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I'm glad it found a good home, albeit for only a short time ;) GLWTS!

I am actually very surprised you were not familiar with Alan Smithee prior to this considering all the movie stuff you post I started a Smithee collection on my DVD shelf back in college, but I quickly stopped when I realized I would have to buy an a new copy of Bloodlines and Supernova to replace my VHS copies and the money was better spent on other things. The Smithee credit you'll see on lots of TV show episodes (more so than movies). As for Dune, your next experience has to be the 4 hour cut!

The good news is that so far the show looks great, the bad news is don't assume we are getting the exact comic character as the director has stated “Her power in the comic books is that she can copy anything, any movement, any whatever. It’s kind of lame. I will say, that is not her power.” (also I did totally groan when I saw them use 'lame' as a pejorative in this context... )

That is tough, but for sure nowhere near the high it was selling for last year. No real decent sales data for untrimmed restored copies this year, and not many B1 sales listed either so exact data is out of the question. I'll keep it to examples where both a restored and unrestored copy were sold this year only: A C1 2.5 sold this year for $720 (while the Universal equivalent sold for $1025), and a 3.5 C1 (Staples Replaced ONLY) sold for $840 (and for comparison a Universal 3.5 sold last month for $2175..this shows the restored selling for only 39% of the value) On the trimmed side a 4.5 C1 sold for $1080, while the same universal grade sold for $2200 (and a Universal UK variant sold for $1795 this month) A Universal 5.0 last sold this September for $3400, and the most recent B1 sale was a trimmed 5.0 in April for $2000 (58% difference in value compared to a Universal). I would typically say that is your floor price right there, but the 3.5 sale I mentioned above with very little restoration on it shows how wide the price difference can swing at any moment so I wouldn't be surprised it goes much lower ($1500 maybe) - so who knows!

The boards are not really the place to get price checks, so I'll just say what everyone else might comment; use Ebay Sold if you want a free resource, or pay for a GPA subscription. Also we can't provide a good price estimate anyways because we need more information; what level of restoration is it? What is the PQ (mainly only impacts price if it is Brittle or Slightly Brittle)

This thread got me curious so I decided to crack out a Bronze key today, graded on 08/10/2022, it had a single sheet of micro chamber paper in the centrefold.

I don't think anyone here is under any real illusion about what is 'white'...us proper folk were raised with the OWL card

Are the Batman book the only ones we have eyes on at the moment for this, or has other books been previewed (I'm holding out to pick up some low grade Adventure and More Fun)?

I'm way more interested now that I see there are so many affordable low grade books (0.5 and restored!), a good change to pick some up for chhhheeeeaaapp (except for the buyer’s premium of 25%)

And? It's still associated with a very famous serial killer case. That is all that matters in the greater pop culture scene. I would say ALL crime adjacent memorabilia do not have 'good association' but that is moot to those collecting such things (letters, evidence, signatures etc). I'm just saying this alone makes the pedigree stand out compared to other ones that have a stock 'comic collector' back story to them - that's all, not doing any moralizing on it one way or another.

No, no...you got it wrong. This is just Godzilla in the bathtub playing with his toy boat.

He was not the killer, but it still remains associated with a major serial killer so pretty much everyone will know something already if you simply mention 'green river'.

Counterpoint: Everyone here is looking at this too much from their historic value to the comic community, and should be looking at it from a value from an outsiders desire, specifically general pop culture standpoint if long term value is what you are after (as well as a story that can be explained to basically everyone and won't fundamentally just boil down to 'he collected lots of comics'). To that end, Green River pedigree is one of the tops. Serial killers and the stories surrounding them are big, and always have a following due to new shows & media constantly being revisited, so to have an entire pedigree associated with such a well known case makes it desirable to those who are outside of the comic hobby

I think my copy might need a little more than $200 worth of conservation to get to that from 2.0

That is what I'm assuming the bidders are hoping for, I did something similar two years ago when I bought up this #69 and had it conserved, though that still cost a few hundred bucks to do so and I can't see that #71 going above a 2.5 at most as well (which makes the above sold price still crazy, as at least in my case I bought it for cheap so the cost of conservation was still within budget)

That crackle is so very sweet, and puts this cover up there as perhaps one of the most iconic of the series...and that's saying lots since basically any of the full-helmet Fate covers can be argued to be some of the best of the run.

One thing to note, is that might be a Nova Scotia pedigree...however based on my experience you would have a very tough time convincing CGC to recognize it so hopefully the bidders were not banking on that (I have other More Fun books from this era that have similar 'm' marking on the cover and none of them were recognized by CGC as pedigree even when I asked them to regrade and take another look) once again I find myself super pleased that I bit the bullet and 'settled' for a cheap restored copy three years ago...cost me less than half the price that demolished raw copy sold for today

Ugh, ANOTHER pedigree that is cheapening the entire hobby :P oh the irony ;)

I'm a simple man, and out of this entire new universe/lineup all I want is: 1) The Swamp Thing movie to be decent (They can honestly go in any direction with it. If they want a lighter movie then go full camp like the originals, or serious dark like the TV show which did a great job). I'm just happy to see him on screen again and have him reintroduced into pop-culture. 2) One of the 'unknown' character movies to be a massive bonkers gangbusters success that brings is so much money it makes WB greedy and has them 100% greenlight an Hourman movie, hoping to strike gold twice with a lesser character. Just give me CRANK with a costume and it will be perfect. GIVE ME MY HOURMAN!

He's no Snyder, that's for sure. That's a good thing.

Yes, comicconnect is safe to buy from.

How about big discount? Kastner Auctions Canada. $41k Canadian (~$30k US). Pretty decent price for whoever snagged it - I guess many were not looking for PSA graded books (Though I think that number does NOT include the BP of 17%, so I guess that puts it more in line with the last sale on GPA) edit: I've been told that in this case the BP was actually lowered to just 5%, down from the original 17%. So that would be a much better deal now though I can't find that info to confirm it anywhere on the site so take it with a grain of salt.

That is only the first Valiant appearance, Four Color #596 is the original 1st appearance.