Nick Furious

Perhaps it's a sign of respect that no one felt they needed to come to your defense.

When you bid a number like $401 or $133, there is typically a reason for not using a round number. In my experience it's because I'm anticipating that someone else's max bid will be the round number of $130 or $400. Someone on the other side of the equation is probably wondering how you are so good at anticipating other max bids in advance and beating out other bidders by such small margins.

Just fyi, first appearance of Rhino is Amazing Spider-man 41 Amazing spider-man comic books issue 41 (mycomicshop.com) Hulk comic books issue 104 (mycomicshop.com)

Apparently, authors of time-travel stories are still safe for the moment.

There are two components to value...they are Price and Liquidity. Liquidity being the speed at which something will sell and the number of venues it can reasonably be sold on for something close to full price. Anecdotes aside, value will go in this order: Slabbed, de-slabbed with label, and raw with no label. Imagine a test of the same 100 books being sold in the three different formats. Any dealer, reputable or not, will get greatest value (speed and price) from the slabbed format.

Hmmmm, hadn't realized that. Even more Hmmmm.

I think that getting 3 signatures and a slab for $16 plus shipping will minimize the sting of it, regardless if the approach to collecting is optimal or not.

I believe it was Deadpool who said: "Who hurt you?"

I try to multi-task by combining my drinking hours with my hobby hours. Which most say is better than combining drinking hours with work hours.

I would say that "staple rust" is another place where MCS is more likely to hit the grade than CGC. As both a buyer and seller of MCS raw books, I've made my peace with the tight grading. If a book is worth several hundred dollars or more, sure, have it slabbed before sending it in. But for books worth $50 to a few hundred dollars, the tight grading is well worth the opportunity to sell it at MCS. I sent a batch of mid-price raw books to MCS, and they ultimately sold for about 500% of what my LCS offered me. If anyone thinks the grading is too tight, they should put them in auction and let the market decide. That tends to work out fairly well compared to the alternative of selling them raw on Ebay. On the buying side, I enjoy buying MCS stock books that have a grade but don't have an image. It's like opening a mystery box every time, and usually it's a pleasant outcome.

Would it be a violation of forum rules for members to use this thread to post the books that they have in MCS auctions? Either with or without links to the auction?

Who knows what disaster might have occurred if this had waited until Monday and been handled privately...the respectful way that decent people treat each other.

I think this is absolutely correct, the value just isn't there to justify the price. But lowering price is not the only solution. They could also add substance to make it a longer read. Some comic books used to be more like a variety show where the cover story is only part of it. They also had text stories, backup stories, letters to the editor, and even advertisements that you could spend some time reading through and contemplating.

I would recommend lighting one's hair on fire and taking to the internet in hopes of finding a mob that will grab the torches and help to burn the place to the ground. Fire it up! Fire it up!

Do you all tune in to the Weekly MCS auctions? It's usually a good buying opportunity if you want the books that are offered. A little too good. I wish they would get more aggressive about recruiting buyers for the regular weeklies. After my results last time, I'm hesitant to put books into anything but the Prime Auction. As a potential buyer, I like that they have a tab for "Featured Items" each week though: Weekly Auction Ending Oct 2 (mycomicshop.com)

I've thought about the same thing before. I think the answer is that there are a specific number of slots in each auction. When you assign something to auction you reserve one of those slots. If the book got sold a few days before the auction, that would leave a slot empty.

Finally had the opportunity to go to this historic gathering this year. It's like Chicken Soup for the comic collector's soul.

I would give them a 10 out of 10. And you should be checking out their weekly auction ending every Monday night. Like the one ending right now: Weekly Auction Ending Sep 18 (mycomicshop.com)

I'm not sure I understand the issue. When I click on "Set Price/Auction" there is a drop down box right above "assign to auction" that allows me to chose which week it goes into, starting with the next date that is available to me.

Len Wein was a nice guy to meet in person, but his writing was about as good as first-generation AI. Jack Kirby's writing didn't even meet that low bar.

When I finally read it my first thought was "How did this possibly get approved?"

Agreed. Painkiller was good but it sacrificed legitimacy for theatrics. Matthew Broderick was great as the antagonist, but he talked to a ghost in multiple crucial moments of the story. That made all the intriguing details of the story suspect. It becomes very questionable which details were historically accurate and which were theatrical license.

The best thing the ultra-wealthy can do for society is to spend their money on things that have no intrinsic value. No one's life is diminished when a billionaire buys the only 9.8 copy of a comic book and we have to settle for 9.4 or even 8.0. It's when they put their money into something that consumes valuable resources, such as mining for bitcoin...then it's a problem for society.

I was kind of thinking the same thing. The filler, the stuff that doesn't capture our imagination or take the mediums to new places will be pretty easy to replace.

I suspect the graphic novel sold based on his previous reputation and fanbase. I don't mean to undermine the overall point, but that can barely be called a graphic novel. More like "pictures added to story". It reminds me of something I did in 8th grade where we had to write a report and find existing illustrations that went along with the narrative. In a good graphic novel such as DKR, the artwork is not just illustration, it is unspoken narrative. It shows, rather than tells, what an aging Batman looks like and how he outfits himself. It acts as both a second and third dimension to the overall story. At the moment AI is powerful but generally flat, depending on information that is already available. There may come a time soon where we get 3D AI, something that will not just recreate any song in the voice of Sinatra but can also recreate the song in the language of Sinatra. My biggest fear of AI is what happens when we get AI vs. AI? When one is charged with hacking a website at all costs and another is charged with defending it at all costs? Who knows what level they will take it to.