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Can anyone pull this up? It would be great to see again It has been posted on the valiant boards. From an issue of the Valiant Voice, I believe.

thought I'd sold mine...I think the print run was 1k. This guy could barely give them away in late 2013 http://www.valiantfans.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32644&view=previous I was able to take pre-orders for X-O/Harbinger blank flipbooks and secured 25% of the print run (250 copies) at HeroesCon 2012 for all the guys on the ValiantFans.com board. Valiant didn't sell the books anywhere but in person at conventions, but they did let me buy them in person for everyone else. Those guys bought so many, Valiant would have sold every copy to me and had none at the booth... so they told me they would have the printers ship the 250 directly to me. I had to do the distribution. I paid $12.50 each at the con... then shipping, paypal fees, etc. The link above shows what happened when Tim tried selling those books to the same guys who got them a year earlier. They still had some at NYCC in 2012, along with the A&A/Bloodshot flipbooks and the Summer of Valiant trade (which, BTW, may only be 950 copies; at least, that's the number of copies indicated on the label on the box that I got when I bought a stack of those trades for the board). Only 2 SoV slabs on the census. I may have to add to that total. Too bad I didn't have all of the signatures witnessed on my second copy. I slabbed both of those SOVs, and apparently sold one for too little!! :-) That's OK, it paid for the other one.

It's going to be a busy weekend for me. I wish I didn't have this damn job, I would be putting up listings all day.

Just for the record, in reference to the gold flat and embossed.... It's very easy to mistake these two when looking for them online. The gold embossing often scans as black, and worse...CGC has mislabeled ALOT of them. So you have to fall back on the logo box in the upper left to identify them. No cover price is the embossed. The copies in my master set are below:

Last week I would have said that picture looked like $15. Today, who the hell knows?

If I can't post a scan of a 9.8, it must be tough. I had always been under the impression that the gold embossed version was a smaller print run than the flat gold? Is this wrong or is this true and it's just harder to find the 9.8 on the flat? The "official" story is this: The A&A #0 and EW #1 were the first golds that Valiant made. Up to that point, however, Marvel had been making gold (and silver) second printings for a couple of years, starting with Spiderman #1. The books had print runs of 5,000. Reportedly, 2,500 were accidentally shipped to the west coast, where dealers who got them thought they were second prints, and put them on their shelves for sale. Now..I never actually witnessed this, but I *was* told this was the case by a dealer in Hayward (something comics n' cards, long since vanished) shortly after it was supposed to have happened. As a result of the mixup, Valiant apologized, and printed 5,000 MORE EW #1 golds...only this time, they made sure to remove the cover price, and added the gold embossed foil. That's the story that's been around since the beginning. How much of it is true, is really anyone's guess. Well .....so I went after what is essentially the second print. Kept it all these years not knowing that I had passed on the real deal (flat one) several times without thinking twice. So AA0gold has half the run size of EW1gold and is a more important book anyhow. I guess I'll have to grab one of those AA then. Any word on the run size of Harbinger 0 pink? (thank you much for the info!) I wouldn't think of the embossed as the "second print". I look as it more of a Magnus 0 with and without card situation. They are the same book printed for different reasons. While it certainly is harder to find the flat in the wild, what has really driven the value of the flat gold is condition. They were not taken care of as well and are more easily damaged through normal handling. It has a regular paper cover (like A&A 0 gold) and even sloshing around in long boxes inside a bag and board can kill it. When Valiant was completely out of favor not that long ago, it was not uncommon to find these in with regular stock for under $5. When Valiant printed the second / embossed version, they went with a thick cover to do the embossing. The embossed copy has a premium feel to it and it was taken care of better, in general.

If I can't post a scan of a 9.8, it must be tough.

You sold a gold version for $3? I recently sold a NM gold copy for $99! $3 is about right for the regular version. They left the cover price in the gold logo box by mistake, none of the other Valiant gold books had a cover price. It is not uncommon to mistake it for the regular version.

No, but whatever I would be asking would be usury anyway, even if it was $30 postage paid, so I am doing you a favor... Seriously, should be an easy one to get, surprised it isn't. They have been swimming in the quarter boxes - if they even make it into the quarter box - for over a decade, which doesn't help. But still.

Yes. Shooter was gone soon after Unity, but they were using Shooter scripts/plans until about Harbinger 14 or so. Not sure if he was still around to approve that cover of H10 with the first appearance box.

Any more requests???

I might have a few of these somewhere..... hmmm...

I agree with every word EXCEPT for the part highlighted. I can give you a list of comic dealers on ebay that do that on a regular basis. Do they stop doing it because of negative fb? no. Will buyers keep buying from them? of course. If youre a power seller/top rated seller on ebay, and you move more than 300 transactions a month, youre practically immune to negative fbs. So whats actually happening here is this; a big comic book dealer that gets the same treatment as the little guy will end up STAYING in business and do the same"bad practices" the little guy did, and the buyer (us) will end up staying with less shopping choices. Sounds like democracy isnt practiced here after all. Not because of how it should be practiced, but mainly because - the system in which these rules are set is defunct No seller is immune to non-performing seller complaints. Just a few will put them in a bad spot.

A Star Wars Hot Topic variant? When you say checked into the post office, do you mean it's actually shipped and shows as received by the USPS or do you mean that you have a tracking number? There's more to the story here from this seller that Timmay can post if he wants. It is more incriminating to this seller. I contacted him he said he dropped it off this morning at the post office and I checked the tracking it is checked in. Like I said earlier part of me doesn't blame him. It happened to me when I got shorted on Wytches 1 NYCC I bought for $20 but the seller then cancelled on me when they hit 250. Didn't leave a neg. But that's what negs are for. I just personally haven't left one unless I got an item that was packed like and was not offered a refund. With this happening to multiple people, even if you don't leave the warranted negative, you should file the "non-performing seller complaint" on eBay. Sellers who do this sort of thing count on people not bothering to file that.

And that's really all anyone needs to know. Wow. Good luck fleecing (and I man that in the nicest, professional, cordial context possible) others.

Actually, these notes do appear to match up quite well with the images of the book as it exhibits all of the above. The Marvel Chipping is really minimal and probably not worth mentioning since CGC doesn't deduct much for it, esp this small amount at the VF grade range. I don't see any creases, stains, or writing and no tears at the offset staples, which is a ubiquitous problem with staple placement like this. Perhaps this is a VF, and Orange is the New Black? Wishful thinking! The OGG says an 8.0 has the following characteristics: Cover Inks/Gloss: generally bright with moderate to high reflectivity Stress Lines: a few almost insignificant lines allowed Cover wear: relatively flat with minimal wear I know CGC and Overstreet are not in lock step, but this book is clearly an error/fake. Just looking at other 8.0 examples it is very clear.

The best Cable would be Clancy Brown, voice, look, and size would be perfect. ....Oh, and he can act, too.. You're right and he would be a great pick. (thumbs u He's gotten too old for that part unfortunately. I'd sure take the prison guard from Shawshank or the leader of Earth 2 or the Kurgan.. He has a recurring role on Sleepy Hallow and it's great when he is in the episode.

Regular ol Windex is what I use. Just use a soft, lint-free cloth and spray onto the cloth (rather than onto the glass) Unless you have grease problems, I find rubbing alcohol is better than any of the glass cleaners for scanner beds (and monitor glass).

Does anyone happen to know what the first appearance of the new Captain Marvel is?

I don't think the gold version of the zero issue has even seen any movement, which only had a print run of 5000. Now might be a good time to buy then. Maybe, but A&A golds were never cheap to begin with. This is true...you have to go back many (5-10) years to find a time when they were inexpensive. There was a time where they found their way into the cheap boxes and they are tough in 9.8. From memory, I think the last sale was $350 and $500 is more like the going rate. I did sell a raw copy on the day of the movie news and listed another.

Figment is a character created for a ride a EPCOT in Florida. If I remember correctly it is a ride about the creative process at Disney and Disney history.

The lines around the mask that are the cut lines went over the ears, not around them. Really silly and costly reason to recall, IMO. There was no recall. They just asked retailers to destroy the bad issues. And most of these issue will not get destroyed. I have heard some people say their retailer would not sell it to them. That's completely different from them being destroyed!

Not quite the same - the Valiant coupons had a story panel on them (Harbinger), or a piece of book-related art (Magnus).