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#362 and #363 have been steady sellers at $10 - $15 apiece over the past three or four years at local shows. Collectors see Carnage and Venom on the cover and buy them.

#1-5. After that it is all downhill........

The FF are not a top tier property today and have not been since the late 60s. I was not around for the dawn of the Marvel SA, but if the FF had launched in the lates 60s/early 70s I doubt the title would have been as popular. It benefited a lot from being the first new wave Marvel hero book. By the end of the 60s Spidey had surpassed it.

I will check, but there should be some. This was unread/unracked store stock they pulled out.

If you look at the movie from a female viewership perspective, it is having the similar pull that SS did which is a strong female lead will draw in a big and longer term female viewing audience. It looks like Sony has acknowledged this with their Spider-verse female movie announcements. I wonder how fast Marvel will look to expand their offerings targeted at the female audience seeing as they just have Captain Marvel in the works. I know that my wife and daughter were hoping there would be a Black Widow solo flick after the first Avengers film - that one would seem to be a no brainer that could follow the Wonder Woman story outline but set in the Cold War era.

Interesting. Looks like I will need to toss a bunch up on eBay.

You are not a local collector, but great move. I picked up as many as I could in the $20-$30 range (or less) a few years back. I think I am down to just a couple of 2nds and a handful of raw 1st prints, unfortunately. Raw 8.0 - 9.2 copies have been selling for $50 - $80 for us at shows for at least four years here now. It is nice to see the rest of the markets finally catching up.

There are plenty of newsstand copies. I know two local collectors, one of whom is a boardie, that were on the ball and went around to clean out all of the newsstands they could hit of ASM #361 when it came out. One of them also placed a big spec order at his LCS and has/had nice stacks of both.

I personally like the cover to #74 better, but I was happy to see #51 get the 9.8. I will have a small stack of Catwomans on the way for grading in a bit. Hopefully I hit more 9.8s than 9.4s on that group.

So......Utlimate FF #1 will be worth more than $0.10 now?

Looks like a 9.8 hit $500 yesterday......

Went 0 for 3 on the Joker cover Batmans I was bidding on. Did win one book with a bid that I regretted placing as soon as I hit send. Don't drink and bid........

So......wil Dolph drive around on his John Deere mowing the kelp in the movie?

Very nice copy! Looks just as good from the front as the 9.2 currently listed on eBay........

Final price was $2300. Looks like a new high price for an 8.0.

It is sitting at $2100 now with a few hours before the big finale tonight. I wonder if it can actually hit $2500? That would be great on one hand, but really make me regret selling so many copies last year when it "doubled" the first time.

I take it this is the Sony play on Gotham City Sirens? Sounds good to me. The more characters they can mine the better. Based on the success of Wonder Woman I expect to see a push from Sony and Marvel to feature more female characters. The key will be who they cast in the roles. DC/Warner hit the jackpot with Gadot as WW and Amber Heard should be a good fit as Mera. They need to ensure that they include acting ability as part of the criteria, not just how they look in the suit.

That is Lex's house from Smallville, right? I wonder how much they charge the studios for using it for both TV and big screen productions?

You and everyone else on the CGC forums so we have a head start on all of the spec plays.

Here are the results from my first round of Hughes cover submissions. I expected 9.6 minimum on all of them so there is one nasty surprise. The Good The Bad (To be honest, the #70 looks better than the #51 to me condition wise) The Ugly

Interesting. Is Sensation #4 a semi-hot book now? I snagged a small stack at 50% of cover a little while back. Unread store stock.

The local stores here are sitting on long box after long box of 1:10/1:20/1:25 variants that did not sell when they first came out. The only way to move them when the cool off is to price them at $5 and blow them out. It is still a decent ROI compared to the initial cost and keeps the customers happy when they find a hidden gem. At one store I passed on two ASM #688 Campbell Lizard variants in 2015 before I knew they were worth anything. I had them in hand and was taking them to the counter since they were JSC and I thought they should be worth $5, but decided against it at the last minute since it was not a hot female character and just a fugly rendition of the Lizard.

Here is the first copy I have sent in for slabbing in a long while. It came from a great HG run I snagged a couple of years ago. Too bad I sold off the #239 and other early Hobgoblin appearances as well as they are all likely 9.8s - I had this one and the others as 9.6s at best.

Very nice! How many 1st apps do you have now? Most people are unaware of it locally.

For Batman, I am almost tempted to say that Tec #225 be considered the 1st SA Batman. The book went sci-fi/campy for a while after that until really the mid 60s (some sites claim Tec #327 is when it goes back to his detective roots). Green Arrow - if a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, did it really fall? Superman - I am not certain. Isn't there a detailed origin story in Superman in the #140s or #150s? That would be a bit late, but would likely be the best one since #53.