Bob
A GREAT item to have in the collection for sure.....
Nice Job!
Bob
A GREAT item to have in the collection for sure.....
Nice Job!
Just wow - an awesome collection just gets better and better!
Congrats Bob
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The dates are on the pictures posted at Betts. Looks like June 1964 on issue #2. The letter says 1964.Originally Posted by carlosdetweiller
WOOOW! I'm sooooo surprise it was BOB who won this.... ha ha ha...
Congrads Bob.... glad to see you got it.... I was going to give you a run for the money.... if it hadn't just happened to show up for sale after I just last week plopped 20+ grand down on a new truck (my christmas gift to myself)
had I known last week... I'd have just stuck with my old 97 dodge and gotten in the mix for this one.
Congrads Dude!!!!! Merry Christmas.... now hurry up and post the damn pictures of these prettys in their new home (I'm sure you'll be displaying them appropriately - given their status)
and... don't forget to update your will - it's terry newsom - no "e" at the end)
Congratulations!!! What an awesome purchase!
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Thanks! As soon as I typed "1965" I thought to myself that it didn't sound right and meant to double check but didn't get around to it.The dates are on the pictures posted at Betts. Looks like June 1964 on issue #2. The letter says 1964.
Wonderful, Bob. I don't really think anyone here was surprised (too much, at least) that you were the winner.
John
I'm a little surprised myself. As I said earlier in this thread, the time was really not right for me to make a big purchase. Chris Cavalier and I talked last week and I told him that I didn't think I would place a bid. Then the whole "once-in-a-lifetime" thing started me to think that I should at least take a stab at it. I'm also surprised that some other collector didn't outbid me. I thought my bid had about a 50/50 chance of winning. In the end I think I did the right thing and don't think I will look back with any regret.
Congratulations Bob!
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Congratulations Bob! Glad you picked it up. I thought hard about it......
Bob, now has three comics that might be worth more than everything I own in the world combined.
I think Bob might have gotten out cheap... it's the wrong time of year to sale something this big.... with christmas budgets.... like I said... had I not just paid cash for a new truck.... a christmas present to myself....
it's good to be Bob....
I think so too, relatively speaking.
Congratulations Bob,
Very impressive addition.
“The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.” - Stephen King
Congratulations, Bob -- if I may. It's great that you could fill one of the few holes you might still have!
David -- Thanks for the biographical information on your site. Well done! Another U of A alum done good, lol!!!! Please keep those cool SK items coming in 2012....and please make sure they get here before the Mayan calendar claims the end of the world!
I just spent the last few hours (minutes) tabulating my net worth and I concur with BriceBob, now has three comics that might be worth more than everything I own in the world combined.
David, I like your story so i posted it here! i hope you dont mind --- because i know you will change your website sooner or later! I like archived history.
David wrote on his website -----
I get questions all the time from you, loyal customers, about my background/history. As all of you are King lovers, I'll share some of my history with you. It is nothing close to a Stephen King novel, but it is MY story nevertheless.
I am 52 years of age and was born in Des Moines Iowa. My parents are now both deceased (I lost my mother this past June) but I have an older brother and younger sister. We moved briefly to Chagrin Falls Ohio and then on to Chatham New Jersey. In third grade, we moved back to Ohio...a small town called Celina. I was a good student and involved in many extra-curricular activities, but baseball (playing...was always my passion). I played various positions all through high school, mainly pitcher, second base and third base. My first job was as a paperboy, delivering the daily newspaper after school on my bicycle to my customers. In high school, I worked at the local IGA (I gyp anybody) supermarket as a bagger/stocker.
I considered several universities and settled on Drake University (in Des Moines) as they were one of the few schools in the country that had a combined Accounting/Actuarial Science major...and my grandparents still lived there, providing me with family close by. At Drake, I soon decided Actuarial Science was not my cup of tea so I became a Finance major as I had always been interested in the stock market. At Drake, I was also a Resident Assistant in my dorm and then became a founding member (and later President) of the local Sigma Chi fraternity. It was in the fraternity that I ended up meeting my future wife...although she was my roommate's girlfriend at the time!
After Drake, I took a job as a Group Manager of Housewares/Linens at Gimbel's Department store in Milwaukee Wisconsin. I eventually became Assistant Buyer of the Toy Department after about 6 months. Well, retail turned out to be long hours and short on pay so I applied to graduate schools, got accepted at the University of Arizona and departed the frigid winter climate of Wisconsin for Arizona. I worked my butt off at UofA and received a Masters of Science degree in Finance in 1 1/2 years. In my last year there, I student taught a beginning Finance class and co-authored an article with my professor Eric Sorensen that was published in the Financial Analysts Journal in 1984...the article was about Dividend Discount Models. After graduation, I landed a job as a Research Analyst with a small OTC broker on Wall Street called Baird Patrick & Sons. I lived in Union New Jersey and commuted by train into the World Trade Center. While working in New York, I began courting my former Sigma Chi roomate's girlfriend. At about the time that she enrolled in grad school at Boston University, I took a new Analyst job (retail and consumer sector was my specialty) with Advest Inc. in Hartford CT. I moved to CT. We got married in the fall of 1989 at a small country inn in South Woodstock Vermont. We have three children.
After 5 years working in Hartford, I took a new job with Swiss American Securities (a unit of Credit Suisse) in midtown New York City. I worked for Swiss American for about 15 years, initially as the Consumer sector analyst but then for the last 7 years as Director of Research. It was during this time that my personal collection of Stephen King books took off. Like all of you, I started small....but one thing led to another and then it became signed books, and signed limited editions....well many of you can identify with that story! I was fortunate to have a great paying job that could fund my interest (well, addiction if the truth is to be told) in Stephen King. Then in late 2004, Credit Suisse decided that they wanted to create a brand new research unit to analyze the US markets for their Private Banking clients, so I created Credit Suisse Research US and headed up that new unit for them. Well, we were doing fine until the markets/economy hit the fan in 2008. At that point, Credit Suisse, looking to cut overhead, decided it was going to provide its US research out of Zurich, not the US, so my entire unit was closed down in spring 2009. So, after 18 years with Credit Suisse, I found myself without a job for the first time in my life. Job hunting was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life...and especially in 2009/2010 hiring in the Financial arena was just horrid.
While looking for a job in late summer/early autumn of 2009, Stu Tinker announced that he was giving up running Betts. I spoke to Stu who knew me for more than a decade as a customer of Betts, I spoke to my wife/family and decided that with my knowledge of the King market, collectors etc. that I would be a great caretaker for Betts. So I bought Betts from Stu in late 2009. Truthfully, Betts is a pretty small business and is not anywhere near big enough to support a family if 5 in CT, so my "real" job search continued. Finally, in October 2010 I landed a Supervisory Analyst position with a New York City brokerage firm, so I work the night shift (Midnight to about 10am), but at least I get to work from home. Still, between the full time SA job, Betts and family time, there is not much extra time in my life.
So, that's an outline of my life. Betts is by far the most fun job I've ever had and I continue to value and enjoy my contact with each of you.
I wish all of you and your families a happy and peaceful holiday season. Thank you for your continuing support of Betts Books.
Your Caretaker,
David
Don'tcha know David doesn't change the website? He just adds to it.
David has more willpower than me. I'd have bought Betts and just incorporated EVERYTHING into my collection.
Seriously, that was a pretty entertaining read.
Is Betts changing it's Website?
God I hope so, no offense David, I know you didn't design it but seriously... website development is really not that hard anymore.
I hardly go there, I can't tell what's new or old, just seems to be confusing.
Also pictures really close the deal for me, when's the last time anybody ever bought from feebay sight unseen?
I'm sure somebody here can help you.
Please please don't be offended, no disrespect intended.
Don'tcha know David doesn't change the website? He just adds to it.
“The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.” - Stephen King
Someone is redesigning the website, I can't remember who.
I like the picture idea also (like each item would have a link to a picture), but David is already one busy s.o.b., you know?
Ari is working on it.
The truth is that the website is ready (the design), but I was unable to have the database updated and converted from it's current format (html).
I really hope to have it ready before the end of the year.
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