The Less Blob

The problem is Marvel isn't interested in just providing us some bulk entertainment on Disney+, they have to do these spectacular $25 million shows planned out years in advance. They are willing to go cheaper on Hulu, where nobody will watch them and they don't tie them into the MCU other than maybe the random reference. And the Netflix shows were not crazy expensive (the budget for ALL of them, total, first season, was the same as Wandavision for 9 episodes). The Netflix shows made it a lot clearer. I don't understand why AMarvel wouldn't give fans that bone, the interconnectivity is what made Marvel great. I've been encouraging my friend at Disney to pitch a 6 or 8 episode Agatha show done quick and dirty, but he has another project in development and can't clone himself. Oh well.

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yes. the market does seem to be saying this is now $600+, while it was maybe $200 in December. Maybe Jubilee will be the first mutant show on Disney+ and we don't know it yet?

x-factor 6 might be up 50% over the last month ok, maybe it is all nuts

It doesn't matter unless all the other $600+ sales were shilled

X-Men 221 is currently a little more expensive than 244 and regularly over $600. sinister is a good character, yes, but seriously, that was a book I have bought 10 copies of out of dollar boxes. I never got a 244 for $1. True, the cover is so lame I might have passed it over not realizing what it was. Now I just gotta go hoard copies of Boom Boom's first appearance!

She was the best character in the cartoon

this is hardly a "garbage" book (ok, it might be, i haven't read it), it was $170-200 or so in December and $20-25+ for a raw high grade copy and has been creeping up since. Is anything going on with the character? This might be a shill, but $500-600+ seems to be the March going rate.

OMG... they charge $14+ tax to grade a page and you have to submit the whole book for them to chop up. Have we discussed this already? This is insane. https://www.cpacomic.com/submission-guide-lines So I sold a coverless JIM 83 here for, I think, $40 a while back, that was missing the first wrap, I guess that was a dumb move!

WTF? A low grade copy of the actual book can be had for $100 or less. And I see he has actually sold other pages for $20 plus shipping. Why? https://www.ebay.com/itm/Journey-into-Mystery-112-CPA-7-5-Single-page-15-16-Jack-Kirby-art-Thor-vs-Hulk/203201288707?hash=item2f4fbd9a03:g:CiMAAOSwVIZfwuAq Why would you need a certification to destroy a book like this and put it in plastic? If you want to rip the book apart and put it behind mylar and frame it, just do it. What on earth would an individual page from a relatively inexpensive book get graded? While I find it disturbing, I can understand this for Action 1 or Captain America 1, especially if someone has a coverless copy missing a bunch of wraps, but JIM 112??

I'm more upset about losing 74 pounds last year and gaining 70 of it back in 6 months. I had my reasons, not good ones. I've chipped away 15 of it since this shocking revelation.

Did Picard get bad reviews? I thought it was well received. You're just not getting to have as many eyes on it. Plus, it was on a more fringe streaming service. Let's face it. Picard was meant to appeal to GenXers like me. We're not a huge group. Sure, you have some Millenials for wanted NG in reruns and appreciate it, and some hip boomers, but the demographics are not overwhelming. Mando was meant to appeal to ages 2 - 60 and beyond, and did.

Plenty. So many. But I have had so many winners out of the cheap-o box lately that it all evens out. OK, maybe not all, I need a lot of winners to make up for my sales of B&B 28, TOS 39, FF 5, X-Men 1-4, FF 48, ST 110, X-Men and a host of others at FMV, or slightly below, rates of 11-16 years ago, not to mention selling 10+ high grade copies of Special Edition 15 for about $30 a pop. Genius! But let's be serious. I regret thinking bitcoin was an incredibly stupid idea when it began. $100 back then, just for sh*ts and gggiles, could have me retired and sitting on the beach in Tahiti sipping a pina colada right now.

Force Awakens was not bad. Rogue One was good. I did not think Solo was bad, but that one bombed. Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker were pretty terrible. In being forced to watch 1 - 3 again by my 9 year old, each has good parts and bad parts. If you take the Jar Jar stupidity out of each of them they are a lot better.

who says they were actually in the same condition? the initial info we saw had AF 15 nearly 2X the ASM 1 price, I am assuming in the same grade

all kidding aside, the 5.0 price was a lot closer to the 9.4 price back then, the ratios were different, and OPG had a much bigger say in things and that $1100 AF 15 would probably be anything 8.0 and up by CGC standards, possibly lower, many comic shop "NMs" back then would be CGC 8.0s now

No. Star Trek 1 introduces all of the original cast. That's expensive. Outside the Gold Key books in nice shape and maybe some very low print variants, are any Star Trek books worth anything? The Marvel #1 had such a huge print run we are still seeing warehouse/untouched inventory 40+ years later. I think one difference is that the Star Wars comics have really created a really complex world .. more interesting than the movies, actually, introduced more characters and so on. The Star Trek comics have always sort of been in the background. It is a good question and one I was asking myself the other day as I was flipping through my boxes. I buy Star Trek comics often when I see them cheap, but they've been terrible "investments"... I have a fair number of them. While I am tempted to keep the Gold Keys and maybe the Marvels, I don't have much attachment to any of the others. They're probably pretty good, but I never read the DCs and other companies. They have made 3 Star Trek movies with the new cast. All of them seem to be box office losers if you go by the formula that the box office needs to be 2.5-3X the budget to make a profit. I suppose they may make it up with ancillary products and other stuff. For the most part the prior star trek movies made money... not necessarily a lot of money, but enough to keep making sequels ... in part because I guess they kept the budgets reasonable in relation to the box offices (wrath of khan had a $13 million budget vs. $97 million box office, so that was a winner). These last 3 star trek movies were not cheap movies to make..$150-190 million. I am watching the new tv shows -- Discovery and Picard --- but they are not for the casual fan for sure. They put my wife to sleep and she actually likes Star Trek (big crush on Picard back in the day). I can stay up a bit longer, but they have a slow pace and are very cerebral. I can see a lot of people not having the patience.

The worst is a store full of disorganized, unpriced stuff, that you carefully triage the boxes lookin to find and they pick a price by looking up the highest ebay price. They didn't know what they had in their mess. You found it for them. And now they're charging you a premium for it. The problem is, unless you know in advance, you don't know if you yank the stuff and the guy at the register just blabbers "$10!" for $300 worth of stuff or if they look it all up. i have encountered both scenarios and a myriad in between.

Yes, some might. It is a tip off to them that they might have made a mistake and the book got hot. It is their property until they accept your money I suppose. I got a NM 98 in a 5 for $1 sale of what used to be his dollar books when a shop was closing up. It was $50-75 then and he yanked it right out. He said that shouldn't be there and blamed his employee. I was getting a ton of other great stuff he missed (I honestly did get the feeling a lot of stuff was put in those boxes by his employee that shouldn't have been there), so I didn't raise a fuss. It is bad business, no doubt, but if the place is a honey hole and you're still walking away with a ton of good stuff, just not 20 copies of a $100 book, maybe you put up with it?

Maybe she should do spiderman variant covers:

My cousin's... she is very talented, not that great at marketing herself though. She does these large creations with bic pens. She has had a few exhibits, but can't quite quit her day job just yet...

if your primary buying venue is ebay or here then you have paypal purchase records

tell that to all the $4.99 cover price comics getting sold for $1-$2... I have comics in old bags with crazy price stickers on them, does that count?

I have an instagram, but barely use it. somehow i have like 15 followers. i do use insta to look at some artists' work. Better format than facebook. By the time I get insta adept the platform will be obsolete. So you get people to follow you and know about you by putting your insta tag everywhere?

So you don't think I can sell 100 $5 raffles for a $150 book?