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I had one of these in my old shop window. That's how it ended up when I took it out

They add the word "Variant" for the fools. Usually just a recolored logo on the same cover as the 1st print. Strangely, most of the 1st prints will be on Diamonds clearance list in a month or 2

Looks like the Star Wars Anniversary variants are doing ok. Especially Poe Dameron #10. The first 3: Star Wars 26, Poe Dameron 10 & Dr Aphra 3 are already tough to find in the UK, how about Stateside?

Come on guys, get out to those flea markets, I love this thread

ah, sorry, had to read through 12 pages of arguments before I saw you'd given up

Motor Girl is a fun read, just the #1 issue so far though. Maybe buy 15 copies & hand out 14 to other people at the store?

Always (and I mean always) look at the 1st new post then click on "Last post" if there are multiple posts when you come on here. It saves a lot of wasted time

Gone, I couldn't buy it without seeing it. Probably my loss. Probably not, it's Ghost Rider. Another 7 issue run before low sales get it cancelled

These DC are still returnable so not too much risk over ordering these. Numbers would be easier to check if they weren't. Harley Quinn #30 - 45,000 Wonder what the jump will be with next months #1

No is the simple answer but yeah Nick at Comicana

No idea but on the last Diamond UK open day we were invited to look through their stock & note down any we wanted to order, we weren't allowed to pull copies as their staff would do this later for us to keep their stock levels correct. We were after a copy of Wolverine Origins #2 for a customer but found they had none left. However, they did have 2 full longboxes (600 copies) of Wolverine Origins #2 - 1:100 Canadian Flag Variant! We weren't allowed one. They were blown out at 25 pence each about 5 months later & we managed to get 50 copies. This is not a limited incident either, still happens quite a lot

Has a cameo of Jessica Cruz's hand

On the off chance that someone knows why. I've sold no copies of New 52 Green Lantern #20 this year until today when I've sold 4 copies to different buyers (although 1 buyer bought from 2 different accounts)?

There's now a separate thread for this discussion. Can you all please take it over there & not ruin a once great thread

Not bad $4.60 each book That's risky, we still have no Diamond codes or ratios for these

They were offered to UK accounts yesterday. #5, #7, #8 & #9 only so no big dump over here

Marvel sells out at distribution on almost all of their books. But the difference between Hulk #14 selling out at distribution and Star Wars #3 selling out at distribution is that demand is still there for Star Wars #3 due to under ordering by the RETAILERS combined with greater demand by the public. If retailers order more - Marvel prints more. It's really that simple. There's no nerfarious plan to make a 2nd print and manipulate the market into thinking something is hotter than it is. Star Wars #3 (as an example) DID sell out at RETAIL in many markets, and demand dictated that another print was needed. If it had sold out at distribution, but a ton of it was still available on the retail level (i.e. no demand), they wouldn't have printed another run. In other words: additional printings are primarily based upon demand after sell through at the retail level, which they would obviously have no idea of when actually printing the book. Marvel would PREFER that retailers (somehow) know the amount of copies they need over a 12 month period for every book they publish - but most retailers order for what they need in a much, much smaller window than that. In the Direct Market, set up to the benefit of the publishers, they publish close to the vest on most everything - based upon what retailers order. And Marvel's additional art for the Star Wars books has been a change of background color or a color overlay. No big added expense there. The one big publisher that over publishes - DC Comics - was down heavily this year. Marvel chose a business model that is more cost efficient, not as a way to manipulate the market. That occurs in advertising and promotion, not publishing. It's not just one big publisher Marvel choose to let Diamond clear out their overstock at heavily discounted prices (and they have lots of it), DC don't, even DCs clearance stuff is not priced to shift Even if that's what I was talking abut it's not true - DC has clearance sales through Diamond. What I'm talking about is available reorders on current and somewhat current product. I can still order Starfire #3 through Diamond (released 8/12) Age of Apocalypse #5 which came out three weeks ago is sold out at Diamond. I can still order Batman back through #41 (which came out in June), but nothing is available of the regular Amazing Spider-man and only Renew Your Vows #5 (on Low) is left. This is common. Yep, I mentioned DCs clearance stuff, maybe you get better offers in the US? guess this is a US vs UK thing, I've got these coming next week at 25p each 10 x 01909297 2 APR140682 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1.2 FERRY VAR 0.25 10 x 01909297 2 JAN150779 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #16 0.25 10 x 01909297 2 MAR150700 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #18 0.25 10 x 01909297 2 APR150878 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #19.1 0.25 As for Age of Apocalypse #5, no I can't order those either but #1,2,3 & 4 are in stock.

Marvel sells out at distribution on almost all of their books. But the difference between Hulk #14 selling out at distribution and Star Wars #3 selling out at distribution is that demand is still there for Star Wars #3 due to under ordering by the RETAILERS combined with greater demand by the public. If retailers order more - Marvel prints more. It's really that simple. There's no nerfarious plan to make a 2nd print and manipulate the market into thinking something is hotter than it is. Star Wars #3 (as an example) DID sell out at RETAIL in many markets, and demand dictated that another print was needed. If it had sold out at distribution, but a ton of it was still available on the retail level (i.e. no demand), they wouldn't have printed another run. In other words: additional printings are primarily based upon demand after sell through at the retail level, which they would obviously have no idea of when actually printing the book. Marvel would PREFER that retailers (somehow) know the amount of copies they need over a 12 month period for every book they publish - but most retailers order for what they need in a much, much smaller window than that. In the Direct Market, set up to the benefit of the publishers, they publish close to the vest on most everything - based upon what retailers order. And Marvel's additional art for the Star Wars books has been a change of background color or a color overlay. No big added expense there. The one big publisher that over publishes - DC Comics - was down heavily this year. Marvel chose a business model that is more cost efficient, not as a way to manipulate the market. That occurs in advertising and promotion, not publishing. It's not just one big publisher Marvel choose to let Diamond clear out their overstock at heavily discounted prices (and they have lots of it), DC don't, even DCs clearance stuff is not priced to shift

Jimmy, you are a legend sir & I thank you. I looked on here at the 111 new posts and thought "Ugh! I wish someone would summarise every 20 pages or so so I don't have to wade through all this nothing"

and who's going to be on the C3P0 One Shot

Let's see if that starts something

JLI Annual #4 you say? Off to see what's left. Do you have a link to the Lionheart info?

You picked the only UK retailer who like to clean their floors with new releases. Most of Forbidden Planet staff don't even know what a comic is let alone the importance of condition

it got hot overnight, that's about it really