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Modern Amazing Spider-Man FCBD 2007 (Q) VF (store stamp) $15 Bad Boy #1 VF/NM $5 (Bisley) Batman Beyond Free Special Origin Issue (Q)NM (store stamp) $25 SOLD Batman Chronicles #21 NM $5 (Bendis story) Batman Gotham by Gaslight NM $5 Batman: I, Joker NM+ $10 SOLD Batman: LODK Halloween Special, Madness, Ghost NM+ $25 SOLD Batman: Shadow of the Bat #93 NM- $8

Welcome to Paperheart’s Still Locked Down Sale PM or PP or Check/MO US shipping: 1-5 books = $8, 6 or more books =$11 Int’l shipping TBD Returns w/in 7 days of receipt (return shipping TBD) Reasonable time payments considered No Probies, HOSers or those on ignore Available to board members only Buy 5 or more items (a set = 1 item), take 20% off listed price per item <$100 & 10% off $100 or > Will post by age: Modern, Copper, Bronze, Silver

Teen Titans books as per PM

some actual #'s: given that July now looks like a near wipe-out as well, US will be hard pressed to get to $5BB for the year Domestic Yearly Box Office Compare Year to Date January 1 - June 27 Data as of Jun 26, 17:01 PDT Year Gross vs 2020 vs 2019 vs 2018 vs 2017 vs 2016 vs 2015 2020 $1,792,471,206 - -67% -70% -67.4% -67% -66.4% 2019 $5,423,594,422 +202.6% - -9.3% -1.2% -0.2% +1.8% 2018 $5,980,422,874 +233.6% +10.3% - +8.9% +10.1% +12.2% 2017 $5,491,140,179 +206.3% +1.2% -8.2% - +1% +3% 2016 $5,433,996,577 +203.2% +0.2% -9.1% -1% - +1.9% 2015 $5,330,355,800 +197.4% -1.7% -10.9% -2.9% -1.9%

‘Mulan’ Moves Release Date To August 21 With NY, LA & China Theaters Still Not Open

i had never heard that was the case and i was in contact with them a lot in Mar/Apr about the May auction

the past auction

i would suspect that for this auction there were more items not in house given they extended the consignment period right up to the very end.

did Marvel buy DC and no one tell me?

ten little slabs

Warner Bros. is delaying Matt Reeves' highly anticipated Batman movie by four months as the studio shuffles its broader DC film lineup. The Batman was originally supposed to hit theaters on June 25th, 2021, but it will now open on October 1st, 2021, according to Deadline.

i thought this was a hilarious parody; it's real

i didn't realize this scene wasn't common knowledge

probably $5BB now

‘Tenet’ Moves To July 31; 10th Anniversary Re-release Of Christopher Nolan’s ‘Inception’ To Go On July 17 don't know how two weeks is going to help

‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Jumps To October Following ‘Tenet’ Summer Shift https://deadline.com/2020/06/wonder-woman-1984-jumps-to-october-following-tenet-summer-shift-1202958294/

and the dominoes keep tumbling: Tenet to July 31, WW 2 to October ‘Tenet’ Moves To July 31; 10th Anniversary Re-release Of Christopher Nolan’s ‘Inception’ To Go On July 17 ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Jumps To October Following ‘Tenet’ Summer Shift

RIP I'm reminded of the story Peter David told IIRC; during a screening of Batman & Robin when Batman pulled out a credit card, Mr. O'Neill loudly sighed and walked out

https://www.metacritic.com/movie/artemis-fowl/critic-reviews getting what you paid for on Disney + - not much

this is Fox you're talking about; they gave Simon Kinberg Dark Phoenix and he'd directed nothing other than purportedly cobbling together the second half of Fantastic Four. How'd that turn out? MCU has had great success with directors who'd done nothing but much smaller movies: Gunn, Coogler, Russo Brothers- this probably mostly comes back to the MCU has Feige and Fox didn't.

skip the article and go to the comments https://deadline.com/2020/06/fantastic-four-director-josh-trank-says-studio-blocked-him-from-casting-black-actress-as-sue-storm-1202952970/

Englehart for me I think of Miller as Copper, Moore certainly as well - now that's a battle of titans; O'Neill vs Conway is The Rock vs Pee Wee Herman

chuckles has weighed in: DC SUCKS! 50% Off Codeword Sale Begins - Read why... Howdy! I was going to take this afternoon off, as I came in early this morning and spent four hours in 90 degree heat weed-wacking the Jason St. parking lot. My relaxation plans were all shot to hell, however, when DC Comics blindsided everyone at noon by sticking a shiv into the back of Diamond Comic Distributors, and Diamond founder, Steve Geppi. To say that I am seething with rage right now, is a total understatement. I actually saw this coming a couple of weeks ago, but was hoping against my own common sense that the new owners of DC (AT&T) would come to the realization that keeping Diamond alive was critical to the revival of the 2,000+ Direct Market comic book retailers who serve the core of their most dedicated readers. Instead, my own predicted worst-case scenario is now unfolding, with DC announcing this afternoon that they are severing all ties with Diamond Distributing, effective in three weeks. So, what do the new kingpins at DC think that they are doing? Well, first of all, they want to drive more business to their online channel. Second, they think that they can do just fine on their trade paperbacks and hardbacks selling them to traditional bookstores through their distribution relationship with Penguin/Random House. Third, their recent "experiment" of selling $9.95 pseudo comic books through Walmart and Target has shown them quite clearly that they can generate massive comic book sales without a single comics specialty shop remaining in existence. Steve Geppi All of those factors are serious, but I think that DC's real issue is money. AT&T paid one hundred and eight billion dollars ($108,000,000,000.00) to buy Time/Warner just 18 months ago. The exact amount that they paid in cash is unknown, but some portion of that purchase amount was an assumption of existing Time/Warner debt. Nonetheless, the debt service on those loans/bonds is easily six billion a year, and quite possibly more. Sadly, they won the bidding war on this incredible deal just in time for the pandemic to slam Time/Warner's business into the ground, and thus reduce revenues drastically. Simply put, the managers at AT&T are now in a horrible bind. They need immense amounts of cash flow to service their debt, and they need it immediately. Meanwhile, while everyone at DC is freaking out because their entire ship is in danger of sinking in their self-created ocean of debt, Diamond Distributing sends out a letter to all of their vendors telling them that, instead of being paid on time for all of their products that were long-since shipped by Diamond, they will receive small incremental payments on the monies owed to them, over a period of 13 weeks. As I am sure that you can well imagine, that letter from Diamond really was the death knell for their relationship with DC. Management in the past would have had fewer options, and far more loyalty to the long-term Diamond relationship, but these new guys are terrified that they are all going to be fired, so they want out. Now. Immediately. And they could care less about who is going to wind up as collateral damage. They are only concerned about saving their own sorry asses, and no one else matters. Absolutely typical self-serving NY financier/Wall Street BS. So, what does this all mean? Honestly, I do not think that anyone knows for sure. DC is trying to force all Direct Market comics shops to now order their weekly publications from a couple of lame- pseudo-distributors that they have self-anointed. We saw Marvel try this exact same stupidity with their Heroes World debacle, in 1998. They lost millions in short term revenue, and even more from the debilitating effect that it had on their market share and their brand. DC kills again for money! Of greater importance to me is the future of periodic comic books, and the retailers who can only cover their operating costs by selling those new issues. Frankly, my first instinct is to say that they are all dead, and that the party is totally over for new comics. Diamond Distributing is certainly at immediate risk, as losing their #2 product line (in an already depressed market) is a catastrophic loss. To use the phraseology of Wall Street, their ability to continue as a going concern is now in great doubt. The same is true of every comic book store in America, as the horrors of our Heroes World experience showed us all what an unmitigated disaster results from trying to coordinate multiple shipments from multiple distributors. It is an absolute nightmare. Not impossible by any means, but still an exercise in raw misery. Truth be told, my greatest concern with the future of the Direct Market retailers revolves around money and/or credit. With so many stores having been shuttered for eight weeks, or longer, who has the means remaining to establish credit lines with these new "distributors," while simultaneously meeting their existing obligations to Diamond? Truthfully, this is a perfect storm of disasters for Direct Market retailers. Some stores will most definitely survive, but thanks to the unilateral decision today by DC Comics, I think that number of surviving entities was just reduced drastically. It is a sad, sad day in the history of comic books. As regards Mile High Comics, I believe that we are going to be just fine. I was nearly four million dollars in debt nine years ago (including a million dollars! in outstanding Diamond invoices), and deduced that my operating losses were mostly resulting from unsold new issues that we ordered for our clients, but which they then failed to purchase from us. Simply put, I started reducing new comics as a key element of our company product mix, and immediately saw things turn around for us. We paid off most of our company debt through the sale of our 56th Ave. building three years ago, and (finally) paid Diamond totally off last week. I will never again (ever) go in debt for new comics. Chuck going through one of the thousands of comic deals made over the years. So you know, we are doing reasonably well right now selling back issues and books online, and operating our awesome Jason St. Mega-Store with a focus on families and pop culture products. I plan to still be around to serve you for many years to come, and we are actively buying collections every day with that future prosperity in mind. Meanwhile, however, I feel very badly for Steve Geppi, as he is my dear friend, and he also generously helped us in so many ways to stay in business during those years when we were down and out. I wish that there was something that I could do to help him right now, but the new guys at DC have come for him with their heartless knives, and all I can do is to watch the resulting carnage in dismay and horror. The cruelty of his fate is very hard to bear. Your friend, Chuck Rozanski/Bettie Pages, President - Mile High Comics, Inc. June 5, 2020 P.S. I am beginning a 50% off back issues sale today with the codeword DCSUCKS! I make no apologies for the forthrightness of my codeword choice, as I am rightfully and truly pissed off. The 50% off DCSUCKS! Codeword applies to all ten million+ of our back issue comics and magazines, including an awesome collection that Pam purchased this morning. Those key issues will be in our Premium New-In-Stock link at about 10 AM tomorrow (Saturday) morning. Only new issues, my few variants, and our professionally-grade comics are excluded. Please stay

one of the greatest bronze age sales was Joe Serpico's GL #76 9.6 for $30K

Warner Bros. Cinemark CEO Mark Zoradi remained confident this morning on the exhibitor’s Q1 call that Warner Bros.’ Christopher Nolan movie Tenet will remain on track and open on its planned July 17 release date.