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Take BOTH Strange Tales #110 & FF #52 per PM. thank you -

I am not sure where to begin with this open-question but it begs questions first - such as: 1) what is your budget each month or are you just looking for a few books only? 2) What is your collecting niche? 3) are you collecting for your own personal collection or are you planning on speculating, investing and-or flipping books? 4) do you really understand GPA and how it is but one-spoke in the valuation-wheel of comics and certainly shouldn't be the end-all? 5) Do you understand price-compression and market manipulation in comics and how GPA is often wrong if not manipulated at times? 6) Finally markets are typically about perception and comics are no different and no one can definitively answer your question here, thus observing, understanding, being perceptive and ultimately intuition are your best tools in your bat-belt etc etc etc - my 2-cents

With super duper common keys like DD168 - you will always find prices all over the place - it also called compression. The reasons are honestly quite obvious such as with copies constantly popping up for sale almost every day if not hour - you have buyers, who don't do any research, never heard of GPA - let alone don't care - and they pay the asking price and are happy. For an observer if not haunter of the market place, who sits and waits like a vulture to leap on a great price - it can be frustrating if not confusing. my 2-cents. “When enough people believe that prices will keep rising forever, a bubble starts.”― Naved Abdali

WONDER WOMAN 1984 was painful to watch - like having teeth pulled without the gas. 50 minutes into it - I had a knee-jerk reaction to save my brain cells and turn it off. Since the 1st one with Gal was wonderful and remains one of the best hero movies IMO - I had my expectations quite high for the next movie of hers. WW84 remains an insulting piece of trash - I blame it on the -script and plot, which was written as if in a coma. my 2-cents.

Fools and their money - or plain greed where common sense goes flying out the window...

Not my top 3 or 4 in 2021 - but 4 books that make me smile for various reasons... each book hits a different area / appeal in my collecting needs... the MRA50 is a classic in the genre and one of my favorites... the DC Key was and remains a childhood favorite with a scarcity too boot when compared to Marvel keys and the Luke Cage is common in lower grades, which makes this 9.2 a small treasure to own (plus a great 70s cover).... p.s. I am cheating - I forgot to add another - 4th book - I love from 2021 that encompasses part of my diversity in what I consider worth collecting

Tales of Suspense #57 per PM -

and no disrespect to those who collect moderns but I find them as foreign and unattractive as I do stamps. To combine threads will feel like sorting through and throwing out junk mail.

Take Conan 1 per pm 👀

Conan #1 6.5/7.0 per PM

A nice presenting 3.5 with a slight lean up perhaps - here is 3.5 on HA, which you can use as a rough comparison https://comics.ha.com/itm/silver-age-1956-1969-/showcase-14-the-flash-dc-1958-cgc-vg-35-off-white-pages/a/122143-17725.s?ic4=ListView-Thumbnail-071515

Likewise you have effectively conveyed if not taken it upon yourself to reinforce the opposite. I was just adding balance to the force young Padawan.

No trap here. I am a critic, who loved the Herbert novel and hoped for something wonderful out of this movie. I am happy others found joy in seeing this slog but I do know there is a strong minority, who found it very lacking on many levels. It is not a matter of good times or bad times but a matter of being entertained, which I was not. If it was truly trash I would have turned it off mid-point but I valiantly watched to the silly end.

So what. IMO this movie was a huge disappointment despite these stats, which to me only point to viewership success not critical success.

Funny you should say a mini-series. Perhaps if the book went the way of GOT it would have been a classic to watch 'as is' the book is too dense for a successful movie IMO.

Gladiator for example had me caring deeply about the characters and their individual deaths as did the Godfather, the Soprano series and numerous other movies I loved and dived into ... but for the reasons I have touched upon I felt zero pathos for Duncan and his death. The movie simply did not move me on any positive emotional level - it was a slow dull trod through a hot desert (no pun intended).

I am sure we both have an overlap in our love of certain films as I agree Ridley Scott in an immense talent. Perhaps I was too harsh in my initial assessment or maybe (most certainly) I had a higher bar of expectations. I tend to always like sci-fi - futuristic films that can engage me or challenge me on a certain deep level whereas action films can be more of the bloody spectacle. This latest iteration of Dune was a visual feast no doubt but I found I had zero feeling-connection for any of the characters and the whole film felt like a long drum roll that lead to a false start in the end - it left me empty.

I respect you very much but here we must disagree if not totally diverge in opinion. We each clearly saw a different movie. Mine was plodding, dull, soulless, uninspired and all shine with no substance - like fools' gold - in the end it was worthless to me.

Per PM add both the DC Comics Presents & Jimmy Olsen 134 raws & thank you

I stand with you in your opinion. Waste of my time. I would have been better off re-reading Herbert's book. A lot of shine and a lot of flash but zero substance. Overly melodramatic, dull, lifeless with no true focus or character development. Undeniably great cinematography with a stellar cast but that does not compensate for a hollow soulless slow movie. I think many viewers from the current short-attention span generation are easily confusing surface with substance in their reviews. My 2 cents.

TAKE the GL LOT

Take GL87

Posting your book as you have here now with honest and earnest questions on restoration and a resulting value is like shooting for fish in a fast-moving river with a toy bow and arrow out of a canoe. Your best bet for some real solid and quick answers is this - send the book to CGC for grading. It should come back a restored purple label plus you will have the grader's notes. Then send it to Heritage Auction, where you hopefully will get a nice final hammer price (assuming you are looking to sell it and maximize value on it). I love H.A. for books like this. This is a real plan of action that gets you answers instead of vague responses from the peanut gallery here. My 2-cents.

On a scale of 1 to 10 - Mystafo gets an 11. Easy to transact with. Super-fast and very secure shipping of a raw golden age book, which I am VERY happy with. Thank you again.