Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 25, 2021

Don’t forget the orderlies and clerks.

…and ten more for the janitors.

The guy behind the kid reminds me of someone already seen.

Hello Ebay.

I seen similar attempts at the AA minor league baseball games in my town. An up-and-coming rookie on the team would be requested to sign a dozen or more trading cards by a kid – or a kid of rather advanced age. (I’m not into this, so I have no idea where the cards come from.)

Uh, tipped your hand a little early there, kid….

Did e-Bay exist then?

For a moment I believed him.

At $75 a piece, the kid must have some allowance!

The guy behind him is bracing for a loooong wait.

The kid has a future in hedge funds.

while I was in college and getting into comics (especially Carl Barks) I remember going to a comic book sale of multiple dealers one weekend and seeing a booth being managed by two young kids, no more than 11 years old, wearing a three piece suit. The table that held their comic books came up to their chest and their head barely poked over the top of the boxes holding their comic books. They had a humongous collection to sell, too. Couldn’t figure out that angle.

This trip is golden for old Zonker.

Never have understood the autograph mania.

Signs of a scam in the making… :D

Is this why some athletes do not sign things?

Time to “bathe in catharsis of schmaltz”, as Heinlein put it.

Bingo.

Is that a young Hulk Hogan in the background? He had a full head of hair then….

I smell an … entrepreneur…