Roger66

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.

IF I have to be utterly bored for an hour at least to get to the 'reveal' at the end - the reveal ain't worth it in my book

My skinny on the movie, which I watched on HBO Max is as follows: After 1 hour I turned it off. It was boring. IF I knew nothing of the Sopranos and just watched this as a stand-alone movie, I would have turned it off after an hour or less too. This movie, despite trying hard to, added nothing to the great lore of the SOPRANOs and felt more of a let's pull on the heart-strings of those who loved the series by explaining if not reminding the viewer of particular character traits of certain characters than of a plot driven, character study - which it was def. not. It felt pandering, pointless and unemotional. After an hour I felt nothing for any of the characters, who I had loved in the series. It lacked heart and had zero nuances other than a reminder of what was and what could have been. What a shame because you had all the elements for a classic movie but in the end the splendid ingredients did not add up to anything other than pie on your face - I would personally rate a 4 on a scale of 1 to 10. my 2 cents p.s. maybe I should have watched to the end but after an hour I had seen enough

Per PM - take FLASH 110

It is also why you have to READ - blue purple label notwithstanding.