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Nice business casual is usually plenty professional looking to my mind.

I'm not sure that I would expect a whole lot from the ongoing #1 or PWJ #1. I think that there are more copies of those books than there are actual Punisher fans. Frankly, I think this is a character who's popularity has peaked and is on the decline (outside of his first appearance). I think that Punisher #1 belongs in the "buy at $1, sell at $3" category (for VFish copies).

I think the tie is one of the stupidest items of clothing ever invented. I'm in IT, and whenever I run into a management type who values wearing an expensive suit I start assuming that they are an insufficiently_thoughtful_person. The second guys, no, since they're buying/debating Moderns off the shelf, but who knows about the first photo? I know people with *lots* of money who look exactly the same. True, they just don't know how to dress and/or don't groom themselves cause comic guys don't care what they look like. I've dressed like a bum going to local shows because it's a comic show. I wear nice ties and dress-shirts at work; I don't have to impress the dirtbag dealer I'm haggling with.

I just pulled a VF copy of this out of a dollar box

How can you sell them if you don't buy them first? This. Don't buy the tulips. Sell the tulips.

Citizen Kane. Nice. A comic book fan will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. One day, back in 1996, I was crossing over to my LCS in my mom's car, and as we pulled in, there was another car pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was finishing a copy of Superman Adventures #4. I only saw the back page preview for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl. And by girl, I mean Livewire. TV episode titled Livewire premiered on September 13 1997, about 8 months later, according to Wikipedia.

How do you ever know its safe when you leave your house in the morning? I'm not clear on why a craigslist interaction is considered more dangerous than any other interaction with people. If I was a thief, I would want to come to your home, not have you come to mine.

Yeah, frankly I think a lot of this may just be about people not wanting to see the same movie over and over. How many superhero movies does the general public want to see in a year? I think less than are currently being produced. By my count, I it looks like the run rate on pure comic-based movies appears to be four a year (2013-- Thor DW, IM3, The Wolverine, Man of Steel, 2014-- Captain America WS, Amazing Spiderman 2, X-men DOFP, and GotG) I think that there are only so many of these movies the general public is going to be up for seeing per year. A third reboot is gonna be a tough sell even if Marvel does get it back. My

I don't blame anyone, I am just careful not to get caught in the hype. The 100s of dollars I lost in 90s comics saved me many 1000s during the dot com bubble. I don't think most of these books are going to pure buyers though. I think that they are being sold mostly to other speculators, many of whom are buying way more than one copy. An actual collector of these books is not going to get hurt too bad. If they buy an X-factor 6 for $40 on E-bay and it drops to $10, no big deal. It's the guy who has accumulated a short box full of them that is going to be feeling the pain. That's the greatest concern during these speculation runs. Especially when you see an overabundance of each book available, and yet the prices keep climbing. But I wouldn't blame the sellers on this. It is the buyers that keep coming back for more, and driving the prices up.

I wasn't really talking specifically about this book, but hot copper books in general. I think that most of these books are being driven by pure speculation, ala the early 90s. I wonder how many people on these boards have 50+ copies of books like X-factor 6? I think another generation is going to learn how a speculative bubble turns out.

Sell quick baby, and may the Devil take the hindmost.

This time you'll wait until after it's cooled off to sell? Unless a book is hard to find, I think it makes sense to sell while the selling is good.

Yes, the cover is good. I just re-read the comic itself though, and that is another story.

Back to the original point of the thread, I have to say that this is the winner for me. I've got nothing against this cover.

I agree that the first five issues of the McFarlane Spiderman series were awful. I remember thinking that they managed to stretch a one issue story into five issues. I was speaking mainly about the ASM issues, which I felt were way better than most of the issues in the three years previous. Thinking back, it was mostly the writing that made those three years awful, rather than specifically the art. I remember getting my subscription books in the mail, hoping for a Hobgoblin appearance, and then getting Spider-kid, or Frog-guy, or the Beyonder garbage, Slide-guy, etc, etc. It was three years of completely forgettable one-shot villains, with about six decent issues total. McFarlane started and three issues in we got Venom.

You made it through stuff like-- http://marvel.wikia.com/Amazing_Spider-Man_Vol_1_262 http://marvel.wikia.com/Amazing_Spider-Man_Vol_1_263 http://marvel.wikia.com/Amazing_Spider-Man_Vol_1_264 http://marvel.wikia.com/Amazing_Spider-Man_Vol_1_266 http://marvel.wikia.com/Amazing_Spider-Man_Vol_1_267 http://marvel.wikia.com/Amazing_Spider-Man_Vol_1_268 but McFarlane drove you from ASM?

I started collecting comics with issue 260 of ASM. That was a pretty cool Hobgoblin appearance. So was 261. For the next three years, if it wasn't a Hobgoblin appearance, it was a pretty forgettable comic for the most part (Kraven's Last Hunt being a big exception). So when McFarlane started on ASM, I was thrilled. He was a huge improvement over the completely forgettable stuff that proceeded him on the ASM run.

The fundamental problem here is that I still don't think we can say with any real confidence whether or not the book was trimmed. CGC is making an educated guess, but that is all it is. Prices have gotten so crazy that many thousands of dollars now ride on what is essentially a guess. The question becomes-- What percentage of trimming is CGC missing? What percentage of trimming that CGC finds is actually not there? If those are not tiny percentages, I'm thinking I'd rather just buy a trimmed PLOD and be confident that I'm at least getting what I paid for.

I don't know about anyone else, but this thread makes me want to start collecting trimmed books. Nothing but upside!

They actually make wax specifically for this purpose that melts at a much more comfortable temperature. Not that I'm looking to see pictures of it on this message board.

I'd definitely take the Action 1. If you made it an equivalent value of Fantastic Four 52s though, I'd have a tough time choosing

My problem is that I feel the same way about almost the entire comic market. It's been giving me a real 1990 vibe lately.

I think that when people are willing to pay a massive premium for a book, it counts as a key Is CSS 22 a key? suspense 3 is a key?! suspense 3 is in no way a key

Put me down for being in favor of not enforcing this rule.

I read them last night. I'm pretty sure that I must have skipped reading them when I originally bought them. Not awful, but I think I'd rather have the cash that they are going for on Ebay than the books. Time will tell if I ever get off my butt to scan and sell them though.