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What the fans should do is put ALL that effort into getting Del Toro to cast Matt in any role that requires John Constantine (ala Justice League Dark). He's already expressed interest....and this final kick in the balls by NBC should be repaid in turn by showing how wrong they were. It would be the ultimate vindication. If the DCCU is going to go the route of a shared universe that crosses platforms much as the MCU does, it would make sense for them to cast him to keep things consistent.

Great book, it looks better than a 6.0.

I'd be happy with it, too, Jeff!. Sweet Copy! +1, nice book!

There were some really pretty books in the latest Clink auction that just ended. I bid on several, including a lot of the STs, but got blown out on all of them. Anyone here get any of them?

+1 +2 But hopefully anyone dropping that kind of coin would at least call for notes that would hopefully mention any significant BC issues.

This was a total impulse buy, but I couldn't pass up an opportunity to get the second ever comic book on the cheap (relatively speaking) in this week's Comiclink auction.

It is a pretty copy, and an old label to boot.

I thought the eye appeal on all three books on the lower end of the scale was quite good, at a glance anyway (I'm out of the market so I can't claim to have studied the scans). The tape note on the 4.0 may have hurt that book a bit, as may have the dried glue note on the 3.0. The grays on the Hulk are also a bit smudged on the 4.0. But you could do a lot worse on eye appeal in this grade range than these three copies. That 3.0 in particular is quite nice, and looks better to me than the 3.5. EDIT: On another look I'm wondering if the 3.0 has had some CT scraped off along the very edge of the spine. Even with that the book looks really good for the grade.

You weren't dreaming, once they hit graded you got to see label color (at least on my most recent subs within the past year). That may be another recent change, which would be annoying. Every time this process changes it takes away a little more information...

Not seeing a cover price on this one, was it free?

As they should be. the 6.5 seems strong tho. Agreed on the 6.5, I meant the 3.0-4.0 copies seemed to have relaxed a touch. I may be misremembering, and don't have GPA, but I thought that 3.5s were getting close to $10,000 for a while.

Four copies sold last night in the Clink auction: CGC 6.5 OW-W (old label) = $33,120 CGC 4.0 W = $10,349 CGC 3.5 OW-W = $8,379 CGC 3.0 OW-W = $7,501 Maybe it is me, but these prices (while still strong compared to two years ago) seem to be down a tick from earlier in the year. Is this my imagination?

Yes, they were released in a variety of different types of combo/reader packs. Some were in large 20 ct "bricks" distributed through big box stores, others were in smaller collections (shrinkwrapped 2-3 book sets or larger boxed reader runs). We haven't really delved into any sort of scarcity index on these, but some are fairly easy and some are fairly difficult. Seems to be that the 1994 variants are generally easier to come by than the 1996 books. I've had some good luck lately with some of the cartoon books...

Can't argue there. This has to be it, and I think anyone paying attention is going to be pretty much over this movie before it is released. I'm already feeling a bit oversaturated.

Two months away!

That's 10 months old. I still don't see how the cocoon is any more significant than Howard. Howard at least had lines from what I recall. That doesn't mean Howard is going to be in IW any more than it does Warlock.

After reading that mishmash of rumors, hopes, and creative interpretations, it would still make no sense to bring Warlock into the IW movie. They'd be trading all the work they've done to build Thanos, plus Vision, and what, replace all that with some convoluted Warlock story that sounds a bit silly to actually say out loud? Maybe it's because I'm not a Warlock fan, but I just can't see them bringing Warlock in at this point. I think that the cocoon in GOTG means as much as the Howard the Duck cameo did.

Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt, Chris Evans... man lots of Chris's... Henry Cavill... Those guys are "stars"? They're just dudes who have been lucky enough to get cast in some successful movies that would have been successful regardless. -J. No, that's my point exactly. Those dudes aren't stars, and yet they're in comic movies that are very successful and entertaining... He missed it. As long as the -script is strong and the tie in with BvS then the JLA flicks for the character works, the movie will do well whether JM is a star or not. No , he missed it. No such movie can be concocted around this character. And the MOS -script was "strong"? What ? -J. the argument you're making here is different than the ones you made earlier... But I understand why Aquaman gets no love, which is why I'm doubly rooting for this movie! The thrust of my original post was that because Momoa is no star and nobody cares about James Wan or how much money Furious 7 made, this movie about "Aquaman" (in quotes, because whatever Momoa was supposed to be dressed as in that one picture sure as hell was not Aquaman) has no chance of being anything other than laughable and a waste of both money and fan goodwill IMO. Marvel got lucky with GOTG. They are probably pushing their luck with Ant-man. And DC ain't no Marvel when it comes to making decent super hero movies as it is. -J. Marvel at least started from zero with GOTG. Nobody had ever heard of them, and thus had no preconceptions, positive or negative. Aquaman has been the butt of a joke for what, 20 years? Even the Big Bang cast pretty routinely make fun of Aquaman (or at least used to, haven't seen it in about two years). In making his film DC has to overcome a ton of outright dismissal of Aquaman as a cool and interesting character. Average guy on the street will definitely see a Batman or Superman film. But Aquaman?

What were the winning bids? Links?

Picked up some sweet low grade Sgt Fury books in a recent sales thread, and they arrived very quickly and packaged beautifully. I'd happily buy from him again!

I forgot that the TB show was that first weekend in August. I'd add highly unusual to your nonsensical, as their typical strategy is to try to get in there ahead of the established show. Of late their strategy seems to be to announce new shows and then cancel to move them out a year (see Albuquerque and Greenville). That may be what happens here, but with them already scheduled out 14 months on this it would be a strange move. Still, Greenville was on the books for some time before being cancelled and pushed out a year, so who knows.

Another new show added to the list, because everyone wants to visit Florida in August... Home page The main thing I'm irritated about with this is the likelihood that this show will negatively impact the timing of Chicago 2016. That show really needs to be mid-August for some breathing room with school starting up.

bold part - absolutely not possible, not even slightly. as for "other comic book movies", marvel is in its own separate world. There are comic book movies, and Marvel movies, and their fates and futures, long ago separated... Ant-man is Marvel's first heist film, and just one of their many moves into all genres. Nuff said While Ant-Man doesn't look awesome to me, if it plays an important role in the entire MU then it should do well as people will need to see it to stay in the loop. I don't know about that. Despite my best intentions I've never seen either of the Thor movies or watched an episode of Shield or Agent Carter, and I followed Avengers 2 just fine (at least I thought I did). I think Marvel would shoot themselves in the foot if you were forced to see everything for a later film to make sense. At that point it is easier to just see nothing than it is to watch everything, and confused audiences would find something else to buy tickets for. sounds exactly like what happened with the publishing side of the biz I know it has worked that way for me since way back when cover prices hit $1.00.

bold part - absolutely not possible, not even slightly. as for "other comic book movies", marvel is in its own separate world. There are comic book movies, and Marvel movies, and their fates and futures, long ago separated... Ant-man is Marvel's first heist film, and just one of their many moves into all genres. Nuff said While Ant-Man doesn't look awesome to me, if it plays an important role in the entire MU then it should do well as people will need to see it to stay in the loop. I don't know about that. Despite my best intentions I've never seen either of the Thor movies or watched an episode of Shield or Agent Carter, and I followed Avengers 2 just fine (at least I thought I did). I think Marvel would shoot themselves in the foot if you were forced to see everything for a later film to make sense. At that point it is easier to just see nothing than it is to watch everything, and confused audiences would find something else to buy tickets for.