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I haven't found any comics I used to own, but like some others have already posted, I was able to track down the OO of a book in my collection who had written his name on the front cover. He was happy to see pictures of the book again.
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1 hour ago, littledoom said:
Sam reason I prefer direct ASM 316 w TMcF venom doodle versus dozens of hortizontal barcode lines
If you look at those lines long enough, though, there's a picture of a sailboat.
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24 minutes ago, GeeksAreMyPeeps said:
I brought a scenario like this up in one of the threads discussing Direct vs Newsstand Editions, but here we have a first cover appearance (Direct Edition only) of Mobius, because of the UPC box.
I came to post the same thing. Really curious if the direct ends up becoming more valued as a result.
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Does not bother me!
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22 hours ago, the blob said:
Surprisingly many 9.8s for what I would have thought was an obscure book. Makes me think there were untouched warehouse/file copies, but I am just speculating. Maybe the pinnis kept 100 copies for posterity.
Yes, I believe this is basically correct. I no longer have my original Elfquest issues, but my memory tells me that towards the end of the run - so 5-6 years after Fantasy Quarterly #1 was released - the Pinis announced in the Elfquest lettercolumn that they had found at least one case of undistributed copies of Fantasy Quarterly #1, which they then sold through the lettercolumn by mail. So I think some portion of the print run was never distributed and only sold this way, which is why there is such a high proportion of high grade copies. I don't think I've ever seen a low grade copy of this book to be honest.
Anyone have any idea what the print run was?
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I'm going to leave this up until tomorrow, then I'll have to take it to ebay and see if any of the kids flush with GameStop money want to add to their back issue portfolio.
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2 minutes ago, davet75 said:
per PM. thank you!
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One time price drop on the Wow Comics #38 down to $2500. Crack pipe not included.
I think this is as low as I will go on this one.
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Okay, the market's crazy, I can't get my GPA to work, and I don't really want to sell this book all that much. So, I'm just going to make up a number and we'll see what happens. For all I know this is low, I don't have any idea.
I hate to offer this one, but I'm downsizing my collection and though it's adjacent to some of my collecting interests, it's not really a fit for my collection. Plus I'm trying to raise some money to make comics. So...
Wow Comics #38 - 6.5 -
$2900$2500A couple notes - this has some mild tanning on the cover. PQ is... I don't have an OWL card, so I'm winging it here, but let's say cream? As there's a bit of tanning to the interior as well.
There's a small tape pull on the back cover, not my doing, but whoever it was thank god is was on the back.
FC has a small non-cb bend in the top right corner.
This book is incredibly flat and tight as a drum. And looks tremendous. BC looks better in hand than in scans as the scans emphasize everything - the little ncb tweaks along the bc spine tell me this has likely never been pressed, I know I haven't touched it.
Tanning is my biggest weakness in grading, so I am going to go with the grade that was given to the book by the boardie whom I bought it from here a decade ago, which is 6.5, and trust that he is a better grader than I. Looks nicer to me! But we all have our weak spots.
For this one, payment will be check or money order.
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I may post a second book later tonight. I'm deciding whether I want to part with it. If I do, I'll probably post it at a crack smoking price - either you'll think I'm smoking crack by asking for so much money, or I'll think you're smoking crack for paying that much, but one way or another, someone's going to look crazy.
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X-Men #9 - 4.5 - $400SOLD!I've got some notes on this one:There's a couple non colorbreaking dimples on the fc - one on Giant Man's chest, the other on Beast's shoulder. It looks like someone had put a piece of paper on top of the comic and pressed down on it with a pen. The Beast dimple is smaller, the Giant Man one is like a small diamond shape.There's a small, very faint crease on the fc about an inch and a half long on near the right edge that you can't see on the scan. You can only see it really if you hold the book at an angle to the light.The top staple is slightly impacted. It might have some oxidization, it's hard to tell for me; there's a dark line from the art on the fc right with it that makes it look darker than it is.There's a small chip out of the bottom edge fc.The book is slightly miscut, which I never noticed until trying to scan it.Slight tanning/shadow right edge fc.This book DOES have the Marvel Girl pinup and is complete and tight with nice colors and some gloss.I have it at a 4.5. -
I'm in the process of sorting through my collection and soon will be selling a bunch of lots and stuff off. But that might be a bit. In the meantime, though, I've shaken out a book or possibly two that I thought I'd sell now.
Usual rules:
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in thread trumps PM conversations.
2. In the case of multiple PMs, or take its, I will go by time stamp.
3. no HoS/probation people please. I'm Crimebuster, not Crimeenabler
4. shipping is included for U.S. buyers - and this is U.S. only, sorry!
5. Paypal only - unless otherwise noted, which might be the case this time.
6. please pay promptly, I have a crimefighting monkey sidekick to feed
7. If there's any kind of issue with the books, let me know within one week of receiving it and we can figure out some kind of return. But I don't anticipate any issues!
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I swear, when that article started talking about it feeling like it belongs to "someone else" but that someone is actually Sam himself, I thought the theory was going to be that the show is going to introduce Snap Wilson.
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I predict you're going to do okay with this, assuming the ToS 57 isn't ruined by water.
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21 minutes ago, Bosco685 said:
So if a number of people calling it very strong is well coordinated - but if they state it is negative with details that aren't even factual (Superman only appears for 5-10 minutes) they are potentially on-point?
No, I didn't say that. I'm aware there are also people who have an axe to grind with Snyder as well. I'm responding because in this thread, I see a lot of people citing positive reviews as some kind of evidence that the movie is great, while dismissing negative reviews out of hand as biased. But the bias can go in both directions. That's all.
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2 hours ago, Oddball said:
Another negative review on RT that was already predisposed to not enjoying it.
“Score one for the rabid #ReleaseTheSnyderCut folks: They essentially bullied Warner Brothers into putting up $70 million for Snyder to return to his unused footage, reshoot a bit-“
As I stated before I respect your opinion if you went in open-minded and did not like it. But when you start your review off like that I think your bias is showing.
There are just as many positive reviews from people predisposed to liking it. That first batch of reactions where several people in a row were calling it a "masterpiece" with almost identical language was downright goofy with how coordinated it was.
Hey, I hope it's good. But there are so many rabid fanboys personally invested in being proven right that I can't really believe any of this without seeing it for myself.
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6 hours ago, PeterPark said:
There's a 6 or 8 page preview of Space Usagi 1 that predates (obviously) the release of Space Usagi 1. It is more than a back cover ad.
More than that, unless I'm mistaken it's not a preview in the sense of showing the first few pages of issue 1 or something as an ad. It's a unique story that predates issue 1, and acts as a prequel. As such, it is the first appearance, no caveats.
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Thanks for the information, it's really helpful - and interesting!
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Howdy!
I'm wondering about Dungeons and Dragons in comics, and the game's influence on comics, so I'm trying to figure out what some of the earlier mentions or appearances of the game are.
I've read the D&D wiki article about licensed comics. The first official D&D comics were one page ads on the back covers of some issues starting in 1981. There were different short stories in different versions of the ads, kind of like the Hostess ads. The first full length licensed comic was apparently in Spanish in 1985, and adaptation of the cartoon, and then in America DC got the license and starting putting out a number of licensed TSR comics around 87.
But there are a couple other categories of D&D comics I'm interested in tracking down as well, which are a bit harder to get information on.
First, there were a ton of comics that were directly inspired by D&D in the 80's, especially in the indie and self published arena. I've got a bunch of examples, like Dungeoneers and The Adventurers among others. But it's those "among others" I'm curious about. Anyone collect these, or have some kind of list? Others I have copies of are things like Empire Lanes, Dark Regions, and Tales of the Realm.
The second category is comics that actually reference D&D or some non-trademark version of the game. The earliest of these I'm aware of is Warlord #35, which came out in 1980, and which so far is the earliest reference to D&D in comics I've found (though I suspect there must be earlier ones). I also have a vague memory of someone, maybe Doug Ramsey, playing D&D in an issue of New Mutants in the mid-80's. But there have to be more I don't know about.
Finally, I think the earliest D&D comics probably all appeared in Dragon magazine in the 70's. I've read that some appeared even in the very early issues in the mid-late 70's, but those magazines are hard to come by so I don't have much firsthand knowledge of them.
Anyone collect these and know anything about them? Thanks!
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I've noticed Captain America #168, the first Helmut Zemo, seems to be going up a little based on Falcon and Winter Soldier.
One thing that's interesting is that a year after the issue came out, Marvel reprinted it as part of a line of kids' books with records.
The last few sales of the record and book set are still dirt cheap, maybe because I haven't noticed any listings mention the Baron Zemo connection. Seems like an interesting curiosity to me.
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https://collider.com/wandavision-problems-cameos-teasers/
A little snarky, let's say, but not necessarily wrong.
Spoiler‘WandaVision’ Failed to Deliver Things That Were Never Promised to Me
Who wants to watch a show about grief when I’m supposed to be getting sold on future Marvel things?
For two months now, I’ve gone on Twitter after episodes of WandaVision, and everyone has been speculating about what’s to come. The astrophysicist that Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) mentioned? That has to be Reed Richards because a new Fantastic Four movie is in the works. Sure, they haven’t even finished a -script and director Jon Watts is still working on Spider-Man: No Way Home and a major piece of casting like that almost always leaks out in some form, but I was promised by the Internet that John Krasinski would play Reed Richards, which of course means that his real-world wife Emily Blunt was also being cast as Sue Storm aka The Invisible Woman. The Internet said so, and because Monica said the word “astrophysicist” that means Fantastic Four. Twitter told me so.
Also, because Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) is dealing with magic, that also means Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) has to show up. We know that Olsen is part of the cast of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and so Doctor Strange had to appear in WandaVision. That’s not even a question; the only question is when Cumberbatch was making his cameo appearance so that we could get ready for the next Marvel movie. Even though it’s not next and doesn’t even come out until 2022, we need some kind of teaser. If you don’t tease the next Marvel thing, then what are we even doing here?
So imagine my utter rage and disappointment when WandaVision turned out to be a grief drama. UGH. FEELINGS. If I wanted to watch Elizabeth Olsen in a TV series about grief, I would watch Sorry for Your Loss, which I haven’t, but I’m just saying it’s an option. But my superhero shows are supposed to be about giving me more superheroes. It’s supposed to be a teaser machine where instead of enjoying the current narrative, I need to be sold on the next narrative. What does Wanda’s emotional state possibly tell me about whether or not Mephisto is going to come along later?
By treating Wanda’s story as one about grief, loss, and healing, Marvel denied me the chance to connect my comic book knowledge to the movies. Do you think we read comic books for fun? NO. We read them so we can amass a bunch of knowledge about storylines and then feel secure that we’re ahead of the curve when the movies come along to repeat those storylines. I haven’t been burned this badly by Marvel since The Mandarin turned out to be just an actor in Iron Man 3. Why would you play with my expectations, Marvel? To surprise me? To bring me joy? The only joy I feel is when my fan theories are proved correct so that people know I’m smart.
I don’t watch Marvel stuff to feel feelings or to think about my emotions or consider my place in the world or my relationships with others. I watch them for two reasons: 1) To acknowledge comic books (the more obscure the better, so as to reward my efforts), and 2) to tease future Marvel projects at the expense of the one I’m currently watching. We all know that the best part of Avengers: Age of Ultron is when Thor (Chris Hemsworth) goes on his vision quest because that clued us into the Infinity Stones even though stones had already been mentioned the previous year in Guardians of the Galaxy. I also think we can all agree that Iron Man 2 is the best Marvel movie because it does so much heavy lifting in setting up future Marvel movies. And in my opinion, there has not been a better Marvel scene than the one in Thor where Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) is in a bucket to introduce us to Hawkeye.
WandaVision denied us all of these great kinds of moments that were not promised by the show in any way, but they were promised to us by the fandom, which is obviously more important than the thing they’re supposedly a fan of. If you’re not listening to the fans, then what are you even doing? Crafting a story with a strong character arc to explore a universal emotion that resonates deeply with the viewer? Who wants that?! Looking back at WandaVision, all I see are a bunch of missed opportunities. Instead of using the series to introduce the X-Men, they just turned it into a gag about a guy named Ralph Bohner, which, while objectively hilarious, did not support my fan theory, so the show failed. WandaVision made me look foolish, and all entertainment must support my ego.
I really hope that Marvel learns from the errors they made with WandaVision. We can’t allow studios to enable creators to entrust their audience with emotions and thematic resonance. The whole point of an interconnected superhero universe is to abandon the main plotline as soon as it gets to selling us on the next thing in the interconnected superhero universe. Rather than selling us on Fantastic Four or Doctor Strange 2 or the arrival of mutants—things that we have already been sold on and will watch no matter what—WandaVision was about feelings and characters and that’s just unacceptable. I do not watch superhero movies and shows to think and feel. I watch them so that my fandom is affirmed, and being a fan means always looking ahead to the next thing rather than spending time in the present. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to start theorizing about when we can expect Chris Evans to make a cameo in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
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Renner is a train wreck. They should have done everyone a favor and killed Hawkeye instead of Widow in Endgame and we wouldn't have to deal with him anymore.
Having said that, his attempt to start a music career is one of the funniest things of the last decade, possibly topped only by the story of the Jeremy Renner app fiasco.
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I'll give you a new spec book for free, just remember if you start hyping this up on ebay, I get a cut.
There was an evil Vision from another part of the Multiverse who took the Vision's place for a while. He first appeared in Avengers #359.
Here's a panel from his storyline
You heard it here first: the big villain of Phase 5 is actually going to Proctor and the Gatherers!
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Yeah, I was going to say basically the same thing. The insane surge in prices in some other books has left Avengers #1 looking like a bargain in comparison, both to speculators/investors and collectors. Prices on Avengers #1 in lower grade seem to have jumped suddenly in the last month by as much as 50%. but honestly, compared to prices on similar grade X-Men #1, it still seems cheap - X-Men #1 is the more important book for sure, but when it's 4-5 times as much, Avengers #1 really looks like a bargain. It wouldn't surprise me if Avengers #1 saw even more sudden growth in the next month or two. Just a guess.
It's all insane to me, but it seems like the way things are, at least for now.