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  1. 500Club
    Darkhawk 50. SW 107. Punisher 104.
  2. 500Club
    Wonder if it’s a case of seller knowledge? Everyone knows the last issue phenomenon. They get pulled, collected, and actively put into the market. Second-to-last issues? Not so much, even though theoretically, their print runs would have been low as well.
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    Yikes. That makes you wonder if something happened in transit or handling.
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    My guess is new hires. If you get a new job, you’re likely to lean toward being overly detail oriented and perfectionistic at first. You want to make a good impression. In this case, that means noting every defect, no matter how small, and not missing anything. You’ll probably tend to under-grade rather than over grade.
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    There’s also a cameo in 359 that flies under the radar. In fact, the cameos in 359 and 360, if they happened today, would have some of the new age collectors screaming ‘first full’.
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    It’s a testament to the fact that people will show loyalty to a character and title that is published consistently and continuously. Are you listening, Marvel?
  7. 500Club
    Meh. One sixth of the story has been told. I wonder if anyone stopped watching ‘Alien’ or ‘Aliens’ a sixth of the way in because they seemed slow, or nothing was happening. Too early to judge.
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    You have a lot of kids?
  10. 500Club
    When we open cases, this problem is most common on the top and bottom 3-4 copies in each stack in the box.
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    It’s become a bigger issue with Marvel’s current cover stock. Watch for it, especially if you are buying new books that have sat on LCS shelves for weeks, and have been shuffled around.
  12. 500Club
    Those ‘scuff marks’ are color rubs from the shipping process, from the jostling of the books.
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    For me, in all good stories, you need to establish character and setting. If you don’t, there’s very little emotional investment in the story.
  14. 500Club
    Yeah, real grey area. It may not be canon, but that doesn’t mean popular ideas and characters can’t be culled from those books.
  15. 500Club
    Domino appears.
  16. 500Club
    After Mando ended and the world got Wanda crazy, things have quieted down a bit. Seems like a good buying opportunity for some books And that’s a bingo. This is the quiet time. Things could really get rolling as streaming Star Wars content returns in the second half of the year.
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    She has a 3 page appearance in disguise in issue 4. Get both.
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    Yeah, i know, jim lee, classic, that's why i bought 50 of them, but it seems everyone else did too. People were trying to catch lightning in a bottle again, after Lee’s hot run on Batman.
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    It’s not inked tightly enough.
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    He was the artist on some nice Nightwing covers, IIRC.
  21. 500Club
    Yeah, there’s a fair amount of landscaping that needs to be done in their pricing yard.
  22. 500Club
    That sounds so inexperienced. Like buyers don’t notice stupid prices suddenly being asked based on one sale. Owners can now ask 30K for a Batman 227 9.8... doesn’t mean anyone else will pay it. It’s pure economics... the price will settle where the ask meets the bid.
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    Owners don’t determine anything. They are free to ask whatever they want. A ‘worth’ is determined when a buyer comes in and pays an asking price. Multiple such events is what makes a market.
  24. 500Club
    He must’ve got glasses in 2016, and realized the world isn’t blurry.
  25. 500Club
    Since when do you bulk spec moderns? This is like seeing Tom Brady line up on the O-line.