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Only 19 months to go!

Five months away.

one thing that may hold it back a little is it being the 4th or whatever appearance, whereas IM 55 was for sure the first and he is right there on the cover too And all those third world books being speculated on at the time Thanos is on the cover?

No I'm going to get my resume checked over on Wednesday. What time on Wednesday? 11pm-12noon How would getting your resume checked on Wednesday keep you from a Monday session?

Like I amuse you?

"The Return of Barry Allen" was a damn good story. Waid's run was really good but this story was a highlight.

This sounded stupid to me, but based on the bit of Google research I did it sounds legit. One more thing to be aware of.

Following along.... He was talking about people slabbing their books. There was not mention of a relation to value, which was the original question. Does the census for a book typically rise 1200% in one year without a spike in value?

I didn't care for the Atom/Palmer on Arrow either.

Me too, it is one of the coolest subgenres in comics as far as I'm concerned (but then I'm also terribly biased). Yet there are some who collect Captain America and X-Men but ignore these. I think that most folks who end up getting into pre-hero start through one of the titles that provides sort of a "gateway drug" into these. For me it was TTA, which I was collecting for the early Hulk appearances. That got me to look at the early books in the series, and I realized not only how great they were but how challenging they were to collect (especially in the pre-internet, pre-eBay days). If you've never collected a title that had a pre-hero period I think it is less likely that you get hooked on them. Your examples of Captain America and X-Men would qualify as books that wouldn't get you started down that road, unless you extended into TOS (and even then only if you didn't stop your run when Cap started in the title).

Me too, it is one of the coolest subgenres in comics as far as I'm concerned (but then I'm also terribly biased). I finally checked those comics4less auctions, there were some great books in there. I'm not sure whether to be sorry I missed them or glad I wasn't tempted to spend the money...

Perhaps, but the book jumped from $300–$400 to over $700 when the announcement was made Based on everything I've seen and heard about the movie, I'm guessing that his popularity only goes up from here. He's jumping to household name status.

That one is on my want list too. Great cover, and first Marvel horror book.

No.

My wife and I are about six or seven shows into season 3, and that has been our feeling so far. The writing definitely seems to have dropped a notch or two.

Just last night my wife saw some news about this film on Twitter and asked me "Do we really need another Spider-man reboot?"

Don't believe this is anywhere near correct unless you are assuming that all sellers, including your average and Jane, which nobody has ever heard of must then have the same brand recognition and market reach as Heritage. Even Schmell himself went through HA when it came time to auction off his multi-million dollar Marvel SA personal collection, even though he has his own industry recognized auction site. So, there must be a reason why consignors are willing to pay the 800-lb gorilla. It is extremely likely that Schmell negotiated a better rate on that consignment.

It takes some determination to resurrect a two year old thread to post some spam.

It's just another example of label chasing a popular character for a registry set. Not much different than what happened with the first slabbed HG Bronze or any other low pop book. Certainly no worse than paying crazy prices for 9.9s or 10s.

I'm not focusing on these, but I will definitely buy them when I can get a nice price. Got this in last night's Clink auction for about what it would have cost to get it graded.

Wow. So you've seen the whole movie already? Is there a link for the torrent somewhere? Based on all the trailers released so far you barely see the Deadshot mask. In the current movie age it is common for the bigger stars to lose their masks really often. Considering that the actors playing Spider-man thus far, in any of the movies, are mask-free for much of the film even though the character always has the mask on in the comics, it isn't a stretch to guess that Smith will be maskless for much of the movie.

The garage sales/flea markets/antique malls I go to never have books like that...

No we aren't . We are paying to support forward payment of benefits that NO OTHER COMPANY in the history of the world has had to pay. This ruling was made by Congress, and the two leaders of the Congressional committee who pushed this through represent Memphis and Louisville, homes of the shipping hubs of Federal Express and UPS. Such a coincidence. When Congress kills the USPS, and rates to ship things quadruple - and they will - I do hope that everyone who about the USPS remembers what they had. Yes. A thousand times yes. USPS was doing fine until Congress and W started making ridiculous demands. But yeah, blame the Post Office. I've never understood why this was so unreasonable. It just means that when everything else is insolvent because the bill finally came due, that USPS employees might actually get what they were promised. Better than a "trust fund" that is actually just a big stack of IOUs. Benefits cost money, and just passing that buck onto future generations doesn't actually make them easier to pay for in the long run.

How about we don't tell other people how they can appreciate ASM #300, and don't run to the mods because someone says something that doesn't agree with us, so the thread isn't shut down? It's perfectly possible to have a discussion, even disagreement, without feeling the need to involve the mods. You DO know that's almost always why threads get locked, right? Surely, we're all adults here, are we not? These posts ARE on topic: ASM 300 Appreciation. Or, does how you appreciate rule, and how others appreciate suck? Debatable. As for the jagged/non-jagged, I agree that the non-jagged should be preferred. CGC has deemed (correctly so) that it's a production issue, so they don't downgrade for it so we haven't seen any price difference(s). I think there should be a slight premium associated, but the market doesn't. People pay PQ premiums (sometimes good premiums). Something, IMO based on my experiences, that many collectors wouldn't be able to notice any discernable difference on were the books raw. Heck, CGC can't even maintain consistency on it. But, for something you can clearly see (the jagged edge), they don't. Collectors are a strange lot. Don't open up the PQ discussion with J again! That'll be another 50 pages of him discounting everyone else's "data" while portraying his own "data" as eminently sound and irrefutable.

We're all still waiting on the "quantifiable, consistent or verifiable" data on the print run of the "rare" Del'Otto ASM book too, but that doesn't appear to be important enough to warrant your attention. That lack of data is currently inconvenient as well. Seems there are differing interpretations on what constitutes "data" in these cases (not sure what is up with all "the" random quotation marks around words in "this" thread, but it seems that all the cool kids are "doing it").