Doktor

Actually, I've never gotten an e-mail notice on shipping of any of my orders from CGC. Granted, I've only done like a half-dozen, but still... hmmm...

Not in my experience when I didn't have a paid account. Or even when I didn't have an account.

Everyone is still disregarding the potential for growth in the hobby due to not only mainstream acceptance & female fans joining the regular collectors market with purchasing power. I think we'll see fluctuation and market normalization on some prices, but we're also going to keep seeing rises at least commensurate with overall inflation or likely outpacing it. Because, while anecdotal, I can count dozens of female friends that I have that have jumped into not only becoming fans of comic movies because of the movies, but have even started reading comics as a result. Now, they may not yet buy big-dollar books, but they buy books. Given time & some price normalization, you'll start seeing them jumping deeper and deeper into the back-issue market, spending more & more money there as well. I mean, us long-time collectors didn't jump in from reading a couple books a month to buying multi-thousand-dollar key books. We worked our way up to those kinds of investments. You'll also see it with the newer female fan contingent of the hobby as well in time.

this is such an apples an oranges argument. Most of the crashed tech stocks were vaporware or other things that had no method of monetizing itself. People woke up & realized they were investing in cool company names and not future production/dividends & the market tanked. Comics are tangible assets. If you want to make a comparison, compare comics to commodities markets.

I'm really holding my tongue on trying to compare the comic market to the stock market & its fiat-currency-inflated post-2007/2008 status.

Tat's some pretty nice looking stuff. I dig it for the art alone.

Invoice 1 Standard (Coupon submission) Received - 1/30/15 Verified - 2/2/15 Scheduled for Grading - 2/17/15 Graded/Quality Control - 2/23/15 Shipped/Safe - 2/24/15 Invoice 2 Modern (slow) Received - 1/30/15 Verified - 2/24/15

Wait... we need time travel now to follow shill bidding? Oh god... we've reached a new low.

How is this silly? What's silly is some of the stuff on the modern ebay thread. X-Force?!? Really?? Copycat?? Come on man, that is silly to me. Something else like X-Force 19 & Copycat also being silly does not make this topic any less silly. It just proves that multiple things can be silly at once.

Invoice 1 Standard (Coupon submission) Received - 1/30/15 Verified - 2/2/15 Scheduled for Grading - 2/17/15 Graded/Quality Control - 2/23/15 Invoice 2 Modern (slow) Received - 1/30/15

Pretty sure it's just the same guy keeping his own rumor alive.

If you are interested in that Alias Omnibus, let me know. I wasn't sure if that one was signed by Bendis or not. Couldn't remember if it was that AND Powers he signed for me, or just Powers. It was just Powers (he did personalized signatures when he was signing that time).

Garfield was a good spidey (kept the mask on, was sarcastic & joked a lot, etc) but as Peter, he was too much of a & too "cool". While on the other side, Tobey was the better Peter. He did the awkward thing better, but he was a bad Spidey. Even his "so lame they're kinda funny/charming" jokes didn't go over for me. Problem is we've had a good Spidey and a good Peter but never in 1 movie. I think Marvel sees that too & aims to correct it.

Lemmy vs. The Punisher. Tough call. Trick question... Lemmy IS God.

Sell them back at a big markup.

+1 Peter Parker is Spider-Man. Marvel didn't go through all this trouble to use a largely unknown miles morales. They've been champing at the bit to get Peter in their movies. And that's who Spider-Man will continue to be. Anyone who seriously tries to suggest otherwise has copies of UF 4 they're trying to sell. -J. Looks like the AF 15 club has made its way to the modern forum Nah I like Miles too. In the Ultimate title. Marvel has already said they're not doing "origin stories" in the movies anymore so they can (and will) easily drop a new Peter Parker into the movies without even skipping a beat. He's their top selling solo character in comics, and has carried at least one solo title for the past 50+ years. I think we'll see Miles Morales in a cartoon on TV long, long before we see him as "Spider-Man" in a movie. (thumbs u -J. So Ms Marvel, Black Panther, Deadpool and Dr Strange are just going to drop out of thin air? Deadpool isn't a Marvel Studios film, so they can't comment on that. However, the other 3 you mentioned... yes, they're either going to "backdoor pilot" them into the continuity in other films before getting solo films or throw them onto the audience fully formed & reveal origin details in flashback most likely.

I always wanted to get an homage of this cover to get commissioned. But replace Wolverine with Tony the Tiger & replace Kitty with one of the Rice Krispy guys and throw all the cartoon cereal character faces up on the poster in the background. I just thought it would be awesome & ridiculous.

Maybe I over-stated a little bit. I didn't mean to say that the rise & recent slide in gold is ENTIRELY because of the weak Dollar, but it's been a big part of it. A weak dollar, over-spending/debt and rising energy & commodities costs started the rise in gold. The rush/speculation to hedge against that with precious metals has since created a bubble that's in the process of either popping or regulating at present (and over the past few years). Not only that, but there's been a demand on gold for actual products as well beyond intrinsic or numismatic value. The increase in small device (phones/tablets/etc) production has impacted the price nearly as much as the speculation. There's a lot more electronics out there with gold/platinum/silver in them than 10 years ago. And recovery from end-of-life devices is increasingly difficult both from the safety/environmental side, more regulation on over-seas superfund-like sites where companies can ship devices to have 9-year-old kids in the 3rd world pick through containers full of old phones to recover a gram or 3 of gold, and the regulating of the price making it less desirable to recover that gold as well. But at the end of the day, a poor US dollar had a lot of impact on gold prices & a WORSE Euro value in recent years with defaulting economies has made gold prices come down at least somewhat by making the US dollar the lesser of 2 evils.

My omnibus? I'd consider parting with it. Let me check it when I get home later to see condition & a few other things. It's the original printing.

I picked up a nearly-full run the other day for like $30. If the #1 is anywhere close to a 9.8 candidate, I made out like a bandit. I bought the run when it came out & sold the whole series off a few years back in a purge of about 2000 books just to clear some space & make a couple bucks back. I didn't think ahead when I sold it & figured "I have the Omnibus" already" so it didn't bug me until recently. If you aren't worried about resale value, I suggest grabbing a used copy of the Omnibus. It's a great read, if a little unwieldy to hold at times.

In fairness, the primary reason gold has risen is a weak US dollar and the only reason it's dropped recently is because of the relatively weakER Euro that makes the US Dollar look more stable to the market. And as the US hasn't done much to improve the value of the dollar with the monetary policy, it's more of a case of other currencies just doing worse than the US Dollar. At least that's my opinion on it. I know a lot of economists that disagree with me on the US Dollar's strength.

This may be a joke, but I actually looked into investing here a few years ago - actually as an alternative investment source for my mother-in-law. If only they could iron out the little discrepancy between the fed and local law, (e.g.: in Colorado where companies have to hold onto copious amounts of cash because federal banks can't take money from what is paramount to a federally illegal business), it would be a great time to get in... The alternative is to invest in either companies who have made a name with medicinal marijuana or companies that supply things like the hydroponics to the emerging market. I've not done it, but I'm telling you there is money to be made here. A ton of cash when the tide changes. I'm still watching as a viable option... Was thinking the same thing myself. Mostly in the supply & equipment side.

I agree with Jim and support the notion that all X-Men # 94s are worthless and should be sold immediately to me at a maximum of 1/3 GPA xxx ooo Rupp See, that's not even fair.

See.. I don't think it's much (if any) of a bubble. There's more people of a certain age that have reached the point where disposable income is available to buy up the books they wanted as a kid & that income has finally outpaced the inflation on the books. They're finally able to buy it. Additionally, we've finally reached an age where buying something like this & displaying it in your home isn't just some "nerd thing" and has become accepted as part of the culture. That opens up doors to bring in some lapsed fans who have a love for old comics but "out grew it" and want to add that little piece for (relatively) cheap as an alternative to a pretentious piece of art. Granted, there might be some artificial inflation to things, but I don't think it's a bubble. For every book that sells at well-above FMV, you get another that goes under the radar for 2/3 FMV or less.

At some point, I hope to upgrade, but probably do incremental upgrades to keep the "out of pocket" cost down & hide how much money I'm spending from myself.