Chadwick

20 minutes ago, Bomber-Bob said:

Happy to get this today. Believe it or not, it's not common in high grade. The census for 32 is exactly 1/4 of Showcase #30 .  

Congrats Bob, beautiful book!

A couple more spideys

No Canadian shipping

On 5/1/2017 at 0:56 PM, gojira said:

Fables 100 NM+  $5

On 5/6/2017 at 10:45 AM, gojira said:

New Mutants 25 copy e VF+  $6

 

On 5/6/2017 at 0:37 PM, gojira said:

Sketches from ..... Eric Powell signed with head sketch VF+  $15

On 5/7/2017 at 3:44 PM, gojira said:

Wolverine 155 VF  $10

 

 

On 5/7/2017 at 3:55 PM, gojira said:

Wolverine Origins 1 Turner variant VF-  $1

  @ 30% off

Blazer!

20 hours ago, gojira said:

Superman 675 VF  $1

 

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20 hours ago, gojira said:

Superman Confidential 3 signed by Sale FN+  $2.50

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On my pile please 

Hope you're enjoying your weekend Mike  

20 hours ago, lizards2 said:

Canaduh looks much warmer than I imagined.

Can confirm warmness occasionally occurs.

I really hope marvel does Venom right this time around, I would love to have an awesome Eddie Brock Venom on my pull.

10 hours ago, Ken Aldred said:

I would've thought that the name would've been used quite a number of times in unrelated short stories in DC's horror / mystery titles, back to the early 1950s?

Any examples?

I have yet to read the Gaiman Lucifer run, but I did stumble across this from 1962. Is Gaiman's Lucifer considered to be the one and only, is this in continuity? Thoughts?

This is on the therapist's desk, looks like it's shining   I really hope the movie is filled with this kind of stuff.

4 hours ago, divad said:

No doubt, but that doesn't justify that dude's blog.

 

Ya I think the flood will it hard on this one. A Kirby book that was bought heavily at release, there's gotta be an Eternal amout of books available. 

18 hours ago, Real Frantic One said:

Action Comics #419
6.5 F+
$4

1 hour ago, Real Frantic One said:

Avengers #122
7.0 F/VF
$10

Take these too, Patrick  

29 minutes ago, Real Frantic One said:

Avengers #167
9.2 NM-
$15

8 hours ago, ChiSoxFan said:

Great date stamp placement  

Couple Thors, couple green guys

90 day is 458

10 minutes ago, 1Cool said:

Vol 3?  When will that be released - 2019/20?  People have been hyping up Warlock for years now and his appearance just seems to always be sometime in the future.

Just because he's in Guadians 3 doesn't mean he won't show up in a movie before that. The end credit scene is alluding to something big. This is marvel, cameos are and should be everywhere. 

31 minutes ago, Real Frantic One said:

All of the art was for sale, but the prices were not visible and I didn't get to ask about any of it. I could probably recall the name of the dealer by reviewing the floor map.

I was really pleased with how well the commissions turned out, and they were only $20 each. Well worth it!

Absolutely, great price!

21 hours ago, AndyFish said:

Comics don't have the entertainment value associated with their price point.  Even at the cheapest point, DC's $2.99 how long does it take to read a story?  Ten minutes?  If I'm a kid with an allowance and I like to read I can buy a "real book" for $6 in the paperback section or a Kindle Copy for 99c and have something that takes me at the very least a few days to read.

We're moving closer and closer to Trade Paperbacks being the norm and pamphlets going away.  Diamond wants it that way.  Any really GOOD comic shop understands the shelf life of a TPB is infinite while a monthly has about 3 months before it's in the back issue bin.   But then Marvel does things like have $35 trade paperbacks?  Insane.  The $100 Omnibus books?  Is ANYONE paying full retail for those?  I have a huge collection of them, but I think the most I've ever paid for one was $40.

Digital is also a huge solution but you're never going to see it eclipse print when a digital copy is the same price as the print edition.  Where is the logic in that?  No printing expense involved and the price remains the same?   Why? Because the publishers know if they did all digital at 50c or a dollar they'd end print completely.  But the bottom line would be higher overall sales.  Like it or not, and I know a lot of people on here don't-- digital is growing and THAT is how most of the new generation will read.  When I was in Japan last year EVERYONE was reading on their phones and tablets, and a lot of what they were reading was Manga.

But imagine if you took the endless archives of back issues Marvel and DC has and offered the digital versions of individual issues for 50c or two for a dollar.  They would ignite sales of books that they've long since made money on because they are out of print and they'd hook a new generation of kids on the good stuff.

When I was doing a comic art class for middle school kids a few years ago I brought in stacks of books for them to have and to read.  The first batch I brought in was Jim Lee style work--- thinking the kids would like the new stuff.  To a kid, they found it hard to understand what was happening.  The storytelling was confusing.  Then I brought in a bunch of Marvel Tales featuring Ditko Spider-Man and they ate it up.  Wanted more even. 

That showed me first hand that we feed the cult with ridiculous layouts and pinups every other page, but we lose people who haven't been reading comics for years.

We need more people like Jim Shooter back in the leadership of these companies-- he understood that every comic book was someone's first.

 

+1

I haven't read this whole thread, but why doesn't marvel just go back to printing on newsprint and drop the price point to $1? They are just going to end up in a trade anyway, if you enjoy heavy glossy pages get them there. I know I would buy into way more runs if they were a dollar an issue. Let LCS's and conventions do variants.

I recently picked up a dozen or so of the $1 true believers to give to a friend's 12 year old and they blew his mind, she said he couldn't wait to bring them to school to show off. I gave the same kid a few issues of superior spider-man last year - he thumbed through them and went back to halo, but give him Xmen #1, GSXM 1, wolverine 1, hulk 181, etc and he went nuts. So, now that I got him hooked, what am I supposed to tell him? Go spend $4.99 on an issue of the new wolverine run? Nope, get a trade that has a full story.

Marvel needs to bring back a single unified voice to the brand, give me a soapbox to read, give me back a bullpen, house ads, give me back the feeling of being in a club and grow excitement for new artists and writers in the books and not on variant covers or online. Bring back legacy numbering, and when they hire Starlin and Perez to do 12 issues of Spider-gwen, just put the run number on the cover next to the series number, then stick those issues in a trade.

I would be way more interested in a marvel with 10 solid running series and not the mess I see when I look at the racks now. 

18 hours ago, Real Frantic One said:

Here are some more pics from C2E2:

 

Batman and Boba Fett sketches commissioned for my convention sketchbook:

 

A few pages of John Buscema original art:

 

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A pic of the line waiting for admission to the floor on Friday:

 

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Dave Dorman prints. I also commissioned a Yoda sketch from him that I'll post later.

 

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Life-size Lego Wonder Woman:

 

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Pic of me with Rob Liefeld getting my New Mutants #98 and a few other things signed:

 

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An unpublished Wrightson Frankenstein page!

Great commissions Patrick! That Wrightson page looks incredible, was it for sale? I can see the edges of more OA that I'll never afford, was there a price on the Two-Fisted annual 2?

3 hours ago, ChiSoxFan said:

7 hours ago, comicartcom said:

more stuff.. this material is 25% off to close them out..

Strange Worlds #3 Frazetta/Williamson/Wood/Krenkel/Orlando jam. Cover by Kintsler.. This book should be an EC!

vg or so, bc is torn was $450.. now $337.00

On 2016-04-13 at 11:17 AM, comix4fun said:

 

 

Start speculating and buying up all those Dark Tower Hardcovers.

I'd be going for the Pulps they were originally published in. Seems no one knows about them and the HC collecting the serial is considered the first appearance.