F For Fake

You should! They're (generally) practically worthless, readily available, and look great!

EVERYBODY PANIC! DUMP YOUR AF15's NOW! TO ME! FOR CHEAP!

Spawn has already been heating up due to the new movie, nostalgia, etc. It seems to be selling as strongly as it could already, for a book with such high print runs (in the early issues), and later low print issues have sold at a premium for some time now. I can't see the game making much more of an impact, but the short answer is: Spawn is already hot!

X-men are moving quickly around here as well. I think it's three things coming together at the same time: 1. Speculators banking on the Disney/Marvel relaunch of the X-men film universe 2. Readers loving Hickman's Powers/House of X 3. 90's Nostalgia - tons of Marvel Legends figures and other memorabilia connected to the 90's animated program and Lee/Claremont book have been released in the last year People are suddenly remembering when X-Men was the biggest thing in comics, and there's finally new content to get excited about to go along with the nostalgia.

YES! I LOVED Cracked, and far and away preferred it over Mad. I'd go with my mom to the grocery every Saturday, and while she shopped I'd be camped out in the magazine aisle, reading Cracked. She'd usually buy me the copy when she was done so I could take it home and read it over and over again. A TON of great artists on the book that I didn't know as a kid, but I recognized their style as I got older, primarily Dan Clowes, Pete Bagge, and Rick Altergott. Clowes' "Uggly Family" was so repulsive, it made me sick just touching the paper, but I couldn't look away!

I have two (non-spinning) racks. Once is nothing but copies of Ghost Rider 15 (with the glow in the dark flaming skull), and the other is shiny stuff from my adolescence, like a bunch of X-Men #1, foil books, glow in the darks, etc. The books are cheap and easy to find, but still hold a place of nostalgia in my heart, and I don't worry about the condition or if they get dusty because they're not really worth anything. If someone grabs a copy of X-Men #1 to read and dings a corner, that's ok, I have a few dozen more to take its place.

#1 of the run? That's really cool!

I hope they catch this guy. Seems like a menace.

Yup, there are actually a few Kirby Artist Edition volumes. Kamandi, Mister Miracle, Forever People, Thor, FF, etc. I have the New Gods volume and it's beautiful.

That doesn't change the fact that some doofus named Todd is out there scrawling his name on high grade comic books!

Yeah! Starcom ruled! I have this guy hanging out at my desk at work, he's been in every office I've ever worked in. Starcom, Air Raiders, Dino Riders, Crystar, Zoids, Super Naturals, Blackstar, Captain Power, Eagle Force, etc etc etc What a great time to be a kid!

Love it! GI Joe and Transformers get all of the love, but there were SO many cool toy lines in the 80's, far and away the peak of the action figure market.

Sweet! Those Artist Editions are gorgeous. I have a few. The problem is storage. They're so big, I worry about spine stress if I display them upright, but they're so horking huge, I don't have a lot of space to keep them flat. Oh well, it's a good problem to have!

Well, I'd personally keep it just because it's COOL! But if you don't use it much, I'd think you could definitely get something for it. Just make sure you don't drop it off at the Good Will or put it in a yard sale or something!

A 9.9, and some guy named "Todd" scribbled all over it! Oh well.

Working high end players sell well, if you're ever looking to move it. There's a dedicated Laser collectors group on FB that is always showing off their fancy players, and some still sell for crazy money. So be sure you get a fair price if you do decide to let it go!

Awesome stuff as always! I have definitely spent more money completing some vehicles than I would have if I'd just bought a complete on outright, but for me, the fun is in hunting the stuff down, cleaning it up and restoring it. Salvaging those pieces off of trashed shells, trying to make one nice piece out of a pile of garbage. Takes a lot of time and horse trading, but it's a satisfying side hobby within the greater hobby of toy collecting. Speaking of which, I finally got my Moray completed and assembled (itself a frankenstein creation from three different trashed donors), just have to put the stickers on an we'll be finished!

YES, Lee Ving used to pop up everywhere. For some reason he's Mr. Boddy in "Clue", but he also has a great part in "Get Crazy" playing a character at is basically himself. Plus it has Malcolm McDowell as a Jagger-esque star, and a terrific soundtrack by Sparks, Ramones, etc. Man I love that flick, but no one has ever heard of it!

Oh man, that's so great. Kids today don't understand the challenge! Back in the day if you wanted to see Drunken Master II, you had to import a laserdisc or find someone willing to dub it onto a VHS tape for you. Strange days! I think there's a green Toxic Avenger disc as well. I may eventually weasel them out of his hands. His wife wants him to sell them to me! ha

Also somewhat appropriate, I watched "Class of 1984" last night for the first time in, geez, 20 years or more, probably, and it has that weird intersection of punk and metal, where the kids are all dressed up by punkers, who are slamdancing at a new wave band show (Teenage Head?), and the soundtrack's theme song is by legendary punk rock artist...Alice Cooper???

Yeah, my buddy has the Evil Dead 2 LD which is actually BLOOD RED. It is pretty snazzy. He also has the gold Drunken Master II disc. I've bought a bunch of LD's from him but he won't shake those two loose. Oh well. I've got RotLD2 on Blu Ray but don't have the soundtrack on its own. The first movie made a huge impression and the soundtrack is timeless, the second film didn't hit me as hard but I need to revisit it and the soundtrack soon!

It's Randy Newman's Short People, right?

@porcupine48 the RotLD soundtrack made an impression on me as a kid. I vividly remember flipping through records at the Camelot Music at the mall, and I ran across the RotLD soundtrack. The image on the front was so creepy and cool, The back had stills from the flick and the half zombie girl on the slab totally freaked me out. I was a big chicken when I was a kid!

For sure, the artwork is a huge part of the appeal. I got my first laserdisc player specifically so I could see the deleted scenes from "Alien" and the "Director's Cut" of "Aliens", as there was no other way to see them. Those boxed sets were sooooo sweet. The Nightmare Before Christmas set came in a huge velvet lined slipcased box with a hardcover book. I also have some beautiful Disney sets like the Tron Archive, etc. Just gorgeous presentation. Here are a couple of faves that I put in cheap album frames, look pretty snazzy!

Also, uh, if you don't NEED that Kenner Alien, or anything, I'd be happy to take it off your hands!