500Club

Long time boardie.

RIP. 

On 2/8/2022 at 2:27 PM, valiantman said:

@The Meta great!  Now that it's settled, we can team up to take out the true villain of the CGC boards:

You don’t just jump to Mike Tyson. 

On 2/8/2022 at 12:25 PM, AGGIEZ said:

A lot of that "garbage" is now selling for ridiculous amounts of money these days. People drooling over ASM365...really? I tended to agree up until about 18 months ago when books like Youngblood #2 started selling for $200. One man's trash is now that same man's treasure...SMH...

Depends if you define ‘garbage’ by value or quality. 

On 2/7/2022 at 4:46 PM, AGGIEZ said:

"CHROMIUM" AGE: 1992-2002

Always preferred GARBAGE for this time frame. 

On 2/6/2022 at 11:31 AM, KCode98 said:

I should have clarified "in 9.8 CGC"

This is probably because of value.  Low value = minimal subbing.

That is a pretty classic 90’s cover.  Has Wolverine 27 type style.

On 2/7/2022 at 8:00 AM, KCode98 said:

Was watching Jerry's video today on some 9.8s to grab in 2022 and he mentioned the X-Men 1 comic we all know. He mentioned to grab it now since it is affordable. With going on 4,500 CGC 9.8 copies I do not see this comic ever reaching decent money due to the lack of supply. What are the opinions here on this?

Valuable?  Probably not.  Worth something?  Yes.  But supply will limit upside.

On 2/5/2022 at 7:57 AM, paqart said:

I've looked for newsstands at garage sales

What was your success rate?  Both for any comics, and for post-2000 newsstand books.

On 2/5/2022 at 9:28 PM, Lord Gemini said:

Now for those who think I give everything a pass, I do have my criticisms. I just tend to look for the good in stuff, focus on that, and try to maintain a sense of fun about it. The same goes for comics and anything regarding entertainment really.

On 2/5/2022 at 5:25 AM, awakeintheashes said:

Looks like he wanted to include her but couldn’t get sign off, so he made it look enough unlike her to not be her. 

I take it that it IS her, drawn with plausible deniability.

On 2/4/2022 at 5:51 PM, darkstar said:

That character isn't going anywhere, too big of a merchandising draw. 

And just flat-out too cool.  Would be a huge mistake to subtract him.

Watched episode one.  Liked it.  THIS guy IS Reacher.

Still getting used to his voice and speech patterns.  Slow to acclimate after having formed a pretty concrete image after reading 25 or so novels. 

On 2/3/2022 at 8:26 AM, Grendel72 said:

I first listened to somewhere in time album on cassette in 1986. Still have it on my playlist in my car. My favorite maiden album still. Was even educational; taught me about Alexander the great. I know they have sold like a 100 million records but they are still underrated IMHO. And still an awesome live act. 

Wake the  up, Rock and Roll HOF!

On 2/2/2022 at 8:57 PM, darkstar said:

His first appearance was in 1986 on Iron Maiden's single Stranger in a Strange Land off the Somewhere in Time album. 

Great album.  Copper Age, though. 

On 1/15/2022 at 11:48 AM, IbukiLord said:

655 and 656 are so under the radar at the moment it's insane how cheap they can be had. I'll pick them up every time I find them out in the wild. I traded a raw Miles Hip-Hop variant that I found for $2 for a 9.8 655

Yup.  Remarkable for a character that has been woven so deeply into the Bat and DC mythos in the last few years.

On 1/15/2022 at 11:26 AM, ygogolak said:

See Star Lord

 

J/k

It’s a joke, but in some ways it’s true, in that it illustrates that there are no ‘rules’.  The market is what it is, decides what it decides, and no matter how much pizzing and moaning a guy does in his eBay listing, it’s just tilting at windmills. 

On 1/13/2022 at 3:19 PM, Brock said:

On 1/13/2022 at 1:14 PM, 500Club said:

To collectors, there’s comics, and there’s ancillary items.  The first traditional comic appearances tend to be collected, whether or not an ancillary item has had a previous appearance.

This is an is ongoing debate on these boards.

Doesn’t much matter if there’s debate.  I’m speaking from the perspective of how the market has traditionally allocated dollars and buying interest.  The fact Mando/Grogu appear in a sequential pictorial story in GN form won’t stop many collectors from buying DV 20 as ‘first cover’ of Mando/Grogu.

If you see a ‘comic book’ as encompassing any sequential graphic or comic art, your choice should be to collect Mando S1 V1. 

The fact that the market hasn’t run up the price of that GN is telling, though.

To collectors, there’s comics, and there’s ancillary items.  The first traditional comic appearances tend to be collected, whether or not an ancillary item has had a previous appearance.  The ancillary items are also collected, and can also be winners.  The point, though, is that an appearance in a non-traditional form doesn’t tend to make the forst comic appearance meaningless.  See: Harley Quinn, Rocket Raccoon, Boba Fett…

On 1/9/2022 at 1:18 PM, aardvark88 said:

Name of comic book You Tuber that, I believe, lives near Portland, OR and works in the film industry on the Westcoast USA and BC, Canada.

That’s not as fun as it could have been. 

On 1/7/2022 at 2:27 AM, kimik said:

On 12/30/2021 at 11:14 AM, eddly said:

I guess I missed bounty hunters 14 completely. Not really looking to buy anything new at the moment, my comic budget is completely spent with multiple submissions currently with CGC.

Let's connect before the next Red&White or Calgary Expo. I can bring a couple down for you if you still need them.

For the best price, talk to the guy who sets up with him. 

I’ve taken to tucking away characters and concepts that I think Disney/D+ may use in the future to expand their MCU streaming and movie empire internationally and demographically.

On 12/18/2021 at 10:27 PM, littledoom said:

I picked up a lot of $1 and free books today at a con but won’t be able to take pics for about a week. Here’s some $2 books I got at the last con I was at 

Them’s some awfully good $2 books…

On 12/5/2021 at 4:16 PM, Norinn Radd said:

Is anyone ever going to care about Savage Dragon?

If they start to, the mid and late run books will be brutally hard to find.   It’ll make assembling a Spawn run look like a walk in the park. 

On 12/4/2021 at 7:38 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

That whole run had some steam, I thought everyone had forgot. Given the books that popped, I'm guessing this is just further along in the story?

New Milligan/Allred series, the X-Cellent, out in Feb.  Spotlight back on.