Gatsby77

No, it's not. It's at 7.2 on IMDB vs. Solo's 7.1. And 91% on Rotten Tomatoes, vs. 70% for Solo.

Umm...that was Solo. Last Jedi made $620+ million domestic.

Looks okay, but also that it was made for just $30 million. i was _far_ more excited for The Last Stand based on the Angel/Ben Foster trailer and Kelsey Grammar/Beast bit.

This looks like a Redbox to me. Predict it drops 76% in 2nd weekend. I’ll be spending next weekend at A Star Is Born instead.

Oh, hey look! Disney’s just renewed Kathleen Kennedy’s contract for another three years. Sorry, nerds - Episode VIII was awesome. And Disney, apparently, recognizes that.

I'm with you. Which is a shame, because I _love_ Brie Larson for her take as "the au pair" on The League.

This looks like Green Lantern. That's not a compliment.

I trust their raw books - have bought a few dozen lots from them and found the grading accurate. They're particularly good for clean-looking filler runs of mainstream Silver Age Marvels (like Daredevil, Thor, FF) in upper mid-grades (i.e., 7.0-8.5).

I'll be watching this this weekend (as I did opening weekend with Predators). Again, last bad Shane Black film I've seen was 25 years ago, with The Last Action Hero.

Cavill was good in the role. The writing (and -- for Justice League -- -poor direction) is what killed these films. At least he got more bites at the apple than Brandon Routh -- same thing. He did well in a poorly written and under-seen part.

This. I've been arguing this nearly since Day One. Episode VIII's drop-off from VII was in line with Empire's drop-off from Star Wars and Episode II's drop of from Episode One. It wasn't a "box office failure" no matter how many fanboys rage that it didn't fit their headcanon. I enjoyed it; I'm looking forward to Ep. IX, and I'm looking forward to Rian Johnson's upcoming trilogy.

I agree. I've been trying to build a solid 9.4 Magnus set for seven years now. Still haven't found # 37 in 9.4 or better. If anyone has a line on this meager Bronze book and is willing to submit it, I'll pay $150 for a CGC 9.4 copy of Magnus # 37 or $225 for a CGC 9.6.

I think Doctor Solar # 1 (and Magnus # 1, and Four Color 596) are under-appreciated books and the Doctor Solar price was probably worth the price. If nothing else, it validates the previous GPA price of $4,000+ -- which might otherwise have been a one-off outlier to the high side. That said, I don't think it's "rare" in 9.4 -- yes, there's only the single (Pacific Coast) copy in 9.6, but there are now 8 (!) 9.4s on the census. My memory is the census exploded back in 2011-2012 when it went from 3 to 7 9.4s in something like 18 months. And three 9.4s sold that year within just 6 months. But now there are 8 in 9.4 and 1 in 9.6. Compare to Magnus # 1 -- just 5 slabbed copies above 9.0 (3 in 9.2, 1 in 9.4, 1 in 9.6), despite its being a 1963 book. And again, the # 5 sale was far more significant at $2,500+ for a 9.4 copy. Of the 5 slabbed copies above 8.0 you've got: 2 in 9.0 (owned by me -- namisgr's former copy from his board sale of the run; the other owned by Rosland) 2 in 9.2 (one owned by me; the other sold via Heritage 2.5 years ago) 1 in 9.4 (the copy that sold this week) Hopefully this sale will shine a light on # 5's rarity and lead to more submissions.

Ditto - everyone thought this would be a prelude to an X-Force movie -- instead we got the best trolling by the writers since Iron Man 3. So good!

I have faith: 1. Shane Black hasn’t written a bad movie since The Last Action Hero. 2. As I’ve said before - he probably knows the Predator franchise better than anyone, as he was a) in the first one and b) refused to do re-writes on it (if the rumors are to be believed, that's why he’s killed off first)

Aside from them *all being built, sexy* and the twist that "we hunt them" you pretty much described "Predators."

Did you pick up the # 5 and/or # 20 from this week's Comiclink auction?

People don't like Turok nearly as much as Magnus. Also - you did well with the Magnus books. # 3 and # 4 are the toughest of the early run (hence the seemingly high price on the # 4). But of all those Gold Key hero books, Doctor Solar # 5 in 9.4 was the white whale last night. For years there were only two CGC 9.0 (highest graded) copies on the census, and they belonged to the top two census registry holders. After several submissions, I finally landed a CGC 9.2 back from CGC. Thought I might have an outside shot at the 9.4 copy at around $900. I was...wrong.

Wondering who was bidding on the Doctor Solars tonight. The headliner was the # 5 in CGC 9.4 -- went for $2,350. It's (by far) the hardest issue of the entire run to find in grade, but I was estimating around $1400-$1500. But the other ones generally went for ~$480 per -- for the 9.6s that's more than 50% over GPA. Here's hoping our own Rosland was able to score the # 5 and # 20 -- which would have been upgrades to his already-insane set.

Ironically, I agree with RMA that ASM 300's not a classic cover - nor does anyone care that it's an anniversary issue. If that were true, ASM 200, 400, 500 would be keys - they're not. He's also right in his distinction between a mere "nostalgic" cover and a "classic" one. Werewolf 32 isn't a classic cover. Nor is ASM 300. Nor is New Mutants 87. New Mutants 87 is classic *to me* because it was my grail book when I was 13 -- I mowed lawns for a summer to afford my first copy (a whopping $50). Iconic? Sure. Classic? Not even close -- especially not, considering it's a cover swipe. My opinion is ASM 300 belongs in the "nostalgic" cover category, but Spider-Man # 1 (for example) ranks as a "classic cover."

Shh...next thing you know he'll try to force his personal definition of "comic collector" down the entire message board's throats...

I remember this auction. Part of it included a whole stack of Ghost Rider (1950) # 1 - like 30-40 copies in grades from VG/F to VF+. The books were hard to grade because most looked 9.0+ from the front but had signficant dust shadows on the back cover. Showcase New England dumped them all at once, via individual auctions just a few minutes apart. That find alone is likely the reason there are now more than 100 copies on the census graded above 6.0. Just mentioning it for how insane that Showcase New England auction was. There were the Silver Age books, and then random pockets of select Golden Age books in bulk.

To be fair, Jake Busey is playing the son of his dad Gary Busey's character from Predator 2.

Thank you. _This_ is what I've been waiting for in this thread. Anecdotal testimony from folks who were actually there in the mid-60s (or earlier). Example 1: My uncle was a childhood comic collector in the 1950s in Cleveland, Ohio -- I'm now holding his collection of 400+ books. Almost no superhero, but heavy representation of Mad Magazine (beginning with # 20), ducks, Dell western and war. He also had a subscription to the early Classics reprints -- has kept more than 100 of the 168 or so issue run to this day -- although only 15% are first editions. He was most certainly a "collector' in 1955-1958. He was also a varsity high school athlete and student body president of his high school. And he most certainly did not appear in any fan literature at the time. I'm sure there were hundreds of anonymous collectors (if not more) like him in nearly every state even in the late '50s, let alone the late '60s. Example 2: Given the ginormous print runs of books like FF # 48 and Iron Man # 1, there's no way I'll ever believe comic collecting wasn't in full force by the late '60s.