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Arvel omics roup or the Thing's toes being cut off? Personally, I find the cover better with the slight shift.

My apologies!

FF 48 is kind of a perfect storm. Warehouse find, Silver Surfer/Galactus, Lee/Kirby in their prime. There are so many copies, there were even a couple of years when the price went down on this book in Overstreet. No chance of that happening any time soon though.

13+ years later and only 1 more FF #1, 3 more FF #3s, and still no #187 variants. Issue #59 passed #48. Issues #175-#200 have lower counts than they probably should because people tend to send in 9.8s/9.6s rather than 9.4s. I didn't include the annuals way back then, but overall they seem to have really low counts. Number of 9.4+ Copies (Universal) 0 Copies: #187v 2 Copies: #185v, 186v 3 Copies: #169v 4 Copies: #3, 183v, 184v 5 Copies: #1, 172v 6 Copies: #173v 8 Copies: #6, 7, 8, 11 9 Copies: #18 10 Copies: #2, 110v, 170v 11 Copies: #13 12 Copies: #171v 13 Copies: #37, Annual 9 14 Copies: #5, 17, 23 15 Copies: #Annual 2, Annual 10 16 Copies: #15, 31 17 Copies: #40 18 Copies: #29 19 Copies: #4 20 Copies: #12 21 Copies: #10, Annual 14 22 Copies: #27, 34, 51 23 Copies: #9, 16, 19, 20, 25, 32, 43, Annual 12 24 Copies: #42 25 Copies: #117 26 Copies: #Annual 7, Annual 13 27 Copies: #22, 50, 162 28 Copies: #21, Annual 1 29 Copies: #14, 45 30 Copies: #187 31 Copies: #Annual 8 32 Copies: #36 33 Copies: #177 34 Copies: #30 35 Copies: #38, 103, 124 36 Copies: #39, 90 37 Copies: #Annual 3 38 Copies: #33, 49, 179, Annual 6, Annual 11 39 Copies: #24 40 Copies: #26, 28, 56 41 Copies: #66, 163 42 Copies: #161 43 Copies: #101, 107, 120, 184 44 Copies: #115, 153 45 Copies: #128, 137 46 Copies: #147 47 Copies: #53, 127, 138, 169 49 Copies: #52, 164 50 Copies: #104, 188 51 Copies: #35, 65, 160, Annual 4 53 Copies: #70, 186 54 Copies: #47, 57, 79, 136 55 Copies: #165, 168, 196 57 Copies: #85, 139, 190 58 Copies: #41, 174 59 Copies: #105, 135, 151 60 Copies: #119 61 Copies: #80 62 Copies: #81 63 Copies: #116, 125, 141 64 Copies: #63, 96, 109, 110, 176, 185 65 Copies: #113, 130, 192 66 Copies: #55, 132, 180, 182 67 Copies: #71 68 Copies: #198 69 Copies: #145, 189 70 Copies: #144 71 Copies: #126 72 Copies: #74, 134, 154 73 Copies: #68, 102, 152 74 Copies: #172 75 Copies: #54, 106, 193 76 Copies: #75, 142, 171 77 Copies: #61, 111, 129, 143, 155, 159, 195 80 Copies: #99 81 Copies: #93, 94, 194 82 Copies: #69, 191 84 Copies: #88 85 Copies: #62, 133 86 Copies: #58, 89, 140, 181 87 Copies: #46, 84, 157 88 Copies: #72, 197 89 Copies: #87, 118, 167 92 Copies: #122, 175 93 Copies: #123, 200 94 Copies: #83, 149 95 Copies: #92, 98, 146 96 Copies: #112, 131, 178 97 Copies: #91, 158 98 Copies: #148 99 Copies: #77, 82, 170, Annual 5 100 Copies: #156 101 Copies: #173 104 Copies: #95 106 Copies: #150 111 Copies: #67, 183 114 Copies: #64 115 Copies: #114 120 Copies: #73 124 Copies: #60 126 Copies: #86 127 Copies: #97 130 Copies: #108 132 Copies: #199 133 Copies: #78 135 Copies: #76 147 Copies: #166 149 Copies: #100 157 Copies: #44 168 Copies: #121 233 Copies: #48 286 Copies: #59 Increases from 10/26/04: 1-50: +1056 (538 to 1594) 51-100: +3208 (1090 to 4298) 101-150: +2798 (732 to 3530) 151-200: +2817 (714 to 3531) Variants: +48 (10 to 58) All: +9827 (3084 to 12911) Books that have fewer copies than surrounding issues: 3, 11, 18, 23, 29, 31, 34, 37, 40, 42, 43, 45, 50, 51, 66, 90, 103, 117, 124, 162, 177, 179, 187 Books that have more copies than surrounding issues: 4, 14, 24, 26, 28, 35, 41, 44, 46, 48, 54, 59, 60, 61, 64, 67, 73, 76, 78, 86, 97, 100, 108, 114, 121, 150, 156, 166, 173, 183, 199 Top 10 Additions: #59 (+211) #121 (+139) #48 (+133) #199 (+125) #166 (+120) #100 (+110) #44 (+105) #97 (+101) #86 (+101) #76 (+100) Top 10 Lowest Increases: #187 35 Cent Variant (+0) #1 (+1) #184 35 Cent Variant (+2) #185 35 Cent Variant (+2) #186 35 Cent Variant (+2) #3 (+3) #8 (+3) #169 30 Cent Variant (+3) #183 35 Cent Variant (+3) #11 (+4)

I really enjoyed the current X-Files reboot. Mulder and Scully have given up and are living in a Milwaukee suburb. Skinner spends the entire season trying to convince them to return to the X-Files, with no luck. In the last scene, Mulder and Scully fall into a hole. I thought this was a much needed, brave new direction for the series.

There is no possible way that a good Star Wars movie with the return of Luke Skywalker doesn't get 90%+ of the Force Awakens. Hell, a movie with no dialogue with Luke dicing up bad guys for two hours would have made as much as TLJ. No exaggeration.

Disney would have ended up pocketing an additional $200-$500 million with a good movie that appeased the older fans. So, I do blame them from a business perspective (as well as a personal one).

You are generally correct. However, I think a good movie that honors the past, while making way for new characters would have wildly more successful for everyone.

Getting out of the way? What was there an overabundance of Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker in the past 34 years? That 15 seconds at the end Force Awakens was too much? Having Luke in a Star Wars movie was rare, precious, and fleeting. They squandered it.

I'm sure a few feel that way, but most people I've talked to that disliked VIII assumed that most, if not all, of the original characters were going to die in this "trilogy" (before it started). They just wanted good movies.

You nailed it. I imagined VIII wasn't going to be a pile of dung and my theory was dashed.

It was at least equal on both sides. From what I read, I'm sure there were more fake positive reviews than negative. This movie had no respect for Luke and it was just plain not fun. Worst direction they could have gone.

Yep, that is the biggest problem with the movie. Luke was not Luke.

They made a decent movie that at the same time spit on Luke Skywalker. If you have no problem with that, I don't know what to say. It makes me ill thinking about it.

Well, I was pretty blah about this series, until the break finale. It could end up being one of the greatest Trek series of all time if:

I owe George Lucas the biggest apology ever.

Yes, in my top 5 also! I'm so jealous!

I can sum up my feelings with Disney's purchase in two pictures:

The Flash is a fun show, but the Council of Reeds is way cooler.

Nice pages you have there!

Thanks for all of the great (and surprising) info. Yeah, my camera isn't the best, here is another shot. In person, surfer is clear, but I mainly bought the page because of the really cool moment in the story.

Hi all, i don't really follow original art prices and was wondering if anyone has a ballpark estimate of the value of this page from Silver Surfer #50. This is the lead-in to Infinity Gauntlet #1. Silver Surfer crashes through Dr. Strange's window to warn everyone. It's for insurance, not to sell. Thanks.

While I agree with you for the most part, this was a bad example. Sticking exactly to the source material, even with Stan's corny dialog, would have been 1000x better than this turd. As long as they get the core of the characters correct, variations of details don't bother me that much. Example: The Thing is not a murdering mercenary. No, just no.

Your picture frame set gallery might be the best in the registry. So cool.

Just four left?! That's absolutely incredible!