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  1. On 12/21/2023 at 11:07 AM, DC# said:

    A few notable results from Goldin last night......

    X-Men #1 8.0 OW went for $62.2k - last sale was $43.5K in Dec 2022

    Tales of Suspense #39 9.0 OW/W went for $80.5K - last was $78k in Dec 2022

     

    that seems promising for the overall market given that goldin is usually on the lower end of sales prices compared to the more well-known auction houses. 

    should be interesting to see if this trend continues at least for higher grade SA keys going into the new year. overall economic news seems to have significantly brightened in the last month and so perhaps that is helping in terms of comics prices. 

    on the other hand, this could also just be a case of two high grade books that are desirable and not easy to find in grade being battled over by a few determined and wealthy collectors. 

     

  2. On 12/21/2023 at 7:36 PM, mattn792 said:

    Amazing Spider-Man 51, CGC 5.5, white pages.  2nd Kingpin, and first cover appearance.

    $150, proceeds to Jimbo.  Shipping free in the US, international at actual cost minus $20.

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    :takeit: if still available- 

  3. well, before yet another movie thread gets locked, if they are making the surfer a woman, it's a big F. no way around it. i love a good strong female superhero. captain marvel in her first movie and avengers endgame was awesome and believable. the first wonder woman movie is tons of fun. valkyrie in ragnarok was a cool character and well portrayed. 

    but literally no one needs yet another popular character from 60-70 years ago to be given a sex-change. the surfer's origin story is based around the fact that he sacrificed his true love shalla bal to save his world. mephisto later tries to tempt him to do his bidding by reuniting them in a classic story. yes, a female could also do this. but it is not the same, nor likely to be as good, imho. 

    what's more, it's a big leap for those of us whose favorite character was a man for the last 50 years to just say OK, now it's a woman. again. more importantly, who needs this? are teenage girls suddenly going to care about the silver surfer if its a twenty something woman? marvels and many other recent marvel films indicate the answer is absolutely not. 

    has there been a bigger marvel comics SA character yet to be portrayed by a live actor in a film from marvel/disney? so many of us have been anticipating SS entry into the mcu. i love that actress too. THE WITCH is one of the greatest art films in the last twenty years. but no. not silver surfer. 

    surfer deserves his own movie, without the FF. and it needs to be a man. and a bald one at that!  (too old now, but mark strong would have been awesome for this 20 years ago)

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  4. On 11/15/2023 at 9:14 AM, jaybuck43 said:

    Question.  Do you only go for Marvel/DC movies or do you see other stuff?  Last movie I saw was Killers of the Flower Moon (it was meh, suffered from being too long in my opinion).  I would say I see more non-superhero movies than super hero movies.  

    saw the japanese anime SUZUME with him recently. i pretty much only see stuff that a 9 yr old can see though. for grownup films i wait until i can rent or stream at home.