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I just checked my reference and someone on the Valiantfans.com message board was talking about the 3 staple and 2 staple differences about 10 years ago.

 

Was either you or me!! :-)

The Board connection.

Are you serious?! He appears to have sold everything despite the warning posted in that thread! Shocking proof of the soulless addicted comic collector.

I am completely dumbfounded. I can only manage two words:

cool books

Mega Man live action movie in the works.

 

Any comics worth picking up now?

 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2015/09/04/mega-man-live-action-movie-in-development/

 

His first comics were in Japanese and are impossible to find. I am not sure what his first American comic appearance is. Maybe the 2003 series I checked to see if he was ever in the Valiant Captain N series but he was was only on the animated show and not in the comic.

 

You may want to check again! I am almost positive one of the Valiant Nintendo oversized softcover TPBs teases MegaMan on the front cover. Wish I had time right now to refresh my memory.

 

 

Yep Archie Comics Puts out Mega Man comics

Just want to note I corrected myself here: I confused Metroid with MegaMan for Valiant Nintendo.

Mega Man live action movie in the works.

 

Any comics worth picking up now?

 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2015/09/04/mega-man-live-action-movie-in-development/

 

His first comics were in Japanese and are impossible to find. I am not sure what his first American comic appearance is. Maybe the 2003 series I checked to see if he was ever in the Valiant Captain N series but he was was only on the animated show and not in the comic.

 

You may want to check again! I am almost positive one of the Valiant Nintendo oversized softcover TPBs teases MegaMan on the front cover. Wish I had time right now to refresh my memory.

 

The NIntendo Comic System TPBs do not have him on the cover. I do own the sneak preview but I don't think he is in there either. From what I have learned it looks like they couldn't get the rights to use him in the the Captain N comic but they may have been negotiating his use as he was mentioned in the last issue of the Game Master series. Unfortunately the series never released another issue.

I apologize - I was thinking of Metroid. I will take a look at Captain N 5 to see that mention.

Mega Man live action movie in the works.

 

Any comics worth picking up now?

 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2015/09/04/mega-man-live-action-movie-in-development/

 

His first comics were in Japanese and are impossible to find. I am not sure what his first American comic appearance is. Maybe the 2003 series I checked to see if he was ever in the Valiant Captain N series but he was was only on the animated show and not in the comic.

You may want to check again! I am almost positive one of the Valiant Nintendo oversized softcover TPBs teases MegaMan on the front cover. Wish I had time right now to refresh my memory.

Is the glossy version tougher to find?

Yes... but...

 

- the exact ratios have never been known.

- it's not clear if CGC gets the identification correct*.

 

* there are numerous cases where CGC has misidentified various Valiant gold variants which are clearly gold. It's hard to believe they would be good at identifying glossy vs. not-as-glossy but otherwise-identical.

 

The paper stock is different, it feels like sandpaper. I know, I have one that came back 9.8

There's a difference. Whether CGC consistently knows the difference is in question.

They often mislabel books where there is a variation... no matter how obvious.

 

For example, this is not a gold edition.

It is a literally worthless (9.2 is below average for this $1 book) common version: http://www.ebay.com/itm/131570773359

 

If anything, it sounds like you have no idea you know the difference cause you never held one in your hand before, and you call yourself a valiantman

I don't have any doubt that I can tell the difference (and if you think I never held one you're ridiculous).

 

I'm saying that I'm not confident that CGC will get the labeling correct every time, due to known errors like the worthless Bloodshot #0 that they labeled as "Gold Edition".

 

I think Valiantman had the first ever 10.0 Rai 0? He can correct me if I'm wrong....

First and only CGC 10.0 Rai #0.

 

labels can alway be corrected, if you don't have any confidence in thier labeling, how can you be sure your 10.0 is really a 10.0? Might have been mislabeled instead of a 9.8 or 9.9

I'm not sure what the heck you are getting at. The discussion has diverged entirely. Greg (Valiantman) is commenting on whether we can use the CGC census to determine the relative scarcity of the two variants known to exist.

It is completely uncontroversial to opine that we cannot, since "glossy" has only been recently appearing on labels. I have subbed dozens (no joke) of Rai 0s of both varieties over the last 10+ years and have never got back a label that stated "glossy". Even now that we see CGC trying to differentiate, the point that this variation is not one anyone would expect CGC get right all the time is also valid. Indeed, it is subtle enough for us to think they could get it wrong rather commonly.

He's not saying the variant doesn't exist. He's not saying one is less or more common than the other. He's just saying that the census will not reflect the reality of whatever the situation may be. This is absolutely 100% true.

We have always assumed that the glossy run was smaller than the matte run, and I see no reason to doubt that, my experience lines up with it. But I've never seen anything from anyone who might really know to give me an inkling of where the split is. The census is already corrupted enough to also be useless in this regard.

Valiant CGC census explosion this week: http://cgcdata.com/cgc/search/publisher/:Valiant:/label/all/variants/yes/census/150804/censusprior/150728/

 

463 new CGC slabs for Valiant books (2% increase in the 15-year CGC census in one week)

 

Solar #10 - 10 copies (zero new 9.8)

 

That guy's a tough little bugger.

 

Any increases on Solar #3?

3 copies graded in the past week... 2 are 9.8 and 1 is 9.4.

 

I know for a fact that number changed because I have one of those 9.8s and sold off the extra copy that I had.

What number changed? We're just looking at the CGC census from the past week. Other copies could be graded earlier (or next week) which aren't in this one week with 3.

 

Since March 10th (last census before the DMG announcement), there have been 29 copies of Solar #3 graded, and 19 of those got CGC 9.8 grades.

The days are long gone from when the only reason the 9.8 numbers moved on the census was because I had books moving through the pipeline!

Can I reminisce a bit?

GPA is missing some eBay sales looking at these. There are a couple selling higher than what they have on that list.

 

http://www.ebay.com/sch/Comics-/63/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=OUTCAST%201%20CGC%209.8%20-SS%20-127%20-2%20-3%20-4&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc&_trksid=p2045573.m1684

The $149 examples in that list all have "this item has been relisted" on the actual auctions.

 

 

Crazy. I wish they would make it appear as unsold if they didn't receive the money. Thanks, (thumbs u

Well he probably did receive the money. This listing does not say you will get the book pictured and the serial number is not visible. I do this all the time with my listings that use stock images.

Greg, are you saying that GPA does not include listings that say they were relisted in their pricing data? If so they have missed the last 50 sales of VEI CGC 9.8 books I have made this year.

Hi everyone, kinda new here and my first post.

I have some winning prizes (Harbinger 0-5, with coupons and signed Solar 10) from the Valiant Serial Number Contest from way back when. A few of the Harbingers and Solar 10 are bagged and "sealed" in a marked Valiant bag. "Sealed" meaning a gold sticker placed over the flap. Should I open them and have them slabbed or leave them as is?

 

Thanks

Interesting. Do you have pictures? Normally I'd say that a seal is irrelevant but if it's verifiable that it's from the serial number contest, you're very likely to find some interest in them over at valiantfans.com

Heck yeah, I would hold off on the slabbing. I didn't even know they actually gave out any prizes from that contest. I don't recall ever seeing any pictures of books given out as prizes like you describe.

Please take a few pictures, if only for posterity. Post them here or at the forums on valiantfans.com.

Domino's first "appearance" is still technically NM 98. X-force #8 is a ret-con. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

 

-J.

You may have been facetious there, but I'm not sure I disagree. If the first appearance of a character is an imposter of the character, we are still first seeing the character in that first appearance. So I like the "first -real- appearance" designation.

Whether that is 8 or 11 I will let you nerds decide. But NM 98 being the first appearance doesn't bother me at all.

The official title is Book of Death: Legends of the Geomancer for just this reason. Any store looking to rack it should have it racked next to Book of Death.

 

Both books pretty good reads too

I was about to ask how you got advance copies… and then I saw who posted the comment.

 

Yeah, there are guys on this board who want to argue that advertisements are first appearances just because they're earlier...

we should get dinesh_s to keep a dream journal. Talk about a true first appearance... beat that! (thumbs u

Can I slab that journal??

Between you me and the wall.. I think submitting 100 similar books to any grading company at one time is not too wise an idea.. I doubt he would get 10 9.8's backs... And thats wishful thinking

Just my 2 cents

Well, they should be pre-screen invoices. Then you could send in 100, get 10 9.8s back, send in 90, get 9-10 9.8s back...etc. But I wouldn't want the wall to give out any bad advice... :-)

I think sending in the 20 best at a high tier was a great move, sending in the other 80 slow-track, not so much.

If it was me trying to plan a course of action from this point forward, which would mostly be correcting the big mistakes that have been made already....the first thing I would do is contact the mods and try to have this thread completely pulled, poofed, pulverized, poo-poo'd, disappeared, forgotten, lost. Because there was no bigger mistake than making it in the first place.

I can't get over the fact that they had 1,000,000 or so 1st prints and needed a 2nd print, muss less a 6th.

That's the difference between "sold out at the distributor level" and "sold out".

Here is my copy from the "VH1 Master Set" (http://valiantfans.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=29701)

A few from the archives...

Do you have a list of these on the site? IIRC, there's a checklist on the back of the original cardboard that the pins were attached to. I'll send you a copy if you need it.

The various checklists on the backs of the cardboard are useless. They vary from pin to pin and not a single one of them is complete, even if you do not count the gold pins.

My picture above is a much better checklist...

Here is my pin collection... I think there may be one or two missing, but that's pretty much all of them as far as I know.

If anyone wants to know anything about them, fire away.