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great article, if perhaps a bit long. thanks for sharing that! i totally agree w that assessment too. the birth of punisher and wolverine very clearly spring from this moment in comics. question: did the whole gwen stacy clone storyline undo some of the power and permanence of gwen stacy’s death? did it foretell marvel’s inability to ever let a character really die? (see elektra, phoenix, gwen, etc)

that link is not working for me...

how bout some pics from this show? anyone?

will dealers still be selling on sunday from 2pm on? i dont think i can make it before about that time. i know it says it goes to 5, but just want to see if people are starting to pack up their stuff early like at other shows. thanks.

yeah the white pages are very attractive. 10k is a nice price too. i agree it looks like tape was there but overall it presents great for a 3.0

and i dont know who thinks the kids dont love spiderman anymore. my kid cant get enough. wouldnt even let us wash his face the night he got this. they even make these little golden books for kids about spiderman. they're not that great, but my son loves them.

sold for more than a slightly better looking 3.0 did last november. perhaps because of the cool vintage non-intrusive signature, or perhaps the market is recovering a bit? see pics below

he can figure out on his own if his price is too high. most folks on here who are interested in AF15s know what he paid for it 2 months ago on comiclink too. no need to post stuff like this on someone's sales page.

definitely not a crash, but a good time to load up on copies i would say at this point, compared to last august!

big hole on the back cover. cant upgrade that. does present great though

congrats! it was a good price-- tempting for me, but all my extra cash is going to bitcoin these days.

congrats to both buyer and seller! great book at a great deal too!

how can you deduce such a thing from such a small size photo? it doesnt even enlarge to the size of a real comic book, much less larger so one could see real details.

this thread has pretty much been the same couple of folks arguing back and forth. it doesnt really encourage thoughtful commentary about the current or prospective future state of the market for this king of silver keys. and yeah, the big drop has been a big disappointment too. but lets keep arguing about chipping.

i think his art looks like dan panosian, who's been at it since the 90s.

looked like all the certificates of authenticity were from PGX. how are they still allowed to keep their doors open? shocking they havent yet been sued out of business.

i agree totally with this, if i had 40k lying around i certainly would have bid on it. it's hard to believe this wont be a 50-60k book within a few years, at most.

in spite of the down market for mid lower grade copies, still a shockingly low price for a nice 5.5. this market has changed in a hurry. and what an enormous spread between 5.5 and 7.5.

when will the next post be? do you have a schedule?

i'm making a couple of limited edition prints featuring before and after images of marvel heroes (and villains), and the latest incarnation of harley quinn. all images were painted over antique photos. please click the links below for more info. thanks for looking-- http://www.alexgross.com/store/prints/harley-quinn.html http://www.alexgross.com/store/prints/marvel-heroes.html

not a superhero movie, but 'war for the planet of the apes' was awfully shmaltzy and stupid, after the first two were so good. yet all the reviews were glowing and called it the best of the three. could not disagree more. plus, there's no war.

all commodities/ collectibles have both collectors and investors, and there's naturally alot of overlap. i have collected coins purely for the investment angle, really don't care about them for any other reason. i wanted to move into comics because i love them and have always loved them. i buy raw comics that i want to enjoy reading, and i buy graded, entombed key comics both to own them and for the investment value. i'm not sure why a pure collector would ever buy a slab, since it prevents reading the comic book. i remember when i got my first slab, how disappointing it was to realize i could never look at that book. but at the end of the day, i can buy any book raw if i want to read it. the keys are mostly all reprinted somewhere, so i can read those without having to get a raw copy, and be happy with my entombed books too as investments. i'm not turned off by investors in comics, because i think most of them, like me, also love comics first and foremost.

since there is now a DARTH VADER comic book, i thought this was relevant. it's a recent painting i did. perhaps in the upcoming han solo film, this scene will actually appear. perhaps not.

i said they dont have to because we are all bidding and buying the books in their auctions. you say you would not bid on a book without a back cover scan, but you're clearly in the minority of comic buyers. if no one bids, then they'll be alot more motivated to make changes. obviously it's double the time spent, so why would they spend money to do it if their business model seems to be working just fine? ( i totally agree with you that they should and find it super annoying)

ebay long ago demonstrated (to me anyway) that they don't give a *&$% about shill bidding. i've written them numerous times when the evidence was as plain as this, and absolutely no response, and the seller/shiller continue. the only accounts they mess with are the ones they fear are costing them their commission, like folks who make deals outside of the bay.