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New Avengers (2013) #8 - Infinity War buzzzzzzzz http://www.ebay.com/sch/Collectibles/1/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=new avengers 8 black order&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc&_trksid=p2045573.m1684

Yes it is. Check the registry. My set is the top and I'm only missing 3 books to complete a 9.8 collection and the regular version of #1 isn't one of them

I'd love to be at this age and read that glorious CM run for the very first time. I envy the experience you're going to have

Anyone else think that Starlin had an Aryan fetish? All 3 of his most associated characters are blonde, and he made Mar-Vell from gray to blonde. Just a thought

I feel that O'neil & Adams' GL/GA run still hold up quite well as does Adams' Strange Adventures Deadman series. Of course, Starlin's Warlock is on a whole different level. It's funny when you look at the end of the original X-Men series, the artists back to back were Steranko, Smith and Adams, 3 giants in a row then the book went to all reprints. Crazy

Sorry man. I have the same amount of copies of 180 and 181 so it's not like I'm pushing the 181, I just want accuracy. Starlin's Warlock was one of my favorite runs when I was a kid though I didn't get what was going on (I was 6 or 7), understood it more in high school, really appreciated it in my 20's and 30's, and now that I'm closing in on 50 it's still like nothing else from that era (Starlin's CM excepted, of course)

Nothing against Snyder or Jock because they're both fantastic at what they do, but this is one of those "the band split up so let's do an album of unreleased demo tracks" thing

"The market has spoken" meaning flippers who never read the book? Then I would have to agree with you

Been saying that for a few years. It's one of those "Official Handbook Of The Marvel Universe" things, like how Hulk #180 was listed as Wolverine's 1st appearance. Gamora was such a minor character for over 30 years (and dead for half of those years), that nobody except for die hard Warlock fans such as myself bothered to notice that 181 was her 1st full appearance

Tom King probably could've done a great FF series. The Vision was only a taste of what he could do, a brilliant taste at that

Ok there's one, I was trying to think 80's and 90's since nothing came to mind from 2000's and up and drew a complete blank. Although Darkhawk is in the C-list of characters, well until he ends up in a GOTG movie. To reply to MadGenius, Runaways is a good one with a few series which lasted for a bit. I don't know successful Alias was when it came out since it only ran for under 3 years. Fantomex was a good character, though not introduced in his own book, but it seems like only Remender could write him properly. Outside of that brilliant run on Uncanny X-Force, Fantomex didn't stand out as anyone special which is a shame

Who was the last new Marvel character to have a successful ongoing series where they were introduced in their own book. By "new" I mean original character. Not a reboot, rename, relaunch, gender swap, race swap, son of whoever, daughter of whoever, spoof of whoever, alternate universe version of whoever. I honestly can't think of one since ROM. The house of ideas is fresh out of fresh ideas

One of my (many) problems with Marvel over the last 10-20 years, and it's really been overblown in the last few years, is the amount of books per team title, whether it's X-Men or Avengers. Amazing, Uncanny, Astonishing, New, All-New Occupy, yada yada. Hey Zeus, just pick one, stick with it and make it the only focus of the team of characters. I'm dating myself here but back in the late 1970's when KISS was the ultimate rock supergroup and they did solo albums, only 1 of the 4 was worth listening to (Ace Frehley's, of course) and the analogy could be made with Marvel's "efforts" where instead of doing several X-Men or Avengers team books that are just ok or subpar, they should focus on 1 of each that is amazeballs

Marvel has a very long way to go before I'm back buying several titles a month again, Moon Knight is my only one at the moment. The Vision series was exceptional and different, separated from the current Marvel whatever it is they're doing schlock and if they're smart (doubt it) they'll try something as off the wall with another B-lister. It costs the same money as new issues, sometimes less, to grab random 70's Marvels from the back issue bins to read without having to feel like a writer's snide tweets are making it to the pages (Spencer, Latour ahem). One thing from the article above is spot on, and it's what I've been saying for a while is, that the current crop of Marvel & Image writers like much of the entertainment industry believe that the country as a whole thinks as they do. They can view the November results as a wakeup call or retreat further inside of their isolated bubble. The bottom line is the bottom line and it's apparent that they are alienating more customers than they're winning over, otherwise we wouldn't be seeing such a drastic change of pace

Like Harley Quinn, Catwoman and Poison and Ivy before Gotham City Sirens #1?

This is what happens when you take a dump on the people who buy your product http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nowhere-Men-1-Image-Comics-CGC-9-8-11-12-White-Pages-0206866003-/162314046012?hash=item25caabca3c:g:8nAAAOSwkoNTzclz

What. A. Effin. Awesome. Issue!!! Icing on the cake, my variant pair I pre-ordered from the LCS for $80 are definite 9.8's

Dead on with the "where are they now" artists list. When I first started seriously collecting in the early 1980's BWS was one of the kings of the high priced back issue bins along with Neal Adams. Still to this day Smith's run on Conan is one of the most beautiful (and modern collector $$$ speaking under appreciated) works of art that Marvel had ever put out. The oversized Marvel Treasury Editions from the 70's with BWS reprints are worth picking up just to appreciate the art and see it larger than usual

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Batman The Cult would've been a great movie for Nolan had he continued after DK Rises Daredevil Born Again on Netflix if they hadn't killed off Ben Urich in Season 1. I know it's Bronze Age, but I would have loved to see how Steve Gerber would have ended the Omega The Unknown story instead of the clusterf***k that was in Defenders

Never mind that there's 130 copies currently listed, the condition on the majority of them won't even get an 8 grade. As for slabbed copies, I would wager that the bulk of the 94.-9.8's are in permanent collections. It's a cult favorite run, pending movie appearance or not NM-MT 9.8 = 17 NM+ 9.6 = 78 NM 9.4 = 79

Todd The Ugliest Kid On Earth Lenore Hate (Peter Bagge)

Maybe it's just me but I fail to see why. It's a $1 starting bid so it's not like the seller set the price. Someone intentionally leaked the bad issues and they were marketed as a collectible, more or less. The comic is not out yet, so it's not like someone found them on the shelves. Still not seeing it... Aren't ratio variants, convention and retailer exclusives pretty much marketed as collectibles, too? Those are intentional and known. These are unintentional and are typically discarded. What's to stop publishers from intentionally making "errors"? Then maybe reserve the pitchforks for when it happens again. Uh, it just did. That's the whole point. Errors get destroyed by the publisher, right? Well this publisher is selling them on eBay and calling them special editions. The seller is the publisher / co writer. I remember a Wytches exclusive variant error where the copies weren't destroyed and were being sold as rare collectibles by the person who ran the variant program. Glass houses, eh? The copies weren't destroyed? Go on, I'm listening. http://www.recalledcomics.com/Wytches4EhRecalledVariant.php Thank you for proving my point that 930 copies were destroyed. When was the recall announced? After the sale date? I understand you guys are upset about whatever, but this is the best you can come up with? Still listening to how copies weren't destroyed... "However, it appears that only 69 were sold before it was realised that the issue number on the cover was incorrect" How many were sold at inflated prices after the recall? "The erroneous copies (over 900 of them) did still exist sometime after the recall but were all earmarked for destruction so, in theory, only 80 or so should exist once the rest are confirmed destroyed" If copies were sold after the recall, whether it's 2 copies or 20, by the person who released the book after knowing about the recall and pending destruction, then I've made my point.

Tales To Astonish #53 CGC 7.5 - it was sent to me by mistake, I had won Amazing Adventures #6 Neal Adams Sig Series CGC 8.5. If I have your book and you got mine, PM me please http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tales-To-Astonish-53-CGC-7-5-Porcupine-Origin-OW-W-/162274024040?hash=item25c8491a68%3Ag%3Az8sAAOSwal5YIh-9&nma=true&si=%252FMhgod3bQSSjJJ%252BccEwpEe858Vo%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Someone is asking $550 for a 9.4 copy on ebay. There's 2 9.4's with a $325 BIN on there now, though I'm not crazy about the wrap job on either of them. I don't wanna see any white on the spine for such a classic cover like that. Same goes for Captain Marvel #29