goldust40

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Presents very well indeed. Congrats!

I'm more of a Timely guy, with only a handful of MLJs in my collection, but this thread could alter my collecting focus.

Al Hartley was no slouch either...

Weird Terror often gets overlooked in favor of its sister Comic Media title Horrific, but the covers are nearly all classics, this being no exception.

David bought an FF 67 from me - very easy to deal with, and a credit to the boards.

I was the underbidder on that one, and I assumed when I set my snipe that I had placed a knockout bid. I thought the book was around the 4.5 mark, possibly slightly higher. It has to be said, there aren't a lot of them around - it's scarcer than I had imagined. In the end I bought the one that My Comic Shop had (from their site, which is about 10% cheaper) as a consolation.

Great books. I've seen quite a few JIM 5s with that miswrap problem, although it still presents well.

The sig had to be in thick silver marker. A biro sig at the bottom of the cover wouldn't've been visible enough, obviously.

I bought an almost complete set of Valiants in 1997 for 10 pence each, for what it's worth (I nearly baulked even at that price). May make something on those, although I have to locate them first...

Time to dig out all those boxes of Valiants that have been sitting in my basement since 1996... To be fair I still reread Solar, A & A and one or two other titles occasionally - I always thought Shadowman was underrated. The pre-Unity books hold up pretty well.

Great point, and maybe that's why they're hangin' back with X-O. Harbinger can be done and presented without going all "spandex-clad" superheroes. Kids with abilities, bad guy in a suit. More sci fi /fantasy, less superfriends. And Bloodshot? Basically a super soldier, so he could be just tactical gear w/ swords. Save the exoskeleton superhero for once their universe is established. Then breakout the uniforms, capes and action figures? Maybe? It could be a strategy which ends up being marketable. However Valiant / Sony have got to find a niche that's distinct from Marvel to elicit interest.

That! Guaranteed to bomb. Comic book movies that 95% of the general public never heard of only works if it's Marvel. Don't tell that to Hellboy. Or V for Vendetta. Or Men In Black. Or... V For Vendetta blewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Or 300. Or The Crow. Or Sin City. Or Scott Pilgrim. Or The Mask. Or... All great movies! Especially The Crow! (thumbs u Or A History of Violence. Or Road To Perdition. Or Dredd. Or Wanted. Or... (thumbs u All, or at least mostly, great films (I liked V For Vendetta) but none featuring flying spandex-clad merchandisable super-beings. Which is what Marvel excels at. It all depends on how much super-hero fare can be accepted by the non-fanboy masses, or whether another company which doesn't have anything like Marvel's branding power will make any difference to cinemagoers' interest in such movies.

Cool book, underrated series.