Fantastic Four #1 has hit a record price at auction. Is Grant Morrison doing something on Image Comics Ice Cream Man? Marvel’s announcement of Rogue: The Savage Land has sparked some strong reactions online. All on Comic Book Club News for September 16, 2024.
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Fantastic Four #1 hits record price at auction.
Is Grant Morrison headed to Ice Cream Man?
Rogue: The Savage Land sparks strong reactions online.
This is Comic Book Club News for September 16, 2024.
Fantastic Four #1 Has Hit A Record Price At Auction:
Fantastic Four #1 has hit a record price at auction. The CGC 9.6 graded copy of the debut of Marvel’s superhero team sold for $2.04 million, per ICv2.
Sold through Heritage Auctions, the near-pristine copy of the issue is the highest-graded copy ever to hit auction. Previously, a 9.2 graded copy sold for $1.5 million in 2022.
And while that’s more money than I, personally, will ever see in my lifetime, it’s far from the highest price ever for a comic. Back in 2021, a CGC 9.6 graded copy of Amazing Fantasy #15, the debut of a little guy known as Spider-Man, sold for $3.5 million. Meanwhile, a 9.0 graded copy of Amazing Fantasy #15, sold at the same auction this past week, went for “only” $540,000.
I wonder if these folks know you can read all of these books online for free? Seems a lot of money to find out how the Fantastic Four get their powers, but you do you, millionaires.
Is Grant Morrison Headed To Image Comics Ice Cream Man?
Is Grant Morrison headed back to comics? And if so, are they working on Image Comics Ice Cream Man? That’s certainly what a mysterious teaser posted by the publisher seems to indicate, with simply the words “Grant Morrison” over a picture of scoops of ice cream.
Morrison hasn’t worked on any comics since their runs on Superman and the Authority and Green Lantern for DC Comics in 2021. Since then, Morrison has released a prose novel and worked mostly on unproduced screenplays, as well as appearing as themself in the final season of Titans.
But will Ice Cream Man mark Morrison’s return to the four-color funnies? The Image horror anthology by W. Maxwell Prince and Martín Morazzo is a hit and was just announced as in development for a big-screen adaptation by the producers of Wednesday. And given the disturbing and surreal nature of the book, Morrison would be a natural fit. But will they join? And how?
We’ve reached out to Image Comics for comment but did not receive a response by recording time.
Marvel’s Rogue: The Savage Land Sparks Strong Reactions Online:
Late last week, Marvel announced a new miniseries titled Rogue: The Savage Land, set during the events of Chris Claremont and Jim Lee’s classic Uncanny X-Men run. And not everyone is pleased.
Responding to the announcement that writer Tim Seeley and artist Zulema Lavina would be returning to an era when Rogue’s costume was in tatters and she was romantically involved with Magneto, some folks took online to lament that the age gap romance seemed to be back on the table. If you don’t know, at the time, Rogue was considered to be around 18, while Magneto was… Well, however old he was. 70s? 80s? 90s? Today?
Specifically, they also referenced an abbreviated adaptation of the storyline on the recent animated series X-Men ’97 as a pain point and frustration that Marvel could be returning to this now controversial storyline.
However, Seeley responded in kind, explaining that this new, five-issue miniseries has nothing to do with X-Men ’97, and won’t even deal with the Rogue-Magneto romance, despite the presence of both characters in the series. Joked Seeley on X (formerly known as Twitter): “Powerful opinions abound on the Rogue-Magneto relationship! Personally, when I read those comics back in 1989, age 13, I disliked the romance, because I wanted Rogue to be MY girlfriend one day.”
The first issue of the new series hits stores on January 15, 2025.
For Comic Book Club News, I’m Alex Zalben. And it’s weird that Seeley thought Rogue was his girlfriend, when she was clearly supposed to be mine.
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