The Less Blob

Have you ever read a comic??? Nobody is dead! Except maybe Loki. Hiddelston might be tired of the role.

Well, let's be honest. Thanos is a better, more nuanced, version of Darkseid, so Starlin can't totally be enraged he hasn't gotten $100 million for the idea he lifted from Kirby/DC. True, Gamora, et al. are his babies too and don't appear to be clones of other characters. I am hoping his contributions to the MCU have at least gotten him a 7 figure payout in addition to whatever they paid him back in the day. Marvel is making too much money from movies for us to hear about another Dave Cockrum situation, a guy who helped create half the new X-Men, getting wiped out by medical bills.

Pretty sure I sold one here a few VCCs ago, but it had a ding on it, so only mid-grade

Punisher 100 variant.

RMA, I know you have devoted a lot of time and energy to these topics, but why would these variants be so beat to heck when I see a regular stream of nearly pristine regular overstock copies of these books in comic shop cheap-o boxes month after month. It seems that there is always another few long boxes of these around the corner. Were they particularly abusive of said variants? As for the regular Darker Image #1, my guess is that the print run was about 500 million based on how many copies I see of it, which makes me sad because I was/am very fond of Maxx and Sam Kieth and I want to buy them, but there are limits. I already have like 10+ copies of every Kieth MCP cover, which is bordering on insanity if not already there.

Don Cheadle needs to go back to the gym or something. He looks OLD.

I am hoping that when my son surveyed the field at our neighborhood yard sale he was diligent in finding anyone selling comics (he didn't report any comics, just some potential lego purchases we rejected). A few years ago my neighbor had some comics out -- ASM 300, SW 8, and ASM 252, and they were not sold by the end of the day. True, she knew they were worth something and may have asked for real money (and they were mid-grade). She wound up just giving them to me because she knows I collect (and I do favors for her like bring in her trash cans sometimes and occasionally shovel her snow if it is only a little).

I managed ok not having seen Avengers 1, the first Iron Man, Thor Ragnorak, and Black Panther

His "children" are very killable apparently.

Oh wait, Marvel doesn't own Kang. Blech!

Kang the Conqueror who is maybe tony stark or something. Something to do with Stark!

Because he is aware of Kang the Conqueror, who is Stark's great great X 100 grandson and uses Stark tech!

They already mentioned Warlock in GOTG 2. Seems crazy not to bring him into the mix.

He busted out. Also, when Thanos leaves the scene, his altering of "reality" ends.

Because what we saw play out is the one scenario he envisioned would wind up being a "win". Remember, Thanos wipes out half the universe on page 28 of Infinity Gauntlet 1, with 12 more pages to go in that issue and another 5 issues, so this is just the beginning (not to say they're going to follow the comic, but there is a bit more to go to here). And how does Adam Warlock get the soul stone? Unless he is already in it? Is Dr. Strange, while without a body, now hanging out in the Astral Plane? Is he inside the time stone?

Let's say he wraps up at 150-75 with a 126 era+ and 1500 hits with a .300 BA/136 OPS+? Neither one enough, but either one probably half way there? (I won't even try to get into WAR)

With print runs on all but a few books where they are, there doesn't seem to be much room for 90s style gluts. But yes, I do see my LCS toss multiples of books in the cheap-o box, probably because they ordered extras to get a variant. The supply seems to get absorbed. The new books eventually get bought and the drek box returns to being mostly unsellable 90s overstock books until infused with some new stuff.

Yeah, I don't understand what you're saying? Is it because they have $25 packs they didn't have in the 90s, so the dollar volume is higher, though fewer packs/cards are sold? And the focus is on a few hot rare cards that can go for a ton (rather than a bunch of $10 cards like back in the 90s), and commons, even rookie commons, are completely worthless? I see this at my shop sometimes. A guy goes through a box of some expensive packs where he spent $200-$300 on the box, keeps all the special cards, which he says he will be selling, and just gives the commons back to the shop, which sticks them into some $1 for 50 card grab bag or 5-10 cent a card box.

Actually, I look at it more like $130 for the day selling about 300 drektacular comics, so I can't cry too much. Every year a bit of the drek randomly sold, but yeah, so at that rate I would sell the long box in 10 years, so time to start fresh! Anyway, we cleared about $270 total on the day selling comics, books, records, some kiddie stuff my guys had outgrown...it was good to get rid of some bulk clutter. Like 6 or 7 years ago, probably my second yard sale, I went through the box of what was left from the prior year and I realized I had most of the 1st Deadpool series in there, tons of preachers and various stuff from the year before I had thought were worthless, but that, thankfully, nobody had bought. It's always good to double check before putting stuff out, my opinion as to drekiness can change.

Actually, I forgot to put any of those in. But I do have stacks of Spider-Man and Thor SAGA previews I got for free and there were a few of those in the boxes.

Not a find, but as usual, I put out comics, among many other things, at our local neighborhood yard sale (the area advertises and it is held at a specific time with various houses participating, etc.). I put out 2 1/2 long boxes about 7 years ago and have been widdling them down every year since at $1 each. Mostly 90s modern drek, but I have to sprinkle in a few comics of interest like 90s spidermans, punishers, X-Men, x-force, etc. After double checking and yanking some books that might have become more desireable in the last year or two I was down to a long box plus maybe 70 more comics this year and decided to supplement with some books I have put to the side while organizing my collection. mostly lower grade BA that I can't really sell individually. water stains, rusty staples, that sort of thing. probably about 50 books in total I added into the mix to make sure they were visible so that people would see old comics when they walked by. Not surprisingly, the vultures came out and bought those. Low grade 70s books in bags sell briskly for $1 it seems (this was my experience before). So I sold about 70 books at $1 each. Toward the end of the day a guy comes buy and looks over what has been cherry picked. A long box is left and I guess maybe 50 more books. He asks "how much," so I guesitmated the total, cut the $ in half, rounded down, and said $120. He claimed he only had $60. Frankly, I was exhausted and was tired of looking at the same drek year after year so I let him have them at $60. I guess that works out to 20-25 cents a book, they were mostly bagged. I probably lost money on them even if I bought most out of a quarter box, but I was glad to move on. Next year I will have a new long box of carefully culled drek and low grade BA books.

That used to be the more expensive, more sought after, thanos mini, even more than infinity gauntlet (mainly because a lot of IG were printed and The End was printed during a lower distribution period)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Marvel-Universe-The-End-1-6-Complete-Set-Jim-Starlin-Thanos-Infinity-War/162993975975?hash=item25f332b2a7:g:agEAAOSwh41aznaz I guess it doesn't really concern the next movie, but I am surprised this mini has lagged given that it is a lot harder to find 1 - 6 in the wild than the various "Infinity" minis.

It would be nice if it ever stopped freezing and raining here in New York to allow for this. Our neighborhood yardsale on Sunday was postponed this weekend.

And the number of books he has signed it finite. Only about 7 million on ebay right now (ok, only about 1.2 million are actually signed by him). There are so many books he hasn't signed yet.