Mercury Man

You fools are buying signed comics! This is where it's at! Can't wait to rock with this --

I don't think anyone in history has signed their name more than Stan.

"Oh who cares"?! Millions of people d-bag. You will be lucky if 5 people outside your immediately family remember you, when your time cometh.

Months ago when the lenticulars came out, my LCS asked why I didn't want them and the regular-plain covers instead. My 'sarcastic' logic was; "Eerybody is going to want lenticulars, but the regular covers are going to be the rare ones". I'm a flippin' genius.

His contribution to Pop Culture can not be understated. What he created and co-created, became part of Americana, to the tune of billions of dollars. He was the figurehead, and he parlayed that into an amazing career. I am the benefactor of thousands and thousands of hours of entertainment. I really enjoy Marvel characters. Stan was Babe Ruth and Kirby was Lou Gehrig. Stan was Elvis and Ditko was Scotty Moore. One got more recognition and was more flashy than the other, but in their heyday, when they worked together it was magic.

I don't. It's market correction. No different than losing money on any other 'investment', which is what these people are trying to make it.

The art of dumpster diving

CAP #1 thanks. I also loved in the first Captain America movie, how they showed the kids in the 1940's running around with copies of the book, as the real Cap was being introduced to the American public.

Yeah, I passed on that due to the art. Now at $4-$5 per new book, I need to be more discerning. I am dropping more titles this week. Just can't keep up financially, when I would rather stockpile the money for some SA stuff.

I always seem to wind up dropping the Justice League after each relaunch about 15-20 issues in.

Oh absolutely. FAMILY CIRCUS writing was better than the stuff prior to Fresh Start.

I can't get past the artwork on Thor. I bough the first 4 issues, it's like a bad acid trip (or so I assume). Anyway, new comics are getting harder and harder to get behind, for the reasons you mentioned. It seems like you can get by with either a lazy artist and a good writer, or a lazy writer and a good artist, but Marvel seems to be pairing up both of the lazies. Captain America is pretty decent right now.

You're right, I have no crystal ball. I am just baffled that people think these books are wise purchases for a 1 week old comic book.

True, but nobody was paying $2K for any of their comics, EVEN first appearances, a week after they came out. Then MCU came along and put them into plebeian lexicon. I don't care what people do with their money. Buy what you like etc.... But this segment of variant hounds really isn't doing the hobby any favors.

As far as Modern Comics go, if the general public isn't familiar with the character name, there is a good chance, the comic title will not be worth much. Nobody in the general public ever hear of frickin' Spider Gwen, and probably never will. You want to pay $2K for a comic that came out 1 week ago, and hope Marvel makes a Spider Gwen movie, that is up to you. A fool and his money etc...etc...

Was a Supermodel 25 years ago. Go for it....

Anthony Mackie/Sebastian Stan are involved, I would be on board. They had a great give and take sarcastic relationship in the past movies.

You are assuming there are actually that many people dumb enough to throw money at this.

You seriously comparing a $2K off the shelf one week later variant to a .25 cent or $1 new comic that took years of storytelling, lore and movies to build up value? Are you ponying up $2K for the Spider Gwen Variant if you are so confident? I can post funny pics too....

Normal circumstances, sure, I mean even X-Force #1 is somehow selling again, but who is going to micro-manage these variants, especially trying to thump thousands of dollars out of them years from now?! Unless somebody starts a thread on a certain variant *ahem ahem*, (and keeps pounding away at it), these will fall in line with the rest of the bunch. Seriously, nobody is going to give a rats arse about SPIDER GWEN GHOST SPIDER. Certainly not at $2K. When the music stops somebody will be left holding a worthless comic with no chair to sit in. Wait what were talking about....see, I already forgot about it.

10 years from now people are going to be trying to unload all of these variants, and nobody is going to give a spit, because variants have become the norm. There are not enough completionist's in the hobby who can afford or maintain all of the variants coming out. Spend your money and go broke, leaves more good Silver and Bronze Age stuff for me.

A nice one. I've said this on the Statue Forum in the past, but I think Randy Bowen and his group really captured the characters from comic book pages to the mold (at least 95% of the time). I regard Bowen as the Golden Age of Comic Statues. Everything from other companies look like they are trying too hard.

I always liked the Bowen stuff.

Accepted! E- Eighty Page Giant #1 F- Fantastic Four #1 G- Green Lantern #1 (Golden Age) H- Hulk #1

These should seriously be the first 4: A- Action #1 B-Batman #1 C- Captain America #1 D- Detective #27 Don't make me do the next 4!