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Hey, guys, Mile High's offering a super deal on Preacher - 40% off the entire run. And with the already bargain price of just $182 for a Fine copy of issues 2-10 (only $93 for Good!) how can you turn it down?

OK movie, but Apocalypse stinks on ice. He's about as interesting as cloud Galactus. Of course Apocalypse stinks in the comic books too.

Sorry, don't know of a working link right now. A friend showed me the video earlier today and it has since been pulled for copyright claim.

Saw the trailer. This might be canceled before it debuts. Oy.

That's just about the safest bet around. Some creative financial engineer needs to sell a put option on the group so we can score on the nosedive.

I couldn't agree more... From back when they were known as the Pouch Patrol.

I'm holding out for Gwoodgod.

I see that their business model remains unchanged from 25 years ago, the last time I bought anything but a DC Archives hardcover from them. Feel better knowing that whatever grade book you thought you were buying was never there in the first place.

Love Coulson. Only non-sports bobblehead I ever bought.

I checked out the local Five Below and they had 50 packs of comic books, every single one of which had Original Sin #1. Oh well.

Check out Sergio's sexy Sue Storm!

Love Groo. Got my first copy of Destroyer Duck 1 just last month and was stoked. Also found Sergio Aragones Massacres Marvel #1 in the 50 cent bin. Perhaps I overpaid. But I am delighted with both. And don't forget. Without Groo, there's no Groot.

Shhh! Don't ask questions unless they're about my stacks of Bronze Age #1s that I finally found in the back of the closet. Black Panther #1 so super-rare I only have 10 copies left...

It's a lot more than that though. Low grades of some mega-keys have now apparently doubled or tripled over the past few months (at least if a few sales are to be believed), a few Bronze Age #1s in plentiful supply keep running and running and then... Squirrel Girl. Maybe the rapidly inflating prices just reflect a huge surge of demand as a side-effect of easy money. The entire comic book market is a tiny one, surely not even equal to a day's worth of trading on a major stock exchange. If big investment money comes sloshing in, who's to say what the "correct" prices are? Maybe it's a relatively low liquidity market that has been artificially depressed for years and now we're seeing some real price discovery with all thew new buyers. I doubt it, it sure feels bubbly. But nobody knows for sure.

"This reminds me of how I created Superman."

Just awful. If I had the money I'd buy it just to burn it.

Not that it's worth any money, but Giant-Size Conan #1 is listed as 1st app Belit simply because her name is mentioned on one page that sums up Conan's history. She's not even drawn. Worst labeled first appearance of all.

Agreed. It's #1. No question. Sweet, my 20 copies of Battle Scars #1 scored for 10 bucks total will one day by my house on Mars.

One of the quickest about faces I've ever done. I hated, hated, hated the first issue she drew and then by the third I decided she was really quite good.

If that was signed by MLB Hall of Famer Al Simmons that would be worth a lot, esp since he died 35 years before Spawn was published.

It's definitely not from PW 41, and I'd say it's not even an Atlas panel. Atlas job numbers are almost exclusively in the first panel of a story (exceptions: text stories), and that's not Atlas lettering. That numbering box looks like a late 50's-early 60's Charlton. GCD says First Kiss #21, story called Take My Number. I don't see a scan of it online. Good work. Thanks. I wasn't sure if other companies used the same numbering system as Atlas.

A question for any you comic book sleuths. I posted here because of the Patsy Walker references. Is this an actual panel or has the text been photshopped? The "Cake" response looks a little off, but maybe I'm seeing things. A-422 points me to a story from Patsy Walker 41 (according to Atlastales.com), but I'm not sure if there can be more than one A-422. If anyone has that issue unslabbed, can you confirm if this panel is in it?

There's no way the film is a flop. It's basically a cartoon and Hollywood knows how to market its big-budget cartoons almost flawlessly by now; younger audiences do precisely what marketers tell them to do. The only question is if it's a modest success or a big hit. But even if it's a big hit, that doesn't necessarily equate to the comic book appearances being in demand or the characters ever being big players in the Marvel universe.

Print runs man. There's like half a million copies of X-Force #2 compared to 50K or so of GOTG #1, and it's the 1st appearance of the current team. You know, the one the movie is based on But even with a 50,000 print run there is still a huge supply of them in high grade. There aren't 50,000 buyers out there clamoring for a copy. There are a couple of hundred speculators/hoarders trying to flip it. I'll buy the print run argument for a book like Walking Dead 1 where the demand might really exceed the total run. For most other books, the supply is still pretty big. GOTG 1 isn't a 1st or close to a 1st for any of those characters (is it a 2nd Groot? I admit I don't know). I guess you could try to argue this is the modern equivalent of Defenders 1, but I don't think it's anything more than temporary movie hype. That GOTG book had its fans, but was and is a near nonentity in the Marvel Universe. Avengers #1 isn't the first appearance of any of those characters... Don't you think a big blockbuster movie could make the GOTG an entity in the Marvel Universe I find it hard to believe. But then again when I saw the GOTG trailer, I thought "Good lord, this is the end of Marvel. This is going to make people pine for Battlefield Earth." And then people started acting like it actually looked good so, hey, anything's possible. But even if it's a hit, I don't really think a movie makes for much of a change in the comic book world. Blade was a hit franchise and... nada. He was never going to have much to do with the broader Marvel Universe. GOTG seem like they are best suited to stick to their own little corner - they wouldn't work if they got spread out through half the titles like the Avengers.