Copper's Heating/Selling Well on Ebay 33 33

[ygogolak]

The comparison is not between a comic book and an ipad. The comparison is "types of demand." Apple doesn't raise their prices because there's interest. Like I said earlier, the analogy doesn't quite fit, but it's close enough for gov't work.

 

And you just fell victim to the same argument you decried earlier: "they make a second print because of demand"...that demand isn't for the book as a collectible, it's as a new comic book. Whether there is demand years later for it as a collectible is not the same type of demand, which I conceded was what made the analogy not quite fit.

 

 

So, comic books are good?

 

Edited May 20, 2014 by ygogolak

[MR SigS]

[ygogolak]

/\/\/\/\

 

Is it a 1st or 2nd print?

[slym2none]

http://badassdigest.com/2014/03/25/the-rock-pretty-much-admits-hes-going-to-play-lobo/

 

I like how the writer of the article decides it is Lobo and can only be Lobo :

 

That's Lobo. There's simply no other DC character who fulfills those requirements.

 

Ahem... here are the three qualities:

 

Here are three qualities. The first quality we were looking for was that he had to be extremely complex and have a lot going on. What that does for me as an actor and the studio is it gives us space that we can explore; his complexities. The other quality was that he had to -- the character we were looking for had to be well-known but never brought to life. Then what that does again as an actor, it gives me a little bit of space, and we talked about personality. It just gives me a chance to put an imprint into his personality, with the set of tools that I could bring to the table and put a very unique twist on his personality, but still pay homage to who he is. The third thing -- and most important -- is he had to be a bad- mother-, okay, and on a Superman level of power, where could throw down.

 

To me, that says...

 

Darkseid.

 

Lobo has personality already, if D"TR"J wants to inject personality with his own "imprint," I see that Darkseid has more room for imprinting.

 

I know, I know... it probably will be Lobo... but I hope, for me and me alone, that it's...

 

Darkseid.

 

I'm not sure darkseid is as complex as lobo. Lobo is driven by violence, money, motorcycles, girls, drinking, kicking , fun, and is powerful but not OVER powered, which makes him generally more relatable and possibly more marketable to a movie audience. Darkseid is driven by power and destruction, is overpowered generally, which might make him more intriguing for a cosmic Game of Thrones movie revolving around New Gods, but less so IMO for a stand alone movie. But more importantly, people might see him as a thanos copy.

 

I can't see Lobo as "having a lot going on." Darkseid rules an entire planet with machinations to take over more and more around him. And the Superman cartoon sure didn't have any trouble showing Darkseid in a tone that relates to something non-cosmic in scale.

 

 

 

-slym

[B-Smooth]

The comparison is not between a comic book and an ipad. The comparison is "types of demand." Apple doesn't raise their prices because there's interest. Like I said earlier, the analogy doesn't quite fit, but it's close enough for gov't work.

 

And you just fell victim to the same argument you decried earlier: "they make a second print because of demand"...that demand isn't for the book as a collectible, it's as a new comic book. Whether there is demand years later for it as a collectible is not the same type of demand, which I conceded was what made the analogy not quite fit.

 

 

So, comic books are good?

 

I want to shave that friggin guy's hair off, every time I see him on tv.

[RockMyAmadeus]

Calling a new book a "collector's item" is like calling yourself "cool."

 

If you have to claim it, it's almost definitely not true.

[Jimmy Linguini]

Calling a new book a "collector's item" is like calling yourself "cool."

 

If you have to claim it, it's almost definitely not true.

 

Look at sex #1

[rjrjr]

Calling a new book a "collector's item" is like calling yourself "cool."

 

If you have to claim it, it's almost definitely not true.

 

Look at sex #1

 

 

[Bronty]

Calling a new book a "collector's item" is like calling yourself "cool."

 

If you have to claim it, it's almost definitely not true.

 

Generally I agree but sometimes it comes to bear. Can anyone remember a comic advertised on the cover as a collectors item pre dating FF11?

[*Bronze age fan*]

Hellblazer #2- 1st Papa Midnite cover $30, though most of them recently sold for the $5 range

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hellblazer-2-NM-1st-print-Bagged-Boarded-DC-Vertigo-Delano-NEAR-NINT-Cond-/161295708189?pt=US_Comic_Books&hash=item258df9301d

 

 

I love your sig! I need to watch the Young Ones again! Classic stuff!

[B-Smooth]

Calling a new book a "collector's item" is like calling yourself "cool."

 

If you have to claim it, it's almost definitely not true.

The only exception being something made in such small amounts, it becomes "collectible." Like maybe 5 of them. Something like that.

[Amadeus Arkham]

Or my 1:25 Artuto Lozzi print of Ghost Rider #1?

 

 

Sorta.

[Lazyboy]

Not exploding yet, but it will. OK, maybe not "explode" but will go up enough to make a good profit: Saga Of The Swamp Thing #25, 1st Constantine cameo app

http://www.ebay.com/sch/Copper-Age-19841991-/165364/i.html?_sop=1&_from=R40&_nkw=swamp+thing+25+constantine&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc

 

I though this proved to be a different character?

DC wikia lists it as him, so I guess for now it is:

http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/John_Constantine_%28New_Earth%29

 

All that really matters is what the market thinks, but Bissette has stated on several occasions that the guy in 25 was Sting. He and Totleben had been bugging Moore to have a Sting-like character for a while. It took them a while to get him to relent and we got JC in 37.

 

The funny thing is, it is just so much simpler to look at 25 as some kind of cameo.

 

 

[Lazyboy]

Not exploding yet, but it will. OK, maybe not "explode" but will go up enough to make a good profit: Saga Of The Swamp Thing #25, 1st Constantine cameo app

http://www.ebay.com/sch/Copper-Age-19841991-/165364/i.html?_sop=1&_from=R40&_nkw=swamp+thing+25+constantine&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc

 

I though this proved to be a different character?

DC wikia lists it as him, so I guess for now it is:

http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/John_Constantine_%28New_Earth%29

 

DC wikia also says this:

The character of John Constantine was created by Alan Moore, on something of a whim originally. Alan Moore is quoted to have said "Hey, let's make a character that looks like Sting." and, well, the rest is history.

 

[Amadeus Arkham]

Think the Infinity Gauntlet series will begin to heat up once it's painfully obvious that Thanos is the villain for Avengers 3?

[slym2none]

'Begin?"

 

 

 

-slym

[divad]

Sold a complete NM+ (or better) set recently for $100 shipped. Sold another NM/MT copy of #1 for $50. I would say that's sufficiently HOT . . .

[Bosco685]

Not exploding yet, but it will. OK, maybe not "explode" but will go up enough to make a good profit: Saga Of The Swamp Thing #25, 1st Constantine cameo app

http://www.ebay.com/sch/Copper-Age-19841991-/165364/i.html?_sop=1&_from=R40&_nkw=swamp+thing+25+constantine&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc

 

I though this proved to be a different character?

DC wikia lists it as him, so I guess for now it is:

http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/John_Constantine_%28New_Earth%29

 

DC wikia also says this:

The character of John Constantine was created by Alan Moore, on something of a whim originally. Alan Moore is quoted to have said "Hey, let's make a character that looks like Sting." and, well, the rest is history.

 

 

That's actually not correct.

 

The other two members of the creative team wanted to fit a character into the book matching Sting's appearance. So to appease them, Moore created Constantine.

[Lazyboy]

Not exploding yet, but it will. OK, maybe not "explode" but will go up enough to make a good profit: Saga Of The Swamp Thing #25, 1st Constantine cameo app

http://www.ebay.com/sch/Copper-Age-19841991-/165364/i.html?_sop=1&_from=R40&_nkw=swamp+thing+25+constantine&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc

 

I though this proved to be a different character?

DC wikia lists it as him, so I guess for now it is:

http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/John_Constantine_%28New_Earth%29

 

DC wikia also says this:

The character of John Constantine was created by Alan Moore, on something of a whim originally. Alan Moore is quoted to have said "Hey, let's make a character that looks like Sting." and, well, the rest is history.

 

 

That's actually not correct.

 

The other two members of the creative team wanted to fit a character into the book matching Sting's appearance. So to appease them, Moore created Constantine.

 

Exactly.

[Pike's Comics]

Here are some more of my predictions for the next 5 years!

 

Action 894

Batman 497

Gen13 1

Sandman 69

Omega Men 3 (get'em while they are still cheap)

 

I literally have a short box full of batman 497!