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Show lyHiinnyn. Comics as Investments The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, August 22, LJ i Buy Gold? Careful! Captain Mar vel? Yes 6 Super Ceramic Planned for Cars and are able to evaluate extremely small defects, Kino said. We are even able to predict what stresses would cause such ceramics to break. Auto STANFORD, Calif. (UPI) engines of the future may be made from a stronger-than-stesuper ceramic material being developed at Stanford University, a researcher said last week. Gordon Kino, professor electrical engineering and applied physics, said his research team has solved the problem of detecting defects in the ceramic during manufacturing. We have developed a whole range of theoretical and experimental expertise, el Continued From Page 6 states first comic speciality shop. He owns the shop with Clifford Kemple and Steve Miner. It is a direct sales store. dealt, in some cases, with sex or other topics. If you want to invest in comics, Mr. Beck said, he will make it plain that he a but can give you some He said the shop was started when isnt prophet, want a particular back advice. If you they had difficulties contacting other1 issue, in advance and they comic collectors. At first, he said, the will you can pay Or for it. you can ask that owners culled books from their own new search issues be held for you when they collections to sell in hopes of attracting at store. collectors and their return business as arrive the for Years Collect 'well. t You to have for go ! years and collect The store now has some 2,000 comics, them (comics). You have to stay with both new and old issues, on display. it, he said. He said one man who had T The Los Angeles Times notes that last started collecting comics brought them 'year 138 million new comics were sold to the store to be sold. nationwide and 5,000 dealers serve 30 He had comics worth $3,000 to million U.S. collectors. $4,000. But I couldnt afford to buy them. I can only give you 25 percent of Matter of Condition the value because I dont know if - Mr. Beck said physical condition is a I can(guide) unload some books like that, Mr. ley factor is determining a comics Beck said. Often, he said, trades can be value. And. much like antiques, just arranged because a comic book is old doesnt New issues of comics can be good necessarily mean value. investments, he said. - And, too, he said, there may be You can pay 60 cents for a Daredevil and then turn around and sell it to a disagreements over a comic's condition. One collector may say a comic is collector for $2, he said. He noted that listed as No.l In good condition and another list it as first issues are a fair. And the difference in condition can good buy. Marvel Comics issued Wocost you money. lverine No. I. in May. Mr. Beck has issue No. 3 on the stand. the most of difficult part this Thats Other matters to check in comics Mr. Beck said. The Comic "bobby, include special events or changes may Guide Price 400 with helps nearly pook in characters. with double column listings. The pages No. 94 they changed In the book is the bible of the hobby, Mr. Beck team members. This is no big deal, paid, and it lists all comics made, because in comics it happens all the including giveaways but not undertime. But, in this case, because of the ground comics. Undergound comics appearance of the team members, it became a hot comic. He noted, for example, that Marvel and DC Comics have combined to issue The uncanny and The New Team Titans, which he says can be a : good buy. Hang in Plastic Bags Special to The Tribune he And, said, you can always go A workshop on how to DELTA back and read them. Comics are best will business a be held plan prepare here Sept. 1 for smaii business owners stored by hanging them in plastic bags, he said. nd operators. To be sure, Mr. Beck said, there are The seminar is sponsored by the such as a place to store disadvantages, University of Utah Small Business them. And, this can be a problem for a development Center and assisted by devout collector with 7,000 comic books. the Delta Chamber of Commerce and Burglars are also a problem. So, Mr. ll.S. Small Business Administration. Beck suggested storing valuable com4 The workshop is from p.m. at the ics in a bank where the atmospheric Delta School Board offices and costs $8 conditions are perfect to maintain the for the first participant from a business books. and $5 for each subsequent participant Mr. Beck noted that in his own from the same firm. collection, Avengers No. 1 is now worth some $300, the first issue of The Free counseling with the Small Busiwhich came out in ness Development Center will be availAmazing Spider-Ma- n able Sept. 2 in the morning. Appoint- 1960 is worth some $600 and Wait ments may be made at the Delta Disneys Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck is worth some $1,500. Chamber offices. B-1- X-m- B 17 1982 - - -- m withstand very high temperatures, tend to be more efficient," said Kino. He produced a sample of the new ceramic, a cylinder of smooth, black translucent material made of silicon and nitrogen. With no flaws, said Kino, the silicon nitride ceramic would be much stronger than the steel now used in airplane engines. It is as strong as tungsten carbide, which is used for cutting steel, said He said Toyota and Toshiba in Japan are working on a plan to make automobile materials out of similar materials. "Engines can be made out of very cheap materials, such as silicon. Crudely speaking, they are made largely of sand, and because they can Kino. Lee Provancha Day former Principal Dancer with Ballet West will be offering classes on intermediate and advanced levels. . . . 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