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Yeah! It had Darrin Morgan written all over it! Man I must be getting further and further out of touch, but as a fan who saw every single Original X-Files, I thought episode 3 sucked the big one IMHO. I thought virtually every aspect of it sucked, the ultra cheesy monster costume, the laughable plot and acting, the overall silliness,etc... I was embarrassed to have been watching it and if the remaining three episodes follow suit will be glad it will be done in 6 episodes. I agree that episode three was weak. You laughed quite a bit? That's the problem. The original series was not a comedy! It was a genuinely creepy show—downright frightening at times, in fact. You turned the lights out to watch it, and then you slept with the lights on afterwards. I always preferred the monster-of-the-week episodes to the conspiracy episodes, but the stand-alone episodes were much darker back in the day. This one felt like a parody, not a legit X-Files episode. I did enjoy the first two recent episodes (although I wouldn't rate either all that highly compared to the classic episodes), so I hope the remaining three episode are a lot more like those two.

mods notified hehe It is actually Mr Evans fault, he introduced me to the Mars Attack series back in the late 1980s. You don't like dogs much, do you?

I posted this before, but I just had it CGC'd. It was previously in a slab from a different company.

That looks like Kelly to me!

I already posted this one in the Four Color Thread, but here it is again. Four Color 102 (Oswald the Rabbit) features one page of Kelly art, and I think this MIGHT be the page, but I'm not sure.

That's too much of a generalization. Some GA books (like funny animal—including Disney) sell for way below guide. Books with classic covers seem to be undervalued (generally). Books can get hot and cold, but the guide seems to be fairly reliable over the long term. I'm glad that Overstreet doesn't respond to temporary changes (like movie hype). It wouldn't be as useful to me if it did. I'm not interested in paying the going price for a hot book; I'd rather wait until the book cools off. Overstreet lets me know the true long-term value (more or less—like I implied, I do adjust for certain things like genre and cover quality).

Nice, fresh-looking copy! I'm no expert, but I can't spot the restoration (if anything was done to the front cover).

Those Dell painted covers are great, especially the outer space or sci-fi covers.

Either-or fallacy alert: Either you believe in evolution...or you do not have critical thinking skills. Baloney. Also, you might think we all know or agree on what "critical thinking skills" are, but I'd be willing to bet a bunch of us have different or at least somewhat varying ideas. But let's assume we're all on the same page, definition-wise....Sure, some Americans who do not believe in evolution have little to no critical thinking skills. But it's folly to think those who do believe in evolution are somehow superior and immune from blind spots when it comes to critical thinking. As Americans or anybody else, I don't think we should be embarrassed by what many of our fellow countrymen think. I'd be more curious as to how they--individually--arrived at their conclusions. (For what it's worth, the late Timothy Leary, who loathed traditional religion and its implications, STILL thought evolution was baloney. And I doubt he was alone.) Saying that you don't believe in evolution is like saying that you don't believe the earth orbits the sun. Things that have been scientifically proven are not fair game for any intelligent person to choose not to believe in. (We've even witnessed evolution natural selection occurring in species with short life cycles.) Accepting evolution is all about the scientific evidence, which is overwhelming--far above the bar that we normally call "proof." Disdain for traditional religion has nothing to do with it, so Timothy Leary's opinion isn't particularly germane. As for wanting to know how people arrived at their conclusions, I've heard some of the explanations: they're all about the same and don't include any grasp of how science works.

I just finished reading The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. It was a decent read, but the 1920s silent movie was better than the book. Before that, I read The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins. Incredibly, 42% of Americans still don't accept evolution, which basically means 42% of Americans have no critical thinking skills. It almost makes me embarrassed to call myself an American.

Glad to hear that you're back in the swing of things!

Awesome copy! One of my two favorite covers from that run.

I think Santa got into the eggnog.

I've never bought a book to flip it. In fact, I often like off-the-wall books that are likely to go down in value. (It seems like only keys and main-stream titles really appreciate much when inflation is factored in.) I don't mind spending money on a hobby I enjoy, but I do consider comic book purchases an expense, not an investment.

When I was about four or five, my mother let me get a Thor comic and a Sad Sack comic from a party store. Even though I was able to read at that age, I could not understand what was going on in the Thor comic at all; it seemed really bizarre. I wish I could remember which issue it was, but I don't remember anything about it. I did not save either issue, but I believe that was my first foray into the world of comic books.

It only takes two collectors trying to build runs at the same time to cause a price spike on GA material. I think my favorite issue is #17; I almost went after the 5.0 that sold on Heritage last year. It's not something I'd want to pay much over guide for, though, and it went for almost $500, which was more than 2X guide. http://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/superhero/prize-comics-17-prize-1941-cgc-vg-fn-50-off-white-to-white-pages/a/7093-91223.s?ic4=OtherResults-SampleItem-071515 Another title that I like that's been selling high lately is Lightning Comics. I really wanted the V2#1 that sold on HA this summer, but it went for $900—5 times guide! I was watching it right up till the end, but I couldn't justify paying that kind of money for it. I'd have gone double guide without a second thought.

There have always been "run" builders and likely always will. That said, demand in some venues is down. But across the board, prices still seem stable or even stronger in some titles , while others do seem to have softened and continue to soften Bronze keys are "hot" now and still have plenty of movie/tv speculative growth , but will cool at some point too I suspect I agree; I just don't have a good feel for the time-frame. I have limited interest in Bronze, but I would like to build a run of the Neal Adams Bat & Tec covers (for reasons of nostalgia, mainly—I collected those as a kid but unloaded the ones I had decades ago). good news is the Adams books are not so reliant on any movie or speculative news...just on "cool" factor

There have always been "run" builders and likely always will. That said, demand in some venues is down. But across the board, prices still seem stable or even stronger in some titles , while others do seem to have softened and continue to soften Bronze keys are "hot" now and still have plenty of movie/tv speculative growth , but will cool at some point too I suspect I agree; I just don't have a good feel for the time-frame. I have limited interest in Bronze, but I would like to build a run of the Neal Adams Bat & Tec covers (for reasons of nostalgia, mainly—I collected those as a kid but unloaded the ones I had decades ago).

This might be my only crime comic; I don't really collect crime, but I bought this one because of the horror-esque cover.

That's great!

That view might annoy some, but I think there's some truth to it, at least when it comes to Schomburg's later work. I'd rank his early pulp-like covers very high, but many of his later Timely covers start to look alike. MM#46 is a notable exception. His Better/Nedor covers did not receive the same level of attention to detail; most of those are mediocre compared to his Timely work. I think I'd classify those as "pot-boilers."

Comics cannot legally be sent via media mail if they contain paid advertising. Some people may do it, but it's illegal. Some independent comics or fanzines may not contain any paid advertisements; those books could be sent via media mail. That a simple matter of USPS regulations. (I used to work as a letter carrier.) I had no idea there was even a dispute about that topic; the regs are very clear.

Maybe my response wasn't clear, but I intended to vote for the 1.8.

To me, a brittle book has no value whatsoever, so it's a no-brainer.

First discovery of a submerged corpse cover? First leprechaun inside a tuba cover?