Mercury Man

Taken from Yahoo if you haven't seen it.  Pretty neat stuff. 

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/stan-lee-looked-very-different-133741517.html

The younger generation seems less concerned about amassing/collecting. 

That is a broad generalization, there are still hopeful signs, but I think the percentage has definitely dropped. 

I look at stamps and trains.  On the downturn, probably never come back.   Are Comics next?  Are the movies and pop culture references enough to keep them relevant with newer generations?   

I tired to get my nephews into comics in the 1990's.  They both amassed a long box or two in their time, went to shows, got Stan Lee's autograph.  But they have stopped cold turkey now, both approaching 30 years old.  Started selling off some of their stuff, don't actively buy comics.  Not sure if they will ever come back. 

FUN!

Tales of Suspense #39    $10

X-Men #1                         $7

SIlver Surfer #4                $2

FF #48                              .50

FF#49                               .50

                                   ---------------

                                   =shut up and take my money

Giving up a kidney will interfere with my beer drinking.  I don't like this game. 

9 hours ago, Jeffro. said:

wouldn't use comic book sales as an ultimate indication of the true popularity of a character. When it comes to a character like Superman who is a part of American culture perhaps like no other comic book character, It's more than just comic books. You have to look deeper than that. Remember, everyone knows who Superman is. Not nearly as many know who Wolverine is, despite that fact that us comic book fans would like to think otherwise.

I understand what you are saying.  My 78 year old Mom knows who Superman is but not Wolverine.  But at the end of the day, he is currently not moving the needle in the medium he helped put on the map.    

2 hours ago, JTLarsen said:

https://72point.news/visit-anaheim-americas-favorite-superhero

Interesting, but yet Superman and Action are not in the Top 50 for sales on Comichron the last two months

1 hour ago, GeeksAreMyPeeps said:

What's kinda crazy is that a key Marvel book from around the same time could easily sell for $600 in CGC 9.8, but recently a CGC 9.9 of Superman 1 only went for that much. This might end up being a major bargain:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/324524072010?hash=item4b8f245c4a%3Ag%3APtgAAOSwxjZgUKUj&nma=true&si=sYFZpAP8jgg2HhKdrZ3u8RpT1os%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Yeah, that's a decent price for that 9.9.   

Talked about this before, but Superman went from being the most popular hero in the World in the 1930's-1950's, to maybe not even in the Top 10 today.  Changes in society, morals, likes, the darker-grittier Superheroes seem to have lapped him in popularity.    His Comics seem to follow that logic.   I still have him as my favorite DC character.  

5 hours ago, jick said:

Speaking of Byrne, I think his Man Of Steel work is undervalued.

Agree, and the early issues of his Superman run 1 thru 22. 

1 hour ago, Chaos_in_Canada said:

To be fair, that Strange Tales doesn't offer a lot of good space to put a signature in the first place.  I guess on the Hydra goon?

On 4/28/2021 at 7:45 PM, 1950's war comics said:

i just read that the the USA alone has printed 64% of all the money printed in the world since the start of the covid

On 5/6/2021 at 10:45 AM, BlowUpTheMoon said:

6 hours ago, dupont2005 said:

There’s plenty worse than Green Day, remember Fred Durst?

Blink 182?   I mean I didn't know Tom DeLonge had a speech impediment until he sings "a voice inside my yead'  

WTF is a 'yead'?!

The hint of cat wee....

Lame having celebs sign books, unless they are actually in character on cover of the book. 

Don't know how far Glen Cove is from Manhattan without Googling it, but this is disturbing- 

 https://www.silive.com/coronavirus/2021/01/more-than-half-nyc-residents-had-package-stolen-in-2020-report-says.html

Thor vs. Ant Man?

Chris Hemsworth vs. Paul Ruud?

Come on....

11 minutes ago, Math Teacher said:

Not according to the Ebay agent I chatted with this afternoon.

That makes ZERO sense.  I think your ebay agent needs to go back to training class.  

It's always amazing how some of these 'most valuable variants', are really 'blah' covers,   
I mean this sketch variant is booooriiinng.... and the Del Otto 667, not even close to some of his best covers. 

Meh, glad I have no skin in the game. 

Curious, was it addressed or does anybody have any info on how these were stored?   

14 minutes ago, Off Panel said:

Mercury Man: The Man With the Golden Gun.

yeahhhh buddy! 

Looking like a Fine at $1.99

Early-Mid 1990's maybe.  That is when new release Sports Cards and Comics in particular started getting hoarded by people who thought they would get rich.  So obscene value/speculation started seeping in- hence 'this may be worth something...I just don't know what'. 

I knew a guy who hoarded hundreds of Roger Salked baseball rookie cards, because he was going to be the next Nolan Ryan.  Who is Roger Salked?...EXACTLY.

On 4/23/2021 at 3:26 PM, snitzer said:

Each day the CGC forum feels a little more like r/wallstreetbets 💎🙌

Or the movie 'Boiler Room'.