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I saw this on Twitter. Gorgeous page:

I sold my CGC 9.6 for $150 in 2017.

This is awesome, considering that I've been lazy about getting my Annihilation books up on eBay

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Star+Trek%3A+Starfleet+Academy+1+1996&_in_kw=1&_ex_kw=&_sacat=0&LH_Sold=1&_udlo=&_udhi=&_samilow=&_samihi=&_sadis=15&_stpos=10018&_sargn=-1%26saslc%3D1&_salic=1&_sop=12&_dmd=1&_ipg=50&LH_Complete=1&_fosrp=1

Just looking at the number of sales on eBay in March and in April, there was an uptick starting in mid-May. No huge sales, but definitely more sales. Some noting the (previously relatively un-noteworthy) writer in the description. I've read it also features the first openly gay human character in the Star Trek Universe as well, although I can't imagine that that's true, considering how many television episodes and novels there have been.

Looks like some people might be speculating on the Star Trek: Starfleet Academy series (Marvel, 1996) written by Christian Cooper, the man that the woman in Central Park called 911 on.

It's the first appearance of Ted's Fashion Outlet.

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I think you can create a pull list from Midtown that's shipped. Maybe look into that?

And where do I subscribe to your youtube channel?

Keep in mind that when Spawn first came out, everything wasn't reprinted in trades. And McFarlane at the time said there would be no second printings. So if you missed an issue, or were new to the series, unless you tracked down all of the back issues, you may not have had an idea of what was going on. I remember catching up on Claremont's run on X-Men back then, and in EVERY SINGLE ISSUE there's some character lamenting that they're just trying to get by in a world that fears and hates them. The point was to treat every issue like it's someone's first (because it likely was, in the era when every comic printed tens or hundreds of thousands of issues), but when read as a run, they come off as a team of whiners.

It may be nitpicking, but I think coloring back then mostly would have been with CM&Y, with the black coming from the inks, so that would be a choice of the inker (or the editor or writer, if it was directed). My take on the panel is that it's intended that the arm be obscured. I think there would have been a better way to show that than having the rest of the panel in daylight, but I don't think we can take the black arm to mean that it was black in color, rather than in shadow.

Because comic readers are a tiny portion of the movie market, so they're going to develop a character they think they can make an interesting movie with, rather than one that that tiny percentage is more likely to recognize.

It's just artistic license

Are you forgetting about Captain Slappy?

Kinda surprised no one has suggested super speed. Certainly there are a lot more speedsters that stretchers.

Little known fact. Batman does actually have a super-power, and it's the power to absorb protection against bullets from others. It's a passive ability; he doesn't have control over it. But his power is, in fact, the reason that his parents are dead.

Not sure whether this would fall into the same category of "not so well known":

This isn't a particularly impressive copy, but it came out right around the time I started collecting, so I remember all of the hype about the Punisher series from the time. Good times…

Mignola/Nowlan is an interesting art combo. I didn't like their work much when I was younger but I appreciate it much more now.

What about the Elseworlds 80-page 1-shot? That may not be desirable because of the content, but it's not a variant.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/10/09/venom-was-originally-a-woman-who-blamed-her-miscarriage-on-spider-man

There are interviews with Michelinie where he acknowledges that these "cameos" were intended to lead up to Venom. Only he had conceived Venom (not sure if the name was already in place) as a female character. The idea was revived when they needed something big for ASM 300.

I was sorting through some comics today, and noticed one copy of Uncanny X-Men 281 seemed a little thicker than another. I thought it might be a double cover, so I checked. It wasn't, but it turned out it had a double insert.

What about the ashcans? Do they pre-date Wizard?