AJLewandoski

Just to give an idea of the magnitude, and it's still 45 minutes before the movie starts.

I'm in line for no way home I'm gonna miss everything

Standing in line an hour early and it's already overflowing the stanchions, gone around the corner of the building and the parking lot had no spaces, spectacle cinema is back on the menu.

I'll add these 2 to my pile thanks Gene!

Does this one count as a magazine? Found this at my favorite dealer at the flea market, extra excited to find the boomerang hanging out inside unpunched. Now I have issues 1-3 and couple later stragglers.

I posted this in bronze age Spideys, but I'm not sure that was exactly the right place. I was at a paper show and my wife spotted this ENORMOUS scrap book of all the Spiderman daily comic strips from Lee and Romita starting with the first strip in '77 and every strip every single day for what appears to be about 3 years. 3 strips per page except the full color Sunday's which each have their own, over 1000 strips in total with the book being about 4 inches thick. I'm sure there are more convenient ways to own these, but I think this is magnitudes cooler with the amount of effort required to assemble this.

This just came in from ebay! Not great shape, but the Steranko sig is neat, albeit a strange choice, and it was only $40

I found this unbagged and unboarded in a box today...

Here's an oddball for y'all. My wife spotted this at a paper show today. It's a scrap book of every Spidey daily strip from the first in '77 to somewhere into the 80's. The whole thing is probably 4 inches thick and has 3 strips per page, except the full color Sunday's which each have their own page. No idea what the value on something like this would be be, but at $30 it wasn't not coming home with me!

Is there a Dopesick thread? If not, why not? I think it's one of my favorite things I've seen this year. After watching, it's safe to say Poulter is going to crush the role of Adam Warlock and he definitely got the look down by the time he was filming this show. That Michael Keaton guy they have is pretty decent too someone should tap him for a comic book movie role

Too good a deal to pass

A good day at Motor City Comic Con yesterday. Not a huge haul, the comic dealers are becoming fewer and fewer, but I did get some decent bits to fill in some holes and odd ball keys that I needed to whittle away at. The first group is from the ever affable @SkOw and the other two are from a dealer who had all their books marked 50% off the sticker price, so there were plenty of great deals to be had.

Well its just a rumor I have no idea if it's true. Sorry if I've offended you I did write spoiler alert in there I forgot there's a button for it on here but I changed it.

So the word from the early screenings is the post credits scene...

It's a first print. 2nd and 3rd prints have a 75 cent price on them

This is a modern you may want to pull it before they shut down your thread

Boy oh boy this was a tough saga to sit through. The collusion presented in the video, if accurate, is concerning, but as the narrator said intent is hard to prove, and in the internet age providing hard evidence is even more difficult. I may have a unique perspective to share as I also collect video games. The rarity of the game in question is not something the average video game collector would ever care about. Only the literal most hard-core video game collectors have ever cared about or paid a premium for these variants. Sticker seal vs. shrink wrapped, Rev A vs. Rev B, or hang tab vs non hang tab boxes, these would fall into niche collecting like price variants in comics. I happen to have known of a great portion of those involved as longtime members on the now (mostly) defunct Nintendo Age forum. As they were known over there BreaKBeatZ (Deniz Khan), K. Thrower (Kenneth Thrower), Dain (Dain Anderson), Bronty (Dan) and a few others whose forum names I can't remember, have at least known of each other, and been in this market a lot longer than this ongoing "scandal". Dan's loan of SMBs is surely less suspect knowing there's more than just a surface level relationship between them. He's been in on graded games before the inception of VGA, and now he's placed his faith in WATA as the premiere grading source because he knows the quality of the people involved with the operation, and can trust their grading over VGAs. I mean do people really not get that? If you knew cbcs was more accurate at grading than cgc would you still send your comics to cgc? His game got down graded because he had it regraded with them, so that only proves more stringent standards from WATA even as a someone they know. Sorry if this comes off as me tooting his horn, I don't know him personally, but I can only imagine his OA collection most likely exceeds the value of that game. If anyone doubts Dan's intentions he's been in the high end sealed video game market a lot longer than this recent bubble. He's had sealed games worth 5 figures for over a decade, and he's always been a collector of the highest echelon. Obviously I don't speak for him, but he has been out of active collecting for a long time as well, so I don't think he has the same passion for the actual games anymore, and you could see what may be taken as some apathy or nonchalance about them. Markets change, and if the hedge funds and wall street feel they can make money in these things no one can stop them. Is it frustrating being priced out? Sure, I hate that I can't afford a Marvel Comics #1, but so long as there's someone out there willing to bet on the prices that are being asked they'll be sustained or keep going up.