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I submitted a couple. Cross your fingers. Should have them back before the end of 2017.

If that's the NP sealed in the mailer that sold recently on eBay, I had a snipe set for it but it went higher than I was willing to pay. Envelope looked a bit beat but it appears it was a great copy anyway, nice pick up. Totally different subject... I have been selling on eBay a stash of Secret Wars 8's and they sell very well. This is not news for this thread. But, I get lots of questions asking if the book is a first print or not. Is there a reprint of this book that looks exactly like the original? I cannot find mention of one anywhere....

Pats rule! Once we The Gronk back, Mr. Brady will be flashing his 4th Superbowl ring. Oh here come the Texans! I should read the second issue before kickoff. Wow, did the Texans play tonight? I watched the game but didn't see them...

The status on my moderns subbed on 7/21 just changed to "Clown Shoes". Anyone know what that means?

haha are you gloating about how you single handedly cause the bottlenecking? People like you....make people like me....sad for months.... In all seriousness don't blame me, I've been Fast Tracking all my books for almost two years, before the bottleneck started. If I were to go back to regular submission I'd pocket a lot of money every month. I found it was easier to handle my subscription service by going to Fast Track. It gets stuff in and out quicker. At one point before I went Fast Track I had over 1000 books waiting to be graded. And when you don't charge customers for those subscription books until they get graded... Well you do the out of pocket math. The current bottleneck has even caused problems for me. These boxes constitute three weeks of submissions that all came in over a week's time. Invoices ship out of order so I have to wait before I sort, and this sort of pile happens regularly now. Like I said earlier, even Fast Track has been affected, not by such an exponential amount, but it is behind what I'm used to. As someone who currently has 600+ books at CGC, non fast-track moderns, I shake my fist at you fast-trackers. And wish I was submitting stuff I could swallow the extra $10/book for. Alas, it is not to be, so I wait. And wait. And sub more. And wait more.

Wouldn't it be a 3rd print? Similar to his Chew #1 Larry's Edition? The Indica on the book reads "BEDLAM #1 Special Edition. November 2012."

I do not know what the 2nd print will look like, sorry!

Here is the "Special Edition" variant of #1.

Oh you fibber - you don't recall the PM when I asked you to stop flogging your stuff - and I quote...."some people are spending a weeks pay on your phantoms". You replied with an order form for more. Also - NYCC variants GP variants Never had a convo? Snake oil slick,snake oil.. So, you seem to be confirming that you never have spoken to Larry, just like he said, while at the same time calling him a liar. Funny how that goes. "Spoken to" != "traded PMs with"

"Originally Posted By: LarrysComics At NYCC, I sold 100 Batman #13's for $5 ea & 100 Batgirls for $15 ea BY noontime Saturday." I guess these customers were just ripe for picking then Nice selective post. Lets call it a lie of omission, shall we? You may not agree with my logic, BUT You missed this: I figure online & conventions are fair game to charge whatever the market will bear & I order for all classes of my business. No, you miss my point. Are they not customers? Things don't work that way at cons. Think about it this way: Say Larry has a stack of 100 Batgirl 13's on hist table for cover price and they are $20 everywhere else. Every dealer will try to buy them from him, hand him $400 for the stack immediately, etc, and then just add them to their $20 stack at their table. Trying to limit the number books being purchased to one per customer has the same effect. Every dealer gets everyone they have working for them to go buy one. Every person who sees the great price gets everyone they know at the show to buy one, and maybe even enlist people they don't know. You get a whole mess of people who come to the booth, buy that book, and leave. It's a whole different ballgame.

FWIW, I was in Larry's store last week and they indeed were all cover price. The Batgirls were sold out I was offered a copy at cover price when they came back in. Friday I think.

Snowed here yesterday. It goes from Summer to Winter here in ol' Montana. No fall. Yeah, they are looking at 6"+ in the upper midwest over the next day or two. Seems early for a storm like that, even there.

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Its best when replying to a direct comment to use the quote feature that way individuals know wtf you are talking about. He was replying to my comment. He is correct Valiant Black is a promotional item. As I stated in my original post, now is the time to sell. As the market is flooded (there are 500) the price will drop. Also the envelopes are the items being damaged not the issue itself. I wish that were entirely trrue. That book is going to be completely impossible in 9.8, current CGC production defect blindness aside. And there are plenty of complaints around the web from retailers about the condition of that book, not that that is anything new. I saw Larry's copy and straight off the press it would have been 8.0-8.5ish at CGC IMHO.

You know.......for the kids!! (with due respect to The Hudsucker Proxy)

Nice. How many copies of the Turok #1 VVSS with the Second Life of Dr. Mirage #1 VVSS coupon have ever turned up? I know I sold one on your Valiant board about 10 years ago and one of the other boardies said he had one as well. I do not think any more have turned up. Maybe a couple certs that were nearly cut in half but that is all that comes to mind.

Art and I had a very successful transaction on a Strange Tales 73. Thanks, Art!

I hate for this to get lost in the rest of the nonsense going on here. While I do not agree with the point on FREE shipping, I am on the road to agreeing with the point about boxed vs. envelope shipping. As long as the flat parcels are sufficiently stiff, I think they are treated better overall than boxes. I used to think that envelope shipping was inferior, but my own experience jives with CAL's point - make the flat parcel well and it is safer than boxed shipping for up to about 10 books or so.

Welcome to the boards!! Agreed, nice to see you make a post, George!

Can you imagine finding an unopened case of Archer & Armstrong 0 Gold or Eternal Warrior 1 Gold Flat? It would be like winning the lottery if you released them slowly into the market. Unfortunately the sellers of such things rarely have such foresight. See X/O 1/2 Gold. On the Deathmate Red gold - it would be shocking to me if there were actually 10,000 in circulation. It just does not come up enough compared to the others. I think 8000 of them are sitting in a warehouse somewhere.

compostable_fertilizer. I was _there_, RMA. I have the Pre-Unities--bought at the prices I stated, and I have the additional ComicFest '93 swag (like 3 copies of Defiant Genesis in the original sleeves and a double-signed Platinum Batman 492) to prove it. Depending on which dealer table you went to, and what time during the show (ie, whether it was Friday evening vs. Sunday afternoon), the deals were there to be had. _Everybody_ had Valiants in depth, and while certain books (like Harbinger 0) were still white hot and were selling at their peak, others were being dumped. And yeah--Turok # 1 was _already_ selling for between $.25-$1, just weeks after release. Rai 6-8. Magnus 9-11, 13-14 were available in bulk for $1 each. Meanwhile, the three premiere Ultraverse # 1s (Prime, Strangers, and Hardcase) were selling for $5-8, with # 2s going for more. Those books were actually _selling_ at those prices, whereas the Valiants sat (unless _heavily_ discounted). Anyone else who attended ComicFest '93 in Philly care to chime in? I attended ComicFest in '93 in Philly and if there was a box of Valiant's for a quarter each I must of been so blind that I complete missed it because in 93 Valiant was super hot. I was completely into Valiant at that time and I scoured every comic table with no luck. Everyone there was selling pre-Unity books for $25 and up. Issue 1's were going well over $100. As a Sophomore in high school I couldn't afford anything at those prices. I'm not saying those books weren't there for that price but they didn't last to long at all. Maybe you meant 94' or 95'? I agree. I was not at Comicfest in '93 but I was set up at the Javitz in NYC in '93. While things were on the decline with new stuff, and pre-unity had cooled, finding Valiants at $0.50 wasn't happening.

I traded for Booz's 9.8. In over a year, still no more 9.8s. Dino (the new owner of the Valiant properties, VEI) got three copies of the TPB in the Acclaim warehouse. They all graded at 9.8. That's where mine came from. Coming soon to the census.

Story is that it was printed for the overseas market, which makes sense given that you could buy the two issue mini anywhere for under $1 when it was printed. Valiantman's estimate on this is 5,000 copies, but it's a guess. Here's mine:

There are just too many for the hoarders to have a big effect. You can always find a copy. You may have to pay more than you would like, but they have always been available. I don't beleive the combined posted inventories of the valiantcomics.com members have been able to account for more than 5% or so of any print run, and that's only with the limited variants.