Octopus Overlords

Hrdina wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:22 pm
I hope my mom doesn't find out about that. She got rid of my Eagle a long time ago when she moved while I was in college.

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:48 pm I have a complete set of my gall bladder in a jar.

gbasden wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:30 pm

Hrdina wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:22 pm
I hope my mom doesn't find out about that. She got rid of my Eagle a long time ago when she moved while I was in college.

My mother gave away all of my Star Wars figures and Lego sets while I was away at college. I was really upset when I found out.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:34 pm I hoping my original 1980s Secret Wars 1 - 12 become valuable once Deadpool 3 is big. Or what comes next.

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 7:56 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:34 pm I hoping my original 1980s Secret Wars 1 - 12 become valuable once Deadpool 3 is big. Or what comes next.

Most are worth $10 - $30 right now. #1, in mint condition, is a little over $100 (and it's very unlikely that you have mint condition - very few are rated that high while they're still at the printer's.) A typical owned copy that's in really good condition would be around $40. The exception is #8 from December '84, which is worth ~$300 mint, and $50+ in typical condition (it was the first appearance of the Venom symbiote.)

The entire set, combined, at near-mint condition, is theoretically worth around $500.

Realistically, you're not going to get anywhere near that, even if you have them all near-mint (and again, you probably don't - it's unlikely that any comic lasts 40 years in NM condition unless it's been kept in controlled conditions, like bagged in UV-blocking mylar on acid-free boards and kept in ideal temperatures/humidity.) You'd have to have choice issues, you'd need to have had them professionally graded and slabbed, and you'd have to find a buyer.

Unslabbed, in 'Fine' condition, you'd be lucky to get $150 for the set, and that would be a stretch.

I doubt Deadpool 3 will have much impact on that (Deadpool doesn't appear in it - he didn't exist yet, although he was retconned into the story later.) It may go up in value when the Secret Wars film comes out in 2027, though. But it's not going to go up enough to make you more than $25 on most of the issues.

Kraken wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:37 pm I'm struck by how much us boomer still dominate the demographics, and how soon we'll drop out. The python is close to devouring its pig. Also how millennials really are the biggest generation ever. Also how the pedestal keeps getting smaller.

Unagi wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:47 am

Kraken wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:37 pm I'm struck by how much us boomer still dominate the demographics, and how soon we'll drop out. The python is close to devouring its pig. Also how millennials really are the biggest generation ever. Also how the pedestal keeps getting smaller.

I'm struck by just how few lower 50's there are compared to everyone else.

As many 50 year old men as there are 68 year old women.


Aslo, something took a huge bite out of the 78-year-old population vs 77-year-old (male and female), isn't that odd?

Unagi wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:47 am Aslo, something took a huge bite out of the 78-year-old population vs 77-year-old (male and female), isn't that odd?

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:56 am What else was there to do in the last quarter of 2001? Not like there was anything good on tv.

Unagi wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:54 am Why are there so many 23-year-olds?

Holman wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:46 pm I assume the surplus of women in old age is due to life-expectancy differences between the sexes. But what explains the persistent surplus of young men?

Since records began in 1838, the cries of babies born every year have been predominately male.

In not one year, stretching back to the start of Queen Victoria's reign, have girls outnumbered boys at birth.

In 2017, in England and Wales, for example, there were 348,071 live male births and 331,035 live female births - a difference of roughly 17,000.

And that higher tally of males compared to females born each year is a pattern that has repeated itself for nearly 180 years.

In fact, a ratio of roughly 105 male births for every 100 female ones is generally seen as natural and normal.

It is fairly consistent around the world, although in some countries like China and India the gap is wider because male offspring are more desirable.

More surprisingly, it is a ratio that has been known about since the 17th Century.

gilraen wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:07 pm Evolution adapting to the social fact that boys are more likely than girls to die from various accidents before reaching puberty? (or at least they were, before the age of TikTok challenges...)

stessier wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 3:47 am I thought it until now.