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Apologies if this has been covered earlier in the thread, but which part of the run is considered the "essential" / best? When I was a kid I remember watching the cartoon and reading 26-27, then a few scattered issues from 40-70. I mostly passed on the later issues until the "Snake Eyes" story in 94-97. Asking because 30 years later, I just received the trade of 1-10 and finished # 1. It had good and bad parts - but 1) The Trimpe art turned me off; and 2) Most of my favorite characters were missing. Saw above that a lot of folks consider # 2 a high-point of the series. But what's considered the "best" part of the run? 1-30? 20-60?

Exactly. And for the people in the back -- books like ASM 50, 129, 238 and 300, and Hulk 181 don't need to be warehouse books -- they're just ridiculously common anyway. "Warehouse" is entirely irrelevant to the discussion of those books.

Yeah - that brief period of time where Spectacular Spider-Man # 85 and 147 were $10-$20 keys.

A bit, but I don't think by much. Sure...Bloodshot opened on 400+ more screens than did New Mutants. But it also opened on Mar. 13 - my office (and many others here in DC/Va.) went to WFH due to the pandemic on Mar. 11-12. My high school buddy and I cancelled our long-standing plan to see it that weekend because of COVID. Meanwhile, half a dozen of my Facebook friends - and their families - have already seen New Mutants, mostly via drive-ins.

It did worse than Bloodshot? Ouch...

Wasn't Roberto in Logan? I thought he was the leader of the kids who were trying to make it into Canada at the end...

Put another way, in the time since the first trailer for New Mutants, Thor has appeared in three movies.

Fun fact: I used to have a personal blog, which I discontinued when I switched jobs in mid-2018. My post on the excitement I felt about the New Mutants film based on its first teaser trailer went live in October 2017. We're finally getting this film some 34+ months after the first trailer dropped.

I'm excited for New Mutants, presuming it goes the full psychological horror route. But no way am I going to risk seeing this (or Tenet) in theaters. Even if they limit capacity to 30% (w/ 6-10 feet between patrons) the *only* way movie theaters make money is on concessions, so people who are eating / drinking won't be masked. Add in the air conditioning which recirculates the air and it's a hard pass for me. (Which sucks because my local $5 theater is running classics like Ghostbusters, Empire Strikes Back and Back to the Future.) They *better* get this all figured out by the time Top Gun: Maverick comes out

I love the book too. Cool cover, cooler villain. To the extent that - when they were worth roughly the same back in the early 1990s, I picked this book over ASM 300. I think the primary reason it's fallen from grace is he's never made a movie appearance, despite the Green Goblin appearing in *four* of the Spidey films so far. At this point, it's unlikely he will, unless or until they actually try a Sinister Six movie. Still a monster book, though.

So...who the hell is Nathan Fillion playing? From the rumors I've seen online, "TDK" is an original character and could stand for "The Detachable Kid" because apparently his arms (if not other limbs) come off. Any better intel? Any chance he's a known Suicide Squad or DC character in disguise?

These have sold, yes?

I saw it last month via Hulu. It's basically a female version of Superbad but better than that sounds. It's bolstered by cameos from a few SNL alums and other veteran comedians. I thought it was a much better debut effort than say, Cop Car, which won Jon Watts the Spider-Man: Homecoming gig.

Nothing else needed, man. Lucy's not a comic book movie. Full stop. Now, you want to acknowledge the title of the thread and go back to edit your chronological list to include the amazing comic book movies that weren't superhero films? I mean, for being such a film geek, it's odd that you included films like Sin City and V for Vendetta but missed films like: Ghost World (2001) From Hell (2001) Road to Perdition (2002) American Splendor (2003) A History of Violence (2005) 300 (2006) Persepolis (2007) 2 Guns (2013) Snowpiercer (2013) Atomic Blonde (2017) If nothing else, both Persepolis and Snowpiercer are solid contenders for "best comic book films" of their respective years.

Yeah - I'm with TheCapraAegeus here. Especially because Valerian actually *was* based on a comic book, while Lucy was not. I mean, yeah - 1999's The Matrix was one of the best superhero films of the 1990s, but it doesn't count either, any more than would Hancock or Brightburn or Looper or Bright.

Mentioned before, but I sold off 98% of my collection back in 2014 when I needed the money. Out of 4,000+ books, there were only three I knew I'd never own again - because even if I had the money, they soon reached values I wasn't willing to pay. Those were: Showcase # 4, 3.0 Strange Tales 110, 6.5 TMNT # 1, 5.0 That said, The TMNT # 1 sold for something like $2,200, more than triple what I'd paid for it. My FOMO is much stronger on the Showcase # 4 because the Flash TV show didn't start for another few months. It's since more than tripled in price.

Agree on Spider-Man 2 over Punisher for 2004. (I've said this before - as much as I enjoy The Punisher and have re-watched it several times, Tony Scott took the same premise and delivered a 10x better movie a few weeks later with his Man on Fire remake with Denzel Washington.) And I'd actually put Blade II over Spider-Man for 2002. As exciting as it was to finally see a big-budget, big-screen Spider-Man film, Blade II is a g--d--- masterpiece! Also, I really wanted to rank A History of Violence, but no way was it better than Batman Begins.

Magnus, Robot Fighter (Gold Key) # 1-46, in average CGC 9.6. Doctor Solar (Gold Key) # 1-31, in average CGC 9.4.

Pretty sure that $100 on Robinhood buys you more than $70 worth of shares, tho.

Nah - it's a Ponzi scheme because it literally depends on a constant flow of new investors willing to overpay by 30%+ in order to "continue as a going concern" - which is literally one of the risk factors they outline on their website. All it takes is 2-3 high-profile items to sell at a loss (not even comic books, but cars/baseball cards/etc.) and the new money dries up, they declare bankruptcy on the other individual "companies" that own the comic in which you're invested, and you receive only pennies on the dollar back.

For ASM 33, eBay's got two 9.8s and 9.6s for sale.

Well, a quick check of eBay alone shows 4 copies of FF # 48 for sale in CGC 9.6 or better. 9.6 - x 2 9.8 - Stan Lee Sig. Series 9.8 (Northland pedigree) And GPA shows completed sales in July alone at 9.0, 9.2, 9.4 and 9.6. Expensive =/= "rare" or even "hard-to-find"

I disagree - expensive does not mean hard-to-find. I remember going to local Philadelphia comic book shows in the early '90s and seeing literally dozens of copies of FF # 48 on multiple dealers' tables. Ditto Iron Man # 1 and Conan # 1. Like...multiple tables with piles of 15-60 copies each for each book. The CGC census bares that out today: FF # 48 - 597 copies graded 9.0 or above FF # 49 - 184 copies graded 9.0 or above FF # 50 - 148 copies graded 9.0 or above Now, granted FF # 48's the biggest key of the trio, so naturally more copies get slabbed. But compare it to # 52 (which, two years ago, was a more expensive / key book): FF # 52 - 215 copies graded 9.0 or above -- not a known warehouse book and almost 3x harder to find in high grade.

I'd add Ghost Rider # 1 (1950) to the above list. This was the first Golden Age book I bought - and it came from a Showcase New England eBay sale maybe 17-18 years ago when they auctioned off 200+ copies at once. The catch: most of them were 6.5 range or so due to dust shadows on the back. Still - it impressive to see 200+ copies for sale at once.

Nice: One of those old "Warehouse Find" threads linked to in @bababooey's post had this list. And yeah: ASM 33's on it: "Here's a list compiled from all three threads, feel free to use it & update as needed: Warehouse Copies JIM #88 TTA #39 TOS #48 Showcase #38 JLA #21 ASM #19 ASM #33 ASM #105 Avengers #24 JIM #124 Thor #132 Thor #156 DD #9 FF #48 FF #59 ST #138 X-Men #10 X-Men #40 Hulk #102 Captain Marvel #1 Marvel Spotlight #2 Nick Fury #1 X-Men #43 Captain Marvel #13 Iron Man #1 Captain America #100 Patsy Walker 104 Patsy Walker 105 Patsy Walker 108 Millie the Model Annual 4 Millie the Model Annual 5 Iron Man 2 Avengers 24 Tippy Teen 21 Major Inapak True Life Secrets #23