Juno Beach

Putting your most valuable comics in something like this seems like a bad idea. Too many unknowns. 

On 1/10/2024 at 11:28 AM, Beige said:

I must have missed this - what Powers?

Some sort of ancient spiral patterns on her glowing hands. 

I got bored and stopped watching. 

Very much a John Wick type hero. Good fights, good action. Unbelievable? Well, yeah but I enjoyed it. I enjoyed who he was killing, great antagonists. 

I moved from coast to coast with a collection probably the same size as you, all long boxes at that time. Used Allied movers and had no problems. No idea of cost since it was a military move and the government picked up the tab

Just saw it on Disney+ for free and I wish I had the tablet to get my time back. The opening was good and nostalgic and the end (minus the last 10 minutes of schmaltz) was neat but on a whole it was a slog to get through. It was way too long. What was the plot, actually? The god-daughter's motivations were confusing for me. If this is wrong please someone explain -

There's about a dozen other things wrong but that's all I can think of after just one watch and no rewatch will happen. 

I know, nitpicks and tldr but I had to vent. 

Still my favourite ongoing comic and cannot wait for the next issue

Quite a few have increased in value but more probably have not. 

Love this Hughes cover for Sirens #1 NYCC

On 10/26/2023 at 3:47 PM, mrwoogieman said:

As someone who buys more modern newsies than most, i have no problem admitting that there are people who are trying to generate interest in what would otherwise be worthless books by simply focusing on the fact that they are newsstand editions. 
 

If it were solely grass roots collectors driving the modern newsie market because of rarity or collectibility of the books, there would have to be a corresponding burgeoning market for early direct editions from the 70s for the same reasons. And yet, no one talks about premiums for directs from that era.

And I think the reason for that is that the hype-sters don’t have access to those direct editions at friendly price points like they do for moderns. The classic hype what you have to sell. 
 

 

 

 

Yup. I've always found it strange that there is zero talk about those early direct market comics. In theory they should be just as rare as late era newsstands, no?

On 10/12/2023 at 9:32 PM, pmpknface said:

Just back from CGC.  I'll be getting the other Marvel variants that I have graded soon too...

 

 

On 10/3/2023 at 3:13 PM, Dr. Balls said:

I could have swore this would have pegged a 9.8, which is why I sent it in. Not a bend, tick, fingernail impression, blunted corner - nothing :

Last 9.8 sale: $22

That makes my 9.6 worthless in every sense of the word. $35 or whatever to grade, shipping costs, the cost of the book to begin with ($10) and initial shipping ($6).  I just wanted this as a 9.8 on my bookshelf, because I felt a 9.6 was pretty much worthless. Irony.

When Taylor Swift turns into Zombie Dazzler and starts dancing in Deadpool 3 you will be a very rich man.

Note: I just made this up so do not quit your day job. 

On 10/2/2023 at 8:47 AM, thehumantorch said:

Why did you delete most of your posts?  Isn't it time to triple down?

You would think somebody with 30 years of online experience would know that it's useless to delete a post after it's been quoted by someone else.

, I might have to go through my entire collection looking for coffee. 

Every Halloween I get about 300 kids at my door. A very high percentage of them are wearing superhero costumes, Spidey being number one. Sad that they don't seem to want to read about them. I plan on handing out comics this year, hopefully it will stimulate interest.

On 9/26/2023 at 12:30 PM, D2 said:

Some member, can’t acknowledge the company that brought people together.

I always find myself defending CGC on these boards from a vocal minority that feel compelled to trash the company and their decisions on virtually all threads.

It’s sad to see how a company goes out of its way to create and monitor a message board, specifically to help create a community, only to help develop a vocal minority constantly hack and trash them with their toxic attitudes.

 

 

Do you not see the irony here? The OP was complaining about a CGC policy and you took his side against the very company you say you defend. 

On 9/26/2023 at 9:43 AM, ADAMANTIUM said:

True enough, but I haven't seen the "vault" term used in much advertising, as opposed to "limited edition labels.".

I could be reading it wrong. I don't really keep up with them. I've bought them, as it was what was affordable though 😂

Disney is the only other company that I can think of that used the term "vault". They experienced the same complaints when they re-released videos from the vault decades later. Some people thought vault meant retired permanently, I guess. 

I think the problem is somebody doesn't understand what a vault is. They can be locked then opened again...

On 9/14/2023 at 6:16 PM, justafan said:

https://www.comicsbeat.com/nearly-50-of-the-comic-book-market-consists-of-variant-covers/

Yeah. The fatigue is real. In a few years there will be a glut of worthless variants. Actually there already is but it'll be even worse. 

Are you saying there will be a glut of just worthless variants? What about the regular covers? They will hold their value?

Just watched this. So much gory over the top fun. Definitely worth a watch

Saw it with the wife. Both thought it was good, not great. Audience was about 90% women.