Aman619

I traded a bunch of comics to a dealer to purchase a comic years ago. Last year a friend texted me an estate sale that said they had comics. Going through the boxes I came across a run of those same books, Still had the dealer stickers I never took off the mylars! It was a cool weird feeling seeing them again. I bought them of course! dollar a piece... way less than I sold them for.

you selected an awesome Stan clip. So comfortable and easy going, dominating the scene. quick and funny. No wonder the Herald Tribune guys listened with rapt attention to Stan and quickly ignored poor Jack back in the Marvel's early media interest/reporting. Set the stage for all that was to follow. Not blaming Jack, but if he and/or other artists were also in the room for that interview, also chiming in, the story would have been about a band of creators seamlessly re-inventing a new wave of comics. Like the Beatles... they were all entertaining, and dint have one as the spokesman as the only one able to banter with the media. So please dont find a memo from Stan telling everyone that the interview was cancelled, stay home! : )

there are 2 9.6s...

Had three copies of Fish Police #1. It was hot! Got a free ad in CBG with my new subscription so I listed them for sale for $40. Not a nibble. The boom had busted.

At some point in the 80s I was told that the next Overstreet cover would be Westerns! I walked around the convention I was at and started pulling a big pile to start my accumulation... and then it hit me—- what the heck was I doing?? Walked away. yessirrebob, dodged a bullet that day dad blast it!

I remember when the first 9.4s sold for 20K and I thought it was nutty, oops.

such a striking cover! colors really pop, and the feathering ink style is awesome here

writers are a joke and a necessary nuisance in Hollywood! Never heard the joke about the starlet who tried to sleep her way to the top with a screenwriter? (I think it was a polish joke from years ago). Movie scriptwriting is done in waves. Original -script that picked up by producers or studios.. Then the notes and rewrites galore begin until shooting is wrapped... Total rewrites by special screenwriters are called in in a pinch to "save the picture! to the extent that little of the original screenplay survives. By contrast given the low stakes and cheapness of SA comics, Kirby et al had a LOT more control over their work. Only the dialogue was added or changes from the suggestions i the margins.

I had --- or have --- a 9.8... its in my database. But until I locate it again who knows! Im rich! (or was it a 9.9 that sold for that much??)

Tough market to be buying in... prob not a great time to lock in on grails and keys. But, also prob a new dawn in all investment categories so who knows? Stock market has been rising for a decade too. Dow at 33K ?/. S&P at 4000? What the? It would be so much easier to understand and plan if we only knew who is doing the buying at these prices. Has Heritage been adding new accounts like crazy for the past year? Or mostly still same bidders?

pandemic on last legs... party is almost over. Pretty soon it will be just us and the crickets and tumbleweeds buying comics again.

jeez. theres only 2 9.8s right? so the buyer can't be too choosy about centering etc. If/since the game is to get the highest graded copies, here it is. Nice to see Marvel mega keys in HG (even the later ones) setting records again, many of them have basically been a bit stagnant as the 9.4 and 9.6 ranks swelled up over time.

Must be nice!

And as is always the case, the buyers commission, fee, does not affect the buyer. It comes out of the sellers pocket. You bid on the comics, but the final prcopay is calculated on every bid made. It’s part of the sales price and serves only to divide the funds between consign or and auction house.

yeah, sounds like a fuller picture of what happened. I was going by Snyders comments of late which are probably slanted from his perspective. "Id rather be with my family that del with this stuff"

they didnt take him off the movie... his daughter died and he chose to be at home with the family instead of 20 hour days editing the film.

I liked it a lot. and was amazed at how much of it was shot, but cut out after Snyder left. Sure, most was cut to get the running time down like all big movies. (one extra show a day makes a lot more money!) And was surprised some bigger scenes Remembered were taken out completely (the Russian family, Aquaman telling th truth sitting on the magic lasso, Batman and WW talking privately, etc) the entire plot makes sense finally... Just a fun ride with and a great realization of some of our favorite heroes whose movies haven't quite been made sow well before. I kinda hope the Snyder Cut groupies now start pushing for episodes 4 and 5 by Snyder!!

Was your settlement enough to pay the legal bills? Always the catch when suing. Feels good... but winning is also not winning.

Take the long view... 10 years ago I was thrilled to get $75 and $100 each for 9.8 Moon Knight #1s (I had a dozen of them sitting around since they came out). 100 bucks for 80s dreck I paid a dollar for? Yes ma’am. I’m sick seeing what they sell for now. Yeah my good stuff has gone up too. But we can’t be too sure this is not new baselines being set. Will there be a hangover after life comes back? Probably inevitable. But it would only be a permanent bubble bust if all the new buyers quit buying... and Disney has no plans to slow the spigot of marvel TV and movies... overall there’s a case to be made for optimism and excitement for the hobby, along with the ongoing pessimism we always share.

I once had flood damage to comics and magazines, plus walls and carpet ruined. I added a number for the comics , no keys etc, but say 100 x $5ea, and it was paid. I’m sure it would have been a more difficult claim or it was a box of HG Silver or gold comics with a lot of value. Or if I filed for just the cheap comics, but wouldn’t have met the deductible anyway

interesting take on what may be happening. They may be miscalculating the supply side with comics. Most of us given the smallness of our hobby consider 1000 of something in its highest grade way too common to chase. For me its a much smaller number, in the dozens in top grade. but we all come from the mindset of a small group of collectors, and an even smaller pool of buyers for the most expensive comics. If more people are coming in from other hobbies, it could be changing. However Card guys poured into comics back in the 90s. then shuffled away when the boom ended. I guess their kids are baaaack!??

Not sure I follow what you did here, but look closely at the clothes and hair and you’ll see that the cover image is not the same as the b/w pics. Has to be from the same photoshoot, but she’s bent to the right more, there are folds in her shirt that are different, her left breast extends beyond the side profile, hair highlights different too. Even the rest of the face doesn’t match. They would have retouched the image, so we can’t be sure what they sprayed out. And they would have removed the shadow down the left of her nose, not added it.

well. I think his point, and its one that strikes those new to the idea of the Marvel Method, is that if you always knew Stan as the WRITER, you pictured him typing away and artists waiting for the -script to arrive to start working. Its a fair assumption, right? writers write, artists draw. So learning how the process actually worked especially as the Marvel Age got going strong, well, its kinda like "wait a gosh darned minute there Stan!" Of course given the time it was happening, and the low rent and zero respect atmosphere of comics in general, this was the solution Stan came up with to get it all done on time. He was lucky to have such resourceful and talented artists who could -- and would -- take on the plotting. (Some prospective bullpenners refused the extra workload of working for Marvel). Stan as creative leader at Marvel, and Editor, ran the shop and did a lot of the heavy lifting that created Marvel. But its true that he didnt do it the way most people imagined it was done. So it's a "scandal". For me the lowest point in Stan's self promotion was the intros to the Fireside reprint trade paperbacks. No doubt they were written from the point of view from Stan that the public would be most excited about. But sure, If I were one of the artists Ive be po'ed too. Nobody owned the characters, and as Marvel succeeded, credit was the one thing everyone involved wanted, but it was spoken for already in the effort to build the Marvel brand, led by the "incredible one-man genius". Stan was clearly willing to play the role. And in my mind, he earned it. Everyone else was doing their piece, (Kirby of course doing 1000s of pieces!) but he alone was steering the ship. One interesting thing I've been told that's included in the book was the fact that Kirby against the Marvel "universe" of inter-related characters and crossover stories. Which, as we know, WAS the killer app/idea of Marvel Comics over DC and all the rest. That was Stan's doing.

I saw an sealed and numbered Marvel Masterpieces box -- that had no number! probably a pre-press Skybox sample. In todays craziness that would open some eyes.

apparently, Reisman was assigned to do a review of "Excelsior." He misunderstood the assignment as one on Stan Lee, and did a lot of research, and found the pieces that told a very different story about Stan than the usual commonly held ideas that Stan "drew all the comics", and was a master storyteller who created everything at Marvel. He had a shocking realization, and smelled a best seller. Most of us have known all the stories, and Stan's exaggerations of his input, and how the Marvel method was basically unfair to the artists, but have long since put it all into perspective. So this book is an eye opener to a generation of people who only know Stan as that nice old guy in the cameos, you know, the "Walt Disney" of Marvel. Frankly I haven't read it, nor most of the other Marvel books. But Im told Reisman is a respected writer...and didnt write a true "hatchet job". I just wish he'd never heard of Stan Lee! Cause do we need another tell-all expose of Evil Stan?