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You are not factoring in that the HoD episode was available for streaming for over twice as long. From the article I linked: "Despite only being available for three days (and a few hours) of Nielsen’s measurement period — the show launched at 9 p.m. ET on Sept. 1 — TROP managed to outscore seven days of streaming for the Netflix KevinHart/Mark Wahlberg movie Me Time (927 million minutes) and, yes, the second full week of measurement for HBO’s House of the Dragon (781 million).

The only reason these numbers matter is the economics. People have been predicting that RoP would be a colossal failure because of its big five-year budget. But, the difference between on Broadway and off Broadway is number of viewers. So your numbers show that its ok for RoP to have higher costs than HoD because it has a higher potential paid viewership (and actual viewers). If you are telling me that HoD is increasingly losing income to piracy, that's a negative which cuts against the shows success, not something that any producer, company, or true fan would tout as a good thing.

I'd rather have the Canadian Triumph in your profile pic over those Brit rags!

I'll take this seriously. I'd say no. The reason Action 1 matters is not the cover image, its the first appearance and origin of Superman. Some people say Action 7 is the poor man's Action 1 (really upper middle class these days), but the only reason is that it is the second Superman cover. That's not a big enough tie to the true significance of Action 1 for me. After all, Action 2 is the second Superman story. No, I'd say what we should be looking for are Superman's origin story. And Superman 1 is not a poor man's anything. So I have two candidates: (1) is More Fun 101 (1945) - which fleshed out Superman's origin by telling us about his adventures when he was a boy (1st Superboy) and providing new details about Krypton: (2) is Superman 53 - the detailed origin story put out for a 10th anniversary issue: And both are affordable for normal income people.

Jerry Bails put this out in 1969:

The Argosy bookstore put this out in 1965: But there were comic books dealers and collectors in the 1940s.

Exactly. Are they grading the box or the film? It makes no sense to me.

I don't get it. How could it not have been his choice? Even if Rosa sold his collection in toto to someone else and the buyer got it designated a pedigree how could CGC have used Rosa's name without his permission? And this guy who dated Fergie?

Episode 10 about soccer hooligans was shocking and sad. Not so much for the images of violence, but for that portrait of the hooligan and his girlfriend who needs an intervention.

RoP tops the Nielson ratings: The Rings of Power Ratings Are In, and They’re Good (vulture.com)

No. I'm saying that the MCU will include X-Men films. See above.

My assumption is that the MCU will treat X-Men exactly how they treated Spiderman - start over. There will undoubtedly be significant similarities given that the source material will likely remain the same - Byrne/Claremont New X-Men (and why wouldn't it?). I don't view Fox X-Men as canon to anything other than a multiverse cameo (same with FF). I doubt we will see much reprisal of roles other than Jackman (the only other iconic actor for that series, Stewart, is rather old). There is no way we will see any continuity. The same thing would be true if FF were to enter the MCU. It is always possible to recast a role like Wolverine. Fox recast X-Men. So I don't see Jackman's participation in an "R" rated MCU movie as requiring recasting when Wolverine appears in movies that are more central to the MCU core.

Wolverine is now in the MCU. X-Men are one of Marvel's most popular properties - even when they were handled by Fox. I think we can assume that now that they can be in the MCU, we're going to see them in the MCU. Maybe 10 years out given the advanced planning Marvel does, but it will happen.

No one had heard of Wrexham in a long time. The ultimate fall from glory. But talk about the right team to buy! Great looking stadium, oldest international stadium still in use, incredibly passionate fans, one of the top ten oldest clubs (arguably 4th oldest but definitely no worse than tenth oldest), 45 minutes from Liverpool and Manchester (easy access for soccer tourists), and dirt cheap to buy! If they can win promotion into the football league, these guys are going to be on a trajectory that could eventually get them into the top tier. Right now the doc revenue makes this a financially winning venture. Down the line it could turn out they paid a couple million for a team worth over a billion. Watching this journey is going to be fun.

Yep! He was able to plug his Welcome to Wrexham show (currently no. 4 most in demand streaming show) about his Welsh soccer team and his gin brand in an ad for the MCU (see around 24 second market and after). That is marketing genius!

Welcome to Wrexham is the fourth most in-demand show. If you aren't watching, you are missing out! I'd say it the only one that's not comic or fantasy related, but that's not true given how much Deadpool is mentioned:

Weird. I looked at early Bullseye issues, maybe the first three or four, and didn't see any promo of themselves. A little bit is right. I now see it appeared only on issues 5 (Mainline) and 7 (Charlton) and then the series ended.

Never seen those before. Like them! What month/year and issues did they appear in? I have to assume that creator names didn't move the GA market much or at all because those type of efforts by publishers were very short lived. Not even S&Ks own mainline tried to promote their comics off of the S&K names. While there were always some comic readers who were fanatical enough to have had favorite creators, it really took the emergence of organized comic fandom to set the stage for creators becoming "stars" to comic readers.

No. That's wrong. "Sandman by Simon &: Kirby" was promoted on the cover of Adventure 81, 82, and 83. Must not have helped sales because they stopped doing that for 84 on. Did I miss something for which "Jack Kirby" got solo promotion? Or was the three-issue run what you were referring to? In any event, how does that prove that Kirby got LESS hype over the years than others? I will say this, I do know of some creators who got cover hype that was more impressive than that for S&K. From 1948: Harvey also did cover promo for S&K on Stuntman early on but dropped the practice for S&K by the time Boy's Ranch came out. Must not have mattered to sales numbers back then. My guess is that Caniff and S&K negotiated the deals they got to include the promo and it was not a publisher driven idea.

Because between 1951 and 1960 there were zero superhero team books in publication. My surmise is Jack, who worked for DC when Fox was doing JSA and when Leading featured the Seven Soldiers, was copying Fox's format not the other way around. In comics, copying others was normal. S&K did it. Kirby solo did it.

One is in the sky, one was cast into the sea, and the third was cast into a deep pit. Where is the pit? Could plausibly be Moria. Was a Silmaril stuck in a tree? The story that Gil-Galad recites is stated to be a children's story - most likely partly allegorical. Veins of ore are like a tree - branching out all over the place. If the Silmaril cast into the pit was stuck in a "tree" of silver veins and then as the Balrag and Elf fought above it (similar to LOTR) and were struck by a divine thunderbolt which infused the light of the silmaril into the silver creating mithril, then the story is plausible (we are talking divinity, demons and magic here). It would also explain why a Balrog was living in Moria.

It is a five year commitment.

Actually, what you said is: "Oh yeah, Brave and the Bold #28! The other thing that this issue does is find a way to tell a full story... they do it by breaking it down into chapters - the concept of a full story in a comic is still unsure at this point - but its also something they got from Kirby's Challengers who did this a number of times." WRONG. And you also said: "The only omission I may have made was not including that Gardner Fox had written full length stories 20 years prior. 20 YEARS prior. ... It is what it is. Comics weren't using it. 20 years is a long time. Jack started doing it again and others followed." WRONG AGAIN. You literally accused Gardner Fox, the man who wrote the first book length superhero team story, breaking it down into chapters, of doing so because its "something they got from Kirby's Challengers" and "Jack started doing it again and others followed." Again, you got this backwards and you are too stubborn to admit it. You also tried to claim that DC and/or Kirby was not influenced by DC's standard format for superhero team stories because that was "20 years ago." But despite your many repetitions of that assertion, it is not true. Apparently you were unaware that the adventures of the JSA ran as chaptered stories in All-Star from 1940 to 1951. And when called on the falsity of your "20 years ago" assertion, you fell back on the assertion that seven years "was a long time in the world then." No. Not really. Most of the folks who worked on JSA were still at DC, including Gardner Fox who wrote BB28! Certainly, Fox didn't forget the many JSA stories he wrote (guys like Jerry Bails and Roy Thomas were writing him about them before JLA was created!). Again, you are trying too hard. Kirby's reputation doesn't need this kind of "help." Fox was not "influenced" by Kirby to write a book length superhero team story with chapters at all. He had done them throughout the 1940s for the JSA and he did them again when the JSA was revived as the JLA. Again, please top trying to give Kirby credit for everything in comics - Kirby doesn't deserve it and it does a disservice to other creators like Gardner Fox who Kirby was influenced by.

You may be the only comic collector on the planet who thinks that Kirby gets less attention than guys like Gardner Fox. Let's be real: Numerous articles about Kirby over the years, similar to your threads, have overhyped Kirby's role and influence as compared to just about everyone, including Joe Simon his longtime partner. Especially as compared to guys who generally get very little attention in comparison like Gardner Fox, Bill Finger, Jerry Robinson, Bill Everett, etc. What's ironic is that the person most responsible for the over-hyping of Jack "King" Kirby is Stan Lee. The fact that you made the above statement just shows how deep Stan Lee's influence runs in you.

You have this backwards. Challengers of the Unknown was a book length team story with chapters because that was the norm for DC superhero team books from 1940 to 1951 ONLY SEVEN YEARS EARLIER. Whether Kirby chose to emulate the old format or he was told to do it that way I don't know. But, it wasn't a Kirby invention or innovation - it was a pretty normal DC practice. Again, you are overclaiming Kirby's influence and ignoring everyone else's.