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stevegreer1 Posts: 41
1/1/2016
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Wow, forum reboot! Glad to see the forum back. Anyway, I recently made a nice purchase of Excalibur issue 1 - 50 (paid about $26.00 with shipping). Loving it so far! I think that Excalibur is one of those overlooked series' that was/is actually a great series well worth the reading. Personally, I think Disney/Marvel could easily do an Excalibur movie. There are already two
X-Men characters, Nightcrawler and Shadowcat, which would help the X-Fans relate. And come on, I mean, if they can make an Ant-Man movie, then certainly Excalibur would be worth it.
Alrighty then, let's get to posting and make this forum active again!
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netstuffers Administrator Posts: 239
1/2/2016
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stevegreer1 wrote:
Wow, forum reboot! Glad to see the forum back. Anyway, I recently made a nice purchase of Excalibur issue 1 - 50 (paid about $26.00 with shipping). Loving it so far! I think that Excalibur is one of those overlooked series' that was/is actually a great series well worth the reading. Personally, I think Disney/Marvel could easily do an Excalibur movie. There are already two
X-Men characters, Nightcrawler and Shadowcat, which would help the X-Fans relate. And come on, I mean, if they can make an Ant-Man movie, then certainly Excalibur would be worth it.
Alrighty then, let's get to posting and make this forum active again!
Welcome back! We'll start advertising the forums next week after we work out a couple more kinks, so I expect a lot of new members to start wandering by soon 
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da gooch Posts: 5
1/2/2016
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Nice haul. Ive been trying to find a set of Excaliber or Alpha Flight at a price like that. Ebay?
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colbalt91 Posts: 298
1/2/2016
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Hey, that Ant-man movie has gone past Thor and Captain America in box office revenue. That is why there will be a sequel.
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stevegreer1 Posts: 41
1/2/2016
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da gooch wrote:
Nice haul. Ive been trying to find a set of Excaliber or Alpha Flight at a price like that. Ebay?
I actually found them on shopgoodwill.com, believe it or not. They were all bagged and boarded and so far are all in really good condition with white pages.
I also bought a nice run of Alpha Flight a few months ago from my LCS. Another great series.
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Finley2020 Posts: 42
1/3/2016
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shopgoodwill.com? Interesting. Never knew they had a website for something like that.
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stevegreer1 Posts: 41
1/5/2016
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Finley2020 wrote:
shopgoodwill.com? Interesting. Never knew they had a website for something like that.
Yep, I only learned about it last year. I think the only complaints I really have about it is:
1. The shipping charges can be a bit steep, and they take their sweet time shipping the stuff out. The 50 comics I bought were fairly priced for shipping, considering the weight and the fact that the price I won the auction for was way less than they would have cost at a comic shop, but it took close to two weeks before I received them.
2. The photos of the items they provide are not very large, so it is hard to tell the condition by the photos. Plus, the descriptions can be a bit vague.
3. The other is that it is an auction site, although a few items you can find with a "Buy It Now" option. And just like with eBay, you have the lurkers who wait until the last minute to make bids. I got beat out for an auction just last night by a lurker (and yes, I admit I was doing some lurking myself). It was a 6 book lot which had only two comics I was really interested in. One is an issue of Conan the Barbarian that I am missing, and the other was New Mutants Annual #2, which was the one I was really wanting as it is worth a little bit. When I bid it was at $8.00 and I placed a max bid of $20.00. Some lurker snuck right in with less than a minute remaining and outbid me by $1.00! By the time I realized I had been outbid it was too late to rebid. Oh well, you win some, you lose some.
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Gilgandra Posts: 1246
1/5/2016
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netstuffers wrote:
stevegreer1 wrote:
Wow, forum reboot! Glad to see the forum back. Anyway, I recently made a nice purchase of Excalibur issue 1 - 50 (paid about $26.00 with shipping). Loving it so far! I think that Excalibur is one of those overlooked series' that was/is actually a great series well worth the reading. Personally, I think Disney/Marvel could easily do an Excalibur movie. There are already two
X-Men characters, Nightcrawler and Shadowcat, which would help the X-Fans relate. And come on, I mean, if they can make an Ant-Man movie, then certainly Excalibur would be worth it.
Alrighty then, let's get to posting and make this forum active again!
Welcome back! We'll start advertising the forums next week after we work out a couple more kinks, so I expect a lot of new members to start wandering by soon
I only have issue #1 Lol. never read any others (that i can remember anyway).
Thanks for bringing the Forum back you guys, Very cool indeed.
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expander Posts: 241
1/6/2016
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Excalibur was never really my go to title, but every time I read an ish or two I always found my self wanting to know what happens next. Best of luck on completing the run.
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pmulkey23 Posts: 1
1/19/2016
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Very nice! I've current got -1 - 109 and I am working towards getting the full run.
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kds_comics Posts: 652
1/21/2016
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Story is very good - especially the first 20 or so issues.
The problem, of course, is that they printed so many issues...
Cover to Excalibur #4 has to be in top ten of funniest covers of all time.
Just my opinion.
edited by kds_comics on 1/21/2016
(edited to test the image embed and make sure it was still working, sorry for the post interruption )
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stevegreer1 Posts: 41
1/21/2016
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Agreed. Unfortunately, Excalibur came into existence right at the late-80s/early-90s comic over-saturation. I am up to issue 30 with my reading and I have to say that the Cross-Time Caper was just a bit on the confusing yet still entertaining side.
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katdancing Posts: 4
2/3/2016
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stevegreer1 wrote:
Agreed. Unfortunately, Excalibur came into existence right at the late-80s/early-90s comic over-saturation. I am up to issue 30 with my reading and I have to say that the Cross-Time Caper was just a bit on the confusing yet still entertaining side. ..
I really liked Excalibur because two of my favorite characters were in it - Nightcrawler and Shadowcat -- but also because I only had to buy ONE title to follow the storyline - unlike the other X's when the storyline flowed through multiple titles....
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expander Posts: 241
7/4/2016
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Just in case anyone's interested I'm posting a classified ad for this title. #87-124 minus a few issues
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Oxbladder Posts: 487
7/11/2016
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Just to clarify. Comic companies were not and have never over-saturated. They print to demand not random numbers. It is incredibly risky business to print some random number.
Back at that time a whole pile of people came from the dying trading card market and puffed up the number of collectors. They didn't do their research and lost money and most, if not all, bailed out enmasse. Since dealers have to order two months in advance it took months for the market to adjust.
Now people think the variant printing is an example of what happened in the 90's and it is to an extent but the big difference is that people are still buying them and while there can be excesses of the regular printing it isn't quite as bad as the the leftovers during the 90's crash. I also don't see interest in variants suddenly ending. The extra regular copies left over are also not often losses they are gravy, even if they get discounted.
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