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Morganmi: Again, that lot had already sold. Thanks again!

Huge thank to @crassus for doing the yeoman's work on this. Evening Recap (with links) Great and generous donations still available, many thanks to everyone for helping out and having a look If I have made any errors please PM me or tag me in thread Unless otherwise specified, Donations marked "shipped" assume US only, but for outside of US please carefully consult the listing and the seller for shipping Sellers please as items are taken please mark the items sold and most of all thank you to everyone for your caring and generousity PAGE 1 Haunt of Horror, Savage Tales and Creepy Magazines 3 book lot grades 7.0 to 9.0 $38.00 PAGE 2 Huge 37 book lot, incl a CGC slab, plus bonus books, big variety of titles $120.00 Now $100.00 shipped or Bay Area drop off Bonanza nn (the Dell 1, 1962), 7.0-7.5ish; pressable features, Michael Landon loves Jimbo too! $150.00 plus shipping X-Men 317 CGC 9.8 White $75.00 Now $60.00 shipped US only Page 3 CGC 3 books, Aliens vs Predator 3 9.8 W, Marvel Collectibles Classic: X-Men 2 9.8 W, Free Comic Book Day 2007 1 9.6W $100.00/$100.00/$50.00 respectively, shipping incl worldwide (Any reasonable offer will be accepted) 2 CGC copies of Batman Beyond Special Edition #nn both 9.8s W $200.00/each Now $175.00/each shipping incl US only My Own Romance 66. Colletta cover. Good "What can a girl do..when a girl is lonely"? You find out! $50.00 Now $40.00 PAGE 4 mattn792's Disney World Dopey Challenge Marathon pledge drive! Here's a Boardie actually in shape and running a Marathon for Jimbo, please pledge what you can, all proceeds to Jimbo! click here for details MyComicShop offer to accept consignments for Jimbo, all proceeds to Jimbo, please PM MyComicShop for details PAGE 6 Georgie Comics 25, CGC 3.0. CR-OW Awesome Timely/Marvel Dribben painted cover! Front cover presents much better than the grade! $250.00 shipped PAGE 7 Superman. George Lowthar, 1942. Reader copy. No dust jacket. Nice color/black and white illustrations $50.00 shipped, international please inquire Flash 118 Good scarce 10 center $45.00 shipped PAGE 8 Creepy 51 Warren Pub. NM- Glossy OW/W pages $70.00 shipped, incl Vampirella 16 free with purchase PAGE 11 Our Army At War #276 CGC 9.0 White Kubert and Kanigher $65.00 Now $50.00 shipped US only Amazing Spider-Man #86 CGC 9.4 OW/W $975.00 shipping incl US, elsewhere at cost PAGE 14 Batman 193, Secret Wars 1, and X-Factor 1, all VF/NM 3 book lot together for $199.00 shipped US and Canada Afterlife with Archie 1 CGC 9.8 W SS New York Comic Con Edition (signed by Roberto Aguire-Sacasa & Francesco Francavilla) $150.00 shipped Sealed Star Wars archive and MOC TVC Yoda $40.00 shipped US only Uncanny X-Men 268 CGC 9.8 W $225.00 shipped US only Epic Fantasy Monster lot of 7 $40.00 shipped US and Canada PAGE 16 CGC SS 9.8 The Marvels Project #1 Shang Chi Sketch by Paul Gulacy $250.00 shipped US and Canada only CGC SS NG Blackest Night #0 Firestorm Sketch by Al Milgrom Al Milgrom was the artist who co-created Firestorm with Gerry Conway as the writer $300.00 shipped US and Canada only PAGE 17 Amazing Spider-Man #87 CGC 9.4 OW/W $425.00 shipped in US, elsewhere at cost Amazing Spider-Man #94 CGC 9.4 OW/W $375.00 shipped in US, elsewhere at cost PAGE 18 Joe Jusko 16 book lot, incl Wolverine, Kingpin, Thor and others $40.00 shipped in US Page 20 The Atom Lot Includes #2 (G), #3 (G+), #4 (F), #5 (G), #6 (VG-), #8 (G), #9 (F-), #10 (VG) - $100 shipped in continental US Hawkman Lot includes #2 (VG-), #3 (VG-), #5 (G), #6 (F-), #7 (VG+), #8 (G+), #9 (F-), #10 (VG) - $90 shipped in continental US Twelve Days of Socks, DC set - $15 shipped in Continental US

Morganmi: Many thanks for the generous take it, however that offer was already claimed earlier today. I will do a roundup of what the current status is of all offers in a little bit.

Isn't the easier option that its a fake slab? The only way to tell if the book is a mark jewler's is to open it. No way is CGC just believing some random phone caller saying "Hey I bought this book and it's supposed to be a mark jeweler. I'm gonna send it for a reholder" and CGC go, o sorry about that. 1) Its not the same submitter so CGC wouldn't fix it for them. 2) CGC would have to crack the book entirely. They claim to always regrade when the inner well is opened. For me, the smarter scam is for someone to go on CGC's census, find a cert number, and use it on a fake label. So that when someone runs the cert it comes back as valid.

$851.49

Don't pay for it. Best Buy gives out 3 month free trials all the time.

you left out a few: All of the 2023 revenue for Avatar 2, at least $260,000,000 domestically at least for that, plus a huge chunk of that 1.6 billion international as well. The Creator Everything Searchlight put out this year.

Killers is not on streaming and it was not a limited release. it just today became available for rental/purchase nearly 2 months after release. It's also not a Netflix movie, it's Apple TV+, with a streaming date not yet released. It's not a good movie (I saw it in theaters and was one of the few who didn't need a break). Netflix owned the rights to the Irishman and never intended it to be a box office draw, it was only released theatrically to qualify for the Oscars. Apple partnered with Paramount to have a strong theatrical run, which it didn't.

The vast majority of movies are flopping. For every good play, you have 5 bad. Barbie, Oppenheimer, five nights at Freddie's, Taylor Swift are you "Outperforms". (I left out Sound of Freedom because that was basically a gofundme operation). But even your established "Action Hero" films did not play well. MI Dead Reckoning did most of its money overseas, and didn't even do 2x its Production Budget. Fast X (Which is ostensibly a mecha film, kinda like Gundam etc.) did roughly 2.1x its production budget, with 80% of its revenue coming from overseas. John Wick #4 did ok, but worse than #3. Most of the money was in Kids movies (TMNT, Super Mario Brothers, Spider-Man Across the Spider-verse) Even super films weren't adverse to this. Scorsese bombed tremendously with Killers of the flower moon $154 million global box against a $200 million budget. Easily one of his worst performing films, especially if it doesn't do well in the Oscars (which it is not looking likely).

I wouldn't even say majority groups. Rather it was just aligned with societies popular views (just in the same way that the messages in today's movies and films align with today's popular messages.) Which is also why Disney and others hide older movies and shows because THOSE items also contained messages that were popular at the time, but are no longer the popular view. Looking at you Song of the South (Zippity do dah), The Aristocrats (The siamese cat), Fantasia (They literally removed Sunflower because... yea).

That is YOUR personal definition of a "traditional" lifestyle. The problem is that the general discussion that is going on right now in society about "Tradwives" is not that at all. It espouses the idea that women should concentrate only on birthing children, raising them, cleaning the house, and being utterly subservient to their husband in ALL matters. This is an entire movement, including TikTok influencers pushing it etc. And when you start to peel back the layers on it, that movement then gets into some really creepy places (including a TON of white supremacy). Your personal definition doesn't match what societies currently is. You're describing a one-income family. Hey, if you can have that, congratulations! that is great.

No clue. Depends on the relationship. There are plenty of partners where they are equal. And there are plenty of people who will say "I bring home the money, I make the decisions".

Because one partner deciding to not work and raise the children (theoretically till they reach school age and aren't home during the day) is just deciding to not pay for child care. My good friend (who is a dentist) jokes that her husband's entire paycheck is basically just to cover their kids childcare (which runs little over $3,000 a month) and that once their youngest is in full time school they are gonna do the happy dance with all that extra cash. The "trad" lifestyle portrayed and lamented about being gone is one where the wife is subservient to the husband, not one where the wife (or the husband) is a stay at home partner but equal in all other regards.

The problem is you assume your observations are representative of every person out there. Do some women wish to live "trad" lives? Absolutely. Do most? Almost assuredly not. I speak to hundreds of different women on a weekly basis. Not one of them wants to live a traditional role. They want to be CEOs, entrepreneurs, etc. And what "role" do these women want? Do they want to be a stay at home wife raising children with no say in any decision making? Or do they want to be a trophy wife/sugar baby? Two VERY different things, but both could be considered "traditional" in that the wife doesn't work while the husband is the breadwinner.

What weights did you use? For instance, in 2022 I have Disney's total global box office at $3.814 billion. This number isn't exact. Why? Because there are holdovers (i.e. movies released in 2021 that had revenue in 2022) which is hard to attribute exactly how much globally each week without wanting to pull my hair out getting these numbers. Disney 10K reported theatrical revenue (meaning what they actually RECEIVED from the theaters at $1,875,000,000. Meaning overall, Disney received close to 50% (49.16%) of global theater revenue in 2022.

Just depends on what cultural concept was "popular" at the time. Apparently in the 1940s asians were half human half snake and African Americans had lips that would make a Kardashian say "naw thats a bit much".

Profitability per year: 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 $4,216 $7295 $8717 $8330 $11,237 $11,001 $12,423 You can see the massive drop off when the Netflix deal ends (2019). And then the ramp up of streaming causes more and more losses. The reason I use revenue instead of profitability is because revenue corresponds with popularity and use. Profitability doesn't.

The stock was and is overpriced. THAT is the reason why the stock price has plummeted, as people have gotten off the hype bandwagon. Look at the P/E number, that is INSANELY high. A good P/E is somewhere between 10 and 20. 70 is basically speculation levels. Investors went NUTS with streaming in 2018, figuring any company involved in streaming was TO THE MOON. Wheels fell off that particular hope factory though.

"Art Form" means what exactly? Was Iron Man an academy award winner? What about Pirates of the Caribbean? You can make the argument that Disney "ruined" Pixar, but not because of "messaging", but because they basically commoditized the heck out of it (LETS MAKE 30 SEQUELS, Toy Story TO THE MOON). Disney was never known for its amazing storytelling. They made beautiful animation and spectacles. They're media McDonalds, churn out blah tasting meals that SELL (as opposed to the high end boutique burger places). Here's the thing, Igor isn't backtracking anything. He's playing PR clean up to try to help the stock, because the narrative of people SAYING they're hurting is the issue. At the end of the day the "messaging" hasn't hurt Disney's revenue in the least bit. Their media business is making more money than ever. 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 $55,040 $50,866 $54,996 $45,340 $39,138 $36,722 $38,658

Where did you get your BO to WB/DIS from? The typical split in most countries (not China) is 55% to the distributor, which would put it closer to $250+ for Antman for instance.

Who has said that Disney wasn't putting messages into its films? You've been pilloried because you've acted as if it's a massive conspiracy theory. From its first full length film Disney has been including "messages" in its storytelling. The original Disney films were fables (you know, the thing that tells a succulent story that LEADS TO a moral lesson. You know, messaging. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Vanity will not take you far, kindness will). Sleeping Beauty (True Love conquers all), Pinnocio (Don't tell lies, I mean if you missed the moral here it was literally beaten into you). Even the article mentions this. It also mentions what the real issue is "[Igor] believes the company’s storytelling has suffered as the company has increased the number of movies it’s made for both Disney+ and theatrical release."

Pete is definitely not going to be traveling for an appearance. Portsmouth and Granite are the two most likely contenders and even then I can assure you, it's a day of decision. He literally texted Dee the morning of when he came to Granite last year.

Honestly, this is one of my favorite shows. It's small, mostly Turtles oriented, and technically held in a hotel. Since I'm booked there it makes it super convenient. Need a break? go up to my room and chill. Same if I want to drop off something I bought. So far we have Kevin, Sarah Myer, and Johnny Yong Bosch.

Already booked my hotel and got my Cowabunga VIP pass

This is very disconcerting. It looks like the page was completely disassembled and then put back together. I don't think the Huntress image is the original. Look at the HA one. You can see the trees on the stet. It's semiopaque (or the art is drawn on it). Then look at the Donelly special. The box is solid white and straight (this one is at an angle). Trees are gone. The blue pencil 17 is gone. The whited out lines are added back in, along with the ephemera. I almost wonder if the board was cut up and pasted onto a new piece of Bristol board. Most concerning is the browning. Normal to happen with glue over time... not in less than 2 years. I wonder if this is an attempt to age it and make it look older. I wouldn't pay $250 for Dino's piece. Jesus.