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Thanks.

Amazing Spider-Man #93 CGC 9.6 $700 SOLD

Amazing Spider-Man #51 CGC 7.5 $120 SOLD 2nd overall and 1st cover appearance of the Kingpin There are some scratches on the slab.

Amazing Spider-Man #50 CGC 5.5 $500 SOLD

Amazing Spider-Man #46 CGC 7.0 $250 SOLD

Amazing Spider-Man #41 CGC 8.0 $650 SOLD

Amazing Spider-Man #28 CGC 5.0 $250 SOLD

Amazing Spider-Man #19 CGC 4.5 $150 SOLD

Amazing Spider-Man #18 CGC 5.0 $200 SOLD

Sorry for the delay. I had something come up with work that I had to deal with. Here come some more ASMs: Amazing Spider-Man #17 CGC 4.0 $200 SOLD

Back when Valiant was hot in 1993 and trashed SA keys were worth maybe $100 - $200 I could see it. Here is the best Hulk #1 that a Magnus #12 could buy back then

Slight edit. I picked up an amateur restored (err....conserved label but it is all the same) Hulk #1 in a collection last August that the owner had traded a spare Magnus #12 for back in 1993. He was worried he lost the trade at the time but need a Hulk #1 for his run.

Amazing Spider-Man #10 CGC 4.0 $300 SOLD

Amazing Spider-Man #2 CGC 0.5 Apparent $250 SOLD 1st Appearance of the Vulture

I have all of the books back from CGC now from a collection I picked up late last summer. While I was planning to save most of the books for the local spring shows at the end of the month, the new slabs take up way too much storage space. I will be posting 100+ books here to try and clear some space. NOTE: All of the books in the new holders have been pressed. The books graded in 2006 by the owner (second generation label) were not pressed prior to submission. I can't speak for the first generation label books as he bought them from other sellers. As usual, trumps PMs I have not responded to. Shipping Policy: Shipping for slabbed comics starts at $20 in a small box with tracking and insurance in Canada and the continental USA. Overseas shipping will be charged at the postal rate.

They are going to relaunch it regardless. I guess the only issue they have to deal with would be the investors that backed the films' development. If they go straight to Hulu then the investors get zero. Depending on who they are, and what type of covenants they had in the contracts with Fox, Disney may release it just to keep them happy.

From a business perspective, Disney is getting this and Dark Phoenix, as well as any other Fox movies, at essentially zero cost (other than the exorbitant acquisition price they paid for the entire entity ). If the product looks decent, they might want to release both to test the waters with both films as a path to darker grittier hero films. If they flop at the box office, you can blame Fox and just shorten the theatrical run. However, if they are a success, say $500M worldwide apiece (remember, the production expenditures are a sunk cost for Fox), then it is something to build on for the future. Then again, if they are launching their own streaming service, it might not be bad to have exclusive properties at zero cost to drive viewers to it.

Nice books!

It's funny to see how many people I know via kids sports and/or at work that are just finally seeing this film now. All of them think it is a very good to great film, which is surprising to hear from even the Marvel movies only people who checked out Aquaman because of positive word of mouth.

No Aquaman 2? That seems to be a long time for a second film considering how successful the first one is......

So you are saying you disagree with my assumption as to why it opened in China? Just wanted to clarify.

Yup.

And you won't get confirmed announcement of Chinese financing of the film unless they are a publicly traded fund that has to disclose. You may be able to find it with some digging later on, but that would take more time than anyone here will want to invest.

Putting your money into Hulk 181s would have been a better play.......

I am basing it on my personal experience investing and losing money in two productions 7-10 years ago. One was a crying shame. It was a documentary on a band's final tour (can't remember the name, but it was supposedly the first industrial rock group) that was poised to do great (we even had box sets for Christmas already designed and ready to be printed and sold), until the lead singer/front man found religionduring the post production editing phase, stopped his drugs and alcohol abuse, and then won the legal battle to prevent release and take ownership of the content since the production company did not ever get him to sign on the dotted line (despite the rest of the group doing so and him giving the verbal go ahead - lesson learned). Prior to that, it looked like a homerun - there were interviews with all sorts of more successful industrial rock artists (e.g. Trent Reznor/Nine Inch Nails) that generated a ton of interest in the documentary/film from a wide audience. The movie was actually released at a couple of film festivals where the largest backers wanted it to go, receiving rave reviews from the critics, but the rest of us small investors that put in money were basically along for the ride. Looking at the large budget for Aquaman, and the number and size of Chinese funds being formed to invest in film production, there was likely a significant amount of Chinese investment into production (and I would guess a number of other big hero and action films now). Here is Wan's connection to one of the Chinese funds: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chinese-film-fund-bets-100m-hollywood-directors-fraught-us-relations-1032938 Reading between the lines of that article, it looks investing in entertainment industry was one way for wealthy Chinese to get larger amounts of funds out of China in one shot.