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Now at $4,667. Hopefully they read the PQ.

Make sure they're actually recalled first, what I've read doesn't sound like it. You don't want another Star Wars #1 Hot Topic situation...

A 2.5 Brittle pages is at $3,100 with 22 hours to go on Clink. I'm interested to see where this one lands. Seems a bit strong for brittle.

Very pleased with this one from tonight's Comiclink auction.

Indeed. Great pickup!

I see them too, so I'm guessing they're on the book.

So where do you think the 7.0 #247 in the Comiclink auction hammers at?

this seems like a good idea, but is it too much too fast? And if its not a good movie, does it sink EVERYTHING? This seems like a terrible idea. All I'm reminded of are the Spidey films that were hampered by throwing in too many villains. This makes me more than a bit leery about introducing so many heroes in one film coherently, while also having a basic requirement like an actual Batman v Superman story. How much can you actually do well in 2-2.5 hours? It's a 10 hour movie. It may have to be. Or they retitle it Batman v Superman Part I: Dawn of Dawn of Justice.

Currently at $15,678 with four days to go. LINK

Six copies of #1 in the current Clink auction, five blue label from 6.5-2.5, and a PLOD 8.0. Looks like the price escalation has shaken a few copies loose.

this seems like a good idea, but is it too much too fast? And if its not a good movie, does it sink EVERYTHING? This seems like a terrible idea. All I'm reminded of are the Spidey films that were hampered by throwing in too many villains. This makes me more than a bit leery about introducing so many heroes in one film coherently, while also having a basic requirement like an actual Batman v Superman story. How much can you actually do well in 2-2.5 hours?

A fair number of copies of Hulk #1 seem to have white pages.

Yes but 3 sales since: $11000.00 April 2015 $11000.00 June 2015 $13250.00 August 2015 And eye appeal matters a lot on this book. Weak results in a grade could be due to chipping or other factors, while strong results often reflect nicer qualities. This is very common in AF #15 sales due to the supply.

I see your Goom and raise you a Googam -bc That'd make a great avatar for someone.

Weren't those all reprints of older PCH comics like Incredible Science Fiction, Strange Worlds (Avon I think), Journey into Unknown Worlds, etc. ? Just hesitant to suggest that a reprint has ever really influenced a new direction. Monster + Name + Kirby cover timeline: WOF18 (cover date 6/59) JIM54 (9/59) ST72 (12/59) TTA8 (3/60) TOS8 (3/60) Coincidence that both TTA & TOS start this trend on the 8th issue??? -bc I'm quite comfortable with these issues being the "first" in their respective titles for this changeover to "classic" pre-hero monster stories (most of which featured pants). I'm collecting the full #1-up runs of TOS and TTA, but it is most helpful for me to have a cutoff for where I'm "serious" about my ST and JIM runs. The classic monsters are my favorites, and thus I would aim to collect these in grade. I'm also after #1-up on ST and JIM, but am happy with raw VGs for the most part in the earlier stuff with the occasional beauty where I've been fortunate.

Goom.

The original question was the first monster cover, so that was where my answer came from. Strange Worlds, to me, feels like a sci-fi title. Definitely pre-hero, but a very different feel to the "monster of the month" we get in the big four titles at the end of the pre-hero era. To me it feels like a shift in the genre from sci-fi stories (outer space and aliens) to a focus on giant rampaging monsters that characterize most of those later stories. Maybe I'm splitting hairs too finely, but I do see a distinction. If you look at TTA #2 or 4 compared to #9, 11, or 12, as examples, you'll see what I mean.

They started with Strange Worlds, TTA and TOS #1. All on sale around the same time. What about Strange Tales #70? What was the date on that book? It seems to me that the earliest TOS were more sci-fi oriented, and even a book like #5 isn't quite a monster cover in the sense of the giant "monster of the month" books they'd do a bit later (TOS #6 gets my vote for the first of those in that title). TTA #1 has a giant monster on the cover, but more of a King Kong vibe (to me, anyway) and while the cover to #3 sort of fits that bill it too seems more sci-fi. #5 is getting there, and #6-7 are definitely there, IMHO. JIM may have a good case for earliest, as books in the early to mid-50s (I mean numbers, not years here) are making that transition from Sci-fi, to big Sci-fi creatures, to big monsters like Hulk and RRO! Look at the evolution from JIM #52-56 or so and it's a microcosm of the shift from sci-fi to "monster of the month". Strange Tales 70 was on the stands with Strange Worlds 5. I stand by what I said. Makes sense too....TOS and TTA sported ALOT of big monsters on the covers. Strange Worlds #3 could make a claim as an early example, but it is buried amidst four other sci-fi covers, not "monster of the month" covers. ALL the "big four" pre-hero books had a lot of monsters, but the question was when they started. Strange Worlds (aside from maybe the aforementioned #3) and the first five issues of TOS and TTA don't really follow that pattern, IMHO.

They started with Strange Worlds, TTA and TOS #1. All on sale around the same time. What about Strange Tales #70? What was the date on that book? It seems to me that the earliest TOS were more sci-fi oriented, and even a book like #5 isn't quite a monster cover in the sense of the giant "monster of the month" books they'd do a bit later (TOS #6 gets my vote for the first of those in that title). TTA #1 has a giant monster on the cover, but more of a King Kong vibe (to me, anyway) and while the cover to #3 sort of fits that bill it too seems more sci-fi. #5 is getting there, and #6-7 are definitely there, IMHO. JIM may have a good case for earliest, as books in the early to mid-50s (I mean numbers, not years here) are making that transition from Sci-fi, to big Sci-fi creatures, to big monsters like Hulk and RRO! Look at the evolution from JIM #52-56 or so and it's a microcosm of the shift from sci-fi to "monster of the month".

My latest pickup from Heritage, which has long been an arch nemesis book for me. Very tough one to find in grade. I probably overpaid, but that is what happens when you're down to only a few that have eluded you for 20 years...

A buddy and I hit a couple of shops yesterday, and I watched him pull a VF Sandman #8 out of a dollar box. It was one of the better pulls I've seen in a while.

I ran into another nice pocket of DCUs at a shop yesterday afternoon, picking up around 10 on my want list. The bonanza included this book that is not currently on the list, Looney Tunes #15.

Two months away!

Who can blame him? I'd practically wet myself being around all those gorgeous books too!

Make that 25 cents by the end of the week.... If you mean the end of THIS week I'd say that that is unlikely.