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You can only pump and dump the newsstands.

He was better with Bill and Rufus in the movie with the telephone booth.

My feeling is that Ahsoka chose not to train Grogu because her Jedi training with Sabine blew up so bad. That is the subtext at least. I thought it was stated that Ahsoka did not train Grogu because of his attachment to Din.

Sounds a lot like when this board started and everyone was confident that Bronze Age is far too plentiful to ever have value.

Are prices for invincible 1 going to go back up? Hard to say... things are falling, so it might be a situation where the Invincible prices just stabilize while other books continue to fall.

AI-Enhanced Dunning-Kruger Effect --- just what the world needs. AI will allow the height of that confidence "Peak" on the left to go even higher!

I missed this when it was released, but I just watched it the other day. I was expecting a "teaser" for Season 2... nope, this is 56 minutes.

It's pretty funny when you think about it. Imagine running everything on the internet about "bigfoot" through a computer that is doing calculations about how often words and phrases are used on the internet or whatever sources it is compiling. The computer will note that words like "monster", "yeti", and "sasquatch" are commonly found on pages that include the word "bigfoot", maybe even a phrase like "abominable snowman"... so it associates these words and phrases with "bigfoot". Another phrase it will associate with "bigfoot" will be "monster truck", and since "monster" is also a common description of "bigfoot", it makes sense that "monster truck" will be associated with "bigfoot". The concept of "large tracks" works for both "bigfoot the monster" and "bigfoot the monster truck". Both may leave "exciting evidence" of physical destruction in an environment, rather than direct evidence. At this point, the AI (in simplest description) might be ready to declare that "bigfoot" is also known as a "yeti", "sasquatch", "abominable snowman", and "monster truck" which leaves large tracks through "the Pacific Northwest area of the Himalayan mountains in Canada and Scandinavia". (Because these geographies are commonly mentioned as well, they are as-far-as-a-computer-can-tell likely to be a general description of the same area.) There you go, rinse and repeat... that's AI. It takes a completely different type of program to take these AI "bigfoot" statements and break them apart for AI fact-checking by AI ("truck" doesn't belong, the Himalayan mountains aren't in Canada or Scandinavia, the Pacific Northwest usually includes Washington, Oregon, non-Canada areas, the tracks are completely different but both are large), but these combined statements made by AI have never been problems discussed on the internet before AI. Where is the reference data to tell you that large tracks from trucks aren't found on mountains on the wrong continents as evidence of a theoretical but unproven monster? That's not a "learning data set" that's available. You would need AI to tell you about trucks, AI to tell you about mountains, AI to tell you about countries and geographic regions, different AI to separate the cryptozoology and automotive term "tracks", and each of those AI training databases may have its own problems similar to how "monster truck" ended up in the "bigfoot" AI results in the first place. At least four error-laden AI systems would need to be used to accurately fact-check a single "bigfoot" topic's AI results without creating any new errors that would need additional systems to correct, all while receiving many sources declaring that bigfoot both does and does not exist. (TL;DR - AI is a Sim that can't get out of the pool)

We'll see the average replaced first. People who do an average job should always worry because there are always replacements for people who are average, whether it be other average people or technology. Furthermore, people who do an average job have always been at risk of being replaced by someone or something which does a better job. I am not convinced that people who do a job well have anything to worry about yet, whether it's creating universes in fiction/art or driving a truck.

Season 2 is coming out. Atom Eve origin story (Season 2 "preview"?) is now available.

Yep, my query had a bug that required at least 10 submissions for the publisher to be listed. Gold Key has (just) those 2 Boris Karloff issues you found. These are the Dell books found: Andy Panda 50 U.K. Price Variant Andy Panda 51 U.K. Price Variant Beatles 1 U.K. Price Variant Cheyenne 15 United Kingdom Dell Giant 40 U.K. Edition Dell Giant 43 United Kingdom Dell Giant 48 U.K. Edition Film Fun 536 U.K. Price Variant Film Fun 563 U.K. Price Variant Film Fun 565 U.K. Price Variant Film Fun 579 U.K. Price Variant Film Fun 591 U.K. Price Variant Four Color 1087 United Kingdom Four Color 1089 United Kingdom Four Color 1161 U.K. Edition Four Color 1173 U.K. Price Variant Four Color 1187 United Kingdom Four Color 1193 United Kingdom Four Color 1236 United Kingdom Gene Autry Comics 12 U.K. Price Variant Have Gun, Will Travel 5 United Kingdom Have Gun, Will Travel 8 United Kingdom Have Gun, Will Travel 9 United Kingdom Huckleberry Hound 11 United Kingdom Porky Pig 71 United Kingdom Quick Draw McGraw 3 United Kingdom Rifleman 6 United Kingdom Rifleman 7 U.K. Edition Rin Tin Tin and Rusty 34 U.K. Price Variant Rin Tin Tin and Rusty 35 U.K. Edition Rin Tin Tin and Rusty 36 U.K. Edition Rin Tin Tin and Rusty 37 U.K. Edition Rin Tin Tin and Rusty 38 U.K. Edition Turok, Son of Stone 21 United Kingdom Turok, Son of Stone 22 United Kingdom Uncle Scrooge 31 U.K. Price Variant Uncle Scrooge 33 United Kingdom Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 240 United Kingdom

Looking for country = United Kingdom or variant = U.K. Edition or U.K. Price Variant, I get... Charlton = 10 books, 13 total submissions Dell = 38 books, 45 total submissions Nothing for Archie, Gold Key, or King

There's a great scene somewhere in the middle of the season where the daily horoscope for every sign is exactly the same.

S1m0ne is a movie that comes to mind as I read these posts. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153/

The only post on this topic? Well, ok. This series becomes more "comic book" story the further you get into the first season. Since these are all-new characters, the standard "yoke" (with a "w") complaints don't really apply, but anyone who considers anything good or bad based on what color the actors are should definitely avoid this series. Otherwise, it's a "mature audiences" mixture of "The Tick" (Amazon series) and "Do The Right Thing" (Spike Lee).

Fun theory... "Marrok" is the name of the mysterious figure with the Inquisitor blade. Originally, Thrawn was introduced in the trilogy of books with a clone of Luke Skywalker called "Luuke". Luke Skywalker was played by Mark Hamill. A clone of "Mark" would be "Marrk"... Marrok.

Some very nice slabs in this topic already. Here's one that hasn't been represented yet... ... and here's the same label again (different certification number) with a totally different (wrong) book inside... That one is actually the back cover (flip side) of Magnus #7.

I think it was corrected sometime in 2003.

CGC has graded 1,431 copies of Solar #10 (so far)... This was one of the first three...

they mention the BP at the start of every auction. It seems to me like the BP annoys you. That’s obviously fine, but let’s not conflate annoyance with surprise. You know about the BP, I know about the BP, I would say every serious and every regular bidder (certainly including anyone going to the trouble of having a HA rep call them on the phone) knows about the BP. What's the hammer price, then?

I'm always surprised how many people want to talk about prices in the middle of an auction. Until it's over, they're meaningless (unless you want to see what the minimum next bid will be).

Yep, I've got a couple. Any in particular you'd like to see?

Maybe someday, when people have learned to tell the difference between zeroes and ones, you can teach them how a quantum computer works. Until then, let's stick to "returnable" and "non-returnable" as our definitions of newsstand and direct. Just two things... people can't handle these two things yet. People are definitely not ready for "well-it-is-non-returnable-but-it-is-not-a-direct-but-it-is-definitely-not-a-newsstand-but-what-about-June-1979-but-not-DC-or-anyone-else-just-Marvel-but-not-Amazing-Spider-Man-those-are-different-but-June-1979-man-come-on-that-is-all-I-want-to-talk-about". They are not ready.

June 1979 is important, but it isn't helpful for Amazing Spider-Man (the biggest Marvel title). There are direct (non-returnable) editions of Amazing Spider-Man as early as #165 (February 1977). Teaching people that Marvel starts direct editions June 1979 would be helpful, but the most important Marvel title goes direct as early as February 1977... so that's like saying the rule is "I before E except for words people use most often".