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Mike just bought a bunch of GA from me and paid quickly and stayed in touch the whole way. Great boardie, and a great boardie to chat with as well!

Forgot to join...low-grade, but I walked into the LCS and it was there, so I couldn't leave it behind

Agreed, I get it....but at the end of the day none of those enticing possibilities we as fans would enjoy has as much box office potential as those 2 meeting. So Hollywood will find a way eventually. Any way. They could loosely adapt “Planet Hulk” as an x-men focused concept, making hulk the big bad, so to speak. Look at how loosely Cap Civil War was an adaption of the Civil War comic. Just one possibility.

Sorry! I got excited!

As far as we are aware of....but I would be shocked if there’s not a Hulk/Wolverine encounter during the X-Men era of the MCU.

Did you win that 3.0 on eBay last night?

Greatest death in the history of comics Gets his head split with an ice pick by his ex-girlfriend.

1st Sinestro, isn't that? (The GL 7, not Fozzy)

"Largesse" -- here we go again with the buttfest jokes!

I was simply pointing out that it is a striking cover, one that uses a theme that is enduringly popular on any golden age books of that milieu. That's all I was getting at.

One more volley this afternoon, right?

Yet if this were the Lev Gleason Daredevil on a 10-cent funnybook no one would balk at five times that price for a mid-grade copy. What a great cover!

Does he moonlight chauffeuring those out-of-state bachelorettes???

With good reason -- it's a cut above!

Oops, missed that! I knew it got a lotta love!

This killing with a bulldozer cover blew my mind the first time I saw it. Way too under the radar, IMO.

I recall really enjoying Contest of Champions, Squadron Supreme, Wolverine (holds up too; re-read recently), West Coast Avengers (might have been my favorite, as a huge Avengers fan -- a second team! Too bad the regular series started so poorly. It got better but never really hit much of a stride.), Falcon. I'm with @HighVoltage Secret Wars was pretty poorly executed and does not hold up well. I didn't like it much on first pass, and I re-read it when I got a tpb in a collection last year and I'm still flat on it. DC rocked that era as minis go, with Crisis, Watchmen and Dark Knight. Surprised no one has brought up Ronin at all; not my cup of tea but a well-loved, widely popular one. I'm sure I'm forgetting something....

There's another benefit -- this site is also the repository of a wealth of user-created knowledge about the hobby. I forget exactly how I first heard it expressed, but the saying was something very much like, "If the website is free, you are the product." While CGC does not directly monetize the user-created content, its existence is a huge benefit to the hobby in general. It's a win-win as we all benefit from free usage even as we help create the robust content (via dialogue amongst knowledgeable collectors and dealers) on an ongoing basis.

Yep, anywhere between 250-300 depending upon thickness of various books, how many are bagged/boarded/both/neither, how tightly packed, etc.

I think this, in the context of a hot market across all eras of comics (as well as OA) is what we’re experiencing anecdotally. Related observations: I see Copper/Modern picking up; used to be you could open a thread there and not slide off page 1 for days, now that is only true in Mixed. When more common, more recent material is as hot as it is, there’s an impetus to focus on offering that stuff first and thereby putting aside more dry powder for the choice, scarce older stuff we all want more of. But a result of that is everyone is hungry for that Golden Age thread to show up and is armed to the teeth to buy because they have busily unloaded everything from Star Wars 1 to She-Hulk 1 to modern variants to previews publications that precede in-continuity true first appearances. I also notice high-grade silver is coming up, and we’re even seeing full-time dealer boardies doing the buying — which is great, but I think it also speaks to the hotness of the market. At a time when there’s strong interest and desire for most material, I guess I’m not surprised that people who sell are least focused on moving the most difficult-to-replace items. These are my anecdotal observations of the boards’ sales ebb and flow recently.

Thank you! I missed the link I figured you’re the choir; you bought the thing! But you did go out of your way to nicely put the merits of UF4 out there, so I just figured I’d throw the rest out there. (For the record, I like both books, both characters’ future prospects, and would happily hang either cover OA on my wall.) At this point, when the discussion is “Can x important piece — or book — go for x$$ in the next whichever auction, my first reaction anymore is “Sure, why not?” Seems like there’s plenty of people chasing most anything that’s got legit chops of any sort going for it these days. How long it continues, who knows? But currently, I’m rolling with “why not” more often than not.

Sure, but on the other hand, Neal Adams is massive, Mark Bagley not so much. Your cover ticks every argument presented here for factors driving desirability from the various aspects of the discussion — artist, the artwork itself, a first appearance, a piece from a significant storyline in comics history, DC’s first black hero. (Took Marvel a long time to figure out that Black Panther could be more than a supporting character, but for better or worse GL 87 is DC’s FF52. The character’s trajectory is another matter, always subject to change by current creators’ successes or missteps.) Could you please post that beautiful piece?