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off the CL exchange in the last day or two. a very healthy sale of 78k for a 4.0, largely because it has white pages. yet more proof that with big books, white pages are by far the most desirable and valuable, all other things being equal in presentation. especially for af15, where it's very uncommon to see a white page copy.

this is great news. many of us with policies have often wondered how the claims process works with them. sorry for your loss but glad to hear you were made whole, so to speak.

who is "they?" i've received numerous checks from dhl and fedex on my claims of damaged packages. usps was tougher but i have also been paid. this is all reimbursement on items that i was either paid for and have receipts for, or that i paid for, and have receipts for.

yes you have. at least two of us have already mentioned it. plus it just came out yesterday on hbo.

well said. i was shocked at how nearly identical the scenes of dr fate multiplying himself were to dr strange doing that years ago, i believe in his first film. i found the dynamic of the streetwise kid teaching the naive powerful hero how to say one liners straight out of terminator 2. in fact, i found this whole movie derivative, overlong, and boring as heck. if i have to watch another superhero movie where roided up guys shoot lightning bolts out of their fingers/arms/bodies, i will be done with the whole genre. it's just boring now. infinity war was the pinnacle guys. stop copying that and come up with something more interesting for g*ds sake! there's a massive sameness problem happening in comic book movies these days. both dc and marvel are guilty. the last thor was about equally lame, though at least not ripping off dc endlessly. i hope someone can make something interesting again, at about 90 minutes too. i am really burned out on them. and hawkmans helmet looks st*pid, lets be real.

i thought cavill was perfect as supes, but i think the more important issue is the character in general. it might be unpopular to state here, but i seriously doubt superman's ability to do well in the movie market today or going forward. in 1939, the idea of an all-powerful superman who, with his superpowers, could defeat anyone threatening america in the face of the real world aggression of nazi germany was just right for young boys to grab ahold of. do you really think that no matter what enormously popular, cool, handsome star plays him next, he will be as popular as wolverine, deadpool, batman, spiderman, star wars, joker, harley quinn, super mario brothers, grand theft auto, every other video game that kids love now, every other twitch streamer that the kids love to follow, every youtube star? come on now. there's far too much competition OF A HIGHER INTEREST LEVEL than the very basic premise of superman. (i'm not saying twitch streamers are interesting but kids freaking love it) all modern superheroes owe superman a debt. but it's time to retire him, at least for awhile.

pinching corners is a fairly common bummer that happens with many cgc books. this was a 9.2 but not with those corners.

picked this up tonight on CC. pretty stoked about it, it looks good for the grade, at least on my screen it does.

i don't consider it a key, but it's a super cool book. i've seen a few with white pages. i'd probably put it in the middle tier, tough to find with white pages but not rare.

update- according to @DST who rarely posts here anymore, and is a white page expert, Avengers 4 should be on the medium tough or tough list. as for me personally, avengers 1 is a book i almost never see with white pages. i sold a 6.5 white page copy last year, and since then, i have not seen a single copy with white pages or i might have placed a bid on it. i think i saw one shared here on the boards but not for sale.

wow! well done piper! lovely copy! and white pages to boot! #pagequalitymatters

years? epochs?

wow. still couldnt be slower. yesterday too.

for now disneyplus is now working. it asks me to confirm my birthdate and gender but no matter what i put i get a spinning beach ball and error message, on all devices. a brilliant move the day before they jack the prices. i'm thinking maybe i dont need it after all. on hold with a person in another country who knows little and keeps thanking me for my quickly eroding patience.

perhaps this ought to be its own thread, but i have been thinking about what books are the toughest SA key marvels to find with white pages. i thought i'd make an incomplete short list here and invite others to share their opinions. i'm not doing DC because i don't collect them, and honestly, it seems that almost all of them are pretty tough to super rare with white pages. based on my auction watching over the years, i'd say the toughest (early) SA marvels to find with white pages are: Toughest: AF15, Avengers1, TTA27 Medium tough: TOS39, ASM3 not so tough: Hulk1, FF1, JIM83, ASM1, 2, 4, Xmen1, FF5, DD1, Avengers4 i did not include the later SA keys like SS1, Iron Man1, etc. most of those are easier to find with white pages although SS1 is not so easy, esp in high grade. if i had to pick the absolute toughest one it would be TTA27 as i've never seen one with white pages. although i consider it a secondary key, as TTA35 is a more exciting book for me. AF15 of the major keys is also super tough. please chime in, unless you're the type to say WP don't matter. i don't really need to hear your opinion in this particular thread.

perhaps, but judging from how creamy the cover whites are, i'd be a bit more skeptical. regardless, it's a phenomenally high price even if the book was owwp. last year at the height of the madness, there were two sales at 31k and 28k.

just go to torpedo con in LA instead if they do it. it's one week before and most of the dealers who do sdcc also do it. no cosplay or other noncomic stuff although some toy sellers were at the last one. but it's $50 and a great comic book show. and hotels in the area are not three times higher for that week.

"and will shift focus from quantity to quality." gee, what a novel idea. unreal. no wonder they fired chapek. what idiocy.

how the heck did i miss this INSANE result given the current economic climate and comics market? it's an off white page quality copy to boot. very surprising. (it's a 9.6 if you can't make out the type.)

loved seeing this, thanks for sharing. although i confess to some disappointment at not seeing more schoolgirl miniskirt type costumes!

funny story- i was teaching at art center college in pasadena many years ago, and i had a student named scott ketcham. total slacker, did absolutely no work, and so stoned that you could smell the weed on him after he'd come back from coffee break almost every time. well, i come to find out at some point that he was indeed hank ketcham's son. i was astonished. no idea what became of him but i don't expect very much. this was in the 90s so obviously scott was far too young to have inspired dennis.

ha, yes excalibur comics! i asked the same question and got the same answer. so nice seeing them all together there. love these things!

do we have a drop date yet?

i believe that's a 6, but i also think it looks alot like a 5. perhaps the owner of this book also owned a time machine?