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I have to ask, I keep hearing about all of this back story. Like talk about the Night King and a bunch of other stuff. Is all of this addressed in the book? Like does Martin basically give a history lesson of made up lore while he's telling this story?

I'm floored. Great ending, great episode.

EWB clearly has the best claim for the iron throne.

Yeah, I got in right before it really started gaining traction. That issue in particular suffers from a general malaise with the older collectors. It technically is a 1st issue but you know, the Golden Age stuff. For the vast majority of the collectors now that's irrelevant. Silver Age 1st appearances and 1st issues (or those that are effectively 1st issues) are viewed with just as much regard essentially. Perfect example is Hulk 102 ... still relatively cheap for pretty high grade copies (mine is a 6 graded through CBCS ... bought raw right after the Cap 100 and with the cost of grading I'm only 50 into it). Consequently, I'd check out the Strange Tales line as well .. just great stuff. You can get very solid runs of both TOS and ST for relatively cheap. I mean there's 1st SA appearance of Red Skull in TOS as well ... all sorts of goodies between the two books like 1st app's of Beetle, Boomerang, Fixer/Mentallo (both in ST 141), Super Adaptoid etc etc etc For the question ... in my experience the mid range (4-6.5) copies are undervalued in general, while most SA books are undervalued across the board (not to include your top tier books of course) in the mid grade range. The dropoff at the lower end (2/3.5) grades is hit or miss. I've found a copy of JET POWERS #1 that will likely grade a 3 only because the cover is detached (book is complete, cover is complete and overall is otherwise a 7 or higher) that I got for 25$ ... after grading, even at a 2.5 or 3 I'd come out ahead as they're listed in the 2-4 range raw at 30-60$. The issue is that people are starting to come around to being realistic in collecting. Yes, everyone wants high grade books but collectable grade goes pretty far down the scale ... and now the budget collector is starting to impact that g/vg range. Great info, sounds like you've been collecting for quite awhile. For myself, I can't get too into getting graded comics, just so dang expensive; even for Very Good copies of anything. The story is what I'm most interested in. If I can get a good looking comic at an affordable price, I'll get it, but I imagine all of the Silver age stuff is going to be close to reader copies only. I'll check out Strange Tales, based off of your experience I'll take your word on how great they are and pick up a copy. As for the budget collector, I've been reading a lot about sellers not being able to keep g/vg on the shelp, even at above overstreet. As a budget buyer that concerns me, LOL. Seems like I'm getting late in the game on these, but oh well. :-)

Got all 3 for a total of $100 and they're in great shape. Picked up #101, 102, 104, and 105 also, but I don't have pics of those yet. Anyways, gonna have fun reading them. Great pick ups .... oddly enough Cap has been caught up in a slow burning rise in terms of his comics increasing in value (Golden Age stuff obviously excluded). It's tricky because he was all over the place so the "old" crowd had his stuff stockpiled like many of my generation had the XMen and Spiderman books of the 80's and to a further extent Iron Man .... but guys in my generation read Cap stuff but weren't too interested in keeping it around because we had our own heroes. We got our Cap fill in the Avengers stuff. Then we started reading the older stuff for our heroes (XMen, Spidey, Avengers, Iron Man etc) and hey look at that .... Tales of Suspense was awesome ... CAP WAS AWESOME ! So we started going after it ... and we were able to find it for not too much of a mark up because many of the old shops had it. Now though, its really being sought out and is just starting to run dry so to speak with good copies finally all getting snatched up. For instance, your finds are still pretty good at that price point ... just under 2yrs ago I got a CGC Graded 8.0 Cap 100 (now being regraded at CBCS) for under 275 shipped. Recent sales on Ebay have the cheapest one at 315 shipped (March) but they've moved up to 400 and as high as 599 BIN ... I highly recommend the TOS ... the entire run is pretty damn fantastic. It started out with great Sci Fi stuff by those guys Kirby, Lee, Lieber, Ditko, Heck .... and then went on a hell of a run debuting characters: Iron Man, Crimson Dynamo, Mandarin, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Pepper, Batroc, Sharon Carter, Modok, and hell even Jarvis. Holy crap! You can barely get a Good copy for that price nowadays. LOL. I got super lucky with my #100 cause the guy listed it wrong and I learned a long time ago to keep on the lookout for when things like that happen, got mine for $80. That is some really cool information regarding TOS. I've been noticing that they aren't overly expensive right now, you can find some between $5-$10 for a decent copy; for example, I just picked up TOS #76 and 89 for $8. I don't have a lot of money, but I do have a criteria set for what I get, can't be folded, no major tears, and has to have a cover, so I imagine this hobby being somewhat expensive at the start, being that I want to start from the beginning and work my way through the years. I've read from some places that Fair and Good copies are actually undervalued in the market and should be rise in price, do you agree with that assessment? The big one I want to get is TOS #58, what appears to be Cap and Iron Man fighting for the first time. That'll be a fun read.

I popped hard when the white walkers showed up. For most of this season I've been patiently waiting for the shit to hit the fan and when it finally did they delivered. The best part, by far, was Jon Snow blocking the strike with his sword and it not breaking. Can anyone clue me in on what the sword is supposed to be, obviously it's special, but without spoiling anything? If not please don't say anything. I'd prefer to be surprised.

Forever now I've been completely obsessed with the Captain America canon. Recently I decided to take my hard earned cash and get some silver age comics of good ol' Cap so I can read them from the beginning. Obviously, getting anything golden age just isn't going to happen, so I've been focusing on Tales of Suspense and his first solo run. Really stoked I was able to pick these up. Got all 3 for a total of $100 and they're in great shape. Picked up #101, 102, 104, and 105 also, but I don't have pics of those yet. Anyways, gonna have fun reading them.

Yeah, he was pretty dumb to give it to Loki, but he 100% knew that the gem was in the scepter. He probably just thought that he was lending the scepter to Loki to get another gem as well (the space stone in the tesseract), so to Thanos he probably thought it was a smart move (it wasn't). I hope in Infinity Wars, the other gauntlet comes into play somehow, it would be so fun if they used it as a decoy or someone else used it with a couple of stones to battle Thanos. That makes the most sense, especially cause I forgot there was a stone in the tesseract. Sure Thanos was trying to get others to get the stones for him, which makes sense because the universe would go ape shit if people started putting it together that he was making a play for the stones. What doesn't make sense is for Thanos to give Loki a stone, when he's trying to collect all of the stones, except if only to have Loki get a second stone and then take the scepter back.

Something dawned on me, if Thanos is trying to get the Infinity Stones, why would he give Loki the Chitauri Scepter while a stone was inside of it? I'm sure it can be explained that he didn't know, but being Thanos I would think he would know the Scepter's capability and put 2 and 2 together that it could have the Mind Gem inside of it.

Complaining that Black Widow was captured is sexist makes no sense when you consider that's pretty much what happened to Hawkeye and it was Black Widow who "saved" him by hitting him upside the skull really hard.

Thank you.

More pictures, please.

All of you who have read the books REALLY have to do a better job of keeping your traps shut. Sorry if you take offense, it's just really annoying getting shit spoiled. It would be nice to come here and discuss the TV show without having to worry. (Not that I've discussed anything, just found this thread.)

I Wonderwall the fuss is about. They really aren't that big a deal.

Death From Above 1979's album Your a woman, I'm a machine.... If it would have come out recently, rather than 9 years ago it would have received much more pub... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJLmXCfYs9k

The Departed. End thread.

I was telling my brother, after the Lori episode, that I thought Rick was the safest person on the show. Then I read an article that said the creator, show runner, whoever has control that Rick wasn't the main character. He said that inevitably the story is about Carl. So in that respect, Carl is the safest person on the show, which makes sense if you think about it.

I love "The Good Soldier" - I read it during my literature degree as well. Another text from the same era and dealing with similar themes is "Quartet" by Jean Rhys (Ford's former lover.) It was my least favorite book of the ones I've read. Don't get me wrong, the subject matter was great, it's just the way in which it was written, as if directly talking to the reader, left something to be desired.

I'll try not to spoil anything from the book, but the Battle of Yonkers sums up how the American military grossly underestimated its enemy. Remember, it's a worldwide situation (not to mention several countries blame one another for the zombie uprising, which leads to battles and all-out nuclear assaults.) A later chapter details how soldiers and civilians adapted and formed a strategy so they could push back from Arizona. As far as how the whole thing begins, it'd wonderfully vague. Leaves it up to you to piece together how it may have escalated, which I personally liked. It usually goes the same way in every zombie book/movie/tv show. They typically get done in by the sheer size of the hoard.

Taking a film and literature class at my University and we've read a bunch of books so far, 5 to be exact. 3 of them I loved and the other 2 were decent. The one's I loved W. Somerset Maugham's "The Razor's Edge" Oscar Wilde's "A Picture of Dorian Gray" Guy de Maupassant's "Bel-Ami" - The movie was atrocious. I'm talking the Twilight guy's version. All three were fantastic books, but Bel-Ami I absolutely loved. Slightly better than The Razor's Edge. If you were curious, the other two were... Shakespeare's "Richard III" Ford Maddox Ford's "The Good Soldier"

I'd love to do that, but if I did mine you'd just see a lot of The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blood Red Shoes, and The Black Keys. When I like a band I play the shit outta them.

Geez, and to think Jennifer Lawrence only got paid $500K for the first movie. Hopefully, she'll make a boat load more for the other two.

I hate my internet connection.

Went out with this chick a bit ago and she turned me onto this band, Death From Above 1979. Since then I've been listening to them a bunch.They put out an album, You're a Woman, I'm a Machine, back in 2004, then broke up not long after. They just recently got back together and a riot broke out outside when they played SXSW. Here's a clip of them playing their song Little Girl...