Grail Hunters Comic Podcast S05E03 - Ant-man, Marketplace scores and a game of What If with Ben Gee

In this Episode, Neville and Ben is joined by Lean Fouche!

We recap on our episode featuring James Anthony Joseph and what we learned (and still need to learn) on retro gaming and its collectability and tease next weeks guest! Won’t spoil it here, but it will be someone talking very high end comic related collectibles.

 

We then jump straight into movie talk! Movies, reception, the movie going market and appetite for Superhero movies? We start with Ant-man, what we think about the movie and the contrasting reviews by critics vs. the audience going to actually watch the movie. This flows into our next debate, have we seen the end of the MCU “hype”, are audiences cooling to Superhero movies in general, or do Marvel need to contract and focus on what’s made them successful in the past 10 years and then speculate what it could look like years from now.

 

Our conversation turns to online scores, market place finds! Neville reflects on his score which resulted in a road trip for comics, vinyl and other goodies, and Ben falling on hard times with no loot to show on 2023.

 

Ben discloses that he had a windfall on a Channel 9 gameshow a few years back, and we play a game of “What If” with Ben; had he purchased an Amazing Fantasy 15 with his winnings…what would his investment have looked like!

 

Lean shows off his books which came back from CGC Toddfather signing as we discuss CGC’s approved turn-around times and tricks around getting already signed comics graded. We explore the collectability of modern comics and toys and the likelihood of getting investment returns on modern toys and discuss whether it’s worth keeping stuff new-in-box

 

Supanova’s a couple of weeks away, and we preview some of the international stars who will be making an appearance at and what we’ll likely get signed at the event.