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+1. Slow witted boardie here Me really dum. Maybe beer help.

I'm seeing those as well. Looks like the roller left a bit of a mark. 9 had marks like that as well.

OK, if that wasn't your point, spell it out for me and any other slow witted boardies. To me, it was a passive-aggressive jab at the idea MD's price run-up is speculator driven.

Bottom line is, multiple printings don't necessarily mean a book's secondary market price isn't speculation driven. If you felt reassured that this third printing was definitive evidence of readers having driven up that price, that rhetorical point was incorrect.

It was a rhetorical answer. ...at least, after jaybes spelled it out one post before.

You'll figure out the answer.

Your ability to determine what proportion is due to quality, and what proportion is due to bandwagon jumping speculation, and how this impacts your window to profit, will determine whether you make money or lose money. I mostly agree with if you throw in a little luck. On the other hand, I think Image is smashing Marvel and DC (excluding a few Vertigo titles with Batman and SSM ) in the quality department. To me, its not even close. The greatest difference is that something of consequence can happen in an Image comic and NOTHING in the big 2 ever matters and is ALWAYS retconned. Agree 100%. (thumbs u And agree 100% with krighton on the points made vis-a-vis creators.

Your ability to determine what proportion is due to quality, and what proportion is due to bandwagon jumping speculation, and how this impacts your window to profit, will determine whether you make money or lose money.

If NWM had kept a monthly release schedule and continued on the story line that was building that would probably be a $600 book. There were a ton of people on board with NWM. Yup, there were. There were also a ton of people on board with Thief of Thieves at issue 4, when the book was young and fresh, birds were singing, and flowers were blooming. Now, despite a monthly release schedule, a consistent creative team, and show still in development, the ComicsPro 1 in 9.8 is down to selling in the $175 range. $600 book? I don't think so. It was a tail-chasing-cat display of irrational exuberance that would've petered out as fickle ADD speculators moved on to the next hot book.

It's still a good book. You can still make money with it. Just be careful. When the music stops, you don't want to be the guy holding the $300 CBLDF NM 1, or the $1000 9.8 CGC Sixth Gun 1. Sixth Gun was a $1000 book ? Sheesh. I didn't follow that book so I had no idea. How much is it bringing now ? I think it was up around $700 ..along with PP when all the crazy ensued. Maybe me and Roger Clemens both misremembered. I'll peek at the Sixth Gun thread from spring '13.

It's still a good book. You can still make money with it. Just be careful. When the music stops, you don't want to be the guy holding the $300 CBLDF NM 1, or the $1000 9.8 CGC Sixth Gun 1.

I claim the book is speculation driven. But, with utmost certainty? No. It IS a good book, with a very cool premise. If it's not speculator driven, we should see some rising sales.

I want to be watching CNBC, just once, when an analyst presents a bear case, and a bullish analyst accuses him of being down on the stock because he hadn't bought any.

What is the speculation? What is driving it? There is no TV show or movie, and the creators aren't the hot-list names. What drove tulip buying in Holland in the 1630s? That's the psychology to be looking at. For recent examples, see Nowhere Men and Revival. And yes, you can say that Nowhere Men was killed by delays, but that doesn't change the fact it was driven by speculation, and therefore very killable. For the record, I really like all three books! I hope all three see price increases driven by people wanting to own and read the series'.

There's a picture of 'Uncle' Ben Bernanke on the box.

BKV stated he wanted this story to be an epic whose duration would surpass Y and Ex Machina put together. So far, releases have been consistent, although I suppose creator commitment is always a risk.

Only if it the title gets more popular. (thumbs u Supply AND demand. Tiny print runs are no guarantee of appreciation. On the flip side, Batman 1's large print run was absorbed by demand.

I thought EoW was overhyped and over speculated from the get go. However, lately, it's actually setting up a bit more favourably. Monthly orders have settled in at 33K or so, and the TPB sold fairly well. There may be a base of readers developing to absorb the 50K print run of number 1. Books I wouldn't bet a plugged nickel on are Bedlam, Rat Queens, Todd and Pretty Deadly. Waits for the fireworks. From those heavily invested. Why so down on Pretty Deadly? I am wondering why too, it's better than most comics that have come out in recent months. I'm down on the book's chances of appreciating, rather than the book itself. I don't see it having the features that suggest that it will be a market darling. And, by market, I mean the great big comic collecting world that exists outside of this board, where the superhero hegemony is still intact, and many collectors don't look twice at non Marvel or DC books. Personally, I found the art and story to be below par, but that's just my opinion. As a contrast, I like Blackacre, a book that's not everyone's cup of tea here, but I'm also down on its chances of appreciating, for the same reasons as above.

Good luck. There's a lot of hope and money riding on TV rumors right now, and I suspect the majority of it will not come to fruition. There are so many stages these projects can fall apart. Definitely true, but Todd has distinct advantages to most tv speculation books: its format is already set...edgy adult humor destined for late night Adult Swim there's no guess work. As long as Ken appears confident to its tv adoption potential, I see no reason why I shouldn't. KK is a class act! I'd not be too upset to be proven wrong.

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Good luck. There's a lot of hope and money riding on TV rumors right now, and I suspect the majority of it will not come to fruition. There are so many stages these projects can fall apart.

I thought EoW was overhyped and over speculated from the get go. However, lately, it's actually setting up a bit more favourably. Monthly orders have settled in at 33K or so, and the TPB sold fairly well. There may be a base of readers developing to absorb the 50K print run of number 1. Books I wouldn't bet a plugged nickel on are Bedlam, Rat Queens, Todd and Pretty Deadly. Waits for the fireworks. From those heavily invested.

And 612.

You are at least 2 years late on that. McSpidey 1 was Aug 1990, and even then, the pot had already started to bubble over.

This point can not be understated. This is the concept of relative supply, which is the actual number of books available to be bought/sold. The reasons you note depress this supply of these books. Of course, if and when prices rise, that tends to squeeze more copies into circulation.