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I'm on the hunt for some birthday presents for my father.  He's a huge Captain America fan, and I know he'd be happy with just about any Cap-related comic or magazine.  Problem is, I don't really know of anything left to get him! 

He has every issue of all of Cap's series, including one-shots, annuals, and limiteds.  To my knowledge, he has every issue of every spinoff character (Nomad, Falcon, etc.), and every Avengers comic Steve has ever appeared in.  He's got just about every Cap-related key issue a man could ever want.  He's even got the Asthma Monster issues.  Anything that would typically spring to mind to get a Cap collector, he's already got.

So I'm looking for something way out there to get him- maybe like a fanzine with a cool Cap cover, or a book released only in another country, old rare preview magazine, something along those lines.  To be honest, I dont even know where I would begin to look for something like that, so I was hoping I could tap into a bit of the infinite wisdom around here to find a book there's no way he would know about or own!  Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

On 1/3/2022 at 11:18 PM, Sweet Lou 14 said:

I wasn't involved at all but I do think Thor is an undervalued run.  Seems people are looking for places to put their money and inevitably their attention turns to any title that's remained (relatively) affordable.

If this is the case, do you think it's possible we start to see prices shoot up in runs like Iron Man, Silver Surfer, Subby, Doctor Strange, and Captain America even though they don't really have as much as Thor in terms of big keys?

On 12/4/2021 at 11:55 PM, speedcake said:

Yeah I went ahead and picked one up. Much lower grade than that and raw, but I needed it to complete my run and I just don't think it's ever going to be "cheap" again.. It's softened maybe a tad? Of course it'll stink if it ever drops to pre pandemic prices, but it doesn't seem likely. Least not any time soon. I'd go ahead and get one if you find a decent deal, whatever grade you are looking at. 

Yeah, I can see this book continuing to cool a bit, but there's no way it goes back to where it was pre-2021.  Wanda seems to be one of the main faces of the MCU going forward, and the fan reaction to her is overwhelmingly positive.

On 10/11/2021 at 10:02 PM, Venomous72 said:

In Will Poulter's defense, I cherry picked this from his most awkward movie 

 

This is him now

He honestly doesn't look half bad for the role.  And his young age suggests he may be in the MCU for the long haul.

Now that this thread is resurrected, does anyone think the list has changed since this thread was last relevant?  I think ST110 and DD1 might be higher up these days.

On 10/11/2021 at 1:23 PM, Venomous72 said:

Gonna resurrect this with one or two Hot Takes on my pretty subjective list.  

1) AF 15

2) Fantastic Four 5 

3) Hulk 1

4) Fantastic Four 1

5) X-Men 1

6) Journey into Mystery 83

7) Tales of Suspense 39

8) Fantastic Four 48

9) Daredevil 1

10) Avengers 1

 

I think FF5 > FF1.  Still a very early FF issue and Doom as one of the first big marvel Supervillains I think set a standard.  I know I am probably objectively wrong here tho

FF48 was so important to Cosmic Marvel, which imo is some of the best stories ever written.  Cosmic stuff is dope.

Spider-Man 1 is overrated

Avengers 1 and DD 1 are underrated

 

I agree with you on ASM1, DD1 and Avengers 1... but personally there's no way I could put FF5 over FF1 overall good list tho.

I was looking through my Daredevils the other day and realized I have a cover in which DD is fighting every member of the 2012 Avengers roster except for Iron Man.  Does anyone know a cover where those two fight, preferably from the Silver or Bronze Age?

Thanks

I believe the only other one is ASM #18.

Edit: if you count flashbacks in the SA, there's also DD #53.

Picked up my first MoKF!  Loving reading this series so far!

To those more well-versed in Shang-Chi than I am, what was the peak of this series?  Want to get into reading/collecting this character.

On 7/30/2021 at 5:42 PM, Illustrious said:

I was watching an auction of a ratty coverless copy on eBay the past week, and I was quite surprised where it ended up at. I have a nice, off-white/white complete coverless copy myself, so I was hoping it would give me an idea as to what coverless copies would go for in this current market. I think I paid $250 for mine around 5-6 years ago. Here's the auction in question:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/194211127014?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2047675.l2557&nma=true&si=lUmZ%2Bkc14sMMTlEsw2hqkBeaB5Y%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc

The entry level for this book just keeps getting higher, even though mid grades are slipping.

But wow, you weren't kidding, that's a ratty coverless copy!  First wrap detached and story-affecting piece missing from the corner.

On 7/26/2021 at 10:48 PM, wiparker824 said:

While I’d personally love for it to be Leap Frog I’m not sure the world is ready for a villain that has no superpowers, not a mutant, and literally just puts on a frog suit and throws some springs on his feet…

so I guess we’ll have to settle for Doom, Galactus, and Mephisto. These are the ones I’m betting heavily on with my recent purchases anyways.

Can't wait to see Stilt Man finally battle Frog Man on the big screen.  If that doesn't beat Avatar, nothing can.

On 7/19/2021 at 6:49 PM, THE_BEYONDER said:

The interiors aren’t Miller, are they?

No, I just picked it up cause it's a Miller cover on a DD appearance.

On 7/19/2021 at 6:22 PM, THE_BEYONDER said:

That ASM 219...

Is Murdock Pete’s lawyer in that one?

Yep!

Thanks for all your help everyone!  I went ahead and picked up a few, but it looks like I have my work cut out for me if I want to get all of Miller's DD work!  (Side note, if anyone happens to know where I could find a reasonably priced Comics Journal #58...)

Apocalypse has ties to the Deviants and to Kang, so I could see him showing up in the future.  Mister Sinister could sort of be the Loki to his Thanos.

It seems like we're getting some street level stuff with She-Hulk and the Daredevil rumors, so Kingpin could also be a possibility. 

19 minutes ago, an99 said:

This. Absolutely. I can't tell you how many times I said to myself "it's gonna come down. When it does, I'll pick it up." Sadly, that ship has sailed.

Well, 9.8s are coming down a bit now.

3 hours ago, speedcake said:

Some cooling or small correction should be expected on #1, I suppose.

the other books in the run seem to keep on trucking, though. Probably can expect even more heat in the whole run if/when we start getting real concrete movement in the MCU.

I agree.  As individual characters start to get casted and confirmed, I'm sure we'll start to see movement in stuff like 2, 3, 12, 14, 28, 64, etc.  Right now it's mostly just the super safe X-keys that are hot.

On 7/13/2021 at 11:41 AM, ft88 said:

 

Silver Surfer 18 G/VG $8       X-men 48 G/VG $12   X-men 154 $3     X-men 143 Fine- $6

Claim these 4 @ 20% off

18 minutes ago, THE_BEYONDER said:

Marvel team-up annual 4

Or are you just looking for Miller interiors?

Anything- covers, interiors, art or story.

I apologize if this is the wrong forum to post this in.

I'm looking for issues featuring Daredevil that were worked on by Frank Miller outside the main DD run.  So far I've found Spectacular Spider-Man 27 and 28, Man Without Fear miniseries, and FF Roast #1.  Does anyone know any more?  Thanks.

1 hour ago, wiparker824 said:

Indeed. Feel pretty good about it having got the 1.8. It was very odd though… I wasn’t bidding on the 0.5 but I was watching it as it ended 20 seconds after the 1.8 and it was trailing by about 1,000 the entire auction until the 1.8 ended then the 0.5 jumped to 7500 in the final seconds from like 6,100. I would guess that those bidding on the 0.5 saw the entire auction that the 1.8 was going for more and just stopped following the 1.8 and assumed it was going to jump to 8k+ in the final seconds and they’d be priced out but that never happened, and they still threw in their final bids on the 0.5

That 1.8 is a great pickup, congrats on joining the club!  I think your theory is probably right, the 1.8 was definitely an anomaly in the trend of this book.

The .5 on CLink sold for $7500 

But the 1.8 sold for less?

1 hour ago, Icctrombone said:

Wow, this thread just gave me an idea to sell as much of my books to get Avengers #1 and 4. 

I say go for it, if those are the issues you really want!  I recently sold most of my Bronze and Copper keys to get an X-Men 1 and have no regrets.