups had been cancelled temporarily because of scheduling issues and another friend had to cancel our regular dinner because of a lack of time. Even my girlfriend was away. We are normally talking on Skype constantly, even if we can’t be in the same room, but she was on a trip to Toronto. I had been removed from staff on another site, so I didn’t have them, and CPG was down. I think CPG being down was actually the biggest thing, since I used my alone time to get through a lot of the comic collections that I had been buying. As I was going through the random issues, I just kept thinking that my brother would have thought this was so cool. I had to leave a job because of the breakdown. It just ended up happening at the wrong time. But it did reinforce a piece of advice that I have been giving people with mental health issues for ages, whether it’s addiction, depression, anxiety… never try to handle it alone. Never think that there is no one around to help you, never think that asking for help makes you weak. Never act like it is something that you can tough out. Regardless of where you are in life, there will be someone that is willing and able to help you. A friend, a family member, a doctor… I remember that one of the people who I had the best talks about it was the checkout lady at the grocery store. I went to school with her daughter, but I don’t think I had talked to her for more than 3 minutes at a time in 10 years. She closed her register and we talked for almost an hour, sharing stories of our lost siblings, since she had lost her sister the same way. She even came to his funeral. A lot of my family shared similar stories. If they were out in public and mentioned it, it was not uncommon for a random stranger to come up to them and share their memories and how they coped. I originally wrote “how they got over it,” but I don’t think it’s something that you ever really get over. But random people just coming up and being willing to help. You are never alone. There’s a story that I share when I give this advice. It comes from the West Wing. A man is walking down the street when he falls down a hole. A priest walks by and the man calls out, “Father, I’m stuck down here, can you help me?” The priest says a prayer and walks away. Later, a doctor walks by the hole and the man calls out “Doc, I’m stuck down here, can you help me?” The doctor writes a prescription, throws it down the hole and walks away. As the man is losing hope, he sees his friend walking by the hole and call out, “Buddy, I’m stuck down here, can you help me out?” His friend jumps in the hole and the man says, “Are you crazy, now we’re both stuck down here!” His friend says “Yeah, but I’ve been here before, and I know the way out.” You are never alone. If you are suffering from mental health issues, reach out to the people around you. Sometimes, all you need is a distraction or to feel normal for a few hours. If you know someone with mental health issues, reach out to them. Make sure they know that they don’t have to do it alone. edited by CapnDoug on 1/27/2016 edited by CapnDoug on 1/27/2016 edited by CapnDoug on 1/27/2016
1/28/2016 Topic: Gilgandra Back Issues 2.0 CapnDoug Administrator	Those are some nice Vertigo books. Fables was the few things that completely disappeared from my collection during my hiatus (didn't sell them, they just disappeared). As a result I've been picking up the new hardcovers as they come out. And that Sandman? I just scanned in my copy a few days ago. Not quite near mint, though. Price was right, though.
1/28/2016 Topic: CapnDoug's Back Issue Discoveries CapnDoug Administrator	Thank you for the kind words, all. I know it's not the easiest thing to read about, especially since I'm sure most people were just expecting more scans (I do have some that I'll post later today, though). But I know that when I first started posting these stories on another site a few years back, not the same story, not necessarily my story, it was amazing the number of people who started to come out of the woodwork, sharing similar stories and even getting a little help. Joker, I've seen the attitude change over the years, too. The stigma is still there, but it's easing. I know when I was university, they were just starting to realize that brain chemistry was a thing. So during my psychology classes, we were told to get people checked for physical problems first. Most people would rather have thyroid cancer than depression because thyroid cancer "wasn't their fault." On the plus side, up here we had an election ad about "our opponents would let the guy who killed his family then claimed mental illness out into society." The sheer revulsion that people had to that ad was a welcome sign that things are changing. Up here, at least.
1/28/2016 Topic: CapnDoug's Back Issue Discoveries CapnDoug Administrator	Back to our regularly scheduled program. I ran into a problem with the price guide with this one. This is the Canadian price variant, if you didn't notice. US version: $30. Canadian version: $8. Ummm... If I put an $8 sticker on this, it would sell in a heartbeat. General rule of thumb seems to be that the Canadian version sells for the same price here. You can bump up the price a touch on eBay, but nothing extravagant. Either way, I paid more than $8 for this one. Actually, this came from the $1900 collection. Lot of good stuff in there. I haven't even gotten to the Marvel books that were in there. Hi Gil! So... I paid $80 for a long box. The guy knew this was in there. Along with a bunch of other good stuff. Like, Jim Lee X-Men, first appearance of Jubilee, first Crossbones, old Spawns.... I would have given the guy more if I hadn't been pissed off about driving to the other end of town on short notice then having to drive to the exact opposite end of town to see a guy who had another collection.... 50 cents an issue for the collection. 50 cents for this issue that I have at 9.2. Not quite a 9.4, but still... 50 cents.... Because really, when I'm paying under a buck an issue for a collection, I really don't bother doing a proportional price adjustment. That's all for now. Going to try to get more bags and boards this weekend.
1/29/2016 Topic: CapnDoug's Back Issue Discoveries CapnDoug Administrator	Gilgandra wrote: CapnDoug wrote: Back to our regularly scheduled program. I ran into a problem with the price guide with this one. This is the Canadian price variant, if you didn't notice. US version: $30. Canadian version: $8. Ummm... If I put an $8 sticker on this, it would sell in a heartbeat. General rule of thumb seems to be that the Canadian version sells for the same price here. You can bump up the price a touch on eBay, but nothing extravagant. Either way, I paid more than $8 for this one. Actually, this came from the $1900 collection. Lot of good stuff in there. I haven't even gotten to the Marvel books that were in there. Hi Gil! So... I paid $80 for a long box. The guy knew this was in there. Along with a bunch of other good stuff. Like, Jim Lee X-Men, first appearance of Jubilee, first Crossbones, old Spawns.... I would have given the guy more if I hadn't been pissed off about driving to the other end of town on short notice then having to drive to the exact opposite end of town to see a guy who had another collection.... 50 cents an issue for the collection. 50 cents for this issue that I have at 9.2. Not quite a 9.4, but still... 50 cents.... Because really, when I'm paying under a buck an issue for a collection, I really don't bother doing a proportional price adjustment. That's all for now. Going to try to get more bags and boards this weekend. Wow, Nice score on those books. I've never attained a collection from anyone. You are the man Doug! I've had my Sandman #1 for many a year now (Late 90's) i think, Can't remember how much. I was lucky at the time. I'll have to show my first Jubilee now it's also NM Lol. Depending on where you live, buying a collection isn't that hard. In Vancouver, there are usually a bunch for sale on Craigslist. Problem is, more than a few think that if they have $5,000 worth of stuff, they can ask for $5,000 for the collection. You have to filter through a lot of collections like that to find the good ones, and hope you are faster than the full time dealers. And then there's the question of what to do with all the stuff in the collection that you don't want.... But there are some great ones to be had, since a lot of the time, people just want to make sure that someone will enjoy their old collection and take care of it.
1/30/2016 Topic: WIZARD PRESS issues not tracked? CapnDoug Administrator	I think in order to be listed in the database, it must be a certain percentage of comic strip material (25% or something). Marvel Age and such would qualify, since it's largely comic previews. Wizard is almost entirely articles, so I don't think it would qualify. Besides, from what I've gathered, most copies of Wizard and such are only as valuable as the comic that it came packaged with (I really hope... I recycled most of mine when I moved aside from the ones that are used to keep my boxes tight).
2/3/2016 Topic: grading confusion CapnDoug Administrator	It's really going to depend on how deep, long and noticeable the spine breaks are, as well as how many of them there are. If it's only one or two very tiny ones, you are probably looking at a 9.2 or so. If there are a few, but they aren't very long, it can go down even further to a 7.0 or so. And if they are long or really deep, they can go down 5.0 or lower. But, grading is pretty subjective, so if you ask 3 people what they'd grade something at, you can get 3 different grades. If you want a good way to get a decent idea of a comic's grade, try this: http://www.e-bigs.net/freetool.php
2/5/2016 Topic: DC Elseworlds CapnDoug Administrator	I remember JLA: The Nail being outstanding. Basically, the premise is that the Kents run over a nail and get a flat tire, so they never find baby Superman's rocket. So, it's the rest of the League in a world where there never was a Superman. Alan Davis did both the words and pictures, so it's got that going for it, too. There are two 3 issue miniseries, but the second one isn't as good.
2/5/2016 Topic: Getting Started on Selling Comic Books CapnDoug Administrator	I've been buying and selling a lot recently, and there are a few things that you need to keep in mind: If you are looking to get maximum value from the sale, you will not be selling them quickly. The values listed on this site are accurate, but it may take quite some time to get those values. You can sell them on the classifieds here, you can sell them on craigslist, you can sell them at a local comic convention, all will work fine. If you are wanting to sell everything quickly, it will not be for the values listed on this site. You can approach a dealer or a local comic book store, and they will probably take everything you have. But, you are likely to get 10 cents an issue or so for the common stuff, and half the value for interesting issues (like the first appearance of a major character or something with some age. Second, you will want to get a rough idea of how to grade your comics. There is a grading guide on this site, and it works very well. You can also use a free tool like this one: http://www.e-bigs.net/freetool.php Grading is the key to figuring out what comics are worth. People see that something is worth $80 in near mint and will ask for $80, despite the fact that the comic has been used as a coaster for two decades. If you are going to go for a quick sale to a dealer, you probably only need to do this for issues with a near mint value of $10 or more so you can make sure you aren't being ripped off. And if they are all in god condition and from the 1970's or earlier, then you can expect a tidy little payday. I'd recommend a mix of the two styles, though, if you are looking to get rid of everything quick. Take a look through the collection and take out the best issues. Ones with age or ones with high value should be separated out and listed individually in the classifieds here, on eBay or on craigslist. The rest could just be dropped off at a dealers and sold really quick. Or, in my area, if you list a collection for under $100 per long box, it will sell very quickly on craigslist. This may vary in your area, though. It works out to about 40 cents an issue. Now, if you are wanting to sell through the classifieds here, then you will want to pay for an extended account. You are going to end up paying to sell your comics, one way or another, though. If nothing else, keep a little excel database of what you have. It will make things so much easier in the long run for you. Hope this helps.
2/5/2016 Topic: CapnDoug's Back Issue Discoveries CapnDoug Administrator	It's been quiet in here... to quiet... and then the Korean Spammers came.... So, let's post something that isn't spam! I bought another collection on Tuesday, about 500 issues (about 150 of which are duplicates to be sold at the con in a few weeks). I'm still going through it, but there are some good things in there. It's from a guy who's willing to buy 1000 comics to get 4 or 5 issues, so he usually gives me first refusal on the leftovers. He has some very specific tastes. I also got to go through a box of stuff his personal collection that he is considering selling. Along with a high low grade 15 cent Avengers, maybe 3.5-4.0, I got these two issues: Not exactly high grade, but speculators have been driving up the price of Amazing Adventures #1 and Nick Fury is getting a bit hard to find. Plus, they are pretty good looking mid grade issues. And when I went to pick up more bags and boards at my LCS, I picked up two more issues, one was this: One more Avengers issue closer to the full run. So, I'll be posting more as I get everything bagged and boarded. I'm almost through my DC issues. Now I have to figure out how to add more to my collection... As I'm half way through the collection, I have to add another long box.... Well planned, Doug....
2/5/2016 Topic: Getting Started on Selling Comic Books CapnDoug Administrator	Ok, sounds like you have a decent idea of things. Yes, you can export the data from CPG, though I know you will need a paid account to store more than 50 issues. And as I said, you can probably sell them in bulk pretty quickly on craigslist, if you ever need to, or take them to a dealer if you need the money really fast. edited by CapnDoug on 2/5/2016
2/6/2016 Topic: CapnDoug's Back Issue Discoveries CapnDoug Administrator	Robbie2 wrote: Oxbladder wrote: Amazing Adventures is a highly under-rated series. Those Sterenko cover on Nick Fury are just classic! True #1 should be red hot because of Black Widow. Plus Inhumans. Most Steranko covers are classic. I don't think he knows how to draw drek. I know, right? I paid $100 for the three comics and was shocked that Amazing Adventures #1 wasn't listing for more. Don't think I got a bad deal , but I have definitely seen similar mid-grade Amazing #1's going for $50 or so. But the Nick Fury... It's a nice book and I don't think I overpaid for the set, I just didn't get the good deal I thought I had.
2/7/2016 Topic: CapnDoug's Back Issue Discoveries CapnDoug Administrator	So, I've been hitting the organization project pretty hard over the last few days. Here are some of the interesting ones that I've come across. Some are new, others are old. Either way, none have been shown here yet, so.... That Teen Titans collection that I got? Yeah, it extends into the Tales series. And includes some pretty nice copies of almost all of them. I'm missing a few, but not a ton. Oh, and that one was in a collection I got for 36 cents an issue. Oh, and the new stuff, too. But I'm showing this off because I seriously have no idea what to do with comics that other people got signed. I think it's interesting, but of no real additional value to me. I don't know if I should be keeping them? Or just sell them? I don't know. I now have two copies of every issue of Crisis on Infinite Earths one of which is signed by Wolfman. Now if is were signed by Perez... I now have a strange amount of Wonder Woman comics. Mostly because they have some really strong artists and writers on them. Perez, Byrne, Dodson... Yeah... Also, here are some Amazing Spider-Man I have a lot more Amazing Spider-Man. The collection takes up more than 2 full long boxes. And I mean stuffed full. Most of them were part of my brother's collection, but I saw that a full collection was possible, so I've been adding a lot to it. It's at the point that I'm only missing 26 issues. Oh, and the next boxes are full of Avengers, so.... yeah, that's coming...
2/8/2016 Topic: CapnDoug's Back Issue Discoveries CapnDoug Administrator	You might think that the Spider-Man run is cool, but you have to keep in mind that when you are trying to complete a run, you either need patience or you need to spend a lot of money. Sadly, I had been choosing the latter for the first bit. Budget for the show is $300? How much Amazing Spider-Man will that buy me? Oxbladder wrote: Great stuff Capn! (The Wonder Woman v.2 Byrne run is one of the worst runs in comics ( and one of his worst runs in comics). He very nearly killed the title.) John Byrne was one where I sort of saw that he went off the rails at some point. A few of the big names from days of old had the same thing, but Byrne was one who around the mid-90's seemed to just stop being the creator he was, and it happened all of a sudden (or maybe I just didn't notice that his run on Action Comics had as much weird stuff in it as it did), but I just remember loving his work and then it got terrible. Probably about the time of the Wonder Woman run, now that I think of it.
2/8/2016 Topic: CapnDoug's Back Issue Discoveries CapnDoug Administrator	Oxbladder wrote: It is too bad that Byrne got to believing he was great. It resulted in him never evolving as time went on. He has the skills but, sadly, he never could move on from the 80's I don't think it was as much that he thought he was great, I think he just fell into the trap that a bunch of creators fall into in a bunch of different mediums. They have something that's outstanding, and then they just keep trying to recreate that. And if they move into something a little different, they have success, but they are always trying to recapture that first huge success. See also: M. Night Shamylan (spell check is not going to be of any help there...). Or sometimes, it's just that they need to work with someone else to compliment their style (Byrne & Claremont, Elton John & Bernie Taupin, etc) and when they are on their own, they just don't have it. A lot of greats fall into that category.
2/8/2016 Topic: CapnDoug's Back Issue Discoveries CapnDoug Administrator	jokerbangedquinn wrote: Loving your posts. I only have a complete series of the first volume of Teen Titans plus the keys of the other series of them. Your Amazing Spiderman run sounds like a heck of a feat to say the least with only missing 26 books? Crazy cool. Oh, ummm.... my bad... I was trying to get everything posted and then head out to a Super Bowl party. I'm only missing 26 issues between #200 and #700 (still a ton of books). I'm missing significantly more than 26 issues in the entire run. My database says 207, but that number includes issues where I am looking for a better condition copy or I have the 2nd printing and such. Because really, if I have the issue in 1.0 condition or something, I'm probably going to keep looking for a better copy, it just isn't as urgent. I think I would have been showing off way more if I had 674 of the 700 issues.