MisterX

Captain Britain Omnibus scheduled for a reprint in October 2021! Woot! With extra content, too!

I see a bunch of folks are dumping theirs on eBay this morning. In fact, that's why I decided to search "Captain Britain Omnibus reprint" a few moments ago.

1 hour ago, F For Fake said:

Oh, and yes, if you got the order in, you SHOULD be fine. Every once in a while they may come back and say they didn’t have enough copies to cover orders, but it doesn’t happen as much since they revamped their site and got on top of things. Don’t panic if it sits at waiting for a while. Lately my orders have been at the waiting stage for a couple of weeks, then they finally move. My Howard the Duck MMW is picked and scanned, but the Dawn of X v6 trade I threw on the order to bring it up over the $50 free shipping threshold is still at waiting. It’s frustrating, but for the cost savings I don’t mind the wait that much.

Good to know!

On 3/9/2021 at 4:30 PM, F For Fake said:

IST's system is kinda of odd, in that once the release week approaches, items seem to disappear from the "coming soon" list. I'm assuming it's something triggered by the arrival of the Diamond notice for that week's shipments, and the item is being converted from "coming soon" to "in stock". I'm not sure. Regardless, it happens every week, and they have the Dr. Aphra Omnibus now, it's up for sale,so go get it!

Thanks, man!

They only had the direct market cover, but I pulled the trigger and picked one up. My order is now "waiting to process," but I'm pretty sure I was able to snag a copy before they sold out (which was a lot quicker than I thought they would).

On 3/5/2021 at 10:49 AM, Angel of Death said:

I'm not seeing it on their Coming Soon list. Maybe they couldn't order any?

Yeah, I dunno. That could explain it, I guess. 

Hey, gang -- I think I'd like to give Instock Trades a try. I'm interested in the upcoming Doctor Aphra omnibus. I managed to put it on my wishlist, but what does it mean when they say "product information not found"?

I wouldn't bother slabbing the Shadow, Inhumans, most of the Green Lanterns, Morbius, Howard the Duck, OMAC, Sandman.

If you're planning to sell, I suggest submitting the Eternals pretty soon, because prices will most likely go down after the movie comes out.

Gary Dolgoff Comics just sold a 9.0 OW/W for $8200 last night!

Incredible Hulk 181 (CGC 9.0) OW/W pages; 1st full app. Wolverine; 1974 (j#4434) | eBay

This is crazy. Who's buying these books at such high prices??

I'm wondering if maybe the Millennial Generation suddenly got into collecting this past year?  There's a lot of them, I'm told...

I've read many opinion pieces decrying Millennial spending habits in the past, most specifically, they don't like "stuff" the like "experiences." Also, they apparently were spending all their disposable income on avocado toast.

Perhaps Covid-19 has opened their eyes to new ways of spending (and I suppose, making) their hard earned dollars? 

All this money's got to be coming in from somewhere. If not Millennials, maybe it's just dudes laundering drug money. 

P.S. One of my teenage sons collects Pokemon. Another collectible hobby that's gone berserk! He can't complete any more with the deep pocket buyers, which I think overall is a worrying sign for any collectible hobby. 

1 hour ago, Jasonmorris1000000 said:

That's weird.  I'm not able to see the jpeg files.  Are they updating the boards again?

Hmm, can anybody else see the books I posted?

I like this thread! Here's one book I still need to pick up for my Ghosts run that is waaaay on the bottom of the priority list.

Weird War Tales has some fantastic covers, but I cringe every time I remember I still need to pick this one up...

That's two off the top of my head, I'm sure there's more!

15 hours ago, EC Star&Bar said:

When I did my earliest buying around 1974-1975, a place called "News and Book Center" not only had 2 spinner racks with newsstand releases, but they also had a third rack devoted to 3-packs of Whitman editions from Western Pub., comprised of the issues concurrently published with the Gold Key brand.  Sort of odd, as they could've just stuck with the returnable Gold Keys.  

On toward 1977:  Between that place, a drug store, a greeting card shop, and a "Book World" store, I was spinning as many as 7 racks every Saturday morning.  Even with that many, sometimes only 1 copy popped up, as was the case with my copy of Superman #300 ('76) at Osco Drug.

 

7 spinner racks on a Saturday morning!  

Hey, Whitman collectors, what's your opinion on the final price for this Batman 324 that just sold on eBay? (Not my book. Congrats to the seller if they're a boardie!)

Batman 324 Whitman Variant Actually Very rare!! | eBay

2 hours ago, D2 said:

but... you quoted yourself. So aren’t you the only one speculating?

No, Rich Johnson is also speculating, if you just click on the article. 

On 11/22/2020 at 11:17 AM, MisterX said:

Penguin Random House has been buying up publishers for years.  I could see them being interested in DC.

If graphic novels are the winners of the Darwinian comics publishing formant struggle, how could the largest US mainstream publisher resist?

Penguin Random House Buys Simon & Schuster For Over $2 Billion (bleedingcool.com)

Apparently I'm not the only one speculating that Penguin Random House (and now Simon & Schuster) might be interested in DC.

Penguin Random House has been buying up publishers for years.  I could see them being interested in DC.

If graphic novels are the winners of the Darwinian comics publishing formant struggle, how could the largest US mainstream publisher resist?

On 11/2/2020 at 2:03 AM, OtherEric said:

Exactly.  And this one, in particular, I doubt they'll ever be able to sort out the rights to everybody's likeness. 

It might be a fun idea to create a list of "unreprintable" stories like this, where the rights either temporarily or permanently make a story unusable.  I vaguely recall Marvel making at least something of a big deal of them being able to reprint Marvel Two-In-One #21 with the Doc Savage crossover a couple years ago.

Lots of BA/CA Rom appearances haven't been reprinted, IIRC.

There wolf. There castle.

I'm still having trouble finding high grade copies of the 3 & 5 pence variants.  I've ordered some pence variants from a shop in the UK, but I wasn't totally happy with their grading and probably won't be looking NM or better material from them again.

Why do you want to do this? Is it because you think it'll make the books more valuable? Or because you really dig Roy Thomas?

I don't see 180/181 getting a bump from a Thomas signature.

My recommendation would be for you to get his signature on the 1st app of a character he really did co-create, like Morbius (with Gil kane) or Iron Fist (again with Gil Kane).

So, if you're really interested, seek out and read the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard's "The System of Objects - II A Marginal System: Collecting."

If the title doesn't put you off immediately, his essay has a lot of thought-provoking things to say about the psychology of collectors, the psychological nature of objects, etc. 

I'm not going to post his ideas here, because I don't care to support or defend them on an internet message board, especially one for collectors, who may take offense at Braudrillard's conclusions. 

I will say he's definitely talking about collectors, and not speculators or investors.

50 minutes ago, Chaykin Stevens said:

Here's the part of the page with the woman in question:

And here's the full page:

Wow, looking at it again after all these years, that's the most poorly-constructed part of the page. The caption box is ambiguous, compared to the picture. The woman really could be either Belit or Valeria. The only reason we're supposed to assume it's Belit is because Conan clearly references both the hill-panther and Red Sonja, and being named first in the caption box, we could be led to believe that this woman is Belit. Even though she doesn't look anything like her later appearances. Maybe the dude with the eyepatch reinforces the pirate aspect of her background. I'm disappointed in how lame this is.  

I do have GSC1 and Conan 58, haven't read them in a really long time. I feel like unless Roy Thomas himself clarifies otherwise (and maybe he already has) it will be difficult to persuade people that GSC1 isn't her first appearance.

It looks like Marvel's releasing the War of the Realms omnibus this week.

The story intrigued me, but I didn't pick it up at time. 

Any fans? Or should I pass?

Margaret Brundage 

I read somewhere that H.P. Lovecraft couldn't stand her artwork, and would tear the covers off his copies of WT.