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Shout out to @Redshade for the great books! Thank you! 3 more X-Men pence copies off the list.

Internet search for a Transformers retailer incentive. Found a useful thread on it in the modern section. Silver, Bronze, Copper, and Modern sections have been useful for my collecting purposes. General section is ok if you get past the shenanigans and derailments.

Right. The main reason I can see these annuals with a picture frame-esque design is to just help them stand out as annuals on the the rack. Not that the big bold ANNUAL on the cover wouldn't set it apart.

Question. Are the black picture frame annuals sought after by picture frame collectors? It looks like those are the annuals for 1983, so tail end of the bronze age kind of thing. Thor annual #11, Uncanny X-Men annual #7, Avengers annual #12, Captain America annual #7, etc. These look to be about ten-ish years after some of the other picture frames. Apologies if this has been asked before, but my search results ended up all over the place. Pics shown for reference.

Found hiding amongst its US priced counterparts.

I'm sorry to hear about that. I'll post it across the street for wider dissemination.

I'm rewatching X-Men on Disney+. The animation in the first season is a little rough at times, but it's still good. Batman the Animated Series, GI Joe, Transformers, Real Ghostbusters, Thundercats, Robotech, some of the old Hanna Barbera stuff, Doug (not Disney's bastardized version), Simpsons until about 2005, TMNT, King of the Hill, Spongebob until about 2006. I watched Pryde of the X-Men a couple weeks ago for the first time in a couple decades. Awesome animation. I also loved how Michael Bell voiced Cyclops exactly the same as he did for Duke in GI Joe.

I will contend to this day that after rewatching season 3 of TF, that it is the best season of the original G1 show from a writing standpoint. Unfortunately AKOM butchered the animation on several episodes which gives it a terrible look.

I finally got around to watching Suicide Squad as I was clearing out my DVR over the past couple of weeks. 68 Whiskey was a solid program. I'll start with that interjection first. As for SS, it was ok. I liked some of the performances. Viola Davis was great. Leto was not my cup of tea. Maybe I was too spoiled with Romero, Nicholson and Ledger, but I couldn't buy into him as Joker. I feel if he had been an entirely separate bad guy then I would have a different opinion of him. I despised his character design as well. Plot-wise it seemed thin A.F. It was kind of like watching video game cut scenes between all the game play. Two minutes of plot, 15 minutes of action. There has to be a degree of pacing, and this film didn't have it. I didn't think it was terrible but it kept my interest enough to be at least intrigued as to what was cut from the theatrical version.

The shops I frequent from Dayton, OH down through Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky have been open. Some have revised hours and all are limiting the amount of people who are in the store at one time. Games are not going on until further notice. It was good to get back in the stores and shoot the breeze with the owners and employees. I feel very fortunate to have great stores in the area.

I've neglected my X-Men run long enough. Finally had a UK price variant arrive for the first time in a couple months.

Alf looks like he's going pretty deep on his own.

Have you noticed any dip in paper quality or is it pretty comparable to US produced comics at that time frame? I have an Italian edition of ASM 299/300 (reprints both issues in one), and I was surprised that the cover was a heavy card stock, and the Italians didn't skimp on the paper or coloring, unlike their crappy Spider-Man film.

@Frisco Larson those books are too cool!

Totally agree. I just bought some SA and BA X-Men pence books yesterday from a European seller. Go figure, right? I've been lazy about working on my X-Men pence run lately, so it's time to get back on it.

Transformers: The Movie

This is probably why I wouldn't do it. While I have plenty of shops in my region that carry high quality back issues in terms of grade and selection, I don't know how I could justify trying to find X amount issues of a title to in order to slab 40+ issues of something. It could be personally rewarding, but unless they're all 9.8, I feel like I'd be carrying a lot of extra weight around knowing I couldn't get rid of slabbed comics that people wouldn't even want raw. The bold part it true. I swear I'm one of the few people who slabs IDW Transformers books. It was a goal to slab the retailer incentives from the various mini series they published, but it's a train wreck to always find the right copy to send in. If I try to get rid of it, no one else wants it.

I've slabbed a few storylines but never a series that was more than five issues. X-Men 129-137 comes to mind since I still have a couple of those books to submit. Other than that, the only full run I have would be Punisher 1-5 of the limited series, and slabbed runs of retailer incentives from some of IDW's Transformers series, but I wouldn't consider those especially impressive. I have recently thought about doing it with Canadian price variant runs of X-Factor (seven issues) and Punisher (5 issues). If I do that, I'd like them all in 9.6 at least. I have thought about doing it with a cheap, fun series. Something like Thing or Dazzler would easier from a cost perspective (cheap raw prices). I haven't found a full on series I would want to slab though. I did see pictures of a person's CGC 9.8 run of Transformers #1-80 and about crapped my Optimus Prime underwear. It was pretty cool to see.

Arrived from the Link today.