Guardian Comics

Apparently a useless character who's first appearance wasn't as valuable as two issues that have Adam Warlock facing Animal Man. Jim

It was thought of as his first appearance way before CGC ever came into existence. Not so. Would love to see any kind of guide listing that put 181 as his first with no mention of his actual first (cameo, whatever) in 180. Link? Scan? Absolutely yes so. #181 is broken out in the Overstreet for the first time in issue #8 (1978) and remained that way for the next three years, until Overstreet #11 hit the stands and for the first time listed #180 as a cameo. Jim

Word is they killed Supergirl in that book. I'm not crazy about Kentucky but I do like Cal Jim

Yep..... Morgan didn't mean to spare them...he put them in the car, and honked the horn. Not his fault the walkers didn't get there fast enough. Jim

I'd say it was the best episode of the entire series. Absolutely brilliant episode. Jim

Agreed...not the right avenue for that book at all. The people who want this book have better things to do on a Friday night. Jim

Hey boys...missed you Jim

Exactly -- per GPA, those 10 recorded sales in 2014 averaged out to $337. In 2015, there was a sale in Feb. at $339. It's just disingenuous to say "sales of $300-$400 even before the announcement" when the average over 15 months & 11 recorded sales was consistent at $337. In my mind, $337 is a far cry from $350, let alone $400. Per GPA, the low was $300 and the high was $395 in 2014. Despite an average of $337, "sales of $300-$400 even before the announcement" seems like an accurate statement. If you click on the link within GPA, it gives you that same range for 2014 - $300-$395. I don't think he was disingenuous at all. Exactly what I was thinking. Maybe disingenuous doesn't mean the same thing to you and I that it does him? Maybe in slang disingenuous means 100% accurate nowadays? Jim

oh yea. :doh: but that's a tv thing. Well what else would we be talking about, drawn pictures in black and white??? We can't all like drawn freckles like some of our most esteemed members. Jim

Honestly...who has Diamond/Capital City order forms that show which book showed up on which day??? That's really the only thing that will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt what is truly accurate? Jim

When Rick get's Jessie, it makes me realise the zombie apocalypse is a most wonderful thing. I mean Rick gets to trade up from Lori, to Jessie. Abraham trades up to Rosita. Bob gets Sasha. Seems like silver linings can be found almost anywhere. Jim

Exactly....CDN price variants were sold in book stores, convenience stores etc. Direct books were the same version at a U.S. or CDN LCS. And yes people would be correlating the 10-1 ratio on CDN vs US newsstand books. And is 10-1 an exact science, no. Just a hypothesis. All I have to go on is this, in 1999 when I was researching my first book on Canadian Star Wars collectibles I met with the former owners of Kenner Canada (the distributor/manufacturer) for the vintage Star Wars toy line in Canada from 1978-1985. He told me at the time that SW toys were produced for the CDN market at 1/10 of what Kenner in the US was producing for the U.S. market, with whatever didn't sell being shipped to foreign markets like Japan and Australia. It's a number that was published in my book, and I have seen other people apply the same numbers to other collectibles, such as comics and video games. Although I'm sure not entirely accurate is the 10-1 ratio, it's a decent starting pointing but could vary a couple percent either way depending on how receptive the CDN market would be compared to the U.S. marketplace. Jim

Exactly Jim

It happened in the early 80's, when the Canadian dollar fell in value enough against the US dollar to make the exchange worth the cost of printing up different versions for the (not insubstantial) Canadian newsstand market. As you know, Canadian price editions weren't new to the comic book market; they had been around almost as long as comic books themselves had. But, in the early 80's, it was determined at Marvel, DC, and other newsstand distributors like Archie, etc, that there was enough of a difference to print a special Canadian newsstand edition company-wide, and that's what happened. Marvel eventually figured out by 1986 that they only had to print the Canadian price along with the US price on the newsstand copies, which DC didn't figure out until 1988 (and Archie didn't until 1990 or so?), and that would save the additional costs associated with the separate version. Yeah, I realize that the exchange rate had become a factor, but who was making these decisions and couldn't figure out that multiple prices could be printed on the covers of newsstand editions as well? It would be interesting to know exactly how much that extra cover cost them. Maybe the retailers didn't want multiple prices, and have their part time employee at the convenience store just punch in the first # they saw of 75 cents, when they should have punched in 95 cents. These corner stores staples were milk and cigarettes, not comic books. Unlike an LCS owner or employees who lived and breathed comics and that is basically all they sold. No scientific proof, just thinking out loud. Jim

They are 1/10th the print run . Hi! Is this a guess, or do you know for sure? Well the country has 1/10th the population, so it's a fair assumption, but might even be lower. Jim

Sergio bought a half dozen books from me, and the transaction went smooth and flawless. Hope to deal with again soon. :thumbsup: Jim

#2 show on TV for me, behind Walking Dead. Only two shows I'll watch all year. Jim

+1,000,000 Collecting comic books is just a hobby - it's no more than that IMO. Unless of course you're buying your "key" books for a penny on a dollar. Invest on Gold for sure! Talk to a financial advisor and see what he/she has to say. Gold dropped from $1900 an oz. to $1200 an oz. . I bought mine in 2008 - still in the "W" column. I'm not touching that until I retire. The OP should definitely consider buying now, while gold is lower historically. Let me ask you this. How many years do you think it will take for gold to reach back up to $1900 an oz. again? This chart alone is enough to scare me away from buying gold again. Talk about a bubble! Agreed...it was $276 in 2001. That wasn't that long ago, and I've never seen any sort of price swing on a key book like that in history...ever. I don't think gold is a sure investment at all. Jim

Agree whole heartedly Reed, but I was just too lazy to quote this part with my phone. I read it earlier and immediately thought this book was a key before Bryan Singer was even born, much less before he started making X-Men movies. Jim

Hulk #181 over GSX #1 and X-Men #94 any day, every day. Those three (other than a Marvel Comics #1) were the holy trinity for me growing up. Hulk #181 consistently over the past 20 years has grown at a faster, steadier rate than GSX #1 or X-94, and I don't see that not being the case anytime soon. Jim

Helluva an episode last night, and a real cliffhanger. Is there one more episode to go or two? Jim

You turned a 9.4 graded BA #12 into a musical instrument...who the hell is your pressor, that is truly magic. Jim

What do you think happened to the books they had as kids? They probably still have them. Most of the people who don't still have the comics they had as kids in the 80s and 90s probably no longer care about comics. Not even true whatsoever. When I was a kid, my collecting heyday was between 84-86 (12-14 years old). At the time every year for Christmas my parents would give me a "subscription" (which meant buying me every title of every Marvel comic between those years at a comic shop). I don't have a clue whatever happened to all those books, probably traded them for SA whenever I could. By the time I was 17-18 I was setting up at shows selling off anything I could to have the perfect prom and send myself to University. The 'M" logo direct distribution price box is my nostalgic point, as they are relatively worthless but a few but bring me back to a wonderful time. Everything else is dollar signs to me now. Jim

You don't say. You know the 80s ended over 25 years ago, right? Yes 25 years ago and 28 days to be exact. Jim

Natasha ? Or Natasha's grandmother? Sharon that was my exact first thought as well. Something Soviet I immediately assumed, and just the way she kicked reminded me of a Black Widow/Scarlett Johannsen move. Jim