The Less Blob

Yet he was the main nemesis for a solid 5 years

Seems just as likely later issues in any run will pop vs stuff from the 80s. I am torn on whether to even try doing these runs. I have 100 - 500 or 600 or more of ASM... Minus most of the expensive keys, which were sold off, so is there even a point?

238 just because I see more 252s. Completely anecdotal. I've never owned a 238. I've owned at least 10 252s and I think I have 2 or 3 now.

And apparently in the krapper for DC. Alas, I wonder if marvel's distribution move will make it harder to determine print runs? I think having that comichron data is valuable. When I see invincible books that had sub 20k print runs still at $5 I see some upside.

My problem is i don't have gpa so I am not 100% sure what was reasonable.. Like 2019 prices?, but I have a decent idea. My last 3 slab purchases have not really been impacted by the recent madness though, so I felt comfortable with the purchases. Last night I sold 3 books.. Two of which I paid no more than $4 total for and another 66 cents... For $275, again warping my sense of what makes sense.

Yeah, I can't get over how cgc ignores bindery tears. Cgc is tighter than "old school" in many ways, but not that, those would all be 9.2s in the 90s

The raws approaching $300 seem nonsensical. That shouldn't be an easy 9.8 with the white cover and the spine corners got dinged. I owned 30+ copies and I didn't feel like I could call any better than 9 4

Especially as there is one living flag smasher and 3 super soldiers (not including cap) to collect DNA from to build more. Of course, at the end of the day bullets kill them. Why weren't they wearing kevlar body armor?

It already feels expensive for a book with not current buzz though I just remember one shop had dozens of unsold #1s. I scooped them up to the extent I could. Of course, plenty of books books were once that. Speaking of staples, anything maybe happening with rat queens?

I have a beautiful 6 and 7 up, was hoping for offers, did not run an auction

maybe they gave a hint at her being a skrull when she was wearing the guy's face outside the building. i thought that was just the shield tech we have seen before, but I suspect a skrull could pull off the switcheroo to make it look like that. on the other hand, were she a skrull she'd only have limited access to carter's memories, so all those interactions where she knew a lot of details could be a problem. and don't skrulls have good tech already, why does she need to steal it? anyway... it was all entertaining, but I didn't find the bloodthirsty-ness of the flagsmashers to be so believable. we get very little development on what these folks are facing. and the flagsmashers all seem to be europeans for the most part, why are they so ticked off again? Wouldn't refugees from third world countries be the ones getting kicked out and sent back? She sounds like a brit or something. also, walker and barnes are trained killing machines. particularly barnes. are the flagsmashers all supposed to be trained fighters who took the serum, why do they have all these ninja skills? walker should have easily beaten karli to a pulp one on one. even with the serum she is a little lady vs. walker.

then again, yeah, who knows, if people pulled out of the stock market pre-covid and got back in they had a tremendous ride last year. yanking $30K out of what may have been six figure gains on stocks to play with comics seem plausible, particularly if they think the current tax climate on the horizon might depress the stock market.

ok, I'm doubting that too. do you really think these flippers jacking up prices are tapping into their 401Ks for this, and how many of these people actually have 401ks with real money in them? I know a lot of middle aged people here do, sure. my version of my 401K has always allowed me to do that though. i have to pay interest to myself though. can you pull money out and re-pay it with pre-tax dollars? i've had to take out a loan from my 401K to pay for an emergency and that always irritated me ... I was paying it back with after tax dollars, and I am going to get taxed on it when i withdraw. once upon a time i looked at 401Ks as a no brainer to get tax deferred gains (particularly on dividends getting reinvested), but now I wonder whether some sort of IRA makes more sense as you're less limited in how to invest. I've done a lousy job of funding my 401K (though better than 90% of my nearly age 50 contemporaries) and it isn't anything I plan to live off of. it will more likely provide some "cushion" income to make retirement a little less uncomfortable. maybe more folks are just giving up on the idea of buying a house and are just renting? that's a lot of chunky down payment savings that can go elsewhere. and right now less spending on entertainment. for your average upper middle class person we might be talking $10-15K. No vacations for the last year and this year are going to save me $6-10K. lack of restaurants is a couple of grand. and on and on. that'll pay for some slabs.

No. I think stimulus money might help in creating a lot more $10-$50 books, but not your $1000 9.8s that used to be $250. something else is going on. But the sales have definitely warped my brain. Yestersday we went into Manhattan for a doctor's appointment for one kid and while I was parked outside waiting I listed about $200 in books based on some pics I had on my phone. We decided to go back home to Brooklyn and go to a diner for dinner. I don't think all 4 of us have been in a restaurant since August. I fully expected a few sales on the way back to pay for dinner! It didn't happen, but I had just gotten paid for some earlier sales that did pay for dinner. seriously, $114 for 3 books I fished out of $1 or less bins. yes, I dropped a chunk of a cgc 9.8 the other day (over $250). but how did I justify it in my head? the money from that had come from sales of $10 worth of former dollar books, so i was really only paying $10....

it is weird, i think the distinctions between 9.6 and 9.8 are probably imaginary 50% of the time and am not obsessed with it for raw books, but when I am plopping down money on modern slabs on the few books I am interested in, I want a 9.8..... move me to the BA and most CA and I don't care as much (basically because I am looking to pay value of raw + cost of slabbing)...

do we think carter took the serum? she seemed to be pretty cool about getting shot in the gut last episode.

So are my machine man 6 and 7 worth more or less than 24 hours ago?

Thanks for now making it impossible for me to get cheap copies of this one too.

No, not really, $1K+ for a nearly 50 year old minor key classic neal adams cover isn't that much nowadays it seems. Guessing it is hard in 9.8. edit...oops, post was 2 years ago! a 9.8 has been sitting for a long time at $1400, so this book did not take off like everything else has

I kind of regret selling it, but someone made an offer than seemed very reasonable and I felt like a jerk not accepting it. True, it is kind of a "nothing" appearance (generic evil alien) and was lower grade.

which key? it does seem some of the DCs are doable right now. I just sold a showcase 23 and to think that is the second appearance of the SA GA we know and how cheap it is compared to anything Marvel...

I dunno, with all the money coming in it has been easier to justify buying stuff. I just bought a group of Batmans I will probably break up and hope to sell for double what I paid and keep an issue or so. A group of books here I bought I have sold less than half of, already turned a profit, and still have the rest. I just bought a Goon 2 (Avatar) 9.8 at a decent price (quite possibly a price well below what it was at its peak, not sure)... but a price I NEVER would have paid were I not selling other stuff for crazy money ... of course, I immediately had regrets as I really want the #1, but am not paying that kind of money for a nice one and wonder if a 5.0 has upside?) ... and i threw some fun bids at OA and wound up getting a Ron Lim piece that I think has enough going for it at that price that I did not think I would win the auction on. So, yeah, my sensiibilites are warped when I sell some former dollar box aquisitions for $90, $150, and $150 like I did last week and every 4th book in a box turns out to be a $10-15-25 book when 2 or 3 years ago I'd find like 5 or 6 such books in a box. Most of my stuff is still relatively worthless (realistically, under $3-5), sure.

Selling nearly any SA or BA key I have ever sold with very few exceptions.

Ok, as I think cheap copies are officially over, i'll give one.. Our army at war 151.

Not gonna tell u cuz I am still hoarding them! (Although one is getting harder and harder to find at a decent price.)