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So, that Deadpool #5 came out today, with the amazing Garbage Pail Kids homage cover.

It's already going for ~$20 on eBay, and my LCS had 9 copies.

How many would you buy? Is it a move to buy all of a single book that is in stock?

I couldn't make it there, but my brother picked me up 3 copies, he said he "didn't want to be that guy" and take them all.

Discuss

So what's the story on this one?

I can't read the slab notes on the CBCS re-grade.

"______ Last 18(?) pages detached & completely split? "

22 minutes ago, ComicConnoisseur said:

I hope it is these same actors for the TV shows.

Yes, I was told it will be the original actors reprising their roles.

24 minutes ago, Bomber-Bob said:

Okay, this is a very strange thread for me. Maybe things are going over my head but I am trying to figure out why this is a useful thing to have on the label and nobody wants to give me a straight up answer.   The other company does a lot of things differently than CGC.  Do we now want CGC to copy everything they do ? 

I think it's mostly the investors that care, the more writing on the label that identifies it as unique, the higher the value.

A Spawn #1 newsstand is super rare in a 9.8, and sells for a premium over the direct edition. Same with Spawn #9, which is even more scarce.

#opinion...That being said, I don't see the need for the notation though, it's plain as day whether there's a barcode or not.

I think they could differentiate between Newsstand & Retail without distracting from the label. Just add a letter in the bottom right corner, done   (probably could have made that font smaller)

Or make the hologram a bit smaller, and put "Retail" / "Newsstand" underneath it.

Wonder why they went from noting the actual names written on the cover..to just 'name written on cover'.

3 hours ago, Jerkfro said:

Stocking up on first appearances of The Spot 

The old 7-up mascot?

The place is ginormous, I wouldn't think there's any issue at all with holding pick-up orders for locals, especially with the London office opening up, it'll take small load off from the overseas shipments.

2 hours ago, HENRYSPENCER said:

I have a NM Hustler #1 from 1974.  Can I send it in for grading?

Nudity on the cover, so no?

I'm less than an hour from Chicago, and am trying to give you hundreds of dollars, but you won't answer your pm's anymore

I've never seen these before. I watched the Smurfs all the time when I was a kid, never thought they were in a comic that old, and one from Belgium yet. Neat!

Preview books don't even feel like real comics to me. It's like a commercial, in print form.

It's like when baseball cards came in cereal boxes and whatnot, there were rookie cards, but no one really cared about them, and wanted the official versions.

Saw this on a FB group... does this really happen? What do they think someone could possibly be hiding inside a comic? Yikes

Makes me a little leery about buying from America's hat now.

On 8/13/2018 at 7:15 PM, sfcityduck said:

Except for the scammer with the two fakes.  

It was decided really quickly that they were not legit... it was left up for the humor factor.

I hope this book, being that S.S. isn't on the cover... sets a fire under Strange Tales 110, which I think is still way undervalued.

11 hours ago, Lucky Baru said:

I can't believe the explosion of what people are paying for the book.  CGC 5.0 mid summer 2017 were going for 225.00 - 325.00.  2018, prices are $700.00+ - 1000.00.  Holy smokes, lots of speculation going on.  When will the bubble burst?

A 1.8 just sold for $450 a couple weeks ago.

On 8/9/2018 at 11:00 AM, RockMyAmadeus said:

Why would anyone have a B/S/T group that's closed to the public...? A bit counterproductive.

Because it is the largest comic b/s/t group on Facebook (almost 40k members), and spammers/bots looove large, high member groups.

Nico runs a tight ship though, it's a pretty solid group.

On 7/29/2018 at 7:13 PM, 1950's war comics said:

not a cover but bad enough to qualify...

Tell me that's photoshopped... I know he is terrible with proportions, but that is just... I can't...

Got a stack back this week... this one has so many rings it looks like it has water damage.  Looks even worse in person

It's weird that he didn't delete them after years of seeing stories about people getting burnt by past tweets.

He really thought what he said was no big deal... yikes.

I got those 3 books back in my original post, from CGC today, all came back 9.0, but none of them were noted as File Copies

Only 1 of the 3 were even credited as Lee Elias covers, even though you can clearly see his trademark circle signature plain as day... pretty unhappy about that. I don't think people should be grading golden age books if they don't even know such a prominent name as Elias... sheesh.

It was a good popcorn movie, and I finished a large tub by myself while watching it, for the first time ever.

Not sure if that was because I was really hungry after work, it was really cold in the theater and chewing kept my body working/warm, or I didn't care if I missed some dialogue while crunching.

Probably a bit of all 3

X-Men #4 (vol.2) is selling pretty well since:

1 minute ago, RockMyAmadeus said:

How about we just say "90s", "00s", and "10s"? We're covered that way until at least the 2070s, eh...?

I like the current precious metal system... maybe Nickel, Lithium, Palladium, Vibranium, Bitcoin eras