Ijiwaru Sensei

Is Evangeline Lily out of the movie now?

Will these rather non-Disney-like shows eventually become available for streaming on Disney+, or will they be locked in a vault?

Will a Region 1 DVD or Blu-ray of the Daredevil series be sold?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Mandela Effect?

AI 2041.

It is a collection of fictional stories, each one followed by an analysis, that predict how far the integration of technology and humanity will evolve over the next two decades. The stories are cliched, characters flat, writing uninspired, but the technology that may be coming our way is a combination of amazing and terrifying.

Not loss, stolen, or destroyed, but I sold a run of Uncanny X-Men, Frank Miller's Daredevil, Captain America, and other titles in 1985 to help pay for college.

Let's just say I'm spending quite a bit more now than I paid then to regather these comics.

On 1/22/2022 at 10:19 PM, letsgrumble said:

Today's fix:

Sweet X-Men 50.

On 1/22/2022 at 6:24 PM, PKJ said:

I also noticed the younger more hip crowds at shows, my wife reminds me no matter how cool others are coming into the hobby I am still a nerd. Granted they tend to gravitate to areas of the show I do not but it is still good to see. I have often thought about the generational changes coming. For me the nostalgia is beyond what the movies share or promote. Today's generation is definitely robbed of standing in gas stations and drug stores drooling over spinner racks that introduce you to characters beyond movies (which we did not have).

 

On topic CL prices on books I planned on snagging this round were above last few sales. I was shooting for that Showcase 6 thinking DC was still off the radar but got sniped at the end by $100.Did grab a Steranko cover I wanted well below planned spend, but so far only have three wins on about 15 serious bids.

Your wife sounds like my wife.

Aren't most of the buyers of these books in their 40s-60s, or older?

In 20-30 years, as this age group shuffles off this mortal coil, will prices nosedive, or are there enough younger collectors to keep comics in demand?

On 1/22/2022 at 8:16 AM, Gaard said:

Man, I haven't been to Arby's since last century. They got anything good there?

I've found Arby's bacon, turkey Market Fresh sandwich ok. I have at least one a year.

How many employees does CGC have, approximately?

I remember when the minimum wage in Florida was $3.35 an hour.

I have multiple copies of a few books mainly because of my poor record keeping or poor memory or coming across a higher grade issue and then not getting around to selling the lower grade one.

On 1/18/2022 at 1:57 PM, sckao said:

My first purchased comic book was when I was with my mother in an AM/PM in Chicago and I was allowed to purchase a Marvel Premiere #30 (Publication Date: June 1976) featuring the Liberty Legion, Invaders and the Red Skull.

Before that, I had read my older brother's comics he purchased mainly from the train station (the "L") along with what are now discarded Silver Age comics he found or had been gifted.

I would not actually read Marvel Premiere #29, the first part of the story, until many years later. 

And both of those issues crossed over with Invaders 5 and 6 or was it 6 and 7?

My comic collecting started in the 70s when my dad plopped an Invaders 22 on my bed. I was instantly hooked.

Growing up in Panama City, Florida, at that time, I'd go to Money Haven every Saturday to look for new and back issues. I also ordered Howard Rogofsky's catalogue and ordered a number of back issues from him.

I started with Invaders and Captain America but eventually expanded to Peter Parker, Uncanny X-Men, and Daredevil. Sold my collection in 1985 to pay for college, but I've re-collected most of what I had back in the day.

Geraldine and Ricky? Wow. 

1 hour ago, Chaykin Stevens said:

It's from Captain America (1998) #25, which was drawn by Andy Kubert and Dan Green.

link

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Does anybody know which book this comes from? Thanks.

On 7/4/2019 at 12:14 AM, buttock said:

Here's one with a Catholic priest on the cover...

That's bad. Funny, but bad.

On 7/3/2019 at 4:06 PM, IngelsFan said:

This might not be what you are gunning for, but Haunted Thrills 14 has a horror story where a homeless man finds Gabriel’s Trumpet and summons the dead, resulting in Jesus coming back to send the undead back to their graves.

That, actually, is exactly what I'm looking for. Any appearance of Jesus, reverent, irreverent, in history, out of history, literal, metaphorical. Thank you.

Thanks, everyone. This is really helpful. I knew about David C. Cook's stuff, but I didn't realize it had gone that far back. I have a book collecting his Jesus narratives, but its copyright page says 1978. The style of art should have given it away. Good info.

I knew about the E.C. stuff, Sunday Pix, and Treasure Chest, too, but the "Of Such Is the Kingdom," "In Love with Jesus," and "The Life of Christ" are completely new to me. I really appreciate the pointers.

2 hours ago, EC ed said:

Are you talking covers only?

I am actually doing research. I'm in the early, early just thinking about it stage, so I'm just trying to identify potential sources for now. I'm considering writing something on Jesus in comics. I've presented some papers on the topic, and I've written a little about Christianity in manga and will have a chapter in a book dealing with Daredevil's Catholicism (Netflix's Daredevil) coming out later this year or sometime next. So, it's a topic I'm interested in. Just trying to get a feel for the lay of the land at this point.